Episodios

  • Opening the National Theatre’s Doors to Devised Work

    Opening the National Theatre’s Doors to Devised Work
    May 31 2023
    Stewart Pringle, senior dramaturg at the National Theatre, sheds light on the theatre’s Generate program and discusses with Jeffrey Mosser the problem with the term “literary department,” when to take a risk, and why it’s important that the big fish in the big pond makes the investment in smaller-scale ensemble-based companies.
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    55 m
  • Ontroerend Goed’s Participatory Metaphors

    Ontroerend Goed’s Participatory Metaphors
    May 24 2023
    Artistic director of Belgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed, Alexander Devriendt talks through their process for imagining and developing participatory content. Alexander and Jeffrey Mosser also dig into financing art in Europe, the cost of touring internationally and how COVID has affected it, and sustaining family and art simultaneously.
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    59 m
  • SoulWork and Soul Searching

    SoulWork and Soul Searching
    May 17 2023
    Culture worker and theatre practitioner Dr. Cristal Chanelle Truscott provides a primer on her SoulWork process, applies it to her present processes, and expands our horizons as artists.
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    58 m
  • Turning City Council Meetings into Performance

    Turning City Council Meetings into Performance
    May 10 2023
    Creatives and book authors Mallory Catlett and Aaron Landsman dig into their new book based on their piece City Council Meeting, an exciting performance, rooted in a commonplace bureaucratic event, that develops dynamic participatory relationships with audiences and local government.
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    1 h y 8 m
  • Looking for Another Way

    Looking for Another Way
    May 3 2023
    Playwright and director Karen Malpede joins Jeffrey Mosser to talk about her career and connections from the Open Theater to Theater Three Collaborative, as well as her partner George Bartenieff, an actor and champion for the avant-garde.
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    47 m
  • Philanthropies, Foundations, and Boards (Oh, Wow)

    Philanthropies, Foundations, and Boards (Oh, Wow)
    Apr 26 2023
    Since the “great pause,” funders have shifted their giving models. Ben Cameron has seen it from every side—and he talks all about it. Through anecdotes about his experiences at organizations from Theatre Communications Group to the Jerome Foundation, Ben offers many insights into how ensemble fits in a thriving theatre ecosystem.
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    1 h y 22 m
  • Ensemble as Contemporary Commentary

    Ensemble as Contemporary Commentary
    Apr 19 2023
    Since the “great pause,” funders have shifted their giving models. Ben Cameron has seen it from every side—and he talks all about it. Through anecdotes about his experiences at organizations from Theatre Communications Group to the Jerome Foundation, Ben offers many insights into how ensemble fits in a thriving theatre ecosystem.
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    1 h y 8 m
  • A Living History of Ensemble Theatre (or Bob Leonard’s Ensemble Encyclopedia)

    A Living History of Ensemble Theatre (or Bob Leonard’s Ensemble Encyclopedia)
    Apr 12 2023
    Bob Leonard chronicles his work from the People’s Bicentennial Commission and the Road Company through the founding of the Network of Ensemble Theaters and Alternate ROOTS. Together, Jeffrey Mosser and Bob connect the dots through the middle wave of ensemble-based theatre in the United States.
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    1 h y 7 m