As a poet and director, when I came across the script,  the poetic language, the dramatic aspects of the play, and the possibility of creativity the story provides attracted me to direct The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield in the Bosnian War. 

John Lanou wrote Love in Three Scenes to explore “love in the age of rage.”The piece could stir controversy (on both the right and the left) as it tackles Muslim-American patriotism, climate change sci-fi, and Donald Trump’s heart.  Here he talks about his upcoming Fringe show. 

Black Confederates have long been considered a minor historical footnote, and even a debatable one at that. What isn’t open to debate is the fact that there were some 4 million Blacks living in the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War. Perhaps, living isn’t the best description. More like desperately surviving in ever […]

Word Dance Theater hasn’t done a Fringe since 2008 so I wanted to do it this year.  We always meet new people and pick up new audiences. Also, I like the “low tech” quality of the Fringe and I felt it would give me the freedom to explore some new ideas.

First, how we got here: In November 1955, a group of young Washingtonians and a former member of the then-all-male Princeton Triangle Club decided to put on a show devoted to “pure fun and nonsense.” They called the new group Hexagon (double the Triangle symbol) to represent the inclusion of women. Led by Charles Ilsley, […]

I fell in love with Hawaii in 1997 when my first wife and I took a vacation there.  You might say my love of Hawaii outlasted my first marriage.  But that’s another story.