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Process

Content in this section dives into the work of making art. Whether you’re interested in creating digital work, writing a new play, blending performance and activism, or anything else specific to process, this is the place for that.

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On Teaching Work Ethic
Podcast
On Teaching Work Ethic
by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, Jennifer Blackmer, Marcus Lane
26 March 2024
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
A Playwriting Masterclass
Monday 22 April 2024
New York
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
Video
Suzan-Lori Parks’ Watch Me Work
A Playwriting Masterclass
Monday 15 April 2024
New York
Photo from The Opponent.
Boxing from the Inside
Essay

Boxing from the Inside

Brett Neveu and the Magnetic Presence of the Ring

30 September 2014

He fought two guys; beat the crap out of them. And I looked around, and everybody had just stopped training.. And I thought: oh, my god, this is the show. There’s that magnetic presence of the ring.

Sarah Ruhl in Conversation with P. Carl
Essay

Sarah Ruhl in Conversation with P. Carl

7 September 2014

P. Carl interviews playwright Sarah Ruhl on her collection of short essays titled "100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater." 

Friday Phone Call # 69
Podcast

Friday Phone Call # 69

Liz Lerman

29 August 2014

Today my guest is the inestimable Liz Lerman. Listeners may mostly be familiar with Liz through her Critical Response Process, which is in use around the world as a system for managing the feedback process around new work. We get into her current thinking around this work, first developed when she was making work through her company, Dance Exchange. Liz is now a freelance dance and theater maker and educator and was the originator of an ambitious multi-institutional project commemorating the Civil War—a project still underway.

distillery art
Process Showing at The Distillery
Video

Process Showing at The Distillery

Friday 22 August 2014
New Orleans, LA, United States

The Distillery presented their second process showing: fifteen to twenty minute showings by fellows, followed by facilitated audience discussion livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Friday 22 August at 5 p.m. PDT/ 7 p.m. CDT / 8 p.m. EDT.

Portrait of Daniel Talbott.
Committing to Theater
Essay

Committing to Theater

Making Art and Making Family

5 August 2014

Martha Steketee writes about Daniel Talbott and Samantha Soule looking at the work and companies they've created in New York's off-Broadway scene since meeting at Juilliard in 1998.

Beyond Victims and Villains
Essay

Beyond Victims and Villains

From Ethnography to the Stage

29 July 2014

I had become exhausted from fighting the trafficking fights... The result has been policies that do more harm than good, and wide scale media misrepresentations of the problem. Those of us doing the actual on the ground fieldwork—talking to survivors, working with people who have experienced the harrowing challenges of exploitation—have been writing against the wave.

Photo from A Minor Cycle: Five Little Plays in One Starry Night.
Baby Stepping My Way to Yugen
Essay

Baby Stepping My Way to Yugen

20 May 2014

I was young, knew nothing and was impressionable. I remember being fond of Yuriko’s direction. She would say things like, “go forward from here” while pointing to her heart. No one had ever given me direction like that before. That first play was the beginning of my romance with Noh (performed in Japan since the thirteenth-century, it’s the world’s oldest, continually performed, masked lyric drama) and I fell hard.

The New Play Map.
Conversation with Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury
Essay

Conversation with Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury

21 January 2014

The following is a conversation with playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury for the Boston production of "We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915" which is a current co-production between Company One and ArtsEmerson.

We Are The Play
Essay

We Are The Play

How I Learned to Make Theater as a College Student, or a Case for Working With our World

16 January 2014

When an actor asks a question in rehearsal, the director responds, “What does the play want?” Then they have a conversation trying to figure out what the illusive play must want. But the play is not out there floating around for them to discover. I believe that theater must never serve the mystical play more than the people in the room.

Poster for Gun Control Theatre Action.
Contradiction & Compromise
Essay

Contradiction & Compromise

My Uncle & The Next Time

26 August 2013

Cecilia Copeland’s uncle was her rock within any family flict. Her uncle also loved guns which has inspired her to write with his life in mind as she navigates the topic of gun control.

Scrabble letters spelling Friend.
Investing in Friends
Essay

Investing in Friends

15 August 2013

Taylor Gruenloh writes about the importance of producing your friends' work, and how it just might be the future of new play development in the United States.

A portrait of Andrew Roblyer.
Drinking from a Firehose
Essay

Drinking from a Firehose

Turning on the Water

14 August 2013

Andrew Roblyer starts out on a year-long journey to create a new theatre company in central Texas

A card with directions on it.
Long Distance Affair
Essay

Long Distance Affair

Interview with Team Singapore

14 August 2013

An interview with Team Singapore about their experience creating theatre that crosses borders through technology and how theatre can change the audience experience through it.

Photo from Push The Button.
My Long Distance Affair
Essay

My Long Distance Affair

Making Push the Button

13 August 2013

With one actor playing to one audience member, Garret Jon Groenvelt sought to create a play that entices the audience member to interact with the material.

Photo from A Long Distance Affair.
Interview with Ana Margineanu & Tamilla Woodard
Essay

Interview with Ana Margineanu & Tamilla Woodard

12 August 2013

Ana Margineanu and Tamilla Woodard talk about how Skype is changing not only the creative experience for artists but also how and where audiences participate in theatre.

Art that reads Why Did You Come Here.
Reunion
Essay

Reunion

The Before- and After-Life of a New Play

8 August 2013

Alice Reagan, with the help of Chiori Miyagawa, explores the necessity of parting ways and coming back together through revamping the process of creating plays.

Poster for I Came To Look For You On Tuesday.
Reunion
Essay

Reunion

Why Do They Keep Coming Back?

7 August 2013

Jens Rasmussen, Rachael Holmes, Meg MacCary, and Emily Morse discuss long-term engagement with their project, their unique perspectives, and the significance of reunion. 

Art that reads I'd Like To Remember That.
Reunion
Essay

Reunion

Fearlessness and Candor of Reunion Storytellers

6 August 2013

Brian Otaño explores the physical and metaphorical implications of what a reunion provides for us in our journey of being.

Art that reads "We Were Disconnected."
Reunion
Essay

Reunion

Hey it’s me. Haven’t heard from you and it’s been two days…

5 August 2013

Chiori Miyagawa continues her series on her play I Came To Look for You on Tuesday. This edition: the concept of reunion and the help of friends.

A picture of the lapin agile.
(Re)Search
Essay

(Re)Search

Using People as Resources; or How I Learned to Love To Ask

2 August 2013

(Re)Search is a six part series by Bree Windham a current graduate student in dramaturgy. It details her experiences as a young dramaturg navigating different resources and the ways she has come utilize them through trial, error, and advice from others.

The Productions That Never Were
Essay

The Productions That Never Were

30 July 2013

Adam Szymkowicz writes of the frustrating mystery confounding many playwrights: why do their productions continue to fall through?

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work from The Public Theater
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work from The Public Theater

A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 26 June 2013
New York, NY, United States

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 26 June 2013 at 2 p.m. PST (Vancouver, UTC -8) / 4 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. EST (Montréal, UTC -5) / 10 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 23:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).

 

Poster for The Underground, which reads "Jump for Love".
The Paradox of Devised Theater on the Twenty-First Century Stage
Essay

The Paradox of Devised Theater on the Twenty-First Century Stage

21 July 2013

Vanessa Garcia shares an overview of working on a devised theatre piece.

Banner event ad for Crying for Lions.
Developmental Reading of Andrew Kramer's new play Crying for Lions at Panglossian Productions
Video

Developmental Reading of Andrew Kramer's new play Crying for Lions at Panglossian Productions

Sunday 7 July 2013
Williamsburg, VA, United States

 

Panglossian Productions in Williamsburg, Virginia presented their next Plays in Progress program with an in-person and online developmental reading of Andrew Kramer‘s new play Crying for Lions, hosted by The New Town Art Gallery livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Sunday 7 July 2013 at 10 a.m. CDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 15:00 GMT.

Teaser poster for Watch Me Work, which features Suzan-Lori Parks leaning an arm against a bench.
Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work livestreamed from The Public Theater
Video

Suzan-Lori Parks' Watch Me Work livestreamed from The Public Theater

A playwriting masterclass

Wednesday 3 July 2013
New York, NY, United States

Suzan-Lori Parks livestreamed Watch Me Work from The Public Theater in New York City on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Wednesday 3 July at 2 p.m. PST (Vancouver, UTC -8) / 4 p.m. CST (Austin, UTC -6) / 5 p.m. EST (Montréal, UTC -5) / 10 p.m. GMT (London, UTC +0) / 23:00 CET (Berlin, UTC +1).