Theatremaker, educator, and playwright Kairos Looney is the author of House of Telescopes, which completed its Off-Broadway premiere run in April 2024, produced by Pipeline Theatre Company, presented at ART/New York, and directed by Lyam Gabel. In this interview, Kairos shares their thoughts about writing for multiple characters from creative, ethical, and political perspectives, trans representation in theatre, and how playwriting helps them make sense of the world, among other topics.

Theatremaker and faculty member at arthaus berlin, Ariel Gutierrez Torres, on devising with an ensemble. Some people/topics mentioned in this episode: arthaus berlin, Antonio Barba, Jerzy Grotowski, Jacques LeCoq, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Henri Bergson,Tadeusz Kantor (see The Dead Class, available on YouTube), the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, buffon, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Theatre director and former director of the BFA acting program at Brooklyn College Rose Bonczek discusses her book Ensemble Theatre Making: A Practical Guide, which she co-authored with David Storck.

A conversation with Fern Sloan and Ted Pugh, founders of The Actors Ensemble and the Michael Chekhov School in Hudson, New York. For more about the Michael Chekhov School, visit michaelchekhovschool.org/

Welcome to Ensemble Means Together, a podcast series about ensembles for actors, theatremakers, and others.