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Steal This Idea: Cutting Your Way Through the NEVER HEARD OF IT Barrier
As the founder and now social media manager for Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival, I have recently had the delightful and curious experience of being able to dip my finger daily into the stream of material our 100 plus world premiere projects have created to promote their shows. I asked myself, how can I harness this [...]
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alternatives, collaboration, community, conversation starter, ideas, locavore, mission, neverbedark, partnerships, talk about what's good, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
#neverbedark: cubed
a #neverbedark approach to making more art Three years ago, at Sycamore Rouge, we built six acting cubes, and it not only changed the way we rehearsed- it changed the way we opened the doors to artmaking. Like many theatres, we produce a five-show mainstage theatre season. We have a commitment to new works, but [...]
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community, development, festivals, locavore, new play development, new plays, playwrights, talk about what's good, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
Greeks & Geeks
Orion as a cop on the mean streets of 1970s San Francisco. Hera as the lady of a country estate in Victorian England. Chronus as an Arizona Republican politician debating whether to align himself with the Tea Party. These are some of the dozens of creative reinterpretations of Greek mythology that, Athena-like, have sprung from [...]
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theatre festivals
More Fringe than a flapper in a speakeasy
In 2008, I needed an internship to fulfill the requirements for my MFA program in theatrical design & technical production. I didn’t take the bait on Santa Fe. I wanted to go abroad, and I’d heard something about a little festival in Scotland, and so I blindly cast applications around Edinburgh Fringe venue companies. I [...]
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festivals, new plays, playwrights, theatre festivals
2011 Bay Area Playwrights Festival: Dinner With Dramaturgs
When I was asked to blog the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) I immediately agreed to take on the task, but as the festival neared I began to wonder what exactly I would write about. I’m sure many in the 2AMt community have attended and participated in new work festivals like BAPF, so giving a [...]
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festivals, new plays, playwrights, theatre festivals
2011 Bay Area Playwrights Festival: Getting My New Play Fix
Here in San Francisco we are one week away from the kick off of the 2011 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF). I’m a big fan of this festival because it’s how I started down the playwriting path. Back in 2005 my first play was selected for the festival and since then I’ve received lots of [...]
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2amt events, about 2amt, community, conferences, conversation starter, development, festivals, ideas, livestreams, meetups, playwrights, rabble rousing, social media, the process, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem, video
2amt at CityWrights 2011
Join us this weekend at City Theatre in Miami for the CityWrights Conference 2011. We’ll be livestreaming several sessions via NewPlayTV. We’ll also be tweeing throughout the conference using both the #2amt and #cwc11 tags over on Twitter. Send questions, comments and conversation our way. Below is a schedule of the weekend’s livestreamed sessions. Friday [...]
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collaboration, conferences, devised work, festivals, ideas, livestreams, rabble rousing, technical work, the process, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem, video
How to Discuss Excellence?
This Saturday, we’re hosting a convening on artistic excellence at FoolsFURY. This convening arises from a belief that, as a field, we have serious difficulty having useful (and sometimes hard) conversations about the quality/excellence of each other’s work. We do this fine, at the bar, without the artists present. But how can we have more [...]
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2amt events, audiences, collaboration, community, conversation starter, festivals, ideas, major regional theatre, new plays, partnerships, rabble rousing, social media, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
HF35: The 2amt Challenge
So you’re at the Humana Festival of New American Plays and you’ve got a few minutes. You’ve seen the art, you’ve looked at the gifts, you’ve had a beer. Maybe you’re in the mood to play a game. Maybe you’re looking for something to engage audiences at your own theatre company. Take the 2amt challenge. [...]
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collaboration, development, festivals, major regional theatre, new plays, playwrights, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
HF35: Families, Tied
Last weekend, I saw approximately half of the shows at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. I’m heading back this weekend for the rest, but I wanted to write about the themes and connections between those first three shows. I saw this combination by chance, but all three have [...]
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funding and support, livestreams, q & a, the process, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
OSF: 2011 Opening Weekend
On the Sunday morning of opening weekend (yesterday as I post this), Oregon Shakespeare Festival Executive Director Paul Nicholson and Artistic Director Bill Rauch sat down for a press conference with the critics and reporters who were in town for the 2011 opening weekend. I hear the event used to feature pastries! Now they give [...]
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OSF: To Kill a Mockingbird & the Iconic White Hero
02.26.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsTom Robinson (Peter Macon), Atticus Finch (Mark Murphey) and Heck Tate (Peter Frechette) in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Photo: David Cooper. Ashland’s a snowy, somewhat icy town this weekend for the opening weekend of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. First up last night was the Bill Rauch-directed Measure for Measure, which I [...]
