Equitable Contracting for Arts Workers
By . This skills session covers contracting basics and opens up a conversation about some best practices for contracting working artists. Producer Alison Qu facilitates.
By . This skills session covers contracting basics and opens up a conversation about some best practices for contracting working artists. Producer Alison Qu facilitates.
By Artist Caregiver. In the span of a week, this diarist goes from a vacation with her family into a workshop for a new musical.
By Laura Penn. In this keynote from the 2026 National Theatre Conference, Laura Penn compares the American theatre to the postal service as modes for human connection, civic engagement, and …
By Kristin Marting. On 10 August 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with acclaimed lighting designer Ayumu Saegusa, who is also resident lighting designer of HERE.
By Kristin Marting. On 3 August 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the award winning and internationally acclaimed puppet artist and curator Hanne Tierney. She is also founder/…
By Kat Kemmet. Kat Kemmet reflects on approaches to acting training that disguise harm as care.
By . On the Move partners with one of its members, Kooperativa—Regional Platform for Culture, a network of organizations and national platforms dedicated to independent culture and contemp…
By . The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) presents the keynote and plenary events from the 2026 conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
By Kristin Marting. On 27 July 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the boundary busting Qui Ngyuen.
By Kristin Marting. On 20 July 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the multidisciplinary performance creator, composer, and vocalist Gelsey Bell.
By John Freedman, Andrii Bondarenko, Iryna Harets, Laura Cahill. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is not just a military assault; it is an assault on Ukrainian identity and culture …
By Nicolas Shannon Savard, Francis Miller. Nicolas talks with Francis Miller about their solo show, Body of the State, which explores access to gender-affirming healthcare and asks the audie…
By Fidaa Ataya, Dovie Thomason. Stories connect us to our past and shape our futures, helping us to imagine alternatives, to envision the dreams towards which we can collectively mobilize.
By Kristin Marting. On 13 July 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the award-winning multi-disciplinary lighting, projection, and puppetry artist Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew, who was re…
By zuri arman. zuri arman applies a dark decypherment critique to Jordan Tannahill’s Prince Faggot, surfacing the abjection of Blackness that underpins its narrative of white queer belong…
By Kristin Marting. On 6 July 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with acclaimed playwright Robert Lyons, who ran the award winning Ohio Theatre for thirty-plus years.
By Nicolas Shannon Savard. Nicolas Shannon Savard recounts the evolution of their solo show, Five and a Half Feet of Fearsome, from the original 2018 production to adapting pieces for testim…
By Artist Caregiver. This diarist freelances out of state, but this week she is at home beginning her daughter’s transition from educational services to housing for disabled adults.
By . Spanning contemporary dance, music, theater, spoken word poetry, and interdisciplinary practice, the evening highlights the depth and dynamism of Native Hawaiian creative expression gro…
By Kristin Marting. On 29 June 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the Obie Award winning creator/director Mallory Catlett.
By . Playwrights Corinna Schulenburg, Jason Tseng, Greg T.
By Nicole Brewer. The Consortium of Asian American Theaters & Artists (CAATA) welcomes Nicole Brewer, faculty at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and originator of the Antiracist…
By Nataki Garrett. Nataki Garrett reflects on the May Day activation that kicked off the Doris Duke Foundation’s Creative Labor, Creative Conditions campaign.
By handan salta, Caras Ionuț. How do you expose a country’s most shameful moments on stage in a way that excites the audience, instead of alienating them?
By JD Stokely. In October 2025, eighteen artists gathered in Maine for a weekend of sharing artistic practice as part of the MicroCosmos project.
By Ciaran Short. Zora Howard’s Hang Time demands a deep contemplation of empathy.
By Nicolas Shannon Savard, Ciara Hannon, Saylor Lake. Ciara Hannon and Saylor Lake return to talk about 11th Hour Productions’ repertoire of lesbian comedies that play with genre, includin…
By . The third volume in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays series offers nine new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters.
By Kristin Marting. On 22 June 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with the glorious award-winning theatre artist and Patron Saint of Hybridity, Taylor Mac.
By Kristin Marting. On 15 June 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with composer and performer Kamala Sankaram, who moves freely between the worlds of experimental music, sound insta…
By Kimberly Senior. How can a director decenter themselves while still fulfilling the role of “director”?
By . This panel discussion explores the role of theatre artists in times of war, occupation, and state-sanctioned violence, in multiple contexts and locations around the globe, from Minneapo…
By Nandita Dinesh. What happens when we release the idea that dramatic texts must conform to predetermined durations and allow them, like life itself, to take the time they need?
By Nandita Dinesh. What might applied playwriting actually look like, and what might it do that neither applied theatre nor conventional playwriting can do alone?
By Nandita Dinesh. Applied theatre has always been about people: whom it's for, whom it's with. How do these questions transform when the work moves from the field to the page?
By Nandita Dinesh. When we can no longer enter the field, how do we grapple with the ethical layers to our decisions about the real-world contexts our texts address?
By Nandita Dinesh. What does it mean to be intentional when writing applied, closet dramas? How do we articulate—and interrogate—the purpose behind our work?
By Marina Johnson, Nabra Nelson. In the season finale, Marina and Nabra preview Golden Thread’s 2026 season, from Palestinian performance and stand-up comedy to new Arab American plays and…
By Dr. Ayshia Mackie-Stephenson. The One Love Method is a teaching and learning method for racial justice theatre. Dr.
By John Vreeke. The 2025 Divine Comedy festival theme was “Waiting for the Barbarians.” Representing the Center for International Theatre Development, John Vreeke attended and concluded …
By Nandita Dinesh. What happens when an applied theatre practitioner is forced to step away from the field?
By Nicolas Shannon Savard, Saylor Lake, Ciara Hannon. Host Nicolas Shannon Savard interviews Ciara Hannon and Saylor Lake from Orlando-based queer theatre company, 11th Hour Productions.
By Nabra Nelson, Marina Johnson, Nora el Samahy. This episode is a deep dive into Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festival and the MENATMA convening, exploring how short plays, artistic experimen…
By Nicolas Shannon Savard, Bo Frazier. In part two of their discussion on The Trans History Project, host Nicolas Shannon Savard and Bo Fraizer explore how the initiative is building network…
By . IETM Oulu Plenary Meeting 2026 livestreams the opening session which confronts the power structures embedded in arts funding as well as livestreams the "pitchorama".
By . A discussion with artists at the intersection of performance, community engagement, and social change.
By Nabra Nelson, Marina Johnson. Marina and Nabra explore how Golden Thread Productions amplifies women’s voices and mobilizes global artistic solidarity through What Do the Women Say?
By Artist Caregiver. This month’s diarist is in rehearsals for a theatre for young audiences (TYA) show and prepping for her next freelance project.
By Nicolas Shannon Savard, Bo Frazier. This episode is an interview with Baltimore Center Stage’s artist-in-residence Bo Frazier on the Trans History Project.
By . Join Gilder-Coigney International Theatre Forum for a live international panel bringing together artists from the second round of Theatre From The Streets. What has changed?