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AMERICAN THEATRE • 18th February 2020

Into the Woods

The turning point was Katrina, as is so often the case when you’re asking questions in New Orleans, trying to get to the heart of the matter. A Studio in the Woods is located on a plot of land purchased by Lucianne and Joe Carmichael in 1969, comprising 7.66 acres of endangered forest in the Louisiana wetlands.

HowlRound Theatre Commons • 13th January 2020

"French and yet never French enough"

Any translator worth their salt can tell you the real work of translation is not the literal (painstaking!) rendering of one language into another, but instead the necessary accompanying cultural translation that carries the meaning of the work.

NOBO Commons • 23rd November 2019

The Fortress of Lushington

Amelia Parenteau interviews Bunny Lushington of the Fortress of Lushington, bringing us the second article in a series on theatre and dance venues in New Orleans.

HowlRound Theatre Commons • 18th November 2019

The American Theatre Was Killing Me

For those unfamiliar with the term “racialized trauma,” counselor Ayanna Molina of True Love Movement explains: “Trauma is hurtful, emotionally damaging situations that you cannot control. [With my clients], the racialized component is that [they] happen specifically because you are Black.”

NOBO Commons • 29th September 2019

Nostalgia Purgatory: Somewhere Between Immersive Theatre and an Escape Room

The first article in a series on venues in New Orleans. Journalist, Amelia Parenteau interviews Wynn Thorn, the Artistic Director of the new immersive event space and black box theatre, Nostalgia Purgatory.

NOBO Commons • 22nd June 2019

Radical Buffoonery

An interview between Amelia Parenteau and Jon Greene, founder and Artistic director of the Radical Buffoons.

HowlRound Theatre Commons • 23rd May 2019

New to New Orleans / Venant d’arriver à la Nouvelle Orléans

This Carnival, Eva Doumbia and Marie Houdin, two French theatre artists, returned to New Orleans at the height of parade season, each drawing inspiration from the city and forging connections for their upcoming public art projects.

AMERICAN THEATRE • 23rd April 2019

At Europe’s Good Chance Theatre, Refugees Have a Dome and a Home

Good Chance Theatre was started by two Brits, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, when, in 2015, they passed through Calais, France, on their way to Germany and they saw the makeshift refugee camp that had formed there.

WomenArts • 14th February 2019

Revolutionary Love: Elizabeth Vega & the Tornillo Occupation

Elizabeth Vega is an “artivist” – an artist and activist who understands that art is its own form of powerful resistance. She has dedicated her life to harnessing that power and teaching others how to do the same. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, she works constantly on projects that combine art and activism...

AMERICAN THEATRE • 28th January 2019

Trigger Warnings Are Not Enough: Why You Need an EDI Advocate

Can a Black girl be called “pale”? How about a Latina ? No matter how you parse the linguistic technicality, the word smacks of whiteness, said one of the actors. And so on Day Two of rehearsal at People’s Light in Malvern...

HowlRound Theatre Commons • 20th November 2018

Bringing French Theatre to Princeton

When you hear Princeton, New Jersey, “bastion of French culture” may not be the first thought that comes to mind. (In fact, according to the 2010 US Census, only 618 people were recorded as French speakers in the city, which has a population of 28,572.)

AMERICAN THEATRE • 31st October 2018

Egypt’s Theatre Rebels

Driving through Tahrir Square at dusk, crammed into a van with other U.S. and European theatremakers, headed to the conference-sponsored hotel, my eyes couldn’t drink it in fast enough: the lights, the people, the gargantuan propaganda billboards and television screens signaling the impending presidential “elections.”

Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States • 29th October 2018

Interview with Director and Author David Geselson

The 7th Edition of Seuls en Scène, Princeton French Theater Festival, presented Doreen, written and directed by David Geselson from Compagnie Lieux-Dits on September 28 and 29, 2018. David Geselson spoke to journalist Amelia Parenteau before leaving Princeton.

HowlRound • 12th July 2018

The City of Brotherly Love Presents: The Empathy Project

As theatre folk know well, sometimes the most meaningful creations are borne out of the fruit of circumstance. To wit, the Lantern Theater Company in Center City, Philadelphia, happens to be located around the corner from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC) of Thomas Jefferson University.

Contemporary Theatre Review • 11th June 2018

America is Hard to See: Investigative Theatre for Modern Times - An Interview with Travis Russ & Priscilla Holbrook

This interview with playwright and director Travis Russ and composer/lyricist Priscilla Holbrook was conducted in Parenteau's research and development capacity for the project America is Hard to See...

HowlRound • 18th February 2018

Baldwin’s Back in France: An Interview with Elise Vigier / Retour de Baldwin en France : Une interview avec Elise Vigier

In 2012, I traveled from Paris, where I was studying, to Arles to see a production of a play I was translating into English, Louise, elle est folle, by Leslie Kaplan, starring and co-created by Elise Vigier...

Culturebot • 1st February 2018

My Experience Working On AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE

I first started working with Travis Russ’ Life Jacket Theatre Company in May 2015, by the New York miracle of answering a Playbill ad. Months later, I had read more about sex offenders than I ever thought I would have cared to know...

AMERICAN THEATRE • 16th January 2018

True West Africa

In Dakar, Senegal, the general refrain is that theatre “doesn’t exist” in the nation’s capital city, the westernmost spot on the continent.

HowlRound • 8th January 2018

Interview with Werewere Liking of the Theatre Company Village Ki-Yi Mbock

This past October, I had the opportunity to live in residence with the theatre company and students in training at the Village Ki-Yi Mbock, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.

AMERICAN THEATRE • 22nd August 2017

Real Talk About Real Talk

To find out more about the practice and implications of documentary theatre, I gathered some of the field’s veterans for a frank conversation about their craft, how it’s changed—and how...

Amelia Parenteau

Amelia Parenteau

writer ･ translator ･ theater maker

Works in Progress

Articles

Into the Woods

"French and yet never French enough"

The Fortress of Lushington

The American Theatre Was Killing Me

Nostalgia Purgatory: Somewhere Between Immersive Theatre and an Escape Room

Radical Buffoonery

New to New Orleans / Venant d’arriver à la Nouvelle Orléans

At Europe’s Good Chance Theatre, Refugees Have a Dome and a Home

Revolutionary Love: Elizabeth Vega & the Tornillo Occupation

Trigger Warnings Are Not Enough: Why You Need an EDI Advocate

Bringing French Theatre to Princeton

Egypt’s Theatre Rebels

Interview with Director and Author David Geselson

The City of Brotherly Love Presents: The Empathy Project

America is Hard to See: Investigative Theatre for Modern Times - An Interview with Travis Russ & Priscilla Holbrook

Baldwin’s Back in France: An Interview with Elise Vigier / Retour de Baldwin en France : Une interview avec Elise Vigier

My Experience Working On AMERICA IS HARD TO SEE

True West Africa

Interview with Werewere Liking of the Theatre Company Village Ki-Yi Mbock

Real Talk About Real Talk

Plays

WOKE: A Dream Play

“Everything that follows is true”: how verbatim theatre questions the meaning of truth

SIGHTS UNSEEN

(Projection)

Translations

Pistes (Tracks) — English Translation

The Caribbean Theatre Project

e-smuggler.com

Translators in Residence

Poetry

Compulsion

Going, Going, Grown

Housewarming

Squeaks