Douglas Aibel
Artistic Director of The Vineyard Theatre.
Douglas Aibel, artistic director of New York’s Vineyard Theatre, reflects upon the six year run and impending closing of the Broadway musical Avenue Q, which made its Off-Broadway debut at the Vineyard and has been the company’s longest-running commercial transfer — out of a field that also includes [title of show], How I Learned to Drive, Three Tall Women, Fully Committed, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill and Goblin Market, among many others. He also talks about his vision for the Vineyard and how it grew out of a 65-seat, multi-disciplinary performance space into a full-fledged theatre company; how his father’s love of Broadway musicals, and incessant playing of cast albums, put him on the path towards a career in theatre; his early years doing five and six internships or part-time jobs at theatres around the city in order to break into the business and make connections; how a job in fundraising at Manhattan Theatre Club led him to work in film; how his dual career as theatrical artistic director and noted film casting director inform each other; and why he believe that people in theatrical chat rooms should be required to use their real names.
Original airdate – August 24, 2009.
Running time – 58:44.
For more information, to listen online, or to download the episode go to Downstage Center’s Douglas Aibel program page.
You can also download directly the Douglas Aibel program (mp3).
Posted on Monday, August 24th, 2009 at 9:40 am
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American Theatre Wing
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