Podcast Series

Kunafa and Shay focuses on Middle Eastern and North African (MENA)/Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) theatre—highlighting classic and contemporary plays and playwrights, spotlighting international community-engaged work in the region, and pondering the past, present, and future of MENA/SWANA theatre in the United States. 
 

The Building Our Own Tables podcast supports leaders along their journeys of creation for our collective liberation. Knowing we are all one. Healing. Transforming. Medicine for those who are building our own tables and creating our own spaces that are healing, decolonizing, and leading from love. The experience is a combination of words, music, poetry, body-breath practices, meditations and visualizations, folks sharing their specific stories, science, history, and rituals.

We center voices of the global majority—Black, Brown, African, Indigenous, Native, Asian, Arab, Middle Eastern, Mestiza, and dual or multi-race creators—as a solidarity and honoring of our unique cultural wisdoms as we work to build racial, social and climate justice worldwide.

Teaching Theatre examines the challenges facing theatre training programs post-pandemic. Each episode invites theatre educators and practitioners into the conversation as they interrogate topics like collaboration, inclusive programming, and work ethic while offering up ideas, strategies, and solutions that can be incorporated into programs and classrooms.  

Theatre Tech Talks: Artificial Intelligence, Science, and Biomedia in Theatre, is a podcast hosted by Tjaša Ferme, exploring new forms of theatre interwoven with high tech. In the interviews, Tjaša prodes at the "why"s and "how"s to demystify the intricate connection between the biological and artificial, as well as explore the innate wisdom of the body and how new tech can help us get a peek inside of our brains, bodies, and souls.

This podcast centers and privileges the narratives of Black theatremakers, scholars, and audiences while also underscoring the need for understanding the influence of Black theatre on the American theatre landscape.

Hosted by Nicolas Savard, the Gender Euphoria podcast aims to amplify the voices of trans and gender nonconforming theater artists in the United States and creates an opportunity for trans artists to be in conversation with one another about their experiences working in a field that has a tendency to tokenize them. Each of these conversations will offer a space to share and explore the kinds of cultural work that trans/queer art is doing in the world from an intersectional perspective.

A podcast series interviewing individuals in collaboratively creative companies from across the country about how their ensemble-based process is made and paid for.

In Critical Stages in Malawian Contemporary Theatre, Fumbani Innot Phiri Jr. interviews established theatre artists from all backgrounds to explore the precarious journey of theatre in a modern world, define its problems, and find better solutions to sustain performing arts in a generation of motion pictures. Fumbani leads discussions with established performers, directors, and writers who are exploring ways to greet these challenges while their works inspires their communities.

A dazzling performance art scene is being born in Hungary, which, though quite small, boasts artists from all walks of life. Puha means “soft” in Hungarian, and PUHA stands for Performative Unity in the Hungarian Arts. It is an ambitious project by theatremaker and performer Zsófia Kozma and choreographer-performer Bíborka Béres that brings makers and creators of the Hungarian performance art scene together for discussions. From dancer to set designer, jazz musician to game designer, we talk with all sorts of people about thoughts, approaches, challenges, and ideas in their work. They sit down to explore topics like climate change, gender, queerness, improvisation, and public space in order to replace division and competition by fostering unity and dialogue in the field.

This podcast aims to introduce listeners to the artists, scholars, and archivists who are working to bring the history of performance to life.