Contemporary Women Stage Directors - Conversations on Craft

Directors give insight into their diverse approaches to the key challenges of directing theatre, including choosing projects, engaging with scripts, conceptualizing visual and acoustic production elements, collaborating with actors and production teams, building their careers, and navigating challenges and opportunities posed by gender, race and ethnicity

The directors featured include Maria Aberg, May Adrales, Sarah Benson, Karin Coonrod, Rachel Chavkin, Lear deBessonet, Nadia Fall, Vicky Featherstone, Polly Findlay, Leah Gardiner, Anne Kauffman, Lucy Kerbel, Young Jean Lee, Patricia McGregor, Blanche McIntyre, Paulette Randall, Diane Rodriguez, Indhu Rubasingham, KJ Sanchez, Tina Satter, Kimberly Senior, Roxana Silbert, Leigh Silverman, Caroline Steinbeis, Liesl Tommy, Lyndsey Turner, and Erica Whyman

These women are making profoundly exciting theatre in some of the most influential organizations across the English-speaking world-from Broadway to the West End, from the National Theatre in London to Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles

As generally mid-career professionals, they are informed by both their hard-earned expertise and their forward-looking energy

They offer astute observations about the current state of the art form, as well as inspiring visions of what theatre can accomplish in the decades to come

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Choosing projects

2. Engaging with scripts and ideas

3. Conceptualizing the visual and acoustic

4. Collaborating in Rehearsal

5. Building a career

6. Navigating gender, race, and ethnicity

7. Theatre today

8. Conclusion

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