Virginia Grise
An interview with writer Virginia Grise about her virtual production of a farm for meme. She discusses chasing curiosity, gathering community, experimentation in collaboration, and healing the body through artistic practice. The upcoming production, in collaboration with “Innovations in Socially Distant Performance,” weaves organic aesthetics within a digital landscape, working to illuminate theatricality on a computer screen.
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.
Joshua William Gelb
An interview with creator and performer Joshua William Gelb about his work with his company Theater in Quarantine which performs virtually from his closet. He speaks about virtual collaboration, liveness, physical theatre, and the future of the arts.
RIchard Biever and James Ruth
An interview with director and educator Richard Biever and virtual director James Ruth of Singing Onstage in State College, PA about both their virtual production of Into the Woods and FUSE Productions subsequent webinar about their process of creating a musical with high school students that was 75% live and 25% prerecorded.
Cerise Lim Jacobs
An interview with Cerise Lim Jacobs, opera creator, librettist, and Executive Producer of White Snake Projects about the live virtual concert “Sing Out Strong: DeColonized Voices,” her upcoming new opera Alice In The Pandemic, infusing traditions with advanced technology, and dismantling elitism in the opera.
Katie Pearl
An interview with the director of Wesleyan University’s production of The Method Gun about translating for Zoom and rehearsal best practices. Pearl discusses dance breaks, digital intimacy, and how the move to Zoom has changed her as a director.