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“Their very presence… said volumes to me about the power theater has and the difference it makes in peoples lives; and not only the potential we have as an artform, but the responsibility we shoulder when we seek to take a stage.” – Ben Cameron, I AM THEATRE About five years ago, very shortly after [...]

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“I cut off my ponytail, grabbed a script, and jumped onstage. It was terrifying.” – Michael John Garcés, I AM THEATRE It’s not the most poetic thing Michael says in that video; its not the most connected to Cornerstone’s mission, to the decades of community engaged work that has had a profound impact on our national [...]

Call and Response: Olympia Dukakis

by Sandra Delgado January 24, 2012 I AM THEATRE
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“Even I had to see that if I was to stay an actress I had to stop trying to win. I had to start playing again. I had lost that, which is of course a great pleasure. Never mind that the best work comes from it.” – Olympia Dukakis, I AM THEATRE The issue of [...]

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Call and Response: Torange Yeghiazarian

by Marcy Arlin December 28, 2011 I AM THEATRE
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“Watching that performance [the immigrant children’s performance of their family stories] I realized how important it is for the kids to really claim their identity and be proud of it and be able to speak about it…The act of telling these stories actually gives value to the kids’ identity. Theatre gives us permission to talk [...]

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Call and Response: Daniel Gookin

by Valerie Narehood December 21, 2011 I AM THEATRE
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“It keeps us on our toes, because it gets us to come up with new and creative ways to deal with the ideas they come up with.” – Daniel Gookin, I AM THEATRE Having made my bones as a technician in lower-budget regional theatre, I’m no stranger to the consternations endemic to converted houses. I’ve [...]

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Call and Response: Lynn Nottage

by Monica Byrne December 13, 2011 I AM THEATRE
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“Oh my God. Who do you think got 32?” – Lynn Nottage, I AM THEATRE When I watched Lynn’s video, I groaned in sympathy. Anyone studying anything to do with biology has to take organic chemistry at some point. As my own professor put it drolly, “It tends to be…a watershed.” It was for me, [...]

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