making art.

Finally, here are 5 lessons I learned from directing in 2024 (if you have time, please send me the lessons you learned this year from your own practice):

5. If you are scared of something, have great collaborators and they will pull you towards it.**

4. You can never know what is going on with someone else and since it is usually more than you can i... See more

When we embody a classic play like The Bacchae , I am interested in including the history of the play and all of its previous productions into our consideration about how to stage it it today. For example: If playing Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire , do you pretend that Marlon Brando never performed the role? What do you do with the ghost and m... See more

“Listening is a basic ingredient of attention, and it can be learned and

practiced. Listening is fueled by interest and curiosity. It is a discipline

and an action in the world, and the results are nearly magical. Hearing

can restore. To be heard, really heard by another person, is to be healed.”

― Anne Bogart, And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpr... See more

“Innovation is made possible by the width and breadth of a person’s rummaging around the world, in traffic with the living and the dead. It is by transgressing the boundaries that separate us that we begin to find solutions to the world’s present complexities because inclusion and incorporation of “the other” creates the conditions for innovation.”... See more

“Every creative act involves a leap into the void. The leap has to occur at the right moment and yet the time for the leap is never prescribed. In the midst of a leap, there are no guarantees. To leap can often cause acute embarrassment. Embarrassment is a partner in the creative act—a key collaborator.”

― Anne Bogart, A Director Prepares

“If what Picasso proposed is true, that the first stroke on the canvas is always a mistake, it is best to get on with the mistake, without delay, earlier rather than later. Write one sentence, make one choice or point at something and say “Yes.” And then, as the process unfolds, and as long as I keep at it and stay attentive and resolute, making ad... See more

“We are debris arrangers. Equipped with what we have inherited, we try to make a life, make a living and make art. We are assemblers. We forge received parts into meaningful compositions. This state of affairs is our plight and our destiny, but it also offers the opportunity to find meaning as well as to find communion with others.”

― Anne Bogart, ... See more

“You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.”

― Anne Bogart