Unify the Stage

This article came out in the New York Times yesterday: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/theater/richard-maxwell-comes-full-circle-with-oneills-early-plays.html?pagewanted=all I put this in here to inspire the young directors out there who can afford to intern, to do it. And if you can't, then, find other ways to get in the rooms. But not just anywhere. Look for people who inspire you and get in their rooms, find a way, there is always a way, and you learn things that you never thought possible. Richard Maxwell fascinates me. He founded a theater company in Chicago years and years ago that no longer exists called the Cook County Theater Department. If you live in Chicago find someone older than you and ask them about Cook County. They speak of this company with affection. I had a teacher when I went to Columbia who had been working in New York with the Wooster Group and other "downtown" theater companies, and he showed us a video of Richard Maxwell's company t

Great post on the Guardian's theater blog about what to do to be a director... http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2010/mar/23/theatre-director-10-top-tips

A very articulate and inspiring talk by Anna D. Shapiro (my directing mentor) at Chicago Ideas Week. In this talk she explains why the director's first day address is one of the most important moments a director has. http://www.chicagoideas.com/videos/21

...but yes they are all still white men. http://playbill.com/features/article/159292-Sam-Gold-Thomas-Kail-and-Alex-Timbers-A-New-Generation-Helming-Broadway/pg1