Spoiler alert: I play a pregnant, performance activist in The Blackout, the second play in The Anthropologists Save The World! In the...

A conversation I often have with fellow artists is why we do what we do? It is not easy. We pour our souls out to an audience who may...

One month ago, at our first rehearsal for The Anthropologists Save The World!, we asked the entire company to join us on a personal...

Being a parent and an artist is both a tightrope walk and a tug of war. Especially when your children are young and you are the primary...

ADVOCACY = Affirm the function, explore the practice, and promote the profession of dramaturgy. This is how LMDA (Literary Managers and...

Here's a roughly accurate version of a conversation I had last night: FRIEND: So, what are you working on? Anything new? ME: Yes! My...

The title of this blog (if you hadn't already guessed) is the iconic quote from The Graduate. Meant as a suggestion for a viable career...

Last week, we conducted an experiment: we brought four kids under the age of 5 into the rehearsal room for a 4 hour rehearsal. Would it...

On Sunday, March 12, we broke ground on our newest play, This Sinking Island. This play expands our current body of investigative...

In honor of International Women's Day, we invited original cast member Shayna Padovano to write about the women of Give Us Bread. Shayna...

This locket was my gift from the cast of Give Us Bread on opening night. Engraved upon the back are the words: "The time has come!" -...

Working without a dedicated physical space is not so unusual in New York City, but it does cause us to question the nature of home and...

Who is that woman in the wide-brimmed hat? In 2008 and 2009, when we were researching the events of the 1917 food riots on the Lower East...

In February, 1917, rising food prices led rioters to attack food shops and burn peddler's pushcarts on the Lower East Side and in...

Welcome to Field Notes! Inspired by the anthropological tradition of taking field notes, please meet our new blog where we share our...

The Anthropologists stands in unequivocal support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Over the past year, as we have been developing our...