Touché Podcast

Spring has sprung and Jeff and Jenn are feeling a little something as well. Reuniting, celebrating upcoming work, deleting apps, scamming McDonalds...a little something for everyone ;) We miss you and accepting applications for what you need. Touche. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

MEDITATE, JOURNAL, EXERCISE...why does this look so easy on paper? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Still feeling stuff? It's not a question. Touche. Jenn and Jeff are feeling all sorts of stuff that they so generously share on this weeks episode of Touche. Bonus: A little sprinkle of "Pajama Game" because we see you musical people! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

We miss you. We miss us. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Well here we are. Here. We. Are. We have a lot of thoughts and feelings right now so we give you our voices and sometimes giggles if that can be of any comfort. We love you a ton. Stay inside. Touche. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Downtown superstar Neal Medlyn (aka Champagne Jerry) joins Jeff and Jenn this week to talk about his journey from being a jr college dropout to a successful performance artist. This EPISODE ya'll!!!! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Jenn and Jeff want you to know what they loved in 2019! FUN, doncha think? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

We do it every year, and this one is no exception. Jenn and Jeff are talking roses and thorns of 2019, goals for 2020, and we even talk about how our goals from last year ended up this year - we did kinda good!!! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

We are not in the same city! So Jenn and Jeff monologize at each other about their lives apart. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Guest Host and former guest Harry Bouvy sits down with Jeff and actor Jay Russell who has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, TV and Film and lays down a depressing truth - there aren't really any breakthroughs. You just gotta keep going. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Lulu Lloyd has been on Broadway (School of Rock), toured with major productions (Waitress, Bat Out of Hell) and worked with the likes of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, but there was still something missing for her life, and she realized she can change it. So she did! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

You have seen Mike Doyle in a LOT of things. Seriously. Look at his IMDB page. Go ahead. We will wait. That's a lot of work, right? Law and Order: SVU, The Jersey Boys movie, Rabbit Hole, Sex and the City, Oz, even Gayby with Jenn! But what Mike shares with Jeff and Jenn is that even a career with a ton of credits is still a marathon and not a sprint to a finish line. Plus, the descriptions of the characters he has played are worth a download, trust! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Proud Equity member Pam Goldberg (Phillip Taratula) joins us to discuss life as an actor who has seen and done it all yet still never became a household name. We talk what it’s like to ride the waves of a career and also meal prep. Pam also has a show at Ars Nova on December 9th 2019! Though we do believe she will outlive us all, don't miss this opportunity to see her in person. Thank you for your time Pam. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Rats in DC? I mean...Touche! This week Jeff and Jenn (and let's be real, Beverly too) chat about musical theatre audition prep, shooting a juicy role in a pilot and ALL the feelings that go along with it, and physical pains as one ages cuz, ouch! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Scott Lowell joins Jenn and Jeff on the Lower East Side to talk about TV stardom and theatre roots, not to mention booking twelve commercials in one year - WHICH WE CAN AGREE IS NOT REAL EVEN IF IT IS TRUE! A great discussion about how the struggle is never really over. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Casting director Andrew Femenella joins Jenn and Jeff in upstate Manhattan. We talk about how Andrew is looking at casting in a new way, how there is still a ladder you have to climb on that side of the table, and his secret (or maybe not so secret?) love of musical theatre. An exciting episode where we get to see what life is like on the other side! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

That title rhymes if you have a Texas accent. Can you believe it? They were gone so long, but they're back after summers and early Autumns full of all sorts of stuff. Jenn and Jeff are back in Inwood to start a sort of second season as it were. They talk about where they have been and how they are feeling. And fret not! we have more episodes in the can coming your way in the next few weeks! Touche'! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

You know how British sitcoms do a one off episode? It's always in December and they call it the Christmas special? Well Touche' is doing that! Jenn is back from making her movie and Jeff hasn't left to do Bright Colors in DC, so they are together and talking for one special episode! A bonus! Also, there is the weirdest audio thing in the world and I left it in cause its hilarious. See if you can hear it and if you can't you didn't listen. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Ya'll, Jeff got a little job for a week and Jenn is taking on a MONSTER project. They are so busy they can't even be in the same room with each other! And so it means, it's time for a little touche' hiatus. They explain what that is about in this last new episode (for a while?). Much love from touche land! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Jeff and Jenn get to do reading together on a beautiful Sunday afternoon and take you on their literal travels. Jenn is on her motor bike and it's a windy day so maybe have your finger on your volume - pro tip :) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Cody Lindquist is an actor, a UCB regular and one half of the hosts of the podcast, "Two Beers In". She joins us at the peril of her own safety from Jeff's wild cat. She tells us about doing bad theatre, getting out of Boerum Hill alive and how rules can be comforting. It's a good listen! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING everyone....come get your LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING!!! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Touche is blessed to have the wonderful Libby Winters this week! We talk about what it was like to be a child "star", realizing that some jobs are unicorns, and how Stevie Nicks makes the world better. Also, because Jenn wasn't here, Jeff had a bit of a difficult time with the audio and consequently, the sound is even more janky than normal. But it gets much better... I promise! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Jeff and Jenn both got an internet only commercial audition in Long Island City, so they took the podcast on the road to let you in on the glamorous lifestyle of NYC audition lyfe! Then they take you to Inwood, Jenn's new neighborhood, and Jeff let's you in on all of the weirdo shizz that is filling his head like Transcendental Meditation, Deep Work, and Human Design! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

SEX! YOUR STAR METER ON IMDB! Now that we have your attention...this week Jeff and Jenn get into some saucy talk, some reflections on said saucy talk and of course your star meter and what it actually "means". --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

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Actor, improvisor, original content creator and more, MICAH SHERMAN, joins us on Touche this week. He shares about working the comedy scenes in Boston and Chicago, getting your own content together, he and Jeff explain what a "Harold" in improv is, and so much more. And of COURSE he and Jenn get to chat about their, by now hopefully iconic, sex scene on this season's HIGH MAINTENANCE on HBO! If you haven't seen Micah in all his glory yet, now you can ;) Delightful! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Singer, Songwriter, Singer/Songwriter, Therapist, Actor and DEAR friend Jim Andralis joins us today to chat coming to New York, coming out, making your own art, making a living....and how aaaalllll of the above are just so complicated. This ep is ALL about the closet and "the fear of admitting who you are and what you like". A very talented and smart pal we have in Jim. Enjoy him because we always do ;) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Is Jenn easy? Is Jeff easy? Let's talk branding! Jeff shares a great poop story and we chat what the hell to attempt to do when shit hits the fan...is this the poop episode? It's the poop episode. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Actress, cabaret gurl and our fave lady to run into at auditions joins us in Jeff's living room this week. We chat ENERGY and VIBRANCY and JOY and feeling vulnerable about having Energy and Vibrancy and Joy. Nadia -"Liking the life of a cool, NYC artist!" We're heeeerrrrre 4 it! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Jenn is in Jeff's bedroom this time and his cat is not having it. They discuss critics, thoughts on other actors getting the funnier lines, and how Jenn made Jeff beautiful with a trip to Sephora. Can you deal? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Sparkling playwright and actor Zackary Grady returns to the podcast to share his songbird vocal cords post surgery and we are smitten. Zackary also takes us through the play-by-play of him performing in a drag show in PTown and the results are cute! Getting the work DONE hunny and freeing that natural voice!!! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

It's 2019 (sounds so Jetsons)! Jeff and Jenn have some intentions to set and many many reviews. They chat films to watch and stay away from, TV shows to binge and theatre to see. 2019 is going to be CREATIVE, PROSPEROUS and STABLE ok...(it kinda has to ;). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Jenn and Jeff are back in Hartford (gross) for the year-end special! They talk about their future goals and review the nonsense they spouted last year and how that turned out for them. It's a sobering discussion. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

It's over. It's done. Last podcast in Jenn's bedroom. Jeff has just finished helping her put all her Barbies into storage, the couch is on the sidewalk for the city to pick up, and Jeff and Jenn are EXHAUSTED! ...but podcasting. We respect your time. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Prolific downtown legend Becca Blackwell shares the T, spills the T, is on the T. They talk how they found their voice as an artist from a truly amazing guidance counselor, gender identity, Twitter wars, patriarchy, and SURVIVAL kids! From running a 78 channel sound craft to Circus Amok to residencies and SO much more, Becca's words are nourishment: "BEING AN ARTIST IS A PRIVILEGE! Do it only if you have to do it." TOUCHE! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Jenn and Jeff are alone in the bedroom feasting on the souls of demons, celebrating Jeff's new Trader Joes, chatting NOT getting to plan life, adulting, AND OVERTALKING!!! OMG we are ready to MOVE FORWARD!...maybe. Also, Jeff is getting texts and it's scary for Jenn. BOO! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Randy Harrison is in Jenn's bedroom after spending a few years playing some of the greatest characters in the theatrical cannon. Randy dispels Jeff's myth that if you get on a TV show you can just ride that forever, and we talk about QWAN! The conversation is delightful and of course Jenn and Jeff try to sing Rent again, cause its like their thing now? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Jenn and Jeff enjoy a beautiful fall afternoon in the bedroom to discuss the self-reflecting classic, "When Things Fall Apart" by Pema Chodron. They also sing a little bit. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Ian is in the bedroom, and this lovely artists' knowledge spans from the fragrant notes in his deodorant to filmmaking...and EVERYTHING in between! We get San Fran theatre. We get comic book chat. We get musicals when you can't dance. And talk about making the most out of your bullying?!?!? We give you Ian! So much love. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Jeff and Jenn are back to just being by themselves. Jenn is embracing change even though she hates it, and Jeff is longing for it even though he doesn't really have any coming his way. Plus a lot more. This one goes to weird places including our worship of Rent and Spring Awakening. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Actors are not paper dolls and black Converse hightops are lazy. Writer, actress, and costume designer COLLEEN WERTHMANN graces the bedroom this week all the way from Harlem!!! She was a kid who literally paid her own way, asked Richard Foreman for her equity card, and likes to ask of her projects - Is it fun? Is it cool? Is it interesting? And is it something I can be proud of? Colleen makes joyful things and we are HERE for them! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Michael Cyril Crate and Barrel is in Jenn's room and we are talking about being proud of your work, hope vs fantasy, and also Jeff cries cause I guess he's feeling vulnerable. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Jeff hit his head at work but brought ME flowers, a substitute mic, a new roommate, a dash of Parker Posey and a LOT of Stormy Daniels...a TRUE compost of an episode :) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

"Art can't hurt you". Director, editor, filmmaker, artist Will Mayo joins us in the bedroom this week to lend a lens capturing a filmmakers perspective on the biz. Also: Tennessee, dating your neighbor, art camp... --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

"Being an actor feels like your ego is on a violent pendulum swing between a field of cashmere and a casual tub of knives." - Betty Gilpin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Apartment situation, Karen Ziemba, Alopecia: One of these things is really nice. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Writer, performer, voice over Goddess, and New York Time Contributor (NOT a staff writer!!!), Amanda Duarte joins us in Jenn's bedroom to talk about not "doing" the acting thing anymore and how she found her voice at 40! This one is exciting!!! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Writer, actor, performer, producer, connoisseur of figure skating - we give you Zackary Grady!!!! If you missed his highly acclaimed TOE PICK at Dixon Place this past Olympics season we are truly sorry, but at least you can sit with this hilarious and UBER FUN genius with Jenn as they chat about creating your own work, devouring theme parks, and of course, figure skating. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

It's a packed packed episode Touch-y's and we are dishing on all things weddings to Brene Brown. SERVE YA SELVES! Muah! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support

Jenn is out working on {BEEEP!!!!} for the week, and so this is a Jenn-less episode just to let you know that we will be back next week with 100% more Jenn Harris! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/touch-podcast/support