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Kiana Webb: Choose the Energy

Kiana Webb: Choose the Energy

Anything that brings us back into the center of ourselves, into the space that literally is your heart, the center of you and recalls the truth of who you are,…

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Erica Lauren Ortiz: Building Coalitions

Erica Lauren Ortiz: Building Coalitions

We are making sure that the arts remain independent, well-funded, and accessible for all. Anytime anything rears its ugly head to challenge that, we will be there fighting for you.…

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Anne Hamburger: Site-Specific Theater

Anne Hamburger: Site-Specific Theater

Episode 100! I don’t really produce plays. There are many other organizations that are wonderful at producing plays, and I’m not interested in someone coming in that’s completely done and…

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Kay Smith-Blum: TANGLES triumph

Kay Smith-Blum: TANGLES triumph

  Our nuclear security has been compromised and that really is a dangerous situation because all of our nuclear sites are nuclear power plants, or they are a theoretically defunct…

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Tish Rabe: The Singing Children’s Author

Tish Rabe: The Singing Children’s Author

This new book I've written SWEET DREAMS AHEAD FOR BED is a story that literally outlines the steps for getting ready for sleep for babies to four-year-olds. Also, in the…

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Pooya Mohseni: Poking at Prejudice

Pooya Mohseni: Poking at Prejudice

Whether it's about immigrants, Iranians, Lebanese people or Jews in Warsaw or transgender characters or whatever those characters may be, I feel that, especially theatre, is like a mirror that…

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Cynthia Grace Robinson: Writing About Women

Cynthia Grace Robinson: Writing About Women

I love writing about women because this is how women are, and we're so diverse, right? We show our power in so many different ways, and sometimes it's not a…

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Theresa Rebeck: Precepts of Playwriting

Theresa Rebeck: Precepts of Playwriting

What is central to my work is comedy. For me, there is a desperation in comedy that's very theatrical. And that you can ultimately get a play to a place…

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Adam Davenport: The Power of the Actor

Adam Davenport: The Power of the Actor

For me, acting is the greatest tool we have right now to teach people empathy. Because empathy requires you to put yourself squarely in the shoes of another person. I…

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Martha Wade Steketee: Women Count

Martha Wade Steketee: Women Count

Holding people's feet to the fire by just saying, 'You know what, you may think that a lot of women are being hired.' 'I've done five shows last season, isn't…

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Alyssa Simon: An Actor Commits

Alyssa Simon: An Actor Commits

I came to New York to meet people I read about in college like Joe Chaiken and Judith Malina, and I met them! I took workshops with Joe Chaiken, and…

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Reid Pope: Reclaiming Labels

Reid Pope: Reclaiming Labels

Alot of the reasons why the male/female -- the binary, in general, was for men specifically like white men and colonizers, to assert dominance and control over people who were…

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Steven Hauck: Stripping Away Stereotypes

Steven Hauck: Stripping Away Stereotypes

Theater is both a spiritual healing and emotional healing and even physical healing for me, and it's been my raison d'etre for most of my life, and that's been problematic,…

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Christine Dixon: Black History Brought to Life

Christine Dixon: Black History Brought to Life

Harriet Tubman knows how to relate to the different groups because Harriet doesn't 'see' people like ; my audience is seen as humans, a beautiful mélange of people that are…

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Ellen W. Kaplan: The Promise of Play

Ellen W. Kaplan: The Promise of Play

I believe that is about women and social change. Leaders of change reside with women. For me, working with rather than writing about people is the more radical act.  Work…

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Janet Mitchko: Holding Hands

Janet Mitchko: Holding Hands

I would like to believe I attract heart-centered individuals to work with. I create a sense of safety in the rooms, empowerment and we are in service of the text.…

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Valerie David: Celebrating Differences

Valerie David: Celebrating Differences

My mission is to keep culture alive; to sustain that culture because we don't want history repeating itself. And to educate - we are all the same people. We are…

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Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back

Here's the thing about AI. It doesn't have a soul, and it doesn't understand psychology, and it doesn't understand the quirks of human behavior. All it can do is strip-mine…

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