The Farm Theater’s Bullpen Sessions
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Dr. Indira Etwaroo (she/her) (award-winning producer, director, scholar, and arts and culture executive) has worked across the world to develop multiplatform venues and content that represents the diversity of the globe and explores the complex intersections between stories-that-matter and the topics-of-our- time. She currently serves as the first-ever Director of the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple in California.
Dr. Etwaroo was a major force for content innovation and inclusion in the public media field, as the Founding Executive Producer of The Greene Space in NYC and Founding Executive Producer of NPR Presents, the national live events platform to bring live, on-air and online content to audiences across the world. Of note, she Executive Produced the American Broadcast Premiere of the 75th Anniversary of Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, starring Phylicia Rashad and the first-ever audio recordings and video broadcasts of August Wilson’s entire American Century Cycle, in partnership with the August Wilson Estate and Artistic Directors Ruben Santiago-Hudson and Stephen McKinley Henderson. She led The Billie Holiday Theatre in Brooklyn through radical growth, as its Executive Artistic Director: more than doubling the audience, increasing revenue by 212%, and producing groundbreaking content. Dr. Etwaroo spearheaded the launch of the first-ever national $10 million strategic plan for thrivability for Black theater institutions, The Black Seed, in partnership with Gary Anderson, Dr. Monica NDounou and Shay Wafer. Indira’s work at BAM developed educational and humanities’ content that leveraged BAM’s MainStage work. Dr. Etwaroo has been a professor of graduate studies at Temple University and at NYU, teaching Leading Performing Arts Institutions in the 21st Century.
She has received awards and honors for her work, including the “40 under 40” of national leaders by The Network Journal, the Black Theater Network’s Larry Leon Hamlin Legacy Award, as well as the Larry Leon Hamlin Producer’s Award from the National Black Theatre Festival. She has lectured and published extensively on the performing arts, race, womanhood and equity; and has served as a Fulbright Scholar where she lived and worked with refugee Somali women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Indira is the mother of Zenzele, a director and writer.
Bullpen Sessions Episode 40: Melissa Friedman
Bullpen Sessions Episode 39: France-Luce Benson
Bullpen Sessions Episode 38: Juan Villa
Bullpen Sessions Episode 37: Purva Bedi
Bullpen Sessions Episode 36: Florencia Lozano
Bullpen Sessions Episode 35: Felix Solis
Bullpen Sessions Episode 34: Andrea Dymond
Bullpen Sessions Episode 33: Lisa Ramirez
Bullpen Sessions Episode 32: Victor Malana Maog
Bullpen Sessions Episode 31: Elyzabeth Wilder
Bullpen Sessions Episode 30: Jessica Asch
Bullpen Sessions Episode 28: Celeste Lagrotteria
Bullpen Sessions Episode 27: Jenni Werner
Bullpen Sessions Episode 25: Kerry O'Malley
Bullpen Sessions Episode 24: Stephanie Klapper
Bullpen Sessions Episode 26: Michael Stuhlbarg
Bullpen Sessions Episode 22: Christine Bruno
Bullpen Sessions Episode 21: Estefanía Fadul
Bullpen Sessions Episode Six: Matthew Hallock
Bullpen Sessions Episode 15: Laura Jellinek
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