The 2025 OP Inspiration List
From the team at The Orchard Project, we’d like to wish you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year. Once again, as our annual holiday gift to you, we asked Orchard Project artists to share #somethingnew — the theatre, TV, film, podcasts, and performances released in 2025 that most […]
Why Artists Are Self-Producing (and Succeeding) More Than Ever — And Why The Orchard Project Is Stepping In
If you squint at the arts landscape right now, you’ll see something counterintuitive happening. Yes, the theater, film, and performance industries are contracting. Yes, producing opportunities are scarce. Yes, institutions are risk-averse. And yet — some of the most interesting, important, and culture-shifting artists of the last decade have broken through because they took matters […]
The Liberating Power of “No”
By Ari Edelson, Artistic Director, The Orchard Project There is perhaps no more dreaded word in the creative world than “no.” No to the play.No to the grant.No to the meeting.No to the pitch. We whisper it. We soften it. We euphemize it (“Let us circle back…”). We fear it. And on the receiving end, […]
The Next Crucible? How Artists Turn Censorship into Legacy
By Ari Edelson, Artistic Director, The Orchard Project From Vaclav Havel to Alfred Hitchcock, from Arthur Miller to John Osborne, government censorship has not only been a force limiting free expression, but also one that has regularly backfired, proving the resilience of artists to generate innovative work even in the face of such limitations. In […]
The 2024 Orchard Project Inspiration List
WHAT INSPIRED OP ARTISTS IN 2024 THE NEW TV OUR ARTISTS LOVED SHŌGUN (FX) The “ambitious, emotionally intimate epic that television has been missing” (says an OP artist), Shōgun is a sophisticated historical drama set in 17th-century feudal Japan, following three primary characters: a Japanese lord whose political influence seems to be waning, an English […]
The 2023 Orchard Project Inspiration List
From the team at The Orchard Project, we’d like to wish you and your loved ones have a wonderful holiday season and happy new year. As our holiday gift to you, we once again asked recent Orchard Project artists to share #somethingnew — the new theater, audio, and TV *they* found most inspiring this year. Who […]
The OP 2022 Inspiration List
From the team at The Orchard Project, we’d like to wish you and your loved ones have a wonderful holiday season and happy new year. As our holiday gift to you, we asked recent Orchard Project artists to share the new theater, audio, and TV *they* found most inspiring this year. Featuring the genres of work […]
Open Process: Disability Awareness in the Arts
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