ND: In Depth

By New Dramatists

Arts Performing Arts

What's ND: In Depth about?

ND: In Depth is an ongoing series where playwrights meet the world in a variety of formats: interviews, panels, essays, and readings of new plays among other things. Join us as we celebrate the eclecticism of our community of writers and feature the topics on the forefront of their minds.

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ND: In Depth episodes:

08.28.2017
Episode 14: Playwrights as Producers, Part 2: The Pool
Resident playwright Andy Bragen continues his conversation with playwrights who are creating new ways to produce their own work. In this segment, he interviews three writers, Lynn Rosen (ND resident playwright), Susan Bernfield, and Peter Gil-Sheridan, who formed a pop-up...
07.07.2017
Episode 13: Resistance Loves Company, Part 3
In this segment, resident playwright Sam Chanse continues her conversation with three additional playwrights about their responses to the new presidential administration, and how they are navigating the terrain. What specific strategies are playwrights using to take action, what is...
04.20.2017
Episode 12: Resistance Loves Company, Part 2
In this segment, resident playwright Sam Chanse continues her conversation with three additional playwrights about their responses to the new presidential administration, and how they are navigating the terrain. What specific strategies are playwrights using to take action, what is...
03.15.2017
Episode 11: Resistance Loves Company, Part 1
In this segment, resident playwright Sam Chanse brings together fellow writers/educators/theatre administrators to share responses to the presidential election and the new administration, and how they are navigating the terrain. What specific strategies are playwrights using to take action, what...
04.29.2016
Episode 10: Playwrights as Producers
In this episode, resident playwright Andy Bragen gathers playwrights who run their own theatre companies. Listen as he, Julia Jarcho, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Deborah Stein, and Eugenie Chan discuss the joys and challenges of taking the artistic lead. To learn...
04.04.2016
Episode 9: Vanessa Aspillaga
Each year New Dramatists recognizes four actors who have contributed substantially to the creation of new works by our resident writers. In our latest podcast episode, John Steber, New Dramatists' Director of the Playwrights Lab, interviews Vanessa Aspillaga, recipient of...
02.26.2016
Episode 8: PlayTime 2015
Five New Dramatists residents playwrights - Sharon Bridgforth, Andy Bragen, Clarence Coo, Erin Courtney, and Sibyl Kempson— talk about the evolution of their projects within the concentrated pressure-cooker environment of New Dramatists' PlayTime Developmental Studio. The episode was edited by...
01.28.2016
Episode 7: Oh Gender, Up Yours!
Three New Dramatists resident playwrights, Sylvan Oswald, Basil Kreimendahl, and Mashuq Deen, come together with the shared experience of being transmasculine artists working in the theatre industry. This hour-long candid conversation asks questions such as: What is the intersection between...
10.02.2015
Episode 6: "Lift Lift Lift" by Matthew Freeman
The latest in New Dramatists' podcast series is a re-airing of Lift Lift Lift, a dramatic collage written and produced by resident playwright Matthew Freeman, which premiered in 2014 at the HearNow Festival in Kansas City and on Atlanta Fringe...
09.09.2015
Episode 5: A Prime Time For Change: On MTC, Equality, and the Need for Public Shaming
Manhattan Theater Club has been the subject of controversy in the news recently for their lack of diversity in the upcoming season. However, one of our New Dramatists playwrights in residence found it unsurprising in the least. Commentary...
06.11.2015
Episode 4: Omi Osun Joni L. Jones
New Dramatists resident playwright Sharon Bridgforth interviews her wife, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance and of African and African Diaspora Studies at University of Texas at Austin, in their San Francisco apartment about the...
05.26.2015
Episode 3: Beth Blickers
Subplot: Podcast from Behind the ScenesNew Dramatists resident playwright A. Zell Williams sits down with Abrams Artists Agency agent and President of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, Beth Blickers. For the past two decades, Beth has shepherded...
05.09.2015
Episode 2: Barbara Hammond
Creating a Work of Art Based on a Work of ArtBarbara Hammond shares the research process for her new play, We Are Pussy Riot, based on the experiences of the Russian feminist punk performance protest group, Pussy Riot. ...
04.16.2015
Episode 1: Matthew Freeman
New Dramatists resident playwright A. Zell Williams interviews fellow resident Matthew Freeman. In this in-depth, hour-long, personal interview, Matt shares wide-ranging stories including his formative experiences as a child of divorced parents, his actor training at Emerson College, his...