Moshe Yassur and Beate Hein Bennett

Moshe Yassur - Director, Actor, Teacher Beate Hein Bennett - Director, Dramaturg, Translator, Teacher

Interview #207

"If you say ‘you don’t believe’...you will never believe. You will never understand theater because theater is believing...If I make a mistake, I make a mistake in 6 languages."
Moshe Yassur and Beate Hein Bennett

Rosemary Harris

Actress

Interview #189

"Funny how life gets into these little twists and turns and you just don’t know when you get up in the morning what’s going to happen… The theater has been such a joy…each time you do a job you’re joining a new family, it’s a wonderful feeling of support and encouragement and you miss that if you’re not doing it."
Rosemary Harris

Bob McGrath

Director, Producer, Teacher, Founding Member, Pacific Repertory Company, Pink, and Ridge Theater

Interview #211

"We made a rule we’d never get funding, we did it all with our odd jobs...we’d take half of our money and pay for our lives and take the other half to do theater...we wouldn’t be beholden to anybody...we could do whatever we wanted."
Bob McGrath

Cathy Roskam

Actress, Producer, Director and Founder of the Joseph Jefferson Theatre Company (JJTC), Bishop

Interview #209

"In the church we talk about “call.” Everybody has a call of one sort or another—that thing in your heart that you’re really drawn to do with your life. For me it was acting. I thought I was going to be an actress my whole life. To my surprise, The Joseph Jefferson Theatre Company situated in Church of the Transfiguration became the bridge and catalyst to another calling, but I will never forget my sixteen years in the theater. Live theater is a great humanizing force for which there is no substitute."
Cathy Roskam

Abigail Rosen McGrath

Director, Producer, Playwright, Activist, Co-Founder Off Center Theatre

Interview #204

"We did shows about New York City that were informative…without making a judgment – that was very important to me. It’s so easy to dump…cheap shots…you show people what it is and then they can make their own decisions. What makes people good is the freedom to make mistakes…we learn from them"
Abigail Rosen McGrath

Nancy Gabor

Actor, Director, Acting Teacher, co-founder Het Collectief, Amsterdam

Interview #210

"Young people will always come together and create. You cannot stop that."
Nancy Gabor

Patricia Conolly

Actor, Director

Interview #200

"Acting is good for long lives…you’re so motivated."
Patricia Conolly

Anita Hollander

Actor, Singer, Writer, Composer, Lyricist, Director, Teacher, Choreographer, Dancer, Activist

Interview #197

"Everything that’s happened to me has turned out to be useful to keep me working in the theater, or arts or music…My whole career is art somehow."
Anita Hollander

Susan Mills (aka Roberta Lean)

Actress, Director, Producer

Interview #203

"Steve Mills started out when he was 14 years old doing amateur night and singing on street corners with Benny Rubin and Fred Allen…I felt as if I had stepped into 1935 when I married Steve [by then a famed Burlesque performer] in 1966…I stepped into a time machine."
Susan Mills (aka Roberta Lean)

Ellen Maddow

Composer, Writer, Actor, Mediator, Co-Founder The Talking Band

Interview #194

"We still have a desire to do it…. I don’t know if I would have had a career in the theater if not for this. I don’t think I fit into any other kind of way of being in the theater. I came to playwriting later, started as a performer. I was always interested in making my own stuff. I saw that The Open Theater was doing that so The Talking Band was modeled on the idea that you can make it up and do it yourself."
Ellen Maddow