A still from Close (but Not Too Close!) When the pandemic shut down in-person theater,
Michole Biancosino realized pretty quickly the theater world would have to adapt. The Middlebury College assistant professor is also the cofounder of New York-based Project Y Theatre with a fellow Middlebury graduate, Andrew W. Smith. This summer, she ll launch a Vermont-based project:
Tiny Barn Theatre. I thought,
We need to pivot immediately, Biancosino said in a phone interview. Rather than wait and see what happens, just embrace doing work digitally. That was probably the smartest decision that we made: realizing, like, the world was changing in this moment, and we should change with it.