CMU School of Drama


Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Lessons in Online Theatremaking from New Paradise Laboratories’ Whit MacLaughlin

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Thirteen years ago, Whit MacLaughlin, the Obie-winning artistic director of Philadelphia’s New Paradise Laboratories, began slamming theatre into the internet. Fatebook (2009) was the first production and Extremely Public Displays of Privacy (2011) was next.

Here we are now with the pandemic COVID-19. Overnight, our functions as theatremakers have changed. Virus control methods have closed theatres and schools. Methods of communication and gathering have shifted online to create social distance and flatten the curve.

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