Interview: Whit MacLaughlin
Whit MacLaughlin is the Obie award-winning artistic director of the Philadelphia-based New Paradise Laboratories. New Paradise develops work using a collaborative creative process grounded in physical theater. NPL and playwright Alice Tuan (featured in an upcoming podcast) were commissioned by the Humana Festival to create BATCH: An American Bachelor/ette Party Spectacle, which premiered at the 2007 festival.
In this podcast MacLaughlin talks about the unique process by which BATCH was developed, and how Humana helps new work come to fruition.
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August 8th, 2007 07:06
[...] Alice Tuan is a playwright based in Los Angeles. She is the author of monologues, plays and screenplays, including the hypertext play Coastline, and the short plays F.E.T.C.H. and Coco Puffs, which were both presented at the Humana Festival in 2002. Humana commissioned Tuan to work with Whit MacLaughlin (featured in an earlier podcast) and New Paradise Laboratories to develop BATCH: An American Bachelor/ette Party Spectacle, which premiered at the 2007 festival. [...]