Directing

We’re Too Fat and Too Invisible to Have a Seat at Theatre’s Table, and Now Some of Us Don’t Eat

Video

Office Hours: Phelim McDermott

A Live, Virtual Conversation on Directing and Collaboration with Phelim McDermott and Frank Hentschker

Tuesday 28 March 2023

New York City

In advance of McDermott’s upcoming New York Premiere of Tao of Glass at NYU Skirball, they discussed McDermott's work and career, Improbable’s work with Open Space Technology, and McDermott’s long-term collaborations with Philip Glass.

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For Some Russian Dissident Theatremakers, the Future Is Unclear

Essay

For Some Russian Dissident Theatremakers, the Future Is Unclear

31 January 2023

Director Vitaly Kogut is one of many displaced Russian men spending this winter in Batumi, Georgia. Daniel Mesta interviews him about his work, in which uses theatre to communicate the complexities of the Russian soul while enduring censorship and cancellation.

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Reinventing Malawian Theatre for a New Generation

Podcast

Reinventing Malawian Theatre for a New Generation

7 December 2022

Jack Msumba, creative director of Youth Developers Collaboration Theatre, has big ideas for the future of Malawian theatre. In this interview, he shares his plans to eventually build Malawi’s first theatre house by producing work consistently in schools, communities, and commercial settings.

(DG) Coffee Chat: Special Blend

Directors Gathering (DG)

Video

(DG) Coffee Chat: Special Blend

The Culminating Conversation of the Inaugural (DG) Convening: Manifesting an Ecosystem for Directors

Monday 17 October 2022

United States

Directors Gathering (DG) presented (DG) Coffee Chat: Special Blend livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 17 October 2022 at 5:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 7:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 8:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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Building a Director-Centered Community

Essay

Building a Director-Centered Community

17 October 2022

The team at Directors Gathering discuss their organization’s work to create space for directors that fosters both artistic and human connection.

Jasmine Haley

Anderson

Essay

We’re Too Fat and Too Invisible to Have a Seat at Theatre’s Table, and Now Some of Us Don’t Eat

13 October 2022

Jasmine Haley Anderson takes aim at fatphobic standards in the theatre industry, which begin fostering disordered eating in women from their earliest performance experiences.

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Minding the Gaps: Making Space for All Identities in Intimacy Work

Essay

Minding the Gaps: Making Space for All Identities in Intimacy Work

24 August 2022

Ann James sits down with Chelsey Morgan to discuss the way their background in multiple intimacy work methodologies informs their work as a facilitator, director, writer, and intimacy specialist. Across all their work, Chelsey curates a practice that individualizes approaches to intimacy based on the needs of both the actors and the story.

Theatre as Laboratory: Exploring and Forging Humanity with Les Inachevés / Théâtre comme Laboratoire: Explorer et Fabriquer l'Humanité avec Les Inachevés

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Theatre as Laboratory: Exploring and Forging Humanity with Les Inachevés / Théâtre comme Laboratoire: Explorer et Fabriquer l'Humanité avec Les Inachevés

A Conversation with Moïse Touré / Une Conversation avec Moïse Touré

5 July 2022

Michelle Haner interviews Moïse Touré, artistic director of Les Inachevés, about the company’s ongoing project on the theme of hospitality and the decision to reframe the company’s work as a laboratory.

Book Launch: HowlRound Theatre Commons' Essays and Conversations from the First Ten Years

HowlRound Theatre Commons

Video

Book Launch: HowlRound Theatre Commons' Essays and Conversations from the First Ten Years

Fifty essays from 2011 to 2020

Tuesday 21 June 2022

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Join HowlRound staff and theatremakers from around the world for a virtual celebration of our new book: Essays and Conversations from the First Ten Years, featuring work published on HowlRound between 2011 and 2020! Livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network Tuesday 21 June 2022 at 12 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 2 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 3 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 8 p.m. BST (London, UTC +1) / 21:00 CEST (Berlin, UTC +2).

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Exposing the Ills of Forced Marriage of Women and Young Girls in Nigeria Through the Theatre

Essay

Exposing the Ills of Forced Marriage of Women and Young Girls in Nigeria Through the Theatre

16 May 2022

In 2021, Nigerian director Josephine Awele Odunze directed a powerful production of Wedlock of the Gods by Zulu Sofola. Odunze sits down with Eseovwe Emakunu to discuss the play’s connections to issues Nigerian women face today, as well as her hopes that theatre can contribute to attaining true gender parity in Nigeria.

Six black actors on stage under multicolored lights.

Audience Behavior in the West and Africa

Misheck

Mzumara

Essay

Audience Behavior in the West and Africa

3 February 2022

While performing across the West and in Africa, Misheck Mzumara noticed stark differences in typical audience behavior. He discusses those differences, their cultural contexts, and their impact on theatremakers’ experiences in cross-cultural theatre productions.

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SEGAL TALKS: Carey Perloff

Video

SEGAL TALKS: Carey Perloff

A conversation with Carey Perloff about her new book: Pinter and Stoppard: A Director’s View.

Monday 6 December 2021

United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS, a conversation about curating, producing, and presenting theatre and performance in the time of COVID with Carey Perloff, livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network on Monday 6 December 2021 at 9 a.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 12 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 17:00 GMT (London, UTC +0) / 18:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

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National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation (NIDEC)

Video

National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation (NIDEC)

A virtual weekend of conversations and workshops

Friday 3 December to Sunday 5 December 2021

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation (NIDEC) invited you to join us for our annual virtual convening. This program is produced by Art2Action and Pangea World Theater. Based on the in-person institute in Minneapolis, we are offering virtual masterclasses, panels and plenary sessions in 2021 to a wider audience during the pandemic. Livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network Friday 3 December to Sunday 5 December 2021.

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SEGAL TALKS: Alexis Greene & Emily Mann

Instead of a Vision: Listening and Dialogue as the Work of a Theatre Director

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SEGAL TALKS: Alexis Greene & Emily Mann

A conversation about Greene’s new book: EMILY MANN: Rebel Artist of the American Theater.

Wednesday 1 December 2021

United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS, a conversation about curating, producing, and presenting theatre and performance in the time of COVID with Alexis Greene & Emily Mann, livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network on Wednesday 1 December at 9 a.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 11 a.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 12 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5) / 17:00 GMT (London, UTC +0) / 18:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

Glenn Davis, left, and Ken-Matt Martin, right.

Our Versions of Better

Essay

Our Versions of Better

Glenn Davis and Ken-Matt Martin in Conversation

22 November 2021

Glenn Davis, co-artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, sits down with Ken-Matt Martin, artistic director of Victory Gardens Theater, to talk about shifting relationships with donors, the concept of term limits for leadership, the joys of returning to rehearsal rooms, and their shared experiences as Black men at the helm of Chicago theatres.

Person climbing towards a director's chair

Charlie

Peters

Essay

Instead of a Vision: Listening and Dialogue as the Work of a Theatre Director

23 August 2021

Charlie Peters asks, “What if the role of a director was conceived primarily as one of listening rather than visioning?”

SEGAL TALKS with Carey Perloff (USA)

Video

SEGAL TALKS with Carey Perloff (USA)

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Thursday 20 May 2021

United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Carey Perloff (USA) livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 20 May 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

Master Class with Dora Arreola: Developing a Concept

Directing Theatre in COVID-19 Times—The Impact on South African Culture

Video

Master Class with Dora Arreola: Developing a Concept

With the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation

Saturday 15 May 2021

United States

Pangea World Theater and Art2Action presented a Master Class with Dora Arreola livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 15 May 2021 at 12 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 2 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 3 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5).

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Tebere Arts Foundation

Nairobi Musical Theatre Initiative

Video

Directing Theatre in COVID-19 Times—The Impact on South African Culture

The Stories Women Carry: Creative Practice of African Women from the Continent

Monday 3 May 2021

Kenya

Tebere Arts Foundation presented the conversation Directing Theatre in COVID-19 Times—The Impact on South African Culture with The Stories Women Carry: Creative Practice of African Women from the Continent livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 3 May 2021 at 10 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 8 p.m. EAT (Nairobi, UTC +3).

Master Class with Diane Roberts: Arrivals Legacy Process

Arrivals Legacy Project

Video

Master Class with Diane Roberts: Arrivals Legacy Process

With the National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation

Saturday 17 April 2021

United States

Pangea World Theater and Art2Action presened a Master Class with Diane Roberts: Arrivals Legacy Process livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 17 April 2021 at 12 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -8) / 2 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 3 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5).

Segal Talks with Robert Wilson

Video

Segal Talks with Robert Wilson

Join us for a conversation about curating, producing and presenting theatre and performance in the Time of Corona

Thursday 8 April 2021

United States

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presented SEGAL TALKS with Robert Wilson livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Thursday 8 April 2021 at 9 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

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Empowering Directors and Playwrights

Playwrights' Center

Video

Empowering Directors and Playwrights

A summit for theater practitioners on creation, collaboration, and communication

Wednesday 31 March 2021

United States

Playwrights’ Center presented Empowering Directors and Playwrights: A summit for theater practitioners on creation, collaboration, and communication keynote address livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 31 March 2021 at 11 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 2 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

Master Class with Nobuko Miyamoto