Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi sit down to discuss their second book in the 2024 Book Club series "Waiting for Lefty" by Clifford Odets. Clifford Odets was the leading dramatist of the theatre of social protest in the United States during the 1930s. His important affiliation with the celebrated Group Theatre contributed to that company’s considerable influence on the American stage. From 1923 to 1928 Odets learned his profession as an act...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 5Ep. 220
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam rides solo and describes a returning phenomenon of apartment based theatre, where restraints of space and audience are controlled and used to create intimate immediate provocations Article referenced in this episode - https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/where-did-nycs-indie-theater-scene-go-backyards-basements-and-rooftops Support the show If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcas...
Mar 18, 2024•34 min•Season 5Ep. 219
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Budi sits down with Bob Krakower to talk about his career in teaching acting for screen. A graduate of Tufts University, Bob Krakower started his teaching career at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. Mentored by Conservatory Director Allen Fletcher, he was teaching first year graduate acting, directing projects, and given the job of Associate Director of Conservatory at the age of twenty-four. He then wen...
Mar 11, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 5Ep. 218
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi contemplate the purpose of theatre. We ask "why are we doing theatre? and who are we doing it for?" Support the show If 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 Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (...
Mar 04, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 5Ep. 217
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi kick of the first book club episode of the year with The Dutchman, by Amiri Baraka. We welcome Taylor Barfield to the discussion, as he joins Budi and Adam in dissecting this classic. Poet, writer, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka was born Everett LeRoi Jones in 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University and Howard University, spent three years in the U.S. Air Force, and returned ...
Feb 26, 2024•1 hr 35 min•Season 5Ep. 216
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi listen to submissions from the Theatre of Others community on their (not) new year's resolution. Join us as we explore your 2024 goals, and discuss the practical strategies to achieve them - whilst emphasising the importance of setting measurable goals and fostering mutual accountability along the way. Special thanks to the individuals who submitted for this episode! Support the show If you enjoyed this week...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 5Ep. 215
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! in this episode, Adam and Budi sit down with Broadway composer, Tom Kitt, to talk about his extensive career from Next to Normal, SpongeBob, and The Tony's. Tom Kitt is a two-time Tony, two-time Emmy, Pulitzer Prize, and Grammy Award winner. As a musical theater composer, he's written music for six Broadway shows: Next to Normal (Tony Award) , If/Then (Tony Nomination), Flying Over Sunset (Tony Nomination) , High Fidelity, Bring it On, Th...
Feb 12, 2024•59 min•Season 5Ep. 214
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi speak with the Professor in the Practice of Acting from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University, Walton Wilson. Walton Wilson is a Professor in the Practice of Acting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1999. He served as Head of Voice and Speech and was a resident artist at Yale Repertory Theatre for twenty-three years. He also served as C...
Feb 05, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 5Ep. 213
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss their picks for this year's TOO Book Club. The Book will be discussed on the last Monday of every month. You can find each month's book below, so join us on this journey! Book Club 2024 The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka (February) Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets (March) The Invisible Actor by Yoshi Oida (April) The Empty Space by Peter Brook (May) The Second Circle by Patsy Rodenburg (June) And Then, ...
Jan 29, 2024•55 min•Season 5Ep. 212
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss possible modes of theatre moving forward post-pandemic and post-AI and how the imperfect, authentic, and earnest could be a trend in 2024/25. Support the show If 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 Miller Producer:...
Jan 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 5Ep. 211
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi speak with Master Clown Fabio Motta. Fabio Motta is an award-winning performer, clown, and teaching artist who has performed and devised theatre in Australia, Italy, and the United States. He has trained and is a graduate of international arts institutions including The Academia Teatrale Veneta (Italy) and HB studio in New York and has worked with renowned artists and teachers such as Carol Rosenfeld, Larry ...
Jan 15, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 5Ep. 210
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi investigate what the definition of theatre is, and whether it needs to be updated for contemporary theatre practices. Mentioned in this episode Decolonizing the Mind Support the show If 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 ...
Jan 08, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 5Ep. 209
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi celebrate the new year by planning actionable goals for 2024. As we begin our 5th season, we look towards our upcoming year, and look at what we want to achieve. Support the show If 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 Mill...
Dec 29, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 5Ep. 208
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! For their final episode of the year, Adam and Budi discuss the year that was. From our Grad School Series to our monthly Book Club, our 2023 Audio New Play Festival to The Earth Turns, finally culminating in Bright Light Burning at COP28, 2023 was a big year for the Theatre of Others. Looking forward to next year, we would love to hear what you want this podcast to be, any burning questions you want us to answer? Any books you would like ...
Dec 25, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Season 4Ep. 207
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In 2010 thirty-three young people from Gaza believed that they had a voice other than the cries of fear and the moans of frustration. A voice that could rise higher than the drones of war and the planes that bombarded them day and night. A voice that says: “Enough!!! We deserve a world better than this, a world without fear, siege, or occupation.” The Gaza Monologues are testimonies written by youth after the first war on the Gaza Strip. ...
Dec 18, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Season 4Ep. 206
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! The Theatre of Others brought Steven Gualtney's Bright Light Burning to Cop28 in Dubai this December. We are incredibly proud of the play that we put on, however, as our time in Dubai comes to a close, we find ourselves all reflecting on what this experience has meant to us personally. We give our thanks to the entire Bright Light Burning Company: Directed by Adam Marple Written by Steven Gualtney Creative Producer Christie Chang Music by...
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 31 min•Season 4Ep. 205
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! Please go to https://www.theatreofothers.com/earthturns for our online program. The Earth Turns is a climate-inspired performance created for the lead-up to the UN COP27 Climate Conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt in 2022. Adapted from We Still Have a Chance- 12 Stories for 12 Days of COP27 , an anthology of micro-stories created by Climate Activists, Scientists, Health Professionals, Students, and Artists from The University of Exeter, ...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 27 min•Season 4Ep. 204
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! As Sami emigrates from his local village in Egypt to the capital, Cairo, and as Jude emigrates from Cairo to America, the two characters discover that they are more connected than they thought. Directed by: Farida Abdel Aziz Sound Design & Composition by: Jack Burmeister Sound Associate: Nick Jay Cast: Omar Gomaa as Sami Nour Haitham as Jude Special thanks to Moustafa Khalil and Amel Abdel Hamid Support the show If you enjoyed this we...
Nov 27, 2023•25 min•Season 4Ep. 203
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi are joined by Nour El Captan, the playwright of our fourth installment in our 2023 Audio New Play Festival, to discuss her upcoming work, Meet Me at Liberation. Support the show If 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 Mille...
Nov 23, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 202
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! SOB STORY chronicles how one school girl learned to never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Directed by: Sabina Gerardi and Justin Tan Sound Design & Composition: Jack Burmeister Sound Associate: Nick Jay Cast Emily: Eloise McCreedy Rosie: Jessica Hodgson Annabelle: Laura Liu Miss Tedesco: Stefanie Falasca Mum: Jane Schon Grandma Iris: Claire Bird Student: Jess Lu Support the show If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please...
Nov 20, 2023•34 min•Season 4Ep. 201
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi are joined by Sabina Gerardo, the playwright of our third instalment in our 2023 Audio New Play Festival, to discuss her upcoming work, Sob Story. Support the show If 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 Miller Producer: Ja...
Nov 15, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Season 4Ep. 200
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! BARRELHOUSE is a western, southern gothic experience where You inhabit Eden—a southern town in the middle of a western expanse—on its last day standing before it all goes up in flames. Cast: Ato Blankson-Wood Directed by Chalia La Tour Sound Designer, Mix & Mastering - Jack Burmeister Composer - Linus Mackie Sound Associate - Nick Jay Additional Voices - Subiya Mboya & Calum Bedborough Support the show If you enjoyed this week´s p...
Nov 13, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 199
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi sit down with Kam Henderson to discuss the second instalment in our 2023 Audio New Play Festival, Barrelhouse. Kam (he/him) is — a playwright, director, dramaturg, an artist. His artistic voice centers on creating art of unrestrictive, creative boundaries. He believes art is to be experienced—especially with narratives that are not our own. And the development of his work is centered in three cardinal rules ...
Nov 09, 2023•1 hr 14 min•Season 4Ep. 198
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! Firespeak is the second audio play written by Frazer Shepherdson and follows the journey of a family and their discovery of fire through a time when magic was real. The story draws inspiration from Indigenous Australian creation stories. Cast List: MIELA ANICH as SECOND CHILD and SISTERS ZACH BLAMPIED as FIRST FATHER, OLD MAN and SISTERS TYALLAH BULLOCK as FIRST CHILD and SISTERS ELLA FERRIS as MOTHER and SEVENTH SISTER PAUL FERRIS as STO...
Nov 05, 2023•29 min•Season 4Ep. 197
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, we kickstart our 3rd Annual Audio New Play Festival with return playwright, Frazer Shepherdson, to talk through his audio play, Firespeak. Frazer (he/him) is an actor and theatre-maker who has trained with multiple, internationally recognized institutions including the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and the Victorian College of the Arts. Frazer has garnered many performance credits across screen and stage. ...
Nov 02, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 4Ep. 196
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam discusses Audience Making, or how to create a community before they ever walk into the theatre space. This was teased during the October Book Club selection, Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering, and is a pedagogy that Adam is working on. Support the show If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@the...
Oct 30, 2023•51 min•Season 4Ep. 195
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi conclude their 2023 Book Club series with a deep dive into 'The Art of Gathering' by Priya Parker. We look at the transformative impact this text had on Adam's professional journey. Serendipitously, we were able to record this episode on the day of Budi's PhD Seminar which allowed us to reflect on the power of intentional gatherings and the subsequent impact of shared experiences. Priya Parker’s bold approac...
Oct 22, 2023•1 hr 17 min•Season 4Ep. 194
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss an article in The New York Times Magazine entitled " Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill " by Jason Farago. Mentioned in this episode: Oratorio for Living Things The Church of Craft Support the show If 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...
Oct 15, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 193
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi launch the inaugural episode of our Legacy Series. A series where we investigate some of the greatest theatre practitioners of our age; we ask what mark they left on our industry and how their work has affected our own practice. In the first episode of this series, we look at Catherine Fitzmaurice, the originator of the Fitzmaurice Voicework Institute. We warmly invite all our TOO podcast listeners to join B...
Oct 09, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 192
Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here! In this episode, Adam and Budi respond to a divisive article making its rounds through the theatre community entitled " The Toxic Gentleness of the American Theater " by Clayton Fox. We See You White American Theater Support the show If 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: Ada...
Oct 01, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 191
