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In this episode, Adam speaks with directors Sam Hunter,  Benedetto Sicca, and Olive Pascha.

Sam Hunter is a writer, director, & teacher specializing in devised ensemble theater and collective play development. After graduating from UC, San Diego, he founded the Hungry River Theater Company and later co-founded The West, a collective creating theater, film, and radio dramas in LA. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation German Chancellor Fellow in 2018, researching ensemble and collective theater administration. The research was published in American Theatre Magazine. He has been in Berlin since then working around Germany. His most recent play, Wandersterne is in rep at the Vagantenbühne.

Benedetto Sicca is an  Italian director, playwright, actor, trainer, & artistic director. He writes for theater, musical theater, cinema, & television. In 2017 he was the Artistic Director of the Tramedutore Festival at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and until then, was the artistic co-director of Mare Culturale Urbano. Winner of Carlo Annoni international award for LGBTQ dramaturgy (2020) National Association of Italian theatre Critics Award (2020)
He is a Watermill Center fellow having worked with Robert Wilson and has collaborated extensively with Luca Ronconi

Olive Pascha is a Liverpool-based Director who works across theatre and film. She studied at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and is an alumnus of the Young Everyman & Playhouse Director’s program. Between 2014 and 2017 she worked in Russia and India with young people devising theatre and leading workshops. In 2020 she founded Make Vague, with writer Sarah Power, making her professional directing debut with Pig at The Royal Court, Liverpool. Olive's directing credits include Mike Bartlett's Bull and Katherine Manners Threads. She has made numerous short films including Evie, an official selection for London Super Shorts 2020, World London Film Festival, and Brussels Independent Film Festival.

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Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi Miller
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