Name: Fefu and Her Friends: Postshow Discussion by A.C.T. San Francisco
Duration: 39 min 42 s
Description: After you've watched María Irene Fornés's "Fefu and Her Friends" at the Strand Theater, check out this postshow discussion between A.C.T.'s Director of New Works Joy Meads, and artist Lisa Ramirez.

In this episode of Place: Here. Time: Now, Pam MacKinnon talks with Awoye Timpo and Arminda Thomas about their work on A.C.T.'s virtual production of Alice Childress's "Trouble in Mind," as well as their work with CLASSIX, an organization that strives to present more work by Black artists. (See theclassix.org for more information.)

Place: here. Time: now. Episode 6: Grateful and Inspired

In episode 7, A.C.T. Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon, set designer Allen Lee Hughes, and sound designer and composer Jake Rodriguez talk about their theater origin stories, and asking the right questions in the rehearsal room.

Place: here. Time: now. Episode 7: Showing, Not Talking so Much

In this episode, Pam talks with Mx Justin Vivian Bond, who made history as the first actor who identifies as transgender to play a trans character on Broadway. They discuss highlights of Vivian’s career as well as the importance of trans representation and diversity in the industry.

Place: here. Time: now. Episode 8: It makes the art better

After you've watched María Irene Fornés's "Fefu and Her Friends" at the Strand Theater, check out this postshow discussion between A.C.T.'s Director of New Works Joy Meads, and artist Lisa Ramirez.

Fefu and Her Friends: Postshow Discussion

A.C.T. Artistic Director and Tony Award winner Pam MacKinnon sat down with two long-term friends and artistic collaborators, playwrights Lydia R. Diamond and Craig Lucas. They discuss the underbelly of critical acclaim, how to combat anti-Blackness in the theater, and where theater needs to go next in the era of COVID-19.

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On episode 4 of Place: Here. Time: Now., we talk to playwright James Ijames (A.C.T.'s Moon Man Walk) and director Morgan Green about their origin stories (from comic books to A.C.T. acting classes!), the state of the arts, and the art of instilling pleasure in an audience.

Place: here. Time: now. Episode 4: Exciting and Exhausting

In the rain

A.C.T. Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon talks with new Lorraine Hansberry Theatre Artistic Director Margo Hall and outgoing Magic Theatre Artistic Director Loretta Greco about their common origins at Catholic University, their career paths in the Bay Area, and what’s next.

Place: here. Time: now. Episode 5: Praying for Beauty and Love... Hope.

American Conservatory Theater is an essential gathering place that brings artists and communities together to inspire and provoke.

Under the leadership of Tony Award-winning Artistic Director Pam MacKinnon and Executive Director Jennifer Bielstein, A.C.T.’s mission is to engage the spirit of the San Francisco Bay Area, activate stories that resonate, promote a diversity of voices and points of view, and empower theater makers and audiences to celebrate liveness. A.C.T. values inclusion, transformational learning, participation and rigorous fun. A.C.T. is a Tony Award-winning nonprofit theater serving almost 200,000 people in the San Francisco Bay Area annually through theater, training, education, and community programs.

Fefu and Her Friends: Postshow Discussion

A.C.T. San Francisco

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