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Interviews

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!

The Latest

Podcast
Vampires, Cowboys, and Sapphic Camp with 11th Hour Productions
by Nicolas Shannon Savard, Ciara Hannon, Saylor Lake
2 June 2026
Podcast
The Trans History Project: A Cohort of Playwrights and Theatres
by Nicolas Shannon Savard, Bo Frazier
19 May 2026
Podcast
The Trans History Project: Ten Plays in Development
by Nicolas Shannon Savard, Bo Frazier
12 May 2026
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Essay
21 January 2026

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.

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Podcast
20 January 2026

How can theatre artists enter a space as outsiders and create work there in a way that does not fall into our habits of colonialism and consumerism? In this episode, Tara and Martin sit down with Wanda Strukus and Matthew Glassman at Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath, Maine.

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Podcast
14 January 2026

Ash Marinaccio and Ukrainian theatremaker Veronika Skliarova discuss how documentary theatre is preserving testimony, fostering resilience, and building community amid war. 

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Podcast
13 January 2026

What's the point of entering the rehearsal room without a plan? In this episode, Tara Khozein and Martin Boross are joined by Apollo Garcia Orellana and Sandy Timmerman to talk about approaches in devising, the importance of being lost, and why they prefer to work without a playwright in the room.

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Podcast
9 January 2026

Ash talks with Zoe Lafferty, founder of Artists on the Frontline, about artist-led citizen journalism in Palestine’s Jenin refugee camp and the role of political documentary theatre projects in the current political climate.

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Podcast
6 January 2026

What makes us want to immerse, and what makes us want to flee? Tara Khozein and Martin Boross sit down with Hope Orange and Diana Delgado at q-Staff theatre in Albuquerque right after their residency and public showing of Dwelling, an immersive theatre event on the theme of home.

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Series

Latinx Theatre Leaders at the Forefront

If history is made by those who write it, then the Latinx Theatre Leaders at the Forefront series serves as a historical intervention by adding to the limited existing documentation of Latinx theatre leaders.This series convenes Latinx theatre leaders to amplify their experiences in a field that has ignored their existence and failed to provide enough resources to build the infrastructure necessary for success. In an effort to continue legacy and leadership cultivation, these interviews pair established theatremakers with new and future leaders, creating intergenerational conversations that model horizontal mentorship and learning. Join us to share in these leaders’ hope for future generations and to learn how they have mobilized that hope by creating community and producing work that centers Latinx stories.

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Series

Building Our Own Tables

The Building Our Own Tables podcast is a sonic journey of liberation that merges global majority voices, music, and wisdom to foster tables of justice, healing, and love. It supports leaders in their quest for collective liberation, centering marginalized voices and emphasizing healing, decolonization, and social justice worldwide.

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Series

Adventures in Audio Fiction Podcast

In this podcast series, Durham-based theatremaker Tamara Kissane chats with artists about their work, their plans, and their manifestos.

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Series

Conversations Across Generations

Dialogues with UK based Performance Artists

Each of the dialogues in this series speaks of the connection between political activism, creativity, and spirituality— and highlights the importance of intergenerational knowledge-sharing for the future of the Live Arts and Theatre sectors of the UK.

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Essay

Performing A Trans Hamlet

10 September 2019

Aley O’Mara reflects on Daniel Winder’s Hamlet and speaks to the lead—trans actor Jenet Le Lacheur—about the titular character in this production being nonbinary and transfeminine.

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Series

Living the Dream

In this podcast series, Matthew Gray interviews all kinds of actors to share why they act and how they act, in a world of diminished residuals, rising student loan interest rates, reduced network pick-ups, and a dying regional theatre circuit

Series

Chronic Theatremakers

A series of interviews with theatremakers who have chronic illnesses.

Series

Season Planning

As a field, we talk frequently about the results of season planning, but we rarely are given the opportunity to examine the myriad decisions season programmers need to make.

Series

Carnaval Playwrights

Interviews with playwrights participating in the 2015 Carnaval of New Latinx Work.

Series

Boston, Massachusetts

A series featuring voices from in and around Boston's theatre community.

Series

North Carolina "Triangle" City Series

A series featuring voices from in and around the theatre communities of Durham, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh.

Series

Intrinsic Impact

A series examining the impact that theatre has on the building and sustaining of local communities.

Series

San Francisco Bay Area City

A series featuring voices from in and around San Francisco's theatre community.

Series

Artistic Home

Theatre artists from around the country reflect on their respective "artistic homes."

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