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Active Listening
by New Dramatists
Active Listening is a New Dramatists podcast series that invites the resident playwrights to experiment with story, intimacy and immediacy through sound experiences. This initiative was born of the questions that became urgent as our pandemic lockdowns began: "What are creative alternatives to gathering together in rooms?" "What might a play for the ear sound like?"
Episodes
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Active Listening Episode 22: Jaclyn Backhaus
Jaclyn and Ernie go looking for birds after several days in quarantine.
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Active Listening Episode 21: C. Julian Jiménez
An exploration on memory, mothers, and smelly boys.
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Active Listening Episode 20: Kirk Wood Bromley
Mark's opening monologue from the Burnt Woman of Harvard.
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Active Listening Episode 19: Lucas Baisch
A cult of arsonists find their way.
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Active Listening Episode 18: Matthew Paul Olmos
NextDoor believes connecting with others is a universal, human need. NextDoor is where you connect to neighborhoods; by bringing neighbors and organizations together, we can cultivate a kinder world.
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Active Listening Episode 17: Naveen Bahar Choudhury
A collage of text messages, phone calls, and memories from the early days of lockdown in New York City, when the author was stricken with Covid-19.
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Active Listening Episode 16: Matthew Paul Olmos
A look at the process of Matthew Paul Olmos' play The Un'Admiring.
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Active Listening Episode 15: Matthew Freeman
An expressionist portrait of the live performance of a play without words.
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Active Listening Episode 14: Kirk Wood Bromley
The second scene of a play in which Professor Bertha Lerner and her students start a house of feminist studies in which men aren’t allowed.
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Active Listening Episode 13: Karinne Keithley Syers
The coda from Do Not Do This Ever Again, a play from 2007 written in the form of a garden; this is just one of its plants.
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Active Listening Episode 12: C. Julian Jiménez
A man deals with his mother's chemotherapy treatments by cruising an orderly at a Cancer hospital.
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Active Listening Episode 11: MJ Kaufman
The end of the world, a burbling city, and one queer is spending the apocalypse on the couch.
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Active Listening Episode 10: Melisa Tien
A garden of thoughts planted during quarantine, in various stages of bloom.
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Active Listening Episode 9: Matthew Paul Olmos
The authors venture into both affluent and less affluent markets in the eastside of Los Angeles.
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Active Listening Episode 8: Matthew Freeman
A brief exploration of the history of strange religion on the author's father's side of the family tree.
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Active Listening Episode 7: Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
Bozz and Banjo, best friends and fellow puppets and actors, try an old-fashioned phone call at Bozz's request.
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Active Listening Episode 6: Mary Elizabeth Hamilton
Twenty years after a pandemic and large-scale natural disasters have destroyed society, individuals try to piece the world back together through their memories.
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Active Listening Episode 5: Kirk Wood Bromley
Excerpted from Be Story Free, the moment when the founder of Be Story Free is recorded by an undercover agent saying that his movement is a scam.
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Active Listening Episode 4: Ken Urban
Two short works that encompass weird homecoming blues plus the sounds of nature, and friend loss during the time of COVID plus the joy of cooking.
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Active Listening Episode 3: J. Julian Christopher
An experiential deep dive into the subconscious of love at first sight.
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Active Listening Episode 2: Aurin Squire
The author records the memories of his mom while they are in quarantine, to pass the time, bond, and as a mental exercise.
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Active Listening Episode 1: Ariel Stess
A comedy-drama about four women trying to break free from the men in their lives that are holding them back—in order to start again.
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Active Listening Teaser
A teaser for Active Listening, a new audio series from New Dramatists, launching December 22, 2020.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Active Listening is a New Dramatists podcast series that invites the resident playwrights to experiment with story, intimacy and immediacy through sound experiences. This initiative was born of the questions that became urgent as our pandemic lockdowns began: "What are creative alternatives to gathering together in rooms?" "What might a play for the ear sound like?"
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Active Listening currently has 23 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Active Listening is a New Dramatists podcast series that invites the resident playwrights to experiment with story, intimacy and immediacy through sound experiences. This initiative was born of the questions that became urgent as our pandemic lockdowns began: "What are creative alternatives to...
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Active Listening is created and hosted by New Dramatists.
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