Unify the Stage

An amazing woman, director, founder of regional theatre, passed away at 91. Here is a bit about her, read and be inspired: New York Times NPR Washington Post

I wrote this blog post for TCG, about leadership in theatre. You can read it here .

Katie Mitchell is a personal hero of mine, a trailblazing auteur director who is also, *gasp!*, a woman. I often wonder why we have such fantastic male auteur directors and so few female auteurs. I have a lot of theories about it, some of them are too personal to go into here on this blog on this day. That's because I have been known to deconstruct a classic in my time, but I haven't done it often, or often professionally. And so when I wonder this about the world, I also wonder this about myself. Lately, a couple of fabulous articles have come out about Katie Mitchell and her work. I must be honest here, I haven't seen her work, and it's certainly controversial. But here's what inspires me about her: first off, if you read her amazing book THE DIRECTOR'S CRAFT, then you know that she isn't just making up ideas and placing them on her productions, she is doing some serious and deep text analysis to get to her conclusions. The attention to detail in every...

Mary really beautifully and simply articulates semiotics in the theater, identifying a definition of theatricality that I found astute as a "visible metaphor that calls attention to itself". It's a great talk.

I wrote this for Howlround about review rating systems. I feel passionately about the topic. You can read it here .

Great article on the visionary director, Ivo van Hove. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/26/theatre-laid-bare

A new article on an old topic: http://www.dw.de/how-much-creative-liberty-can-a-theater-director-take/a-18233268