Costume and Set Designer: Silvia de Marta
When the pandemic hit her career on both sides of the Atlantic, she got the unique chance to help develop productions in gestation.
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Designer: Bridgette Dennett
Teaching design remotely had some upsides, she learned, but she’s eager to get her hands back on her craft and its tools.
Ed Herendeen at CATF: ‘Not a One-Person Operation’
The founder of Contemporary American Theater Festival looks back on 31 years of producing new plays in rep.
3Views Reboots Its Critical Mission With 3 New Editors
Brittani Samuel, Jose Solís, and Sarah Rose Leonard will lead the site, originally founded by Sarah Ruhl and Julia Jordan, aimed at diversifying the critical discourse.
Christopher Lloyd and Lear, Closer Than Ever
Tackling the iconic role at 82, the stage and screen actor resonates with the aging monarch’s struggle to maintain control.
Madeleine Oldham: Building Up from the Ground Floor
The director of Berkeley Rep’s new-works development program reflects on the way the theatre has changed, and still needs to change.
Micki Grant Blazed a Trail, From Poetry to Broadway and Beyond
The composer/lyricist/librettist/actor broke ground in theatre, music, and TV, and still had more to say.
Theatre Where It Mattered: Dr. Doris Derby Remembers Mississippi
A co-founder of Free Southern Theater reflects on forming the theatrical arm of the Civil Rights Movement.
Before Krishna Kaur, There Was Thelma Oliver
She’s been a yoga teacher for the past half century, but in the 1960s she was a busy triple threat in New York.
Golden Thread’s Sahar Assaf: Theatre as a Fight Forward
A Lebanese theatremaker putting down roots in San Francisco, Assaf brings to her new job a global perspective and an open door.
