Download podcasts form the 2008 International Theatre Exchange:
Ms. Vanessa Redgrave interviewed by Fintan O'Toole at Project Arts Centre (part 1).
Ms. Vanessa Redgrave interviewed by Fintan O'Toole at Project Arts Centre (part 2).
Panel Discussion # 1: Australasian Programming Trends
Speakers included Tisa Ho (Hong Kong), Lissa Twomey (Wellington), Elizabeth Walsh (Tasmania)
Chaired by Paul Fahy, Artistic Director Galway Arts Festival
Panel Discussion # 2: Showcasing –Benefits & Challenges
Speakers included Sally Cowling (The British Council), Jim Culleton (Fishamble Theatre Company), Mike Griffiths (Traverse Theatre, Scotland).
Chaired by Loughlin Deegan, Artistic Director, Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival
In conversation, Mannie Manim, Director of the Baxter Theatre Centre and co-founder of The Market Theatre, South Africian Theatre Artist talks about his career with Ray Yeates, Artistic Director of Axis Arts Centre, Ballymun.
Transcripts
Transcripts from previous Irish
Theatre Institute panel discussions are available for download
below.
Anne Bogart, Artistic Director, SITI Company, New York on the Role of the Artist on the World Stage (2007)
Anne Bogart (2007)
Ensemble Theatre - the vision/the reality (2007)
Chaired by: Enid Reid Whyte, Theatre Specialist, Arts Council of Ireland
Speakers: Anne Bogart, Artistic Director, SITI Company, New York
Máté Gáspár, Producer, Kretakor Theatre, Hungary
Malcolm Hamiliton, co-founder of Blue Raincoat Theatre
Ensemble Theatre - The Vision/The Reality (2007)
Artistic Director of the Public Theater Oskar Eustis introduced by playwright Vincent Woods (2006)
Oskar
Eustis (2006)
A View from North America (2006)
Chair: Mark Russell Artistic Director, Under the Radar Festival, New York
Speakers: Céline Gagnon, Cultural Attaché, Québec Government Office James Morrison, Director of WORLDStage Series, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis
Tina Rasmussen, Director of Performing Arts, Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
Michael Rose, Managing Director, Annenberg Centre, University of Pennsylvania
A
View from North America (2006)
Designers’
Rights in an International Context: Touring and Non Stage Uses
(2005)
Led
by legal expert, James Wolsey with presentation by Cecilia Friederichs,
Business Representative for Theatre, United Scenic Artists, New
York -
Designers' entitlements and producers' legal obligations.
Designers'
Rights in an International Context (2005)
Fringe Festivals - The Risk, The Reality & The Opportunity (2005)
Chair: Mike Griffiths, Administrative Director, Traverse Theatre,
Edinburgh
Speakers:Miki Stricker, Artistic Director, Edmonton Fringe Festival
& President Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals
Wolfgang
Hoffman, Artistic Director, Dublin Fringe Festival & Aurora
Nova, Edinburgh Fringe
Steven Gove, Artistic Director, Prague
Fringe Festival
Fringe
Festivals - The Risk, The Reality & The Opportunity (2005)
Pursuing an Independent Artistic
Vision (2004)
Chair: Caitriona Crowe - Archivist, Community Development
Activist & Reviewer for Rattlebag and The Sunday Tribune.
Speakers: Jane Brennan, Actor & Co-Founder B*spoke Theatre
Co.
Donal O' kelly, Actor & Writer
Michael Keegan Dolan,
Choreographer & Director Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre.
Pursuing
an Independent Artistic Vision (2004)
Touring To the USA (2004)
Chair: Ronan Smith, Producer, Abhann Productions.
Speakers:
Brian Goldstein, US Entertainment & Immigration Expert, Fettmann,
Tolchin & Majors Law Firm, Virgina, USA
Nick Sweeting, Producer
Improbable Theatre Company, UK.
Touring
in the US (2004)
Irish Theatre In Europe (2004)
Chair: Christine Madden, Literary manager, Rough Magic Theatre
Co. (also Journalist and Critic)
Speakers: Krystyna Meissner,
International Theatre Festival Dialogue Wroclaw
Katarina Dudakova,
International Theatre Festival, Nitra, Slovakia Maria Mayer Szilagyi,
Contemporary Drama Festival/Hungarian Theatre Institute, Budapest.
Irish
Theatre in Europe (2004)
Out Of Joint artistic director
Max Stafford-Clark interviewed by artistic director, Druid, Garry
Hynes (2003)
Max
Stafford-Clark (2003)
Crossing EU Borders: Accession
and Applicant States (2003)
Chair: Eugene Downes, Arts Consultant.
Speakers: Gordana
Vnuk, Artistic Director, Kampnagel Kulturfabrick, Hamburg
Nikolay
Iordanov, Executive Director, Bulgarian Theatre Association/Varna
Festival
Steven Gove, Artistic Director, Prague Fringe Festival
Claudia Woolgar, Festival Director, Kilkenny Arts Festival
New Writing, New Audiences:
Collaborations and Translations (2003)
Chair: Loughlin Deegan, Director, Irish Playography
Speakers:
Iris Turcott, Dramaturg, CanStage, Toronto
Paulo Eduardo Carvalho,
Vice-President, Portuguese Association for Theatre Critics
Philip
Howard, Artistic Director, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Jocelyn
Clarke, Literary Manager, Abbey Theatre, Dublin
New
Writing (2003)
Fringe Success: Touring Opportunities (2003)
Chair: Maureen Kennelly,
Arts Consultant/Producer
Speakers: Karl Shiels, Artistic
Director, Semper Fi, Dublin
Mike Griffiths, Administrative Director,
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
Jo Mangan, Artistic Director, The
Performance Corporation, Dublin
Aideen Howard, Artistic Director,
Mermaid County Wicklow Arts Centre, Bray
Fringe
Success: Touring (2003)
International artistic director
Declan Donnellan interviewed by former director, British Council
in Ireland, Harold Fish (2002)
Declan
Donnellan (2002)
Commercial Producing (2002)
Chair: Una Carmody, Arts Project Manager
Speakers: Pat Moylan,
Lane Productions, Ireland
Julian Erskine, Abhann Productions,
Ireland
Roger Chapman, Director of Touring, National Theatre,
London
Commercial
Producing (2002)
International Festivals' Criteria
for Programming (2002)
Chair: Michael Colgan, Gate Theatre, Dublin
Speakers:
Elizabeth Walsh, Executive Producer, Ten Days on the Island, Tasmania
Almut Wagner, Dramaturg, Vienna Festival
Fergus Linehan, Director, Dublin
Theatre Festival
International
Festivals (2002)
Irish
Venues: Sourcing International Work (2002)
Chair: Richard
Wakely, Theatre Producer
Speakers: John E. McGrath, Artistic
Director, Contact Theatre, Manchester
Ali Robertson, Director, Big
Van Tours
Mary Shields, Associate Director, Assembly
Rooms Productions, Edinburgh.
Irish
Venues Sourcing International Work (2002)
International
Co-production (2001)
Chair:
Siobhán Bourke, Film Producer and former Theatre Producer
Speakers: Diane Borger, Royal Court, London
Garry Hynes, Druid
Theatre Company, Galway
Stella Hall, Belfast Festival at
Queens
International
Co-Production (2001)
Touring
into and out of Asia (2001)
Chair:
Eugene Downes, Cultural Consultant, Dept. of Foreign Affairs.
Speakers: Jin-Taek Lim, Professor Hwawon Lee, Namyangju Open Air
Festival, Korea
Dr. Gong Bao Rong, Drama Academy/Experimental
Theatre Festival, Shanghai, China
Touring
into and out of Asia (2001)
European
City of Culture – the Philosophy and Practicality (2001)
Chair: Fiach MacConghail, Film and Theatre Producer
Speakers:
Jan Duursma, Rotterdam City of Culture 2001
Hugo De Greef, Bruges
City of Culture 2002
Shona McCarthy, Imagine Belfast bid 2008.
Concludes with brief demonstration of the Irish Playography test
website by Loughlin Deegan
European
City of Culture (2001)
The North American Experience
- how to tour (2000)
Chair: Tambra Dillon, Temple Bar Properties Dublin
Speakers:
David Eden, David Eden Productions NY
Nunally Kersh, Spoleto
Festival Michael Kondziolka, University of Michigan
Gordon McCall,
Centaur Theatre Montreal
The
North American Experience (2000)
Irish
Arts in an International Context (2000)
Chair: Arthur Lappin, Film Producer
Speakers: Michael Colgan,
Gate Theatre, Dublin
Olga Garay, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation,
USA
Peter Schreiber, Ministry of Education, Science and Culture
Netherlands
Harold Fish, former British Council Officer in Ireland
Bernard Faivre D'Arcier, Festival D'Avignon
Irish
Arts in an International Context (2000)
