@rndyounghowze Walking Shadow Readers Theatre is doing some great work! New Normal Rep is excellent, as well. Inkwell Theatre has a Virtual Playwrights Night where they get fabulous actors to do cold readings of 10 page excerpts of plays. And the Pipeline-Collective has a biweekly Salon with 1 hour workshops of 1600 word excerpts -- amazing directors and diverse pool of actors.

What I love about all of these theatres is the access to creators I otherwise would never have met!

@rndyounghowze I actually worked on a couple of #virtual shows for my #undergrad! Both were completely new works, one of which I was #dramaturg and assistant #director on! I was an #actor in the other one. The one I dramaturged was "Dognap on Dekalb" by Benjamin Colón and the other was "Radium Girls: a Jaw-Dropping New Musical" by Amanda D’Archangelis, Sami Horneff, and Lisa Mongillo.

Both were...stressful. My university didn't know how to effectively produce these productions and the (1/2)

@rndyounghowze in Feb 2020 (pre-pandemic!) I co-created a show that took place on Instagram stories – there was a game element in that only one character was advertised to the public, and you had to "unlock" the others by discovering their accounts through tags. More successful in concept than in execution – we foolishly decided to actually do it live, rather than pre-record segments earlier, and not all cast members knew how to use Instagram super well, so our planned tight schedule got super behind.

But in general it was a lot of fun to make a show for that format – part of the language of the show was that we would only post things that made sense for someone to post at a party, so all the "main events" of the play were captured in the background while mundane stuff took centre stage. Gave it a fun detective feel – scouring footage for clues.

We had about 15 cast members all tightly crammed into one space for the most part, so while it was digital theatre it was definitely not a pandemic safe project!