Martha Clarke

Choreographer, Director, Creator, Producer, Dancer, Co-Founder Pilobolus

Interview #220

"I watch the birds in the trees or the deer in the fields...I’ve lived in the country since I was 25 years old...I’m happier in the isolation of nature than being in the fast lane... I think obviously technology has changed peoples’ concentration and it’s changed the way we think and what we see, including me. I walk around with a cellphone just like everybody else."
Martha Clarke

Theodora Skipitares

Playwright, Visual Artist, Director, Performer

Interview #218

"When I arrived in New York City in ’69, many women artists and theater people were starting to use their bodies the baseline for stories."
Theodora Skipitares

Elise Stone and Craig Smith

Actors, Directors, Producers, Jean Cocteau Repertory, Founders, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

Interview #217

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Elise Stone and Craig Smith

Kristin Marting

Producer, Artistic Director, Curator, Director, Writer

Interview #219

"I think we, as an industry, as a field, as artists, need to wrestle with what it means to really be in the fabric of our communities - as opposed to being a consumable. That challenge is the challenge that leaders of arts organization are facing today."
Kristin Marting

Richard Seff

Actor, Playwright, Librettist, Novelist, Casting Agent

Interview #216

"They didn’t see the magic there. I’m grateful I did see it. I still often disagree with people when I see someone not famous but unique and think there’s something there that wants to express itself and intrigues you... A play should be saying something new I haven’t heard before."
Richard Seff

Buzz Cohen

Stage Manager

Interview #215

"Every show tells you what it wants to be. And you have to be open to what the various demands are... There will always be Off-Broadway. There is an immediacy to an intimate theatrical performance which cannot be matched on Broadway...It’s a much less abstract event than something which is football fields away (even though they’re live people). It’s not the same thing as looking an actor in the eye or being looked at in the eye by an actor."
Buzz Cohen

James C. Nicola

Director, Artistic Director, New York Theatre Workshop

Interview #213

"That’s what I wanted it to be (New York Theatre Workshop). I wanted it to feel like an adventure, be unpredictable, yet something holds it together... and it’s wide ranging. Most of the time people come together to make war. In theater people come together to make beauty."
James C. Nicola

Shepard Sobel

Founder and Artistic Director, The Pearl Theatre Company

Interview #214

"If you are having doubts (about starting a theater) don’t do it. You must know the ‘why.’ Write down over the course of months everything you know and think you know about theater...Why you’re doing this and what you think theater is for. Put it away until you’ve forgotten what you wrote...Bring it out and edit it down to 3 or 4 paragraphs."
Shepard Sobel

Joanne Camp (Sobel)

Company Member, The Pearl Theatre Company

Interview #214

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Joanne Camp (Sobel)

Ozzie Rodriguez

Actor, Director, Writer, Producer, Director of the Archives + Resident Director - La MaMa

Interview #208

"There was no limitation. It didn’t matter how old you were...where you came from...what color you were...or how much money your daddy had...or what your education was. If you had a dream she was gonna let you try to make it a reality...This is the importance of La Mama, why it set into motion so many things."
Ozzie Rodriguez