Typecast: Boston's New Play Podcast: Recent Episodes
Darren Evans
TYPECAST is the brainchild of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre at Boston University, the home for new plays in Boston. In this new series, we’ll be diving deep into the new play ecosystem of Beantown, talking with playwrights, directors, actors, and theatremakers of all types about the process of bringing a new play into the world.
Join host Darren Evans with playwright Ronán Noone and Lyric Stage Company of Boston's Courtney O'Connor, as we discuss "Thirst," Ronán's play this is being produced at the Lyric under Courtney's direction. We touch on the immigrant experience, Eugene O'Neill, writing, producing and selling new plays, and indulge in a competitive trivia (drinking) game.
We are joined by writer M Sloth Levine and Director Josh Glenn-Kayden, the masterminds behind Company One Theatre's premiere of "The Interrobangers," a queer coming of age mystery that riffs on a certain classic Saturday morning cartoon staple.
In this episode, director Bridget Kathleen O'Leary and designer Karen Perlow talk about the design process for new plays and compete head to head in a game of made of up definitions.
Darren sits down to talk with the new cohort of playwrights in the MFA Playwriting Program at BU: Tina Esper, Maggie Kearnan, Isabelle Sanatdar Stevens and Brandon Zang.
In the launch of our second season, we introduce you to new BPT Artistic Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian and new head of the BU Playwriting Program Nathan Alan Davis as they discuss collaboration, education, and food (lots of food).
This episode features a core part of the creative team behind the final production of BPT's 2021-22 Season of New Plays: Beasts. Playwright Cayenne Douglass, director Kelly Galvin, and actors Clara Francesca and Caroline Calkins join to discuss what is going on under the surface and what is exploding all over the stage in this wild new play. Plus we get around to some shenanigans with a new game for our guests.
In this episode, we hear from the playwright and director of Rx Machina, as well as one of the cast members, to discuss the origins of the play and why it feels important to be telling this story now.
This episode features the dream team of collaborators behind the brand new one-person show "Mr. Parent" at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston. Melinda Lopez, Maurice Emmanuel Parent and Megan Sandberg-Zakian join the podcast to talk about their journey of taking this play from its humble beginnings as backstage storytelling to its world premiere at the Lyric Stage. This is your chance to peek behind the curtain on the creative process of three of the most beloved and successful theatremakers in Boston.