Cinematographer Nick Clausen interviews Tylie Shider on their film and Tylie’s R&D play, both inspired by the signage art created in protest of the murder of George Floyd.
R&D Members Emily Lyon and Reynaldo Piniella discuss the creation of their theater game inspired by climate justice and community activism.
In our R&D In Process Series, members of our 2019-20 R&D Group take us behind-the-scenes of their projects in development. Today, Michael Alvarez reflects on the need for innovative uses of space in contemporary theater, and his work on Jason Tseng’s immersive play “Sanctuary.”
Kathleen Capdesuñer discusses her work directing Matt Barbot’s “Drown My Book” as part of the Civilians’ 2019-20 R&D Group.
The Civilians presents the ninth annual R&D Group FINDINGS Series, running 5/29-6/29, and opens applications for the 2020-21 R&D Group.
In our R&D In Process Series, members of our 2019-20 R&D Group take us behind-the-scenes of their projects in development. Today, Whitney Mosery discusses directing theater in an uncertain moment and her work on Kate Douglas and Grace McLean’s musical “Against Women & Music!” It will receive a work-in-progress showing on June 29 at 3pm.
Jan Cohen-Cruz invites theater makers working in community-based and socially engaged art in the United States to take part in research about commonalities across the field, the practices and principles adhered to, where people work and with whom, and more.
Ilana Becker interviewed R&D Group member Darrel Alejandro Holnes about his research process and his impetus for writing AFRIKAN•ISCH, a new play cycle drawing on ethnographic interviews Holnes conducted within Black communities in Berlin. Black Feminist Video Game, the first work in the cycle, will receive a work-in-progress showing on 6/24.
R&D Group Program Director Ilana Becker introduces the six projects in development in the 2019-20 R&D Group. Over the next several weeks, Extended Play will be publishing interviews, songs, articles and more from the R&D artists, including previews of their work and behind-the-scenes insights into their diverse research processes.
In this interview, playwright Sam Chanse discusses the workshop process for her new play “What You Are Now,” and shares some of the things she read, watched, and listened to while she was writing it.
In this interview with Extended Play, the creative team behind “TRAPT,” a new devised investigative theater piece about trap music, discusses their creative process and ongoing reckoning with trap music in advance of a presentation at Joe’s Pub on December 16.
R&D Program Director Megan McClain interviews Associate Artist Rebecca Hart about her project with composer David Kornfeld being developed in the Civilians R&D Group. Based partly on their own neurodiverse lives, the work asks questions about creativity, sanity, and what we consider “normal.”
Stacey Rose discusses her relationship to Trap music and how it inspired “TRAPT,” a new play she is developing in the Civilians R&D Group.
Molly Beach Murphy, Jeanna Phillips, and Annie Tippe share the inspiration behind “Untitled CREDIT Project,” a new music-theater fantasia that examines America’s volatile relationship to money and our addictive love affair with live television.
Writer, composer and lyricist Deepali Gupta discusses some research topics for “I Love You Stranger,” a new musical which takes a personal look at bipolar disorder. Navigating a balance of research and memoir, this work is being developed in the Civilians R&D Group.
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