{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Your Porch or Mine","title":"Why Creative Risk Is the Secret to a Meaningful Career feat. Matt Stabile","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3104,"description":"Matt Stabile believes that taking the leap might be the only way to discover where you are meant to land.\n\nIn this episode, I sit down with Matt Stabile, Producing Artistic Director of Theatre Lab, the professional resident company at Florida Atlantic University. Matt shares the unexpected path that took him from teaching high school theatre to helping build a professional theatre devoted exclusively to developing new work.\nMatt takes me behind the scenes of Theatre Lab’s beginnings, including turning a former frozen yogurt shop into a 99-seat theatre and building a company committed to giving playwrights, students, and audiences a place to experience new stories. We talk about why he believes the classics of tomorrow depend on the new work being created today, why great theatre should occasionally make an audience uncomfortable, and why he is drawn to stories that surprise us and challenge the way we see the world.\nWe get into the harder parts of an artistic life too. Matt shares what it means to keep going when you want to quit, how Theatre Lab responded when the pandemic shut down the industry, and why knowing who you are can guide you through moments when you have no idea what comes next.\nThis conversation is for every artist considering a leap, every creative wondering whether the uncertain path is worth taking, and anyone who believes stories can help us understand one another a little better.\nPull up a chair, grab your favorite beverage, and join us on the porch.\nTimestamps:\n(00:00) Welcome to Your Porch or Mine\n(02:40) Building a bridge from college theatre to the professional world\n(04:50) Why you cannot plan your creative career\n(09:42) How Theatre Lab at FAU began\n(14:10) Why the classics of tomorrow start with new work today\n(17:01) Creating theatre that challenges an audience\n(23:50) Why discomfort can help us grow\n(29:56) Directing Tammy Ryan’s Tar Beach\n(31:28) Why playwrights should write the impossible stage direction\n(35:34) What makes Matt...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/PXQ6ZlddBFXauEPPbKYgnh-ZxzD0Bqs78KBUSAaIL6k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNjQx/ZmI2MzdkYzk1YWU5/ZDhhNmRmZmI2ZDMz/M2FhMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}