CNP Producing Artist Daniel Alexander Jones hosts a conversation with Monty Cole, director of the CNP world premiere of Adrienne Kennedy’s Etta and Ella on the Upper West Side, which premiered at REDCAT in Downtown Los Angeles in February 2023. Over the project’s three year incubation at CalArts, Cole and his collaborators dug deep into Kennedy’s trademark embrace of symbolism, lyricism, and mythic figures to capture the Black experience in 20th century New York.

Hosted by Marissa Chibás, this podcast was produced by CalArts Center for New Performance, the professional producing arm of California Institute of the Arts, Travis Preston Executive Artistic Director and Dean of CalArts School of Theater. Produced by Rory James Leech. Editing and Sound Engineering by Clare Marie Neminich. Associate Producers Rachel Scandling and George Lugg. Associate Sound Design by Duncan Woodbury. Podcast theme music by Christian Amigo. Special thanks to Ravi Rajan, President of CalArts.

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Kaneza Schaal, recipient of the 2021 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for Theater, joins a conversation with CNP Producing Artist Daniel Alexander Jones. Schaal's performance works function as profound acts of invitation, presented in a wide range of contexts. The two artists, whose friendship has been furthered by their professional collaborations, discuss Schaal’s many fluencies—of language, history, form, cultures, and aesthetics—that have served to build her lexicon as a maker of theater. 

Hosted by Marissa Chibás, this podcast was produced by CalArts Center for New Performance, the professional producing arm of California Institute of the Arts, Travis Preston Artistic Director and Dean of CalArts School of Theater. Produced by George Lugg and Rory James Leech. Editing and sound engineering by Duncan Woodbury. Podcast theme music by Cristian Amigo. Special thanks to Ravi Rajan, President of CalArts. 

For more information on these artists and their work, as well as other CNP projects visit centerfornewperformance.org.

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We join a conversation between Pat Cruz and Juli Crockett as they discuss the creation of CNP's The George Project: A Liberation Through Hearing, a new seven-part audio play inspired by and adapted from When This War is Over, You’re Going to Get it George, a 1975 meditation on the brutal logics of war by artist Emilio Cruz. Cruz and Crockett share a lively discussion about the inquiries that forged Emilio’s work, and the power of creativity to connect us to multiple planes of the human experience. 

Hosted by Marissa Chibás, this podcast was produced by CalArts Center for New Performance, the professional producing arm of California Institute of the Arts, Travis Preston Artistic Director and Dean of CalArts School of Theater. Produced by George Lugg and Rory James Leech. Editing and sound engineering by Duncan Woodbury. Podcast theme music by Cristian Amigo. Special thanks to Ravi Rajan, President of CalArts. 

For more information on these artists and their work, as well as other CNP projects visit centerfornewperformance.org.

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