Tonya Pinkins - "Building My Own Castle" (Episode 98)
"I sometimes wonder with young people today that there's a fragility born of carrying around violence machines every day of your life...
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- May 7, 2021
- 1 min
"Igniting The Fire This Time Festival" (Episode 96)
"I think the way we measure our success is how successful we are at maintaining that sense of community. This industry is up and down—no...
- Mar 19, 2021
- 1 min
Dr. Lisa B. Thompson — "Shaping the Conversation as an Artist-Scholar" (Episode 89)
"It's such synchronous situation...As an artist-scholar, I find an issue that's really interesting to me and I end up having a both...
- Jan 17, 2020
- 1 min
Eboni Booth — "Feeling Good and Feeling Seen" (Episode 76)
“For me, it’s age and experience. If I had gone to [Juilliard when I was younger], I think it would have been harder. I think I would...
- Jan 3, 2020
- 2 min
Jordan E. Cooper - "Providing the Medicinal Hope" (Episode 74)
“Whenever you walk into a space into a theatre, you can usually feel that it’s a white space. Usually from the way the audience members...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Lynn Nottage—"Claiming the Space" (Episode 62)
“Putting the language of ‘being a playwright’ into your mouth makes you a playwright. I discovered late in the game is that just saying...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Chisa Hutchinson—"Writing Towards Freedom" (Episode 58)
“It’s why I write plays now, y’all need to understand where we’re coming from and you need to understand whatever idea you have in your...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Tori Sampson—"Becoming (a Storyteller)" (Episode 49)
"Write whatever the fuck you want to write. Period! Be as authentic and true to yourself as you possibly can. That is your only...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Charly Evon Simpson—"Claiming Your Curiosity" (Episode 48)
“What I’ve discovered is the older I get, the less I actually truly open up and express myself and let myself feel these things. I can...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Aleshea Harris—"Ritualizing the Revolution" (Episode 45)
"I try to write stories that I want to hear and experience. I am trying to make theatre to say to a demographic often ignored in the...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Jocelyn Bioh—"Living in Color" (Episode 44)
"Everybody wants to consume Africa in a certain way...they've already taken so much in terms of our stories and our culture...Let us have...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Douglas Lyons—"Pursuing Your Dreams" (Episode 40)
“I am so a black artist, but I am an artist first. When you put “black” you are telling the audience they may only relate to a certain...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Gilbert L. Bailey II—"Chillin' Out, Maxin', Relaxin' All Cool" (Episode 36)
“There is no musical I can get my brother to come to if I’m not in it and that bothers me. There is nothing, nothing, not a single show...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Dewayne Perkins—"Laughing Through Life" (Episode 35)
“I think people get it mixed up all the time, as if like an aversion to the construct of whiteness means you don’t like white people, and...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Sharon Washington—"Feeding the Dragon (and the Artist)" (Episode 24)
“In the best of worlds, as actors, we should be able to do whatever roles we’re right for—at base—in a perfect world. It’s not a perfect...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
"Visiting With the School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play" (Episode 19)
We head out of the studio and to the opening night party of Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play at MCC Theater!...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Zhailon Levingston—"Imagining New Way to Be Together" (Episode 13)
“I think that the role of producer is incredible important in these times because they are the Chief Imagineer. In this crazy political...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Kirsten Childs —"Liberating the Bubbly Black Girl" (Episode 8)
“[I thought], we can only do shows that are the all-black version of something, or we can do a show that is a musical revue that has no...
- Oct 17, 2019
- 1 min
Michael R. Jackson —"Writing Unapologetically Black and Queer" (Episode 4)
“I think diversity in musical theatre means acknowledging there is an entire jewel with endless facets of points of views that need to be...