- Derek Goldman is Artistic Director of the Davis Performing Arts Center and Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Georgetown University. He is an award-winning stage director, playwright, adapter, developer of new work, teacher, and published scholar. -

I feel so blessed to toil in this community where so many of us — artists and audiences — get to sojourn habitually across styles, cultures, and varied producing structures (not to mention across DC, Maryland and Virginia) to collaborate and be inspired by each other’s work. [Read more...]

- Award winning DC playwright Karen Zacarias received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play (The Sins of Sor Juana). Her works have been produced at The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, The Goodman Theater, The Denver Center, Alliance Theater, Round House Theater, Imagination Stage, Berkshire Theater Festival, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, The Arden, Cleveland Playhouse, San Jose Rep among others.- [Read more...]

What I love most about this city, and what I don’t see much anywhere else, is a love for tapping into the extraordinary. So much of the work I see in DC is so true, with a spine intact and feet firmly on the ground. I forget that I’m watching actors perform. I get transported. And I know these people well to begin with! Sometimes I know more than half the cast members in the play. If you can accomplish this transformation in the eyes of a fellow actor in the theatre scene, you’ve got something really special.

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- Since 1985, actor Floyd King has been nominated for 16 Helen Hayes Awards and has received 5 Awards. -

When you’re young, I think you go to the theatre to find out that you’re not alone. As children we often harbor this fear that we’re not like everyone else, so it’s a great moment when you realize that you’re not the only one who believes something, or behaves a certain way. I think I first got involved with theatre because it confirmed my sanity. [Read more...]

- Joshua Morgan is an actor and Co-Artistic Director of No Rules Theatre Company, which received the 2011 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Emerging  Theatre Company. -

No Rules produces in both DC and in Winston-Salem, and those are two very different audiences! DC is fascinating. We live in a city that has such a variety of people. We’re so transient here. [Read more...]