Call Time with Katie Birenboim

Katie checks in with Tony, Drama Desk, and Lortel nominted actor (High School Musical: the Musical: the Series, Into the Woods on Broadway, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, All Nighter), Julia Lester.

For the hundredth episode (!!), Katie checks in with Lucille Lortel award winning actor (Chicken and Biscuits on Broadway, (pray), Nina), Aigner Mizzelle.

Katie checks in with actor (To Kill a Mockingbird and The Iceman Cometh on Broadway; The Hard Problem and Nina Off-Broadway; Bad Monkey on Apple TV) and pop musician (Softee), Nina Ross.

Katie checks in with director (Grangeville, Uncle Vanya, The Animal Kingdom, This Beautiful Future, Obie Award winner), Jack Serio.

Katie checks in with actor, playwright, teacher, and the author of the upcoming Off-Broadway play, Nina, directed by Katie and produced by Katie and Francesca Carpanini. Nina runs at Theaterlab January 23-February 9.

Katie checks in with actor (Maria in West Side Story at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Luisa in The Fantasticks at the Cape Playhouse, upcoming: Magnolia in Showboat at Target Margin Theater) and writer (The Question, 2024 Eugene O'Neill finalist, BMI program), Rebbekah Vega-Romero.

Katie checks in with founder, and Executive Artistic Director, of the Jewish Plays Project, David Winitsky.

Katie checks in with actor, Eva Kaminsky (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and The Lyons on Broadway; Made in Poland and a Bright New Boise Off-Broadway; Law and Order: SVU, Billions, the Gilded Age, and more).

Katie checks in with co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company, as well as noted dancer and choreographer (The Joyce, the Bolshoi, The Marinsky, BAM, Cairo Opera House, Holland Dance Festival, and more), Dwight Rhoden.

Katie checks in with actor, Ella Stiller (Festival of New Jewish Plays, Escape at Dannemora, Juilliard).

Katie checks in with co-founder and Artistic and Executive Director of BalletX, Christine Cox, about the company's upcoming shows at the Joyce Theater.

Katie checks in with former Artistic Director of City Center Encores! and Creative Director/Senior Vice President of Jujamcyn Theaters, Jack Viertel, about his new theatre-centric novel, Broadway Melody.

Katie checks in with Artistic Director (and former principal dancer) of Smuin Contemporary Ballet, Celia Fushille.

Katie checks in with writer (One Story, the Boston Review, PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize), translator (Asymptote, Columbia Journal, The Boy from Clearwater), and former employee of world-renowned visual artist, Cai Guo-Qiang, Lin King.

Katie checks in with the CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, founder of Giving Tuesday, former Executive Director of the 92nd Street Y, and author of New Power, Henry Timms.

Katie checks in with commercial producer, Eric Cornell (Co-Producer: Oklahoma!, To Kill a Mockingbird, What the Constitution Means to Me, Head Over Heels, Hello Dolly! First National Tour; Executive Producer: Anastasia, Rocky; Upcoming: Anne of Green Gables).

Katie checks in with actor (The Visit on Broadway; Which Way to the Stage Off-Broadway; The Beauty and the Baker on ABC; Gotham on Fox; upcoming: Nine at the Kennedy Center), Michelle Veintimilla.

Katie checks in with Broadway drummer (Mr. Saturday Night, KPOP; subs for MJ the Musical, & Juliet, Titanique), Jesse-Ray Leich.

Katie checks in with performer Allison Bailey, known for her role as Glinda in the National Tour of Wicked (and Glinda standby on Broadway).

Katie checks in with dancer, actor, and singer (Broadway: Mean Girls, Finding Neverland; Mean Girls & Hamilton National Tours), Ixchel Cuellar.

Katie checks in with music director, music supervisor, conductor, and pianist (associate conductor/keys 2 for Gutenberg!, assistant conductor/keys 3 for The Who's Tommy, and associate music director/lyric dramaturg for KPOP on Broadway; The Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Picnic at Hanging Rock; Anne of Green Gables), Amanda Morton.

Katie checks in with actor, Eli Mayer (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Barrington Stage, the MUNY, Ride the Cyclone at Arena Stage and McCarter Theatre Center, and currently Reuven in The Chosen at Cincinatti Playhouse).

Katie checks in with actor (My Name is Asher Lev, A Bronx Tale, Fiddler on the Roof, and Annie National Tours) and musician (West Side Waltz and the Voxies), Stefanie Londino.

Katie checks in with choreographer (Funny Girl, Mr. Saturday Night, Grey House on Broadway; Little Shop of Horrors, Kate Hamill's Pride and Prejudice, Jeremy O'Harris' Black Exhibition, Titanique Off Broadway) and director (upcoming: The Lonely Few, with Tripp Cullman), Ellenore Scott.

Katie has a roundtable discussion with director & choreographer, Eamon Foley, and star, Talia Suskauer, of the upcoming Sunday in the Park with George at Axelrod Performing Arts Center, a production which she is co-producing.

Katie checks in with actor (13 on Broadway, Sunday in the Park with George at Pasadena Playhouse, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Geffen, The Good Wife, Riverdale, The Little Mermaid Live!), director, and writer (The Mediator, The Bygone, and Rumble Through the Dark), Graham Phillips.

Katie checks in with set designer (Broadway: Cost of Living, Pass Over, Next Fall; Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, Roundabout, and more; Lortel and Drama Desk nominations), Wilson Chin.

Katie checks in with director and theatre maker (associate on Sabbath's Theater, Invincible the Musical; The Apostle Peter and His Lover John Also an Apostle; Notes From the Basement; 2022 member of Directors' Lab North; one of New York Jewish Week's “36 to Watch" 2022), Molly Rose Heller.

Katie checks in with former actor and director, arts manager (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arts West), and author, Alan Harrison, on his new book, Scene Change: Why Today's Non-Profit Arts Organizations Have to Stop Producing Art and Start Producing Impact.

Katie checks in with actor and singer (Annie National Tour, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Burn the Floor, Walnut Street Theatre), Julia Nicole Hunter.

Katie checks in with actor (Life After, The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation) and singer/songwriter (Morninglory music), Livvy Marcus.

Katie discusses Shy: the Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers (available everywhere) with its co-author, and Chief Theatre Critic for The New York Times, Jesse Green.

Katie checks in with NAACP and Fred Astaire award-winning Broadway choreographer (Motown the Musical, A Night with Janis Joplin, Annie National Tour), Patti Wilcox.

Katie checks in with screenwriter and director (Francophrenia (or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is), Burn Country, and Slow Machine -- Rotterdam, Viennale, and New York Film Festivals), Paul Felten.

Katie checks in with music director, pianist, orchestrator, and educator (Berkshire Theatre Group, the MUNY, Opera Memphis, the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition, developmental teams for Oklahoma! (2019) and Hadestown), Jacob Kerzner.

Katie checks in with actor (Les Miz National Tour and on Broadway, Phantom of the Opera National Tour, Stages St. Louis, Goodspeed Opera House, Tuacahn, Theatre Works Palo Alto, and more), Edward Juvier.

Katie checks in with former actor (Annie, The Heiress, Ah, Wilderness!, Little Darlings) and Drama Desk, Lortel, and SDC Joe A. Callaway Award nominated director (Annie National Tour, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Hartford Stage, Pioneer Theatre Company, Mint Theatre Company), Jenn Thompson.

Katie reflects on the late, great Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist for Broadway masterpieces like Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me, Fiorello!, The Apple Tree, and more.

Katie checks in with Broadway star (Damn Yankees, Song and Dance, Cats, Steel Pier, Annie Get Your Gun, Elf, Tuck Everlasting, Kimberly Akimbo), Valerie Wright.

Katie checks in with star of Wicked on Broadway (Elphaba), Be More Chill on Broadway, and, currently, Gypsy at Goodspeed Opera House (Louise), Talia Suskauer.

Katie checks in with former Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at American Express, former Executive Director of Second Stage Theater, and current Executive Director of Signature Theatre, Timothy J. McClimon.

Katie checks in with dancer, choreographer, and founder of Shades Dance Theater, Cameron Terry.

Katie checks in with playwright (Great Plains Theatre Conference Selection, Edward F. Albee Fellow, Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellow, upcoming: Brainsmash at 59E59) and writer (New York Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly), Sophie Weisskoff.

Katie checks in with dancer and performing artist (Broadway's Jagged Little Pill, Lohengrin and The Hours at the Metropolitan Opera, Vogue World for New York Fashion Week, and more), Runako Campbell.

Katie checks in with Ryan Steele (Broadway's Newsies, Carousel, Matilda, and more) and Gaby Diaz (winner of So You Think You Can Dance season 12, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, Tick Tick Boom), both of whom recently starred in MCC's dance musical Only Gold.

Katie checks in with theatre maker, co-Artistic Director of Nightdrive (Thank You Sorry, The Grown-Ups), and illusions and magic associate at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child US, Skylar Fox.

Katie checks in with former dancer and actor (50th anniversary West Side Story national tour, Goodspeed Opera House, TUTS) and assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Duke University, as well as the author of the forthcoming book, Broadway Bodies (available February 10), Ryan Donovan.

Katie checks in with arts marketer (The Vineyard Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Premiere Consulting Group China), Bella Wang.

Katie checks in with journalist (Deputy Editor of Impact and Innovation at the Huffington Post, Editor of Tech at Mic, Editor at the New York Times' branded content studio T Brand, Editor for Axios' in-house branded content studio, Smart Brevity Studio) and comedian, Alexis Kleinman.

Katie checks in with dancer and choreographer (currently: Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz; previously: YC2, TL Collective, Springboard Dance Montreal), Alexander Quetell. Photo of Alexander by Philipp Romer.

Katie checks in with dancer and arts administrator (American Ballet Theatre, Jacob's Pillow, Liam Francis), Sophie Blue.