interviews

Finding Joan, Part Three: A Conversation With Dramaturg Zoe Polach

Finding Joan, Part Three: A Conversation With Dramaturg Zoe Polach

"If you're going to make your own piece of art, you can't keep everything. It's a bit like a quilt: the pieces come from all three contexts, but you're not making three quilts, you're trying to make one...our goal was always how to use these things in the service of a production that is as alive and as meaningful as possible, to us, right now."

Finding Joan, Part Two: A Conversation with Director Tracey Erbacher

Finding Joan, Part Two: A Conversation with Director Tracey Erbacher

"They say theater isn't therapy, but in this case I disagree. I think this process was really intense and emotionally healing for the women who worked on it (I know  it was for me), and that not only does that serve a deeper telling of the play, but is very much in the spirit of Joan's own project."

Finding Joan, Part One: A Conversation with Actor Lizzie Parmenter

Finding Joan, Part One: A Conversation with Actor Lizzie Parmenter

"With this show, I want people to feel the breadth of what is possible. I think there is freedom in articulating and hearing someone else articulate the struggles that you've experienced individually and collectively. It's affirming--yes, these struggles are real! No, you're not crazy!"