Directing

Porsche McGovern discusses the third phase of her study on LORT theatre designers.

Director and educator Ashleigh Worley talks about process versus product, advocating for giving students opportunities to grow as artists.

Zach Weinberg writes about discovering his role as an adaptor, collaborator, and director.

Alyssa White writes about being an early career director in Chicago, and re-discovering her love of the work.

Director Carol Ann Tan explores her reaction to the question of whether it's easier for her to get work because she's Asian.

Director Andrew Watkins writes about getting to the heart of Strindberg's problematic classic. 

Cassandra Snow writes about the challenges and opportunities involved in producing theatre in non-traditional spaces.

Ramona Ostrowski speaks with director Gary Hynes about Druid Theatre Company, revisiting Beauty Queen of Leenane twenty years after its first production, and new political movements within Irish theatre.

Director and educator Jessica Bauman writes about her experience teaching theatre in a refugee camp in Kenya.

Director Marc David Pinate discusses his process for Barrio Stories, reflecting on how the production is an example of sacred theatre.

In this last installment, Paul Adolphsen interviews South African theatremaker Thando Doni about his artistic use of language and physical theatre.

Raphael Khouri writes about creating a work of queer Arab theatre in secret.

David Dower talks with Tony Taccone about his adaptation of It Can’t Happen Here at Berkeley Rep, and what it means for an institution to program a new work that speaks directly to our present moment.

Amy Brady interviews Michael Arve about Dangerous Theatre, a piece he’s directing based on Hallie Flanagan’s 1938 testimony to the Special Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities.

Director Lavina Jadhwani shares her experience as an Asian American director, advocating the need for more spaces and opportunities for Asian American theatre artists to collaborate together. 

Wael Qadour describes creating a piece of theatre with young people living in northern Jordan.

Director Julia Levine discusses how she approaches her process, and examines the relationship between food and theatre. 

David Dudley on Lucy Prebble’s The Effect, directed by David Cromer at the Barrow Street Theatre in New York City.

Catherine M. Young on Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord’s production of Molière and Lully’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, directed by Denis Podalydès’at the Lincoln Center Festival in New York.

Director Emily Mendelsohn shares her experience at the 2016 Theatre Without Borders Conference, and muses on an “ecological way of seeing” for her work.