Producing Heroes is a podcast dedicated to creative producers who make impossible things happen. Every day these intrepid theatrical alchemists harness the ener...
Ed Bartlam is a founder and Director of Underbelly and has built a massive presence at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and on London’s Southbank as well as producing on the West End and in Hong Kong. The company is known for its sense of adventure, healthy appetite for risk and incredible shows.
Ed talks to us about following your gut instinct, fostering and investing in relationships and how he came to own a venue shaped like an upside-down purple cow.
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Producing Heroes with Linda Brumbach
Linda Brumbach founded Pomegranate Arts in 1998, a company dedicated to developing, producing and touring innovative contemporary performance arts projects through creative collaborations.
Since its inception, Pomegranate Arts has produced the Olivier Award winning production of Einstein on the Beach (Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Lucinda Childs), Shockheaded Peter (The Improbably Theater), Book of Longing (Leonard Cohen, Philip Glass), Dracula: The Music and Film (Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass and Universal Pictures), Hal Willners’ Came So Far from Beauty (Leonard Cohen and guests), Healing the Divide: A Concert for Peace and Reconciliation (Dalai Lama, Tom Waits, Anoushka Shankar) and most recently Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music.
Linda joins us from New York to talk about engaging deeply with artists, having the right people on your team, fearlessly serving a vision and just when you think it can’t possibly happen, finding a creative solution.
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Producing Heroes with Tommy Kriegsmann
Our guest this week on Producing Heroes is Tommy Kriegsmann, founder and President of ArKtype.
ArKtype is recognized as among the world’s leading supporters of new, experimental work. Established in 2005 to support the finest in emerging and established artists based in NYC and worldwide, ArKtype support risk in live performance – creating an ever-shifting mechanism for the fulfilment of artists’ visions for new work, international collaboration, production and touring. The company has grown to encompass renowned artists from twenty-five different countries at any given time, limitless genres and commercial and non-profit support structures for a variety of spaces
Tommy’s previous work includes producing the Ringling International Arts Festival in Sarasota, FL, Director of Programming for Spiegelworld’s South Street Seaport season, and most recently Director of Programs at New York Live Arts, including the unprecedented festival Live Ideas: MENA/Future – CulturalTransformations in the Middle East North Africa Region.
Enjoy our conversation about facing down the impossible, creating a safe space for artists, enacting change and the crazy things we do in the name of art.
Producing Heroes with Virginia Hyam and Simon Hinton
Virginia Hyam is currently Head of Programming at HOTA on the Gold Coast, where she is driving new programming initiatives across the cultural precinct. Previously she has worked for 10 years at Sydney Opera House as Executive Producer of the Studio and the Head of Contemporary Culture, specialising in the presentation of contemporary performance and as creative producer with Festival 2018 (Arts and Cultural Festival of the Commonwealth Games).Simon Hinton has been Artistic Director / CEO of Merrigong Theatre Company since 2005, managing the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre and the Wollongong Town Hall. Merrigong has built a reputation as one of Australia’s most successful regional companies – producing, presenting and touring exciting contemporary theatre. Simon is currently Vice President of Performing Arts Connections (PAC) Australia, a member of the Theatre Board of Create NSW, and is the Helpmann Awards Regional Touring (Chair).
Producing Heroes is a podcast dedicated to creative producers who make impossible things happen. Every day these intrepid theatrical alchemists harness the energies of artists, hustle opportunities, dream dreams and translate them from ideas into shows.
They are the drivers of an industry and yet they tend to remain hidden, hiding behind the curtain. Until now.
The triumphs and failures, the risks and rewards, the glory and the gory all feature in these deeply personal accounts of some of the world’s most inspiring creative producers.
Producing Heroes tells their stories, in their own words.
Producing Heroes
Created by Circa
Host: Yaron Lifschitz
Producer: Lauren Eisinger
Post Production: Thom Kellar, Folklore Sound
Special thanks to
Joe Melilo
Kate Bouchier-Hayes
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