Whenever we are not doing a show in our main theater or after the main show, we will do things down here.

(The video) we've used in the past has been more realistic, where we were staging scenes. This time around it has become a little more experimental. Rather than what happens in the play, (the videos) are these confessional moments delivered in monologue.

Christopher Guthrie (an actor who appears in many Know Theatre productions) has come aboard as artistic associate. He is going to be assisting me in terms of how we are going to keep this place programmed.

We're hoping to have programming up and running as much as possible.

Confident singers. This isn't professional theater, in that situation it's then and now, a bad note and you're gone. Here, we take into account nervousness and we give them more leeway. We're looking for potential.

I'd seen a lot of his type of theater — and it's my type of theater — so I was pretty sure I was going to do it. Nick wanted to see what someone else would do with his script and if his writing could stand on its own.