Who You Are Is All You Have: Truthfulness in the Audition Process
In their new book, Nicole Hodges Persley and Monica White Ndounou offer a practical guide through the audition process for actors of the global majority.
Category Archives: Approaches to Theatre Training
Whither Stanislavski in a New Century? An Adler-Meisner Summit
The Neighborhood Playhouse’s Pamela Kareman and Stella Adler Studio’s Tom Oppenheim talk about the legacies of their founders and the future of acting training.
The Silent Voice of the Costume Designer
What do costumes look like, and mean, without a story? With the pandemic limiting access to actors, six Northwestern MFA costume candidates were asked by professors Ana Kuzmanic and Linda Roethke to explore this question.
Contemporary Plays, Teaching From the Page as Well as the Stage
The work of writers like Jackie Sibblies Drury, Annie Baker, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is riveting in the theatre, but the rewards of close reading shouldn’t be ignored.
6 Theatre Workers You Should Know
This installment features theatre artists from around the country whose focus is on educating the next generation of theatremakers.
What We Love and What We Need to Change
Casting is the intersection of so much that’s pleasurable about theatre and its potential—and need—to do better.
Rerouting the Casting Pipeline
Greater diversity onstage is only going to happen when theatre’s hidden gatekeepers are more diverse too.
Years of Preparation for a Few Minutes in the Room
Among the most important things students can learn at theatre training programs: how to audition, and what they’ll be auditioning for.
One Way to Stop Whitewashing: It’s Got to Be Taught
Too often, comfort with culturally inappropriate casting starts in educational settings—precisely the places these practices should be interrogated.
My ‘Gangster’ Look
Changing my headshot opened my eyes to the ways I’m seen—and remain unseen.
