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I don't really produce plays. There are many other organizations that are wonderful at producing plays, and I'm not interested in someone coming in that's completely done and all they're really looking for is financial support. I don't work like that. What most excites me is when I meet with an artist who would love to do a site-specific piece, and in whatever form it might take whether it be outdoors or indoors, in a car, in an elevator, on a roof or wherever it could be. They see a necessity for why En Garde and no one else. Anne Hamburger (she/her) Founded En Garde Arts in 1985. As its Executive Artistic Director, she is responsible for pioneering site-specific theatre in New York, using its streets and historic landmarks as her stage.
Part2: Who am I? What is needed? How can I serve? These are the questions serial entrepreneur Anne Hamburger has been asking from early days as a visual performance artist to originating site specific theater, to running a regional theater, to starting Disneys Global entertainment theme park division to her return to socially relevant theater with her company En Garde Arts. Produced by Dori Berinstein, edited by Alan Seales, music by Anthony Norman. A proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network.
Part1: Who am I? What is needed? How can I serve? These are the questions serial entrepreneur Anne Hamburger has been asking from early days as a visual performance artist to originating site specific theater, to running a regional theater, to starting Disneys Global entertainment theme park division to her return to socially relevant theater with her company En Garde Arts. Produced by Dori Berinstein, edited by Alan Seales, music by Anthony Norman. A proud member of the Broadway Podcast Network.
Anne Hamburger sits down with Michael and shares stories from her years as Founder and Executive Producer of En Garde Arts, New York's first exclusive site-specific theatre company. Learn more about her work at engardearts.org and @engardeartsSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/countsprojects)
Tonya Pinkins is probably best known for her portrayal of Livia Frye on the soap opera “All My Children” but she is a familiar face to Broadway audiences. A Tony Award-winner, Tonya has won the Obie, the Drama Desk Award, the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award and been honored at the NAACP Theater Awards. Anne Hamburger is the executive producer of En Garde Arts, an interdisciplinary, multimedia theater production company she founded in 1985. On today’s “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI Tonya Pinkins and Anne Hamburger discuss their new collaboration “Truth and Reconciliation of Women” a collection of 10-minute plays being performed at the Brooklyn Commons.