Intersections: Where Theory and Practice Meet

About Intersections: Where Theory and Practice Meet

Host (TAPS Professor Michael Rau) interviews working artists on how their artistic theory manifests in their artistic practice. This Podcast is supported by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts and Stanford TAPS. The statements in this podcast are the opinions of the speakers.

Publisher

Stanford TAPS

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Aug 2020

Latest episode

23 Sept 2020

Latest episodes

7 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Sept 2020

   Intersections — Lance Weiler

   Hosted By Michael Rau This Podcast is supported by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts and Stanford TAPS. The statements in this podcast are the opinions of the speakers. This Week's Episode of Intersections features Lance Weiler. You can learn more about Lance at http://lanceweiler.com/about/ (http://lanceweiler.com/about/)

2. 

   16 Sept 2020

   Intersections — Rachel Chavkin

   Hosted By Michael Rau This Podcast is supported by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts and Stanford TAPS. The statements in this podcast are the opinions of the speakers. This Week's Episode of Intersections features Rachel Chavkin. RACHEL CHAVKIN is a director, writer and dramaturg, as well as the founding Artistic Director of Brooklyn-based company the TEAM (theteamplays.org (http://theteamplays.org/)) whose work has been seen all over London and the U.K. including the National Theatre, the Royal Court, Old Vic, and multiple collaborations with the National Theatre of Scotland and the Battersea Arts Centre. Selected freelance work includes Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 (Ars Nova, A.R.T., Broadway), Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown (New York Theatre Workshop, Edmonton Citadel, London’s National Theatre, upcoming: Broadway), Arthur Miller’s The American Clock (Old Vic), Matt Gould and Carson Kreitzer’s Lempicka (Williamstown), Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (New York Theatre Workshop), Marco Ramirez’s The Royale (Old Globe, Lincoln Center), Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova, Off-Broadway, national tour), Sarah Gancher’s I’ll Get You Back Again (Round House), and multiple collaborations with Taylor Mac including The Lily’s Revenge, Act 2 (HERE); and with Chris Thorpe, including Confirmation and Status. Chavkin is a recipient of a Tony nomination for Best Direction, three Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, multiple Lortel nominations, two Doris Duke Impact Award nominations, and the 2017 Smithsonian Award for Ingenuity along with Dave Malloy.

3. 

   9 Sept 2020

   Intersections — Kelley Girod

   Hosted By Michael Rau This Podcast is supported by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts and Stanford TAPS. The statements in this podcast are the opinions of the speakers. This Week's Episode of Intersections features Kelley Girod. Kelley Nicole Girod is the founder and Executive Producing Director of Obie Award winning, The Fire This Time Festival. She is a 2008 graduate of Columbia's MFA playwriting program where she was a Stein and Liberace Fellow, as well as a John Golden Fellow. Her plays reflect the rich world of her native Louisiana and include Ambrosia, Straight on til Morning, Poetics of the Creative Process, Parabolas, and Watching. She was named Nytheatre.com Person of the Year for her work on TFTT, and is a part of the Indie Theatre Hall of Fame. As a producer her credits include Israela Margalit's Get Me A Guy, and Night Blooming Jasmine (both at Horse Trade Theater); Louisiana Mon Amour (Women Center Stage at Culture Project); Thais Francis's Outcry (Horse Trade Theater, Jack). She is a mother to two beautiful daughters, Penelope Evelyn and Noelle Anamaria.

4. 

   2 Sept 2020

   Intersections — Nadine Mozon

   Hosted By Michael Rau This Podcast is supported by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts and Stanford TAPS. The statements in this podcast are the opinions of the speakers. This Week's Episode of Intersections features Nadine Mozon. Nadine Mozon is an actress, writer and teaching artist whose acting credits include regional theatre, television and film. Among them: Theatre: Richard III, The Book of Grace, written and directed by Suzan-Lori Parks, Intimate Apparel, Fences, For Colored Girls…, Home, Crumbs From the Table of Joy; Television: American Crime (ABC 2015), Friday Night Lights, Law and Order, Third Watch; and Film: dawn Austin Film Festival (HBO 2015) , Dear Sidewalk, Wolf, Katrina’s Son , Two Weeks Notice, Shaft, Sam the Man, Spider-Man 2. Original work as writer and actor, produced for the stage include: Delta Rhapsody, a one-woman, multi-character trip; ”Confirming The Search: That Girl’s Still Here Somewhere” received an AUDELCO Award nomination in NY, and won a Drama-Logue Award in Los Angeles; and I.D. Please, commissioned work, an ensemble theatre piece. Mozon has been a featured writer / performer and collaborative partner developing new work with dancers, choreographers, and musicians in New York venues ranging from Nuyorican, Poets Café, to Lincoln Center; She has been the featured artist at regional and university-based conferences and festivals, often highlighting her book of poetry, “Kiss it Up to God.” She was a guest artist writer at Renaissance House Martha’s Vineyard 2013. Mozon earned an MFA in acting from American Conservatory Theatre. Her poems have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies, including Essence, Ms., Clarity, Lungfull, and A Gathering of the Tribes. Mozon is the Associate Artistic Director for the Black & Latino Playwrights Conference at Texas State University. Member: SAG/AFTRA, Equity, Association of Theatre Movement Educators. She currently resides in Austin, TX., and is an assistant professor in the Theatre and Dance department at Texas State University (San Marcos), where she teaches acting, movement for actors, and a lab/course designed to help actors find their voice and develop original work.

5. 

   26 Aug 2020

   Intersections — Ricardo Gamboa

   Hosted By Michael Rau This Podcast is supported by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts and Stanford TAPS. The statements in this podcast are the opinions of the speakers. This Week's Episode of Intersections features Ricardo Gamboa. Ricardo Gamboa is an artist, activist and academic creating radically politicized work in their native Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City. Gamboa's recent projects include the radical travelling news show and tactical intervention platform The Hoodoisie; creating experimental community-theater with Free Street Theater out of a renovated storefront, The Storyfront; and creating autonomous media and "social change entertainment like their webseries about gay Latino grads that are also witches, BRUJOS. Gamboa is a doctoral candidate of American Studies at New York University's Department of Social and Cultural Analysis researching art activism, colonialism, history of capitalism, race, social movements and violence. They are also currently writing for film and television in Los Angeles. Gamboa has worked with over 5,000 young people in the hemisphere.

6. 

   19 Aug 2020

   Intersections — Will Davis

   Hosted By Michael Rau This Podcast is supported by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts and Stanford TAPS. The statements in this podcast are the opinions of the speakers. This Week's Episode of Intersections features Will Davis. Will Davis is a trans-identified director and choreographer focused on physically adventurous new work and old plays in new ways. Recent projects include: India Pale Ale by Jaclyn Backhaus for MTC; Bobbie Clearly by Alex Lubischer for Roundabout Underground; CHARM by Philip Dawkins for MCC; Welcome to Jesus by Janine Nabers, We're Gonna Be Okay by Basil Kriemendahl, Picnic by William Inge all for ATC, Men on Boats by Jaclyn Backhaus for Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks, Playwrights Horizons and ATC, for which he was nominated for a Lucille Nortel award; DUAT by Daniel Alexander Jones for Soho Rep; Orange Julius by Basil Kreimendahl; Mike Iveson’s Sorry Robot for PS122’s COIL Festival; and two productions of Colossal by Andrew Hinderaker for Mixed Blood Theater and the Olney Theatre Center, for which he won a Helen Hayes award for outstanding direction. He is an alum of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, the NYTW 2050 Directing Fellowship and the BAX (Brooklyn Art Exchange) artist in residence program. He is a member of the TCG board and the Jubilee planning committee.

7. 

   11 Aug 2020

   Intersections — Trailer

   Host (TAPS Professor Michael Rau) interviews working artists on how their artistic theory manifests in their artistic practice. This Podcast is supported by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts and Stanford TAPS. The statements in this podcast are the opinions of the speakers.

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