Touché Podcast
117 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsA podcast for artists who have fought their way to the middle. You know those actors who become insanely famous and have multiple staff running their errands? Yeah, that's not us...yet. We're artists kinda in the middle. Welcome to a podcast for the working actor/artist who would like to work more, the person still asking for that raise, and anyone who feels like they are endlessly treading in the middle. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
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Ryan J Haddad everyone!!!
February 07, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBTuck yourselves in because acclaimed writer and performer (all around multi hyphenated hunny) RYAN HADDAD is serving RADICAL ACCESS! We chat about his journey from Ohio to New York's downtown scene and beyond and his new off Broadway play "Dark Disabled Stories" premiering at The Public this month. Do not miss this autobiographical play as a series of unforgiving vignettes about the strangers he encounters while navigating a world not built for his walker and cerebral palsy. Get your tickets...
Touche: the return
January 15, 2023 17:38 - 1 hour - 72.5 MB365 days times 2 and Touché is back! Wow, well, Covid really put us in our chairs, and a lot has gone down since: Some TV shows, a professorship, a new pet, thoughts of actually getting a pet, a film, and a book deal. We chat about what "the middle" is and if that's changed? Doesn't it always? We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions and comments - SEND EM IN! Missed ya a ton! PS Jenn realizes how subpar her audio is - she recorded while underwater and vows never to do that again. --- ...
Breakthroughs and Drivethroughs
March 25, 2021 17:37 - 1 hour - 53.9 MBSpring has sprung and Jeff and Jenn are feeling a little something as well. Reuniting, celebrating upcoming work, deleting apps, scamming McDonalds...a little something for everyone ;) We miss you and accepting applications for what you need. Touche. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Jeff's gasping and Jenn has lost her patience.
October 13, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 65 MBMEDITATE, JOURNAL, EXERCISE...why does this look so easy on paper? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Still Feeling Stuff.
September 21, 2020 13:00 - 56 minutes - 52.7 MBStill feeling stuff? It's not a question. Touche. Jenn and Jeff are feeling all sorts of stuff that they so generously share on this weeks episode of Touche. Bonus: A little sprinkle of "Pajama Game" because we see you musical people! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
ANTIBODIES AND WELLBUTRIN.
August 17, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBWe miss you. We miss us. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Inside Inside Inside
March 27, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBWell here we are. Here. We. Are. We have a lot of thoughts and feelings right now so we give you our voices and sometimes giggles if that can be of any comfort. We love you a ton. Stay inside. Touche. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Neal Medlyn!!!
January 22, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 67.8 MBDowntown superstar Neal Medlyn (aka Champagne Jerry) joins Jeff and Jenn this week to talk about his journey from being a jr college dropout to a successful performance artist. This EPISODE ya'll!!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
The Entertainment We Loved in 2019!
January 15, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBJenn and Jeff want you to know what they loved in 2019! FUN, doncha think? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
2019 Wrap Up - That was the year that was.
January 08, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBWe do it every year, and this one is no exception. Jenn and Jeff are talking roses and thorns of 2019, goals for 2020, and we even talk about how our goals from last year ended up this year - we did kinda good!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Hartford - NYC - Hartford - NYC
December 11, 2019 11:13 - 1 hour - 59.2 MBWe are not in the same city! So Jenn and Jeff monologize at each other about their lives apart. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Jay Russell with a very "Harry" Jenn!
December 04, 2019 18:23 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBGuest Host and former guest Harry Bouvy sits down with Jeff and actor Jay Russell who has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, TV and Film and lays down a depressing truth - there aren't really any breakthroughs. You just gotta keep going. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Lulu Lloyd can change her life.
November 27, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBLulu Lloyd has been on Broadway (School of Rock), toured with major productions (Waitress, Bat Out of Hell) and worked with the likes of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, but there was still something missing for her life, and she realized she can change it. So she did! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
MIKE DOYLE
November 20, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBYou have seen Mike Doyle in a LOT of things. Seriously. Look at his IMDB page. Go ahead. We will wait. That's a lot of work, right? Law and Order: SVU, The Jersey Boys movie, Rabbit Hole, Sex and the City, Oz, even Gayby with Jenn! But what Mike shares with Jeff and Jenn is that even a career with a ton of credits is still a marathon and not a sprint to a finish line. Plus, the descriptions of the characters he has played are worth a download, trust! --- Send in a voice message: https://p...
You don’t know Pam Goldberg.
November 13, 2019 11:19 - 54 minutes - 50.6 MBProud Equity member Pam Goldberg (Phillip Taratula) joins us to discuss life as an actor who has seen and done it all yet still never became a household name. We talk what it’s like to ride the waves of a career and also meal prep. Pam also has a show at Ars Nova on December 9th 2019! Though we do believe she will outlive us all, don't miss this opportunity to see her in person. Thank you for your time Pam. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast...
There are Rats in DC
November 06, 2019 16:07 - 44 minutes - 85.1 MBRats in DC? I mean...Touche! This week Jeff and Jenn (and let's be real, Beverly too) chat about musical theatre audition prep, shooting a juicy role in a pilot and ALL the feelings that go along with it, and physical pains as one ages cuz, ouch! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Scott Lowell!
October 30, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 72 MBScott Lowell joins Jenn and Jeff on the Lower East Side to talk about TV stardom and theatre roots, not to mention booking twelve commercials in one year - WHICH WE CAN AGREE IS NOT REAL EVEN IF IT IS TRUE! A great discussion about how the struggle is never really over. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Andrew Femenella is in Inwood!
October 23, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBCasting director Andrew Femenella joins Jenn and Jeff in upstate Manhattan. We talk about how Andrew is looking at casting in a new way, how there is still a ladder you have to climb on that side of the table, and his secret (or maybe not so secret?) love of musical theatre. An exciting episode where we get to see what life is like on the other side! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify...
Jeff and Jenn - back together again!
October 16, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 72.8 MBThat title rhymes if you have a Texas accent. Can you believe it? They were gone so long, but they're back after summers and early Autumns full of all sorts of stuff. Jenn and Jeff are back in Inwood to start a sort of second season as it were. They talk about where they have been and how they are feeling. And fret not! we have more episodes in the can coming your way in the next few weeks! Touche'! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message...
A Touche' Christmas Special in June!
June 05, 2019 21:50 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBYou know how British sitcoms do a one off episode? It's always in December and they call it the Christmas special? Well Touche' is doing that! Jenn is back from making her movie and Jeff hasn't left to do Bright Colors in DC, so they are together and talking for one special episode! A bonus! Also, there is the weirdest audio thing in the world and I left it in cause its hilarious. See if you can hear it and if you can't you didn't listen. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.s...
A little break.
April 24, 2019 12:24 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBYa'll, Jeff got a little job for a week and Jenn is taking on a MONSTER project. They are so busy they can't even be in the same room with each other! And so it means, it's time for a little touche' hiatus. They explain what that is about in this last new episode (for a while?). Much love from touche land! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
It's The Day of the Reading Ya'll!
April 17, 2019 11:00 - 39 minutes - 72.8 MBJeff and Jenn get to do reading together on a beautiful Sunday afternoon and take you on their literal travels. Jenn is on her motor bike and it's a windy day so maybe have your finger on your volume - pro tip :) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Cody Lindquist in the house
April 10, 2019 15:47 - 1 hour - 64 MBCody Lindquist is an actor, a UCB regular and one half of the hosts of the podcast, "Two Beers In". She joins us at the peril of her own safety from Jeff's wild cat. She tells us about doing bad theatre, getting out of Boerum Hill alive and how rules can be comforting. It's a good listen! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Elizabeth Olsen gets free things and "Hurricane Diane" meets "Oklahoma"
March 27, 2019 11:00 - 55 minutes - 51.8 MBA LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING everyone....come get your LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Libby Winters is in the house!!!
March 20, 2019 14:30 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBTouche is blessed to have the wonderful Libby Winters this week! We talk about what it was like to be a child "star", realizing that some jobs are unicorns, and how Stevie Nicks makes the world better. Also, because Jenn wasn't here, Jeff had a bit of a difficult time with the audio and consequently, the sound is even more janky than normal. But it gets much better... I promise! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast:...
An audition in LONG ISLAND CITY - a Touche' adventure!
March 13, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.7 MBJeff and Jenn both got an internet only commercial audition in Long Island City, so they took the podcast on the road to let you in on the glamorous lifestyle of NYC audition lyfe! Then they take you to Inwood, Jenn's new neighborhood, and Jeff let's you in on all of the weirdo shizz that is filling his head like Transcendental Meditation, Deep Work, and Human Design! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://...
Sex Chat and your IMDB Star Meter - Not Mutually Exclusive
March 06, 2019 12:00 - 59 minutes - 55.3 MBSEX! YOUR STAR METER ON IMDB! Now that we have your attention...this week Jeff and Jenn get into some saucy talk, some reflections on said saucy talk and of course your star meter and what it actually "means". --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
A Guided Meditation For Pilot Season
February 27, 2019 12:00 - 40 minutes - 74.9 MBLatest episode of Touché Podcast --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
!MICAH SHERMAN!
February 19, 2019 15:34 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBActor, improvisor, original content creator and more, MICAH SHERMAN, joins us on Touche this week. He shares about working the comedy scenes in Boston and Chicago, getting your own content together, he and Jeff explain what a "Harold" in improv is, and so much more. And of COURSE he and Jenn get to chat about their, by now hopefully iconic, sex scene on this season's HIGH MAINTENANCE on HBO! If you haven't seen Micah in all his glory yet, now you can ;) Delightful! --- Send in a voice mess...
JIM ANDRALIS!!!!
February 13, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 63.1 MBSinger, Songwriter, Singer/Songwriter, Therapist, Actor and DEAR friend Jim Andralis joins us today to chat coming to New York, coming out, making your own art, making a living....and how aaaalllll of the above are just so complicated. This ep is ALL about the closet and "the fear of admitting who you are and what you like". A very talented and smart pal we have in Jim. Enjoy him because we always do ;) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/me...
YOU IN DANGER GURL!!!
February 06, 2019 12:00 - 48 minutes - 45.2 MBIs Jenn easy? Is Jeff easy? Let's talk branding! Jeff shares a great poop story and we chat what the hell to attempt to do when shit hits the fan...is this the poop episode? It's the poop episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
NADIA QUINN!!!
January 30, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBActress, cabaret gurl and our fave lady to run into at auditions joins us in Jeff's living room this week. We chat ENERGY and VIBRANCY and JOY and feeling vulnerable about having Energy and Vibrancy and Joy. Nadia -"Liking the life of a cool, NYC artist!" We're heeeerrrrre 4 it! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Happy Day After Jenn's Birthday, Ya'll.
January 23, 2019 15:39 - 54 minutes - 88.2 MBJenn is in Jeff's bedroom this time and his cat is not having it. They discuss critics, thoughts on other actors getting the funnier lines, and how Jenn made Jeff beautiful with a trip to Sephora. Can you deal? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Zackary Grady had WERK done
January 16, 2019 12:00 - 54 minutes - 102 MBSparkling playwright and actor Zackary Grady returns to the podcast to share his songbird vocal cords post surgery and we are smitten. Zackary also takes us through the play-by-play of him performing in a drag show in PTown and the results are cute! Getting the work DONE hunny and freeing that natural voice!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Reviews Reviews Reviews!
January 09, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour - 121 MBIt's 2019 (sounds so Jetsons)! Jeff and Jenn have some intentions to set and many many reviews. They chat films to watch and stay away from, TV shows to binge and theatre to see. 2019 is going to be CREATIVE, PROSPEROUS and STABLE ok...(it kinda has to ;). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
2018 Year End Review!
December 19, 2018 11:00 - 57 minutes - 103 MBJenn and Jeff are back in Hartford (gross) for the year-end special! They talk about their future goals and review the nonsense they spouted last year and how that turned out for them. It's a sobering discussion. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Last Romp In This Bedroom
November 14, 2018 14:33 - 52 minutes - 98.1 MBIt's over. It's done. Last podcast in Jenn's bedroom. Jeff has just finished helping her put all her Barbies into storage, the couch is on the sidewalk for the city to pick up, and Jeff and Jenn are EXHAUSTED! ...but podcasting. We respect your time. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Get ready, cuz BECCA BLACKWELL!!!
November 07, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 137 MBProlific downtown legend Becca Blackwell shares the T, spills the T, is on the T. They talk how they found their voice as an artist from a truly amazing guidance counselor, gender identity, Twitter wars, patriarchy, and SURVIVAL kids! From running a 78 channel sound craft to Circus Amok to residencies and SO much more, Becca's words are nourishment: "BEING AN ARTIST IS A PRIVILEGE! Do it only if you have to do it." TOUCHE! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh...
Oh, it's Halloween? Touche'!
October 31, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 114 MBJenn and Jeff are alone in the bedroom feasting on the souls of demons, celebrating Jeff's new Trader Joes, chatting NOT getting to plan life, adulting, AND OVERTALKING!!! OMG we are ready to MOVE FORWARD!...maybe. Also, Jeff is getting texts and it's scary for Jenn. BOO! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
What More Does RANDY HARRISON Have To Do?
October 24, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBRandy Harrison is in Jenn's bedroom after spending a few years playing some of the greatest characters in the theatrical cannon. Randy dispels Jeff's myth that if you get on a TV show you can just ride that forever, and we talk about QWAN! The conversation is delightful and of course Jenn and Jeff try to sing Rent again, cause its like their thing now? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify...
"Fall Apart, Things!" by Jenn & Jeff Chodron
October 17, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBJenn and Jeff enjoy a beautiful fall afternoon in the bedroom to discuss the self-reflecting classic, "When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chodron. They also sing a little bit. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
IAN SCOTT MCGREGOR
October 10, 2018 13:55 - 1 hour - 140 MBIan is in the bedroom, and this lovely artists' knowledge spans from the fragrant notes in his deodorant to filmmaking...and EVERYTHING in between! We get San Fran theatre. We get comic book chat. We get musicals when you can't dance. And talk about making the most out of your bullying?!?!? We give you Ian! So much love. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
It's Fall... Sort Of.
October 03, 2018 13:23 - 1 hour - 131 MBJeff and Jenn are back to just being by themselves. Jenn is embracing change even though she hates it, and Jeff is longing for it even though he doesn't really have any coming his way. Plus a lot more. This one goes to weird places including our worship of Rent and Spring Awakening. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
It's Colleen Werthmann!!!
September 26, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 130 MBActors are not paper dolls and black Converse hightops are lazy. Writer, actress, and costume designer COLLEEN WERTHMANN graces the bedroom this week all the way from Harlem!!! She was a kid who literally paid her own way, asked Richard Foreman for her equity card, and likes to ask of her projects - Is it fun? Is it cool? Is it interesting? And is it something I can be proud of? Colleen makes joyful things and we are HERE for them! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.co...
Michael Cyril Creighton!
September 19, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 123 MBMichael Cyril Crate and Barrel is in Jenn's room and we are talking about being proud of your work, hope vs fantasy, and also Jeff cries cause I guess he's feeling vulnerable. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Stormy Daniels & Jeff brought flowers
September 12, 2018 10:30 - 1 hour - 139 MBJeff hit his head at work but brought ME flowers, a substitute mic, a new roommate, a dash of Parker Posey and a LOT of Stormy Daniels...a TRUE compost of an episode :) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Excuse us because...Will Mayo!!!
August 29, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 125 MB"Art can't hurt you". Director, editor, filmmaker, artist Will Mayo joins us in the bedroom this week to lend a lens capturing a filmmakers perspective on the biz. Also: Tennessee, dating your neighbor, art camp... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
We just love Betty Gilpin.
August 22, 2018 14:34 - 38 minutes - 71.1 MB"Being an actor feels like your ego is on a violent pendulum swing between a field of cashmere and a casual tub of knives." - Betty Gilpin --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
The news is NOT good.
August 15, 2018 13:34 - 1 hour - 57.2 MBApartment situation, Karen Ziemba, Alopecia: One of these things is really nice. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support
Amanda Duarte!
August 08, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 147 MBWriter, performer, voice over Goddess, and New York Time Contributor (NOT a staff writer!!!), Amanda Duarte joins us in Jenn's bedroom to talk about not "doing" the acting thing anymore and how she found her voice at 40! This one is exciting!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/touch-podcast/support