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Making Space: Consent, Collaboration, and Queer Access Intimacy
Podcast
Making Space: Consent, Collaboration, and Queer Access Intimacy
With Guests J.C. Pankratz and Emmett Podgorski
by Nicolas Shannon Savard, J.C. Pankratz, Emmett Podgorski
12 July 2023
Queer Intimacies in Too-Near Dystopian Futures
Podcast
Queer Intimacies in Too-Near Dystopian Futures
With Guest Leanna Keyes
by Nicolas Shannon Savard, Leanna Keyes
28 June 2023
Grief (and Humor) in Climate Change Theatre
Essay
Grief (and Humor) in Climate Change Theatre
by Genevieve Simon
30 June 2023
Gender Euphoria teaser image featuring guest profile image.
Making Space: Consent, Collaboration, and Queer Access Intimacy
Podcast

Making Space: Consent, Collaboration, and Queer Access Intimacy

With Guests J.C. Pankratz and Emmett Podgorski

12 July 2023

J.C. Pankratz returns to the podcast to reflect on the first full production of their play Seahorse, directed by Nicolas Shannon Savard, starring Emmett Podgorski. Nicolas, J.C., and Emmett discuss how the collaborative process, from auditions through closing night, was informed by queer community building, access intimacy, and consent-based practice. They offer behind-the-scenes perspectives and concrete examples of how tools and ideas discussed in previous episodes played out in practice.

One performer lifts another toward another performer dressed in a green fringe costume.
Grief (and Humor) in Climate Change Theatre
Essay

Grief (and Humor) in Climate Change Theatre

30 June 2023

Genevieve Simon reflects on the process of writing Bloom Bloom Pow, a play that makes space for collective grief by staging small-town chaos against a backdrop of the harmful algal bloom crisis in the Great Lakes region.

Gender Euphoria teaser image featuring guest profile image.
Queer Intimacies in Too-Near Dystopian Futures
Podcast

Queer Intimacies in Too-Near Dystopian Futures

With Guest Leanna Keyes

28 June 2023

Host Nicolas Shannon Savard and playwright Leanna Keyes discuss her play Doctor Voynich and Her Children. What does it mean to stage trans stories about queer motherhood, abortion, intimacy, choice, and power in the wake of the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade and the ongoing legislative attacks on reproductive rights and the trans community?

A woman sitting with her hands clasped in front of her at a table.
Amplifiers and Takers: Approaches to Interview-Based Playmaking
Essay

Amplifiers and Takers: Approaches to Interview-Based Playmaking

6 January 2022

Michael Dewhatley sits down with playwright and director KJ Sanchez to talk about her experiences making plays based on real events. They discuss process, responsibility, perspective, and how to create without an agenda.

When the Invisible Illness Becomes Visible
Essay

When the Invisible Illness Becomes Visible

30 August 2018

Dramaturg Sara Brookner interviews actor/director Megan Simcox about equitable casting, and why they founded ACTive Roles Theatre Company.

Theatre and Civil Rights: Dr. Julie Burrell on the Importance of A Medal for Willie
Podcast

Theatre and Civil Rights: Dr. Julie Burrell on the Importance of A Medal for Willie

Theatre History Podcast #62

5 June 2018

How did Black theatre connect with the Civil Rights Movement? Dr. Julie Burrell of Cleveland State University joins the Theatre History Podcast to talk about William B. Branch's one-act play A Medal for Willie and the underappreciated radicalism of theatre in the 1950s.

a group of people
Finding Purpose in the Pause
Essay

Finding Purpose in the Pause

22 May 2018

Benjamin Viccellio reflects on the Kenyon Playwright’s Conference in Ohio, as the program nears its fifth anniversary.

Gender Parity in Northeast Ohio Community Theatre
Essay

Gender Parity in Northeast Ohio Community Theatre

5 December 2017

Christine Wright, member of the Northeast Ohio community theatre community, analyzes gender parity in recent Northeast Ohio community theatre seasons.

Challenging the Narrative of Disability On Stage
Essay

Challenging the Narrative of Disability On Stage

27 November 2017

Playwright and actor Tim Collingwood reflects on the workshop production of his play Depth Perception, a piece based on his experiences with Aspergers, and why he thinks the theatre can be a safe space for people of all abilities.

Things as They Are by Playwrights Local
Video

Things as They Are by Playwrights Local

Friday 26 May 2017
Cleveland, OH, United States

Playwrights Local presented the world premiere of Things as They Are—a new play about poet Wallace Stevens by David Todd, with music by Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance)—at Reinberger Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio, livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound.TV network on Friday 26 May at 7:30 p.m. EDT (New York) / 6:30 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 4:30 p.m. PDT (San Francisco).

Seeking Dialogue and Change
Essay

Seeking Dialogue and Change

Objectively/Reasonable Explores the Shooting of Tamir Rice

4 November 2016

Yuko Kurahashi on Playwrights Local’s documentary show about the Tamir Rice shooting at the Creative Space at Waterloo Arts in Cleveland, Ohio.

J is for Joto
Essay

J is for Joto

14 June 2016

Haydee Canovas on Carlos-Manuel’s Joto!: Confessions of a Mexican Outcast, directed by Jimmy A. Noriega, in Wooster, Ohio.

Whose Story to Tell? Akron, Ohio Relates to the Indigenous Amazon
Essay

Whose Story to Tell? Akron, Ohio Relates to the Indigenous Amazon

7 June 2016

Amy Schwabauer on Death of a Man by Jairo Cuesta in Akron, Ohio.

Latins in La-La Land at the Freedlander Theatre
Essay

Latins in La-La Land at the Freedlander Theatre

19 January 2016

Melissa Huerta on the world premiere production of Migdalia Cruz’s Latins in La-La Land at the College of Wooster in Ohio. 

Your Guide to Theatre Education
Essay

Your Guide to Theatre Education

Professional Playwriting Program at Ohio University

15 January 2016

David Dudley interviews Charles Smith, Head of the Professional Playwriting Program at Ohio University.

Climate Change Madness from Ohio University's MFA Playwriting Program
Video

Climate Change Madness from Ohio University's MFA Playwriting Program

4 December 2015
Athens, Ohio

Ohio University's MFA Playwriting Program and Climate Change Theatre Action presented Climate Change Madness livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Friday 4 December at 6 p.m. PST (Vancouver) / 8 p.m. CST (Chicago) / 9 p.m. EST (New York). In Twitter, use #ClimateChangeTheatreAction & follow @HowlRoundTV.

The 1st Cincinnati One-Minute Play Festival
Video

The 1st Cincinnati One-Minute Play Festival

Sunday 12 July 2015
Cincinnati, OH, United States

The One-Minute Play Festival & Know Theatre Company presented the 1st Cincinnati One-Minute Play Festival (#1MPF) livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 12 July at 11 a.m. PDT (Vancouver) / 1 p.m. CDT (Chicago) / 2 p.m. EDT (Toronto) / 18:00 GMT / 7 p.m. BST (London).

Johanna
Essay

Johanna

Facing Forward from Victim to Advocate

7 July 2015

Amy Schwabauer on Tlaloc Rivas’ Johanna: Facing Forward, co-produced by Cleveland Public Theatre and Teatro Publico de Cleveland. 

The 25th Annual Theatre Communications Group National Conference
Video

The 25th Annual Theatre Communications Group National Conference

Thursday 18 June to Saturday 20 June 2015
Cleveland, OH, United States

 

Theatre Communications Group (USA) presented the 25th Annual National Conference in Cleveland: Game Change livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv Thursday 18 June to Saturday 20 June.