Directing New Plays
Methuen Drama (Verlag)
978-1-350-17925-7 (ISBN)
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.10.2024 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-17925-6 / 1350179256 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-17925-7 / 9781350179257 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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