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Ep #28: James Newcomb (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theatre, Shakespeare & Company) on Being Authentic, Career Hang Times, and Readiness

Published May 10, 2022 | Last Updated May 11, 2022 Leave your thoughts »

“I take great pride in the fact that as a profane clergyman in the theater—I think of the theater as a profane church, a place of worship—we honor the human condition, with all of its warts.” ~ James Newcomb Today’s guest started in the theatre at a very young age, felt adrift and wasn’t exactly […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: classical, denver, film, hamlet, new york, regional theatre, richard iii, shakespeare, theatre, workshop

Ep #22: Jeanne Sakata (Actress/Playwright, Hold These Truths, Regional Theatre, Dr. Ken) on the Joy of Discovery, Eagerness, and Redemptive Writing

Published November 12, 2019 | Last Updated December 9, 2019 Leave your thoughts »

What fuels it all for me right now is gratitude, because I’m grateful all these things are happening, and that there are so many more opportunities than there used to be, and when I’m tempted to feel overwhelmed as sometimes I do, I really try to go back to that place of gratitude, and I […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: cambodia, classical, film, internment camps, japanese, los angeles, macbeth, movies, playwright, regional theatre, richard ii, santa cruz, shakespeare, sitcom, theatre, tv, world war ii

Text Work: Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale with Richard Riehle

Published October 22, 2019 | Last Updated November 4, 2021 Leave your thoughts »

The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Richard. In this excerpt, Richard discusses one of Leontes’ speeches in The Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare—it’s in the first act where he has his suspicions about his wife and his best friend having an affair. Leontes is speaking with his trusted advisor Camillo, […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: classical, film, jealousy, leontes, madness, oregon, shakespeare, text work, theatre, tv, winter's tale

Ep #21: Richard Riehle (Regional Theatre/Broadway, The Fugitive, Casino, Office Space, 400+ Film/TV credits) on Being Open, Dependable, and Watching Everything

Published October 15, 2019 | Last Updated November 11, 2019 Leave your thoughts »

I’ve never felt anything personal in terms of rejection about auditions. I know a lot of actors do. I’m pretty good at doing the audition and walking away. I bring the best I can to the audition, and if that’s what they want, and if all the other stars are in alignment, I’ll get it—and […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: broadway, classical, film, los angeles, michigan, movies, regional theatre, repertory, seattle, series regular, shakespeare, sitcom, theatre, tv, wisconsin

Ep #20: Arye Gross (South Coast Rep, Regional Theatre, Minority Report, Castle, 100+ Film/TV credits) on Deep Curiosity, Inspiring Empathy, and Bringing Your Life into the Scene

Published May 14, 2019 | Last Updated November 22, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Arye Gross as Uncle Vanya

There’s something that stirs in us when we watch a performance that has something authentic in it, and the best way I know to at least attempt to get to something authentic is showing up with what actually happened to me today. — Arye Gross   On the show today is Arye Gross, an actor […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: antaeus, california, class, classical, dan aykroyd, daniel stern, ellen degeneres, film, los angeles, luis valdez, movies, regional theatre, roy london, sitcom, solo show, south coast repertory, teatro campesino, theatre, tv, uc irvine, wonder years

Ep #19: Alan Mandell (The Actor’s Workshop, Waiting for Godot/Endgame, Shortbus) on Samuel Beckett, Theatre Artists, and Always Working

Published April 9, 2019 | Last Updated December 30, 2020 Leave your thoughts »

Know something about lighting design, about set design, about stage management, about writing. The actors get most of the praise—but there are all these other artists. Acting is important and you have to work hard at it, but you’re not working any harder than anyone else. — Alan Mandell   On the show today is Alan […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: beckett, california, canada, classical, directing, endgame, godot, mother courage, new york, prison, radio, san francisco, san quentin, success, theatre, toronto, tv, work

Text Work: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130 with Tony Amendola

Published March 26, 2019 | Last Updated November 4, 2021 Leave your thoughts »

Tony Amendola Lear

The following is the text work session taken from the full episode with Tony. In this excerpt, Tony discusses Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare. As Tony shares, it’s almost like an “anti-love” sonnet, that it makes fun of sonnets that are too flowery, as it has a very different tone and style with its message. You’ll hear […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Text Work Tagged With: antaeus, berkeley, california, classical, connecticut, directing, film, iago, lear, mfa, oregon, san francisco, shakespeare, sonnet, text work, theatre, tv

Ep #18: Tony Amendola (Regional Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Stargate SG-1) on Stamping Your Own Passport and Following the Work

Published March 12, 2019 | Last Updated May 11, 2019 2 Comments - add more!

Tony Amendola as Shylock

Being an actor in Los Angeles can be—if you’re not careful—living off the interest of your talent and experience. And every so often, you need to make a deposit, and that can be doing theatre in LA, New York, in the regions, or it can be a self-generated project, but you do need to do […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: antaeus, berkeley, california, classical, connecticut, directing, film, iago, lear, mfa, oregon, san francisco, shakespeare, sonnet, text work, theatre, tv

Ep #17: Robert Goldsby (Columbia/ACT/UC Berkeley; Directed 150+ plays, 60+ years in theatre) on the Aliveness of Molière, Clear Transitions, and Being Blissfully Happy

Published February 12, 2019 | Last Updated January 30, 2021 4 Comments - add more!

Plays are intensely personal to the writers—when they write them, they’re imagining something that’s very vivid to them. You have to get into their head and try to find another vividness that’s truthful to the original. I’m all for the playwright; that’s where you go to study. — Robert Goldsby   On the show today is […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: ACT, antaeus, army, berkeley, california, classical, columbia, directing, moliere, new york, san francisco, shakespeare, text work, theatre, war

A Tribute to Philip Bosco, with Armin Shimerman and Peter Van Norden

Published December 18, 2018 | Last Updated January 29, 2019 Leave your thoughts »

A lot of actors my age thought of Phil Bosco as a god. ~ Armin Shimerman No one spoke better than Phil Bosco. ~ Peter Van Norden   We have a special episode today. It’s a tribute to the actor Philip Bosco. In this, you’ll hear the voices of Armin Shimerman, Peter Van Norden, and Phil […]

Filed Under: Episodes, Podcast Tagged With: broadway, career, classical, film, legacy, shakespeare, shaw, television, theatre, training

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