Pig Iron & Creating Cutting Edge Theatre Works with Quinn Bauriedel #37

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Today I’m talking with Quinn Bauriedel. Quinn is a co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of the OBIE Award-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company. Since 1995, Quinn has been one of the leading artists with the company, co-creating many of the company's 30+ original works of theatre and touring them to venues and festivals in Brazil, Germany, Scotland, England, Romania, Poland, Peru, Italy, Ukraine, Lithuania and Ireland, among others. Additionally, Quinn and Pig Iron regularly present their work in New York City and have toured throughout the States, including engagements in San Francisco, Washington, DC, Princeton, Providence, Cambridge, Atlanta, Tampa, and Logan (Utah), among others.  He has directed, designed and performed with the company since its inception. 

Quinn has taught acting and movement theatre courses since 2002 at Swarthmore College.  Additionally, he has been on the Headlong Performance Institute faculty and taught courses at Princeton University.  Quinn has taught workshops at the Alternative Theatre Festival in Budapest, with Arts on Location in Bangkok, Thailand, at Les Kurbas Theatre in Lviv, Ukraine, with Cabuia Teatro in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at Teatrul Fara Frontiere in Valcea Rimnea, Romania and at Princeton University, Stanford University, UVA, Wesleyan university, Utah State, Georgetown, American University, and UPenn, among many others.  Additionally, he has taught professional theatre training workshops in Philadelphia, New York, and San Francisco for the past 15 years.

Quinn lives in Philadelphia, USA.

Such a fabulous conversation. Enjoy!

We’re talking about…

  • Quinn’s theatrical journey and how music played a key role in it.

  • Pig Iron Theatre’s history and how it grew from a group of friends creating together to one of the biggest physical theatre companies in the USA.

  • The secret to Pig Iron’s ensemble work.

  • The power of restless curiosity.

  • Close, intimate descriptions of Pig Iron’s devising processes.

LINKS MENTIONED

Pig Iron Theatre Company Website

Pig Iron School Website

Connect with Quinn Bauriedel on Twitter.

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