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Sarah, Miriam, and The Daughters of Lorraine, aka Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley, discuss NFTs, reflections on teaching through the pandemic, and a scientific study of theatre's effects on empathy.
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Pannill, Harvey, and Brian talk about post-pandemic future of academic work, welcome Kate Bredeson back to the podcast to talk about the ongoing occupation of theatre buildings in France, and discuss Rahda Blank's film The Forty-Year-Old Version.
Here are links to some of the things we talk about on this episode.
The Occupation Odéon 2021 instagram page.
Radha Blank’s film, The Forty-Year-Old Version.
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Harvey, Jen, and Kareem talk about LaDonna Forsgren's article on The Wiz and Black feminist spectatorship, Ike Holter's audio play, I Hate It Here, and AI applications that replicate the voices of dead vocalists. Plus Pannill drops in to share fun facts about On TAP to mark five years of podcasting.
On TAP Special: Tracy Davis and Peter Marx
Pannill welcomes Tracy Davis of Northwestern University and Peter Marx of the University of Cologne to discuss their recent co-edited book, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography.
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Sarah, Harvey, and new regular co-hosts Leticia Ridley and Jordan Ealey (also known as the Daughters of Lorraine) talk about EDI work in theatre and performance studies, Ratatouille the TikTok musical, and Race and Performance After Repetition, the new multi-author volume edited by Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones, and Shane Vogel.
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Pannill and new regular co-hosts Brian Herrera and Miriam Felton-Dansky discuss Lindsay Brandon Hunter's article, "We Are Not Making a Movie," streaming presentations of works by Adrienne Kennedy and Luis Alfaro, and new experimental works available online by Split Britches and Marike Splint.
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Sarah (in the lead co-host role!), Pannill, and new regular co-host Jen Pierce talk about the multiple threats to arts, humanities, and TAPS career opportunities in higher education, alt-ac career pathways in the tech sector for theatre and performance students, and the streamed multi-media play, Circle Jerk.
Links to some of the things we talk about on this episode:
A student created blog resisting the proposed cuts at University of Roehampton
The National Student Clearing House page on the pandemic’s effects on college enrollment
Circle Jerk, by fake friends
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Harvey, Pannill, and Kareem Khubchandani discuss José Esteban Muñoz's The Sense of Brown, the current impediments to TAPS research, and Basil Kreimendahl's 2016 essay about cis playwrights and trans characters.
Here are links to some of the things we talk about in this edition:
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Justine Nakase and Kate Bredeson join the co-hosts to share their perspectives on the protests for Black lives in Portland, Oregon. Plus Harvey, Sarah, and Pannill discuss the pandemic's effects on performing arts education and research, and share some news about the future of the podcast.
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Miriam Felton-Dansky joins us to talk about the artistic and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, plus Sarah, Harvey, and Pannill talk about the reactions inside higher education, and revisit Waiting for Guffman (1996), which we all watched last week.