Tag: metoo

• May 16, 2020

  The Art and Craft of Intimacy Direction

  Originally published on HowlRound on January 30, 2020. In case you haven’t noticed, we are experiencing a revolution in the way artists and entertainers rehearse and perform intimacy. The seeds were planted at least ten years ago, when a few highly trained movement specialists started noticing that they were often called upon to handle scenes […]
• May 13, 2020

  Storytelling for Social Change: Inside the #HealMeToo Festival

  Originally published by Ms. Magazine on April 15, 2019. Hope Singsen had done very little producing before she began putting together The #HealMeToo Festival, which just wrapped in New York City. She started with a plan to find a space to produce Skin, her solo show about the road and obstacles to healing and reclaiming intimacy after […]
• May 12, 2020

  #MeToo Power, Complicity, and Collective Responsibility

  Originally published on HowlRound on April 11, 2018. My #metoo theatre story is from high school. Our theatre department consisted of five women and whatever hapless guys we could convince to come play a part so that we weren’t limited to just doing Steel Magnolias over and over. The women referred to our teacher as the Dirty […]