THEATRECAST
86 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 8 years ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis is the show where Theatre teachers and professsionals share their passion for Theatre trends, share practical advice and tips, and ask questions of some of Theatre innovative collaborators.
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TheatreCast #86| Jeffery Heil: Shares about fostering Student Choice, Voice and Agency
June 20, 2016 03:48 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas live from EdTechTeam's Illinois Summit featuring Google for Education with keynote speaker Jeffery Heil. Jeffery shares how to foster student choice, voice and agency with your students. Jeffery explains how he used student video projects to helps his students find their voice and agency while working as a teacher Toussaint Academy of the Arts and Sciences.
TheatreCast #85|World Festival of Children's Theatre: A Chat with Leigh Cassell
June 08, 2016 01:39 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome The Digital Human Library's Leigh Cassell to discuss the World Festival of Children's Theatre. For the first time in North America, 300 children from 6 continents and 22 countries will flood Stratford, Ontario for the 14th World Festival of Children’s Theatre (WFCT). The WFCT is one-of-a-kind event that brings the world’s children together to share each other’s stories and culture through theatre. This year’s theme is “My World, Our Plan...
TheatreCast #84- Donna Lynne Champlin-Tour-De-Force Broadway Actress and Regular on the CW's "My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
April 11, 2016 13:09 - 1 hour - 80.4 MBJoin Nick Cusumano as he welcomes Donna Lynne Champlin, a tour-de-force Broadway actress, and regular on the CW's "My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend." Find out how Donna Lynne has transitioned from New York to Los Angeles having just finished her first season on The CW's innovative musical TV show"My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" Donna Lynne will share about her accomplished career as Broadway actress working with Theatre greats such as: Carol Burnett, Hal Prince, Patti LuPone, Blair Brown, Emily Skinner, an...
TheatreCast #83|Tara DeFrancisco- Master of All Improv
February 22, 2016 05:37 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as the welcome Tara DeFrancisco, master extraordinaire of all thing Improv. Tara will share the her adventures of life on the Improv stage ,touring the world with HERE the improvised musical, teaching, her new television show on LOGO, opening an Theatre and so much more.
TheatreCast #82|BreakoutEDU A chat with founder James Sanders
January 25, 2016 12:28 - 46 minutes - 43 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome James Sanders founder of BreakoutEDU. Breakout EDU creates ultra-engaging learning games for people of all ages. Games (Breakouts) teach teamwork, problem solving, critical thinking, and troubleshooting by presenting participants with challenges that ignite their natural drive to problem-solve.
TheatreCast #81| Rushton Hurley: Facilitating Student Created Videos
January 20, 2016 16:30 - 1 hour - 57.6 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Rushton Hurley. Rushton will discuss ways of getting the creative best out of students. He will share about NextVista's eduvideo and service video contests, and its English Language video library project. Rushton is the founder and executive director of Next Vista for Learning, which houses a free library of videos by and for teachers and students at NextVista.org. His graduate research at Stanford University included using speech rec...
TheatreCast #80| DramaClubStl-Theatre Class for Kids on the Autism Spectrum
November 12, 2015 04:59 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome returning guest Matthew R. Kerns and Meghan Shook-McCarthy, founders of The DramaClubStl. The DramaClubStl offer a variety of theatre classes for children and youth include DramaClubStl- Discovering the Magic of Theatre -Theatre Class for Kids on the Autism Spectrum. Matthew and Meghan will share their experiences of creating Theatre with their students.
TheatreCast #79|The Force Awakens With Jedi Adam Watson: Star Wars in the Classroom
November 02, 2015 17:52 - 1 hour - 57 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Jedi Adam Watson, a digital learning coordinator, who contributes resources to StarWarsinthheClassroom.com website and who is experienced playwright and director. Adam will share how you use Star Wars in his classroom while studying Shakespeare. Adam will also discuss his experiences in Theatre as playwright and director.
TheatreCast #78| Taking Stage in Your Career- A Chat with Eric Curts
August 18, 2015 02:50 - 1 hour - 67.2 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Google Guru Extraordinaire- Eric Curts. Eric will share how Theatre affected his path becoming educator and what Theatre skills he uses everyday. Eric will also some great tips for using technology in your classroom.
TheatreCast #77- No Cell Phones, Please.
August 11, 2015 21:34 - 38 minutes - 52.4 MBJoin NIck Cusumano and Danielle Filas as the discuss some of the recent audience blunders involving cell phones on the Broadway.
TheatreCast #76| The Leela Theatre Festival- Happy People Making Art
August 05, 2015 02:12 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Kendra Augustin and Patricia Cardona Roca founders of the Leela Theatre Festival in New York. The purpose of the Leela NYC Theatre Festival is to give actors a chance to play roles that go beyond their type: accent, age, skin color, size, gender and sex orientation to show the audience a reality that is not always portrayed in the media, theater or film. http://www.leelanycfestival.org/
TheatreCast #75- Live from New York- Broadway Bargains
July 08, 2015 14:00 - 14 minutes - 32.1 MBNick Cusumano joins Danielle Filas live from Broadway in New York City. Nick shares ways of getting discounts for Broadway shows. Nick and Danielle discuss ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) conference that Nick will be attending.
TheatreCast #74| Building your PLN
June 14, 2015 20:23 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas discuss the importance of Theatre teachers developing their own PLNs (Personal Learning Network). Australian Drama teacher and blogger Karla O of the Drama Teacher's Network Blog joins Nick and Danielle to share her insights of using social media to build your your PLN.
TheatreCast #73| “Embrace Your ‘Actor’ Brand”- Rosalie Tenseth- actor,writer producer of FAILURE GROUPIES
March 18, 2015 03:46 - 1 hour - 53.8 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Rosalie Tenseth, actor, writer, producer of the award winning short Failure Groupies. Rosalie, an actor and acting coach also, will share about making films in order to give her students the experience of being on a professional film set so they’d understand the structure of how they fit in as an actor on a set – have the film experience on their resume, get reel to showcase their work for possible representation and gain exposure to oth...
TheatreCast #72| DocAppender Google Form Add-on for Peer Feedback and more
March 16, 2015 03:27 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as Nick shares how to use Google Forms Add on DocAppender by Jesse Spevack and Andrew Stillman of New Visions for Public Schools. Nick and Danielle discuss ways to use the DocAppender for peer feedback and more.
TheatreCast #71| 365 Women a Year Playwrighting Project
February 15, 2015 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as the welcome Guest Jess Eisenberg and Kendra Augustin of the 365 Women a Year playwrighting project. http://365womenayear.wordpress.com/ This international playwriting project involves over 200 playwrights who have signed on to write one or more one-acts about extraordinary women in both past and present history. The project’s ambitious yet focused goal is to write women back into the social consciousness as well as empower and promote female playwrig...
TheatreCast #70| WorldTheatreDay.Info- Lets Celebrate World Theatre Day!
February 11, 2015 03:28 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBGet involved with a global partnership between edtech4theatre.com’s and TheatreCast host Nick Cusumano and dramateachersnetwork.wordpress.com’s Karla O as they share how to celebrate Theatre on a Global stage. Learn how to earn digital badges as participate in the fun activities planned for your students. World Theatre Day 3.27.15- Join the Celebration at http://worldtheatreday.info
TheatreCast #69| Specific is Terrific- Advice for Making Strong Acting Choices
January 14, 2015 02:42 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they explore the need for making specific choices in monologues and ways of developing the moment before for monologues and scenes.
TheatreCast #68| Fascinating Rhythm- A chat with Jeffrey Bradbury- Conductor, Educator, Podcaster
January 06, 2015 02:31 - 1 hour - 41.7 MB:Join Nick Cusumano as he welcomes Jeffrey Bradbury, founder of Teachercast.net. Jeff is a man who wears many hats: conductor of operas and musicals, orchestra teacher, Google Certified Teacher, podcaster and the father of triplets. Listen in as they discuss casting musicals, conducting live performances, opera vs. musicals, and incorporating Ed Technology into the Performing Arts. Jeff is a highly respected educational consultant. He has presented at ISTE (International Society for Tec...
TheatreCast #67| Theatre- A 21st Century Skill since the 5 Century B.C.
November 26, 2014 13:22 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they discuss all the 21 Century skills Theatre provides to students. Nick and Danielle look in detail at the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (www.21stcenturyskills.org).
TheatreCast #66| Renaissance Faire Acting Opportunities
November 03, 2014 12:11 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Whitney Christiansen, a Theatre teacher in Eminence, Kentucky. Whitney will show how she uses Renaissance Faire experience with her students. This past year, one of students collaborated with her to create a modern version of “Everyman,” (the medieval morality play,) and two years ago they also created a play based on common misconceptions people hold regarding the medieval era, called “Mythconceptions.” On top of their stage shows, the ...
TheatreCast #65| Wired for Sound – A Chat with Catherine Rinella
October 27, 2014 03:36 - 1 hour - 45.4 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Catherine Rinella. Catherine is is a radio host and producer, a sound designer for various theatre companies, and a voice over and performing actor
TheatreCast #64| Taming the Paperwork Beast
September 29, 2014 21:50 - 59 minutes - 41 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they share ways of making grading more efficient in the Theatre and Film Classroom. Nick and Danielle discuss the use of Google Forms, Flubaroo, Super Quiz, Google Classroom, and Kahoot.
TheatreCast #63| Camp Courage- The Legacy of Helen Keller
September 15, 2014 21:14 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBJoin Nick Cusumano as he welcomes Darren J Butler, director of The Miracle Worker at Helen Keller birthplace, while they discuss Camp Courage. The mission of Camp Courage is to offer hands-on learning experiences similar to those encountered by Helen Keller from an early age through adulthood. Camp Courage will introduce participants to the arts and to nature programs wherein the children will learn though senses other than sight. Camp Courage will ultimately advance these children to a hi...
TheatreCast #62| Another Opening, Another School Year
August 20, 2014 03:48 - 1 hour - 41.7 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they help you prep for the beginning of school. They will share ways of improving the start of the school year and season. They will also share what they learned at the Educational Theatre Association Conference.
TheatreCast #61|Music Theatre International-Live from Educational Theatre Assoc. Conference
July 28, 2014 02:27 - 45 minutes - 31 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas live together from the Educational Theatre Association Annual Conference, as they welcome John Prignano from Music Theatre International. John Prignano is the senior operations officer for MTI. John shares the great resources and their commitment to customer service that MTI has to offer. John tells Nick and Danielle how got started in the business of show and all the different positions he has held at MTI. John also shares updates that will be comin...
TheatreCast #60| Theatrical Rights Worldwide
July 16, 2014 01:22 - 1 hour - 41.6 MBJoin Nick Cusumano as he welcomes Fred Stuart, the director of marketing, for Theatrical Rights Worldwide. As agents for the authors, TRW grants live stage production rights.They also provide the authorized performance materials required to rehearse and present these musicals, in addition to innovative products aimed at helping the artistic and commercial value of those presentations.Fred explains the process of how to licenses a musical from Theatrical Rights World Wide. Fred shares title...
TheatreCast #59| Discussing Ensemble Theatre With Jack Parkhurst
June 27, 2014 00:41 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBJoin Nick Cusumano as he welcomes Jack Parkhurst the head of Nebraska Wesleyan’s Theatre Department as the discuss creating ensembles in Theatre. Jack Parkhurst is a Professor at Nebraska Wesleyan University. He taught for many years in secondary schools where he was fortunate to direct five musicals on the main stage at the International Thespian Conference. For the last several years he has been teaching Acting and Directing at the University level. He has taught in medium, large and small ...
TheatreCast #58| Overcoming Theatre- Bringing The Most Influential Theatre And Acting Styles To You
June 16, 2014 23:55 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBTheatreCast #58| Overcoming Theatre- Bringing The Most Influential Theatre And Acting Styles To You
TheatreCast #57| Lesson Learned From Theatre Training
June 11, 2014 01:27 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome recent Nebraska Wesleyan University Graduate Cameisha Cotton. Cameisha will discuss her training and her future plans to head to New York City to begin her career.
TheatreCast #56| Selecting A Theatre Season
June 04, 2014 05:03 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they discuss ways of developing a Theatre season for your school. They share resources on find scripts, assessing your talent base and ways of creating a balanced season.
TheatreCast #55| Bring Theatre To Your Screen
May 20, 2014 04:15 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas discuss the vast resources to bring performances and videos about Theatre to screens and to your classroom. Many resources for your Theatre classroom are shared.
TheatreCast #54| NOW Is The Summer Of Kevin Spacey
May 13, 2014 03:21 - 52 minutes - 36 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they discuss all things Kevin Spacey. Kevin Spacey just released “NOW in the Wings on a World Stage” -a documentary of the production of Richard the III he starred in and produced with Sam Mendes directing which toured the world. Nick and Danielle discuss all the great things Kevin Spacey is doing to promote Theatre and the Arts.
TheatreCast #53| All Things Vocal With Judy Rodman
May 06, 2014 03:05 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBJoin Nick Cusumano as he welcomes the incomparable Judy Rodman- who is multi-talented in all things vocal. Judy Rodman is a recording artists, songwriter, composer, vocal coach, podcaster, record producer, backup singer, voice over artist and so much more. Listen as Judy shares techniques to make the voice best it can be in all different performance arenas such as the stage, recording studio, concert halls, and clubs. Be sure to listen for tips and tricks to help you through when you lo...
TheatreCast #52| Happy Birthday Bardy! Celebrating Shakespeare 450th Birthday With Ben Gorman And Kelly Lynn Hogan
April 23, 2014 02:16 - 1 hour - 47.8 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Mari as they welcome Ben Gorman and Kelly Lynn Hogan as they celebrate the The Bard of Avon’s 450th Birthday. Join us as we share all things Shakespeare. Tons of resources and techniques to use to help you with the performances of Shakespeare’s plays.
TheatreCast #51: Next! The Director’s Guide To Running The Perfect Audition
April 19, 2014 03:23 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they discuss ways directors can run the perfect audition. Nick and Danielle share ways making your auditions with perspective actors efficient and engaging. Selection of scenes for auditions, the callback process, and other audition topics are discussed.
TheatreCast #50| The Miracle Worker, An American Classic- A Conversation With Darren J. Butler, Artistic Director For "The Miracle Worker" At Helen Keller’s Birthplace.
April 01, 2014 00:04 - 56 minutes - 38.6 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Darren J Butler- Artistic Director for “The Miracle Worker” at Helen Keller’s Birthplace. Darren shares his friendship with playwright William Gibson, the history of the production and what it is like performing The Miracle Worker where the historical events actually occurred. Darren also shares his experience as playwright, songwriter, screenwriter and educational consultant and content creator.
TheatreCast #49| Educational Excitement With Educational Theatre Association’s Craig Branch
March 26, 2014 16:09 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Educational Theatre Association’s Craig Branch. Craig is one of EdTA’s Educational Programs Managers. He shares all the exciting events EdTA has for thespians and teachers including the International Thespian Festival and EdTA’s annual conference.
TheatreCast #48| Publicity- Online Tools To Help Your Productions Pop
March 17, 2014 15:36 - 45 minutes - 31 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they show some easily ways to publicize your productions using online tools such as LucidPress, Canva, PicMonkey, Pixlr and more.
TheatreCast #47| A Chat With Samuel French Inc.’s Literary Manager- Amy Rose Marsh
March 12, 2014 15:11 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Amy Rose Marsh, literary manager for Samuel French Inc. Samuel French Inc. is one of oldest play publishers in the U.S. Enjoy the show, as Amy Rose shares insights to the play publishing business and all the great work Samuel French Inc. is doing.
TheatreCast #46| Google-ly Goodness- Live from the EdTech Team’s Illinois Summit featuring Google for Education
March 03, 2014 15:22 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBJoin Nick Cusumano & Danielle Filas, as they share Google Tips and Tricks live from the EdTech Team’s Illinois Summit featuring Google for Education. A great time had by all as Nick and Danielle were able to be in the same room and at the same time as they share their love for Google.
TheatreCast #45| The 1st Anniversary Show
February 19, 2014 13:53 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they reminisce about the first year of TheatreCast podcast. Nick and Danielle discuss how TheatreCast podcast was started. They highlight some of their favorite episodes and guests.
TheatreCast #44| Get More Life With Hunter Bell- Co-Creator of [Title of Show] And Now. Here. This.
February 12, 2014 04:57 - 1 hour - 52.3 MB“What Are the Odds?” that Theatrical Maestro Hunter Bell would be able to join Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as a guest on TheatreCast. Join us as Hunter shares stories of life on and off the Wicked Stage. Learn how Hunter Bell and others helps creative individuals work through their writing process with the “Die Vampire, Die! ” Workshop. Fight the” Meh” in your life, as we explore the creative process with its ups and downs as Hunter entertains us with stories of creating new works.
TheatreCast #43| Hey Mr. Producer! A Chat With Marty Keltz About Storytelling In Educational Media
February 04, 2014 00:02 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome, educational media producer and lifelong learner- Marty Keltz.
TheatreCast #42| The Arts Matter!
January 28, 2014 23:32 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as as they welcome Karla O Australian Drama Teacher and author of the Drama Teachers Network blog as they discuss ways that the Arts matter. They also share ways to be an advocate for the Arts in Education in your local community.
TheatreCast #41| Life Skills Learned From Theatre With Melissa Tackett
January 21, 2014 04:43 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome elementary school teacher, Melissa Tackett. Melissa shares with Nick and Danielle how she uses the life skills she learned in Theatre in her classroom now. They discuss the list created by Lewis Catron, theatre professor and playwright, “What Theatre Majors Learn: The Advantages Theatre Major Have For All Jobs.”
TheatreCast #40| Taking The Chill Off Of Cold Readings
January 03, 2014 03:54 - 55 minutes - 38 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they share some great tips to take the chill of off cold readings. Nick and Danielle discuss quick script analysis tips, offer some advice on what to do when a director gives you direction during an audition and more tips for making auditions easier.
TheatreCast #39| Costuming Shows on a Shoestring Budget with Carolyn Speicher and Beatrix Cusumano
December 23, 2013 03:08 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome costume designers Carolyn Speicher and Beatrix Cusumano. Carolyn and Beatrix share ways of making thrift store finds into period stage costumes. The ladies also share websites and books that can help researching period and costumes easier. Listen and find a treasure trove of tips and tricks for costuming your shows on a budget. You will also find out how Nick met his wife Beatrix.
TheatreCast #38| Double, Double Toil and Trouble-Deliberation Over the Demise of Lady Macbeth with Kevin Brookhouser
December 12, 2013 02:43 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBJoin Nick Cusumano and Danielle Filas as they welcome Google Certified Teacher and English Teacher- Kevin Brookhouser. Kevin and Danielle debate over the demise of Lady Macbeth; Did she commit suicide or did Macbeth kill her? Kevin also shares strategies for teaching students Shakespeare, his screencast video on iambic pentameter, and his 20% project grmr.me.
TheatreCast #37: A Conversation with Chad Bauman, The New Managing Director of The Milwaukee Rep
December 03, 2013 03:37 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBJoin Nick Cusumano as he welcomes his former student, Chad Bauman, the new managing director of the Milwaukee Rep. Chad shares with Nick the responsibilities of managing director of a Regional Theatre. Chad discusses in work at the Arena Stage and his involvement with its production of Next to Normal before it headed to Broadway.