Pittsburgh City Theatre's City Speaks Podcast

On this week's City Speaks podcast, Pittsburgh City Theatre's Director of New Play Development, Clare Drobot, speaks with Dwayne Washington and Avery Glyph, two of the actors from One Night in Miami, which runs at City Theatre on Pittsburgh's Southside through Dec. 1.

DWAYNE WASHINGTON, who plays Sam Cooke in One Night in Miami, has acted iff-broadway in such classics as Fiagro 90210, Tanya and Nancy: The Rock Opera, National Tour: In The Mood, Ragtime, and Man of La Mancha. Read more about him at TheDwayneWashington.com.

AVERY GLYMPH, who plays Malcolm X in One Night in Miami, is proud to make his Pittsburgh debut with City Theatre, and has most recently appeared in Hamlet at The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Off-Broadway credits include Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Shakespeare Festival, The Drama Dept., and Lincoln Center Lab. Avery's film and television appearances include the upcoming Out and About, She's Gotta Have it, Against the Current, Last Ball, He Got Game, 13 Conversations About One Thing, I'm with Lucy, Madam Secretary, Forever, Ugly Betty, Oz, all Law & Orders, The Electric Company, among more. Awards include St. Louis Critics Circle Awards for Best Ensemble and Best Production for All the Way, as well as nominations for the San Diego Critics Circle Award and the NAACP Theatre Award for The Whipping Man. Avery holds a BFA from The North Carolina School of the Arts and an MFA from the STC Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University. Visit AveryGlymph.com for more details.

A play about four of the most important figures in Black Civil Rights history, One Night in Miami depicts the night of February 25, 1964, when Muhammed Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and NFL legend Jim Browne met to celebrate in a Miami hotel room.

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On today's CitySpeaks podcast, Clare talks with costume designer DOMINIQUE FAWN HILL, whose regional design credits include: "School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play" at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre; "Pipeline" at Pittsburgh City Theatre Company; and "Julius Caesar" at Asolo Rep. She has her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Learn more about her at www.dominiquefHill.com.

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Today's edition of Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast features Reginald L. Douglas, who joined City Theatre as director in March 2015. At City, Reginald line-produces, helps curate, and directs in the theater's six-show season and new play development activities; builds artistic initiatives and partnerships; and represents City on the Board of the National New Play Network. Reginald has directed extensively throughout the country. He has developed and directed new work by many acclaimed writers, and has assistant-directed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally. Reginald regularly serves on the selection committees for local and national fellowships and grants; has spoken at several national conferences and festivals; and is a guest lecturer at the O'Neill's National Theatre Institute. He is a proud graduate of Georgetown University. Read more about him here: reginalddouglas.com

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Episode 3 of City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast features City Theatre's Clare Drobot in conversation with Lauren Yee, whose play, Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered at South Coast Rep. and is now at City Theatre on Pittsburgh's Southside.Get your tickets here:

https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/62854/cambodian-rock-band

Lauren and Clare discuss life as a playwright, and how research and a trip to Cambodia inspired an incredible story.More about Lauren: Subsequent productions of Cambodian Rock Band have appeared at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Merrimack Rep, Signature Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and Jungle Theatre. Yee's play The Great Leap, has been produced at the Denver Center, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Arts Club, and InterAct Theatre, with future productions at Steppenwolf, Long Wharf, and Asolo Rep. Honors include the Doris Duke Artists Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/ATCA Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize, Primus Prize, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. She's a Residency 5 playwright at Signature Theatre, New Dramatists members, Ma-Yi Writers' Lab member, and Playwrights Realm alumni playwright. TV credits include: PACHINKO (Apple) and SOUNDTRACK (Netflix). Current commissions include Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, South Coast Rep. She received her bachelor's degree from Yale. MFA: UCSD. laurenyee.com

Introducing the Pittsburgh City Theatre's inaugural CitySpeaks podcast all about the making of Cambodian Rock Band. Part thrilling new play, part electrifying rock concert, Cambodian Rock Band is an epic tale of family, love, and heritage featuring the Cambodian surf rock music of Dengue Fever. This podcast is all about how the show came together with stories from the people who know it best. Today's episode is with Director Martin Lyons

Marti Lyons is thrilled to direct Cambodian Rock Band at City Theatre as part of a collaboration with Victory Gardens Theater, where she directed the show in the Spring, and Merrimack Rep where this production is headed next. Marti recently directed Witch by Jen Silverman at the Geffen Playhouse, playing in LA now. Marti also directed Witch at Writers Theatre in Chicago last season. She directed How to Defend Yourself by Lily Padilla for the 2019 Humana Festival as part of a co-world premiere with Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, where Marti will direct the play again in 2019. Marti has directed Botticelli in the Fire by Jordan Tannahill (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company); The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe and Kings by Sarah Burgess (Studio Theater); Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Court Theatre); Short Shakes! Macbeth (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Title and Deed by Will Eno (Lookingglass Theatre Company) and Wondrous Strange together with Meg Miroshnik, Jiehae Park and Martyna Majok for the 2015 Humana Festival (Actors Theatre of Louisville). This season Marti will direct The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess (Writers Theater), Jen Silverman's The Moors (A Red Orchid Theatre), and the world premiere of The Scarlet Letter by Kate Hamill (South Coast Repertory). Marti is a proud member of SDC. For more information: martilyons.com

Introducing the Pittsburgh City Theatre's inaugural CitySpeaks podcast all about the making of Cambodian Rock Band. Part thrilling new play, part electrifying rock concert, Cambodian Rock Band is an epic tale of family, love, and heritage featuring the Cambodian surf rock music of Dengue Fever. This podcast is all about how the show came together with stories from the people who know it best. Today's episode is with Artistic Director Marc Masterson

Introducing the Pittsburgh City Theatre's inaugural CitySpeaks podcast all about the making of Cambodian Rock Band. Part thrilling new play, part electrifying rock concert, Cambodian Rock Band is an epic tale of family, love, and heritage featuring the Cambodian surf rock music of Dengue Fever. This podcast is all about how the show came together with stories from the people who know it best. Stay tuned for episode 1, dropping on September 6, 2019.