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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://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com
Interview with Rae Smith, Set and Costume Designer
(Season 3, Episode 2, Recorded January 13, 2012)
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Podcast with Rae Smith
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 am your host, Anne Hamilton. Today, our guest is Rae Smith. This Olivier and OBIE award-winning British designer works regularly in a wide variety of styles and genres. This diversity has taken her from Slovenia to Broadway. Her theatre designs are frequently seen in Britain in the West End, at the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre de Complicité and in a variety of experimental theatre companies. She also works regularly in some of the world’s great opera houses. She won the 2012 Tony ® Award for Best Scenic Design of a play for WAR HORSE.
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Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Interview with Rae Smith
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.
Filed under: Rae Smith, Season One, Season Three, TheatreNow! Artists | Tags: Anne Hamilton, Costume Designer, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com, Rae Smith, Season Three, Set Designer, TheatreNow! Artists, Tony Award Winner, WAR HORSE, Women Theatre Artists
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://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com
Rae Smith, Set and Costume Designer
(Season 3, Episode 2, Recorded January 13, 2012)
Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Interview with Rae Smith
Rae Smith is a nOlivier and OBIE award-winning British designer who works regularly in a wide variety of styles and genres. This diversity has taken her from Slovenia to Broadway. Her theatre designs are frequently seen in Britain in the West End, at the National Theatre, the Royal Court, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre de Complicité and in a variety of experimental theatre companies. She also works regularly in some of the world’s great opera houses. She won the 2012 Tony ® Award for Best Scenic Design of a play for WAR HORSE.
This episode is dedicated to Tyler Fereira.
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.
Filed under: Anne Hamilton, Jennifer Tipton, Judith Malina, Kamilah Forbes, Kate Valk, Kristin Marting, Margo Jefferson, Maria Alexandria Beech, Murielle Borst Tarrant, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Rae Smith, Season One, Season Three, Season Two, TheatreNow! Artists, Yvette Heyliger, Yvonne Farrow | Tags: Anne Hamilton, Gender Parity, Hamilton Dramaturgy, Hamilton Dramaturgy's TheatreNow!, hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com, League of Professional Theatre Women, Season One, Season Three, Season Two, TheatreNow! Artists, Women Theatre Artists
Many thanks to AMERICAN THEATRE magazine (October 2012 – Theatre Communications Group) for publishing a 2-page article on TheatreNow! Margot Melcon wrote an informative and thorough piece on TheatreNow!’s origins, and place in the contemporary gender parity movement.
Download the article here: AMERICAN THEATRE article on TheatreNow! by Margot Melcon (October 2012)
“There’s been a lot of discussion over the past few years about women’s voices being underrepresented in the theatre—there aren’t enough female playwrights being produced, not enough women in executive positions in regional theatres, not enough female directors or roles for female actors. And not enough women speak out as informed, educated, experienced and qualified representatives in the field. Though there has been a flood of discussion about gender disparity, talking doesn’t always lead to action.
But Anne Hamilton isn’t just talking. In response to the acknowledged under-representation that leads to so much frustration, the New York City–based freelance dramaturg, script consultant and playwright has offered up a solution…”
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http://hamiltondramaturgystheatrenow.com
Announcing Season Three, coming soon:
Kate Valk, Actress, The Wooster Group
Rae Smith, Set and Costume Designer
Margo Jefferson, Theatre and Cultural Critic
Maria Alexandria Beech, Playwright, Bookwriter and Lyricist
Murielle Borst Tarrant, Playwright, Director and Producer
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.

