Jul 16, 2016 | Articles, Interviews, Press, Tiny Houses
By Georgeanne Oliver Joshua Brody is the kind of director who bakes cookies for his actors. And he knows that makes him a bearded, tattooed version of his mother. Brody is directing Tiny Houses, the first New Play Workshop show of the 2016 Chautauqua Theater Company...
Jul 13, 2016 | Articles, Interviews, Press, Tiny Houses
By Georgeanne Oliver If Tiny Houses sounds like a modern play, that’s because it is. The show, which tells the story of a couple moving from New York to Oregon to build the titular tiny home, is the first of Chautauqua Theater Company’s 2016 New Play Workshop...
May 29, 2016 | Interviews, Press
I just spent a lovely afternoon chatting with Daniel and Caralee over at the Actor Hack Podcast (check out the blog here). You can listen to the interview on iTunes or Stitcher, or by clicking the green text on this page. Learn all my play-making and friend-making...
Apr 15, 2016 | Interviews, Press
by Kenneth Jones | April 15, 2016 A hike along the Appalachian Trail is more fraught than expected for a grieving man in Chelsea Marcantel’s new play Even Longer and Farther Away, getting its world premiere April 15-May 15 by The New Colony in Chicago. A snow storm...
Apr 16, 2014 | Articles, Interviews, Press
My hometown paper, the Jennings Daily News, ran this interview and article (written by Glenetta Shuey) on April 16th. Very complimentary. Here is a picture of the first page. For the complete story and more local news, please subscribe to Jennings Daily News by...
Mar 30, 2014 | Interviews, Press
I was recently interviewed by performer Parris Cromer for her 26 Questions podcast. We chatted about writing, teaching, artistic goals, and even my time at French Camp as a teenager. You can download the podcast on iTunes, or listen online by clicking here. A sample:...
Jul 20, 2013 | Interviews, Press
Writing History: Hatfield-McCoy Feud Takes Local Stage Next Week by Mary Meadows • July 19, 2013 MCCARR — Playwright Chelsea Marcantel has written historical plays before, but this year marks the first time that the history she’s writing about is still entwined in the...
Mar 9, 2013 | Interviews, Press
The Acadiana Repertory Theatre world premiere production of A Place to Land is coming up later this month, and I chatted with them about the writing process and history of this particular play for their “Tales from the Script” video series.
Mar 3, 2013 | Interviews, Press
I interviewed myself on my blog, www.ChelseaDays.com, as part of the Next Big Thing blog chain. Check it out below. I was recently tagged by the all-around amazing Megan Stielstra in the Next Big Thing blog chain, in which writers answer ten questions about a...
Feb 13, 2013 | Interviews, Press
Barter Theatre’s submissions window is open for the 2013 Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights. This annual festival of new plays presents fully staged readings of new work by Appalachian playwrights, or new plays dealing with Appalachian themes. I sat down...
