Festivals, often organized within a specific geographic community or around a theme, are a great way for different works to be in conversation with each other. Content in this section primarily focuses around recapping theatre festivals and analyzing multiple works that were featured.
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Vampires, Cowboys, and Sapphic Camp with 11th Hour Productions
by Nicolas Shannon Savard, Ciara Hannon, Saylor Lake
2 June 2026
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The Queer Art Making the Florida Governor Shake in His Lifted Boots
by Nicolas Shannon Savard, Saylor Lake, Ciara Hannon
26 May 2026
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Inside the ReOrient Festival: Short Plays and Long-Term Impact
The Public Theater presented the Under the Radar Festival symposium including keynote speeches and panel discussions livestreamed on HowlRound TV on Thursday 5 January 5 2012 at 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. EST (New York) / 6:30 a.m. - 8 a.m. PST (San Francisco) / 2:30 p.m.-4 p.m. GMT (London) / 8:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. CST (Chicago).
Meiyin Wang contrasts Electricity, Originality, and Authenticity in the context of the 2012 Under the Radar Festival, and how selected productions challenge these concepts.
Keith Josef Adkins speaks on his experience working to "diversify within our diversity" and provide fresh black narratives to the canon of American theatre.
Ciara Hannon and Saylor Lake return to talk about 11th Hour Productions’ repertoire of lesbian comedies that play with genre, including Mary Kay Vampires, Gay Cowboys, and An Adele Horror Story. Nicolas provides theoretical and historical framing on camp aesthetics in gay and lesbian theatre.
Host Nicolas Shannon Savard interviews Ciara Hannon and Saylor Lake from Orlando-based queer theatre company, 11th Hour Productions. They discuss queer community at the Orlando Fringe and using campy comedy as a mode of resistance in the face of state-level backlash to LGBTQ art in Florida.
This episode is a deep dive into Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festival and the MENATMA convening, exploring how short plays, artistic experimentation, and community infrastructure shape the evolving landscape of Middle Eastern, North African, and Southwest Asian theatre in the United States.
Marina and Nabra explore how Golden Thread Productions amplifies women’s voices and mobilizes global artistic solidarity through What Do the Women Say? and 24 Hours for Palestine, where performance becomes archive, resistance, and collective action.
Martine Dennewald highlights the many artists retrieving ideas from the past to embed them in their artistic practices. She poses ideas that arts programmers need to be carrying forward into the future.
Daniel Alexander Jones draws evidence from the archive as an offering to our current crossroads, sharing insights about story as a means of connection and a matter of consciousness.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury shares a story about the creation of their show Rheology, and how that process highlighted the value in making space for the unimaginable to occur.
Dorcy Rugamba advocates for a theatre that enables us to embrace other histories and draw on the full breadth of human experience in order to adopt a universal perspective.
Is there space for hope in climate crisis theatre? What happens when teachers are just as terrified as their students? These questions and others reverberate through Emily K. Harrison’s reflection on the process and performance of an intergenerational, devised work exploring the (potential) collapse of the Anthropocene.
Every four years, Catholic seminaries across Nigeria come together for the All Saints Seminary Festival of Arts and Culture, which features theatre rooted in the cultures of Nigeria’s various ethnic groups. Israel Wepke sits down with Eseovwe Emakunu to discuss the process of making theatre with All Saints Seminary, Uhiele.
Independent Theater Hungary presents the Roma Heroes International Theater Festival, Sixth Edition, livestreaming on the commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv from Wednesday 20 March to Wednesday 27 March 2024 at 11 a.m. PDT (Los Angeles, UTC -7) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 2 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 18:00 GMT (London, UTC +1) / 19:00 CET (Budapest, UTC +1) / 20:00 EET (Bucharest, UTC +2).
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REACTIV Festival
A laboratory of experiences and experiments in which we aim to rediscover ourselves as individuals and groups
REACTIV is a confirmation of our faith in that which is yet to come, a laboratory of experiences and experiments in which we aim to rediscover ourselves as individuals and groups and to bring our contribution to constructing the future, while also deconstructing our fears.
