From the Ground Up

By: Jeffrey Mosser HowlRound Theatre Commons
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  • Summary

  • Focused on collaboratively creative performance companies, From the Ground Up connects with theatremakers to understand the artistic, financial, and social sustainability of physical, devised, and ensemble-based processes. Previous topics include hands-on devising practices, aesthetic principles, financial oversight, academic and community partnerships, nonprofit and philanthropic navigation, social justice, festival culture, and touring. To showcase examples for American ensemble practitioners, this podcast documents the individual roadmaps and efforts of makers from around the world. This series draws upon Host/Producer Jeffrey Mosser’s experience as ensemble creator, director, and producer, and his passion for this form as a vital part of the theatrical landscape.
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Episodes
  • Desire and Collaborative Artistry

    Desire and Collaborative Artistry
    Nov 14 2024
    After beginning her theatrical work by writing for a collective, Deb Margolin has had an expansive solo career. She shares her comedic impulses, political proclivities, and writing process. She takes us through the highs and lows of socially sustainable work as a playwright who best understands her scripts through the body.
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    47 mins
  • Navigating Transition and Change at Dell’Arte International

    Navigating Transition and Change at Dell’Arte International
    Nov 7 2024
    Dell’Arte International faced a financial crisis in 2023. They surpassed their fundraising goal by the end of that year. In this episode, former President and CEO Alyssa Hughlett walks us down the path they took that year to rediscover themselves as a school and an ensemble, and reintroduce the company to their community.
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    54 mins
  • Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theatre, Part Three: Institute Directors

    Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theatre, Part Three: Institute Directors
    Oct 31 2024
    In 2023, Pig Iron Theater Company held the National Endowment for the Humanities Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Theater​​ Institute. The institute directors look forward to how the next institute might be adjusted and reveal insight on how the University of the Arts closure will impact Pig Iron School.
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    1 hr

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