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28: Jose Solis - Theater Critic Spotlight

Talking Theater - January 26, 2018 18:35 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Jose Solis is the Chief Theater Critic at StageBuddy.com.  He has been writing about film and theater since 2003 and his work has appeared in major film and theater publications including (links are reviews or articles): The New York Times, American Theatre, and Backstage.   Jose is a member...

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27: Community Conversations with Jamil Jude

Talking Theater - January 25, 2018 13:34 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Jamil Jude is a director, producer, playwright, and dramaturg. Self-identifying as an "Artist Plus", Jamil feels most at home bringing socially relevant art to the community. Jamil is the Associate Artistic Director at Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta, GA as well as the Co-F...

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26: Brendan Hines - Fueled by Performance and Collaboration

Talking Theater - December 14, 2017 15:03 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Brendan Hines is a versatile actor and singer-songwriter. He currently stars in Amazon's The Tick as Superian.  The show is based on Ben Edlund's comic book of the same name, with new episodes in February 2018. Brendan is also performing Histrionics, a one-man show at New York's Theater for th...

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25: Inclusivity as a Practice with Rachel Grossman

Talking Theater - December 08, 2017 13:15 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Rachel Grossman is the Ensemble Director and a co-founder of dog & pony dc where audience integration is their guiding artistic principle. She is also a theater artist and engagement strategist. She likes to explore the triangulation between art, artist, and audience. Rachel is a member of H...

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24: Ilana Levine - Little Known Facts and Acting Relationships

Talking Theater - November 30, 2017 13:47 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Ilana Levine is an acclaimed actor on Broadway, TV  and film. She’s also a producer, and the amazing host of one of my favorite podcasts, Little Known Facts. Ilana is probably best known to Broadway fans for her comedic turn as "Lucy Van Pelt" in the Broadway revival of You're A Good Man Charl...

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23: Risky Writing with Andrew Rosendorf, Playwright

Talking Theater - November 24, 2017 12:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Andrew Rosendorf is a playwright based in Minneapolis. He is a 2016-2017 McKnight Fellow in Playwriting at The Playwrights’ Center. His work has been produced or developed at La Jolla Playhouse, MCC, Luna Stage, American Theater Company, Nashville Rep, City Theatre, Geva Theatre, Actor’s Expre...

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22: Visual, Lyrical Literary Adaptations with Seth Bockley

Talking Theater - November 20, 2017 14:18 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Seth Bockley is a playwright and theater director, specializing in literary adaptation, physical and object theater as well as multimedia works. As a director, Seth has led productions throughout the United States and around the world, including Mexico, Colombia, and Ireland. Just a few of t...

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21: Guillermo Reyes - Playwright Spotlight

Talking Theater - November 09, 2017 12:54 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Guillermo Reyes has produced and published a variety of plays including Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown and Mother Lolita as off-Broadway productions with Urban Stages, Chilean Holiday and Saints at the Rave at the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and many others. Men...

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20: Spinning Stories with Deborah Yarchun, Playwright

Talking Theater - November 02, 2017 12:09 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Deborah Yarchun is a New York City playwright from Austin, Texas. Her honors include two Jerome Fellowships, an EST/Sloan Commission, The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award for The Man in the Sukkah, the Kernodle New Play Award for Tectonic Mélange, the Richard Maibaum Playw...

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19: Writing as Activist and Artist with Lauren Gunderson, Playwright

Talking Theater - October 25, 2017 10:24 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Lauren Gunderson is the most-produced living playwright in America for both 2016 and 2017.   Her work has been commissioned, produced and developed at companies across the US including South Coast Rep (Emilie, Silent Sky), The Kennedy Center (The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her D...

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18: Making the Classics Her Own with Kate Hamill, Playwright

Talking Theater - October 17, 2017 11:46 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Kate Hamill is a playwright and actor based in New York City.  In 2014, her adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility premiered off-Broadway where it was named in the "Top 10 Theater of 2014" by both Ben Brantley of the NY Times and by the Huffington Post, which called it “the greatest...

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17: Adam Szymkowicz - Playwright Spotlight

Talking Theater - October 10, 2017 11:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Adam Szymkowicz is a playwright based in New York City. His plays have been produced throughout the U.S., Canada, England, and around the world. Adam’s plays include The Wooden Heart, Deflowering Waldo, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, Kodachrome, Marian (or the True Tale of Rob...

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16: Leading the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival with Davis McCallum

Talking Theater - July 19, 2017 10:34 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Davis McCallum is the Artistic Director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, where he’s also directing The Book of Will, which is now playing.  His recent productions in New York include Fashions for Men, which received Drama Desk, Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Nominations for Best Rev...

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15: Bringing Together Artists to Create 24 Hour Plays with Mark Armstrong

Talking Theater - July 11, 2017 21:57 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Mark Armstrong is a Brooklyn-based theater director and the Executive Director for The 24 Hour Plays, where he recently oversaw the 16th annual The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway.  Mark spent four years as the Director of New Work for off-Broadway’s Keen Company, where he created the Keen Playwrigh...

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14: Creating a Supportive and Safe Space with Equity Stage Manager Jared Zeigler

Talking Theater - July 03, 2017 19:08 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Jared Zeigler is an Equity stage manager, arts administrator, and theatre artist based in Minneapolis. As a stage manager, Jared has worked with many of the leading professional theaters in Minneapolis, including Dark & Stormy Productions, Frank Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Sod House Theatre, Wor...

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13: Body, Connection, and Collaboration with Fight Director, Musician, and Actor Annie Enneking

Talking Theater - June 21, 2017 10:44 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Annie Enneking is an actor, songwriter, musician, teaching artist, and fight director. She started performing at the age of 14, and has acted on or created fights for almost every stage in the Twin Cities. Annie is an associate instructor with Dueling Arts International and teaches the art of...

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12: Managing Shows at Disney with Annalisa Stahler

Talking Theater - June 12, 2017 10:50 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Annalisa Stahler is a production stage manager with Disney based in Orange County, California, and she also works with Disney Studios. Some of the shows she manages or oversees include Fantasmic and Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple. She earned her degree in theatre with an emphasis in stage...

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11: Growing a Community Theater Into a Professional Repertory Company with Kevin Harris

Talking Theater - June 05, 2017 09:59 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Kevin Harris is the Managing Artistic Director of the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre, soon to be San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre. He spent three years at the Atlantic Theatre Company studying acting under David Mamet, William H. Macy, and Felicity Huffman; he also spent a year at CAP 21 lear...

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10: Theater as Messy, Exciting, Organic Storytelling with Erin Cronican

Talking Theater - May 29, 2017 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Erin Cronican is an actor, producer and an acting career coach. She belongs to both SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity with many credits performing in film, TV, plays, and musicals across the country. Erin is the lead producer and managing director of The Seeing Place Theater, an exciting, independen...

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9: Marc Ensign - Musician for RENT (Getting the Broadway Musical Gig)

Talking Theater - May 22, 2017 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Marc Ensign is a musician who played bass guitar for the hit Broadway musical, RENT. Marc is also a marketing specialist. Those outside the world of theatre may not be able to grasp just how far one is willing to go to get the gig or job one really wants. For Marc Ensign, it meant collecting...

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8: Bernard Bunye - Advice for Actors from a New York Talent Manager

Talking Theater - May 15, 2017 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Bernard Bunye is a New York talent manager with over 10 years experience in the business. Bernard joined SirenSong Entertainment to work alongside Donna DeStefano in August 2016. He began his career in talent management working for manager/producer Lillian LaSalle at Sweet 180 Talent Managemen...

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7: Joseph Megel - Directing New Plays of Diversity and Social Justice

Talking Theater - May 08, 2017 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Joseph Megel focuses on developing and directing new plays and works for theatre, film and video. He is an artist in residence in Performance Studies at the University of North Carolina’s Department of Communication. Joseph is the founder and Artistic Director of the Process Series: New Works ...

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6: Doing Your Best Work On Stage with Suzy Newman

Talking Theater - May 01, 2017 08:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Suzy Newman resides in San Luis Obispo, California where she is an actor, director, and teacher & coach. She now works frequently on the “Central Coast” for The Great American Melodrama & Vaudeville and the San Luis Obispo Little Theatre, and recently with the Central Coast Shakespeare Festiva...

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5: Directing for Young Audiences at Imagination Stage with Nikki Kaplan

Talking Theater - April 24, 2017 08:40 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Nikki Kaplan is the Associate Director of Education at Imagination Stage, one of the largest and most respected theatre arts organizations for young people in the country. Nikki began her career as a performer, studying as an actor, singer, and dancer. After graduating with a B.A. in Acting,...

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4: Amazing Lessons in Theatre with David Vining

Talking Theater - April 17, 2017 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
David Vining has been working professionally in theater, since 1972. He has Bachelor of Arts in Theater and Speech Pathology from the University of Redlands and an MFA in Acting from the University of Minnesota. David shares with Marc some amazing lessons in theater from his experiences as an ...

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3: Working Film by Day and Theater by Night with Jason Kuykendall

Talking Theater - April 10, 2017 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Jason Kuykendall performs in regional theaters all across the country and has had various roles in television and film. He has been with Cincinnati Playhouse, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre and is currently a member of the B Street Theatre in Sacramento, California. B St...

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2: Acting in Broadway National Tours with D. Scott Withers

Talking Theater - March 20, 2017 03:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
D Scott Withers is an award-winning actor and director who began his professional acting career with Childsplay in Tempe, Arizona, where he eventually became an associate artist – a relationship that has lasted 25 years. Scott was the Founder and Managing Director for In Mixed Company. In addi...

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1: Connecting to People with Playwright Trista Baldwin

Talking Theater - March 20, 2017 02:57 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Trista Baldwin is a playwright and currently a member of the Writers Group at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. She is also the recipient of Jerome Fellowships, a McKnight Advancement Grant, and a new play development grant from the Saison Foundation International Artist Residency. She is an alum...

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000: Starting a Theater Podcast with Marc Smith

Talking Theater - March 20, 2017 02:53 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 67 ratings
Talking Theater is really a simple idea. It’s about theater professionals talking theater. Each week I’ll talk with actors, directors, playwrights, designers, stage managers, teachers, and many more theater artists and professionals, and I’ll ask them to talk about their career, their craft,...

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