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Teaching Theatre, a new podcast series from HowlRound Theatre Commons, examines the challenges facing theatre training programs post-pandemic. Theatre departments are reevaluating the way they approach teaching and asking big questions as they consider how to support their students. In addition, many programs have begun the important work of creating more inclusive programming while reimagining the canon. Each episode invites theatre educators and practitioners to interrogate relevant topics–like collaboration and work ethic–while offering up ideas, strategies, and solutions that can be ...

Theatre Tech Talks: Artificial Intelligence, Science, and Biomedia in Theatre is a podcast hosted by Tjaša Ferme exploring new forms of theatre interwoven with high tech. In the interviews, Tjaša probes at the “why”s and “how”s to demystify the intricate connection between the biological and artificial, as well as explore the innate wisdom of the body and how new tech can help us get a peek inside of our brains, bodies, and souls.

In this podcast series, Durham-based theatremaker Tamara Kissane chats with artists about their work, their plans, and their manifestos. This interview series is part of Tamara’s quest to learn more about audio drama by speaking with the people who are working in the medium.

In this podcast, I am interviewing all kinds of actors from all over to share why they act and how they act, in a world of diminished residuals, rising student loan interest rates, reduced network pick-ups, and a dying regional theatre circuit. How are actors faring as the business both widens its spectrum but also narrows the amount of available work? How did their training help prepare them for each and every day?

In Critical Stages in Malawian Contemporary Theatre, Fumbani Innot Phiri Jr. interviews established theatre artists from all backgrounds to explore the precarious journey of theatre in a modern world, define its problems, and find better solutions to sustain performing arts in a generation of motion pictures. Fumbani leads discussions with established performers, directors, and writers who are exploring ways to greet these challenges while their works inspire their communities.

Hosted by Nicolas Shannon Savard, Gender Euphoria: The Podcast is a series of conversations between trans and queer theatre artists. The show amplifies the voices of trans and queer performers, writers, designers, educators, and community organizers from across the United States, from every corner of the performing arts—we are everywhere! Weaving together stories of fabulous performances, queer resistance, trans joy, activism, and solidarity, Gender Euphoria is an exploration of the cultural work trans-queer art is doing for and within our communities.

Focused on collaboratively creative performance companies, From the Ground Up connects with theatremakers to understand the artistic, financial, and social sustainability of physical, devised, and ensemble-based processes. Previous topics include hands-on devising practices, aesthetic principles, financial oversight, academic and community partnerships, nonprofit and philanthropic navigation, social justice, festival culture, and touring. To showcase examples for American ensemble practitioners, this podcast documents the individual roadmaps and efforts of makers from around the world. This ...

Kunafa and Shay focuses on Middle Eastern and North African (MENA)/Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) theatre—highlighting classic and contemporary plays and theatremakers, spotlighting community-engaged work in the region and diaspora, and analyzing the past, present, and future of MENA/SWANA theatre in the United States. Theatre artists and scholars Nabra Nelson and Marina Johnson bring their own perspectives, research, and special guests in order to start a dialogue and encourage further learning and discussion. The name, Kunafa and Shay, invites you into the discussion in the best...

The Building Our Own Tables podcast offers a sonic journey of liberation that blends global majority voices, music, and wisdom to forge tables of justice, healing, and love. Supporting all leaders on their path while centering voices of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and multiracial creators, the podcast fosters solidarity and cultural wisdom in the pursuit of racial, social, and climate justice worldwide. Stemming from Yura Sapi’s background as a theatre artist, it arose from a desire to create inclusive spaces rather than seek representation at existing tables. Learn more about LiberArte, Yura...

A dazzling performance art scene is being born in Hungary, which, though quite small, boasts artists from all walks of life. Puha means “soft” in Hungarian, and PUHA stands for Performative Unity in the Hungarian Arts. It is an ambitious project by theatre Zsófia Kozma and choreographer-performer Bíborka Béres that brings makers and creators of the Hungarian performance art scene together for discussions. From dancer to set designer, jazz musician to game designer, they talk with all sorts of people about thoughts, approaches, challenges, and ideas in their work. They sit down to ...

Created in 2019, the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast was created by Dr. Jordan Ealey and Dr. Leticia Ridley while they were graduate students at the University of Maryland, College Park. Now, both assistant professors, Jordan and Leticia, continue to explore the legacies of Black theatre history, engage in current national conversations around, within, and about Black theatre, review Black theatre productions, and interview Black theatre artists. This podcast centers and privileges the narratives of Black theatremakers, scholars, and audiences while also underscoring the influence of Black ...

See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love explores how the intimacy that podcast host Jan Cohen-Cruz and so many others have experienced in prison theatre workshops is possible in such a dehumanizing environment. The throughline is a deep dive into the workshop that she co-led in the early 1970s, cowritten with Finn K., a core participant, interspersed with reflections from five other pairs of people who were part of other prison theatre workshops together. They reflect on why people joined the workshops, how they got started and developed, building trust and affection, creating performances, ...

In this mini-series, Tara Khozein and Martin Boross travel across the US to co-direct devised, multidisciplinary projects with local artists. These projects tested methods developed over the last decade at Hungarian contemporary theatre collective STEREO AKT, where Martin was founding artistic director. The podcast chronicles conversations with artists at each location, focusing on immersive, site-specific, community-driven, devised, co-directed, and ensemble theatre. How can we share theatrical research across cultural boundaries? This project proposes that we build work together, as a way of...

The Nonfiction Theatre Forum brings together theatre artists, documentarians, journalists, and scholars to explore how real stories are made for the stage. Hosted by Ash Marinaccio, a theatremaker and documentarian dedicated to storytelling for systemic change, the podcast dives into the creative and ethical questions behind nonfiction performance–from documentary and autobiographical theatre to verbatim and community-based work. Produced in collaboration with HowlRound Theatre Commons and Docbloc, each episode opens up conversations about truth, representation, and the art of bringing ...