Episodes

  • Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theatre, Part Three: Institute Directors

    Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theatre, Part Three: Institute Directors
    Oct 31 2024
    In 2023, Pig Iron Theater Company held the National Endowment for the Humanities Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theater​​ Institute. The institute directors look forward to how the next institute might be adjusted and reveal insight on how the University of the Arts closure will impact Pig Iron School.
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    1 hr
  • Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theatre, Part Two: Presenter Perspectives

    Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theatre, Part Two: Presenter Perspectives
    Oct 24 2024
    In 2023, Pig Iron Theater Company held the National Endowment for the Humanities Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theater​​ Institute. The presenters, some interviewed in this episode, provided in depth perspectives on how their ensemble-based processes created connections to a wide variety of audiences.
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    27 mins
  • Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theatre Part One: Participant Perspectives

    Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theatre Part One: Participant Perspectives
    Oct 17 2024
    Eleven participants share their experiences at the 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theater​​ Institute, which highlighted the impact of devised and physical theatre, its application in professional and university settings, and the limited scholarship around it.
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    52 mins
  • Opening the National Theatre’s Doors to Devised Work

    Opening the National Theatre’s Doors to Devised Work
    May 31 2023
    Stewart Pringle, senior dramaturg at the National Theatre, sheds light on the theatre’s Generate program and discusses with Jeffrey Mosser the problem with the term “literary department,” when to take a risk, and why it’s important that the big fish in the big pond makes the investment in smaller-scale ensemble-based companies.
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    55 mins
  • Ontroerend Goed’s Participatory Metaphors

    Ontroerend Goed’s Participatory Metaphors
    May 24 2023
    Artistic director of Belgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed, Alexander Devriendt talks through their process for imagining and developing participatory content. Alexander and Jeffrey Mosser also dig into financing art in Europe, the cost of touring internationally and how COVID has affected it, and sustaining family and art simultaneously.
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    59 mins
  • SoulWork and Soul Searching

    SoulWork and Soul Searching
    May 17 2023
    Culture worker and theatre practitioner Dr. Cristal Chanelle Truscott provides a primer on her SoulWork process, applies it to her present processes, and expands our horizons as artists.
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    58 mins
  • Turning City Council Meetings into Performance

    Turning City Council Meetings into Performance
    May 10 2023
    Creatives and book authors Mallory Catlett and Aaron Landsman dig into their new book based on their piece City Council Meeting, an exciting performance, rooted in a commonplace bureaucratic event, that develops dynamic participatory relationships with audiences and local government.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Looking for Another Way

    Looking for Another Way
    May 3 2023
    Playwright and director Karen Malpede joins Jeffrey Mosser to talk about her career and connections from the Open Theater to Theater Three Collaborative, as well as her partner George Bartenieff, an actor and champion for the avant-garde.
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    47 mins