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Interviews

This section collects all HowlRound content that takes the form of an interview between two or more theatremakers. Interested in contributing your own interview? Here are our interview guidelines and best practices!

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The Soul Work of Theatre with Sharia Benn
Podcast
The Soul Work of Theatre with Sharia Benn
by Yura Sapi, Sharia Benn
16 May 2024
On Collaboration
Podcast
On Collaboration
by Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, Jennifer Goff, Padraic Lillis
14 May 2024
Breaking Boundaries with Jamil Khoury
Podcast
Breaking Boundaries with Jamil Khoury
by Yura Sapi, Jamil Khoury
9 May 2024
Considering The Audience
Essay

Considering The Audience

Writing for Diverse Audiences

6 September 2015

Hayley Finn interviews playwright Kira Obolensky about her work with and residency at Ten Thousand Things in Minneapolis.

Photo from Ash Tree.
Cafecito
Essay

Cafecito

Georgina Escobar

4 September 2015

Carla Della Gatta interviews Georgina Escobar about her writing process and upcoming projects following Carnaval.

Cafecito
Essay

Cafecito

Magdalena Gómez

27 August 2015

Trevor Boffone interviews playwright Magdalena Gómez about her work at Carnaval and beyond.

Interview with MacArthur “Genius” Tommie Lindsey and Three-Time Tony Award-Winner Jhett Tolentino
Essay

Interview with MacArthur “Genius” Tommie Lindsey and Three-Time Tony Award-Winner Jhett Tolentino

22 August 2015

Victor Maog interviews two leaders from outside of the not-for-profit theatre world: teacher Tommie Lindesy, Jr. and producer Jhett Tolentino.

How We Grow
Essay

How We Grow

An Interview with Azure D. Osborne-Lee

15 August 2015

MJ Kaufman interviews playwright, director, and performer Azure D. Osborne-Lee about his plays and what he sees in the field as a trans artist.

Age and Visibility in Dance
Essay

Age and Visibility in Dance

DISTILLERY interview with Kesha McKey and Scott Heron

8 August 2015

Emilie Whelan facilitates an interview between dancers Kesha McKey and Scott Heron about age, visibility, and setting their choreography on the bodies of other dancers.

An Inside Look at Theater J
Essay

An Inside Look at Theater J

Interview with Shirley Serotsky

27 July 2015

Jacqueline Lawton interviews Acting Artistic Director of Theater J, Shirley Serotsky.

An Interview
Essay

An Interview

Tanya in TV-Land

19 July 2015

P. Carl interviews playwright Tanya Saracho on how writing for television has affected her work and life in the theatre.

Eyes Wide Open
Essay

Eyes Wide Open

The Potentials (and pitfalls) of Partnership

14 July 2015

Scholars Sonja Arsham Kuftinec and Stephanie Lein Walseth interview Penumbra Theatre Artistic Director Lou Bellamy.

Jeff Zinn
Essay

Jeff Zinn

The Existential Actor

20 June 2015

Jayne Benjulian sits down with director and actor, and now, author, Jeff Zinn, to talk about acting and his new book The Existential Actor.

Radical Hospitality in Conversation
Essay

Radical Hospitality in Conversation

Mixed Blood Theatre and Pillsbury House Theatre

17 June 2015

Mixed Blood Artistic Director Jack Reuler talks to Pillsbury House Theatre Co-Artistic Directors Faye Price and Noël Raymond about the successes and challenges of removing cost as a barrier to theatre attendance. 

Festival Theatre
Essay

Festival Theatre

Ilan Bachrach on Mass Live Arts

16 June 2015

Bertie Ferdman interviews Ilan Bachrach, founder and Artistic Director of Mass Live Arts, a festival of contemporary and experimental performance in Great Barrington, MA.

Interview with Diane Rodriguez
Essay

Interview with Diane Rodriguez

Reflections on a Career Well-Spent

16 June 2015

Beatriz Rizk interviews Diane Rodriguez, Associate Artistic Director of Center Theatre Group and TCG Board President.

Culture Clash
Essay

Culture Clash

Thirty Years and Counting

29 May 2015

Jamie Gahlon interviews Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza, now marking their thirtieth year as ensemble Culture Clash.

Interview with One of Pig Iron Theatre’s Artistic Directors, Dan Rothenberg, and Collaborating Artist Troy Herion
Essay

Interview with One of Pig Iron Theatre’s Artistic Directors, Dan Rothenberg, and Collaborating Artist Troy Herion

8 April 2015

Amy Brady interviews Pig Iron Theatre’s Artistic Director, Dan Rothenberg, and collaborating artist Troy Herion.

Great Art is Local
Essay

Great Art is Local

Playwright Deborah Salem Smith Interviews Curt Columbus, Artistic Director of Trinity Repertory Company

4 March 2015

Deborah Salem Smith, playwright-in-residence at Trinity Repertory Company interviews Curt Columbus, Artistic Director of Trinity Rep.

P. Carl In Conversation with Martha Lavey
Essay

P. Carl In Conversation with Martha Lavey

15 February 2015

P. Carl and outgoing artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre, Martha Lavey, in conversation.

Interview with Boston’s New Chief of Arts and Culture
Essay

Interview with Boston’s New Chief of Arts and Culture

Julie Burros

11 January 2015

Boston’s new Chief of Arts and Culture, Julie Burros, took time recently to talk with P. Carl about her new role and the significance of being chief.

HowlRound Essays End-of-Year Retrospective
Essay

HowlRound Essays End-of-Year Retrospective

31 December 2014

January 2015 marks the four-year anniversary of the launch of the commons project called the HowlRound Journal. Thank you authors, readers, and commenters—and thank all of you for participating in this ongoing conversation about theatre.

Café Onda 2014 End-of-Year Roundup
Essay

Café Onda 2014 End-of-Year Roundup

29 December 2014

We hope 2015 activates us all and that we can continue to function as a digital-stage in which to strengthen our conversations, and augment our visibility. For now, we leave 2014 by offering you some of our favorite excerpts from Café Onda this year.

Interview with Suzanne Appel
Essay

Interview with Suzanne Appel

28 December 2014

Commons Producer Laura Brueckner interviews Suzanne Appel, managing director of Cutting Ball Theater, about playwright Andrew Saito’s residency.

A Conversation with Finegan Kruckemeyer
Essay

A Conversation with Finegan Kruckemeyer

26 December 2014

Corey Ruzicano talks to playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer about making theater for young audiences, how a kid should be a kid, and what he thinks of when he writes from his community in Tasmania.

An Interview With Former Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth
Essay

An Interview With Former Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth

21 December 2014

P. Carl interviews Ari Roth about his recent firing from Theater J and the power of theatre in politcs. 

Trespass Theater
Essay

Trespass Theater

Jeff Stark on The Dreary Coast

18 December 2014

The Dreary Coast is a site-specific immersive work that took place in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, and used elements of Greek and Roman mythology, Dante’s Inferno, black metal music, and the canal’s actual history to journey its audience through one of the most polluted waterways in the United States.

Site Work to WorkSites
Essay

Site Work to WorkSites

Peculiar Works Project Illuminates the Insides of the City

16 December 2014

3Christs is an adaptation of a study about therapeutic experiments with three men who believed they were Jesus Christ at Ypsilanti State Hospital in the 1960s. Performed in Judson Memorial Church, 3Christs exemplifies the essence of Peculiar Works Project.