The Quickening
The Quickening is an interview podcast for people who make and love theater. The premise is simple: We invite artists we admire and ask them one question… “What was it like making your first show in New York?” Where the conversation goes from there is up to the universe. The Quickening is hosted by Fern Diaz and Matt Kagen, co-founders of softFocus, a theater incubator for the digital age.
- Update frequency
- every 140 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 7
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2019
The Spontaneous Creation of a Temporary Community | Sarah DeLappe and Lila Neugebauer
I'm Trying to Create a Public Persona Here | Will Eno
All These Bodies Are In This Room | Clare Barron
I’m Both a So-Called Poster Boy and Detractor | Ayad Akhtar
Ayad Akhtar is skeptical about the current role of identity politics in art. Hold on to your hats — it’s a good one.
Everything Was Messy and Really Explicitly Cheap | ERS Theater's John Collins, Scott Shepherd & Pete Simpson
John Collins, Scott Shepherd and Pete Simpson, members of the theater company Elevator Repair Service, talk about their different paths into ERS and the New York experimental theater scene from the 9…
I Am My Own Artist | Condola Rashad
Condola Rashad sits down with Fern and Matt to talk about starting out in New York. Topics include: how to audition, LA vs NYC, how to grapple with coming from a long lineage of artists, and performi…
It All Looks So Ridiculous on the Page | The Debate Society
The Debate Society (Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, and Oliver Butler) has been praised for making plays that are "uncannily familiar and teasingly mysterious at the same time" by The New York Times. On th…