John Christian Phifer
John Christian Phifer joins host Mariah Rooney to talk about death and grief and the ways he is radically reimagining those with Larkspur, a revolutionary conservation burial ground in Tennessee. John Christian reminds us that death is a part of life and that our cultural distancing from death and …
Opening Night: "Revolution is Always in the Air"
Change is a constant at Yale's David Geffen School of Drama.
Legendary leaders, restless students, and a midnight meeting that led to the birth of Yale Repertory Theatre - this is the story of how DGSD became what it is, as told by actor Courtney B. Vance ('86).
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This episode features James Mag…
Playwriting: "A Work in Progress"
A good script is powerful: it can change hearts and open minds. The secret? Playwriting is a team sport. Learn how Yale playwrights like Sarah Ruhl, Marcus Gardley, and Interview with a Vampire showrunner Rolin Jones use workshopping and collaboration to sharpen their scripts and hone their artist…
Susan Raffo
Susan Raffo joins host Mariah Rooney to talk about the value of “glacial slowness” in our urgency-driven world. Raffo is a grassroots organizer, queer elder, somatics practitioner, and writer whose walk across the country she is currently turning into a book.
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Directing: "It's Alive!"
What makes a good director?
Bringing a play to life from the page to the stage is the spiritual work of a lifetime. Follow Yale directors as they unearth life in a text, inspire and guide actors’ performances, and translate visions from imagination to reality.
Plus, hear the story of a subversive…
A Helwa
Poet and spiritual teacher A Helwa joins Mariah to encourage us to hold joy and light through the darkness. She also shares a story about finding beauty and losing herself in the desert. Helwa is the author of the beloved book Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam.
Ma…
Stage Management: "All the Wheel's a Stage"
The show must go on! Or must it…?
After the director and the designers all leave and the house lights go down, the theater is the stage manager’s domain. They’re an air traffic controller and flight attendant in one. And without them, a production can quickly go south.
When glass shatters on stage,…
Maria Popova
Maria Popova is one of the most prolific writers and thinkers of our time. The multi-hyphenate (author-essayist-critic-poet-human) joins Mariah to talk about the power or danger of identity and about how she lives in a state of curiosity and wonder about the world around her.
Explore Maria’s proje…
Design: "The Impossible..."
Sets. Lighting. Costumes. Sound. Projections. Designers create everything you see and everything you hear at the theater. What goes into bringing impossible worlds to life on stage? And what happens when there is no stage?
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This episode features Oana Botez (Faculty), Jill BC Du Boff (Faculty), W…
Lisa Olivera
Lisa Olivera is a therapist, writer and author of two books, Already Enough and When the Ache Remains: Lessons on Tending to the Unfixable and Finding Beauty Anyway. In this conversation, she joins host Mariah Rooney to explore what it means to come home to your body, to sort through the grief and …
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