HowlRound Theatre Commons' Podcasts

By David Dower, Thea Rodgers, Emma Baar-Bittman, Meg Taintor, Kevin Becerra, Andrea Gordillo. Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: ArtsEmerson's Creative Producers.

By David Dower. One of the dimensions of practice at ArtsEmerson that shapes this environment is the direct connection to the students at Emerson College. We are in our second year of an effort aimed at evolving a role for students as Creative Producers on the ArtsEmerson staff. The CP's are paid, hourly positions with a focus on learning the skills of producing the development path, the production path, the audience, the impact, and the learning. Their training ground is the ArtsEmerson season and they each have real responsibilities for at least one show on the season, as well as workshops, events, and screenings. The goal is that they leave Emerson with the tools to produce their own futures, in their own voice, values, and vision.

By David Dower. Today I am on the phone with Matthew Glassman and Amrita Ramanan of Double Edge Theatre, located in Ashfield, Massachusetts. We all had engagement on our minds, and I asked them to talk about what they do around this. Their home is the Farm Center, a working farm in Western MA, where they also make their work as well as their community. At the same time, they live a lot of their lives on tour. How do you bring the ethos of the Farm and what engagement is like in their small town with them to their performances around the world?

By David Dower. Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Matthew Glassman and Amrita Ramanan of Double Edge Theatre, located in Ashfield, Massachusetts.

By David Dower, Matthew Glassman, Amrita Ramanan. Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots.

By David Dower. Today I have the great fun of spending time on the phone with Lana Lesley and Kirk Lynn of Austin's Rude Mechanicals. What is so remarkable about this company, to me, is that they keep evolving together in a way that both aggregates new techniques and influences and breathes with their personal lives. I love these two people and I hope you get a sense of why as you listen. (Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. You can subscribe to the series via Apple iTunes or RSS Feed.)

By David Dower, Lana Lesley, Kirk Lynn. Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theatre artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots.

By David Dower. Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Lana Lesley and Kirk Lynn of Austin's Rude Mechanicals.

By David Dower. My guests are Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, the team behind Big Dance Theater, New York. I was interested in hearing them talk about the ideas underpinning their decades of collaboration and how they have maintained a space for themselves in these times and in the blurry, hybrid world their work inhabits. Listen to audio podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. Subscribe in Apple iTunes or via RSS Feed.

By David Dower, Annie-B Parson, Paul Lazar. My guests are Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, the team behind Big Dance Theater, New York.

By David Dower. My guests are Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, the team behind Big Dance Theater, New York. I was interested in hearing them talk about the ideas underpinning their decades of collaboration and how they have maintained a space for themselves in these times and in the blurry, hybrid world their work inhabits. Listen to audio podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. Subscribe in Apple iTunes or via RSS Feed.

By David Dower. Today I talk with my boss, friend, colleague, and mentor Rob Orchard, Executive Director and Founder of ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage . Rob has been a contributor to the Boston theater community since he and Bob Brustein arrived to form American Repertory Theater in 1980. His overview of the Boston theater scene is comprehensive. He has been at the center of many significant moments locally and nationally over his long career. You will hear a bit of that in this call. You'll also hear a bit of the visionary thinking that I am privileged to be in dialogue with every day in my role at ArtsEmerson. I am so pleased to be able to share a bit of that picture with you. It is one that fires me up each morning. Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to...

By David Dower, Rob Orchard. Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots.

By David Dower. Listen to weekly podcasts hosted by David Dower as he interviews theater artists from around the country to highlight #newplay bright spots. This week: Robert Orchard, Executive Director of ArtsEmerson.

By David Dower. Today there's a bit of a reversal on the David Dower Friday Phone Call . Y'all already know that I don't even record them on Fridays, generally. And today, I am not even the interviewer! I am interviewed on this call by Quita Sullivan of the National Theater Project . The NTP is focused on supporting devised theater work created for touring. I am on the Advisory Panel for the project, one of the most consistently engaging and moving responsibilities I have in my work. Quita and I talk about the roots of the project, the role and responsibility of the Advisors, the merits of applying, and the mechanics of the selection process. Elsewhere on HowlRound and the New England Foundation for the Arts websites , you can hear from participating artists about the program and its impact on their work. If you are making work for touring, I strongly...