TOO Episode 256 - Conversation with Master Director and Educator, Richard Schechner

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Budi sits down with Richard Schechner to talk about his extradoinary career in theatre.Richard Schechner, one of the founders of Performance Studies, is a performance theorist, theater director, author, editor of TDR and the Enactments book series, University Professor, and Professor of Performance Studies. Schechner combines his work in performance theory with innovative approaches to the broad spectrum of performance including theatre, play, ritual, dance, music, popular entertainments, sports, politics, performance in everyday life, etc. in order to understand performative behavior not just as an object of study, but also as an active artistic-intellectual practice.  He founded The Performance Group and East Coast Artists.  His theatre productions include Dionysus in 69, Commune, The Tooth of Crime, Mother Courage and Her Children, Seneca's Oedipus, Faust/gastronome, Three Sisters, Hamlet, The Oresteia, YokastaS, Swimming to Spalding, and Imagining O. His books include Public Domain, Environmental Theater, Performance Theory, The Future of Ritual, Between Theater and Anthropology, Performance Studies: An Introduction, and Performed Imaginaries. As of 2018, his books have been translated into 18 languages. His theatre work has been seen in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. He has directed performance workshops and lectured on every continent except Antarctica.  He has been awarded numerous fellowships including Guggenheim, NEH, ACLS, and fellowships at Dartmouth, Cornell, Yale, Princeton, and the Central School of Speech and Drama, London.Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi sit down with Yao to discuss their career spanning theatre and film.Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!Ragas Of The Rooted Heart is a journey through the intertwined emotions of love, identity, and home. Shila, an Indian immigrant artist, reflects on her experiences in New York City while holding onto her deep connection to India. As she stands at the crossroads of two worlds, Shila navigates the complexities of cultural displacement, the evolving meaning of home, and the vulnerability of love.Through poetic monologue and the soulful echoes of India through her lens, Shila invites us into her inner world—a place of longing, resilience, and quiet strength. She questions societal expectations, confronts the isolation of being an outsider, and finds solace in the memories of her roots. Ragas Of The Rooted Heart is a tender exploration of what it means to create a life, a home, and a sense of belonging in an unfamiliar land, all while staying open to love and the unknown.CAST Shila - Tanvi JhansiSaheba - Prashant TiwariImmigration Officer - Jacob BrandtLinda - Pearl RheinKaren - Amanda NaughtonBlack Women Officer / Joan - Whitney AndrewsPapa - Rahul Dodwani Playwright - Sneha SakhareDirector - Cloteal L. HorneDramaturg - Steven Gaultney Sound Designer - Jack Burmeister Sound Associate - Lulu Perry Vocals by  Sri Satya Sai Media Center, Prashanti Nilayam, India.Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!For our final playwright interview in the 2024 Audio New Play Festival, Adam and Budi sit down with Sneha Sakhare to discuss her audio play 'Ragas of the Rooted Heart'.Sneha is an actor, singer, writer, voiceover artist, and teacher from Yavatmal, India, currently based in New York City. Her work is deeply rooted in ‘Prasada Budhi,’ which means a mindset of thinking that everything is a divine offering with whatever is presented to us, shaped by her spiritual background in Yoga through her father and the teachings in Vedas. As an actor, Sneha is a classically trained clown with intensive four-year training with her teacher-mentor Christopher Bayes at the Pandamonium Studio. She has also been trained with Aitor Basauri (Clown, Bouffon), Jim Calder (Intensive Acting, Commedia), and Budi Miller (Balinese performing arts and mask work) in Bali, Indonesia. Sneha has completed her 1-year acting conservatory program at The Barrow Group theatre company, Manhattan, 2017-18. As a singer trained in Indian Classical Music for almost a decade, Sneha as a bhajan (devotional song) singer has been offering her performances at numerous spiritual centers, pilgrimages, and temples in India. She has received many prestigious accolades like ‘Singing Idol’ and ‘Voice of the Region’ through which she performed on National television and had experience performing in concerts in front of thousands of people in various cities of India.Sneha received her Bachelor's in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from India and worked for 4 years as an engineer where she created corporate theatre performances immersed in music and corporate theories.Sneha has been awarded multiple scholarships as a performer which includes a one-year full scholarship by Christopher Bayes at Pandamonium Studio in 2020,  ‘The Eugene O'Neill Scholarship’ in 2021 at Oneil Theatre, Waterford, CT, and “A distinct 2-year fellowship from Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Miranda Family for emerging artists of color who have exhibited exceptional passion, drive, and unique points of view in various artistic mediums – including but not limited to theatre, dance, film, visual arts, and music – and is actively working to expand her professional development,2021-2023”She has written and performed original works like ‘Pandemic Chapati’ and devised a piece called ‘Glimpse’ in collaboration with Global majority artists for Rattlestick Theatre Company, New York City in 2021. Currently, Sneha is on her one-year apprenticeship program as a teacher with Christopher Bayes at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, New Haven, CT, and at the Pandamonium Studio, Brooklyn, for the year 2023-2024. At present, she is developing a solo woman show under the mentorship and direction of Budi Miller, supported by the Lin Manuel Miranda Family Fellowship, set to debut in New York City in 2024.Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!After losing their grandmother, first-cousins Ziad and Layla are reunited for the first time in years and they are forced to confront the distance that had grown between them.Directed by Nour HaithamWritten by Nour El Captan Ziad: Youssef GhannamLayla: Farida Abdelaziz Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode Adam is joined by returned playwright, Nour El Captan, to talk about her new audio play - Prayers of Mourning. Nour El Captan is a graduate of the AUC Theatre program. She is a writer and director and has written several works among which are the short films 74 and Wedn Ota and plays Insih, Ward, Three and a Roof, and Meet me at Liberation with The Theatre of Others podcast. She has also worked as a dramaturg and assistant director on Bank of Anxiety and has directed Gaylek ya Philadelphia with Kenoma Theatre Company and American Fast with the AUC Theatre program. Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!We've made it to a milestone - 250 episodes!  Whether you’ve been with us since the beginning or just recently discovered the Theatre of Others Podcast, we are deeply grateful for your support. This podcast has been a living time capsule, capturing the past five years of our journey together. From navigating the Covid Lockdowns to launching our inaugural Audio New Play Festival (now in its 4th season!) to the performance of Steven Gaultney's 'Bright Light Burning' at COP28 in Dubai. And throw in a PhD in their aswell for our very own Budi Miller! This podcast has been going weekly through it all and captured every moment of it.The company has seen tremendous growth, with new members joining, and our outreach expanding. We're excited to continue this journey for another 250 episodes! So keep listening, keep questioning, and keeping being an Other.We would love to thank Andrew Borba, Steve Wangh and David Bruin for their contributions. And shoutout to Luci and Kristina for your thought provoking  SpeakPipe messages!With all our love,Adam Marple, Budi Miller with the Theatre of Others.Be an Other TOO.Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!Join two friends as they cook a meal, catch up, and discover the questions inside a jar. Written and Directed by Frazer ShepherdsonStarring Ella Ferris Corey Taylor-BrunskillSupport the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!We kick off our 2024 Audio New Play Festival with an interview with the playwright of our first Audio Play, Making Dinner by Frazer Shepherdson. Frazer Shepherdson is an actor, writer and professional nerd based in Naarm, Melbourne. He is deeply passionate about telling stories through the medium of play and improvisation, and is the host of award-winning podcast; The Dirty Twenty Podcast.Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi sit down with Brian Kulick, the current chair for the theatre programme at Columbia University. Author of Staging the End of the World: Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis, Brian talks us through his extensive career as a director, author and educator. Kulick is a director, writer, educator, producer, and current Chair of the Theatre Program. He’s been the Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company (CSC) where he directed Galileo with F. Murray Abraham, The Tempest with Mandy Patinkin, and The Forest with Dianne Weist. He commissioned and co-directed poet Anne Carson's award-winning An Oresteia, collaborated with composer Duncan Sheik on productions of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle, Man’s A Man, and Mother Courage, and produced CSC's much lauded Chekhov Cycle (Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard) with Alan Cumming, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Joley Richardson, Peter Sarsgaard, John Turturro and Dianne Weist. Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister