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Conversation № 003 · September 2026

The
Domestiques

A conversation with playwright and actor Venus Cobb, director Rory James Leech, and actors Kayla Dobbs and Aviana Glover.

Original editorial layout for The Domestiques interview

Preparing for their Saturday-night run in Los Angeles, Rory James Leech, Venus Cobb, Aviana Glover, and Kayla Dobbs sat and stretched around us to discuss The Domestiques.

Collage and interview excerpt from The Domestiques

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Conversation № 004 · September 2026

The Great Florida
Python Challenge

A conversation with playwright John Lavelle about Florida, false conservationism, weapons, the Ochopee Post Office, and making theatre without seeing the limitation.

John Lavelle and The Great Florida Python Challenge presented as a blue Google Drive folder

John Lavelle’s final “American Play” begins with a hurricane, an invasive python hunt, and a tiny post office at the edge of the Everglades. The conversation begins with one incorrect assumption about Florida—and opens into the stories America tells itself to keep going.

Original conversation spread about the Ochopee Post Office, including photographs and a map

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Conversation № 002 · September 2026

The Circle
+ Los Angeles

A conversation with playwright Derek Brooks and producer David Román about making On Location.

Original editorial layout for The Circle interview

What came first? The cart or the horse? The magic of most anthological works is that we do not always know if they were meticulously plotted prior to execution, or later developed a blueprint to patch the body together.

Collage and highlighted quotation from The Circle interview

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Conversation № 001 · July 2026

American
Birds

A conversation with playwright Lucy Parks Urbano about workshops, rhythm, Los Angeles, Drake, and bringing forth the wingspan.

Original editorial layout for the American Birds interview

Lucy Parks Urbano takes us through the long workshop life of American Birds and the collaborators who helped move it from a twenty-minute one-act to a full-length production.

Closing production photograph and credits from American Birds

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