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Recent Essays

This is a repository of written content, sorted by most recent to oldest. Enjoy!

A portrait of Dudley Cocke
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4 March 2012

In this excerpt from Counting New Beans: Instrinsic Impact and the Value of Art, Dudley Cocke talks to Clayton Lord about Roadside Theater and its mission of encouraging conversation through theater in Appalacian communities.

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The Job of the Future

3 March 2012

Michael Rohd talks about the role of translation in data science and its connection to theatre in this new column, dedicated to discussing the role of translation in theatre.

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2 March 2012

Susan Merson talks about Wim Wenders' film Pina and how the five dimensions influence how new work unfolds.

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Lessons Learned from Woolly’s Infamous Tweet Up Experiment

1 March 2012

Woolly Mammoth debriefs on what did and didn't work in their forray into Twitter, and how other theatres can replicate and learn from their experiment.

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1 March 2012

Karen Malpede discusses the necessity for true political theater in the United States.

 

An illustration of multiple black and white faces facing each other.
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1 March 2012

Otis Ramsey-Zoe continues our series of responses to the American Voices New Play Institute's 21st Century Literary Office Convening with this manifesto of what we as a theater community need to do to create the literary office of the future.

Convening attendees sit in a circle.
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29 February 2012

Amrita Ramanan describes her literary office of the future—a place with no walls, no seperations, and no more viewing dramaturgy as an isolated practice.

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29 February 2012

Aaron Carter talks about the literary manager of the future: the Generative Artist Talent Scouts. This manifesto was presented as part of the American Voices New Play Institute's 21st Century Literary Office Convening.

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a series of conversations (not actually an office)

29 February 2012

Adrien-Alice Hansel offers her version of the modern literary office: one that isn't really an office at all. This manifesto was presented as part of the American Voices New Play Institute's 21st Century Literary Office Convening.

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a Manifesto on the 21st Century Literary Office

29 February 2012

Julie Elise Dubliner presents her manifesto for the 21st Century Literary Office. This manifesto was presented as part of the American Voices New Play Institute's 21st Century Literary Office Convening.

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