Molly Fonseca: Making Theatre for Austin’s Marginalized Voices

Theatre Life with Ben Kercheval · Oct 29, 2026 · 45m · transcript

Molly Fonseca is an actor, director, producer, playwright, and co-artistic director of Broad Theatre, the Austin company she co-founded in 2019 to make work by and for people of marginalized genders. She sits down with Ben for a wide-ranging conversation about the long, non-linear road to building a company that lasts.

Molly goes back to the beginning, including her first Austin company that didn’t survive her mid-twenties, and the stretch where she stepped away from theatre entirely. She talks about what pulled her back, how meeting co-founder Anikka Lekven during a 2019 run of "Junk"…