The Theater Project Thinks About...

Today TTP is thinking about...Pride Month In honor of Pride month, We are re-running a podcast from 2021 - Theater before and after Stonewall. Mark Spina and Harry Patrick Christian share their observations about changes in theater and film over the course of their lifetimes.

Thanks for listening to this episode of “The Theater Project thinks about”.   

Our Audio Engineer was Gary Glor and Our Theme music was by Gail Lou and Demien De Sandies

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That’s all for this episode, we’ll see you next time!

https://www.history.com/topics/gay-rights/the-stonewall-riots

https://www.pridecenter.org/

The Drag: https://stageagent.com/shows/play/22881/the-drag

The Nance: https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=4884

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: https://www.sparknotes.com/drama/cat/character/brick/

A Streetcar Named Desire: https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/streetcar/quotes/theme/sexuality/

Picnic: https://stageagent.com/shows/play/6305/picnic

Separate Tables: https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/8967/separate-tables

Tea And Sympathy: https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/1038/tea-and-sympathy

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1623

Take Me Out: https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/multiple.asp?indexm=25&start=1&limitResult=all&options=all&limitResult1=allgenres&total=all&male=all&female=all&keysearch=take%20me%20out

The Front Runner: https://www.amazon.com/Front-Runner-Patricia-Nell-Warren/dp/0964109964

Christopher Durang: http://www.christopherdurang.com/

Nicky Silver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Silver

Will And Grace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_%26_Grace

The Boys in the Band: https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/2499/the-boys-in-the-band-original-version

Roots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_(1977_miniseries)

Bent: https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/2618/bent

Angels in America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_in_America_(miniseries)

Michael Riedel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Riedel_(journalist)

The Inheritance: https://theinheritanceplay.com/

Mark Spina sits down with members of our playwrights group, Joe Vitale and Lynn Marie Macy, to discuss the challenges when writing about historical events or people, what drew them to that genre and the various approaches a writer can take when doing so.

Audio Engineer Gary Glor

One Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou 

The Lost Patrol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Patrol_(1934_film)

Peter Shaffer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Shaffer

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Royal_Hunt_of_the_Sun

Pizzaro Brothers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pizarro_brothers

Amadeus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_(play)

Dragons in the Crease

https://newplayexchange.org/plays/105516/dragons-crease

The Fourth State of Matter

https://www.josephvitale.net/plays-1

The Interpreter

https://www.josephvitale.net/plays-1

Richard Sonnenfeldt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sonnenfeldt

Hermann Göring

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring

Nuremberg Trials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

Vile Things in Dark Corners (still a work in progress, but here’s Lynn Marie’s website)

https://lynnmariemacy.com/

Nellie Bly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

Jack the Ripper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper

Jane Austin at Prinny’s Palace from Hearthside Reading Series by Theater 2020, co-sponsored by the Brooklyn Heights Library

Part 1:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqdhTs5mOE8

Part 2:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlKIqsdFv2s

Henry VIII

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII

Madame Henriette Campan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriette_Campan

Hamilton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_(musical)

1776

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_(musical)

Martin Luther King

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

Audio Engineer Gary Glor

One Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou and Damian DeSandies

Emma Green Bio:  Emma Green is a seasoned Casting Director and Development Producer. Originally from Australia, Emma forged her way into the world of Casting and Producing from humble beginnings as an eager intern with companies such as Maura Fay/Tom McSweeney (AUST) and Cast Iron Productions (USA). She has a keen eye for talent and a relentless willingness to find the right person for every role no matter how big or small. This has helped her climb the ranks from Associate to Coordinator to Producer and Director in a relatively short amount of time. She worked for several years with Fremantle Media USA- focusing on development casting needs as well as several seasons on the hit NBC show- America's Got Talent. 

From there Emma branched out as a Development & Casting Producer for TV and was appointed Manager for US Factual Development at Temple Street Productions, the company best known for Orphan Black, Killjoys & Million Dollar Critic. Now she is at the helm of Emma Green Casting; a boutique company that provides casting services for US and International Productions, with a specialization in foreign castings and talent for TV, Film, Commercial and New Media projects. Emma has earned her reputation as a hardworking professional in the world of entertainment with keen attention to detail, a personalized and refreshing 'out of the box' approach to get every job done right!

Casting websites:

StarNow

https://www.starnow.com/

Backstage

https://www.backstage.com/

Casting Networks

https://www.castingnetworks.com/

Actor’s Access

https://actorsaccess.com/

Breakdown Services

https://breakdownservices.com/

Upcast

https://getupcast.com/

Casting Frontier

https://castingfrontier.com/

Warner Brothers Internship Opportunities

https://careers.wbd.com/global/en/internship-opportunities

Fremantle Media

https://fremantle.com/

Coogan Work Permit:  

All actors under the age of 18 in the state of California—which is to say, actors who either live here or are doing work here, even if they legally reside in another state—are required to open a Coogan Account (also known as a blocked trust account) before they are allowed to work.

This means that if you are coming to Los Angeles to audition for anything—even for a short time, like a week or two—you need to have this account set up and in place. If your audition leads to a role, depending on the type of role/production, you could be on set literally the next day, and production will expect you to have the paperwork in order. No Coogan Account, no work.

This applies not only to film and TV, but also to commercials, modeling, voiceover work, etc. New York, Louisiana, and New Mexico have similar laws. The intention of the Coogan law is that a minimum of 15% of each dollar a young actor makes goes into an account that is untouchable until they turn 18. It is named after Jackie Coogan, the child star from the 1930s whose fortune was squandered by his parents

Today TTP is thinking about...what it’s like to coordinate an event like our Young Playwrights’ Competition. Grace Carver, the event coordinator, sits down with the competition’s director, and her father, Kevin to talk about her personal experience, what it takes to coordinate such an event and provides a retrospective highlighting selected plays from previous years.

Audio Engineer Kevin Carver

One Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou 

Some of the finalists of last year's THINK FAST competition sit with Mark Spina to give us their take on the pros and cons of these programs.

THE PANELISTS:

Teddy Durgin 

https://www.facebook.com/teddy.durgin  

Michael Towers  

https://www.facebook.com/michael.towers.395/

Curt Strickland

https://pwcenter.org/profile/curt-strickland

https://curtsview.com/

Helen Chang Mao

https://www.linkedin.com/in/helencmao

Cindy Samson Braff

https://www.facebook.com/cindi.sansonebraff

OTHER PLAY COMPETITIONS:

Short and Sweet Play Festival

https://shortandsweet.org/

New City Players

https://newcityplayers.org/lab

Rated S Sketch Comedy

https://www.stagecoachtc.com/rated-s-sketch-comedy/

Secret Theatre

https://secrettheatre.com/

Play Submission Helper

https://playsubmissionshelper.com/

New York City Playwrights

https://www.nycplaywrights.org/

Think Fast Festival

https://www.thetheaterproject.org/think-fast-short-play-competition

Spark Theatre

https://emergingartiststheatre.org/spark/

Playwright’s Center

https://emergingartiststheatre.org/spark/

Manhattan Repertory Theatre

https://www.manhattanrep.com/

Baltimore Playwright’s Festival

https://www.baltplayfest.org/

International Playwriting Festival

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Playwriting_Festival

Silver Spring Stage

https://www.ssstage.org/

OTHER REFERENCES:

Lesley’s Playwriting Masters

https://lesley.edu/academics/graduate/creative-writing

Fell’s Point Corner Theatre

https://www.fpct.org/

Rachel Feeney-Williams

https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=rachel%20feeney%20williams

August Wilson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Wilson

Lloyd Richards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Richards

Tennessee Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams

Elia Kazan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elia_Kazan

The Glass Menagerie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Menagerie

A Streetcar Named Desire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_on_a_Hot_Tin_Roof

Audio Engineer Gary Glor

One Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou 

Nancy’s Bio:  

Foster Media LLC, A Post-Production House and Design Firm.

Nancy Foster, principal, has over 30 years of experience in Multi-Media Production.

Clients have included:  ABC, Fox Broadcasting, 21st Century Syndication, CNBC, FoxNewsMedia, Fox Business, Comcast, MyNetworkTV, The New York Post, and Lancit Media LLC.

Television Marketing:  Creative direction and execution of numerous TV Network & Syndication marketing campaigns.  Including developing cohesive on-air promotional materials, integrated promotion in programming, and advertising sales presentations.

Film Narrative: Post-production work for numerous independent feature length films, shorts, music videos, long-form documentaries, and short bio pieces.

Graphic Design:  Website design for TV Network & Syndication programs. Newsletters, out-door media, event advertisements, hospitality materials, and logo design. 

Foster Media has a long-standing commitment to supporting diverse community efforts and charitable organizations. We are honored to have developed video projects for:

NYC Education Based “Partnership with Children” 

Catholic Charities Drug Rehabilitation Center

Launched Wounded Warrior Promotional Campaign

International Women’s Media Foundation “Courage in Journalism” Award 

Black History Month Features on Hundred Black Men and NYC Eagle Academy

Hispanic Heritage Month Features on NCAA Wrestling Champion Anthony Robles, 

KIND’s CEO Daniel Lubetzy, Grammy Award-Winning Mariachi Band Flor De Toloache

Mandy.com

https://www.mandy.com/

Adobe Premiere Pro

https://www.adobe.com/products/premiere.html

Final Cut Pro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Cut_Pro

Lightroom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Lightroom

3rd place winner of our 2022 Young Playwrights Competition, Mia Longenecker introduces an audio reading of her award winning play, Burning Conversations. Followed by an interview with 2021, 1st place winner, Brennan Columbia-Walsh.

Audio Engineer Kevin Carver

One Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou and Demien De Sandies

Joyce Carrol Oates

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce_Carol_Oates

Mamma Mia - Musical

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamma_Mia!_(musical)

Arrested Development - TV Show

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development

Boston University - Summer Creative Writing Program

https://www.bu.edu/summer/courses/creative-writing/

esports has been around since1978 when Atari laid the foundation with a Space Invaders tournament.  The early gaming classic was played at the 1980 Space Invaders Championships with over 10,000 gamers competing. Mary Iannelli sits down with Emmy award winner, Willow Forde to discuss this old, but new, art form, how they became involved with it and what they think the future holds.

Audio Engineer Gary Glor

One Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou 

Overwatch

https://www.overwatchleague.com/en-us/

Fortnight World Cup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortnite_World_Cup

Valor Champions

https://valorantesports.com/

Ms Pac-Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ms._Pac-Man

Twitch

https://www.twitch.tv/

Digital Emmy Awards:  The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced [Dec 9, 2019] a new Sports Emmy category, Outstanding Esports Coverage. The award will “recognize the craft behind the delivery of coverage and presentation of competitive, organized video gaming to the viewer during a championship or final event.”

The awards committee for the Academy made the unanimous decision to recognize esports journalism in an effort to “expand the Emmy universe,” said Justine Gubar, executive director of Sports Emmy Awards Administration, and herself a four-time Emmy Award winner.

Fortnite

https://www.fortnite.com/

Battle Royale traditionally refers to a fight involving many combatants, usually conducted under either boxing or wrestling rules, where the winner is the one who registers the most kills. In recent times, the term has been used in a more general sense to refer to any fight involving large numbers of people who are not organized into factions. Within combat sports and professional wrestling, the term has a specific meaning, depending on the sports being discussed.

In Game Observer are the greatest unsung heroes in esports.  They are the cinematographers of esports!

https://www.oneesports.gg/gaming/in-game-observers-esports-job/

Castors  is another name for a commentator, who will speak over the action to engage, inform and entertain the viewer. Casters will need good knowledge of the game and teams they are casting, to offer personality and bring a match to life.

Open Broadcaster Software

https://obsproject.com/

Gaming Map is just a representation of the game world or a part of it. All video games have a map of the playing area. Sometimes only the developers can see that and the player just has to discover the section/level/world on their own, such as Doom. In others, the map is drawn as you explore

esports winter/esports bubble:  It’s a term that’s being used to describe the current state of the industry in which esports teams are struggling financially to stay afloat.

https://www.oneesports.gg/gaming/esports-fans-esports-winter-industry/

Links to watch:

Champs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWXDui9Cjmg&ab_channel=VALORANTChampionsTour

Worlds 2022 Finals Tease - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpO5bZEzVzI&t=43s&ab_channel=LoLEsports

Worlds 2022 Moments and Memories - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZxvqmyb-d4&ab_channel=LoLEsports

Mark Spina and Lynn Marie Macy sit down to discuss the On Her Shoulders project, spearheaded by the New Perspectives Theatre Company, which strives to make it impossible for producers and theater companies to deny or ignore the 1,000-year history and value of women's contribution to the theatrical canon.

Audio Engineer Gary Glor

One Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou 

Lynn Marie Macy

https://lynnmariemacy.com/

Melody Brooks

https://www.newperspectivestheatre.org/artistic-director

Access info about On Her Shoulders and the Database from this page:

https://www.newperspectivestheatre.org/on-her-shoulders-page

Theater 2020

https://www.theater2020.com/

5050 x 2020

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5050x2020

Hedgepig Ensemble

https://www.hedgepigensemble.org/

Expand The Canon:

https://www.hedgepigensemble.org/expand-the-canon?gclid=Cj0KCQjwuZGnBhD1ARIsACxbAVgW6W74Rz_p-ngE3GzcwD6d8iSkD9j5BBE9GtpkhjLsNnd2g4Tt8l4aAiYhEALw_wcB

Goethe and the Weimar Circle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Classicism#:~:text=The%20Weimarer%20Klassik%20movement%20lasted,during%20the%20period%201788%E2%80%931805.

League of Professional Theatre Women:

https://www.theatrewomen.org/

WP Theater:

https://wptheater.org/

History Matters:

https://www.historymatterscelebratingwomensplaysofthepast.org/

Parity Productions:

https://parityproductions.org/

Los Angeles Female Playwrights initiative:

https://lafpi.com/

The Count:

https://the-lillys.org/the-count-1

Playwrights:

Aphra Behn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn

Fanny Burney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Burney

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Calder%C3%B3n_de_la_Barca

Rachel Carothers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Crothers

Susanna Centlivre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Centlivre

Alice Childress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Childress

Mercedes de Costa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercedes_de_Acosta 

Olympe de Gouges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympe_de_Gouges

Ana Caro de Mallén

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_Caro_de_Mall%C3%A9n#:~:text=El%20conde%20partinupl%C3%A9s%20and%20Valor,that%20are%20still%20known%20today.

Lope de Vega

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lope_de_Vega

Martin Denton

https://www.broadwayworld.com/people/Martin-Denton/

Madame DesJardin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Catherine_de_Villedieu 

Susan Glaspell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Glaspell 

Hildegard of Bingen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen

Pauline Hopkins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hopkins

Hrotsvitha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrotsvitha

Zora Neale Hurston

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston

Estelle Anna Lewis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_Anna_Lewis

Dawn Powell 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Powell

Susanna Rowson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Rowson

George Sand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sand

Freddie Schiller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schiller

Frances Chamberlin Sheridan

https://www.juggernaut-theatre.org/first-100-years-the-professional-female-playwright/frances-chamberlaine-sheridan/

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Sheridan

Catherine Trotter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine_Trotter_Cockburn

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe

Charlotte and Caroline von Langfield

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_von_Lengefeld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_von_Wolzogen

Charlotte von Stein

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_von_Stein

Mercy Otis Warren

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Otis_Warren

Plays/Works:

Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vindication_of_the_Rights_of_Woman

Dido by Charlotte von Stein

https://www.jstor.org/stable/23980730

Dido by Christopher Marlowe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido,_Queen_of_Carthage_(play)

Dido and Aeneas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dido_and_Aeneas

Lady Susan or The Captive Heart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Heart

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northanger_Abbey

Rights of Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights_of_Man

Sappho of Lesbos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95SDtZdT8sA

Articles:

CELEBRATING 1,000 YEARS OF WOMEN WRITING PLAYS

https://witonline.org/2022/03/21/celebrating-1000-years-of-women-writing-plays/

(Women’s) History Matters

https://howlround.com/womens-history-matters

New York State Council on the Arts Report

REPORT ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN: A LIMITED ENGAGEMENT?

https://www.womenarts.org/nysca-report-2002/

Opening the curtain - Thesis tackles gender bias in American theater

https://paw.princeton.edu/article/opening-curtain

1st place winner of our 2023 Young Playwrights Competition, EliseHarvey introduces an audio reading of her award winning play, Alistair's Garden. Followed by an interview with 2021 1st place winner, Brennan Columbia-Walsh.

Audio Engineers Alex Gomez and Gary Glor

One Heartbeat Away is provided to The Theater Project by Gail Lou and Demien De Sandies

The children's hour by Lillian Hellman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children%27s_Hour_(play)