Active Listening
Active Listening
New Dramatists
Active Listening is a New Dramatists podcast series that invites the resident playwrights to experiment with story, intimacy and immediacy through sound experiences. This initiative was born of the questions that became urgent as our pandemic lockdowns began: "What are creative alternatives to gathering together in rooms?" "What might a play for the ear sound like?"
Active Listening Episode 22: Jaclyn Backhaus
Jaclyn and Ernie go looking for birds after several days in quarantine.
Jul 25, 2022
7 min
Active Listening Episode 21: C. Julian Jiménez
An exploration on memory, mothers, and smelly boys.
Jul 25, 2022
7 min
Active Listening Episode 20: Kirk Wood Bromley
Mark's opening monologue from the Burnt Woman of Harvard.
Jul 25, 2022
6 min
Active Listening Episode 19: Lucas Baisch
A cult of arsonists find their way.
Jul 25, 2022
13 min
Active Listening Episode 18: Matthew Paul Olmos
NextDoor believes connecting with others is a universal, human need. NextDoor is where you connect to neighborhoods; by bringing neighbors and organizations together, we can cultivate a kinder world.
Jul 25, 2022
9 min
Active Listening Episode 17: Naveen Bahar Choudhury
A collage of text messages, phone calls, and memories from the early days of lockdown in New York City, when the author was stricken with Covid-19.
Sep 5, 2021
12 min
Active Listening Episode 16: Matthew Paul Olmos
A look at the process of Matthew Paul Olmos' play The Un'Admiring.
Sep 5, 2021
10 min
Active Listening Episode 15: Matthew Freeman
An expressionist portrait of the live performance of a play without words.
Sep 5, 2021
16 min
Active Listening Episode 14: Kirk Wood Bromley
The second scene of a play in which Professor Bertha Lerner and her students start a house of feminist studies in which men aren’t allowed.
Sep 5, 2021
11 min
Active Listening Episode 13: Karinne Keithley Syers
The coda from Do Not Do This Ever Again, a play from 2007 written in the form of a garden; this is just one of its plants.
Sep 5, 2021
8 min
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