Downtown Dialogues is a live video podcast that takes a behind-the-scenes look at different plays and their themes produced by Theatrical Outfit - Atlanta's Downtown Theatre. GUEST is January LaVoy (Performer & Co-Director of FIRES IN THE MIRROR). Music Credit: Raro Bueno by Chuzauzen & Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund About FIRES IN THE MIRROR: How do you plan for a reckoning? Theatrical Outfit will commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Crown Heights riot by bringing Anna Deavere Smith’s documentary theatre masterpiece to life with soaring theatricality. Taken directly from a series of interviews with over fifty members of the Jewish and Black communities following the historic riots, FIRES IN THE MIRROR: CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN, AND OTHER IDENTITIES turns their voices into a tour de force one-woman show starring January LaVoy. This groundbreaking play is “Viscerally Smart [And] Endlessly Empathetic” (The New Yorker).

Downtown Dialogues is a live video podcast that takes a behind-the-scenes look at different plays and their themes produced by Theatrical Outfit - Atlanta's Downtown Theatre.       GUESTS include Jasson Minadakis (Director of THE CATASTROPHIST) and William DeMeritt (Nathan in THE CATASTROPHIST).   Music Credit: Raro Bueno by Chuzauzen & Hallon by Christian Bjoerklund       About THE CATASTROPHIST: How do you plan for catastrophe? Virologist Nathan Wolfe, named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in the World for his work tracking Ebola and swine flu, proposed pandemic insurance years before the novel coronavirus outbreak. No one bought it. Now, in a post-COVID world, we hear his story—presented entirely digitally. Silent Sky playwright Lauren M. Gunderson returns with a time-jumping tale based on the life and work of Nathan Wolfe (who also happens to be her husband). A deep and exciting dive into the profundities of scientific exploration and the realities of facing your own mortality, The Catastrophist is a theatrical experience built of and for this moment in time.