LA FPI Podcasts
Allison & Margaret Engel – Click Here
January, 2012
Alyson Mead speaks with former reporters and playwrights Allison & Margaret Engel about Molly Ivins, the spectre of war and politics, and their play Red Hot Patriot now playing at the Geffen Playhouse.
Lauren Yee – Click Here
November, 2011
Alyson Mead speaks with playwright Lauren Yee about her her work CHING CHONG CHINAMAN, and the search for cultural identity.
Susan Angelo – Click Here
September, 2011
Alyson Mead talks with director Susan Angelo about Theatricum Botanicum‘s new production of My Name is Rachel Corrie, and the importance of struggle for meaning in theater.
Cynthia Ling Lee – Click Here (Part 1 & Part 2)
June, 2011
Alyson Mead speaks with Cynthia Ling Lee about her multimedia piece Sunoh! Tell Me Sister featured in the National Asian American Theater Festival, as well as the importance of telling female stories, and recovering female voices.
May Lee-Yang – Click Here
June, 2011
Alyson Mead talks with playwright, prose writer, poet and performance artist May Lee-Yang about her show Ten Reasons Why I’d Be a Bad Porn Star, currently playing at the National Asian American Theater Festival, as well as her work in the Hmong community.
Hollywood Fringe – Click Here
June, 2011
Alyson Mead talks with Meghan McCauley and Stacy Jones from the Hollywood Fringe Festival about getting new and emerging work onstage, and the importance of community among artists.
Sarah Doyle – Click Here
June, 2011
Alyson Mead talks with polymath Sarah Doyle, whose play Feeling Feeling explores pain, relationships, and how excising one’s emotions may be the only sane way to cope with life’s various curveballs.
Rita O’Farrell – Click Here
June, 2011
Alyson Mead talks with Rita O’Farrell about her play Pedestrian at the Hollywood Fringe, the lure of violent video games, and how sometimes, everyone gets peed on.
Wendy Graf – Click Here
May, 2011
Alyson Mead talks with playwright Wendy Graf about her favorite themes of family, identity, as well as her newest work, No Word in Guyanese for Me.
Jane Anderson – Click Here (Part 1 & Part 2)
April, 2011
Alyson Mead talks with Jane Anderson about her provocative new play The Escort, the world of commissions, and how theater and television are natural partners.
photo by Barbara Green
Sofia Alvarez – Click Here
April, 2011
Alyson Mead talks to playwright Sofia Alvarez about her new play Between Us Chickens, her upcoming graduation from Julliard, and why her play could only have been set in Los Angeles.
NEWS! Between Us Chickens has moved to the Atwater Village Theater, and runs from May 20th through June 19th, in case you missed it at South Coast Rep!
Israela Margalit – Click Here
March, 2011
Alyson Mead speaks with playwright Israela Margalit about her play Trio, opening at the Lounge 2 Theatre in Hollywood.
Gina Gionfriddo – Click Here
February, 2011
Alyson Mead talks to award-winning playwright Gina Gionfriddo about her process, lessons learned, trials inTV land and her hit play Becky Shaw.
jenniewebb | 
March 7, 2011 3:59 pm
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