Finding Your Entry Point: Theatre and the Humanities

Finding Your Entry Point: Theatre and the Humanities

Theatre practitioners and researchers join Traumaturgy to discuss how to keep moving forward in theatre studies and work. Dr Bryan Jenkins, Andrew Hungerford and Dr Danielle Rosvally talk technology, mental health and the humanities on this special summer 2024 episode.

Trust the Process: Making Change

Join us for a special summer 2024 look at the state of theatre and academia two years after our last season of Traumaturgy as Loretta and Suzanne speak with director and educator Triza Cox.

Everything Old is New Again

It’s been 2 years and 20 episodes. What is the state of Theatre today? We meet up with actor Michael Thatcher (1st interviewed in June 2020) once again and find him on Broadway after 2 years of ups and downs. And we speak with Michael J. Bobbitt, the Executive Director at the Massachusetts Cultural Council, to talk about the state of the field now.

Finding Ways to Bring Trauma-Informed Practices to Prisons

Loretta and Suzanne focus on the work being done in incarcerated communities this episode. From an in-depth interview with Dr Chris Matthews from Southern NH University to a discussion with the founder of Shakespeare Behind Bars, Curt Tofteland, about his work bringing theatre to inmates across the country.

Theatre Making and Climate Disaster

British playwright Dawn King spoke about her new play THE TRIALS on the eve of its Donmar Warehouse production and theatre artist Deborah Eliezer speaks to us from her CA land about restarting after wildfires changed her life.