Creative Leadership, Part 1: The Festival Team
It’s 5 am, you are eagerly awaiting the first trucks, contractors and crew to start arriving on a major outdoor event site for an arts festival that you have been working on for the past 12 months. The first few hours’ tick by as the buzz of the morning sun starts enveloping the grounds of which activity is thriving, then the emails start again, the phone starts ringing, and you are fast reminded of the another 150 shows and 4 event sites to execute with everyone reporting to you.
Interview With A Playwright: Kathryn Funkhouser
I believe my first attempt at playwriting was an elementary school masterpiece called Superman at the Dry Cleaners which was exactly what it sounds like. (Yes, DC Comics, I am available.) I was always really into theatre and writing as separate pursuits as a kid, then when I was a teenager I found a way to merge the two things that I like geeking out about.