Old Heads – Details, episodes & analysis

Old Heads is back with another episode!  We bring in the incredible Sujotta Pace, a casting director in New York City. Together with host's Addae Moon and EB Smith, this episode tackles questions around casting diversity, the challenge with Equity, and much more!

CONTENT WARNING: this episode contains frank discussions regarding suicide, self-harm, police brutality, and racially motivated homicide.

Two of our guests from season 1, Yolanda Bonnell and Sadie Berlin, return to talk solidarity between Indigenous and Black communities.  Together with our hosts, this episode touches on artist productivity and burnout, the land back movement, police brutality, and more.

If you haven't listened to Canadaland Thunder Bay you can listen here: https://www.canadaland.com/shows/thunder-bay/

Canadian theatre designer, Rachel Forbes, joins EB and Addae to talk design and all its subtleties, how it folds into storytelling, the importance of hair and costume, design as part of theatre education, and designers as artistic leaders and much more!

Yolanda Bonnell joins our hosts EB and Addae to talk the similarities and differences of Black and Indigenous art, hurdles, cultural identity, and colonization.  

Robert Barry Fleming joins our hosts to talk about leadership in the Theatre, and talk past leaders and their own influences as well as how to be a leader in the present moment. 

How will theatres bounce back?  How are Black arts institutions going to get funding?  Heather Infantry joins EB and Addae to reflect on her work as an arts fundraiser in Atlanta and how to get that money.

Links to content mentioned in this episode:

Ballethnic Dance Company

Check out Heather's list of Black arts groups in metro Atlanta. She updates weekly! 

The reading Addae mentioned in this episode has already happened, but you can follow Addae's new theatre company Hush Harbor Lab on Facebook to find out about future projects.

EB and Addae talk about "The Conversation" as theatre institutions open a dialogue with BIPOC artists across Canada and the US.

Sadie Berlin joins our hosts EB to discuss the emerging practice of Cultural Dramaturgy and its core components.  Sadie, Eb, and Addae talk the importance of diverse voices across the theatre industry, and how and why we need to create safer, more equitable and compassionate spaces for theatre artists to work and create in.

Addae and EB sit down with Graham Abbey and Michael Healey to talk cross-cultural collaboration it's crucial role in the creative process.  Listen in on this discussion, focusing around the case study of Front Page at the Stratford Festival

It's Juneteeth.  Addae and EB talk history, the revolution playbook, and the ongoing role of theatre in this ever-changing landscape.  

Get a tase of what's to come on this first season of Old Heads.