This section collects all HowlRound content that takes the form of an interview between two or more theatremakers. Interested in contributing your own interview? Here are our interview guidelines and best practices!
Richard Newman of The Hinterlands Ensemble, Detroit
16 August 2012
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Richard Newman, co-director of The Hinterland Ensemble.
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Paula Kerger of PBS.
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Linda Essig of Arizona State University.
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theatre artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Diane Rodriguez of Center Theater Group.
Playwright Jen Silverman interviews her friend and collaborater Lisa Henieman about her stillbirth, the collaboration they embarked on to tell Lisa’s story, and the lessons they leaned from that experince.
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Leah Wilks of Leah Wilks Dance.
Kashif Jerome Powell on the legacy of Dewy “Pigmeat” Markham on the Black Performance work in the Durham, North Carolina theater scene, its influcence on the work of local theatermaker Mike Wiely, and the continuation of said conversation in the current Black performace scene in Durham.
For the North Carolina "Triangle" City Series, Lauren Keating interviews director Joseph Haj about theatre-making in a prison, divserity in theatre-leadership, and his path towards artistic direction.
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theatre artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Ed Sobel of the Arden Theatre Company.
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Bill O'Brien of the NEA.
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: J.J. El-Far of Harlem Arts Festival.
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Laurie Baskin of TCG.
Erik Ehn, Morgan Jenness & Melanie Joseph on This Is How We Do It
15 June 2012
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Erik Ehn, Morgan Kenness, and Melanie Joseph on This Is How We Do It.
Ron Russell talks with father and son Len Berkman and Zak Berkman about the evolution of playwriting training, playwrights knowing how "the sausage gets made" in a producing context, the stereotype of the lone visionary playwright, and the need to promote self production in student playwrights.
Mark Clayton Southers of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company
8 June 2012
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theatre artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Mark Clayton Southers of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company and the August Wilson Center for African American Culture.
Matt Morrow, the new Associate Artistic Director of City Theatre, talks about his work with City Theatre, what excites him about new writers, and his recent return to Pittsburgh.
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Tony Taccone, Artistic Director of Berkleley Repertory Theatre.
Peter Brosius of Children's Theatre Company Minneapolis
25 May 2012
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Peter Brosius, Artistic Director of Children's Theatre Company.
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Tony Graham.
Under the idea that children’s stories are for all ages, Finegan Kruckemeyer expresses the need for stories to show the complexities of emotions that the youth experience.
Ilana Brownstein of the Playwrights' Commons Boston
17 May 2012
Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Ilana Brownstein, founder of the Playwrights' Commons.
