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Jamil Khoury Interview, Dasha Lubitov
Jamil Khoury Interview, Dasha Lubitov
Asian American Art Oral History Project
This interview focusses on Silk Road Rising's video play Not Quite White: Arabs, Slavs, and the Contours of Contested Whiteness.
Bio: Jamil Khoury is the Founding Artistic Director of Silk Road Rising. Promoting playwrights of Silk Road backgrounds (Asian and Middle Eastern) is a passion that dovetails well with his experiences living in the Middle East and his eleven years as a cross-cultural trainer and international relocations consultant. A theatre producer, essayist, playwright, and film maker, Khoury’s work focuses on Middle Eastern themes and questions of Diaspora. He is particularly interested in the intersections of culture, national identity, and citizenship, …
Breaking Surface: Unearthing Meaning In Jenny Schwartz's "God's Ear", Andrew Peters
Breaking Surface: Unearthing Meaning In Jenny Schwartz's "God's Ear", Andrew Peters
The Theatre School MFA in Directing Theses
I struggle with language. I don’t trust definitions or labels. Words elude me – articulating a thought becomes a painful exercise for my brain. I often adhere too strictly to meaning, and can pinpoint when an idea I’m mulling over doesn’t quite fit the word I’m using to describe it. My workaround habit is tacking on less definite, open-ended phrases (“This is kind of…” “This might be…”) – the enemies of someone training to be a clearer, well-spoken leader.I am intrigued by messy human stories that can’t be told through realism alone. I seek truth through a more imaginative theatrical …
How I Screwed Up My Thesis Production And Forgot Everything I Knew About Directing, Brian Balcom
How I Screwed Up My Thesis Production And Forgot Everything I Knew About Directing, Brian Balcom
The Theatre School MFA in Directing Theses
This was supposed to be my best work; a complete display of not only three years of graduate instruction, but a life’s worth of education and experience. It was supposed to be my introduction to the city of Chicago: a calling card, a conversation starter, a means of validation that would get my foot in the door of any storefront I chose. Instead, it was possibly the most disappointing production I’ve ever directed.