“I enjoyed being with a mish-mash group of directors from all over the United States, New Mexico, New Zealand, Turkey, Rome, Paris…in the middle of a beautiful place with little communication with the outside world. I enjoyed running up my hill or across the farmland everyday. I enjoyed stumbling down to coffee and communicating with glances and whispered tones…”
K. L.

“I can tell you that the experience at LaMaMa in Italy has been for me one of those life enhancing adventures. Perhaps my “maturity” keeps me from saying life altering, but I do sense that I am not the same person or same theatre artists that I was before I attended the Symposium. The experience definitely moved me forward.”
B. S.

“It was great to teach a workshop and get feedback from experienced teachers and professionals. (And I may have gotten some work out of it!)”
S. R.

“Participating in the Symposium is so valuable and the opportunity to work in the beautiful environment is such a gift!”
S. O. R.

“…a unique and fascinating program. It offers great scope to work with important directors and the share thoughts with them. It opened up new vistas to me and connected me to a lot of new thoughts.”
S. M.

“Intensive, participatory and challenging.”
C.D.

Directors From 1st - 4th Annual International Symposia for Directors comments:

“I did not know I would have such an emotional and intense experience. I am more alive! P.R.

“Thank you for introducing me to theatre artists of such caliber.”
T.C.

“This is a fabulous program! What an amazing space to explore theatre, theory and practice.
K.J.

“I came for artistic and spiritual renewal and that’s what I got.”
T.J.

“I got my money’s worth tenfold!”
T.A.

“Absolutely one of the best times of my life. Great overall experience. Very well planned.” T.C.

“A great variety in types of training helped claify what I want to do in my own work.“ K.G.

“A great balance of work time and free time. I appreciate the intensity and the teachers who recognize our need to “do” work and learn through action. It is a fantastic and unique experience not only as a director but as an artist and a human being.” B.S.

“It made me feel free and alive and in charge of my life and my work.”
M.H.

“The thing I really loved the most was being tucked away in this beautiful place with all of these directors. I got so much out of the whole experience. The people really made it. And, or course, Ellen [Stewart]. A dream come true for me.” K. M.

“The mix of U.S. and international directors was great. The side trips were super breaks in an intensive workshop, absolutely necessary. The whole thing was a great value, both $ and experience.”
A. H.

“I learned a great deal. The accommodations and food were excellent!”
N. J.

“Learning from Ellen Stewart was very important to me. [I gained] a sense of the global possibilities of theatre.”
B. B.

“I enjoyed being with a mish-mash group of directors from all over the United States, New Mexico, New Zealand, Turkey, Rome, Paris…in the middle of a beautiful place with little communication with the outside world. I enjoyed running up my hill or across the farmland everyday. I enjoyed stumbling down to coffee and communicating with glances and whispered tones…”
K. L.

“I can tell you that the experience at LaMaMa in Italy has been for me one of those life enhancing adventures. Perhaps my “maturity” keeps me from saying life altering, but I do sense that I am not the same person or same theatre artists that I was before I attended the Symposium. The experience definitely moved me forward.”
B. S.

“It was great to teach a workshop and get feedback from experienced teachers and professionals. (And I may have gotten some work out of it!)”
S. R.

“Participating in the Symposium is so valuable and the opportunity to work in the beautiful environment is such a gift!”
S. O. R.

“…a unique and fascinating program. It offers great scope to work with important directors and the share thoughts with them. It opened up new vistas to me and connected me to a lot of new thoughts.”
S. M.

“Intensive, participatory and challenging.”
C.D.

For a personal perspectives on the LaMaMa International Symposium for Directors, please read:

Setting Up Tables: A Journal of Participating in the LaMaMa International Directors Symposium
Or, Are Theatre Professors Artists? by Ed Menta in New England Theatre Journal, Vol. 14, 2003.

Space and Synchronicity by Rebecca Engle in American Theatre Magazine, January, 2002 issue.

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