I spoke with several individuals who possess a broader view of the arts in New Jersey to get a better perspective for myself and for the New Jersey City Series. Here are some thoughts from leaders of New Jersey theater that should illuminate some further context for theater-making here.
As a New Jersey actor, artistic identity cannot be completely detached from New York. This does not dismiss that there is a pride and ownership in being a New Jersey actor.
Desi P. Shelton looks at how she ending back at home in Camden, NJ challenged her to start her own theatre company to illuminate the experiences around her.
New homes can be found when opportunity makes you pick up and leave comfortability. EM Lewis writes about opening up to new communities in order to embrace opportunity.
Mara Isaacs sheds light on the dynamics placed upon New Jersey's theatre scene and explains how she was able to move forward and create a new model of theatre-making.
An introduction into the examination of what it means to be “local” or be in the “community” inspired by people’s experience to find home in one to two neighborhoods.
The One-Minute Play Festival and Passage Theatre presented The 3rd Annual New Jersey One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 20 January 2013 at 4 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EST (New Jersey). Use Twitter hashtags #1MPF and #howlround to join the conversation.
The One-Minute Play Festival (OMPF) partnered with the New Brunswick Theatre Festival (now part of CoLab Arts) to present the Second Annual New Jersey One-Minute Play Festival livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Sunday, January 22 at 4 p.m. PST (San Francisco) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 7 p.m. EST (New York)
In this episode, personal relationships between Finn and Jan and Alex and Kevin fall apart. Collective efforts like the Trenton workshop and the street theatre house, which took great care to build, collapse. How long it takes to build something; how quickly it can tumble.
In this episode, shows develop in the various workshops. The impact of making, performing, and being seen in multiple dimensions deepens interpersonal relationships and a sense of purpose. Jan and Finn’s relationship thrives through the meaningfulness of collectively creating with each other and the group.
In this episode, the intimacy of self and group expression brings loving relationships of all kinds into being-–deep friendships, Jan and Finn’s romance, familial feelings, and ancestral bonds–with joys, like unexpected connections, and complications, including the challenge of racial difference.
The different prison theatre workshops get started. This episode explores their diverse atmospheres, why people join and who they are, early exercises, initial challenges, first impressions, hopes, and expectations. Finn and Jan meet on Day One, her twenty-first birthday.
