After Week One: Where Artistic and Audiences Meet
Our audience perhaps approaches our play with the desire of discovering more behind the titillating title but instead finds something far deeper than a discussion of a vibrator or a drawing room. Many...
View ArticleOur (Not So) Secret Desires
Before the show on Wednesday night, we hosted an audience salon on the topic of “Technology, Relationships & Sexuality” with three local sex and gender bloggers: Amanda Hess of TBD.com, Zack Rosen...
View ArticleA Note from Sarah Ruhl
I have always wanted to write a costume drama. With corsets, bustles and gloves. After spending a good part of my youth reading Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte sick in bed while the other kids in my...
View ArticleVIBRATOR Outtakes
It seems like many moons ago when we sat down to create our vibrator marketing/communications/social media campaign. When planning the blogs I take sort of an editorial point of view, charting out...
View ArticleReflections from a Cast Member: Katie deBuys
I have loved Sarah Ruhl’s work for years, so when I was invited to audition (huge, lifelong thanks to Kristin Leahey for that) for Woolly’s production of In the Next Room or the vibrator play I was...
View ArticleOnline and In-Person Audience Engagement: Secret Desires
This morning I returned from a quick trip to NYC during which I took several meetings with people who are using social media in the field. In a couple of those meetings people asked me about the...
View ArticleKimberly Gilbert Shares her VIBRATOR Experience
So here I am entering the final week of the run of the show with already a feeling of mourning. Usually I get the sad-clown’s the week after a show closes, but with this one I am already getting misty....
View ArticleConnectivity Wraps-Up VIBRATOR
On Connectivity Assistant Max Freedman’s first day, he sat down with me and Claque member Kathy English Holt to plan for a Radio Woolly podcast. For his first few hours on the job, Max talked with two...
View ArticleYou Have Seen This Girl: The Changing Face of Media.
I teach a graduate level producing and theatre management class at Columbia, and this past Monday we were discussing various technological and sociological shifts that have occurred over the last 100...
View ArticleYou Want Me to Do WHAT?
When you work at a place named after a large, prehistoric, and rather fluffy animal, you probably assume that you will not have the typical office experience. When it’s a theatre known for “defying...
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