Jonathan Secor is Director of Special Programs at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.  He has also worked at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, and BAM, while at the same time running his own production company.

In this interview Jonathan talks with KadmusArts about his philosophy of presenting, the creative economy, and why he unleashes a group of students at the Arts Presenters conference each year.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

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Stacy Klein is the Founder and Artistic Director of Double Edge Theatre. Since 1982, Klein and the ensemble have created several performance cycles. The troupe lives and works at “The Farm” in Ashfield, Massachusetts, which is also home to its International Center for Performance, Training, and Exchange.

In this interview, Stacy talks with KadmusArts about how Double Edge found a way — after its first 14 years of existence — to create the environment necessary to its long-term survival, the creation and function of The Farm, and how the group develops its projects.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

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Jason Freeman is a composer and assistant professor in the Music Technology Group at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. With the assistance of technology, Jason’s musical creations break down barriers between composers, performers and audiences. His work has been performed at the American Composers Orchestra, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and the Lincoln Center Festival.

In this podcast we talk with him about how his students and colleagues influence his work, paradigm shifts in arts participation and the joys of making audiences an integral part of the creative process.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

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Neil Barclay is the President and CEO of the August Wilson Center for African American Culture in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the August Wilson Center, he was the Associate Director of the Performing Arts Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

In this interview we talk with him about how he arrived at the August Wilson Center, how the cultural landscape of Pittsburgh is changing, and the importance of excellence and authenticity.

This interview is part of an ongoing series with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

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