Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Feb 8, 2012, 12:34 pm
Name: Karina Dominguez Where are you from originally? El Paso by way of southern Arizona by way of northern Mexico. How long have you been in Austin? Since 1997, with a 1 1/2 year stint on the west coast after college. Who are some of the the folks you’re playing in Messenger No. 4? Receptioni...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Feb 7, 2012, 12:26 pm
Name: Jessica Allen Where are you from originally? Devine, TX It’s a town consisting of 4,000 people south of San Antonio, and yes, the name says it all. How long have you been in Austin? I actually live in San Marcos, and have been there for almost 10 years. Who are some of the the folks you...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Feb 6, 2012, 1:36 pm
Name: Rachel Wiese Where are you from originally? I’m from Arkansas. For the first 10 years of my life, I lived at the Heifer Project International learning and livestock center where volunteers from around the world came from weeks to years to help raise animals that were then shipped to third ...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Feb 3, 2012, 1:01 pm
Well I hope you’ve been reading along as we’ve been introducing the cast of our upcoming Messenger No. 4 (Or…. How to Survive a Greek Tragedy). If you haven’t been following along you really should check it out, they’re delightful. I’ve been asking them about their favorite and least fa...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Feb 3, 2012, 12:00 pm
Name: Joey Melcher Where are you from originally? Houston, TX How long have you been in Austin? 1 year Who are some of the the folks you’re playing in Messenger No. 4? Rogue Messenger, Orestes, Past Messenger No.4 What was the very first show you did ever in your entire life? ...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Feb 2, 2012, 1:21 am
Name: Vanessa Renae Marroquin Where are you from originally? Oh, just the best place in Texas to eat incredible Mexican Food, and it’s only 20 minutes north of the border!  McAllen, Texas. How long have you been in Austin? Technically I haven’t “been in” Austin, since I live in San Marc...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Feb 1, 2012, 1:22 pm
Name: Camille Latour Where are you from originally? I was born in a beautiful house here in Austin.  I’ve been a Southie pretty much my whole life. How long have you been in Austin?  I have been back for 5 years.  I got my (undergrad) liberal arts degree from Bennington College, VT, and Mas...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 31, 2012, 1:18 pm
Name: Andrew Aleri Rodgers Where are you from originally? I was born in Colorado Springs, but quickly emigrated (not of my own accord, I was two) northward to Loveland, Colorado.  The Sweetheart City (seriously, check out their valentines re-mailing program) was my hometown for most of my formativ...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 27, 2012, 2:24 pm
Name: Daniel Sawtelle Where are you from originally? I hail from the land Welch’s Grapes, the Brig Niagara Battle of 1812 Warship, and “That Thing You Do” – Erie, PA. How long have you been in Austin? Since July of 2007.  You do the math.  Because I’m no good at it. (Ed note: 4.5 years...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 27, 2012, 1:17 pm
Name: Megan Minto Where are you from originally? That’s a difficult question… My dad was in the Air Force, so we moved around a few times. I was born in California, in the middle of the Mojave Desert. But, to me, home is most likely Fort Walton Beach, FL. We moved there when I was 10, and my m...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 26, 2012, 12:53 pm
Name: Elena Amelia Nagel Weinberg (Or as I was once called in 5th grade which sent me home from school crying, Elena "a million bagels" Weinberg) Where are you from originally? I was born in Austin, but found my first home in Pleasanton, Texas.
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Sep 22, 2011, 2:13 pm
If you have been in near-Travis orbit of late you have been flooded with Titus-talk. The hot news of the moment (aside from my eldest sister’s lovely wedding) has been that I have been cast as Titus Andronicus in the Last Act Theatre Company’s Titus Andronicus. I am delighted and terrified. I a...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jul 21, 2011, 5:47 pm
Those who operate in near-Travis orbit will hear me repeat phrases and motifs repeatedly as I hammer out a life’s philosophy before I die. “All we have is time and people” for instance. Or lately there’s been a lot of “design for your budget dammit, don’t design as if you had money and b...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jul 15, 2011, 1:41 pm
Last fall the New Works community in Austin was awarded a planning grant from the Mellon foundation to explore (and model) infrastructure to support the creation of… well… New Work (http://goo.gl/y0TcS). That process continues apace and one of the identified areas of need was a better outreach t...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Feb 10, 2011, 12:50 pm
A friend asked what I felt a vibrant theatre community was. Disappointed to realize I hadn’t already defined that term in this space I told her I would write up a post. This is that post. A vibrant theatre community is one that is connected vertically and horizontally, larger and smaller, more a...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Feb 8, 2011, 2:00 am
Once upon a time in a blog post not so terribly far away I mentioned that you should be careful not to post the same platitudes on Twitter every one is posting every day because I was seeing the same quotes DAY after DAY after DAY and the only thing worse than Successories posters are Successories p...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Dec 30, 2010, 1:59 pm
This has been a fallow year for Cambiare Productions. We’re not dead. You can’t kill a guerilla group made up of two people and a mathematician (hi Amanda!). We’ve been busy bathing in other things that interest us, Will has been taking 120 or so shots a day and honing his immense talent for p...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Dec 29, 2010, 12:55 pm
I made them for you so you don’t have to think too hard. The average theatre human finally discovered Twitter in 2010. There are plenty of folks coming behind you so please get out of the doorway but you aren’t the first either so settle down. The primary faux pas that folks make when first wa...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Nov 23, 2010, 12:41 am
As has happened so many times in the last couple of years I said something off the cuff that someone else has paid entirely too much attention to. On November 19th I said: And yesterday Mr. Howard Sherman, president of the American Theatre Wing responded very thoughtfully. His considered response ...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Oct 14, 2010, 12:37 pm
Peter Marks of the Washington Post tosses off a quick “leave me alone” note to Washington theatremakers at the perfect time for me to talk about audiences: opening night of Rubber Rep’s Biography of Physical Sensations. Marks hates audience participation and I am so firmly in Mr. Marks’ cam...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Sep 29, 2010, 2:21 am
Then Will, Amanda and I have been blessed indeed. For a company with as short a production history and as skinny a wallet as Cambiare has, we have been blessed to work with the very best people. Today the B. Iden Payne Award nominations for 2009-10 were released and several Cambiare alums were hon...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Aug 12, 2010, 10:44 pm
A couple of weeks ago Julie Burt Nichols of the Bailiwick in Chicago popped up on Twitter and asked for pros and cons of social media in theatre marketing… I got volunteered. My answers weren’t needed for the eventual post due to my non-Chicagoanity but spurred by Dave Charest’s repurposing o...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Aug 11, 2010, 2:00 am
I have never been able to see those stupid magic eye images… Y’know these things: Never. Not once. Not then. Not now. “Oh but Travis that’s nothing, that’s a parlor trick, it doesn’t mean anything.” Which is of course indisputably true. But back in their day they were everywhere...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jul 21, 2010, 1:58 am
Now granted I heard that from a frame salesperson, but it sounds good right? She was responding to my incredulity at what was easily a 6 inch thick frame around a 4 inch picture. Her longer explanation was that any given wall is a blank space and a frame gives the art context in the space. I buy t...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - May 6, 2010, 1:55 pm
Cambiare’s next production (exact dates pending) is In Pursuit of Childhood. It’s already in it’s 3rd incarnation (as proposed it was called Lunchroom Gods and featured yet MORE mythology!) and beginning the plunge from mine and Will’s brains through the filter of a cast and into reality. W...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - May 2, 2010, 3:32 am
I am something of an Austin theatre scene booster. I haven’t been at all shy about that. I am rightfully proud of the raw amount of theatre (and art in general) that goes on in a town that has a population only about 30% of Brooklyn’s’. One of my criticisms of the scene is the lack of a region...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Mar 15, 2010, 5:16 am
It’s been 6 months already so the theatre blogs and the #2amt (2am Theatre) kids on Twitter are bashing around labeling of theatre again. It’s one of rashes that theatre bloggers seem to have that flare up pretty consistently. I’ve talked about this before here and there are links over at 2amt...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 20, 2010, 11:29 am
There is a guideline/rule/rubric/something I heard this one time about never responding to your critics. Or maybe it was never respond to your critics publically or some such… I’m mostly well behaved about such things. But I want to point anyone who knows the formentors of rebellion who sic th...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 20, 2010, 11:29 am
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 13, 2010, 3:22 pm
I’m not through Part One yet, but I really need to jot thoughts as I go or I’m just going to lose it all. AD’s honestly believe that there are no good plays anymore. Because of course Really Good Play means Tartuffe.It is really not clear to ADs at major shops who have been running Shakespear...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 13, 2010, 3:22 pm
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 12, 2010, 5:28 pm
I wrote a glorious, witty, self-serving piece about the need for big tent tolerance in both religion and theatre. Oh my god it was bad. As Treplev says in the the Nina Variations (by Steven Dietz – buy now), “Nothing makes an audience run from the room faster then the phrase, ‘I had a dre...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 12, 2010, 5:28 pm
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 4, 2010, 2:34 am
It seems in the aftermath of Diversity Weekend and the subsequent release of Outrageous Fortune that the fog of war has lifted and the folks are seeing the enormity of the problems in front of us. Of course the problems that face theatre are insurmountable. T’was ever thus. We are trying to per...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 4, 2010, 2:34 am
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 2, 2010, 4:17 am
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Jan 2, 2010, 4:17 am
Two years ago on another windy and cold First Night in Austin Cambiare Productions was born under the 1st Street Bridge. I’d be lying if I said it didn’t feel like a million years ago. I’d be lying if I hadn’t claimed more than once that this company was three years old. I wasn’t lying ...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Oct 27, 2009, 5:48 pm
Kate Foy of Groundling (and Toowoomba! I just like saying Toowoomba!) has been asking nicely all over the internet for about a year what exactly people mean when they call themselves an “indie” theatre company. I’ve talked with her in roughly 492 different venues about it, but discovered that ...
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Oct 25, 2009, 9:47 pm
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Oct 13, 2009, 6:16 pm
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Sep 22, 2009, 12:00 pm
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Sep 17, 2009, 6:12 pm
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Sep 10, 2009, 2:31 am
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Sep 8, 2009, 12:05 am
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Sep 7, 2009, 2:36 am
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Travis Bedard posted an article on Cambiare Productions - Sep 1, 2009, 2:01 am
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