The Theatre of Others Podcast

As Sami emigrates from his local village in Egypt to the capital, Cairo, and as Jude emigrates from Cairo to America, the two characters discover that they are more connected than they thought. Directed by: Farida Abdel Aziz Sound Design & Composition by: Jack Burmeister Sound Associate: Nick Jay Cast: Omar Gomaa as Sami Nour Haitham as Jude Special thanks to Moustafa Khalil and Amel Abdel Hamid Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam and Budi are joined by Nour El Captan, the playwright of our fourth installment in our 2023 Audio New Play Festival, to discuss her upcoming work, Meet Me at Liberation. Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

SOB STORY chronicles how one school girl learned to never let the truth get in the way of a good story. Directed by: Sabina Gerardi and Justin Tan Sound Design & Composition: Jack Burmeister Sound Associate: Nick Jay Cast Emily: Eloise McCreedy Rosie: Jessica Hodgson Annabelle: Laura Liu Miss Tedesco: Stefanie Falasca Mum: Jane Schon Grandma Iris: Claire Bird Student: Jess Lu Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam and Budi are joined by Sabina Gerardo, the playwright of our third instalment in our 2023 Audio New Play Festival, to discuss her upcoming work, Sob Story. Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

BARRELHOUSE is a western, southern gothic experience where You inhabit Eden—a southern town in the middle of a western expanse—on its last day standing before it all goes up in flames. Cast: Ato Blankson-Wood Directed by Chalia La Tour Sound Designer, Mix & Mastering - Jack Burmeister Composer - Linus Mackie Sound Associate - Nick Jay Additional Voices - Subiya Mboya & Calum Bedborough Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam and Budi sit down with Kam Henderson to discuss the second instalment in our 2023 Audio New Play Festival, Barrelhouse. Kam (he/him) is — a playwright, director, dramaturg, an artist. His artistic voice centers on creating art of unrestrictive, creative boundaries. He believes art is to be experienced—especially with narratives that are not our own. And the development of his work is centered in three cardinal rules of creation: 1. “I don’t make art for you to like. 2. I don’t make art for you to dislike. 3. I make art so art can be; that should be enough.” These rules keep his work integral, free, and authentic and define how he carries himself and sees the world around him. instagram: @kamjhenderson Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Firespeak is the second audio play written by Frazer Shepherdson and follows the journey of a family and their discovery of fire through a time when magic was real. The story draws inspiration from Indigenous Australian creation stories. Cast List: MIELA ANICH as SECOND CHILD and SISTERS ZACH BLAMPIED as FIRST FATHER, OLD MAN and SISTERS TYALLAH BULLOCK as FIRST CHILD and SISTERS ELLA FERRIS as MOTHER and SEVENTH SISTER PAUL FERRIS as STORY-TELLER COREY SAYLOR-BRUNSKILL as SECOND FATHER, CROW and SISTERS Production Team: Sound Design and Composition - JACK BURMEISTER Audio Engineer - SOLOMON RUMBLE Design Associate - NICK JAY The team behind Firespeak acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land upon which the work was devised and extends their acknowledgement to the peoples' whose stories have inspired this work. Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, we kickstart our 3rd Annual Audio New Play Festival with return playwright, Frazer Shepherdson, to talk through his audio play, Firespeak. Frazer (he/him) is an actor and theatre-maker who has trained with multiple, internationally recognized institutions including the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts and the Victorian College of the Arts. Frazer has garnered many performance credits across screen and stage. Most recently he played Kostya in La Mama Theatre's production of 'The Seagull' (dir. Bagryana Popov). He has written, directed, and produced two original audioplays; ‘Whale Song’ and ‘Firespeak’, for the Theatre of Others audio-play festival. Both works received artistic grants. "Frazer has a very organic and considered approach to his work. He is an excellent team player exhibiting a capacity and sensitivity to tune into the work of the ensemble and bigger picture storytelling." - Daniella Farinacci, 2021 Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam discusses Audience Making, or how to create a community before they ever walk into the theatre space. This was teased during the October Book Club selection, Priya Parker's The Art of Gathering, and is a pedagogy that Adam is working on. Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam and Budi conclude their 2023 Book Club series with a deep dive into 'The Art of Gathering' by Priya Parker. We look at the transformative impact this text had on Adam's professional journey. Serendipitously, we were able to record this episode on the day of Budi's PhD Seminar which allowed us to reflect on the power of intentional gatherings and the subsequent impact of shared experiences. Priya Parker’s bold approach to gatherings redefines the ways people connect, learn, and develop relationships. The acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, executive producer and host of the New York Times podcast, Together Apart, and the founder of boutique advisory firm Thrive Labs, she helps activists, elected officials, corporate executives, educators, and philanthropists create transformative, unforgettable gatherings that allow them to step back from their daily routine, rediscover their motivations, and develop strategies for innovation. In The Art of Gathering, Parker combines fascinating case studies culled from an international cast of characters with practices to follow—and rules to break— to connect more meaningfully with friends, colleagues, and strangers. She includes examples from her attempts to create connections, illustrating which tactics worked and which ones failed. Included among her success stories are “#IamHere Days,” self-organized adventures in which a group of people unplugs and explores a neighborhood, and “15 Toasts,” dinner parties where each guest has to toast to a common theme (the twist: the last one has to sing their toast). Parker’s interactive talks are both a demonstration of the techniques described in her books and a guide on how to implement her strategies. Parker has helped numerous clients develop better in-person and virtual gatherings, including the Museum of Modern Art, LVMH, the World Economic Forum, meetup.com, and Civitas Public Affairs. Trained in conflict resolution, she has worked on peace processes in the Arab world, Southern Africa, and India, and is a founding member of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network, where she worked on race relations on American college campuses. She has been appointed as a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Values and the New Models of Leadership Council, and is also a senior expert at Mobius Executive Leadership. Parker’s The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters has been named a Best Business Book of the year by Amazon, Esquire Magazine, NPR, the Financial Times, 1-800-CEO-READS and Bloomberg. She has spoken on the TED Main Stage, and her TEDx talk on purpose has been viewed over one million times. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, Oprah.com, Real Simple Magazine, Glamour, The Today Show, Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss an article in The New York Times Magazine entitled "Why Culture Has Come to a Standstill" by Jason Farago. Mentioned in this episode: Oratorio for Living Things The Church of Craft Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam and Budi launch the inaugural episode of our Legacy Series. A series where we investigate some of the greatest theatre practitioners of our age; we ask what mark they left on our industry and how their work has affected our own practice. In the first episode of this series, we look at Catherine Fitzmaurice, the originator of the Fitzmaurice Voicework Institute. We warmly invite all our TOO podcast listeners to join Budi Miller and the company of Kool-Aid & Wine for his Ph.D. seminar, hosted via Zoom, on Thursday 19th October, at 12 PM AEDT. Email Budi at budi@theatreofothers.com to enquire and receive an invite link, we'd love to see you all there! Show Notes - The Voice | Australian Constitutional Referendum Fitzmaurice Institute All About Love We have provided some resources below for listeners who may have experienced emotional stress from the content raised in this week's episode. Beyond Blue Headspace Lifeline Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam and Budi respond to a divisive article making its rounds through the theatre community entitled "The Toxic Gentleness of the American Theater" by Clayton Fox. We See You White American Theater Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss their seventh choice for the Theatre of Others Book Club, You Are That by Gangaji Gangaji, born Toni Roberson, grew up in Mississippi. Like many of her contemporaries, she searched for fulfillment through relationships, careers, motherhood, subculture experiences, political activism, and spiritual practice. While she had never planned to go to India, it was on the banks of the Ganges River that her search ended. In 1990, Gangaji met her teacher, Sri H.W.L. Poonja, known as Papaji. Papaji gave Toni the name Gangaji and asked that she bring his teaching to the West. He said, “The Ganga now will flow in the West.” Today, as a teacher and author, Gangaji speaks to people from all walks of life inviting them to fully recognize the absolute freedom and unchanging peace that is the truth of one’s being. She is the author of The Diamond in Your Pocket: Discovering Your True Radiance, Freedom and Resolve: The Living Edge of Surrender, Hidden Treasure: Uncovering the Truth in Your Life Story, and You are THAT. She and her husband Eli Jaxon-Bear live in Ashland, OR. Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam and Budi have a great conversation with director, public speaking coach, and podcaster Adriana Baer Adriana has directed for Alley Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Playhouse, Profile Theatre (Artistic Director, 2012-2015), The Cutting Ball Theater (Associate Artistic Director, 2004-2007), and others. She has worked with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Opera Boston, The Public Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Circus Center/Pickle Circus, California Shakespeare Theater, and American Conservatory Theater. Among other institutions, she has taught for Portland State University, Columbia University School of the Arts, The Acting Company, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She has lectured as a guest speaker at dozens of colleges and universities nationwide. Adriana holds a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and a Masters of Fine Arts in Directing from Columbia University. She is a member of SDC, the professional union of stage directors and choreographers. She is the cohost of The Wellbeing Workshop's podcast and offers online courses and coaching through Adriana Baer Creative. Adriana lives on a two-acre farm just outside Portland, Oregon with her husband and child, and spends most of her free time digging in the dirt, practicing yoga, and reading. Special offer for Theatre of Others listeners! When you purchase Audition Master Class, you’ll get free access to Get In: How to Rock Your MFA & URTA Auditions.* https://www.adrianabaercreative.com/others Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam and Budi embark on an intensive rehearsal period for Bright Light Burning, our upcoming stage show for COP28. As the cast comprises mainly former students of Adam and Budi, they contemplate the transition from being educators and mentors to becoming professional colleagues. Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Budi and Adam debrief over their time in Bali. Discussing their highs and lows, their plans for next year and what is coming next. Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode Adam and Budi discuss their sixth choice for the Theatre of Others Book Club, Critical Response Process by Liz Lerman. Liz has spent the past four decades making her artistic research personal, funny, intellectually vivid, and up to the minute. Her choreography has examined everything from her days as a go-go dancer in 1974 to investigating the matters of our origins by putting dancers in the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. A key aspect of her artistry is opening her process to everyone from shipbuilders to physicists, construction workers to ballerinas, resulting in both research and experiences that are participatory, relevant, urgent, and usable by others. She founded Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in 1976 and cultivated the company’s unique multi-generational ensemble into a leading force in contemporary dance until 2011, when she handed the artistic leadership of the company over to the next generation of Dance Exchange artists. On Critical Response Process: Through the supportive structure of its four core steps, Critical Response Process combines the power of questions with the focus and challenge of informed dialogue. The Process offers makers an active role in the critique of their own work. It gives makers a way to rehearse the connections they seek when art meets it audience or a product meets its purpose. Critical Response Process instills ways of thinking, communicating and being that enhance all kinds of human interactions, from coaching to community dialogue, from artistic collaboration to family conversations. In use for over 25 years, Critical Response Process has been embraced by art makers, educators, scientists, and theater companies, dance departments, orchestras, laboratories, conservatories, museums, universities, corporations, and kindergartens. Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Adam and Budi arrive in Bali and discuss their TOO Taksu Theatre Workshop. Against the backdrop of Bali's natural beauty, Adam and Budi share their infectious enthusiasm for the upcoming workshop, delving into the depths of their excitement and vision. They share the myriad possibilities and transformative experiences that await each participant and discuss their hopes and aspirations for what each individual participant will take away from this workshop. Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister

In this episode, Budi and Adam sit down with Eugene Ma to discuss his practice spanning many decades, and many countries and continents. Eugene Ma is a multidisciplinary performance-maker and educator currently working across Toronto, New York and Hong Kong. He founded Performance Atelier Toronto (www.performanceatelier.ca), dedicated to embodied and liberatory actor training practices for all mediums, and is Artistic Director of the new third-culture theater company, Deliberate Collision Performance. Trained primarily as a director, he has helmed the works of Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Thornton Wilder, Moliere, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill and Saviana Stănescu. He has also developed new works with Lisa Clair, Cherry Lou Sy, Mike Lew, Shane Sakhrani, EllaRose Chary and Sooyeon Lee among others, as well as collaborating with the Hong Kong City Chamber Orchestra on the orchestral concert-theatre spectacle, Wild (Public Choice Award 2022, YAM Awards held in Belgium). From 2016 to 2018 he was appointed resident director at The Flea Theatre in New York, where he commissioned an original musical theatre work. As a member of the Actors’ Equity Association in the USA, Eugene Ma has worked under Tony Award-winning director Mary Zimmerman and celebrated auteur Stan Lai Sheng Chuan. His acting credits include performances for Theatre for a New Audience, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Wallis Annenberg Centre for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles. Eugene Ma is also a Drama Desk-nominated composer and a lauded acting teacher. A specialist in Clown and Commedia dell’Arte, he completed his teaching apprenticeship at the Yale School of Drama and at the Juilliard School under Master Clown Teacher and Professor Christopher Bayes, and has since given workshops at The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, The Dome Studio and New York University and has coached on a number of projects for the screen. Eugene Ma has served as a faculty member of Columbia University’s Graduate Acting Programme, Yale School of Drama and at Harvard. More recently he has been teaching at the Hong Kong Baptist University and at Toronto Metropolitan University. Support the showPlease help us send BRIGHT LIGHT BURNING to COP28 in Dubai. Support us on our GoFundMe Fundraiser If you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- podcast@theatreofothers.com Support the Theatre of Others - Check out our Merch! Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller Producer: Jack Burmeister Music: https://www.purple-planet.com Additional compositions by @jack_burmeister