Artists in Action was created in 2009 as a virtual venue for artists to experiment with new work, share their stories, and connect with audiences and colleagues in the Iowa City community and around the country. The idea came about when playwrights and performers Jennifer Fawcett, Sean Lewis, and Martin Andrews decided to make Iowa City their artistic home base. After forming Working Group Theatre, they began to search for outlets for their work and ways to connect with local artists. After an email to KRUI’s directors, Artists in Action became a reality.
AIA is still evolving. We have experimented with formats and styles during our first season on air. Through this experimentation we came up with our Artists in Residence project. AIA is committed to this aspect of our show, one that creates a strong bond between AIA and a roster of artists who use the show as platform to experiment with new work. In the future we hope we can feature a new song, radio essay, poem, or any other audio-formatted piece every week on the show. To find out more visit our Artist in Residence page or email us.
JENNIFER FAWCETT was the National New Play Network Emerging Playwright-in-Residence at Curious Theatre Company in Denver for the 2008/09 Season. Her work has been developed and produced in the US and Canada at the Adirondack Theatre Festival (Glens Falls, NY), the Kennedy Center, Halcyon Theatre (Chicago), Riverside Theatre (Iowa City), Available Light Theatre (Columbus), The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Boston), Curious Theatre Company, the Lark Play Development Center (New York) and more. She is a graduate of the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop, and a founder and co-Artistic Director of Working Group Theatre.
Creating Artistic Space
Co-hosts Jennifer Fawcett and Martin Andrews
MARTIN ANDREWS is an actor and voice teacher. Most recently, he appeared as Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Richmond in Richard III at Riverside Shakespeare Festival. Other regional acting credits include Oedipus in Oedipus Rex, Louis in Angels in America Millennium Approaches, and Trouble/Doctor in In the Blood. As a voice teacher, Martin has taught classes and workshops at colleges and universities and for private clients. In January of next year he will become a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework. Martin earned his MFA in Acting from the University of Iowa and an M.Ed from Wright State University in Dayton. He has taught at the K-12 and college level for the last 10 years. Martin is a founder and co-Artistic Director of Working Group Theatre.
