Category: Behind the Scene
WATCH: TDF's Conversation on Staging Sex Scenes in Theatre
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Two intimacy directors on the delicate but necessary nature of their position
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Let's talk about sex, baby—sex on stage that is! TDF partnered with NYC-based theatre Company of Fools to present a conversation about intimacy direction, a relatively new profession that ensures performers in intimate scenes—including but not limited to...
Join TDF for a Conversation About Staging Sex Scenes in Theatre
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Two intimacy directors on the delicate but necessary nature of their position
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Let's talk about sex, baby—sex on stage that is! TDF is partnering with NYC-based theatre Company of Fools to present a conversation about intimacy direction, a relatively new profession that ensures performers in intimate scenes—including but not limited...
How Inviting Kids to 'Show Up' Changed My Life
By PETER MICHAEL MARINO
I had no idea a theatrical experiment would turn into one of the most rewarding experiences of my career
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Three years ago I had this notion to show up at a theatre and create a show on the spot. Well, more accurately, I thought Show Up was a great title for a show. It literally told people what to do. That title and the idea of showing up...
What I Learned From Committing Cultural Appropriation
By ELIZA BENT
Performer and playwright Eliza Bent shares the backstory of her new solo show
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Welcome to Behind the Scene, TDF Stages' ongoing series where theatre artists write about their creative process.
Last summer I was at a dinner party recounting one of my tried-and-true tales. It's about a home movie I made at age 11 in which I portrayed Queen Liliuokalani,...
Just Say Yes, Onstage and Off
By DREW PISARRA
How an improv class improved my existence
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Improv changed my life. Strong words, to be sure, but I'm serious here. I can think of few landmark events as profoundly impactful for me as studying improvisational comedy a decade ago. I didn't go eagerly; I wasn't searching for a hobby or a meet-up group. I was simply a journeyman journalist who'd...
Finding the Comedy in His Drug Addiction
By EMILY OWENS & HOLLIS JAMES
A performer (and his wife) put his sordid past onstage
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Welcome to Behind the Scene, TDF Stages' ongoing series where theatre artists write about their creative process.
When writer/comedian/DJ Hollis James sat down to pen his first play, he had no idea how it would turn out or if it would even see the spotlight of day. But when he showed...
We're Married and Making Plays Together, So Who Does the Dishes?
By AYUN HALLIDAY & GREG KOTIS
Two artistic spouses -- one of whom has two Tonys -- on their latest stage collaboration
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Welcome to Behind the Scene, TDF Stages' ongoing series where theatre artists write about their creative process.
Usually when we run artist interviews at TDF Stages, we conduct the conversation. However, when Ayun Halliday (experimental dramatist, indie...
That Time I Performed as a Singing Rat
By REVEREND JEN MILLER
An underground artist remembers when she tried to conquer Broadway
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I haven't been to many Broadway musicals. Most of my theatregoing experience involves attending off-off-off-Broadway shows, or mounting my own bizarre indie performances like my open mic, Reverend Jen's Anti-Slam, which has been running for over 20 years. At the Anti-Slam, anything...
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