{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fliving-the-process-with-host-shannon-tl-kearns.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F2-x8TfFt6S","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Power of Theatricality with Shalee Mae Cole Mauleón","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/d2094862-0682-4cd4-a435-9a098e708e07/62a0a62f-cd7b-4294-9999-1c34c84d6c59/shalee.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Summary\n\nIn this episode, Shannon Kearns interviews Shalee Mae Cole Mauleón, a freelance director and dramaturg. Shalee primarily focuses on collaborating with playwrights to produce powerful new work that interrogates the status quo. She believes in an artistic process that prioritizes artist accountability, sustainability, and collaboration. Shalee discusses her creative practice, which involves blending mixed media and using metaphor to evoke emotion in her work. She also talks about the rise of Dungeons & Dragons and its popularity in various creative fields. The importance of stage directions and the role they play in creating a theatrical experience is explored. Shalee shares her experience directing impossible stage directions and how she approaches them creatively. She also reflects on her creative life growing up and how she discovered directing and new works. The conversation concludes with a discussion on the shift in directing styles towards prioritizing actors' agency and creating collaborative rooms. They discuss collaboration with actors, getting connected to a play, working with new plays vs. established plays, starting on a script, casting and assembling the team, favorite moments in the process, leading actors to discovery, and the impact of theater on life.\n\n"}