Christine Dolen: All the World’s Her Stage
Editor’s Note: This is the first ArtSpeak video interview during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, recorded via Zoom.
CHRISTINE DOLEN was the Miami Herald’s theater critic from 1979 to 2015. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from The Ohio State University and was formerly a critic and editor with the Detroit Free Press. She was a John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University in 1984-85, and a senior fellow at Columbia University’s National Arts Journalism program in 1999. In 1997, she was a member of the Pulitzer Prize drama jury.
Ms. Dolen’s awards include the Green Eyeshade in criticism from the Atlanta Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and first place in arts writing in the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards. In 2001, she received the George Abbott Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts. She has also been honored with a Silver Palm Award and the South Florida Theatre League’s Remy Award for her coverage of theater in the region. In November 2011, American Theatre Magazine named her as one of a dozen of the country’s most influential theater critics. She has contributed to both American Theatre and Inside Arts magazines, and was an editorial board member of Best Plays Theater Yearbook. She is also a judge with South Florida’s Carbonell Awards and with the Miami Herald’s Silver Knights program.
As a freelance critic, her work now regularly appears on ArtburstMiami.com, MiamiHerald.com, and SouthFlorida.com, as well as in the Miami Herald, ArtSpeak, WLRN.com, and the Sun-Sentinel.
The videos below are organized by topic and run between 30 seconds and 8 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.
EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES: 1:01 min.
SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES: 2:01 min.
SERENDIPITY: 2:12 min.
CREATIVE FLEXIBILITY: 1:14 min.
CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND: 0:20 sec.
COMMUNITY VALUES: 2:34 min.
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 1:32 min.
PERSEVERANCE FURTHERS: 1:38 min.
STRONG DRIVE FOR ACHIEVEMENT: 2:14 min.
CRITICAL THINKING: 1:14 min.
UNDERSTANDS ARTISTS’ NEEDS: 0:50 sec.
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 2:45 min.
EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES: 1:33 min.
CRITICAL THINKING: 1:15 min.
INSIGHT & INSPIRATION: 4:16 min.
OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED: 2:19 min.
SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES: 3:15 min.
CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND: 2:41 min.
EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES: 1:17 min.
RESILIENCE: 2:04 min.
CRITICAL THINKING: 0:30 sec.
CRITICAL THINKING: 1:10 min.
RESILIENCE: 0:39 sec.