Soapboxers! We have 13 days left in our Indiegogo fundraising campaign, and we are 5% funded. If you’ve been delaying your support, please act now. Once we have a sense of our true budget, we can extend offers to actors and the production team. We are excited to get this party started! Contribute to our …
13 days, 13 backers, 5% funded — JP would love your support! Read More »
Celebrate the development of NC playwrights this weekend! Tune in to the first annual Sips & Scripts New Works Festival, produced in partnership with the Capital Arts Theatre Guild. 5 full-length original plays by 5 North Carolina-based playwrights will be staged (book-in-hand readings) at the Theatre Raleigh Arts Center on September 10-12, 2021. The live, …
It’s the second of TWO solo episodes by Mara Thomas. If you haven’t listened to the first one yet, then scoot on back and listen to episode 146. Mara Thomas is the MVP or VIP of ASBX. She has contributed 26 blog posts, participated in six podcast episodes thus far, and now is gifting Artist Soapbox …
147: Overcoming creative inertia. Solo episode #2 with Mara Thomas. Read More »
It’s the first of TWO solo episodes by Mara Thomas. Mara Thomas is the MVP or VIP of ASBX. She has contributed 26 blog posts, participated in six podcast episodes thus far, and now is gifting Artist Soapbox listeners with 2 solo episodes. And they are amazing. You’ll hear Mara speak with her trademark honesty, …
146: You are here. Navigating your creative journey thru the pandemic with Mara Thomas Read More »
Curious Theatre Collective is seeking a script writer for a short audio play! The Curious Theatre Collective (http://curioustheatrecollective.com) writes and produces shows for young audiences that “tell the stories of remarkable women.” CTC performed two live shows pre-COVID, and recently received a grant from the Orange County Arts Commission to create two audio plays. We …
Welp. I guess I can! That was me talking for an hour about writing — live on YouTube — and fueled by adrenaline and three cups of coffee! Wheee! Did I add value to the conversation about writing during a pandemic? I dunno. But it was darn AMAZING to have a live chat with a …
Friends, Happy New Year + Happy New President and Vice President! Work is underway here in Artist Soapbox land, so stayed tuned for more info in the coming weeks. In the meantime, I wanted to circle back to some year-end treats that we received on December 30, 2020. (All the very sweeter for the wasteland-treat-desert …
What do you learn about life from the art you consume, create, and revisit? As I mentioned in the previous post, I spent quite a bit of time with Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Additionally, for the last six years, I’ve spent quite a bit of time with THE NEW COLOSSUS, my own version of The …
The New Colossus: What can you learn from the seagulls? Read More »
Maybe you heard that we released an edgy contemporary adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull earlier this year? Have you listened to THE NEW COLOSSUS audio drama? It’s six episodes in podcast form, and you can hear it in all the usual podcasty places. If you are unfamiliar with the original Seagull, here’s some little …
Friends, If you listed to yesterday’s episode, you’ll know that the podcast is going on hiatus for a bit. Over the last seven weeks, I’ve been working to bring the voices of our creative community to your ears as quickly as possible. The episodes have been coming so fast that periodically, I put up blog posts …
Podcasting with a purpose. ASBX episodes: April 13-28 Read More »
