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Wendy Dang on creating ‘WHAT THE PHỞ?’
BY WENDY DANG Playwright Wendy Dang is so proud to have the world premiere of WHAT THE PHỞ? at Plan-B! She is an Equity actor, playwright, and author (as Rainie Dang). She is also the owner of The Dang Bakery and one of the founders of Época: An Acting Class For People of Color. Wendy’s…
Read MoreDebora Threedy on creating ‘RADIO HOUR EPISODE 18: THE LAND OF OZ’
This is my first radio play, and I’m discovering the similarities and differences between writing radio plays versus stage plays.
Read MoreARTISTIC DIRECTOR JERRY RAPIER 20 YEARS OF ‘FACING EAST’
Some theatre is good drama.
Some drama is good theatre.
FACING EAST is both.”
– Martin Denton, nytheatre.com
Melissa Leilani Larson on creating ‘SNAIL MAIL’ for students in grades 4-6
One of the things I love about theatre is how well it can mimic, even mirror, our everyday lives.
Read MoreDarryl Stamp on Creating ‘DUMBED DOWN’
Without a bachelor’s degree, I worked as a line cook, waiter, insurance investigator, standup comedian, a Kansas Department of Corrections halfway house employee, and an actor. Eventually, I earned a graduate degree in education and became a teacher myself.
Read MorePlaywright Matthew Ivan Bennett on Co-Creating ‘JUST ADD WATER’
Sometimes I feel like there’s so little I can do, but in this case I knew exactly what I could do: write. Write the most passionate and informed play possible about how we save the lake. Draw on the work of scientists and journalists and activists and inspire people by showing them what we can and must do in defense of our home.
Read MorePlaywrights Matthew Ivan Bennett & Elaine Jarvik on Co-Creating ‘JUST ADD WATER’
Artistic Director Jerry Rapier asked playwrights Matthew Ivan Bennett & Elaine Jarvik to share the process of co-creating JUST ADD WATER.
Read MorePlaywright Elaine Jarvik on Creating ‘EB & FLO’
It’s my hope that, after seeing EB & FLO, students will have conversations with their grown-ups and will grow up trying to keep the lake alive.
Read MoreArtistic Director Jerry Rapier on Asking Playwright Elaine Jarvik to Write About Great Salt Lake for K-3 Students
That Christmas, one of our family gifts was a world atlas. I pored over it, memorizing each page. I couldn’t get enough of Japan (where my birth family is from), Peru (my mom lived there in fourth grade), and Great Salt Lake (dominating the western half of the U.S. map). To a fourth grader who had never been to Utah, it was Utah.
Read MorePlaywright Pedro Flores on Creating ‘JUAN JOSE AND THE DEATHLY VATOS’
Juan Jose is an amalgamation of myself as a kid, my critiques of Harry Potter as an adult, and boosting my culture and background, combining them to create a ridiculous yet hilarious narrative.
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