Listen in as The Nobodies Who Were Everybody co-directors (and Theater in Asylum co-artistic directors) Katie Palmer and Paul Bedard, along with performer Jessie Atkinson, discuss the company’s devising process, why an important bit of American Theater history has seemingly been buried, moving from experiments to cabarets to full shows, working in theaters that aren’t “theaters,” on-the-fly rewrites, and how we might give artists, and audiences, what they need.
“Something’s gotta change. It’s a problem, that neither artists have the support they deserve, nor audiences have access to the art they deserve. That is a problem. […] Everyone in this country, artist or not, deserves to be able to put their skills to work, and put their passions to reality, and live a fulfilled life…”
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Theater in Asylum presents
The Nobodies Who Were Everybody
written by Theater in Asylum
directed by Katie Palmer & Paul Bedard
thru August 20, 2023
Jalopy Theatre
315 Columbia Street
Brooklyn
tickets: $0–$40 (sliding scale), available via Viewcy
photos by Shubhra Mishra