(Archive from 2012 to 2021) HowlRound Theatre Commons Podcasts

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(Archive from 2012 to 2021) HowlRound Theatre Commons Podcasts episodes:

02.15.2023
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We are no longer adding new episodes here! Subscribe to Building Our Own Tables to get new episodes on Wednesdays, and catch up on past seasons of Critical Stages in Malawian Contemporary Theatre, Kunafa and Shay, and Performative Unity in...
08.24.2022
Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 10: I Write What Comes Up in My Body: Robbie McCauley's Theatre
In this episode, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley look at the life and legacy of playwright Robbie McCauley, who recently passed away. They discuss her work as a pioneer of solo performance as a Black woman and how she impacted...
08.17.2022
Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 9: Put Some Respect on Black Theatre with Lisa B. Thompson
In this episode, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley interview artist/scholar Lisa B. Thompson. In their conversation with Lisa, they discuss navigating life as a Black feminist artist/scholar, putting some respect on Black theatre, and why Black theatre is an integral...
08.10.2022
Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 8: Dominique Morisseau’s Practice of the Possible
Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley of Daughters of Lorraine, a black feminist theatre podcast, interview award-winning and acclaimed playwright Dominique Morisseau on her recent Broadway productions of Ain’t Too Proud and Skeleton Crew, the future of Detroit theatre and performance,...
08.03.2022
Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 7: Staging Reproductive Freedom in Black Feminist Theatre
This episode is inspired by recent and current events regarding Roe v. Wade and their potential impact on birthing people. We think about the representation of reproductive justice (things such as abortion, contraception, and anything regarding decisions to birth or...
07.27.2022
Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 6: Black Women Got Something to Say- An interview with Pearl Cleage
In this episode, Jordan and Leticia interview playwright Pearl Cleage. They discuss the way she has navigated her career as a Black feminist/womanist playwright often working in Black spaces; how she found her home in Atlanta, Georgia; and her most...
07.20.2022
Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 5: When and Where We Enter- Black Feminist Theatre
In this episode, Leticia and Jordan finally explain what they mean when they say Black feminism, especially in theatre and performance. They engage Lisa M. Anderson’s tenets of Black feminist drama, alongside other contemporary scholars and artists expansion of Black...
07.13.2022
Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 4: A Soft Place To Land: James Ijames' Fat Ham
This episode focuses on the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner, Fat Ham by James Ijames. Leticia and Jordan discuss the recent production at the Public Theater, its conversation and diversion from Shakespeare, representations of Black queerness, and what it...
07.06.2022
Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 3: Working Her Own Tune: Revisiting the Life, Legacy, and Work of Micki Grant
This episode honors the life and work of composer, writer, and performer Micki Grant, who passed away in August 2021. Grant was the first Black woman to write and compose a musical that made it to Broadway, and she is...
06.29.2022
Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 2: Creating A Space for Black Theatre Audience - A Conversation with Addae Moon
This episode is an interview with Addae Moon, the associate artistic director at Theatrical Outfit in Atlanta, Georgia. We discuss his journey as a theatre artist; his playwright development lab, Hush Harbor Lab; and his own artistry and creativity.
06.22.2022
Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 1: Singin' a Black Girl's Song: Ntozake Shange and for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
This episode explores the recent revival of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf, directed and choreographed by Camille A. Brown. Hosts Leticia Ridley and Jordan Ealey contextualize the production, its ongoing...
06.08.2022
Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 10: Season Debrief and what’s next for Kunafa and Shay
To end the season, this episode will have Marina and Nabra sitting down to tea to talk about highlights from this season and what is to come in the future.
06.01.2022
Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 9: Balancing Comedy and Drama as a MENA Playwright with Yussef El-Guindi & Leila Buck
Join Marina and Nabra as they speak with MENA theatremakers Leila Buck and Yussef El-Guindi on another episode of Kunafa and Shay.
05.25.2022
Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 8: Multihyphenate Artists with Denmo Ibrahim and Sarah Fahmy
Artistic identities can be complicated, and many theatremakers work equally within two or more disciplines simultaneously. The most interesting work is rarely created in a vacuum. These multidisciplinary artists create diverse projects in all senses of the word, broadening our...
05.18.2022
Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Epsiode 7: Creating the Change: Featuring Masrah Cleveland Al-Arabi with Raymond Bobgan and Omar Kurdi
MENA artists continue to work hard to create representation in large theatrical arenas by pushing for their work to be produced on contemporary stages. However, since some major theatres only allot 1 or 2 slots a year for plays by...
05.11.2022
Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 6: Iranian Theatre Companies with Parmida Ziaei (Seda, Seattle) & Shadi Ghaheri (Peydah, NYC)
In the greater conversation about MENA or SWANA identity, many national and ethnic groups do not neatly fit into that category or are in between geographic areas. One of the largest groups that are both within and without what is...
05.04.2022
Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Epsiode 5: Centering Perspectives of Color in Theatre Criticism with Arti Ishak and Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel
For artists, getting a quality review of their show is often critical to continued success. It can make or break new plays and emerging artists. However, works by BIPOC artists have often been subjected to the white critical gaze in...
04.27.2022
Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 4: Community Engagement Through Art and Programs
Community engagement is more than a post-show talk or touring production. These two directors and administrative leaders are community engagement practitioners in everything that they do, including their artmaking and program curation. They work both as independent artists and through...
04.20.2022
Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 3: Site-Specific and Devised Theatre in Lebanon with Sahar Assaf & Zeina Daccache
Site-specific performances have the possibility to truly make all the world a stage. To produce site-specific and devised theatre performances in the United States and abroad, artists must engage with the questions of the politics of any space, what communities...
04.13.2022
Kunafa snd Shay Season 2 Episode 2: Theatre as Advocacy/Palestinian Theatre with Ahmed Mansour & Hanna Eady
Theatre is a powerful tool for political and community advocacy efforts. From the stage to the streets, theatre can illuminate underheard narratives, reveal different perspectives on political events, and humanize the struggles of groups. There is a long history of...
04.06.2022
Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 1: Representation Behind the Scenes with Betty Shamieh and Tracy Francis
Last season we talked about on-stage representation in contemporary theatre. But what does representation look like behind the scenes and why is it important? How does the process change when there are MENA creative team members, production staff, directors, and...
03.30.2022
Gender Euphoria Episode 9: On Being a "Trans Trailblazer" with Scott Turner Schofield
Gender Euphoria, the podcast, host Nicolas Shannon Savard sits down with actor, writer, consultant, educator Scott Turner Schofield. They trouble the TV/film industry's framing of Schofield as a singular "trans trailblazer," since as he notes, trans actors were, indeed, carving out...
03.29.2022
Gender Euphoria Episode 8: QTPOC Comedy: Connecting, Communing, Creating Compassion with D’Lo
Gender Euphoria, the Podcast host Nicolas Shannon Savard sits down with actor, writer, and comedian D’Lo to talk about his career and how he uses comedy and storytelling as tools for connection, education, and compassion.
03.23.2022
Gender Euphoria Episode 7: Trans Theatre and the Autobiographical Assumption with Jesse D. O’Rear
Gender Euphoria, the podcast, host Nicolas Shannon Savard sits down with artist-scholar, Dr. Jesse D. O’Rear. This episode features a conversation with Dr. O’Rear about his research on and experience working with autobiographical trans narratives in performance and a phenomenon...
03.21.2022
Gender Euphoria Episode 6: Putting on the Trans Educator Top Hat with Rebecca Kling
Gender Euphoria, the podcast, host Nicolas Shannon Savard sits down with storyteller, educator, and advocate for transgender rights, Rebecca Kling. Their conversation addresses Rebecca’s work as a solo performer-turned-activist, the importance of consent in deciding to take on the trans...
03.14.2022
Gender Euphoria Episode 4: Training Cisgender Directors and Producers: It's More Than Remembering Pronouns
Gender Euphoria, the podcast, host Nicolas Shannon Savard sits down with actor, writer, and human rights advocate Maybe Burke to talk about her role at the Transgender Training Institute and their signature course, “Supporting Transgender Actors & Creatives.”
03.09.2022
Gender Euphoria Episode 5: Queer of Color Devised Performance, Disidentification, and Spirituality with siri gurudev
Gender Euphoria, the podcast, host Nicolas Shannon Savard sits down with siri gurudev to talk about their devising practice which blends queer of color theory and performance techniques, popular music, and spirituality and to chat about their dissertation research on...
03.07.2022
Re-release: Gender Euphoria Episode 2: The Case for QTPOC Slice-of-Life Drama with Dillon Yruegas
Gender Euphoria, the podcast, host Nicolas Shannon Savard sits down with playwright and performer, Dillon Yruegas to talk about two productions of his play The Brunch Crowd. They talk about what a slice-of-life, kitchen sink play full of trans of...
02.28.2022
Gender Euphoria Episode 3: Building Black Queer Worlds Onstage and Behind the Scenes with Azure D. Osborne-Lee
Gender Euphoria, the podcast, host Nicolas Shannon Savard sits down with playwright Azure D. Osborne-Lee to talk about their play, Crooked Parts; building Black queer worlds onstage; and the mentorship, community-building, and production practices that go into bringing those worlds...
02.23.2022
Gender Euphoria Episode 2: The Case for QTPOC Slice-of-Life Drama with Dillon Yruegas
Gender Euphoria, the podcast, host Nicolas Shannon Savard sits down with playwright and performer, Dillon Yruegas to talk about two productions of his play The Brunch Crowd. They talk about what a slice-of-life, kitchen sink play full of trans of...
02.16.2022
Gender Euphoria Episode 1 Part 2: Have We Really Reached the Transgender Tipping Point? with Joshua Bastian Cole
Nicolas Shannon Savard and Joshua Bastian Cole continue their conversation about transgender representation. They critique Time magazine’s 2014 declaration of the “transgender tipping point” of cultural visibility and explore the ways in which Hollywood’s handling of trans narratives bleeds over...
02.15.2022
Connecting Collaborative Passion to a National Network: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 8
Tony Award-winning producer Mara Isaacs discusses how she puts collaboratively creative work in front of national audiences through her producing organization, Octopus Theatricals. This final episode of season two holds hot takes on boards, theatricality, and connective tissue around artist-centered...
02.09.2022
Gender Euphoria Episode 1: Transgender Legibility Beyond the Tropes, An Interview with Joshua Bastian Cole Part 1
In episode 1 (part 1) of Gender Euphoria, the podcast, host Nicolas Shannon Savard sits down with Joshua Bastian Cole to talk about popular tropes in transgender representation, gender legibility on stage, and the implications of each for trans and...
02.02.2022
Gender Euphoria: Introduction to Gender Euphoria
Welcome to Gender Euphoria, the podcast! In this episode, host and producer Nicolas Savard explains the origin story of this new podcast and what (and who) we should expect to hear from this season.
01.19.2022
Fiscal Sponsorship and the Path to Non-Profit Status: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 7
What does fiscal sponsorship do for you and your organization? Colleen Hughes, associate director of programming at Fractured Atlas, walks us through the broad array of opportunities they provide. She’ll also shed light on fundraising trends she’s seen with non-profit...
01.12.2022
Growth Through Touring and Tension: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 6
Founder, ensemble member, and former artistic director of Lookingglass Theatre Company, David Catlin, shares how their limitless aesthetic showcases their Chicago-based artists across the country. In addition, we dive into their unique shared leadership model, their growth and goals for...
01.05.2022
Civic-Minded and Morally-Guided Practice with Michael Rohd: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 5
The job of the facilitator, the logic of shared leadership, and how it all translates to directing a process. Michael Rohd stands at the forefront of ensemble-based practices equipped with questions about how we create the future that we want...
12.29.2021
Civic-Minded and Morally-Guided Practices
The job of the facilitator, the logic of shared leadership, and how it all translates to directing a process. Michael Rohd stands at the forefront of ensemble-based practices equipped with questions about how we create the future that we want...
12.22.2021
Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Resident Ensemble Theatre: UNIVERSES: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 4
Alison Carey, formerly of Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Co-Founders & Artistic Directors of UNIVERSES, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp and Steven Sapp, discuss putting ensemble producers inside a major producing entity and the capacity necessary for things to fall into place. “What a...
12.16.2021
Process Performances and the Completion Commission: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 3
Rachel Dickstein, Artistic Director of Ripe Time, takes us through her experience with Center Theatre Group’s completion commission for their adaptation of SLEEP. She also spotlights some necessary and helpful relationships with tour presenting partners, the Association of Performing Arts...
12.10.2021
Funding the Regional-Ensemble Producing Model: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 2
Founding Program Director for the Arts at Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Olga Garay-English and Jeffrey Mosser discuss the revolutionary process of getting ensemble work in regional theatre spaces including her unprecedented partnership with Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Other topics include...
12.01.2021
A Roadmap for the Ensemble-Regional Producing Model: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 1
From the Ground Up returns to the airwaves with Patricia Garza who shares their experience producing hyper-collaborative and ensemble-based theatre at the regional theatre level. Their work at the Network of Ensemble Theatres, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Center Theatre Group,...
11.24.2021
Imagining a New Federal Theatre Project with Corinna Schulenberg and Dr. Elizabeth A. Osborne: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 9
As a part of the New Deal, the Federal Theatre Project of the 1930s funded theatre in the United States at an unprecedented level, providing paid work for trained theatremakers and low-cost performances to audiences all around the country. Corinna...
11.17.2021
Going Beyond Shakespeare with Rob Crighton: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 8
Shakespeare looms large over both the American and British theatre scenes. But his outsize influence means that we’ve long neglected a dizzying array of fascinating and brilliant theatre written by other early modern England dramatists. Robert Crighton and the Beyond...
11.10.2021
A Theatre for the Oppressed? Dr. Amy Richlin on Slavery and Plautus: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 7
The ancient Roman comedies of Plautus have inspired playwrights from Shakespeare to Sondheim. But they've also been seen as grim reminders of the oftentimes horrifying world of ancient Rome, where violence and slavery were commonplace. Dr. Amy Richlin joins Mike...
11.03.2021
Lady Romeo: Learning About Nineteenth-Century Actress Charlotte Cushman with Tana Wojczuk: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 6
In the nineteenth century, Charlotte Cushman became United States’ first celebrity actress. Tana Wojczuk, who has written a new biography of Cushman, joins the Mike Lueger to talk about the actress’s remarkable life both on stage and off.
11.01.2021
Sharpening Our Oyster Knives: Revisiting What to Send Up When It Goes Down with Aleshea Harris and Whitney White: A Daughters of Lorraine Podcast Special Episode
On this special episode of Daughters of Lorraine, hosts Leticia Ridley and Jordan Ealey sit down with Aleshea Harris and Whitney White, the playwright and director of the powerful, ritualistic play, What to Send Up When It Goes Down.
10.27.2021
Introducing the University of Pittsburgh's August Wilson Archive with Dr. Sandra Shannon and Bill Daw: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 5
As the University of Pittsburgh prepares to make August Wilson’s archive publicly accessible, Dr. Sandra G. Shannon and William Daw join Mike Leuger to discuss Wilson’s flourishing legacy.
10.20.2021
Learning about Kunqu with Dr. Dongshin Chan: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 4
Dongshin Chan introduces us to the world of kunqu, the traditional Chinese theatrical form that gave rise to masterpieces of world theatre in the 16th and 17th centuries.
10.13.2021
Passing Into History: Dr. Megan Sanborn Jones on Pageants and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 3
In this week’s Theatre History Podcast, Dr. Megan Sanborn Jones discusses the history of Mormons in theatre and the pageant tradition in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Through her deep research on these pageants, Dr. Jones explores...

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Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 10: I Write What Comes Up in My Body: Robbie McCauley's Theatre

Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 9: Put Some Respect on Black Theatre with Lisa B. Thompson

Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 8: Dominique Morisseau’s Practice of the Possible

Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 7: Staging Reproductive Freedom in Black Feminist Theatre

Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 6: Black Women Got Something to Say- An interview with Pearl Cleage

Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 5: When and Where We Enter- Black Feminist Theatre

Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 4: A Soft Place To Land: James Ijames' Fat Ham

Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 3: Working Her Own Tune: Revisiting the Life, Legacy, and Work of Micki Grant

Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 2: Creating A Space for Black Theatre Audience - A Conversation with Addae Moon

Daughters of Lorraine Season 3 Episode 1: Singin' a Black Girl's Song: Ntozake Shange and for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf

Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 10: Season Debrief and what’s next for Kunafa and Shay

Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 9: Balancing Comedy and Drama as a MENA Playwright with Yussef El-Guindi & Leila Buck

Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 8: Multihyphenate Artists with Denmo Ibrahim and Sarah Fahmy

Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Epsiode 7: Creating the Change: Featuring Masrah Cleveland Al-Arabi with Raymond Bobgan and Omar Kurdi

Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 6: Iranian Theatre Companies with Parmida Ziaei (Seda, Seattle) & Shadi Ghaheri (Peydah, NYC)

Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Epsiode 5: Centering Perspectives of Color in Theatre Criticism with Arti Ishak and Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel

Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 4: Community Engagement Through Art and Programs

Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 3: Site-Specific and Devised Theatre in Lebanon with Sahar Assaf & Zeina Daccache

Kunafa snd Shay Season 2 Episode 2: Theatre as Advocacy/Palestinian Theatre with Ahmed Mansour & Hanna Eady

Kunafa and Shay Season 2 Episode 1: Representation Behind the Scenes with Betty Shamieh and Tracy Francis

Gender Euphoria Episode 9: On Being a "Trans Trailblazer" with Scott Turner Schofield

Gender Euphoria Episode 8: QTPOC Comedy: Connecting, Communing, Creating Compassion with D’Lo

Gender Euphoria Episode 7: Trans Theatre and the Autobiographical Assumption with Jesse D. O’Rear

Gender Euphoria Episode 6: Putting on the Trans Educator Top Hat with Rebecca Kling

Gender Euphoria Episode 4: Training Cisgender Directors and Producers: It's More Than Remembering Pronouns

Gender Euphoria Episode 5: Queer of Color Devised Performance, Disidentification, and Spirituality with siri gurudev

Re-release: Gender Euphoria Episode 2: The Case for QTPOC Slice-of-Life Drama with Dillon Yruegas

Gender Euphoria Episode 3: Building Black Queer Worlds Onstage and Behind the Scenes with Azure D. Osborne-Lee

Gender Euphoria Episode 2: The Case for QTPOC Slice-of-Life Drama with Dillon Yruegas

Gender Euphoria Episode 1 Part 2: Have We Really Reached the Transgender Tipping Point? with Joshua Bastian Cole

Connecting Collaborative Passion to a National Network: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 8

Gender Euphoria Episode 1: Transgender Legibility Beyond the Tropes, An Interview with Joshua Bastian Cole Part 1

Gender Euphoria: Introduction to Gender Euphoria

Fiscal Sponsorship and the Path to Non-Profit Status: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 7

Growth Through Touring and Tension: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 6

Civic-Minded and Morally-Guided Practice with Michael Rohd: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 5

Civic-Minded and Morally-Guided Practices

Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Resident Ensemble Theatre: UNIVERSES: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 4

Process Performances and the Completion Commission: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 3

Funding the Regional-Ensemble Producing Model: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 2

A Roadmap for the Ensemble-Regional Producing Model: From the Ground Up Season 2 Episode 1

Imagining a New Federal Theatre Project with Corinna Schulenberg and Dr. Elizabeth A. Osborne: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 9

Going Beyond Shakespeare with Rob Crighton: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 8

A Theatre for the Oppressed? Dr. Amy Richlin on Slavery and Plautus: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 7

Lady Romeo: Learning About Nineteenth-Century Actress Charlotte Cushman with Tana Wojczuk: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 6

Sharpening Our Oyster Knives: Revisiting What to Send Up When It Goes Down with Aleshea Harris and Whitney White: A Daughters of Lorraine Podcast Special Episode

Introducing the University of Pittsburgh's August Wilson Archive with Dr. Sandra Shannon and Bill Daw: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 5

Learning about Kunqu with Dr. Dongshin Chan: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 4

Passing Into History: Dr. Megan Sanborn Jones on Pageants and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Theatre History Podcast Season 3 Episode 3