Danielle Deadwyler
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Current Town: Atlanta, GA
Q: What are you working on now?
A: Auditioning and revising/editing a collection of poems.
Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.
Q: Tell me, if you will, a story from your childhood that explains who you are as a writer or as a person.
A: I have few stories from childhood that I’m able to automatically remember these days. I’m making it all up as I go. I gather that’s why fragmentation is so engaging to me, compositions that are more interested in moments (and memory) than a long-winding-road-form of writing. How do many moments speak for a whole? This is what I seek to get to the heart of as a writer, art maker.
Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?
Q: If you could change one thing about theater, what would it be?
A: The funding!!! And more time to build in/work the process. We’ve lost the developmental (rehearsal) time for work. It has shrunken since I began professionally, which my mentors say had been shortened for them. From four to three to two weeks sometimes. Allowing marination truly yields a more flavorful, rich meal.
Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?
Q: Who are or were your theatrical heroes?
A: Donald Griffin, Crystal Fox, Andrea Frye, Jasmine Guy, Ntozake Shange, that I can think of now. Most of these folks I could touch. They actually pore into me. Our heroes are closer than we think.
Q: What kind of theater excites you?
Q: What kind of theater excites you?
A: Raw. Honest. Surprising. Theatre that pushes humanity in both directions on the spectrum. I love work that fills the space and shrinks it simultaneously. I love to feel a part of a world.
Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?
Q: What advice do you have for playwrights just starting out?
A: Listen carefully. Quietude is valuable in a sensorially busy world. Writers are like spiritual healers/leaders...we have to be hyper-aware of the world’s happenings (well read) and adult to be synthesizers of such experiences. And more questions than answers.
Q: Plugs, please:
Q: Plugs, please:
A: I’m actually in a film currently playing the west coast, JANE & EMMA. Other things are pending, so mums the zipped lips.
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