Thanks to New York City Theatrical Director, Cat Parker for allowing us to re-post her article titled “What Makes: A Director Good or a Good Director?”
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Why Ibsen? Part One
"Why Ibsen?" A colleague asked me this question before rehearsals began in New York a few weeks ago for a performance piece I dreamed up and titled Ibsen’s Women. The question caught me off guard in some ways since my colleague, a fellow theatre scholar, clearly knew the significance of Ibsen’s…
Grex Group Partners with Art Start to Help At-Risk Youth in NYC
Grex Group Theatre may be a relatively young company, but we believe you're never too young to make a big impact. So, we've been asking ourselves how we can expand the impact of Grex Group Theatre productions beyond our own work to assist the larger arts community in New York City.…
Transformation: From Human to Ogre
Ryan Wood recently completed his final performance as Shrek (among other characters) in the hit national touring production of Shrek: The Musical. In a recent Q&A with the Grex Group Producing Artistic Director, Clayton Guiltner, Wood described his experiences and graciously shared them with us. Here’s the interview… Ryan Wood performs…
Worthy of a Fight
Last year, Kevin Spacey spoke at The Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. on behalf of artists in our society who are fighting to protect what many in our local, state, and federal governments are snuffing out though the reduction of funding. Spacey makes a great argument as he highlights the…
High School Musical: China’s Premiere
In 2008-2009, I taught at Guangxi University in Nanning, China. The particular college I worked for is called Sino-Canadian International College (SCIC), and all instruction is in English. The dean was always looking for opportunities for the students to use their English outside the classroom, and because I had a…
Advice from The West Side…
Clayton Guiltner, Producing Artistic Director of the Grex Group Theatre, recently interviewed actor/dancer, Christopher Rice, who recently starred as Baby John and cover the role of Tony on the first Broadway National Tour of West Side Story! Here’s the interview: Christopher Rice performs in the Broadway touring production of West Side Story.…
What is a Grex?
You might be asking this question right now, as I myself once did: “what is a grex?” Well, let me tell you, it IS something. Despite attempts by the auto-correct on my MacBook to tell me: “no, grex, is not a word. What you are looking for is gre-w. Stop…
The Director’s Perspective
Grex Group’s Producing Artistic Director, Clayton Guiltner, recently interviewed Robert Woods, Grex’s West coast producer and director of the U.S. Premiere of the Chinese play Behind the Lie. Written by Nick Rongjun Yu, and translated by Duke University professor Claire Concesion, the play is currently running (April 2013) at the Hudson…
Why Ibsen? Part Two
This is the second and final part of our series analyzing Grex Group's recent production of Ibsen's Women. You can read part one of the series here. Spoken dialogue is never enough in storytelling. As a director, I take great pains to develop and shape stage pictures that speak about the…