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Q&A with actor, social media maven, and entrepreneur BEN WHITEHAIR (pandemic, trends, SAG-AFTRA)

Published December 15, 2020 | Last Updated December 18, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Ben Whitehair Q&A

BEN WHITEHAIR RETURNS for a great discussion! I am thrilled to welcome Ben back to the show—we did this Q&A as part of the October virtual workshops. Among other things, we talked about: How he responded to the pandemic, both personally and professionally Trends he’s seeing in the industry and with social media What SAG-AFTRA […]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: covid, entrepreneur, industry, pandemic, safety, sag-aftra, social media, union, virtual, workshops, zoom

Q&A with Shakespeare dramaturg GIDEON RAPPAPORT

Published October 20, 2020 | Last Updated December 14, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Today we have a great discussion with an often overlooked role in the theatre: the dramaturg! And if you’re wondering exactly what that person does, you’re in the right place! Gideon Rappaport joined us for our online readings in the Spring (Much Ado and Merry Wives), and has been part of the workshop series since […]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: cressida, director, dramaturg, king lear, lear, scene work, shakespeare, text work, tragedy, troilus, virtual, zoom

FULL Production of our LIVE Online Reading of “The Merry Wives of Windsor” with Harry Groener

Published May 26, 2020 | Last Updated December 14, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Harry Groener

Today you’ll hear the FULL production from our recent LIVESTREAM reading of Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor (more info and watch the show here). It’s an all-star cast of past guests from the podcast, including Harry Groener, Dawn Didawick, Peter Van Norden, Anne Gee Byrd, Tony Amendola and many more! For this “Merry Wives” […]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: anne gee byrd, antaeus, comedy, coronavirus, covid, dawn didawick, falstaff, harry groener, livestream, much ado, online, peter van norden, reading, robert pine, shakespeare, tony amendola, windsor, zoom

Scenes from our LIVE “Much Ado About Nothing” Online Reading with Dakin Matthews

Published April 28, 2020 | Last Updated May 25, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Dakin Matthews

Today you’ll hear some excerpted scenes from our recent LIVESTREAM reading of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (more info here). It’s an all-star cast of past guests from the podcast, including Dakin Matthews, Robert Pine, Geoffrey Wade, Anne Gee Byrd, Alan Mandell and many more! This whole thing came together within about two weeks after […]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: armin shimerman, comedy, coronavirus, covid, dakin matthews, livestream, much ado, online, reading, robert pine, shakespeare, zoom

Text Work: Hamlet’s “Advice to the Players” with Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso

Published March 10, 2020 | Last Updated March 11, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Randall as Hamlet

The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Randall and Annie. In this episode, Randall and Annie share insights into working on Shakespeare through the appropriately chosen piece, Hamlet’s “Advice to the Players”—the one that begins “Speak the speech I pray you”.  You’ll hear Randall and Annie discuss: Some of the […]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: advice, first folio, hamlet, shakespeare, text work

Ep #25: Randall Duk Kim and Annie Occhiogrosso (American Players Theatre founders, Shakespeare actors/teachers, Kung Fu Panda, The Matrix, John Wick) on Pursuing Crazy Ideas, Shakespeare’s Clues, and Your Own Discretion

Published February 11, 2020 | Last Updated February 13, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

If you have a dream and you love these plays, don’t let anyone tell you it can’t happen. It will break your back and tear your heart out at times, but if you have that dream, please don’t give up on it because the theatre needs you—we need the people who won’t take “no” for […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: asian, film, first folio, hawaii, new york, producing, regional theatre, repertory, shakespeare, teaching, theatre

Behind the Podcast: Mike Moreno of Actor CEO (Run Your Career Like a Business)

explicit language So don't be surprised!

Published January 21, 2020 | Last Updated November 22, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

“Instead of thinking of yourself as a freelancer, think ‘I am a business that partners with other businesses to tell stories. That’s what I do.’ So when I go into an audition, I’m representing my business, and you think that my business might partner well with your business on this project.”  — Mike Moreno   […]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: actors, auditions, brand, business, challenge, explicit, goals, new york, podcast, self-tape, shakespeare, social media

Ep #24: Tony-Winner L. Scott Caldwell (Broadway, Regional Theatre, The Fugitive, Lost, A Million Little Things) on Self-Doubt, Pretending vs. Being, and Meeting Your Destiny

Published January 7, 2020 | Last Updated January 13, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Scotty in Gem of the Ocean

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, but if you don’t even know the direction you’re going in, the step you’re taking may be away from your ultimate mission or destiny. — L. Scott Caldwell   If you’re looking for what it takes to be an actor long-term, over the course of […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: auditions, august wilson, awards, broadway, california, chicago, film, los angeles, new york, rejection, theatre, tony award, tv, uta hagen

Text Work: Alan Moore’s Jerusalem with Simon Vance

Published December 17, 2019 | Last Updated December 21, 2019 Leave your thoughts »

Simon and Alan

The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Simon. In this episode, Simon shares how he worked on a couple of different audiobook projects: first, dealing with a practically unreadable chapter in Alan Moore’s Jerusalem and then, a bit on The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth.  You’ll hear Simon discuss: The research […]

Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: audiobooks, england, jerusalem, narrator, research, text work, united kingdom

Ep #23: Simon Vance (1000+ Audiobooks: Millennium series, Sherlock Holmes, Jerusalem, The King’s Speech, The Tao of Pooh) on Feeding the Birds, Pushing Yourself, and Wanting More

Published December 10, 2019 | Last Updated November 22, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

I thought being an actor wasn’t for grown-up people, but it didn’t matter whether I considered it that—I discovered it was essential for my soul that I threw myself into this. — Simon Vance   If you’re looking for what it takes to be an actor long-term, over the course of your LIFE, then you’ve come […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: audiobooks, auditions, awards, bay area, bbc, blind, brighton, california, film, london, los angeles, narrator, radio, san francisco, theatre, tv

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