My first task in taking on the (somewhat daunting) feat of staging Adam Szymkowicz‘s brilliantly crafted love-letter to comics, heroes, and love, was to figure out one question: What the hell is Adam doing with this structure? (This is where I freely admit that I did not grow up a comic …
I have a confession to make: This is not my first magical realism play. In fact, when Andrew asked me to direct Bureau of Missing Persons, reading the script felt like a homecoming. The very first full-length play I ever directed, The Old Man in the Woods by Brooklyn playwright Gina …
My mother knits. She also cross-stitches elegantly composed original pieces, sewed all my Halloween costumes as a kid, and dressed me up in hand-crafted pinafores so often when I was small that my adult penchant for ripped jeans and Doc Martens is very likely some small form of sartorial rebellion. …
Let’s get one thing clear. I love this novel. I love the story. I love the words. I love the massive digressions on the whaling industry. I love the poetry of Herman Melville. I love that as a 30 year old adventure novelist, Melville suddenly decided to take on something …
Know Theatre invited Guest Director Holly L. Derr to speak about her process and the specific challenge of doing justice to such an epic story while honoring the histories from which it draws. In preparation for directing Sigrid Gilmer’s Harry & the Thief, I’m reading a book called Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, …
