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Peregrine Teng Heard, Artistic Director of The Associates Theater Ensemble, joins the podcast to talk about her new play Redemption Story. Check out this wide-ranging conversation focused on how the playwright navigates the surreal ambiguities of the story, negotiates the play's multi-layered themes of representation in Hollywood, and constructs characters who are themselves performers.
In his powerful theater piece Guac, Manuel Oliver honors the life and legacy of his son, Joaquin "Guac" Oliver, who died in the Parkland shooting in 2018. Manuel Oliver joins the podcast to share why he turned to theater to tell his family's story, what he's hoping audiences will take away from...
Published 10/29/24
Meet Douglas Lyons, the playwright of Table 17, a playful homage to Black rom-coms of the 90s and early 2000s like How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Love and Basketball. In this discussion, we explore the impact of those films on the play, the impact of a queer lens on shaping this romantic...
Published 10/04/24