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Theater artist's resource : the Watson-Guptill guide to academic and conservatory programs, studios and studio schools, workshops, festivals and conferences, artists' colonies and residencies, internships and apprenticeships
by Ruth Mayleas
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2 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 356 libraries worldwide Theater Artist's Resource is a cornucopia of great opportunities - more than 150 of them - for a wide variety of theater people in many fields, from acting to directing, to stage production work and beyond.
Women in theatre Dialogues with notable women in American theatre Series one
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 103 libraries worldwide These thirteen interviews are from a unique television series that highlights the accomplishments of women on the American stage. Hosted by Newsday theatre critic Linda Winer, the playwrights, directors, designers, producers, and performers interviewed on the programs encompass generational, disciplinary and ethnic diversity; they share their thoughts and vision, their career paths and professional choices. The interviews afford to a wider audience a unique look into the lives of some of the gifted women who create and sustain theatre in the United States.
Interviews for the book New Broadways
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in English and held by 1 library worldwide Consists of taped interviews, conducted by Gerald Berkowitz, for his book 'New Broadways: theatre across America: approaching a new millennium.' Interviewees include Andre Bishop, Gigi Bolt, Gregory Boyd, Bill Bushnell, Ben Cameron, Alexander H. Cohen, Robert Falls, Michael Feingold, Bernard Gersten, Jon Jory, Woody King, Eric Krebs, Theodore Mann, Ruth Mayleas, Julia Miles, Gregory Mosher, Laura Pels, Lloyd Richards, David Richtenthal, Tim Sanford, Suzanne Sato, Ben Sprecher, Scott Steele, Howard Stein, John Sullivan, and George C. White. Discussions center around Off-Broadway and regional theater. Theaters such as the Alley Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, O'Neill Center, Circle Repertory Theatre, Circle in the Square, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Los Angeles Actors Theatre and Playwrights Horizons are discussed.
Women in theatre. Barbara Cook
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1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Actress and singer Barbara Cook discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Cook first came to prominence in 1956 after creating the role of Cunegonde in Candide, and then "Marian the Librarian" in The music man the following year, establishing herself as one of the Broadway's leading ingenues. She left the theater in the 1960s and reemerged in 1975 as a leading cabaret and concert singer. Cook speaks about her voice and her objectives as a vocalist; her view of her cabaret work; the loss she experienced at the death of her accompanist Wally Harper; her feelings about being labeled a Broadway "ingenue"; her mid-career retirement, brought on by a personal problem; and her plans for future shows.
Women in theatre. LaChanze
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 1 library worldwide The multi-faceted performer LaChanze discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. LaChanze speaks about the development of her Tony-winning role as Celie in the musical The color purple, based on the novel by Alice Walker. LaChanze expounds on the show's success, and its popularity with African American audiences; her early love of the musical theater; breaking into Broadway performing the musical revue Uptown. . .it's hot!; her role as Ti Moune in the musical revue Once on this island, which addressed the issue of race within the African diaspora; changing her name to LaChanze, which means "one who is charmed"; the personal tragedy she was able to overcome, in part, via her work in the theater; and what she perceives as a dearth of contemporary stage roles for African American actresses.
Women in theatre. Daphne Rubin-Vega
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1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Daphne Rubin-Vega discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Best known for her creation of the first Mimi in the Broadway musical Rent, Rubin-Vega comments on how her career has progressed to traditional musicals like Les Miserables, as well as such plays as Bernarda Alba by Michael John LaChiusa and Anna in the tropics by Nilo Cruz, and more edgy projects with the multicultural LAByrinth Theater Company. She also talks about her work in films and as a recording artist, her Panamanian parentage and upbringing in New York, her recent motherhood and the challenges of being a Latina actress.
Women in theatre. Kia Corthron
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Kia Corthron discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. The playwright speaks about her issue-oriented, political plays: Breath, boom, Cage rhythm, Life by asphyxiation, Slide glide the slippery slope, Splash hatch on the E going down, and Wake up Lou Riser, which address such subjects as imprisonment, genetic engineering, environmental racism, and teenage pregnancy. Corthron expounds on her writing, which she feels should not be predictable to the audience, and the deep connection between art and politics she expresses in her work.
Women in theatre. The Guerilla Girls on tour
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 1 library worldwide The pseudonymous "Aphra Behn," "Alice Childress," and "Julia Child" join Newsday critic Linda Winer to discuss the internationally known collective of anonymous activists known as the Guerrilla Girls on Tour. The group seeks to illuminate and challenge sexism in the theatre, such as the meager representation of female playwrights being produced, and sparse number female directors, producers, and designers working in the theatre today. They discuss their teaching activities on college campuses; the origins of their group as a splinter group which separated from the original Guerilla Girls, which began in 1985 as a protest against sexism in the visual arts; their strategy of compiling statistics about women in the theater, and then using them as the basis of their visual, graphic and confrontational protests focused on the theater community; their theatrical performances worldwide on issues related to women and sexism; their use of gorilla masks; and their current project aimed at recovering the forgotten history of women in the theater.
Women in theatre. Lynn Ahrens
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1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Lynn Ahrens discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Ahrens, a Tony nominated lyricist of musicals, discusses supporting herself writing advertising jingles, becoming a musical theatre lyricist, and the history of her long-time partnership with composer Stephen Flaherty, her collaboration with Flaherty on such musicals as Seussical, Ragtime and A man of no importance, how she aims to be "invisible," "hidden in the character" in her lyrics, and her philosophy of songwriting.
Women in theatre. Edward Albee
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Edward Albee speaks with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Although the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright may seem out of place as a guest on Women in theatre, Winer dispells any doubts about his suitability in her introductory description of Albee as the inventor of "some of the most fascinating, complicated, profoundly entertaining women characters ever created by woman or man in this or any other lifetime." Albee and Winer discuss these characters, including Martha from Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and the memorable women's roles in The American dream, A Delicate balance, All over, Seascape, Three tall women, The play about the baby, and The goat, or who is Sylvia? Albee expounds on the sources of his characters; his seemingly rare ability as a male playwright to write complex, affirming women characters; and his play Three tall women, which featured one of his rare creations to be based on an actual person.
Women in theatre. S. Epatha Merkerson
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1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 1 library worldwide S. Epatha Merkerson discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Well known for her television roles as Reba the Mail Lady on Pee Wee's playhouse in the 1980s, and since 1993 as Lt. Anita Van Buren on the crime drama Law & Order, Merkerson has also enjoyed a varied and successful career on stage and in film. Her stage credits include her performance as Berniece in August Wilson's 1990 Pultizer Prize winning play, The Piano Lesson, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award, and her work in I'm Not Stupid, for which she won an Obie Award in 1992. Merkerson stresses the importance for her of acting onstage, and the experience she gained as an actor performing in various small theaters. She expounds on getting recognition as an actress in mid-career for her performance in the 2005 miniseries Lackawanna Blues; her upbringing by her mother in Detroit, Michigan; her ability to find work consistently as an actor since arriving in New York City in the late 1970s; and her feelings about two people with whom she has worked, playwright August Wilson and performer Jerry Orbach.
Women in theatre. Marian Seldes
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Actress Marian Seldes discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Seldes, who made her Broadway debut in 1947 with Judith Anderson in Medea, has performed in a wide variety of productions, and has been nominated for five Tony Awards, winning her first in 1967 for her role as in Edward Albee's A delicate balance. Seldes discusses her upbringing in a culturally prominent family on Manhattan's Upper East Side, her early career aspirations, performing in plays by Albee, her focus on physicality while portraying a character, her experience teaching and directing drama students at the Julliard School, her various roles in productions of Medea; performing in long-running shows such as Deathtrap and Equus, and her various film and television roles.
Women in theatre. Chita Rivera
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Chita Rivera discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. During her nearly 50 years on stage, Rivera originated the roles of Anita in West Side story and Velma Kelly in Chicago, and has worked with many of Broadway's most eminent choreographers. Rivera expounds on her childhood in Washington D.C. as the daughter of a Puerto Rican father and mother of mostly Scottish and Irish descent, her training in ballet at the School of American Ballet in New York City; her performance in the 1984 production of The rink, for which she won her first Tony Award; playing a "femme fatale" in Kiss of the spider woman; her preference for originating roles for the stage over performing them in movie versions; her views on Broadway revivals; her 1988 car accident; and her daily desire to continue to express her talent.
Women in theatre. Carey Perloff
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Carey Perloff discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. In 1992, Perloff took over as artistic director of San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater which was in debt, homeless due to a recent earthquake, and conservative. Perloff, who previously ran a 200-seat theater in New York City, rebuilt the larger ACT into a successful theater, attracting much attention for her non-traditional programs and multicultural casts. Perloff discusses her reasons for getting into the theater, running a theater as a woman able to hire women actors and directors, her opportunity in San Francisco to choose the plays she wants to stage, the importance of casting American actors instead of importing British actors for classical plays, learning how to direct from her actors, the lack of connection between the work being produced on Broadway and in the regional theatre, how she markets her theater, and the unique ability of women to be efficient theater professionals.
Women in theatre. Ruby Dee
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and activist Ruby Dee discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. Dee speaks about being denied a role because of her race as a high school drama student in Manhattan; performing in Harlem's American Negro Theatre in the 1940s; being one of the first African American actresses to play important Shakespearean roles with white actors during the 1960s; meeting her husband Ossie Davis during the production of Jeb in 1945; her longstanding involvement, along with her husband, in political activism; their writing of their joint autobiography; being cast in the stage play A raisin in the sun as Ruth, a suffering housewife in the projects; her view of herself as a "fighter" influenced by her early encounters with racism; her kinship with directors and writers with whom she has worked; and the need for more dramatic works about African Americans.
Women in theatre. Kathleen Chalfant
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Kathleen Chalfant discusses her career with Newsday critic Linda Winer. The actress expounds on her upbringing and education in California, her roles in the original stage productions of Tony Kushner's Angels in America and Margaret Edson's Wit, and in the television series The guardian. She also talks about the challenges of making a living as a actor, being passed over for film versions of plays that she has starred in, refusing to condescend to audiences for the sake of popular appeal, and her efforts as a peace activist who feels that one must say what one believes.
Women in theatre. Heidi Ettinger
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Scenic designer/producer Heidi Ettinger discusses her career with Newsday theatre critic Linda Winer. Ettinger, formerly known as Heidi Landesman, speculates about why so few women venture into careers in scenic design, touches on the differences between various directors she's worked with, and also looks at some of the economic changes affecting the theater during her career.
Women in theatre. Lynne Meadow
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Lynne Meadow, artistic director of Manhattan Theatre Club, discusses her career with Newsday theatre critic Linda Winer. The discussion focuses on the thirty-year history of MTC, an Off-Broadway producing organization on the verge of moving into a new Broadway venue, MTC's choice of material, the working relationships MTC has had with a number of playwrights, and related topics. Meadow also discusses the decision she made to become a director early in life and the difficulties she faced as a woman in a male-dominated field.
Women in theatre. Rosemary Harris
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Actor Rosemary Harris discusses her career with Newsday theatre critic Linda Winer. Harris briefly discusses her childhood in what is now Pakistan, her ties to England, and her move to the United States in the 1950s, and examines her theatrical work with various colleagues over the years, especially playwright Edward Albee, with whom she worked in revivals of his plays All over and A delicate balance. Harris also discusses her work in repertory with the Phoenix Theatre.
Interview with Julia Miles
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1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 1 library worldwide Julia Miles, founder and artistic director of the Women's Project, discusses her life and career with longtime friend, director Billie Allen. Topics covered include Miles' early career as an actress, her work with Wynn Handman at the American Place Theatre where she was associate director, her founding of the Women's Project & Productions (later known as the Women's Project) and the League of Professional Theatre Women. more
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