Leia Squillace
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...
Alex Miller
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...
James Bartholomew
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....
Michael Miller
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...
Janis Brenner
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...
