Artemisia, the Chicago theatre company dedicated to the development of new plays featuring women characters who have agency, independence, and are the focal point of their own narratives, is now producing a weekly series of free podcasts. The podcasts, which are released each Monday morning on Artemisia’s website (http://artemisiatheatre.org/podcast/) and via Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com/1050559), offer raw, unedited conversations with theatre artists, business and non-profit leaders, activists, and advocates who all embrace feminism as an important aspect of their work and their lives, moderated by Artemisia’s Artistic Director, Julie Proudfoot. Special programming includes readings of classic and contemporary feminist plays.
The Monday, June 15 podcast will feature a reading of THE PEOPLE by Susan Glaspell, the co-founder of the Provincetown Playhouse, the first modern American theatre company. Written in 1917, THE PEOPLE is a prescient one-act play about a struggling socialist newspaper and the women who believe in it. The cast includes Lindsay Tornquist, Al’Jaleel McGhee, Ben Cumings, Kirstin Franklin, Tom McGrath, Harmony Zhang, Jake Drummond, Myesha Tiara, Whitney Dottery, and Brad Walker.
Top row L-R: Ben Cumings, Whitney Dottery, Jake Drummond, Kirsten Franklin.
Middle row: Myesha-Tiara, Al’Jaleel McGhee, Tom McGrath, Lindsay Tornquist.
Lower row L-R: Brad Walker, Harmony Zhang.
Previous podcasts, which are all available on Artemisia’s website and through Buzzsprout, include the following conversations:
#105 - June 8 - Interview with Myesha Tiara, actor, director, and founding Artistic Director of Perceptions Theatre in Chicago.
#104 - June 1 - Interview with Wardell Julius Clark, actor, director, teaching artist and activist.
#103 - May 25 - Interview with Tracy Baim, publisher of the CHICAGO READER and owner and past publisher of WINDY CITY TIMES
#102 - May 18 - Interview with Beth Wolf, theatre director and founder and Artistic Director of Midsommer Flight.
#101 - May 11 - Interview with Jaki McCarrick, award-winning writer of plays, poetry & fiction.
L-R: Tracy Baim, Wardell Julius Clark, Jaki McCarrick, Myesha-Tiara, Beth Wolf.
ABOUT ARTEMISIA: A CHICAGO THEATRE
Founded in 2011, Artemisia, A Chicago Theatre is a professional, not-for-profit theatre that produces feminist plays that center on women who have agency, independence, and are the focal point of their own narratives, to create gender parity both onstage and off. Each season, Artemisia searches for groundbreaking original plays to develop into world and regional premieres. Artemisia is a 501 c 3 organization and, as such, relies on public support to fund theatre that promotes equality and social justice for all women and girls.
Artemisia Gentileschi was a Baroque artist whose paintings depicted violence with fierce honesty and elegance. For centuries after her death, her art was attributed to men. Feminist curators in the late 1970’s rediscovered Artemisia, who is now considered the greatest female painter prior to the modern period. A common theme in Gentileschi’s later work is women in moments of power, or triumph, which is why she is the perfect namesake for Artemisia.
Julie Proudfoot (Moderator) founded Artemisia and has served as its Artistic Director since 2011. Julie’s work at Artemisia includes curating and producing eight Fall Festivals featuring staged readings of new feminist plays, playing Viola in CHEWING ON BECKETT, and Lauren in VISITING, both written by Ed Proudfoot and staged as world premieres at Artemisia. Julie most recently won critical and audience acclaim for her direction of Artemisia’s Midwest Premiere of SWEET TEXAS RECKONING, by Traci Godfrey. A Chicago-based actor, director & producer, Julie’s work onstage has also been seen at TimeLine Theatre, Midsommer Flight, Akvavit Theatre, The Shakespeare Project of Chicago, and Equity Library Theatre. Julie’s on-camera acting credits include THE CHI, CHICAGO MED, CHICAGO JUSTICE, and indy short film HOW LITTLE GIRLS GET STOLEN.
LISTING INFORMATION
ARTEMISIA: A CHICAGO PODCAST
Moderated by Julie Proudfoot
Released every Monday at 10:00 a.m.
Listen to it at http://artemisiatheatre.org/podcast/ and Buzzsprout - https://www.buzzsprout.com/1050559, or download at Buzzsprout
Free
ARTEMISIA, A CHICAGO PODCAST features raw, unedited conversations with theatre artists, business and non-profit leaders, activists and advocates who all embrace feminism as an important aspect of their work and their lives. Special programming includes readings of classic and contemporary feminist plays. Artemisia’s free weekly podcasts ask and answer risky questions about feminism and its unique impact on the quality of our stories and our lives to help us stay connected at a time when we all need it most. Let’s keep the conversation going. Hosted by Julie Proudfoot, Artistic Director, Artemisia, A Chicago Theatre.