iPhoto caption: Norm Foster in an undated headshot.
Spotlight: Norm Foster
“I'm really proud that people want to see my work and want to see my new stuff,” says Foster, whose new play "Lakefront" plays at Lighthouse Festival Theatre through the end of the summer. “That makes me want to keep writing. Whenever I think, ‘Oh, maybe I’ve written my last play,’ I go, ‘No, I think I've got a few more in me. Let's keep going.’”
By Michael Ross Albert
iPhoto caption: Vanessa Sears for Intermission Magazine. Photo by Dahlia Katz.
Spotlight: Vanessa Sears
“If I want to be the most expansive, detailed, versatile artist I can be, the only way to do that is to keep learning, questioning, exploring, and working,” says Sears, currently starring as Juliet in the Stratford Festival’s production of Romeo and Juliet. “If that’s not where the open doors are, then I will go elsewhere.”
Written by Fiona Raye Clarke, Photography by Dahlia Katz
iPhoto caption: Philip Akin at home. Photo by Dahlia Katz.
Spotlight: Philip Akin
“I don't know why it is being placed on Black people to change minds,” says Akin. “I ain't here to pick your intellectual cotton.”
Written by Fiona Raye Clarke, Photography by Dahlia Katz