Thursday, February 7, 2013
Morgan Hicks is the director of Education for TheatreSquared out of Fayetteville Arkansas. She and I met face to face for the first time at this year’s Arkansas State Thespian Festival…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Episode Twenty-Seven: Workshop Q&A This past fall Lindsay spent a week working on a new play with students. On the last day she lead a Q & A with them about the process and the play.…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, February 5, 2013
I just recently had a production of my play Anne-Arky in China. It was not at an International School, it was by Chinese students learning English as a second language. I’m always so …
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, February 2, 2013
EC: In the silent films, they had a story conference where they actually brought in a guy called the “Wildie,” which was a lunatic, not a figurative lunatic but a guy – JC: Someone…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, January 31, 2013
“Comparison is a killjoy: it will steal every ounce of contentment in your heart. It will rob you of perspective and leave you feeling empty.” – Kristen Welch Artists in al…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, January 29, 2013
I received a lovely email this weekend about a recent production of my play Tick Talk. The play is not an easy one – in a nutshell, it deals with the fact that some people have such in…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 04:00PMSaturday, January 26, 2013
When I talk to students about writing in an imagistic and specific manner, I always talk about using the senses. Observe this room and describe it using all five senses. The senses are immed…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, January 24, 2013
It’s a new dawn It’s a new day It’s a new life For me And I’m feeling good From The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd I almost dumped a play awhile ago.…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Sometimes you just come across something that is Wicked Cool. That’s right, I capitalized both words and they weren’t at the beginning of a sentence. I did it, I own it. ThatR…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, January 19, 2013
“But that wasn’t good enough for me. I called the Los Angeles office and asked if I could come in and read.” This post over on the Backstage Unscripted blog is a great exa…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PMThursday, January 17, 2013
Write what you know. This old chestnut is taken out and dusted off time and time again for beginning writers. But what does that mean exactly? What are the things one knows that would make f…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMTuesday, January 15, 2013
This short video shows a musician creating a hip hop beat out of a giant piece of paper and some scissors. That’s it. If you just listened to the music, you’d have no idea what…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 05:00PMSaturday, January 12, 2013
Click here for a costuming podcast over on Theatre Geeks - Costuming The Stratford Festival, an interview with Elizabeth Copeman who is the Assistant Head of Wardrobe. If you’ve ever b…
SOURCE: Theatrefolk at 12:00PM 
