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HOW I THINK ABOUT DIRECTING TEXT with Tony Award-winning director and NYTW Usual Suspect Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812).

NYTW Artistic Director James C. Nicola in conversation with the ‘Queen of Underground Performance’  Penny Arcade.

NYTW Literary Director & Dramaturg Aaron Malkin will dive into the life and artistry of Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist ENDLINGS playwright Celine Song (aquatic pun intended).

A master class with Tony Award-winning performer Celia Keenan-Bolger (Peter and the Starcatcher, To Kill a Mockingbird). 

NYTW Director of Education Alexander Santiago-Jirau will moderate a conversation with Heleya de Barros, Sobha Kavanakudiyil, Micheal Rohd and Dr. Daphnie Sicre on how artists and educators can adapt their practice to teach the art form online. Join us for some practical tips, ideas and resources.

NYTW Artistic Director James C. Nicola chats with musical duo Martha Redbone and Aaron Whitby.

“How To Grab Your Audience Without Even Touching Them” with performer Dito van Reigersberg (co-founder of Pig Iron Theater Company) and Dito’s alter-ego Martha Graham Cracker (Joe’s Pub, “Lashed but not Leashed” album).

Former NYTW 2050 Directing Fellow Whitney White (What to Send Up When It Goes Down, Our Dear Dead Drug Lord) explores how she interprets text for acting, design and movement.

Watch and learn how to work on classical text with award winning stage and screen actress Elizabeth Marvel (Homeland, House of Cards, Ivo van Hove’s Hedda Gabler).

NYTW Education Associate Adam Odsess-Rubin will interview NYU Drama Therapy Program Director Dr. Nisha Sajnani about taking care of students in the midst of a crisis, the potential power of theatre for radical healing, and how teachers can use artistic tools to help students face new challenges with creativity.

Join NYTW Community Engagement Associate Gaven Trinidad, NYTW Tow Playwright-in-Residence Victor I. Cazares and Immigration Equality in conversation about the political intersections of art, activism, immigration, and queerness. This conversation is in collaboration with National Queer Theatre.

Join 2050 Literary Fellow Tramane Harris and Executive Fellow Declan Zhang in conversation with Stephanie Ybarra (Artistic Director, Baltimore Center Stage), Jonathan McCrory (Artistic Director, National Black Theater) & Pirronne Yousefzadeh (Associate Artistic Director and Director of Engagement, Geva Theatre Center) for a discussion on the 2008-10 recession and the changes it created within the theater industry relative to the current challenges posed by COVID-19.

Playwright Mfoniso Udofia (Sojourners, Her Portmanteau, runboyrun, In Old Age) works through the process of re-writes and the evolution of a new play during previews.

Join us for a masterclass on October 7th with Maria Dizzia (national tour of Heidi Schreck’s What the Constitution Means to Me, Belleville, In the Next Room). In this acting class, stage and screen actress Maria Dizzia will explore encountering the script for the first time. This class is asking for participants to work with the teacher during the virtual class. If you would like to participate by performing on screen for those tuning in, please register via Zoom and volunteers will be selected at random. Selected participants will be notified in advance of the class.

Video Games have evolved in the past 40 years into a sophisticated artform that has catapulted generations of players into deep immersive, digital worlds, creating new forms of storytelling, entertainment, and community.

This digital storytelling has greatly affected the aesthetics of contemporary theatre making, finding conventions of gaming on the stage and vice versa. In advance of her Artistic Instigator Project, The Seagull on The Sims 4, at the end of the month, join theatre maker and gamer Celine Song in conversation with other theater makers about how video games have affected their artistry and their ideas of theatrical storytelling in the twenty-first century.

Welcome to the kitchen of the Dominican Artists Collective. Get to know members of the DAC, learn about their process, Dominicanidad, Washington Heights, and what it means to be making art and theater right now as Dominican artists. This conversation will give you a taste and sneak peek into The Cooking Project, the DAC’s Artistic Instigator project coming in November.

WHAT THE HELL IS A REPUBLIC, ANYWAY? Episode 5: What Happens Next? Two weeks after the election, Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare will reconvene to touch base, take stock and see what the history of the Roman Republic has to offer us in Late 2020. We don’t know yet what the election will bring, but whatever it brings, we’ll need to talk about it!!

Traditionally, Africans have used proverbs and oral storytelling as a primary method by which elders bestowed pearls of wisdom, shared deep knowledge of culture, passed down family history as a preservation of legacy, and taught social practices. These narratives provide entertainment and are experienced as folktales, myths, fables, epic histories, common sayings, and legends. But they are also purposed to inform, educate, persuade and teach values much as theatre today informs, widens our perspectives, and helps us better understand our world. Join us in conversation with Dael Orlandersmith, Martha Redbone and Jillian Walker, moderated by Brennie Tellu, as we explore how the power of proverbs and oral storytelling has inspired and/or informed the artistry of each of these gifted theatremakers and how these narratives have shaped their experiences as Black women.

Join us as we chat with Tony nominated actors Ato Blankson-Wood and Annie McNamara (Slave Play) and explore everything that goes into making a life and career in acting. While their lives as artists converged in Slave Play at NYTW, both have traveled rich, winding paths through life and show business and we are excited to reflect on the big breaks, setbacks, detours and adventures that have brought them to this moment.