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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 […]



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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” […]



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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 […]



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