Making Theatre in Non-Traditional Venues

HowlRound Theatre Commons: As a theatre director, developing the world of the show and defining the way an audience interacts with it excites me. Because my undergraduate training didn’t extend beyond the studio theatre environment, during my first years as a director in New York City, as I attempted creating work in non-traditional spaces, I made lots of mistakes. It wasn’t until I developed Oh Heroine How I Love You! as part of my master’s at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London that I was rigorously pushed to investigate how to properly merge theatrical world-building with an already existing site.