Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!


Master List of Artists on TheatreNow! Podcasts

Thank you for visiting TheatreNow!’s blog. Our podcasts and transcripts are now located on the site
http://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com

Please click on the titles below to listen to the podcasts. And make sure to subscribe to the website so you’ll receive all of our new interviews!

Season 1

Inaugural Episode  – Quiara Alegria Hudes, Playwright and Librettist

Episode 2 – Claire Lautier, Actress

Episode 3 – Ruth Margraff, Musician, Composer, and Playwright

Episode 4 – Kristin Marting, Artistic Director, Producer, and Director

Episode 5 – Valentina Fratti, Artistic Director, Producer, and Director

Episode  6 – Catherine Filloux, Parts 1 and 2, Playwright

Episode 7-  Yvette Heyliger and Yvonne Farrow, Parts 1 and 2

Yvette Heyliger, Producer, Playwright, and Director

Yvonne Farrow, Producer, Actor, and Choralographer

Season 2

Episode 1 – Kamilah Forbes, Artistic Director, Director, and Actor

Episode 2 – Laura Maria Censabella, Playwright, Screenwriter, and Educator

Episode 3 – Paule Constable, Lighting Designer

Episode 4 – Fran Tarr, Playwright, Filmmaker, and Educator

Episode 5 – Jennifer Tipton. Lighting Designer

Season 3

Episode 1 – Kate Valk, Actress, The Wooster Group

Episode 2 – Rae Smith, Set and Costume Designer

Episode 3 – Margo Jefferson, Theatre and Cultural Critic

Episode 4 – Maria Alexandria Beech, Playwright, Bookwriter and Lyricist

Episode 5 – Murielle Borst Tarrant, Playwright, Director, Producer

Episode 6 – Judith Malina, Co-Founder, The Living Theatre

Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.



TheatreNow! Interview with Margo Jefferson

Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Is a podcast series featuring some of the most exciting women artists working in the theatre today.  Anne Hamilton is the producer and host.  You may listen to the podcasts and read the transcripts at
http://hamilt
ondramaturgystheatrenow.com

 Interview with Margo Jefferson, Theatre and Cultural Critic

(Season 3, Episode 3, Recorded June 26, 2012)

Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Interview with Margo Jefferson

Welcome to Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! This is a podcast series featuring some of the most exciting women artists working in the theatre today. I’m your host, Anne Hamilton. Today, our guest is Margo Jefferson. Miss Jefferson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic who wrote about books, theatre, and the arts for The New York Times for 13 years. Her writing has also appeared in Bookforum, Salon, The Nation, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Vogue, and Newsweek, among other publications. Her book On Michael Jackson was published by Pantheon in 2005 and Vintage in 2006. And the essay she wrote on Michelle Obama, “Movin’ On Up”, was published in Best African American Essays: 2010. She also wrote and performed SIXTY MINUTES IN NEGROLAND at The Cherry Lane Theater and The Culture Project.

Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.



LPTW’s TheatreNow! Webpage

Many thanks to the League of Professional Theatre Women, which has given TheatreNow! its own webpage at
https://theatrewomen.org/theatrenow-podcasts
. Read how my membership in the League influenced my creation of the podcast series. The League is the nation’s premiere professional organization for women working in all aspects of the theatre.

LPTW and TheatreNow!

I conceived of TheatreNow! in 2009 while serving as the Co-Secretary of the League of Professional Theatre Women. I was so excited to attend meetings and converse with terrific theatre artists and learn about their experience and new projects. I started to think about how wonderful it would be to record these conversations and share them with the public in order to preserve important events in contemporary American theatre history.

So I decided to download some free recording software and use available resources on the internet to record some interviews. I happened to meet Quiara Alegría Hudes’ mother, and asked for her daughter’s contact information. Quiara was happy to give me an interview, and so, TheatreNow! was launched. I followed the inaugural podcast with interviews with women whose careers I felt were interesting and important.

I made sure to include women from many different disciplines, and even now I actively seek out women of different races, nationalities and professions in order to give a balanced and inclusive sampling of contemporary theatre practice.

And so, TheatreNow! grew from one half-hour recording to a series with a new website at
http://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com
, an Archivist – the marvelous Helaine Gawlica, a staff of Program Assistants, and a theme composed by my Co-Secretary Nancy Ford. The series is posted on soundcloud.com, and is very easy to download and share.

In Season Two I began to post transcripts of the interviews for the public’s convenience. AMERICAN THEATRE published a two-page article on the series in its October 2012 issue.

I am now planning my fourth season, and rest assured, it will continue to feature League members, and women whom the League has honored with prizes for their contribution to American theatre.

Anne Hamilton, Producer and Host
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow!
Email: hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow@gmail.com
www.hamiltonlit.com

TheatreNow! Podcasts With League Members:
- Kristin Marting
- Valentina Fratti
- Yvette Heyliger

Please download the article here: LPTW and TheatreNow! by Anne Hamilton

Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.




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