This page provides links to sample videos in Educate.Today’s Creating the Production video series.

Engaging videos offer insight and examples from playwrights, actors, directors, producers, designers, and other theatre professionals as they work on creating a specific production.

To see each sample video, click on the hyperlinked title below or click on the thumbnail image to the right.

Creating the Production:  Glynis Brooks  Creates “Harriet Tubman–An American Hero”
Harriet Tubman is one of the most notable icons in American and African American history.  A hero and symbol of freedom, bravery and strength, it’s no surprise that performance artist Glynis Brooks, who has created and performed a variety of one-woman shows throughout her career set out to tell her story.  Brooks created “Harriet Tubman: An American Hero” after being commissioned to create a new one-woman show.  During her research on Harriet Tubman, Brooks realized there was much history and depth to the abolitionist’s story that the public did not know and chose to demonstrate how pertinent Tubman’s life and lessons are today for both young and old.

Creating the Production:  Creating “Miriam Makeba:  Mama Africa–The Musical”
“Miriam Makeba: Mama Africa the Musical” tells the life story of South African recording artist Miriam Zenzi Makeba.  Makeba brought the sounds of Africa to the western world in a dramatic fashion.  Makeba’s magical voice brought her international success, which supported her activism in helping to bring down apartheid in her homeland.

Creating the Production:  Inside the Process of Workshopping a New Play Script
Playwright Nick Kryah and Metro Theater Company Artistic Director Julia Flood share examples of the workshopping process they used for Nick’s new play, “Let’s Talk Trash.”

Creating the Production:  Ensuring Safety on Set
Director Melissa Rain Anderson shares her experience in ensuring set safety for the her recently directed production of “The Play that Goes Wrong” at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.  Staging the farce includes numerous potentially dangerous stunts involving a unique set.

Creating the Production:  Inside the Artist’s Studio–“Afflicted,” Producing the Play
What might have happened before “The Crucible” begins?  “Afflicted: Daughters of Salem, Laurie Brooks’ compelling play for young audiences, takes on that question directly.  Learn from the playwright, actors, director, and designers about what it takes to stage such a play.

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