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Apr 28, 2019

Contrasting Directions: A Director Confronts Her Actress’s Tears

Unlike in most professions, tears can be an indicator of a job well done for a director. Crafting the conditions to produce an actor’s...

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Oct 28, 2018

Believe Women: Female Voices in Solo Performance

Eighty‑one female solo performers bring some of this theater season’s finest work to United Solo, the world’s largest solo theatre...

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Oct 12, 2018

It’s All Greek to Me, and I Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way

When you see any show at this year’s United Solo Theatre Festival, the first lines you hear won’t come from the performers themselves....

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Oct 4, 2018

The Shootings Must Stop

I began the short story from which my solo play, “Transfiguration,” is derived in November, 2005. I barely remember what moved me to...

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Aug 28, 2018

Creating a Solo Performance by Janis Brenner

Inheritance: A Litany How do we define ourselves in relation to our biology, DNA, history, and our aging? “Inheritance: A Litany” is a...

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