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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...

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...

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....

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...

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...