Podcasts about Frantic Assembly

Get ready for a theatrical journey packed with drama, laughter, and musical magic! First up, renowned director Sam Mendes takes the helm in a fierce and funny new play by Jack Thorne. In The Motive and the Cue, witness Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton, Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud, and Tuppence Middleton as Elizabeth Taylor. As the year is 1964, and Burton is set to play Hamlet in an experimental Broadway production under Gielgud's direction, the collision of two ages of theatre brings forth a riveting exploration of the politics of a rehearsal room and the intricate relationship between art and celebrity. After a sold-out run at the National Theatre, this celebrated production is transferring to the West End for 15 weeks only.Next, dive into the surreal world of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis in a thrilling new adaptation by Frantic Assembly and Lemn Sissay OBE. The story follows Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning to find himself transformed into something dangerous and untouchable. Combining Lemn Sissay's lyrical adaptation with Frantic Assembly's uncompromising physicality, this promises to be a visceral and vital depiction of humans struggling within a crushing system.Brace yourself for a journey down the aisle and into the isles with the official Stock Aitken Waterman musical - I Should Be So Lucky. Featuring the soundtrack of a generation, this musical takes you on a rollercoaster ride of love, laughter, and last-minute getaways. With hits from pop royalty including Kylie Minogue, Rick Astley, Jason Donovan, Bananarama, and more, this British musical, directed and written by Debbie Isitt, is a celebration of the infectious tunes produced by Stock Aitken Waterman.

In front of an audience at the Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds the poets, Lemn Sissay and Lebogang Mashile, and the curator Clare O'Dowd explore the transformative power of language, and the quest to break down barriers. Each morning the award-winning writer Lemn Sissay composes a short poem as dawn breaks, to banish his own dark thoughts and look forward to the day. The result is his new collection, Let the Light Pour In. Transformation is also at the heart of his retelling of Kafka's Metamorphosis for the stage, in a touring production by A Frantic Assembly. The poet, performer and activist Lebogang Mashile explains how poetry has always carried political power in her native South Africa. Exiled as a child to the US she returned to Johannesburg after the end of apartheid. Her poetry highlights her sense of being an outsider and how verse is a vehicle in the fight for change. Divisions between the arts are broken down in the exhibition – The Weight of Words – at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (until 26th November). The co-curator Clare O'Dowd tells Tom Sutcliffe how the group exhibition explores what happens when poetry and sculpture intermingle and collide. Producer: Katy Hickman

We complete our UK Shakespeare binge with The Tempest at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford Upon Avon and Othello by the sizzling Frantic Assembly at the Lyric Hammersmith back in LondonWhat a whirlwind tour!!! To send us an email - please do, we truly want to hear from you!!! - write us at: thebardcastyoudick@gmail.com To support us (by giving us money - we're starving artists, dammit!!) - per episode if you like! -On Patreon, go here:  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=35662364&fan_landing=trueOr on Paypal:https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=8KTK7CATJSRYJTo visit our website, go here:https://www.thebardcastyoudick.comTo donate to an awesome charity, go here:https://actorsfund.org/help-our-entertainment-communiity-covid-19-emergency-reliefLike us? Don't have any extra moolah? We get it! Still love us and want to support us?? Then leave us a five-star rating AND a review wherever you get your podcasts!!Episode Sources:Years and years of experience with Shakespeare from two  rather opinionated theatre professionals, you dicks!!!! And history, you rapscallion bastards!!!

Natalie and Darren discuss a plethora of theatre we've seen in February and recommendations of what's on in February/ March. Productions reviewed in this episode include: Best of Enemies at Noel Coward Theatre, Back to the Future at Adelphi Theatre, Noises Off at The Pheonix Theatre, To Kill A Mockingbird at Gielgud Theatre, Frantic Assembly's Othello at Lyric Hammersmith, Smoke at Southwark Playhouse.

This week on Drama School Dropout I am joined by the amazing Jared Garfield. We chat about the famed forty degree day, Scottish Independence, transitioning to a post covid way of navigating the industry, self taping, expectations of the industry, performing Shakespeare at Windsor Castle, studying at ArtsEd, going too far in a class exercise, working on The Unreturning with Frantic Assembly, singing, naked chess games and working on Hollyoaks. Submit your story for Stage Right or Stage Shite: https://forms.gle/1p296t4Uu1F1XVvN9 Host: Ingram Noble Guest: Jared Garfield Producers: Heather Spiden & Ingram Noble Links: Ingram's Instagram & Twitter: @ingramnoble Jared's Instagram: @jaredgarfield Get This Is Where We Get Off Tickets: https://webstersglasgow.com/whats-on/event/this-is-where-we-get-off/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/dramaschooldropout

With Samira Ahmed. Guests Katy Hessel and Lillian Crawford review Florence Pugh's drama The Wonder, based on an Emma Donoghue novel, and the Royal Academy's Making Modernism exhibition, which explores the lives of a group of female artists active in Germany in the early twentieth century. The theatre company Frantic Assembly is running a nationwide programme to find the actors of the future, hopefully from unexpected places. Luke Jones talks to Frantic Assembly's artistic director Scott Graham about their plan to get a wider range of young people into theatre and to some of the aspiring actors taking part in this year's programme. As the fallout of the Arts Council announcements continues, Lillian Crawford and composer Gavin Higgins consider why opera is still being branded elitist and what can be done about it. Producer: Ellie Bury Photo credit: Florence Pugh as Lib Wright in The Wonder. Cr. Aidan Monaghan

Can you be terrified and fearless? In today's episode, I'm talking to Scott Graham, the Artistic Director of Frantic Assembly, one of the UK's most successful and best-loved theatre companies. Frantic Assembly's mission is to make brave and bold theatre, and its work has always extended beyond the stage.The company has a deep commitment to the ethos of collaboration, empowerment and a constant desire to improve, telling stories in a voice we don't always hear and finding talent in places we don't always look.EPISODE'S SHOW NOTESOUR FREE GUIDE TO A SUSTAINABLE + IMPACTFUL ART CAREER. 

As the country reels from yet another political crisis amid the scratching around for a new PM, Graham reports on seeing the incomparably thorough Mark Lewisohn present his latest show based on his studies of Beatles' history, Evolver:62. In a restless week for Graham, Charles grills him on his response to seeing veteran Roxy Music reconvene in Manchester, followed by the youthful clout of Live at Leeds 2022. Charles salutes the Frantic Assembly's fast and furious Othello, one of his stage highlights of the year. Graham gives his verdict on Gulp!, the new album by cussed Cambridge band Sports Team.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Abi Morgan, author of This Is Not a Pity Memoir. Abi Morgan is a playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Skinned, Sleeping Around, Splendour (Paines Plough), Tiny Dynamite (Traverse), Tender (Hampstead Theatre), Fugee (National Theatre), 27 (National Theatre of Scotland), Love Song (Frantic Assembly), and The Mistress Contract (Royal Court Theatre). Her television work includes My Fragile Heart, Murder, Sex Traffic, Tsunami—The Aftermath, White Girl, Royal Wedding, Birdsong, The Hour, River and The Split. Her film writing credits include Brick Lane, Iron Lady, Shame, The Invisible Woman, and Suffragette. She has a number of films currently in development and has won a number of awards, including Baftas and an Emmy for her film and TV work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steven Hoggett is an international Choreographer, Director and Movement Director. Recent Broadway credits include Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, Angels In America, The Crucible, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, The Last Ship, Rocky, The Glass Menagerie, Once, Peter & the Starcatcher and American Idiot. Off Broadway work includes Social! (Park Avenue Armory) Bacharach Reimagined (NYTW), Joan of Arc : Into the Fire (The Public) and Let The Right One In (St Anne's Warehouse.) At the Met his work includes Rigoletto. In the UK his work has appeared in the West End and the National Theatre with productions including The Ocean at the End of the Lane, The Light Princess, Pinocchio and Black Watch. Steven was co-founder of the ground breaking UK company Frantic Assembly. As Director Choreographer with the company he created over 20 shows including Peepshow, Othello, Beautiful Burnout, Lovesong, Stockholm and Little Dogs. Steven has worked extensively with recording artists bringing their work to the stage. This list includes David Byrne, Tori Amos, Burt Bacharach, Green Day, Sting, Nico Muhly, Imogen Heap, Phillip Glass and Olafur Arnalds. His extensive work choreographing music videos has seen him collaborate with artists such as Bright Light, Bright Light, Goldfrapp, Calvin Harris, Franz Ferdinand and Bat for Lashes. His film credits include Freak Show (Maven Pictures) and How To Train Your Dragon (Dreamworks) Host: Jamie Neale @jamienealejn Discussing rituals and habitual patterns in personal and work life. We ask questions about how to become more aware of one self and the world around us, how do we become 360 with ourselves? Host Instagram: @jamienealejn Podcast Instagram: @360_yourself Music from Electric Fruit Produced by Tom Dalby Composed by Toby Wright

More doubt and confusion! We are here for it. We are living it. We dig into it with Ali. She talks to us about growing up deeply Jewish and both the gifts and the questions she found on that path. We investigate the power of nature, long walks, and regular showers. And how the body holds all our secrets. As an actor, Ali has performed on Broadway and off, and in venues across the country including The Roundabout Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, Cincinnati playhouse in the park, Fault Line Theatre, Barrington Stage and more. Ali loves movement theater and recently completed the international residency program with Frantic Assembly in London. As a painter, her saturated, rhythmic use of color to paint women's bodies and faces, describes the womxn up against herself. She questions the scope of femininity by capturing moments of rage, torture, complacency, joy, nostalgia, and desire. Ali is an expressionist with occasional abstract tendencies. Ali has taught art all over the world with Artists Striving To End Poverty, and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDs. Ali is a certified Yoga instructor specializing in Vinyasa, Yin, Hatha, hot yoga and Meditation. Follow her on IG: @mayimarts For this week's "do," check out all the amazing organizations helping Ukraine that need your support: https://www.obama.org/updates/help-ukraine/   Follow us: On IG: @art.fully.grounded On FB: @art.fully.grounded On Twitter: @AFGpod Podcast's website: www.sweptbythewind.com/podcast 

Joining us this week on The Systemic Stage is the impressive Dr. Scott Proudfit of Elon University to discuss devised theatre and collective creation, the importance of mentorship and pedagogy, and to give us tips on how we can continue to be theatre activists through these mediums. Learn more about Dr. Scott Proudfit here: https://www.elon.edu/u/directory/profile/?user=sproudfit And here: https://elondramaturgy.wordpress.com/tag/scott-proudfit/ Books edited by Dr. Proudfit on Collective Creation can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Kathryn-Mederos-Syssoyeva/e/B01G6J8PXC?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000 History of Collective Creation Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance Check out these two books on Frantic Assembly and Viewpoints here if you are interested in Devised Theatre! The Viewpoints book: https://www.amazon.com/Frantic-Assembly-Book-Devising-Theatre/dp/1138777013 Frantic Assembly book: https://www.amazon.com/Frantic-Assembly-Book-Devising-Theatre/dp/1138777013 Book mentioned about the history of the aid pandemic : And the Band Played On can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Band-Played-Politics-Epidemic-20th-Anniversary/dp/0312374631 Works recommended by Dr. Proudfit: John by Annie Baker Sabrina by Nick Drnaso My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris Resources about Dr. Proudfit: https://www.elon.edu/u/directory/profile/?user=sproudfit https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2020/04/02/proudfit-aids-plays-offer-lens-to-understand-respond-to-covid-19/ https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2020/02/04/english-professors-spider-man-comics-reprinted/ https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Spider-Man-Radioactive-Joey-Cavalieri/dp/1302920448 https://www.elon.edu/u/news/2018/11/01/the-contemporary-play-reading-and-discussion-series-receives-national-recognition-in-american-theatre-magazine/

I believe all have ideas inside of us that only we can bring to life. But when it comes to the doing part we often lose our way or we lose our nerve.But what if, feeling lost was the way? What if our fear could actually be serving as a signpost - directing us towards a truer and more meaningful path in our creative life and work?In this bitesized episode we look at:My personal story of becoming the artist of my own life.How ideas can show up as exciting, terrifying, or both.Why we must give ourselves permission to be creative.How the process requires that we both attach to the idea whilst also detach from the outcome. How fear takes over and flips the attachment and detachment juggling act.How the process is one experiment after the next.Why having a supportive team is so important if we are to take a creative path.Whether you're stuck on starting your creative path or stuck somewhere in the middle of it all, there'll be something in here for you.I’d love to hear how you get on. Let me know by sending an email to hello@figregory.com.And if you liked this episode, please rate & review. Thank you. Fi Xwww.figregory.comhello@figregory.comMentioned in this episode:Frantic Assembly - www.franticassembly.co.ukMarianne Cantwell - www.mariannecantwell.comSelina Barker - www.selinabarker.com

This episode features an in-depth chat about the world of physical theatre with my mentor in movement, Jennifer Felts! While listening, share the show on social media! Give us a rating, leave a review if you’re feelin’ it friend, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening, I appreciate you! The Tea aka Topics: Theatre, Physical Theatre, Movement, Movement Direction, Directing, Choreography, Choreographer, Musical Theatre, Acting Tips, Movement Philosophy, Jacques Lecoq, London International School of Performing Arts, Eastern Michigan University Theatre, Eastern Michigan UniversityRead this article to get a general overview of some different movement practitioner's styles: https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/movement-techniques-actors-study-8763/?fbclid=IwAR2ofn76ewKx4vEHQ55h-YklDAi-EWFB91gBLoUkXk7Ua52fSRosvsQ4tPoSupport the show!SUBSCRIBE ON PATREON! All subscriptions go back into making the show: https://www.patreon.com/lifeintheatrepodcastContinue the conversation on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lifeintheatrepodcast/Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Email the host at https://www.tylercalhoun.com/contactFOLLOW EMU THEATRE: https://www.emich.edu/cmta/productions/https://www.facebook.com/EMUTheatre/ https://twitter.com/EMUTheatrehttps://www.instagram.com/emutheatre/Tyler’s Tip:It's more conducive to watch movement than it is to talk about it, so learn about these physical theatre companies by watching their work! I did a training intensive at the Movement Theatre Studio, it is fabulous!Movement Theatre Studio NYC: https://www.facebook.com/movementtheaterstudio/videos/326587124893485/Frantic Assembly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUqZPfGIX6UDV8 Physical Theatre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2bV75ITXJwSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/lifeintheatrepodcast )

Interview with Sally Abbott writer of recent Frantic Assembly 25th Anniversary production I Think We Are Alone directed by Scott Graham and Kathy Burke. Discussions on National Theatre Home, Frantic Digital, Coronavirus Time Capsule, Digital Theatre+, Leave a Light On, Song requests for the NHS, Instagram Live and Wise Children.

Back Together at The O2 Micheal Ball and Alfie Boe. I Think We Are Alone, Frantic Assembly at The Theatre Royal Stratford East.Austentatious at The Fortune Theatre and an interview with actress Charlotte Gittins.

I THINK WE ARE ALONE - Tue 28 Feb - Sat 21 Mar 2020 We had a chat with I THINK WE ARE ALONE cast members Chizzy Akudolu and Andy Turner about the ups and downs of working as actors. Frantic Assembly's new play, written by Sally Abbott and co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott Graham, runs at Stratford East until Sat 21 Mar.

Steven Appleby’s comic strips have graced the pages of many national newspapers including The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Observer. Now he’s created his first graphic novel, Dragman - a thriller about August Crimp who discovers that wearing women’s clothing gives him the power of flight. As his superhero alter ego, Dragman, he’s on the case of the missing souls, but can he also use his powers to save his marriage and himself? Playwright Sally Abbott discusses her new play, directed by Kathy Burke, that helps to mark 25 years of Frantic Assembly and their distinctively physical take on theatre. I Think We Are Alone is a multi-stranded story of the connections - and disconnections - between people and their desire for intimacy. Humans hunting humans for sport – this is the theme of two new films, The Hunt and Bacurau, both seemingly inspired by the 1920s short story The Most Dangerous Game. Controversial thriller The Hunt is a satire of the American political landscape, with a liberal elite hunting conservative 'deplorables'; while Bacurau explores neo-colonial tensions with a small Brazilian village held siege by bloodthirsty American and European hunters. Mark Eccleston reviews. Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Jerome Weatherald

This episode we are joined by a director and member of Frantic Assembly, who has just been nominated for an Olivier award as part of the team behind the theatre show Warheads.His journey has led him to collaborate with the National Youth Theatre after winning the Brian Forbes award and into avenues of AR production. This has all culminated in the creation of his own theatre company “Fable Workshop”. His name is Sean Hollands and in this episode, we cover: Finding his calling as a director, how he works best within a group and the unexpected avenues he is now pursuing with great excitementIf you want to find him on social media he is @seanahollands on instagram and his website is Seanhollans.comCreative Catalyst Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/creativecatalystpodcast/@creativecatalystpodcast

Artistic Director Scott Graham and Jonnie Riordan take a look back at what has been a jam packed 2019. Happy New Year from Frantic Assembly, thank you for your support. The Frantic Podcast will return later in 2020.

The Frantic Assembly Podcast is back for series two. Artistic Director Scott Graham and Jonnie Riordan return to the microphone and catch-up with Lighting Designer Zoe Spurr to talk about the role of the lightning designer, starting out in the industry and Frantic Assembly's production of The Unreturning. Join in the conversation with #FranticPodcast @FranticAssembly

"Sometimes you feel like you have to drift into something else, as long as the skills are there, you know you can do it then it's available to you and you feel like you still have that hunger"   Inbetween Stages with Kassius Nelson and Jennifer Brooke is a podcast derived from the unpredictable life of a creative trying to ‘make it’. Each week a creative guest joins the duo to discuss challenges they have faced, celebrate achievements they have overcome and pull the curtain back on whats its REALLY like surviving those inbetween stages.  This week's special guest is actor Jared Garfield fresh off a tour with Frantic Assembly to talk his journey and if his skill as a dancer has defined his career.    Follow the podcast on INSTA: @inbetweenstages  TWITTER: @inbetweenstage Facebook: Inbetween Stages Podcast

THE UNRETURNING Episode 4 - Stratford East Podcast. We're chatting with actors Kieton Saunders-Browne and Jonnie Riordan about THE UNRETURNING, the new Frantic Assembly show written by Anna Jordan. THE UNRETURNING Wed 16 Jan - Sat 02 Feb 2019 Tickets: http://bit.ly/TheUnreturning-StratfordEast

Dreams can come true, as Scott and Jonnie fly off to the Swiss Alps* to record the very first (and probably last) Podcast Christmas Special. Joined by the entire Frantic Team join us as we review the year and look forward to the year ahead. We'd like to thank YOU for listening and making our first season of The Frantic Podcast such a joy to make and create. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Frantic Assembly

Welcome to the Frantic Assembly Podcast - the first one! Hosted by Artistic Director Scott Graham and Practitioner Jonnie Riordan the Frantic Assembly Podcast provides an insight into the company, and welcomes a dialogue into theatre making and performance. Frantic Assembly are an internationally renowned theatre company inspiring innovative practice and unlocking creative potential. Led by Artistic Director and co-founder Scott Graham, we have toured extensively across Great Britain, and worked in over 40 countries collaborating with some of today's most inspiring artists.

Mark Smith talks to Esther Richardson, Bryony Lavery and Hannah Peel in a busy York Theatre Royal café about Pilot Theatre’s new adaptation of Brighton Rock. They discuss the appeal of Brighton Rock’s morally complex underworld, getting younger people into regional theatres, creating a musical and choreographic world for the play, and how the company set out to look at Graham Greene’s classic story through a lens which is both contemporary and of the time. Director Esther Richardson has been the Artistic Director of Pilot since February 2016. Her previous theatre work has included productions at theatres throughout the UK, including Soho Theatre, Cast in Doncaster, Tamasha Theatre, Royal and Derngate, Nottingham Playhouse, Bolton Octagon, and many more. Adapter Bryony Lavery is a renowned playwright whose work is regularly performed internationally. She is a prolific writer and adapter, whose plays include Stockholm, Beautiful Burnout and The Believers for Frantic Assembly, Queen Coal for Sheffield Crucible and Treasure Island at the National Theatre. She has also written numerous adaptations which have premièred at York Theatre Royal, including most recently the adaptation of Brideshead Revisited for the York Theatre Royal and English Touring Theatre’s 2016 production. Hannah Peel is a multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter, composer and arranger, who has recorded as a solo artist as well as with band The Magnetic North and various other high-profile collaborators. She has created scores and co-composed for dance theatre performances at Sadler's Wells and for television. Brighton Rock runs at York Theatre Royal until 3 March 2018 and then tours to Brighton, Colchester, Hull, Cheltenham, Winchester, Watford, Birmingham, Newcastle, Mold, Derby and finally The Lowry Salford Quays. (Photo of Esther Richardson, Bryony Lavery and Hannah Peel by John Saunders.)

Highlights of the launch event for the Manchester International Festival 2017, held in Manchester on 9 March 2017. Introduced by new MIF artistic director John McGrath, this episode also features announcements from festival participants including actress Jane Horrocks, playwright Simon Stephens, Underworld’s Karl Hyde, Frantic Assembly’s Scott Graham, artists Yael Bartana and Phil Collins and New Order’s Bernard Sumner, amongst others. MIF 2017 will take place from 29 June to 16 July 2017 at locations all over Manchester. Image from MIF launch: L - R, Karl Hyde, Scott Graham, Simon Stephens, Yael Bartana, John McGrath, Phil Collins, Stephen Mallinder, Nick Vivian, Jane Horrocks, Bernard Sumner, Raymond Yiu, Sue Buckmaster, Joe Duddell, Tom Chapman, Graham Massey Credit Joel Chester Fildes

Episode 155: Ensemble Is Core Teacher Carrie Reiberg has long known about the place that theatre can give a person. The theatre is a community. To that end, she also knows the importance and the value of ensemble. Ensemble is Core. She could not have done the work she did on the physically driven piece Emotional Baggage until she had built a community with her students. Listen in to hear Carrie talk about the experience, how she empowered students to come up with their own blocking, and how Frantic Assembly inspired the process. Show Notes Emotional Baggage  Frantic Assembly Frantic Assembly Youtube Drama Teacher Academy PLCs Drama Teacher Academy Episode Transcript Welcome to TFP – The Theatrefolk Podcast – the place to be for Drama teachers, Drama students, and theatre educators everywhere. Woohoo! I had to get excited there! I'm Lindsay Price, resident playwright for Theatrefolk. Hello! I hope you're well. Thanks for listening! This is Episode 155. You can find any links to this episode in the show notes which are at theatrefolk.com/episode155. Before I get started, I wanted to let you guys know about two upcoming free – that's right, free just for you – events. Theatrefolk is hosting two live PLCs – professional learning communities. We are holding them through Google Hangouts where a host, moi, and a panel are going to discuss and problem solve on topics that are important to drama teachers and drama educators. There's also a very active chatroom where there is more discussion and more problem-solving. It's an absolutely amazing experience. I love doing these. You also get a certificate of attendance which I know some of you can use with your administrators. Our first one is tonight, April 19th at 8 PM Eastern, and we are talking about assessment. I know that is a big topic for lots of you – assessment. But, if you're not listening today, do not fret! We have a second live PLC – professional learning community – on April 29th at 8 PM Eastern and it's going to be a Q&A. we're going to have teachers and topic experts onboard to discuss questions. It could be classroom management, improv, assessment, the ensemble, and more. It's going to be awesome. You can find a link for both these events in the show notes at theatrefolk.com/episode155. And, now, back to our regularly scheduled program. So, a lot of these interviews come from chance. Someone emails me with some show pictures that look interesting and that starts a conversation with a teacher I have never met and this is one of those conversations and it's so lovely. I love it. I love it. I love what Carrie Reiberg not only has to say about her experience but what she has to share with you. So, let's get to it. LINDSAY: All right. I am speaking with Carrie Reiberg. Hello, Carrie! CARRIE: Hi! LINDSAY: So, Carrie had a wonderful way for remembering for me how to say her name which was rye bread on an iceberg and I just think that's a wonderful image and I wanted to share it with all of you. Carrie, tell everybody where in the world you are. CARRIE: I am in Indianapolis, Indiana. LINDSAY: Awesome. CARRIE: Yeah. LINDSAY: So, let's start off with your background. What connected you to becoming a theatre teacher? CARRIE: I did ballet, modern dance, and theatre in high school. I was one of those kids that needed a place and theatre was my place. So, I was really drawn to it. I actually majored in performance in college and went and lived in New York for a while and did the whole starving actor thing and taught classes while I was starving. I really liked teaching so I came back home and went back to school – same place I got my undergraduate degree. I got my graduate degree and my teaching license at Indiana University in Bloomington and I've been teaching ever since. LINDSAY: How long have you been a teacher? CARRIE: This is my 13th year. LINDSAY: Isn't it amazing?

One on One with Steven Hoggett: On July 13, 2013, Stage Directors and Choreographer Foundation hosted a One-on-One Conversation with acclaimed Director, Choreographer, and Movement Director Steven Hoggett (Blackwatch, Peter and the Starcatcher, Once), discussing his artistic vision, career trajectory, and rehearsal processes. Moderated by Ryan Donovan, the conversation explores Steven's journey from his beginnings as a self-sustaining artist in Wales with Frantic Assembly to his big-budget ventures on Broadway and around the world. Listen to him discuss his choreographic process of fusing his concept with his actors' natural instincts to create choreography in a highly organic manner. This focused discussion will enlighten the listener on staging musical transitions, influences - both budgetary and spatial - on artistic freedom, the unique aspects of the American theatre industry, and the necessity of deep collaboration when creating theater and its educational benefits. This is an insightful conversation with an artist who thrives on exploration and collaboration.Originally recorded - July 13, 2013. Running Time - 1:19:02 © 2013 SDCF

On July 13, 2013, Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation hosted a One-on-One Conversation with acclaimed Director, Choreographer, and Movement Director Steven Hoggett ("Blackwatch", "Peter and the Starcatcher", "Once") discussing his artistic vision, career trajectory, and rehearsal processes. Moderated by Ryan Donovan, the conversation explores Steven’s journey from his beginning as a self-sustaining artist in Wales with Frantic Assembly to his big-budget ventures on Broadway and around the world. Topics discussed include staging musical transitions, budgetary and spatial influences on artistic freedom, the unique aspects of the American theatre industry, and the value of deep collaboration when creating theater.

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Associate Director, Hamish Pirie, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse. In this episode, Hamish Speaks to Rob Drummond. Rob is a writer, performer and director from Glasgow. His theatre credits include Sixteen (Arches Theatre Festival), Hunter (National Theatre of Scotland and Frantic Assembly, directed by John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett), Post Show (Arches Live!) Allotment (Govan Shopping Centre, NTS new work), Mr Write (Tron Theatre and the National Theatre of Scotland), Top Table (Oran Mor). In 2011 Rob wrote, performed and directed his critically acclaimed show Rob Drummond: Wrestling (The Arches, winner of a Vital Spark Award) for which he trained as a professional wrestler. His dark comedy Top Table appeared at Oran Mor last year. Bullet Catch enjoyed critical acclaim and a sold out run as part of the Traverse Theatre’s Festival 2012 programme Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain