Remembering Jane Campbell and Her Hawaiʻi-Sized Heart
Honolulu Theatre for Youth’s longtime managing director forever changed TYA, in the islands and beyond.
Category Archives: In Memoriam
Allen Davis Made Space for, and Made Sense of, Our Work
The founder of Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre’s Playwrights Unit put his ambitions aside to help others, and we’re all better off for it.
Michael Lupu, Dramaturg of Another Dimension
A longtime Guthrie staffer, he influenced theatre across the U.S. and overseas with a humble but indomitable spirit.
Robert Blacker, a Dramaturg for the Ages
He led Sundance Theatre Lab with wit, grit, and passion, often leading feedback sessions as lengthy and involved as the plays themselves.
Bob Scales, a Down-to-Earth Theatre Giant
The Guthrie’s first TD and a longtime theatre dean at USC, he launched countless careers with his unassuming, get-to-work ethos.
Hal Prince: A Portrait in Song (and 2 Rewrites)
Among the legendary producer/director’s many gifts was an unflinching faith in his work, which was infectious if not imitable.
In Memoriam: Undermain’s Katherine Owens, Theatre Visionary
The Dallas troupe’s founding artistic director left a legacy of new and experimental work, both in her adopted hometown and around the world.
Mark Medoff: Communication and Connection
Playwright Mark Medoff, who won the Tony and the Olivier for his play Children of a Lessser God and who taught screenwriting and acting the University of New Mexico for 27 years, died on April 23 at the age of 79. I first met Mark Medoff at an audition. It was at the Mark Taper Forum annex in Los Angeles, and I was reading for him and the director Gordon Davidson, for a role in Mark’s new play, Children of a Lesser God. Though I had…
Remembering the Impish, Adventurous Ed Stern
In every show he directed at my theatre, he’d always try to work in a cigar prop and hide a six-pack of beer somewhere on the set.
John O’Neal’s Invitation to Make the World a Better Place
Civil Rights activism and theatre were integrally intertwined in the life’s work of the founder of Free Southern Theater and Junebug Productions.
