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Congratulations to Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow!’s Inaugural Podcast guest Quiara Alegria Hudes. She leads off the cover story of this month’s THE DRAMATIST magazine with an article on “Subject”.
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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 Margo Jefferson, Theatre and Cultural Critic
(Season 3, Episode 3, Recorded June 26, 2012)
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Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Podcast with Margo Jefferson
Margo 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.
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Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Interview with Margo Jefferson
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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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.
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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 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.
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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, 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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Congratulations to Quiara Alegria Hudes, who has won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. She served as our guest for the inaugural podcast for Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow!
The Pulitzer Prize in Drama is given for a distinguished play by an American author, preferably original in its source and dealing with American life. The award is for WATER BY THE SPOONFUL, an imaginative play about the search for meaning by a returning Iraq war veteran working in a sandwich shop in his hometown of Philadelphia.
Congratulations, Quiara.
Please listen to Quiara speak about her early artistic influences and her artistic process here: Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Inaugural Podcast with Quiara Alegria Hudes.
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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Here is some great news from Quiara Alegria Hudes, TheatreNow!’s first guest artist.
Dear friends and colleagues,
In 2006, my play (and proudest piece of writing) Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue, was produced in New York, directed by Davis McCallum and featuring the outstanding Armando Riesco as Elliot and Zabryna Guevara as Ginny.
The story now continues with the second play in this triolgy. Please join me at Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut for the world premiere of Water By the Spoonful, part two of Elliot’s journey. The role of Elliot will once again be played by Riesco, and Guevara returns, this time as Ginny’s niece, Yazmin. Davis McCallum’s directing looks to be even more engrossing and exciting than last time.
Water By the Spoonful is about addiction, recovery, adoption, and choosing your adult path, all set to John Coltrane’s jazz. It is a large, sprawling piece of work set in Japan, Philly, San Diego, and Puerto Rico. I am very proud of this one.
Here are the details:
Water By the Spoonful
by Quiara Alegría Hudes
directed by Davis McCallum
Hartford Stage Company
October 20-November 13
Featuring Matthew Boston, Liza Colon-Zayas, Demosthenes Chrysan, Zabryna Guevara, Teresa Lim, Armando Riesco, and Ray Anthony Thomas.
For tickets and the performance schedule visit the Hartford Stage Company’s website here. For travel, both the Amtrak Hartford Station and the Megabus Hartford Stations are close to the theater.
Thanks, and I hope to see you there,
Quiara
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Thank you so much for your interest in TheatreNow!
On TheatreNow! I interview important contemporary female theatre artists, and I would like to make this series a seminal program that people from all over the world will listen to in the years to come. The podcasts are also posted on my blog at http://hamiltondramaturgy.wordpress.com
TheatreNow! creates an online presence and library of female theatre experts’ ideas and opinions. I serve as Producer and Host, and Linsey Bostwick serves as Editor.
I’ve already posted conversations with: Quiara Alegria Hudes (playwright/librettist); Kristin Marting (director/artistic director); Claire Lautier (actor); Valentina Fratti (director/playwright); Ruth Margraff (musician/composer/writer); Yvette Heyliger (playwright) and Yvonne Farrow (actor/choralographer).
Others who have agreed to appear: Lynn Nottage (Pulitzer Prize winning playwright), Danai Guriri (actor/playwright), Laura Maria Censabella (playwright), Kamilah Forbes (writer/producer/curator), Alexandra Maria Beech (playwright) and Anne Kauffman (director).
Rather than be a series focusing on biographical details, I conduct the interviews in such a way as to focus on each woman’s early artistic influences, her own assessment of her contribution to the professional theatre, and her artistic process. I also plan to post a written bio (also in digital form) from each subject on my blog http://hamiltondramaturgy.wordpress. com near the podcast.
I am very excited to create a lasting and seminal podcast series which ensure that women theatre artists can reveal and discuss their creative processes and influences.
Sincerely, Anne Hamilton – Producer and Host
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Welcome to the inaugural interview in my TheatreNow! podcast series of important contemporary female theatre artists. Ms. Hudes is a two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee (2007, ELLIOT: A SOLDIER’S FUGUE and 2008, Book Writer for IN THE HEIGHTS) and a Tony-Award nominee (2008, IN THE HEIGHTS). She shares with us her early artistic influences and artistic process. Hamilton Dramaturgy’s TheatreNow! Inaugural Podcast with Quiara Alegria Hudes You can follow Quiara’s career at www.quiara.com
— Anne Hamilton, Dramaturg and Playwright. http://www.hamiltonlit.com hamiltonlit@hotmail.com
TheatreNow! Staff: Producer and Host – Anne Hamilton; Editor – Linsey Bostwick
