Philip Santos schaffer and isabel quinzaños alonso
Playwright and Actor Philip Santos Schaffer and Director Isabel Quinzaños Alonso discuss Baby Jessica’s Well-Made Play, a five-act phone adventure to the bottom of a well and back again. They discuss how they get two strangers to meet on the phone, how they invite audience members to sit in their closets and listen to one another, and how they find the tools to invite the audience to take care of each other.
Ethan Heard
An interview with Ethan Heard, the Founding Co-Artistic Director of Heartbeat Opera – a company that reimagines and reshapes repertory operas. Ethan recently adapted and directed Lady M: An Online Fantasia of Verdi’s Macbeth with Heartbeat Opera on Zoom.
Ben Beckley and Asa Wember
An interview with Ben Beckley and Asa Wember who, together, created an individual immersive virtual experience specifically for quarantine. Guided by an alien species, listeners move around their home and interact with everyday objects as they gain an outside perspective to their human experience. Beckley and Wember piece together a post-apocalyptic story about a world eerily similar to our own and invite listeners to observe and question their reality.
Sarah Gancher
An interview with Sarah Gancher about Fill in the Play, an audience participation theatrical experiment: “Mad Libs” meets improv game meets play. She discusses playwriting, collaboration with her audience, and her desire to innovate form and structure.
Mieke D, Tony Moaton, And Jillian Jetton
An interview with the creators of A World Beneath the World, a scavenger hunt through the Woodlands cemetery. The creators discuss how to craft an audience experience while exploring themes of death, grief, mortality, survival, mutual aid, and conceptions of the Underworld and the Afterlife.