AMY CLARE TASKER

Exquisite Corpse

The New Empty Space

Apr 15, 2013

Director

Big Ideas, collaboration, Ensemble, Exquisite Corpse, Future, Intensity, making stuff up, new play, Radical, risk

What a week! Dare I say I spent the last seven days pioneering a new way of making theatre? I love living in the future! Directors Lisa Szolovits, Wolfgang Wachalovsky and I met at Directors Lab West in May 2012. Having known each other a grand total of four days, we began to make plans…
Editing Helen

Apr 3, 2013

Director, Playwright

actors, Big Ideas, collaboration, community, Ensemble, Exquisite Corpse, Greek Mythology, Helen of Troy, making stuff up, Megan Cohen, new play, Radical, writing

It’s been a while since I last gushed about the sublime insanity of collaborating with Megan Cohen on The Helen Project. We’ve been pretty busy gearing up for our developmental workshop at DIVAfest this May. In the last couple of months, we’ve revised our notion of who/when our five Helens are, tried out a few…