The Theatre of Others Podcast

Adam Marple and Budi Miller

Co-artistic Directors and Theatre educators Adam Marple and Budi Miller discuss the Theatre moving past the Covid-19 shutdown with topics such as the roles of the Audience, Actor, Director, Playwright, and Space in our new reality.To submit a question, please visit http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers for voice recording or submit an email to podcast@theatreofothers.com Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise. If you enjoyed this podcast, we´d love for you to leave a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/too. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest in it and make it even better. Music credit: https://www.purple-planet.comhttp://www.theatreofothers.com

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TOO Episode 225 - Book Club 03 | The Empty Space by Peter Brook
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TOO Episode 225 - Book Club 03 | The Empty Space by Peter Brook
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, join Adam and Budi as they review our third book for the 2024 TOO Book Club, 'The Empty Space' by Peter Brook.Peter Brook is one of the most innovative British directors of the post 1950 period. His industrious and celebrated career began in London's wartime club theatres and he joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1945. His career flourished after the war and he increasingly staged plays in London, Stratford-upon-Avon, Brussels, Paris and New York. In 1961, he became one of a triumvirate of directors at Stratford's Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC). While he is often recognised for the experimental workshops and productions he staged while working there, he has also directed classical and contemporary texts, musical comedies, opera, and films including Lord of the Flies (1962) and Meeting with Remarkable Men (1979). 'A number of his stage productions have also been filmed, including The Mahabharata (1985) a nine-hour epic that was developed over a period of ten years and adapted from the sacred Vedic text of the same name. This final work was one of the productions that developed from the collaborative and multi-cultural work done at a centre Brook founded in Paris in 1970 called the International Centre for Theatre Research (ICTR). At this centre, Brook continues to research, direct and produce work in collaboration with an internationally mixed company of performing artists who share his desire to create and perform a universal theatre language. Support the Show.If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister
TOO Episode 224 - Conversation with Master Balinese Academic & Performer, John Emigh
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TOO Episode 224 - Conversation with Master Balinese Academic & Performer, John Emigh
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi sit down with Balinese academic and performer, John Emigh, to discuss his extensive career.JOHN EMIGH is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University, where he taught and directed regularly from 1967 to 2009; from 2009 to 2018 he taught in the Brown/Trinity MFA program for actors and directors. He has also taught at NYU, Tufts University, and the Yale School of Drama. He was a founding member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and of Performance Studies International (Psi), has served on the governing board of Psi, and was founding Chairperson of the Association for Asian Performance. He is the author of Masked Performance: The Play of Self and Other in Ritual and Theatre, based on extensive research on performance in Bali and India, co-author of the forthcoming Illustrated Prahlada Nataka of Odisha: Text, Translation, Music, and History of a Remarkable Theatrical and Devotional Tradition in India, and has written pioneering articles linking the fields of Neuroscience and Performance Studies. With his wife, Ulrike, he made the documentary fllm, Hajari Bhand: Jester without Court, now available on YouTube. He has directed over 80 plays in university and professional theatres, has performed one-person shows based on Balinese topeng (masked dance and theatre) throughout the US and Asia. and has presented invited papers and conducted workshops in Shanghai, New Delhi, Calcutta, Denpasar, and Brussels, as well as at numerous US and international conferences and universities. In 2009, he received the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Career Achievement Award for Educational Theatre. Support the Show.If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister
TOO Episode 220 - Book Club 02 | Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets
Mar 25 2024
TOO Episode 220 - Book Club 02 | Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi sit down to discuss their second book in the 2024 Book Club series "Waiting for Lefty" by Clifford Odets.Clifford Odets was the leading dramatist of the theatre of social protest in the United States during the 1930s. His important affiliation with the celebrated Group Theatre contributed to that company’s considerable influence on the American stage.From 1923 to 1928 Odets learned his profession as an actor in repertory companies; in 1931 he joined the newly founded Group Theatre as one of its original members. Odets’s Waiting for Lefty (1935), his first great success, used both auditorium and stage for action and was an effective plea for labour unionism; Awake and Sing (1935) is a naturalistic family drama; and Golden Boy (1937; filmed 1939) concerns an Italian youth who rejects his artistic potential to become a boxer. Paradise Lost (1935) deals with the tragic life of a middle-class family. Odets moved to Hollywood in the late ’30s to write for motion pictures and became a successful director. His later plays include The Big Knife (1949), The Country Girl(1950; U.K. title Winter Journey), and The Flowering Peach (1954).Support the Show.If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister
TOO Episode 218 - Conversation with Master Teacher for Screen, Bob Krakower
Mar 11 2024
TOO Episode 218 - Conversation with Master Teacher for Screen, Bob Krakower
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Budi sits down with Bob Krakower to talk about his career in teaching acting for screen. A graduate of Tufts University, Bob Krakower started his teaching career at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. Mentored by Conservatory Director Allen Fletcher, he was teaching first year graduate acting, directing projects, and given the job of Associate Director of Conservatory at the age of twenty-four.  He then went on to work in the same capacity with Mr. Fletcher at the National Theatre Conservatory.Soon after that, he took over the acting program at another landmark institution, the Tony Award winning Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he was a resident director for the company as well. He was one of the main creative forces behind ATL’s Shorts Festivals, producing and/or directing over 100 projects, including world-premieres by Howard Korder, Lanford Wilson, Jane Anderson, Jane Martin, and many more.He served as Director of the Atlantic Theatre Company Acting School, running both the Professional and NYU Undergraduate Divisions. And along with Earle Gister, Lloyd Richards, J. Michael Miller, and others, is a founding faculty member of The Actor’s Center in New York. He has been a guest teacher at Yale, Harvard, & NYU and created Screen Acting Programs at UNCSA and Juilliard, where he is currently teaching.In addition to his rich theatrical background, he spent a year learning the business side of acting from Susan Smith at her highly respected agency in New York and worked in film & television casting on several projects for ABC, MTV, Paramount, HBO, Nickelodeon, and others.As an on-camera director he has helmed multiple television episodes, and his documentary film “John Pinette: You Go Now” was selected as the opening night feature at the Cinequest Film Festival.For over thirty years, he has coached on countless film & television productions; hired by studios, networks, producers, writers, directors, and actors alike. Started in 1992, he teaches one of the longest ongoing acting classes in NYC. And whether he’s working with students, celebrities, stand-ups, or actors, he does so with what Emmy Award Winning Director Michael Lembeck has called “the most passionate, kindest, and brightest approach I’ve ever seen.”Support the Show.If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister
TOO Episode 216 - Book Club 01 | The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka | Featuring Taylor Barfield
Feb 26 2024
TOO Episode 216 - Book Club 01 | The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka | Featuring Taylor Barfield
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi kick of the first book club episode of the year with The Dutchman, by Amiri Baraka. We welcome Taylor Barfield to the discussion, as he joins Budi and Adam in dissecting this classic. Poet, writer, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University and Howard University, spent three years in the U.S. Air Force, and returned to New York City to attend Columbia University and the New School for Social Research. Baraka was well known for his strident social criticism, often writing in an incendiary style that made it difficult for some audiences and critics to respond with objectivity to his works. Throughout most of his career his method in poetry, drama, fiction, and essays was confrontational, calculated to shock and awaken audiences to the political concerns of black Americans. For decades, Baraka was one of the most prominent voices in the world of American literature.Baraka’s legacy as a major poet of the second half of the 20th century remains matched by his importance as a cultural and political leader. His influence on younger writers has been significant and widespread, and as a leader of the Black Arts movement of the 1960s Baraka did much to define and support black literature’s mission into the next century. His experimental fiction of the 1960s is considered some of the most significant African-American fiction since that of Jean Toomer.________________________________________________________________________________________________Taylor Barfield is a dramaturg, writer, and theater artist from Baltimore, MD. He served as the Acting Literary Manager at Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT and the Literary Manager at Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. Taylor currently works as a freelance dramaturg and consultant working with organizations such as the Guthrie, BMG, Portland Center Stage, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Taylor received his B.A. in Molecular/Cellular Biology and English Literature from Johns Hopkins University and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, where he earned his M.F.A. and D.F.A. in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. His scholarly work explores how contemporary Black American playwrights re-imagine and re-stage Black theater history. His writing has been published in Vulture, TDF Stages, and the Marginalia Review of Books. He is currently an adjunct professor at NYU Tisch.Support the Show.If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister
TOO Episode 214 - Conversation with Broadway Composer, Tom Kitt
Feb 12 2024
TOO Episode 214 - Conversation with Broadway Composer, Tom Kitt
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!in this episode, Adam and Budi sit down with Broadway composer, Tom Kitt, to talk about his extensive career from Next to Normal, SpongeBob, and The Tony's.Tom Kitt is a two-time Tony, two-time Emmy, Pulitzer Prize, and Grammy Award winner.  As a musical theater composer, he's written music for six Broadway shows: Next to Normal (Tony Award), If/Then (Tony Nomination), Flying Over Sunset (Tony Nomination), High Fidelity, Bring it On, The Musical, and Almost Famous. His work for the stage has been seen Off-Broadway at 2nd Stage (Next to Normal, Superhero), The Public Theater (The Visitor, Shakespeare in the Park) and has worked at some of the most prestigious regional theaters in America.  Tom’s Broadway credits as an orchestrator include: Next to Normal (Tony Award), The SpongeBob Musical (Tony Nomination), Jagged Little Pill (Tony Nomination), Almost Famous, Head Over Heels, Everyday Rapture, and American Idiot. For Film and TV, as one of the vocal arrangers working on the Pitch Perfect films, Tom notably helped create the classic “Riff-off.”  Tom served as music supervisor/arranger/orchestrator for Grease Live and contributed songs for Royal Pains and Penny Dreadful.  Music supervisor for the NBC series, Rise and writer of numerous songs for Sesame Street.  He also composed two original opening numbers for The Tony Awards, Live in 2019, for James Corden, and the Emmy Award-winning, Bigger in 2013, written with Lin-Manuel Miranda for Neil Patrick Harris.  Tom is proud that his musical adaptation of Freaky Friday was turned into an original movie musical for Disney Channel.  Tom served as a Supervising Music Producer on the new musical television series, Up Here. Tom has worked on numerous original cast recordings, winning a Grammy award for his work on Jagged Little Pill.  His debut album, Reflect featured several Broadway artists with whom Tom collaborated to create a song cycle touching on the challenges brought on by the pandemic.  During the pandemic, he helped to form MUSE (Musicians United for Social Equity) and NYC Next.  His work with NYC Next featured A Moment for Broadway in Duffy Square in October of 2020 bringing members of the Broadway community together for the first time since the March 2020 shutdown, as they performed Stephen Sondheim’s iconic song, Sunday.  Support the Show.If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister
TOO Episode 213 - The Grad School Series | David Geffen School of Drama at Yale | Walton Wilson
Feb 5 2024
TOO Episode 213 - The Grad School Series | David Geffen School of Drama at Yale | Walton Wilson
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi speak with the Professor in the Practice of Acting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, Walton Wilson. Walton Wilson is a Professor in the Practice of Acting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1999. He served as Head of Voice and Speech and was a resident artist at Yale Repertory Theatre for twenty-three years. He also served as Chair of the Acting Program for seven years, Associate Chair for eleven years, and Interim Co-Chair for one year. He was apprenticed to and designated as a voice teacher by Kristin Linklater and was later trained and certified as an associate teacher by Catherine Fitzmaurice. He has also studied voice with Richard Armstrong, Andrea Haring, Meredith Monk, Patsy Rodenburg, David Smukler, Jean-René Toussaint, and members of the Roy Hart Theatre. He has served as voice, text, and dialect coach for productions on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and in regional theater, including a multitide of new plays and adaptations by American and international theatermakers. He has held faculty appointments at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Fordham College at Lincoln Center, Emerson College, and Southern Methodist University, and has been an artist-in-residence at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center/National Theatre Institute, Shakespeare & Company, Swine Palace Theatre, GEOKS Singapadu (Bali), LaSalle College of the Arts (Singapore), Shanghai Theatre Academy (China), Sfumato Theatre Laboratory, Plovdiv State Drama Theatre, New Bulgarian University (Bulgaria), Titan Teatersköle (Norway), and Fundaçao Gulbenkian (Portugal). He has also led voice workshops for community organizers, military veterans, museum curators, architects, prison inmates, and interfaith ministers. His professional acting credits include productions off-Broadway and in regional theatres and Shakespeare festivals across the United States. He is a frequent collaborator with Double Edge Theatre (Ashfield, MA), The Lunar Stratagem (Hudson, NY), and Pro Rodopi Arts Centre (Bostina, Bulgaria). Support the Show.If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister
TOO Episode 210 - Conversation with Master Clown, Fabio Motta
Jan 15 2024
TOO Episode 210 - Conversation with Master Clown, Fabio Motta
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi speak with Master Clown Fabio Motta.Fabio Motta is an award-winning performer, clown, and teaching artist who has performed and devised theatre in Australia, Italy, and the United States. He has trained and is a graduate of international arts institutions including The Academia Teatrale Veneta (Italy) and HB studio in New York and has worked with renowned artists and teachers such as Carol Rosenfeld, Larry Moss, Lyndsey Davies, Austin Pendleton, Philippe Gauliere, Zack Fines and Giovanni Fusetti. Working extensively as an actor in Australia and abroad with companies like the Australian Shakespeare Company, Born in a Taxi, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and The Russian Arts Theatre, he also has multiple TV and film credits to his name including Ronny Chang International student, Utopia season 4, Carla Cametti PD, Canal Road, Apparitions, Slant and Little Tornados. His critically acclaimed solo show SPOT had a sold-out season in 2021 at Theatre Works and raving reviews in his return season in 2022 at the Explosive Factory as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Most recently, he has received a Green Room Award for 'Best Performer' for his solo show SPOT in 2022.He is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework® and the regional coordinator for Australia and New Zealand. He is also the artistic director of the Clowning Workshop where he runs ongoing workshops. Fabio has taught at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, HB studio, and the Ume Group (Physical Theatre Ensemble New York) in the United States. In Melbourne, he runs classes in Clowning, Fitzmaurice Voicework®, Mask, and games for theatre as a freelance.He has taught at 16th Street Acting Studio, Brave Studios, The Victorian College of the Arts, St. Martin's Youth Theatre, and The National Theatre Drama School Melbourne.Support the Show.If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister
TOO Episode 206 - The Gaza Monologues
Dec 18 2023
TOO Episode 206 - The Gaza Monologues
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In 2010 thirty-three young people from Gaza believed that they had a voice other than the cries of fear and the moans of frustration. A voice that could rise higher than the drones of war and the planes that bombarded them day and night. A voice that says: “Enough!!! We deserve a world better than this, a world without fear, siege, or occupation.”The Gaza Monologues are testimonies written by youth after the first war on the Gaza Strip. Tragically, these Monologues are still accurate today. They are highlighting the horrors, hopes, and resilience of the courageous Gazans to a wider audience, bringing out the voices of children and people in Gaza.​ ASHTAR Theatre, due to the horrific war taking place in Gaza, launched an urgent request to all its friends and theater makers around the world to publicly read or perform The Gaza Monologues. Since 2010 to date, more than 2000 youth from around the Globe in more than 80 cities in 40 countries have presented the monologues that are translated and presented into 18 languages.People from around the World became more aware and in solidarity with this just cause. Despite that, Gaza is still under siege and the occupation is more brutal than ever; attacking civilians, destroying the land, and hindering the life of the inhabitants of the Gaza StripRead by:1) Yao (NYC)2) Jack Burmeister (Melbourne)3) Farida Abdel Aziz (Cairo)4) Abigail Onwunale (NYC)5) Rytasha Rathore (Mumbai)6) Christian Peterson Janner (Copenhagen)7) Jabriel Essam M AlSuhaimi (London)8) Crenshaw Yeo (Singapore) 9) Joshua Waterstone (San Francisco)10) Micha Espinosa (Tempe)11) Christie Karen Chang (Hong Kong)12) Rachel Chin (Singapore)13) Rummana Yamanie (Jakarta)14) Sneha Sakhare (NYC)15) Budi Miller (Melbourne)16) Gimbey dela Cruz (Quezon City) & Tanvi Rajgharia (India)17) Julian Elijah Martinez (NYC) 18) Ong Yi Xuan (Singapore)19) Cloteal Horne (NYC)20) Adrian Eppel (Melbourne)21) Rodrigo Roman (Mexico City) 22) Gin Hammond (Seattle) 23) Shadi Ghaheri (NYC)24) Austin Paley (Melbourne) & Nayib Felix (NYC)25) Raphael Lecat (London) 26) Rayden Co (Quezon City)27) Chalia LaTour (NYC)28) Jenelle Chu (NYC)29) Arwa Hezzah (Cairo)30) Karim Hamad (Cairo)31) Kristina Pakhomova (Singapore)To support ASHTAR Theatre: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/traumareleasepalestine/Support the Show.If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister