Pittsburgh City Theatre's City Speaks Podcast

This week on  City Speaks, Marketing Director Nikki Battestilli interviews Clare on the new shows you can expect for our upcoming season. 

This week on City Speaks, in spirit of our new show "Cry It Out," we’re speaking with 3 City Theatre staff members who have recently had babies of their own. We talk parenting with Education Director Katie Trupiano, General Manager Natalie Hatcher, and Scene Shop Foreman John Brucker. 

This week on City Speaks, we sit down with Director and City Theatre Artistic Director Marc Masterson and sound designer Steve Shapiro   Thanks for listening to Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast.    Get tickets here: https://citytheatrecompany.org/   Listen to more City Speaks here: https://postindustrial.com/

This week on City Speaks, we sit down with Martin Giles, a Pittsburgh based actor, teacher, and City Theatre performer, and Helene Ruoti (Irene), a fellow City theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theatre performer.    Thanks for listening to Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast.    Get tickets here: https://citytheatrecompany.org/   Listen to more City Speaks here: https://postindustrial.com/

This week on City Speaks, Director of New Play Development Clare Drobot sits down with Sharon Eberson, online features editor, theater critic, and arts and pop culture reporter for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.   Thanks for listening to Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast.    Get tickets here: https://citytheatrecompany.org/   Listen to more City Speaks here: https://postindustrial.com/    

This week's episode of CitySpeaks features City Theatre's Director of New Play Development, Clare Drobot 's fascinating conversation with Illah R. Nourbahksh.   lllah Nourbakhsh is the K&L Gates Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies at CMU, where he directs the Community Robotics, Education, and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) Lab. For more than 15 years, he has explored human-robot interaction with the aim of creating rich, effective, and satisfying interactions between the two. An area of his research focuses on human-robot collaboration for learning, centered on measurable information gains for humans. His CREATE Lab combines participatory design, design-based thinking, and robotic innovation to achieve positive social impact on specific problems throughout societies   Thanks for listening to Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast.    Get tickets here: https://citytheatrecompany.org/   Listen to more City Speaks here: https://postindustrial.com/

This week's CitySpeaks podcast features Pittsburgh City Theatre's Director of New Play Development, Clare Drobot, in conversation with director Michael John Garcés and playwright James McManus.   Michael John Garcés has been an ensemble member at Cornerstone since 2006, where he's written plays including Magic Fruit, the "bridge" project of the multi-year Hunger Cycle which brought together the many communities of the cycle; Consequence, out of story circles with students, teachers, administrators and parents in South Kern County; Los Illegals, created in residence with communities of day laborers and domestic workers; and The Forked Path, a collaboration with Stut Theatre and the Van der Hoeven Kliniek in the Netherlands, which was performed at the Net Even Anders Festival in Utrecht and The International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam. Directing credits at other theaters include Wrestling Jerusalem by Aaron Davidman (premiere at Intersection for the Arts; other productions include The Guthrie Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre and Mosaic Theatre), The Arsonists by Max Frisch (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), District Merchants by Aaron Posner (The Folger Theatre), and Seven Spots on the Sun by Martín Zimmerman (The Theatre @ Boston Court). Michael is a recipient of the Rockwood Arts and Culture Fellowship, the Princess Grace Statue, the Alan Schneider Director Award, a TCG/New Generations Grant, the Non-Profit Excellence Award from the Center of Non-Profit Management, is a Southern California Leadership Network Fellow and a proud alumnus of New Dramatists. He serves as vice president of the executive board of SDC, the theatrical union for stage directors and choreographers.   James McManus is the author of ten plays, which have been developed and performed at La Jolla Playhouse, Cornerstone Theater Company, Labyrinth Theater Company, The Road Theatre, Dell’Arte International, Working Theater, Apothecary Theatre Company, The Clockwork Theatre, Glass Umbrella Creative (Sydney), Revolt Theatre (Melbourne), New Dramatists, The Kennedy Center, Round House Theatre, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Barebones Productions, Irish Repertory Theatre, Son of Semele, The Side Project Theatre Company, The Lark Play Development Center and the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. James was the recipient of the Princess Grace Award in Playwriting for Cherry Smoke, which is published by Samuel French. He has also received the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and is a proud alumnist of New Dramatists.   Thanks for listening to Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast.    Get tickets here: https://citytheatrecompany.org/   Listen to more City Speaks here: https://postindustrial.com/

This week's Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast features interviews with playwright Martín Zimmerman and writer Tlaloc Rivas   Martin Zimmerman is a multi-ethnic, bilingual playwright and screenwriter whose plays include Seven Spots On The Sun, On The Exhale, White Tie Ball, The Making Of A Modern Folk Hero, The Solid Sand Below, and Let Me Count The Ways, and have been produced or developed at such renowned institutions as The Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, and The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference.   Tlaloc Rivas is a Pittsburgh-based writer and director and is honored to make his debut at City Theatre with Simona’s Search. Recent projects include: The Three Musketeers (University of Evansville), Peribanez (Quantum Theatre) and Johanna: Facing Forward (Cleveland Public Theatre. Upcoming projects include: Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Beatties (Oberlin College) and My Dear Hussein (Silk Road Rising). Tlaloc is a recipient of the Sir John Gielgud Fellowship in Classical Directing and co-founder of the Latinx Theatre Commons. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Stage Directors & Choreographers Union. He is a graduate of the University of Santa Cruz, the University of Washington School of Drama, and a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Learn more about his work at TlalocRivas.com   Thanks for listening to Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast.    Get tickets here: https://citytheatrecompany.org/   Listen to more City Speaks here: https://postindustrial.com/

Today on CitySpeaks, the podcast from Pittsburgh City Theatre, Director of New Play Development, Clare Drobot, interviews renowned set designer Tony Ferrieri.    Ferrieri has worked for nearly 40 years with City Theatre. He is recipient of the Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award for Established Artist, New Works Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, “Designer of the Year” by Pittsburgh City Paper and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the “Frankel Award,” “Fred Kelly Award for Outstanding Achievement,” and the “Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award.” His recent designs include: One Night in Miami, The Roommate, Pipeline, Citizens Market, A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit, and Feeding the Dragon. A Pittsburgh native, Ferrieri has lived in the South Hills for more than six decades.    Get tickets for City Theatre shows here: https://citytheatrecompany.org/categories/2019-2020-season/ Listen to episodes of CitySpeaks here: https://postindustrial.com/cityspeaks/    

Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast this week features Shua Potter and Monteze Freeland.   Potter was on tour and on Broadway in Mary Poppins, won an episode of Chopped on the Food Network (in drag) and, in addition to building and selling two successful cleaning businesses and officiating 20 weddings with 13 lined up in 2020 so far, has a drag cabaret show called After Werk, which is performed monthly at Arcade Comedy Theater in Pittsburgh and also tours across the country. Find out more about Potter at:  www.shuapotter.com  www.actingofficiantweddings.com   Monteze Freeland directed the 2018 EQT Young Playwrights Festival at City Theatre, and past directing credits include: Savior Samuel, In The Heat of the Night, Fences, Miss Julie, Clarissa and John, Poe's Last Night, Sold, and Christmas Star (Pittsburgh Playwrights); Addams Family, Shrek, Hairspray and Freaky Friday (CLO Academy); I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Prime Stage), Dr. Iguanatron's Medicine Show (Arcade Comedy Theatre); The Wiz and Caps For Sale (ACH Clear Pathways); and Kalopsia The Musical (New Hazlett Theatre) As an actor Mr. Freeland was named the 2017 Post Gazette Performer of the Year.    Get tickets for City Theatre shows here: https://citytheatrecompany.org/categories/2019-2020-season/ Listen to episodes of CitySpeaks here: https://postindustrial.com/cityspeaks/

On this week’s City Speaks podcast, Pittsburgh City Theatre’s Director of New Play Development, Clare Drobot, speaks with Dwayne Washington and Avery Glyph, two of the actors from One Night in Miami, which runs at City Theatre on Pittsburgh’s Southside through Dec. 1.   DWAYNE WASHINGTON, who plays Sam Cooke in One Night in Miami, has acted iff-broadway in such classics as Fiagro 90210, Tanya and Nancy: The Rock Opera, National Tour: In The Mood, Ragtime, and Man of La Mancha. Read more about him at TheDwayneWashington.com.   AVERY GLYMPH, who plays Malcolm X in One Night in Miami, is proud to make his Pittsburgh debut with City Theatre, and has most recently appeared in Hamlet at The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. Off-Broadway credits include Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Shakespeare Festival, The Drama Dept., and Lincoln Center Lab. Avery's film and television appearances include the upcoming Out and About, She's Gotta Have it, Against the Current, Last Ball, He Got Game, 13 Conversations About One Thing, I’m with Lucy, Madam Secretary, Forever, Ugly Betty, Oz, all Law & Orders, The Electric Company, among more. Awards include St. Louis Critics Circle Awards for Best Ensemble and Best Production for All the Way, as well as nominations for the San Diego Critics Circle Award and the NAACP Theatre Award for The Whipping Man. Avery holds a BFA from The North Carolina School of the Arts and an MFA from the STC Academy for Classical Acting at the George Washington University. Visit AveryGlymph.com for more details.   A play about four of the most important figures in Black Civil Rights history, One Night in Miami depicts the night of February 25, 1964, when Muhammed Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and NFL legend Jim Browne met to celebrate in a Miami hotel room.   Get tickets here: https://citytheatrecompany.org/play/one-night-in-miami/   Listen to more City Speaks here: https://postindustrial.com/

On today's CitySpeaks podcast, Clare talks with costume designer DOMINIQUE FAWN HILL, whose regional design credits include: "School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play" at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre; "Pipeline" at Pittsburgh City Theatre Company; and "Julius Caesar" at Asolo Rep. She has her MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Learn more about her at www.dominiquefHill.com.   Listen to Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast at https://postindustrial.com/cityspeaks/   Or subscribe via your favorite podcast app.

Today's edition of Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast features Reginald L. Douglas, who joined City Theatre as director in March 2015. At City, Reginald line-produces, helps curate, and directs in the theater’s six-show season and new play development activities; builds artistic initiatives and partnerships; and represents City on the Board of the National New Play Network. Reginald has directed extensively throughout the country. He has developed and directed new work by many acclaimed writers, and has assistant-directed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regionally. Reginald regularly serves on the selection committees for local and national fellowships and grants; has spoken at several national conferences and festivals; and is a guest lecturer at the O’Neill’s National Theatre Institute. He is a proud graduate of Georgetown University. Read more about him here: reginalddouglas.com

Today's CitySpeaks podcast features Josiah Gilliam, My Brother’s Keeper Coordinator for the City of Pittsburgh. MBK enhances opportunity and outcomes for black men and boys in areas such as literacy, mentoring, workforce development, and violence prevention. Josiah is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and lives in East Liberty.      Read more about Josiah here: https://pittsburghpa.gov/mayor/gilliam  Find more information about My Brother’s Keeper here: https://pittsburghpa.gov/mayor/mbk/index.htmlAll-for-All –  Check out Change Agency here: https://www.changeagency.world/all-for-all/ And 1Hood Media: https://www.1hood.org/   Thanks for listening. Hear more episodes of Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast here: https://postindustrial.com/cityspeaks/  

This week's CitySpeaks podcast highlights the EQT Young Playwrights Festival (https://citytheatrecompany.org/play/eqt-young-playwrights-festival/), a program staging professional productions of six winning, one-act plays chosen from nearly 400 Young Playwrights Contest submissions written by middle and high school students.    Today's podcast features interviews with Ava Weidensall, a a freshman at Baldwin High School who enjoys writing poetry, painting, and participating in the Baldwin High School German Club; and Spencer Whale, a Pittsburgh native and graduate of Cornell University, who acts as Director for the Young Playwrights Festival.   Today's podcast is hosted, as always, by Clare Drobot, City Theatre's Director of New Play Development. It is produced by Nikki Battestilli, City Theatre's Marketing Director. It is engineered by Tim Mulhern of Postindustrial Media.    Keep track of new episodes of CitySpeaks here: https://postindustrial.com/cityspeaks/

City Speaks Episode 4 - Senon Williams   On this week's CitySpeaks podcast, Pittsburgh City Theatre's Director of New Play Development, Clare Drobot, speaks with Senon Williams, bassist of the Cambodian surf rock band Dengue Fever, whose music helps to build the backdrop of Cambodian Rock Band.   Cambodian Rock Band is the thrilling new play — and part electrifying rock concert — that's an epic tale of family, love, and heritage, with live performances showing through October 6, at City Theatre on Pittsburgh's South Side.    Get your tickets today: https://citytheatrecompany.org/play/cambodian-rock-band/   Read a review of the show from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette here: https://www.post-gazette.com/ae/theater-dance/2019/09/10/Pittsburgh-City-Theatre-Cambodian-Rock-Band/stories/201909100126

Episode 3 of City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast features City Theatre's Clare Drobot in conversation with Lauren Yee, whose play, Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered at South Coast Rep. and is now at City Theatre on Pittsburgh's Southside.Get your tickets here:  https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/62854/cambodian-rock-band Lauren and Clare discuss life as a playwright, and how research and a trip to Cambodia inspired an incredible story.More about Lauren: Subsequent productions of Cambodian Rock Band have appeared at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Merrimack Rep, Signature Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and Jungle Theatre. Yee's play The Great Leap, has been produced at the Denver Center, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Arts Club, and InterAct Theatre, with future productions at Steppenwolf, Long Wharf, and Asolo Rep. Honors include the Doris Duke Artists Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/ATCA Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize, Primus Prize, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. She’s a Residency 5 playwright at Signature Theatre, New Dramatists members, Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab member, and Playwrights Realm alumni playwright. TV credits include: PACHINKO (Apple) and SOUNDTRACK (Netflix). Current commissions include Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, South Coast Rep. She received her bachelor's degree from Yale. MFA: UCSD. laurenyee.com

Introducing the Pittsburgh City Theatre's inaugural CitySpeaks podcast all about the making of Cambodian Rock Band. Part thrilling new play, part electrifying rock concert, Cambodian Rock Band is an epic tale of family, love, and heritage featuring the Cambodian surf rock music of Dengue Fever. This podcast is all about how the show came together with stories from the people who know it best. Today's episode is with Director Martin Lyons   Marti Lyons is thrilled to direct Cambodian Rock Band at City Theatre as part of a collaboration with Victory Gardens Theater, where she directed the show in the Spring, and Merrimack Rep where this production is headed next. Marti recently directed Witch by Jen Silverman at the Geffen Playhouse, playing in LA now. Marti also directed Witch at Writers Theatre in Chicago last season. She directed How to Defend Yourself by Lily Padilla for the 2019 Humana Festival as part of a co-world premiere with Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, where Marti will direct the play again in 2019. Marti has directed Botticelli in the Fire by Jordan Tannahill (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company); The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe and Kings by Sarah Burgess (Studio Theater); Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (Court Theatre); Short Shakes! Macbeth (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Title and Deed by Will Eno (Lookingglass Theatre Company) and Wondrous Strange together with Meg Miroshnik, Jiehae Park and Martyna Majok for the 2015 Humana Festival (Actors Theatre of Louisville).  This season Marti will direct The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess (Writers Theater), Jen Silverman’s The Moors (A Red Orchid Theatre), and the world premiere of The Scarlet Letter by Kate Hamill (South Coast Repertory). Marti is a proud member of SDC. For more information: martilyons.com

Introducing the Pittsburgh City Theatre's inaugural CitySpeaks podcast all about the making of Cambodian Rock Band. Part thrilling new play, part electrifying rock concert, Cambodian Rock Band is an epic tale of family, love, and heritage featuring the Cambodian surf rock music of Dengue Fever. This podcast is all about how the show came together with stories from the people who know it best. Today's episode is with Artistic Director Marc Masterson

Introducing the Pittsburgh City Theatre's inaugural CitySpeaks podcast all about the making of Cambodian Rock Band. Part thrilling new play, part electrifying rock concert, Cambodian Rock Band is an epic tale of family, love, and heritage featuring the Cambodian surf rock music of Dengue Fever. This podcast is all about how the show came together with stories from the people who know it best. Stay tuned for episode 1, dropping on September 6, 2019.