Directing New Plays - Evan Cabnet

Directing New Plays

Tools for Art and Collaboration

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2024
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-17926-4 (ISBN)
24,90 inkl. MwSt
Every theater director will oversee a new play process in their career: here is what to expect and how to prepare.

Drawing from over 20 years of experience as a freelance director, and as the Artistic Director of LCT3 at Lincoln Center Theater, Evan Cabnet combines the creative with the pragmatic to provide an honest, useful, and entertaining look at the art of directing a new play.

Integrating practical advice with personal experience, Directing New Plays demystifies the process of directing a new work. From developing a creative vision to navigating the challenges of collaborative art-making, this book offers a comprehensive look at the director’s role in the process and the tools they use at every step,

including development (readings and workshops), pre-production (casting and design), rehearsal (staging, working with actors, rewrites, and run-throughs), tech, previews, and opening a world premiere production. Incisive, supportive, and clear, this book is an indispensable resource for theater directors looking to begin— or to sustain— a career in new play development.

Evan Cabnet is an NYC-based theater director specializing in new plays. He has directed new works by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Gloria, Pulitzer Finalist, 2015), Helen Edmundson (Therese Raquin on Broadway for the Roundabout Theater Company), Christopher Shinn (Teddy Ferrara), Steven Sater & Burt Bacharach (Some Lovers), Bekah Brunstetter (Oohrah!), Liz Meriwether (The Mistakes Madeline Made and Oliver Parker!), Kenneth Lin (Warrior Class), David West Read (The Dream of the Burning Boy and The Performers on Broadway), Zayd Dohrn (Outside People), Daniel Pearle (A Kid Like Jake) Julia Brownell (All-American) and has collaborated with Stephen Sondheim, Edward Albee, John Guare, Donald Margulies, and Theresa Rebeck. As an Artistic Director, he has developed and produced plays by Jackie Sibblies Drury (Marys Seacole, Obie Award, 2019), Martyna Majok (queens), Aya Ogawa (The Nosebleed, Obie Award, 2023), Zoe Kazan (After the Blast), Bryna Turner (Bull In a China Shop and At The Wedding), Miranda Rose Hall (Plot Points in Our Sexual Development), and Antoinette Nwandu (Pass Over, Lortel Award, Best Play, 2019). He is a founding member of the Ars Nova Playgroup, where he developed or directed works by Annie Baker, Beau Willimon, Liz Flahive, Carly Mensch, and many others. He is a former Associate Artist with the Roundabout Theater Company, a Resident Artist with Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater, and a Performance Consultant for the Metropolitan Opera (Die Fledermaus). He has directed for NYU’s Graduate Acting Program and the Juilliard School and has guest lectured at Columbia and Yale University. From 2017 to 2024 he served as the Artistic Director of LCT3 at Lincoln Center Theater.

Introduction

Part 1: Beginnings

Chapter 1: What Does a Director Do, and How Do They Do It?

Chapter 2: Finding and Reading a Text

Chapter 3: Meeting with a Writer

Part 2: Development

Chapter 4: Readings

Chapter 5: Workshops

Chapter 6: Getting the Play Produced

Part 3: Pre-Production

Chapter 7: Assembling the Creative Team

Chapter 8: Casting

Chapter 9: The Design Process

Chapter 20: The Producing Organization and Production Meetings

Part 4: Rehearsal

Chapter 11: The First Rehearsal

Chapter 12: Tablework

Chapter 13: Building a Rough Draft

Chapter 14: Preparing and Organizing a Rehearsal Day

Chapter 15: Actors

Chapter 16: The Stumble-Through and The Next Draft

Chapter 17: Rewrites

Chapter 18: Run-Throughs

Part 5: The Space

Chapter 19: Preparing for Tech

Chapter 20: Tech

Chapter 21: Dress Rehearsal

Part 6: The Audience

Chapter 22: Previews

Chapter 23: Preview Rehearsals

Chapter 24: Final Previews and Freezing a Production

Chapter 25: Opening, The Run, and Closing

Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.10.2024
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Film / TV
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10 1-350-17926-4 / 1350179264
ISBN-13 978-1-350-17926-4 / 9781350179264
Zustand Neuware
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