Off and On: A New York Theatre podcast : Episode 114: Madhuri Shekar
Had such a nice time meeting and talking to Bernardo Cubria IRL. We had a great discussion about many things, and he helped me plug ‘Titus and Dronicus’ which is set it launch in less than 2 months. www.titusanddronicus.com
Check out his podcast if you’re at all interested in theatre people, he’s a fantastic interviewer and has an incredible array of guests on his show.
This desi playwright is making waves in the US
Profile from Rediff.com
Playwriting is a solitary experience for most. Not so much for Love and Warcraft’s Madhuri Shekar.
The winner of the Alliance Theatre’s 2013-14 Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Competition finds it tough to write a play if she hasn’t talked it out with someone first. Maybe because dialogue is her favorite part.
“I like theater in general,” says Shekar (as in “shaker”). “That experience of sitting with other people, and everyone’s going through it together, and the people you are watching are not just people on a screen who’ve been edited and carefully orchestrated. They’re actual, real people in front of you, and they’re creating stories with their bodies and their voices, and they’re inviting us to use our imaginations to fill in that story with them.”
Profile in ‘The Hindu’.
