Stage Hackers: Performance | Stagecraft | Creative Entrepreneurship

An essential component of an independent artist's career is identifying the intersection of passion, purpose, and public need. Having drive and clear goals to pursue in the creation of work fosters a lasting impact on creator and audience alike. Today's guest has developed an organization and performance model that truly harnesses her personal experience, discipline, and creative voice to meet a vital public need. Marina Tsaplina is a versatile, kinesthetic performer and founder of The Betes Organization. She blurs performance lines, integrating highly expressive physical precision, mime, clown, puppetry, object theater, silence, text, music and improvisation to create pieces of wonder, mystery, beauty, and breath. The Betes' work is focused exclusively on the illness experience -- developing methods and creating opportunities for people to consider their chronic ailments in the context of their self-identity through theatrical engagements, discussions, and group exercises.   In This Episode, You'll Lear