10 episodes

Contemporary American verse playwright Kirk Wood Bromley has been called "the new Shakespeare" by a variety of theater reviewers. After writing and producing his plays in NYC through his company, Inverse Theater, from 1990 to 2022, Bromley now lives in the Sonoran Desert, from which remote vantage comes this podcast: a series of interviews with past and current Bromley play collaborators, recordings of virtual play rehearsals, behind-the-scenes discussions on the audio versions of the plays, conversations about the practice of creating the plays, and musings on the meanings in the plays, along with commentary by Bromley on the songs and lyrics of his musical side project, The Good Hard. More info can be found at inversetheater.org.

The Inverse Theater Podcast Kirk Wood Bromley

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Contemporary American verse playwright Kirk Wood Bromley has been called "the new Shakespeare" by a variety of theater reviewers. After writing and producing his plays in NYC through his company, Inverse Theater, from 1990 to 2022, Bromley now lives in the Sonoran Desert, from which remote vantage comes this podcast: a series of interviews with past and current Bromley play collaborators, recordings of virtual play rehearsals, behind-the-scenes discussions on the audio versions of the plays, conversations about the practice of creating the plays, and musings on the meanings in the plays, along with commentary by Bromley on the songs and lyrics of his musical side project, The Good Hard. More info can be found at inversetheater.org.

    Ep. 13: Chris Thorn

    Ep. 13: Chris Thorn

    In the first of my conversations with actors starring in Icarus and Aria, I talk to Chris Thorn, who plays Jimmy Jones Junior. Chris was in a number of Inverse plays between 2006 and 2012. A true scholar of theater and force of nature on the stage, it’s always fascinating to talk to Chris about...

    • 2 hr 7 min
    Ep. 12: Talking with John Gideon – Part 2

    Ep. 12: Talking with John Gideon – Part 2

    Check out my second conversation with composer/musician, John Gideon. We cover the second half of our initial years of theatrical collaboration (we are currently in a new round of collaborations focused on audio plays). Gideon (as most of us call him) is always thoughtful, meticulous, and intensely passionate about his compositions, and the quality of...

    • 2 hr 10 min
    Ep. 11: Hank Wagner

    Ep. 11: Hank Wagner

    Here he is – Hank Wagner. I’ve known Hank since 1996 when he was cast as Dick Skills in Want’s Unwished Work and delivered a performance that blew the LES wide open. Since then he’s been Johnny Freeman (The American Revolution), Coyote (Midnight Brainwash Revival), Syms (On The Origin of Darwin), and countless other roles....

    • 1 hr 55 min
    Ep. 10: Daniel Martin Berkey – Part 3

    Ep. 10: Daniel Martin Berkey – Part 3

    This episode of Inverse Theater Podcast wraps up my conversations with Daniel Martin Berkey, the actor who performs and is the inspiration for our first audio play, Remission. We hear about the experiences depicted in the latter third of the play, including his escape from schizophrenia, all laced with the usual brilliant frenzied fervor that...

    • 1 hr 45 min
    Ep. 9: Josh Spafford – Second Session

    Ep. 9: Josh Spafford – Second Session

    Here’s the second half of my conversation with actor/director Joshua Spafford. We chat about his work on some of the later Inverse plays, a few of the amazing actors he worked with in those productions, and the projects he directed and how we decided to have him do that. Always great to hear from this...

    • 1 hr 53 min
    Ep. 8: Mick O’Brien

    Ep. 8: Mick O’Brien

    I’m excited to share my conversation with actor Mick O’Brien in this episode of the Inverse Theater Podcast. Mick has been in numerous Inverse shows and has always turned in a stellar performance. He’s a thoughtful, thorough, diverse, and dare I say “literary” actor whose sparkling facility with language is as good as it gets....

    • 2 hr 5 min

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