Women Write Funny: Cooking Up Comedy with Broadway actor-comediene-writer Antoinette LaVecchia and Host Didi Balle

Credits:  Host/Creator/Writer: Didi Balle. Featured Guest: Antoinette LaVecchia. Theme Music: Leslie "Doc" Steinweiss. Cover Art: Hernan Braberman. Promo Genius & Broadshouldered Angel: Larry Heidel.  

https://www.womenwritefunny.com 

https://antoinettelavecchia.weebly.com

https://www.didiballe.com

http://www.lesliesteinweiss.com

How We Met: Antoinette and I met at an on-line writers forum during the pandemic when the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Grad Acting Alum Writers’ Forum’s monthly workshop was moved from in-person gatherings in Manhattan to gatherings on Zoom. I met long-lost classmates and discovered Antoinette (from a later class) when she performed a monologue from her latest play. She blew me away with her talents.

Later I discovered we shared friends/theatre colleagues in common (Paul Walker) and she’d attended a performance of a musical called “Beautiful Soup” (I wrote the play and lyrics) at a theater I’d founded and ran in downtown Manhattan … a musical originally developed by and starring … Paul Walker. And the composer of that show who invited me to be his collaborator was an incredible man named Leslie Steinweiss who years later I asked to write the theme music for this podcast! Antoinette told me how much she’d loved the music/songs in Beautiful Soup before knowing Leslie composed the theme music for this podcast!

I feel weird thanking the pandemic for introducing me to this amazing funny woman whose paths had crossed with mine without my ever knowing.

And now you get to meet her too. 

Didi Balle. Host & Creator. Women Write Funny Podcast. June 8, 2021