Nick Thomas, Adam Belvo, & Azumi Tsutsui of “Anonymous”

Posted on February 13, 2025 by robby

Listen in as Anonymous playwright & director Nick Thomas, along with performers Adam Belvo (Michael) and Azumi Tsutsui (Diana), discuss sharing a character, letting the story pour out, the relief of the audience, “embedded” theatre, “rehearsal with a bunch of strangers,” going “full Australian business-bro,” finding a character that’s far from you, taking us back to the (awesome) 1990s, and the potential of anonymity.

“…it has a different feeling of freshness. Like, I can feel the people sitting beside me, and they don’t know what’s going on, but hearing the story for the first time…I can feel, people are feeling it…”

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Kimille Howard & Cezar Williams of The Fire This Time Festival 2025

Posted on January 27, 2025 by robby

Listen in as the Director of the shows in this year’s The Fire This Time Festival, Kimille Howard, along with Producing Artistic Director Cezar Williams, discuss finding balance, discovering musical talent, bringing together black voices in the theatre, finding new collaborators, figuring out the big game of scheduling Tetris, leaning into the practicalities, and making magic.

“…it’s a theatrical event…to amplify the career of black playwrights…we pull together an incredible team of artist…and it’s always a good time.”

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Bernard Bosio, Elena Lozonschi, Camila Melgar, Claude Choukrane, Ted Thompson, & Phil Williams of “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”

Posted on January 17, 2025 by robby

Listen in as The Last Days of Judas Iscariot director Bernard Bosio, along with performers Elena Lozonschi, Camila Melgar, Claude Choukrane, Ted Thompson, & Phil Williams, discuss the culture of Heights Players, the importance of understudies, the sound of real New York dialogue, despair and hope, vibe shifts, inspiring conversations, relying on your collaborators, and the brilliance of Stephen Adly Guirgis.

“…people do make mistakes, and some of them are catastrophic…but are all of them irredeemable?”

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Kallan Dana, Julia Greer, and Sarah Blush of “Racecar Racecar Racecar”

Posted on December 13, 2024 by robby

Listen in as Racecar Racecar Racecar playwright Kallan Dana, director Sarah Blush, and producer/performer Julia Greer, discuss the open road of a script, symmetry & palindromic structures, complicated father relationships, creating breaks, emergency relocations, and taking road trips with your collaborators.

“…I’m a person who tries to talk and talk until I can get to what I mean, and I’m always failing. The words are always failing you. And so I think that feels like a really emotionally true thing for me, and that was part of the fun for generating the language in this play…”

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Fareeda Pasha, Dylan Lesch, Hana Fatima Dehradunwala, Amani Meliyah, & Aliyah Curry, of The Science in Theatre Festival

Posted on November 26, 2024 by robby

Listen in as performers Fareeda Pasha & Dylan Lesch, and Hana Fatima Dehradunwala, playwright of The Last Word, along with Amani Meliyah, director, and Aliyah Curry, playwright of Receptors, both plays in The Science in Theatre Festival, discuss responsibility, “doing the research” and having access to those who *did* the research, standing on the shoulders of giants, last words, making social media explode onstage, the insanity of being a human being, and the bleeding edge between theatre and science.

“There’s something wrong with the world…[we should be] treating this country we live in as a community, we’re all responsible for each other…”

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Rhys Luke, Sophia DiPaolo, Leah Davidowitz, Tits Morality, Chloe Drohan, & Eliana Coe of “Dave and Boris Kill the Cat”

Posted on November 14, 2024 by robby

Listen in as Dave and Boris Kill the Cat playwright Rhys Luke, director Sophia DiPaolo, costumer Leah Davidowitz, and performers Tits Morality, Chloe Drohan, and Eliana Coe, discuss falling down rabbit holes, working on a show that features real people, queer horror, grotesque and disgusting mannerisms, drag & film noir, intergenerational cat trauma, & making everything larger than life.

“…there’s something so special about sending such a strong message, under the guide of comedy…to have audience members tell you is, ‘it was so funny, I laughed so hard,’ and then you know that they go home, and think a little bit more about it, and they realize what the show is really about…it’s such a joyful process, to work on something so meaningful, something so inclusive, and have a laugh while doing it…”

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Clay McLeod Chapman, Pete Boisvert, Stephanie Cox-Connolly, & Morgan Zipf-Meister of “Feejee Mermaid”

Posted on October 29, 2024 by robby

Listen in as feejee mermaid playwright Clay McLeod Chapman, director Pete Boisvert, props & effects designer Stephanie Cox-Connolly, and actor Morgan Zipf-Meister, discuss finding a taxidermy consultant, love and hate, reconnecting with the scene, multiple hats, buying everyone the book, and making shit so you can make something live & breathe.

“…it’s about four people who are intersecting at a point in their lives where they love each other, hate each other…these are people who need each other to complete themselves, and achieve something greater than any one individual.”

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Matthew Freeman & Jessi D. Hill of “The Ask”

Posted on September 18, 2024 by robby

Listen in as The Ask playwright Matthew Freeman, and director Jessi D. Hill, discuss generational divides, pitching runtimes, writing from what you know in real life, finally getting to work together, what can happen when you see yourself onstage, failing and messing up and misspeaking, seeing both sides from the middle, flawed arguments, and writing for what the play needs.

“Every debate in the show is not some secret argument that’s only happening in the ACLU. Everyone talks about this stuff…”

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Kara Ayn Napolitano & Joy Donze of “In Search of Elaina”

Posted on September 17, 2024 by robby

Listen in as In Search of Elaina playwright Kara Ayn Napolitano, along with director Joy Donze, discuss the vibes between them, making things happen, facing the difficult parts of yourself, strong female friendships, finding the right people for your ensemble, strong audience reactions, and why you should write what you know.

“…you said it at opening…this is a play about a lot of peoples’ people. I think that, when you bring your truth to the stage, as a collective humanity, we find that a lot of us can relate to that truth…”

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Denisse Estefany Mendoza & Peter Michael Marino of “Show Up, Kids!”

Posted on September 11, 2024 by robby

Listen in as creator Peter Michael Marino & performer Denisse Estefany Mendoza of SHOW UP, KIDS! discuss awful auditions and why they often don’t matter, working out your show over time, building fairy tales from scratch, how to work with new & inexperienced (very young) improvisers, using what’s given to you by the audience, bringing them back into the show, funny chickens and evil farmers and bad penguin driving, and the sensibilities of New York City kids.

“You just have to say ‘yes, and,’ even to their ‘nos’…you just have to keep going…even the nos can be really funny!”

“It’s always a gift!”

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Nick Thomas, Adam Belvo, & Azumi Tsutsui of “Anonymous”

Kimille Howard & Cezar Williams of The Fire This Time Festival 2025

Bernard Bosio, Elena Lozonschi, Camila Melgar, Claude Choukrane, Ted Thompson, & Phil Williams of “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot”

Kallan Dana, Julia Greer, and Sarah Blush of “Racecar Racecar Racecar”

Fareeda Pasha, Dylan Lesch, Hana Fatima Dehradunwala, Amani Meliyah, & Aliyah Curry, of The Science in Theatre Festival

Rhys Luke, Sophia DiPaolo, Leah Davidowitz, Tits Morality, Chloe Drohan, & Eliana Coe of “Dave and Boris Kill the Cat”

Clay McLeod Chapman, Pete Boisvert, Stephanie Cox-Connolly, & Morgan Zipf-Meister of “Feejee Mermaid”

Matthew Freeman & Jessi D. Hill of “The Ask”

Kara Ayn Napolitano & Joy Donze of “In Search of Elaina”

Denisse Estefany Mendoza & Peter Michael Marino of “Show Up, Kids!”