City Speaks Episode 3: Lauren Yee, Cambodian Rock Band
Pittsburgh City Theatre's City Speaks Podcast
Release Date: 09/19/2019
City Speaks Episode 19: 2020-2021 Preview!
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This week on City Speaks, Marketing Director Nikki Battestilli interviews Clare on the new shows you can expect for our upcoming season.
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City Speaks Episode 18: "Cry It Out" with City Theatre Staff
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This week on City Speaks, in spirit of our new show "Cry It Out," we’re speaking with 3 City Theatre staff members who have recently had babies of their own. We talk parenting with Education Director Katie Trupiano, General Manager Natalie Hatcher, and Scene Shop Foreman John Brucker.
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City Speaks Episode 17: Marc Masterson and Steve Shapiro
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This week on City Speaks, we sit down with Director and City Theatre Artistic Director Marc Masterson and sound designer Steve Shapiro.
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City Speaks Episode 16: Martin Giles and Helena Ruoti, City Theatre Performers
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This week on City Speaks, we sit down with Martin Giles, a Pittsburgh based actor, teacher, and City Theatre performer, and Helene Ruoti (Irene), a fellow City theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theatre performer.
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City Speaks Episode 15: Sharon Eberson, Theater/Pop Culture Writer
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This week on City Speaks, Director of New Play Development Clare Drobot sits down with Sharon Eberson, online features editor, theater critic, and arts and pop culture reporter for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
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City Speaks Episode 14: Illah Nourbahksh, Professor of Ethics and Computational Technologies
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This week's episode of CitySpeaks features City Theatre's Director of New Play Development, Clare Drobot 's fascinating conversation with Illah R. Nourbahksh, Professor of Robotics, Director of the Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment (CREATE) lab and Associate Director for robotics faculty at Carnegie Mellon University.
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City Speaks Episode 13: Michael John Garces and James McManus, A New Community Building Endeavor
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This week's CitySpeaks podcast features Pittsburgh City Theatre's Director of New Play Development, Clare Drobot, in conversation with director Michael John Garcés and playwright James McManus.
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City Speaks Episode 12: Martin Zimmerman and Tlaloc Rivas, Momentum Reading Series
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This week's Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast features interviews with playwright Martín Zimmerman and writer Tlaloc Rivas
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City Speaks Episode 11: Tony Ferrieri, Director of Production/Resident Scenic Designer
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Today on CitySpeaks, the podcast from Pittsburgh City Theatre, Director of New Play Development, Clare Drobot, interviews renowned set designer Tony Ferrieri.
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City Speaks Episode 10: Shua Potter and Monteze Freeland, The Santaland Diaries
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Pittsburgh City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast this week features Shua Potter and Monteze Freeland.
info_outlineEpisode 3 of City Theatre's CitySpeaks podcast features City Theatre's Clare Drobot in conversation with Lauren Yee, whose play, Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered at South Coast Rep. and is now at City Theatre on Pittsburgh's Southside.Get your tickets here:
https://citytheatre.culturaldistrict.org/production/62854/cambodian-rock-band
Lauren and Clare discuss life as a playwright, and how research and a trip to Cambodia inspired an incredible story.More about Lauren: Subsequent productions of Cambodian Rock Band have appeared at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Merrimack Rep, Signature Theatre, Portland Center Stage, and Jungle Theatre. Yee's play The Great Leap, has been produced at the Denver Center, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Arts Club, and InterAct Theatre, with future productions at Steppenwolf, Long Wharf, and Asolo Rep. Honors include the Doris Duke Artists Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/ATCA Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters literature award, Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize, Primus Prize, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. She’s a Residency 5 playwright at Signature Theatre, New Dramatists members, Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab member, and Playwrights Realm alumni playwright. TV credits include: PACHINKO (Apple) and SOUNDTRACK (Netflix). Current commissions include Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, South Coast Rep. She received her bachelor's degree from Yale. MFA: UCSD. laurenyee.com