Who You Are Is All You Have: Truthfulness in the Audition Process
In their new book, Nicole Hodges Persley and Monica White Ndounou offer a practical guide through the audition process for actors of the global majority.
Category Archives: Education
Whither Stanislavski in a New Century? An Adler-Meisner Summit
The Neighborhood Playhouse’s Pamela Kareman and Stella Adler Studio’s Tom Oppenheim talk about the legacies of their founders and the future of acting training.
The Silent Voice of the Costume Designer
What do costumes look like, and mean, without a story? With the pandemic limiting access to actors, six Northwestern MFA costume candidates were asked by professors Ana Kuzmanic and Linda Roethke to explore this question.
Contemporary Plays, Teaching From the Page as Well as the Stage
The work of writers like Jackie Sibblies Drury, Annie Baker, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is riveting in the theatre, but the rewards of close reading shouldn’t be ignored.
6 Theatre Workers You Should Know
This installment features theatre artists from around the country whose focus is on educating the next generation of theatremakers.
In-Person or Online? The Youth-Created ‘Fractured’ Moved in Both Worlds
Roundabout Youth Ensemble’s new play was staged in-person, but was deeply informed by its very online creation and modes of expression.
Hope Is a Trail of Breadcrumbs
A leading maker of plays for young people thinks of good storytelling as an alert, wakeful, but necessarily uncertain journey through the unknown.
Theatre Training Programs Have Some Learning to Do
As students call out inequities in theatre training institutions, educators of color can find themselves with additional labor and scarce support.
Dear University Theatre Programs: Did You Take the Note?
A year after issuing them, theatre student and alumni organizers discuss the still unfolding results of their anti-racist calls to action for university training programs.
A Teaching Moment for Juilliard
After the Drama Division hosted a pointlessly traumatic ‘slavery immersion’ exercise last fall, some Black students are still hurting and asking for redress.
