Katherine Cooper
It’s rare that as a writer I am left speechless by a performance. Writing becomes like swimming for the first time: relearning how to breathe. What can abandonment by words afford a writer besides drowning? Perhaps a lesson in listening.
On being an outsider, the nature of authenticity, and the depths of pop-culture.
Tina Satter speaks about formalism, her perverse sense of humour and the importance of family drama.
Katherine Cooper speaks to playwright Adriano Shaplin about baffled audiences, favoring amateurism over professionalism, and what The Crucible got wrong.
Katherine Cooper addresses a series of letters to performance artist Cynthia Hopkins in response to her work, This Clement World.
Erin Markey discusses familial relationships, making “stuff for stage and video,” and dating chaperones.
