Andy Lowe is an award-winning playwright, director, producer and performer who has held multiple roles in his career. He is the co-founder of the San Diego Asian American Repertory Theatre, and is a board member and participant for various Asian American community organizations including the San Diego Chapter of the Organization of Chinese Americans and SD Alliance for APIAs.
Le Temple du Present – Solo for an Octopus is quite an unusual theatre production by Stefan Kaegi. The show premiered on May 13, 2021. Main protagonists are Sète, a real-life female octopus as well as her human counterpart Nathalie Kuettel. The show was performed live in front of a socially distanced audience and was also recorded by NT Gent.
Good morning again, TheatrePeople! Today I am genuinely thrilled to introduce you to a dear friend of mine in theatre, Rob Forbes. I first met Rob years ago when he reached out to me to design digital projections for a show he was piloting in Canada, Tails of Hamelin.
Hello TheatrePeople! This week I have a fantastic interview with Gordon Greenberg, a writer and director on Broadway, Off-Broadway, for television, and beyond.
Another good morning Theatre People! Today I’m honored to introduce you to Jeff Hall. Jeff has been teaching in Oregon for 30 years and is a leader and true mover and shaker in the world of theatrical arts. I met Jeff years ago at an Educational Theatre Association national event and it’s always a delight catching up—hearing what new exciting things he’s up to. I hope you enjoy my interview with Jeff as much as I did. Another week closer to fully open stages, people—keep your chins up!
Hello again, TheatrePeople! This week I’m so happy to introduce you to a true ‘TheatrePeople’ person, Mr. Josh Belk. I met Josh years ago when I was living in Colorado, and you’d be hard pressed to find a grander theatre enthusiast. And even more so, a teacher who is dedicated to giving his students a rich, lifelong experience in the arts. Josh had to point out to me recently that I had featured one of his former students, who is now a theatre teacher herself, in TheatrePeople before him—all in good fun, of course! However, it’s beyond overdue for you to meet Josh.
Hello TheatrePeople! This week I’m so happy to introduce you to a ‘jack of all trades’ in the world of theatrical performance, Suzanne Maguire. Suzanne is an actor, director, acting coach, and educator, and is also on the Washington State Board of Thespians. She teaches theatre across the nation, working with actors of all ‘ages and stages,’ as she puts it.
Meet Choreographer and Director Philippe Talard. Philippe has a long and successful career during which he has created a plethora of performances. At one point, he began to specialize in creating performances with prison inmates in correctional institutions. This in several different countries. Find out more, as Philippe tells us about his experiences in this article…
Ema Edosio Deelen is a gifted Nigerian film director and producer whose feature comedy Kasala! successfully made the global film festival circuit in 2018. In this interview we are not only looking at her first successful feature film, however. We are also getting to know more about Ema’s motivations. We hear about her dreams and her vision for the future of her peers and the creative arts in Africa.
Tadeusz Kantor was an incredible multi-talent: stage director, creator of happenings, painter, set designer, writer, art theoretician, actor in his own productions, and lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Kantor is renowned for his revolutionary theatrical performances in Poland and abroad. He was one of the great influences for the diverse and liberal world of theatre we know today.
Hello, everyone! This week on TheatrePeople I am excited to introduce you to Colorado native and 8-year theatre teacher, Kayla Diaz.
Hello again, TheatrePeople! It’s another week and I’m eager to introduce you to an incredible person in the world of drama education, Pat Santanello. Pat has been directing high school theatre in Ohio for over 26 years and has been a generous coach, award winner and leader in the Educational Theatre Association. I hope you […]
This week on TheatrePeople, I’m so excited to introduce you to a dedicated, humble and fun-loving high school drama director, Ray Palasz.
This week I’m proud to introduce you to theatre teacher Barb Hilt. I worked with Barb designing projections for her premiere event of the show Miss You Like Hell. Barb is an incredible visionary in the regional and educational theatre spaces in Kansas, and I hope you enjoy reading her musings on the art form as much as I did.
Welcome back to TheatrePeople! This week I’m so excited to introduce you to Carolyn Lewton, a middle school drama teacher and director who has poured her heart and passion into theatre—making her an extraordinary educator and advocate for the stage. Hope you enjoy Carolyn’s theatrical musings and have a great weekend!
This week, meet Curtis Barber. Curtis is the High School Theatre Director at his alma mater, Needville High School in Texas. He has a love for all things theatre, is an accomplished actor in Houston and an Artistic Associate at the Dirt Dogs Theatre Company. Above all, his passion for theatre and heart for his students makes Curtis a great guy to get to know. Enjoy his interview!
Hello TheatrePeople! This week I’m so pleased to introduce you to an extraordinary drama teacher from Fort Collins, Colorado—Joel Smith. Joel has a pure love for the theatre and delights in sharing all of its wonderful parts, skills and quirks with his students.
Billy Sy is an actor and, since a couple years ago, also a lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts’s School of Drama. As an actor, Billy has enjoyed a successful career in Hong Kong, working with both local and international productions. In this interview, he speaks with us about his passions, the unique Hong Kong theatre world, as well as the current state of affairs.
I’m so excited to introduce you to a good friend and incredible theatre teacher from Mississippi, Erick Weeks. Erick is full of passion and enthusiasm for theatre, but even more than that, he is a dedicated advocate for his students and wants so much to see them thrive and express themselves without limitation. Hope you enjoy Erick’s interview!
Many years ago, when I studied at the University of the Arts in Zurich, Switzerland, I had the privilege to attend a lecture by Robert Wilson. We were only a small group. This enabled us to ask many questions and interact with a man whom we all deeply admired as an exceptional avant-garde director, designer, performer, and writer. Robert Wilson, the master of experimental theater. Wilson took his time when he shared his life story and artistic ideology with us. These were four hours of my life I will never forget.
Augusto Boal was a Brazilian theatre director, writer, and politician. Between 1950 and 1960 he developed a new form of acting, ‘O Teatro do Oprimido’ (‘Theatre of the Oppressed’). This soon became famous all over Latin America and, later, in Europe as well.
Guilherme Botelho, director and choreographer in Geneva, arrived from Brazil 37 years ago. After 10 years as a dancer for the Ballet de Grand Theatre du Geneve he started his own dance company, Alias. His creations are a quest for meaning.
Hello again all! Just before the worldwide pandemic hit, I traveled to Mississippi to teach at their state thespian conference, and met a creative gentleman named Matt Holl.
This week, I’m excited to introduce you to Katie Cross, the theatre director at Mayde Creek High in Houston, Texas. I met Katie at a summer conference in west Texas, where she and another one of our TheatrePeople, K’Lynn Childress, shined bright with their love for life, education and the pursuit of new plays to bring fun and inspiration to their students. Enjoy Katie’s interview!
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