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Theatre · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing & Behind the Scenes Conversations

Theatre · The Creative Process: Acting, Directing, Writing & Behind the Scenes Conversations

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Theatre episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. We speak to performers and behind the scenes creatives. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find us on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts!

Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners of Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Pulitzer, leaders & public figures share real experiences & offer valuable insights. Notable guests and participating organizations include: Doug Wright (Dramatists Guild of America), Neil Patrick Harris, Gavin James Creel (The Book of Mormon), John Benjamin Hickey, Joe Mantegna, David Auburn (Proof), Harris Yulin, Gregory Jbara, Tony Walton, Josh Gladstone (John Drew Theater at Guild Hall), Liev Schreiber, Yuval Sharon, Paulo Szot (Chicago), Kate Mueth (Neo-Political Cowgirls & League of Professional Theater Women), Robert Wilson, Jenny Schlenzka (Performance Space New York), Bay Street Theater, Tal Hever-Chybowski (Maison de la Culture Yiddish), Vallejo Gantner (Onassis Cultural Center), Daniel Fish, Georgina Kakoudaki (Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Epidaurus Lyceum), Avra Sidiropoulou (Persona Theatre Company), among others.

The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world. These conversations are also part of our traveling exhibition.
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  • Trust, Education & Writing as Resistance w/ AL KENNEDY - Highlights

    Trust, Education & Writing as Resistance w/ AL KENNEDY - Highlights
    Mar 3 2026

    "The thing that puzzled him was why people don't agree to be fully expressed while they're alive. Why does it only happen in their last moment? Why wouldn't you live being fully expressed?"

    My guest today is AL Kennedy. She is one of Britain’s most acclaimed and versatile literary voices, a writer who can inhabit the internal life of a soldier in a POW camp, as she did in her Costa Book Award-winning novel Day, as easily as she can navigate the "professional lying" of a modern civil servant.

    Her latest novel, Alive in the Merciful Country, takes place during the 2020 lockdown. It tells the story of a primary school teacher who receives a confession from an undercover police officer who infiltrated her life decades earlier. It’s a provocative investigation into state power, the "Spy Cops" scandal and the search for mercy in an age of surveillance. It’s a book about the breakdown of trust. We talk about her life, her activism, and why she believes fiction is the only way to tell the truth when the facts are forbidden and how she balances the truth of her novels with the relief of stand-up comedy.

    (0:00) Finding Your Voice

    On the Alfred Wolfsohn voice method and the power of being fully expressed

    (2:30) Reading from Alive in the Merciful Country

    Kennedy shares a passage from her latest novel, exploring hope and resilience in dark times.

    (4:43) The Myth of Shrinking Attention Spans

    Challenging the narrative that modern audiences cannot focus, and the importance of engaging storytelling.

    (6:22) Education and the Foundation of Democracy

    The dangers of dismantling education and how critical thinking protects us from fascism.

    (10:26) The Spy Cop Scandal and State Surveillance

    Unpacking the reality of undercover police infiltrating peaceful protests and intimate lives.

    (13:59) Lockdown: A Global Pause and the Inrush of Empathy

    The fleeting moment of unified humanity during the pandemic and how it was ultimately betrayed.

    (17:34) Writing Without Theft: The Ethics of Character Creation

    Kennedy explains her imaginative process and why she refuses to steal details from real people's lives.

    (28:16) AI, Digital Slop, and the Loss of Trust

    Reflections on artificial intelligence as an unstable plagiarism machine and its impact on truth.

    (30:03) Nature, Spirituality, and the Merciful Country

    Finding healing in the natural world and navigating the future with love and awareness.

    Episode Website

    www.creativeprocess.info/pod

    Instagram:@creativeprocesspodcast
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    34 m
  • Theatre as a Pathway to Writing, Creative & Political Expression with AL KENNEDY

    Theatre as a Pathway to Writing, Creative & Political Expression with AL KENNEDY
    Mar 3 2026

    What happens when the state infiltrates your most intimate relationships? How do we protect the innocence and imagination of children in an increasingly authoritarian world? “"If you have love, eventually you're going to win. It's not that people aren't going to die. It's not terrible things aren't going to happen. But if you stay with that and you stay centered in that, you'll get through and you will not have turned into a monster in order to overcome monsters.”

    My guest today is AL Kennedy. She is one of Britain’s most acclaimed and versatile literary voices, a writer who can inhabit the internal life of a soldier in a POW camp, as she did in her Costa Book Award-winning novel Day, as easily as she can navigate the "professional lying" of a modern civil servant.

    Her latest novel, Alive in the Merciful Country, takes place during the 2020 lockdown. It tells the story of a primary school teacher who receives a confession from an undercover police officer who infiltrated her life decades earlier. It’s a provocative investigation into state power, the "Spy Cops" scandal and the search for mercy in an age of surveillance. It’s a book about the breakdown of trust. We talk about her life, her activism, and why she believes fiction is the only way to tell the truth when the facts are forbidden and how she balances the truth of her novels with the relief of stand-up comedy.

    (0:00) Finding Your Voice
    On the Alfred Wolfsohn voice method and the power of being fully expressed

    (2:17) Education and the Foundation of Democracy
    The dangers of dismantling education and how critical thinking protects us from fascism.

    (5:14) The Myth of Shrinking Attention Spans
    Challenging the narrative that modern audiences cannot focus, and the importance of engaging storytelling.

    (8:23) Reading from Alive in the Merciful Country
    Kennedy shares a passage from her latest novel, exploring hope and resilience in dark times.

    (17:45) The Spy Cop Scandal and State Surveillance
    Unpacking the reality of undercover police infiltrating peaceful protests and intimate lives.

    (22:07) AI, Digital Slop, and the Loss of Trust
    Reflections on artificial intelligence as an unstable plagiarism machine and its impact on truth.

    (28:29) The Power of the Powerless: Radical Whimsy
    How absurdity, humor, and inflatable costumes can disrupt authoritarian mindsets and potential violence.

    (33:13) Lockdown: A Global Pause and the Inrush of Empathy
    The fleeting moment of unified humanity during the pandemic and how it was ultimately betrayed.

    (42:53) Writing Without Theft: The Ethics of Character Creation
    Kennedy explains her imaginative process and why she refuses to steal details from real people's lives.

    (1:29:40) Nature, Spirituality, and the Merciful Country
    Finding healing in the natural world and navigating the future with love and awareness.

    Episode Website

    www.creativeprocess.info/pod

    Instagram:@creativeprocesspodcast
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    1 h y 36 m
  • Writers on Memory, Language & the Power of the Unconscious

    Writers on Memory, Language & the Power of the Unconscious
    Dec 12 2025
    How can we use negative spaces in fiction to engage with readers’ imaginations? How are memory and trauma passed onto us through language? How do we become more than the stories we tell ourselves?KATIE KITAMURA (Author, Audition, Intimacies) emphasizes that a book is created in collaboration with the reader, using negative spaces in the narrative structure to allow for reader interpretation, paralleling the space between audience and actor in performance.PAUL LYNCH (Booker Prize-winning Novelist, Prophet Song) discusses the richness and slipperiness of the English language in Ireland, shaped by the overlay of English onto Irish grammatical constructions, resulting in unique phrasing and a capacity to create new constructions.DANIEL PEARLE (Screenwriter, Playwright, The Beast in Me) shares that audiences are fascinated by the unfettered, uncensored ID in characters, reflecting the universal fantasy of acting without consequences. He advises writers to put people who deeply irritate them into a play, as those characters often become the audience's favorites.HALA ALYAN (Novelist, Poet, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home: A Memoir) describes her work as an excavation of the darkest hours and intergenerational trauma carried by her lineage, which has endured repeated exile. She links exile from the body to the larger patterns of not having a place in the world.T.C. BOYLE(Novelist, Short Story Writer, Environmentalist) shares that the creative process involves a magic in reaching for the unconscious and the surprise of the creative process. He emphasizes that art and nature are our salvations, over money. He advocates for solitude in nature—alone on a beach or in the woods—to connect with the natural world.ADAM ALTER (Author of Anatomy of a Breakthrough) discusses the axioms of creativity, noting that being around more people, even those who are "deeply incompetent," is generally beneficial for creativity by providing diversity of opinion and information, preceding the necessary time for solitary focus.SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA (Booker Prize-winning Author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida) explains his decision to write in the second person as a way of exploring the spiritual dimension of the internal voice. He posits that the "you" could be a spirit whispering thoughts, leading people (and nations) astray.DANIEL HANDLER A.K.A LEMONY SNICKET (Author, A Series of Unfortunate Events) argues that his books for children and adults are not fundamentally different and says everyone's childhood is full of powerful emotions derived from ordinary injustices, noting that we cry hardest over hurt feelings, not global catastrophes.ADA LIMÓN (24th U.S. Poet Laureate, Startlement, The Carrying) talks about her responsibility as a writer to honor her ancestors, specifically her grandfather, who had to sublimate his creative spirit for safety and belonging, leading her to prioritize grace and freedom in her own writing.To hear more from each guest, listen to their full interviews.Episode Websitewww.creativeprocess.info/podInstagram:@creativeprocesspodcast
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    12 m
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