American Conservatory Theater is an essential gathering place that brings artists and communities together to inspire and provoke.
Under the leadership of Tony Award-winning Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon and Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein, A.C.T.’s mission is to engage the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area, activate stories that resonate, promote a diversity of voices and points of view, and empower theater makers and audiences to celebrate liveness. A.C.T. values inclusion, transformational learning, participation and rigorous fun. A.C.T. is a Tony Award-winning nonprofit theater serving almost 200,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area annually through theater, training, education, and community programs.
Before you watched María Irene Fornés's "Fefu and Her Friends" at the Strand Theater, check out this preshow discussion between A.C.T.'s Director of New Works Joy Meads, and artist Lisa Ramirez for some context around the play and a little bit of dramaturgical prepwork.
15 Apr 2022
Fefu and Her Friends: Postshow Discussion
After you've watched María Irene Fornés's "Fefu and Her Friends" at the Strand Theater, check out this postshow discussion between A.C.T.'s Director of New Works Joy Meads, and artist Lisa Ramirez.
27 Jan 2022
A Great Last Minute Deal
Text and narration by Anthony Fusco
Sound Design by James Ard
What if the life you’re living now, is actually your second chance?
Content warnings: this program contains a description of a near-death experience and “Hawaiian” music
For a transcription of this performance, click here:
https://res.cloudinary.com/a-c-t/image/upload/v1643402873/Uploads/About/Commissions/Projects/A-Great-Last-Minute-Deal-transcript-final..pdf
23 Jun 2021
Place: here. Time: now. Episode 8: It makes the art better
In this episode, Pam talks with Mx Justin Vivian Bond, who made history as the first actor who identifies as transgender to play a trans character on Broadway. They discuss highlights of Vivian’s career as well as the importance of trans representation and diversity in the industry.
20 Apr 2021
Place: here. Time: now. Episode 7: Showing, Not Talking so Much
In episode 7, A.C.T. Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon, set designer Allen Lee Hughes, and sound designer and composer Jake Rodriguez talk about their theater origin stories, and asking the right questions in the rehearsal room.
24 Mar 2021
Place: here. Time: now. Episode 6: Grateful and Inspired
In this episode of Place: Here. Time: Now, Pam MacKinnon talks with Awoye Timpo and Arminda Thomas about their work on A.C.T.'s virtual production of Alice Childress's "Trouble in Mind," as well as their work with CLASSIX, an organization that strives to present more work by Black artists. (See theclassix.org for more information.)
21 Jan 2021
Place: here. Time: now. Episode 5: Praying for Beauty and Love... Hope.
A.C.T. Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon talks with new Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Artistic Director Margo Hall and outgoing Magic Theatre Artistic Director Loretta Greco about their common origins at Catholic University, their career paths in the Bay Area, and what’s next.
26 Nov 2020
Place: here. Time: now. Episode 4: Exciting and Exhausting
On episode 4 of Place: Here. Time: Now., we talk to playwright James Ijames (A.C.T.'s Moon Man Walk) and director Morgan Green about their origin stories (from comic books to A.C.T. acting classes!), the state of the arts, and the art of instilling pleasure in an audience.
Broadway stars Phillipa Soo and Steven Pasquale join A.C.T. Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon to talk about acting, voting, and making a plan for Election Day.
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2 Sept 2020
Place: here. Time: now. Episode 2 : A Ten Year Plan
A.C.T. Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon chats with playwrights Larissa FastHorse (The Thanksgiving Play–up next at A.C.T.) and Bruce Norris (Clybourne Park, Downstate) about what’s on their minds, from where their plays come from to the neuroscience of storytelling.
24 Jul 2020
Place: here. Time: now. Episode 1 : When We Know a Thing
A.C.T. Artistic Director and Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon sat down with two long-term friends and artistic collaborators, playwrights Lydia R. Diamond and Craig Lucas. They discuss the underbelly of critical acclaim, how to combat anti-Blackness in the theater, and where theater needs to go next in the era of COVID-19.
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