Entries by David Jeremy Smith

Art at Home – 20 Questions with Wallis Caldoza

Today’s #ArtAtHome gets up close and personal with another one of our Beyond the Bard playwrights – Wallis Caldoza! What are you currently reading?  I am currently re-reading parts of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Fred Moten and Stefano Harney. What inspires you to write? I always write out of desperation and from what I […]

Art at Home – 20 Questions with Rebecca Ostroff

As we head into the summer, our #ArtAtHome series will help you get to know our 2020 Beyond the Bard playwrights as each of them answers 20 questions and shows us what their current workspace looks like. First up is Rebecca Ostroff! What are you currently reading? Like Brothers by Mark and Jay Duplass. What […]

Black Lives Matter

Today, June 8, 2020, would have been the first day of rehearsals for Driftwood’s 2020 production of King Henry Five. In response to recent events and as part of our own journey to listen, learn and support voices of black, indigenous and artists of colour, we’re commemorating this day by encouraging everyone to watch this […]

Celebrating Shakespeare’s 456th with ArtAtHome

A Birthday #ArtAtHome Video In celebration of Shakespeare’s 456th Birthday, Driftwood launches a series where we nod to the Bard in our daily lives, quarantine-style.  These are strange and unprecedented times. But in the wake of social distancing and isolation in the era of COVID-19, artists everywhere are still trying to find ways to express […]