Episode 8: Word for Word

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Carla Gallardo, Maria Candelaria, and Regina Morones, Acting Oil, Tina Huang, Patricia Silver and Paul Finocchiaro, Earl Paus, Youth Arts (Edna Brewer & Hamwm)

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“So it also leads people to read, the books themselves”

In this episode we feature the voices of Susan Harloe and JoAnne Winter Co-Artistic Directors along with Amy Prosser, the Youth Arts Program Coordinator of Word for Word Performing Arts Company. Over the past 25 plus years Word For Word  has theatrically transcribed and performed over 70 stories by some of the world’s best writers. Word for Word brings short stories to life with both exciting visuals, and  innovative staging, and they do all this without altering the author’s voice including keeping every he said and she said intact. In addition to Word for Word’s live theater performance program they created an arts education program known as Youth Arts. The Youth Arts program utilizes the Word for Word style of in-depth, literature-from-the-inside-out workshops in San Francisco Bay Area schools.

Susan Harloe

Susan Harloe,​ co-founder and Artistic Director, returned to San Francisco in 1993 after four years in Seattle, where she was co-artistic director of Book-It, the company that provided the model for Word for Word. In addition to her other responsibilities as Artistic Director for Word for Word, Susan produces Word for Word’s annual tour of France, which completed its 25th year in 2019. She holds an MFA in Acting from UC Davis, and has performed at theatres throughout the Bay Area including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Eureka Theatre, and Sacramento Theater Company. She helped create the Teen Services Program at the San Francisco Public Library, and holds an MLS from the University of Pittsburgh.

JoAnne Winter

JoAnne Winter, ​co-founder and Artistic Director, has been acting professionally since 1986. She has performed all over the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as nationally and in France. Ms. Winter is the director of Word for Word’s School and Library Touring program as well as acting, directing and teaching for the company. She graduated ​cum laude​ from San Francisco State University and trained at the Drama Studio of London.

Amy Prosser

Amy Prosser is Word for Word's Education Coordinator. She has taught for Brooklyn Academy of Music, Symphony Space, Hamptons Shakespeare Festival, TheatreWorks, and SF’s Jewish Community High School. She was Hamptons Shakespeare Festival’s Education Director for four years and Education Assistant at Symphony Space for a year and a half. A professional actress for the past 31 years, Amy is a member of Actors' Equity and Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA. Her play, Things Reveal Themselves Passing Away premiered at Z Below in 2016, and her time traveling, multimedia adaptation of Dracula will go into production in the near (fingers crossed) future. She is a graduate of the A.C.T. Summer Training Congress, has a BA in English Literature with a minor in Russian Language from University of California, Berkeley, and earned an MFA in Acting from the National Theatre Conservatory.

Word for Word is a program of Z Space

Word for Word performs short works of fiction in their entirety, preserving the author’s voice and honoring her/his intent with exciting visuals and inventive staging.  Word for Word Performing Arts Company is an ensemble whose mission is to tell great stories with elegant theatricality, staging performances of classic and contemporary fiction. Founded in 1993 by Susan Harloe and JoAnne Winter, Word for Word believes in the power of the short story to provide solace, compassion, and insight into our daily lives. We bring stories from diverse cultures to our  communities, and develop future audiences’ love for the printed and spoken word.

Z Space empowers artistic risk, collaboration, and camaraderie amongst artists, audiences, and community in the service of creating, developing, and presenting new work. Founded by David Dower in 1993 and led by Executive Artistic Director Lisa Steindler since 2007, Z Space celebrates its 27th anniversary in 2020. Operating out of a former can factory in the Mission District of San Francisco, Z Space activates two performance spaces: Z Below, an 85-seat black box, and Z Space, a 238-seat mainstage, with an industrial aesthetic and an adventurous edge. Keystone initiatives include New Work, our in-house development and production program which provides intensive, multi-year development to match the needs of each piece; Word for Word, the resident theater company of Z Space (since our founding in 1993); Youth Arts, our arts education program promoting literacy and creativity in Bay Area schools;

Donation / Volunteer

Word for Word is one of the founding programs of Z Space and the resident theater company of Z Space since its founding in 1993. Word for Word and their programs such as Off the Page and their Youth Arts education program promotes literacy and creativity in Bay Area Schools. Word for Word relies on the generosity of both individuals and foundations to support their programs. To support their work, please donate through ZSpace here http://www.zspace.org/waystogive

To get involved in supporting the work of Word for Word and Z Space as a volunteer or intern please check out the great volunteer opportunities and get engaged behind the scenes of producing thought provoking programming. To find out more information please contact zapce@zpace.org

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