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AUDIENCE MICHEL HAUSMANN + MOISÉS KAUFMAN IN CONVERSATION WITH
ANNE BOGART In September, over Zoom, Anne Bogart spoke with Moisés Kaufman, the founder of Tectonic Theater Project, and Michel Hausmann, Artistic Director of Miami New Drama and Bogart’s former student at Columbia University School of the Arts, where she runs the Graduate Directing Concentration. The occasion for this interview was a new play: the world-premiere stage adaptation, in Spanish with English subtitles, of Las Aventuras de Juan Planchard, written and directed by Kaufman from Jonathan Jakubowicz’s acclaimed 2016 novel; the play began performances at the Colony Theatre in Miami Beach in October as a co-production between Tectonic Theater Project and Miami New Drama. (Founded by Hausmann and Kaufman, Miami New Drama develops and produces new works both in English and Spanish; Bogart has called it “the most exciting young theatre company in the South.”) Before the conversation turned to theatre, they talked about political events in Venezuela, where both men were born and raised.
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