Three great minds in one room: Alyssa Noble, Justin Tornow, and Lightsey Darst, the 3 organizers of Durham Independent Dance Artists (DIDA) discuss how to serve the dance community, the DIDA model, challenges with funding and critical conversation, the upcoming season, and what the future holds. As far as topics I’m passionate about, this conversation hits …
Amazing original poetry pieces performed by Naima Ince-Griffiths open and close this episode! Naima Yetunde Ince-Griffiths is a performance poet, writer, and playwright; she produces and directs theatrical works and is the founder of NYI Productions. We talk about the evolution of her piece MEN ALWAYS LEAVE first written by Naima as a poem which she adapted into …
Soapboxers! Do you have five minutes for a few quick questions? It’s time for a POLL! (I love taking these, do you?) Periodically, we send out polls to request anonymous feedback from listeners and it’s time to do so again. Yay! Your feedback will have a great impact on our growth and the course we chart …
How might we cultivate a larger audience across the Triangle? How do playwrights write about things that are meaningful and that will also have an audience? In this episode I’m talking with Allan Maule, a Durham-based playwright and writer with more than twelve years of writing experience for the stage and digital media. As playwrights …
What exactly is ‘a band’ in 2018? How does a code of conduct figure in? Why is an performing residency so valuable? Listen to musician and composer Louis Landry… and his music! At the end of our interview conversation, you’ll hear two of Louis’ original songs, one from his album JJ vs. the Digital Whale …
Greetings, Soapboxers! Earlier this month, several friends and collaborators gathered to read and hear the latest draft of my upcoming play, YEAR OF THE MONKEY. If you’ve ever put your work-in-progress up for critique, you know it is a singularly excruciating, insecurity-stoking and necessary experience. I clawed my way to that draft and now, armed …
Writing the perfect MONKEY (Mara Thomas, ASBX blog post 012) Read More »
Twenty four hours until the unicorn birthday party. My oldest child turns 10 this week. Together with my unicorn for a decade. It’s marvelous. It’s sweet. Reaching double digits feels like an achievement, like a success. Numbers are on my mind. How do we track our accomplishments, the markers of success, the meaning of life? …
Numbers that increase. Numbers that are measures. Read More »
“Doing the work saves me.” What does it mean to be included, supported, and welcomed into creative work? In the midst of producing for Women’s Theatre Festival and on-boarding as Managing Director, Johannah Maynard Edwards sought diagnosis and relief from what she discovered was a rare auto-immune disorder. As the parent of an autistic child, …
The first play with an all-Black and all-female cast and creative team to premiere on Broadway, ECLIPSED by Danai Gurira (Black Panther, The Walking Dead) is making it’s regional premiere this summer in the Women’s Theatre Festival. Theatre director Michele Okoh offers her powerful and passionate perspective on the themes of the play, the definition …
Throwing big thanks your way today. September 1st will mark the one YEAR anniversary of the Artist Soapbox podcast. It’s coming up! By then, we’ll have released almost 50 podcast episodes and 13 blog posts, conducted two Creative Accountability Groups and two speaking events, and who knows what else we’ll cram in there! I’m excited …
Feel the real big love coming at you from this gratitude blast Read More »
