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- First Online With Fran
Steven Seidenberg: Radically Liminal
For me, I think it's where my eye is drawn to subjects that are radically liminal. I understand the camera is a thing that as a medium and a form and a…
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Tom Tresser: Creative Superpowers
Are you a leader? Yes or No? Do you have stuff, your creative Superpowers -- the thing that made you successful in your creative life, whatever that does…
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Jessica DuLong: All Hands On Deck
"Many people have the misunderstanding that the boat lift was initiated by the U.S. Coast Guard—that boats only started the evacuation after the Coast Guard…
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Diana Romero: One Woman Wonder
What I hope to do with this show is to talk about my life...about always trying to belong, but then the ultimate challenge of belonging which is becoming a…
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Svetlana Satchkova: Speak Up, America!
The choices we have here in America are different from the choices people have in Russia. We can vote. That is the most important right that has not been taken…
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Pat Ceasar: Truth Teller
When you're running for office be your authentic self and tell the truth. You have to tell everybody what you have done for them and what you want to do. You…
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Dr. John King: Living the Spirit of SISU
There's always hope. You can't say the word hope without smiling. Hope is that ability to get up and go again. The Finnish have word for it--SISU. What it…
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Donna Walker Kuhne: The Power of Building Audiences
As I've traveled around the world to teach, speak, and lecture about audience development, in particular, Africa, is that what I've learned is that at the end…
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Irina Kruzhilina: Fierce Frontrunner on Immigration
I want to educate the public about what’s happening in the immigration crisis itself and inside the courts, about the refugees and how they are treated here…
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Rosie Stewart: Freedom-to-Read Revelations
Why is freedom to read so important? I think we take for granted the idea that a multiplicity of voices are accessible to us, and our libraries are places that…
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Laura Raicovich: Fall of Freedom
"One of the major ideas behind Fall of Freedom was not only to get some bold-faced names involved to this project to attract involvement, but to get regular…
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Lina AbiRafeh: Women's Rights in Dark Times
Holding women back doesn't just harm women, it holds everyone back - our economies, our nations, our future. If inequality is limiting us all, why aren't we…
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Amanda DuBois: Getting Lives Back on Track
I came up with this idea that we would have workshops, and we would have formerly incarcerated people come to the workshops, and we would teach them about…
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SEVENTEEN: Making Music Meaningful
I was pleasantly surprised and [found it] incredibly fulfilling when we brought kids who I interviewed down to Florida and thank you to the Orlando…
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Kiana Webb: Choose the Energy
Anything that brings us back into the center of ourselves, into the space that literally is your heart, the center of you and recalls the truth of who you are…
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Erica Lauren Ortiz: Building Coalitions
We are making sure that the arts remain independent, well-funded, and accessible for all. Anytime anything rears its ugly head to challenge that, we will be…
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Anne Hamburger: Site-Specific Theater
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…
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Kay Smith-Blum: TANGLES triumph
Our nuclear security has been compromised and that really is a dangerous situation because all of our nuclear sites are nuclear power plants, or they are a…
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Tish Rabe: The Singing Children's Author
This new book I've written SWEET DREAMS AHEAD FOR BED is a story that literally outlines the steps for getting ready for sleep for babies to four-year-olds…
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Pooya Mohseni: Poking at Prejudice
Whether it's about immigrants, Iranians, Lebanese people or Jews in Warsaw or transgender characters or whatever those characters may be, I feel that…
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Dr. Solanges Vivens: An Audacious Act
Age tells us one thing: the day you were born and the day you will die, and there's a dash in between. And you know what? That dash is ME! That dash represents…
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Cynthia Grace Robinson: Writing About Women
I love writing about women because this is how women are, and we're so diverse, right? We show our power in so many different ways, and sometimes it's not a…
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Karen E. Osborne: A Novel Recipe
What I really wanted to do was to show a strong, flawed woman - a hundred years ago! - dealing with the same issues that strong, flawed women are dealing with…
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Theresa Rebeck: Precepts of Playwriting
What is central to my work is comedy. For me, there is a desperation in comedy that's very theatrical. And that you can ultimately get a play to a place where…
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Adam Davenport: The Power of the Actor
For me, acting is the greatest tool we have right now to teach people empathy. Because empathy requires you to put yourself squarely in the shoes of another…
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Zibby Owens: Publishing Pitfalls
In BLANK, I wanted to open readers' eyes a little bit more to the inner workings of the publishing world. I started as an aspiring author then became an author…
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Martha Wade Steketee: Women Count
Holding people's feet to the fire by just saying, 'You know what, you may think that a lot of women are being hired.' 'I've done five shows last season, isn't…
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Alyssa Simon: An Actor Commits
I came to New York to meet people I read about in college like Joe Chaiken and Judith Malina, and I met them! I took workshops with Joe Chaiken, and he was…
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Reid Pope: Reclaiming Labels
Alot of the reasons why the male/female -- the binary, in general, was for men specifically like white men and colonizers, to assert dominance and control over…
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Steven Hauck: Stripping Away Stereotypes
Theater is both a spiritual healing and emotional healing and even physical healing for me, and it's been my raison d'etre for most of my life, and that's been…
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Emily Mann: The Humanist Code of Theater
The theater is essential to the health of a nation - of any democracy. And perhaps we are so impoverished right now is because of our inability to communicate…
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Christine Dixon: Black History Brought to Life
Harriet Tubman knows how to relate to the different groups because Harriet doesn't 'see' people like [cultural entities]; my audience is seen as humans, a…
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Ellen Kaplan: The Promise of Play
I believe that [National Women's History month] is about women and social change. Leaders of change reside with women. Ellen W. Kaplan is Professor Emerita of…
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Janet Mitchko: Holding Hands
I would like to believe I attract heart-centered individuals to work with. I create a sense of safety in the rooms, empowerment and we are in service of the…
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Robert Viagas: Audience Auteur
Losing or winning an argument is not just a zero-sum game. Working together, collaborating is something that you have to learn. The most important part is not…
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Adrienne D. Williams: Art is Ageless
"Art is ageless. There is no number on Art. As long as your heart is in it, you can do it. And that's a fantastic thing because very often we do put age limits…
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Carla Debbie Alleyne: Stand Together for Fairness
"Artivism is a combination of Art and Activism. I wrote about Bayard Rustin who served as the right hand of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for many years. He was…
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Catherine Filloux: Shaped by Change
How can I explain change? It's something that makes me feel hopeful...that audiences, and as people, and most importantly as human beings, we can, by looking…
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Clara Francesca: Creating Socially Aware AI Art
How do we create a world where we allow people to express themselves, and if they need to be called in, or if they're doing something that really is egregious?…
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Valerie David: Celebrating Differences
My mission is to keep [Iraqi Jewish] culture alive; to sustain that culture because we don't want history repeating itself. And to educate - we are all the…
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Maleni Chaitoo: Breaking Through the Silence
Even though [Don't Shoot the Messenger] is comical it's an opportunity to change thoughts about who we are, and they can see us as normal people with…
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Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back
"Here's the thing about AI. It doesn't have a soul, and it doesn't understand psychology, and it doesn't understand the quirks of human behavior. All it can do…
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Donna Benedicto: A New Generation of Actors
Focusing outside of yourself helps you thrive in this industry and helps you deal with so much and all the obstacles we face. ~Donna Benedicto Donna Benedicto…
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Avra Sidiropoulou: Addressing an Age of Upheaval
My work has always been about bringing people together, forging new transcultural and transnational artistic relationships, and combining research with…
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Theresa Chaze: Feisty Filmmaker
Telling stories that activate emotions helps audiences be open to new ideas. People can only change themselves. But until they experience the new they will…
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Pamela S.K. Glasner: Fighting for Fairness
Getting my Masters at Harvard at age sixty-nine, I hope that I'm inspiring other women that there are no limits. There's absolutely no limits except for those…
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Naomi McDougall Jones: Defying Gravity
I truly believe we are in an apocalyptic culture shift ; truly, an historical, multi-century, multi-millennial shift and in the last gasp of the…
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BAB on 3 Productions: Acknowledging Our Authentic Selves
We are a film production company on a mission to inspire, empower and light a fire! Not just for women. We can acknowledge that we're all damaged, we're all…
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Cindy Cooper: Seeking Asylum Through The Arts
Human rights and civil rights will be realized only when we fully hear the voices, ideas and creative concepts of womxn over 40, whose perspectives have long…
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Pat Addiss: Humble Guru
Patt Addiss, Theater Producer, I didn’t start out wanting to be a theatrical producer. She was busy running the promotion company she founded, but after 30…
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Janet Stilson: Shiny Objects Exposed
On one hand, Janet Stilson is a journalist. On the other, she writes scripts, novels and short stories that largely fall in the grounded sci-fi and fantasy…
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Emma Goldman-Sherman: Living In Your Power
"We can heal. I think it's really important to be in control of what we're taking in so that we don't feel that we have to worry...that we can feel like we can…
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Karen Cecilia: Challenging the New Normal
We're in a time where we are seeing new voices, new types of voices telling their stories and people create their identity through seeing themselves reflected…
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Romy Nordlinger: An Empowering Voice
Learning through The Arts [as] being one of the most transformative vehicles in which we really get to a person's soul and to realize they're not alone in…
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Yvette Heyliger: Lessons to Learn
YVETTE HEYLIGER Playwright/Director/Producing Artist/Author is a lifelong theatre artist, as well as an educator, and the author of What a Piece of Work is…
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Joan Kane: Speaking Truth
Joan Kane (writer/actor/producer) is the founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus. I had to tell my story. I needed to be able to say, 'Look, I grew up in a…
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Emma Palzere-rae: Raising Representation Awareness
Emma Palzere-Rae is a playwright, actor, director, producer and non-profit administrator. Emma spent 15 years as part of the NYC theater community, where she…
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Dani Martineck: Pronouns Matter
Dani Martineck is a New York-based non-binary actor, writer, and award-winning audiobook narrator with a background in experimental psychology.I'm a…
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Nicky Beer: Real Phonies & Genuine Fakes, an exploration of our divided selves
Nicky Beer is a bi/queer writer, and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022). Her first two books, The Diminishing House (Carnegie…
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Erika Ewing: Fashioning Change
"When we're talking about the power of The Arts -- the healing, the transformative powers -- we're really talking about the fact that we're human. We're…