ICYMI: A is For Announces New Playwriting Contest
photo credit: Dianna Bush photography A month ago, A is For, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing reproductive rights and ending the stigma against abortion care, held a benefit reading … Continue reading
Interview: Penny Jackson & Kathy Gail MacGowan
The Battles of Richmond Hills, a new comedy from Penny Jackson (I Know What Boys Want at the Lion Theatre; A Different Place in the 2017 FRIGID Festival) and directed … Continue reading
Interview: Suzannah Herbert & Lauren Belfer
Suzannah Herbert and Lauren Belfer‘s (pictured left) award-winning documentary WRESTLE follows four members of a high-school wrestling team in Huntsville, Alabama as they battle for the state championships and deal … Continue reading
Interview: Sofia Alvarez & Nicola Korzenko
Nicola Korzenko and Sofia Alvarez (pictured left) founded Blockchain Theater Project “to empower artists to produce the work they create, funded in part by cryptocurrency donations.” The company’s initial production, NYLON, written … Continue reading
Interview: Regan Sims
Regan Sims is an actor and artist born and raised in New York City. As valedictorian from the Professional Performing Arts School in 2014, she has most recently graduated from … Continue reading
WBW Brief: September 17, 2018
Pictured: Jaclyn Backhaus (Playwrights Horizons), Lauren Yee & Tanika Gupta (Adam Bennett) Playwriting Award: Jaclyn Backhaus and Lauren Yee are the winners of the 2018 Horton Foote Prize–lauded for India Pale … Continue reading
Interview: Laura Gragtmans
Laura Gragtmans is an actress, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and theatre maker from Prince Edward County, Ontario. In 2014, she completed her first full score for the Ars Nova production of Astronaut, and in 2016 … Continue reading
Interview: Gabri Christa
Born and raised in the Caribbean island nation of Curaçao, Gabri Christa has created an impressive body of work for stage and screen. Following her graduation from The School for … Continue reading
WBW Brief: September 2, 2018
Aretha Franklin & Barbara Harris RIP Aretha Franklin: Here’s Nelson George’s beautiful tribute (via Billboard) to Aretha Franklin. She touched billions of lives around the world, and anyone who has … Continue reading
Interview: Richa Rudola
Richa Rudola is an award-winning NYC-based filmmaker. Films were not a big part of Richa’s childhood growing up in India. It wasn’t until pursuing a statistics graduate degree in the … Continue reading
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