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Featuring Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary things in The Arts
When you're running for office be your authentic self and tell the truth. You have to tell everybody what you have done for them and what yo...
There's always hope. You can't say the word hope without smiling. Hope is that ability to get up and go again. The Finnish have word for it-...
As I've traveled around the world to teach, speak, and lecture about audience development, in particular, Africa, is that what I've learned...
I want to educate the public about what’s happening in the immigration crisis itself and inside the courts, about the refugees and how they...
Why is freedom to read so important? I think we take for granted the idea that a multiplicity of voices are accessible to us, and our librar...
"One of the major ideas behind Fall of Freedom was not only to get some bold-faced names involved to this project to attract involvement, bu...
Holding women back doesn't just harm women, it holds everyone back - our economies, our nations, our future. If inequality is limiting us al...
I came up with this idea that we would have workshops, and we would have formerly incarcerated people come to the workshops, and we would te...
I was pleasantly surprised and [found it] incredibly fulfilling when we brought kids who I interviewed down to Florida and thank you to the...
Anything that brings us back into the center of ourselves, into the space that literally is your heart, the center of you and recalls the tr...
We are making sure that the arts remain independent, well-funded, and accessible for all. Anytime anything rears its ugly head to challenge...
I don’t really produce plays. There are many other organizations that are wonderful at producing plays, and I’m not interested in someone co...
Our nuclear security has been compromised and that really is a dangerous situation because all of our nuclear sites are nuclear power plants...
This new book I've written SWEET DREAMS AHEAD FOR BED is a story that literally outlines the steps for getting ready for sleep for babies to...
Whether it's about immigrants, Iranians, Lebanese people or Jews in Warsaw or transgender characters or whatever those characters may be, I...
Age tells us one thing: the day you were born and the day you will die, and there's a dash in between. And you know what? That dash is ME! T...
I love writing about women because this is how women are, and we're so diverse, right? We show our power in so many different ways, and some...
What I really wanted to do was to show a strong, flawed woman - a hundred years ago! - dealing with the same issues that strong, flawed wome...
What is central to my work is comedy. For me, there is a desperation in comedy that's very theatrical. And that you can ultimately get a pla...
For me, acting is the greatest tool we have right now to teach people empathy. Because empathy requires you to put yourself squarely in the...
In BLANK, I wanted to open readers' eyes a little bit more to the inner workings of the publishing world. I started as an aspiring author th...
Holding people's feet to the fire by just saying, 'You know what, you may think that a lot of women are being hired.' 'I've done five shows...
I came to New York to meet people I read about in college like Joe Chaiken and Judith Malina, and I met them! I took workshops with Joe Chai...
Alot of the reasons why the male/female -- the binary, in general, was for men specifically like white men and colonizers, to assert dominan...
Theater is both a spiritual healing and emotional healing and even physical healing for me, and it's been my raison d'etre for most of my li...
The theater is essential to the health of a nation - of any democracy. And perhaps we are so impoverished right now is because of our inabil...
Harriet Tubman knows how to relate to the different groups because Harriet doesn't 'see' people like [cultural entities]; my audience is see...
I believe that [National Women's History month] is about women and social change. Leaders of change reside with women. Ellen W. Kaplan is Pr...
I would like to believe I attract heart-centered individuals to work with. I create a sense of safety in the rooms, empowerment and we are i...
Losing or winning an argument is not just a zero-sum game. Working together, collaborating is something that you have to learn. The most imp...
"Art is ageless. There is no number on Art. As long as your heart is in it, you can do it. And that's a fantastic thing because very often w...
"Artivism is a combination of Art and Activism. I wrote about Bayard Rustin who served as the right hand of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for...
How can I explain change? It's something that makes me feel hopeful...that audiences, and as people, and most importantly as human beings, w...
How do we create a world where we allow people to express themselves, and if they need to be called in, or if they're doing something that r...
My mission is to keep [Iraqi Jewish] culture alive; to sustain that culture because we don't want history repeating itself. And to educate -...
Even though [Don't Shoot the Messenger] is comical it's an opportunity to change thoughts about who we are, and they can see us as normal pe...
"Here's the thing about AI. It doesn't have a soul, and it doesn't understand psychology, and it doesn't understand the quirks of human beha...
Focusing outside of yourself helps you thrive in this industry and helps you deal with so much and all the obstacles we face. ~Donna Benedic...
My work has always been about bringing people together, forging new transcultural and transnational artistic relationships, and combining re...
Telling stories that activate emotions helps audiences be open to new ideas. People can only change themselves. But until they experience th...
Getting my Masters at Harvard at age sixty-nine, I hope that I'm inspiring other women that there are no limits. There's absolutely no limit...
I truly believe we are in an apocalyptic culture shift ; truly, an historical, multi-century, multi-millennial shift and in the last gasp of...
We are a film production company on a mission to inspire, empower and light a fire! Not just for women. We can acknowledge that we're all da...
Human rights and civil rights will be realized only when we fully hear the voices, ideas and creative concepts of womxn over 40, whose persp...
Patt Addiss , Theater Producer, I didn’t start out wanting to be a theatrical producer. She was busy running the promotion company she found...
On one hand , Janet Stilson is a journalist. On the other, she writes scripts, novels and short stories that largely fall in the grounded sc...
"We can heal. I think it's really important to be in control of what we're taking in so that we don't feel that we have to worry...that we c...
We're in a time where we are seeing new voices, new types of voices telling their stories and people create their identity through seeing th...
Learning through The Arts [as] being one of the most transformative vehicles in which we really get to a person's soul and to realize they'r...
YVETTE HEYLIGER Playwright/Director/Producing Artist/Author is a lifelong theatre artist, as well as an educator, and the author of What a P...