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Show notes below: Talking Shit With Tara Cheyenne is a Tara Cheyenne Performance Production www.taracheyenne.com Instagram: @TaraCheyenneTCP / FB: https://www.facebook.com/taracheyenneperformance Podcast produced, edited and music by Marc Stewart Music www.marcstewartmusic.com © 2023 Tara Cheyenne Performance Subscribe/follow share through Podbean and Google Podcasts and Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Donate! To keep this podcast ad-free please go to: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/13386 Links: BC Movement Arts Society: https://www.bcmovementarts.com/ Chutzpah! Festival: https://chutzpahfestival.com/ "Body Parts" at The Cultch - Historic Theatre - May 3rd - 6th 2023: https://thecultch.com/event/body-parts/ About Mary-Louise Albert: Mary Louise Albert is based full time in Sointula, British Columbia and is actively growing the BC Movement Arts Society (that she co-founded in 2015 and is the Artistic & Executive Director/Producer of) producing and facilitating a professional contemporary dance series, artist creation residencies, community outreach and digital dance projects in rural and remote coastal communities of British Columbia. Albert previously held a 15-year position as the Artistic Managing Director of the Norman Rothstein Theatre (NRT) and the multidisciplinary international Chutzpah! Festival. A former professional dancer, choreographer and teacher, she worked for 20 years nationally and internationally as a solo dance artist and as a company member with the Judith Marcuse Dance Company, Anna Wyman Dance Theatre, Karen Jamieson Dance Company as well as apprenticing with Les Grands Ballet Canadiens. Albert has performed work by choreographers such as Mark Morris, Crystal Pite, Lar Lubabvitch, Robert North, Serge Bennathan, Allen Kaeja, Judith Marcuse, Grant Strate, Peter Bingham, Tedd Robbinson, Judith Garay and Christopher House, to name a few. She has an extensive teaching background that includes ArtsUmbrella, Sessional Positions at Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts, Harbour Dance Centre, Goh Ballet and the Portside Academy in Port McNeill, as well as adjudicating for dance festivals throughout Western Canada. Transitioning from professional dance at the age of 45, Albert won the nationally awarded Eric Bruhn Memorial Award from the Dancer Transition Resource Centre to attend Capilano University and the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT), School of Business, graduating with a Post Diploma of Technology in Business Administration and an Advanced Arts and Entertainment Management Certificate, respectively. Albert is the recipient of the 2011 Canada Council for the Arts' John Hobday Award for Excellence in Arts Management, one of two awarded nationally annually. She was an appointed member of the City of Vancouver's first Arts and Culture Policy Council, was an Executive Board member of Temple Sholom, and was a five-year member of a Program Advisory Committee for the BCIT School of Business. She is a member of the Board of the Gate House Theatre in Port McNeill and a member of the Board of the Sointula Museum Historical Society. About Tara: Tara Cheyenne Friedenberg, is an award winning creator, performer, choreographer, director, writer, and artistic director of Tara Cheyenne Performance, working across disciplines in film, dance, theatre, and experimental performance. She is renowned as a trailblazer in interdisciplinary performance and as a mighty performer "who defies categorization on any level". Along with her own creations Tara has collaborated with many theatre companies and artists including; Zee Zee Theatre, Bard on the Beach, ItsaZoo Theatre, The Arts Club, Boca De Lupo, Ruby Slippers, The Firehall Arts Centre, Vertigo Theatre (Calgary). With a string of celebrated solo shows to her credit (including bANGER, Goggles, Porno Death Cult, I can't remember the word for I can't remember, Body Parts, Pants), multidisciplinary collaborations, commissions and boundary bending ensemble creations Tara's work is celebrated both nationally and internationally. Tara is known for her unique and dynamic hybrid of dance, comedy and theatre. She is sought after for creating innovative movement for theatre and has performed her full length solos and ensemble works around the world (highlights: DanceBase/Edinburgh, South Bank Centre/London, On the Boards/Seattle USA, High Performance Rodeo/Calgary etc.). Recent works include a collaboration with Italian dance/performance artist Silvia Gribaudi, empty.swimming.pool, (Castiglioncello, Bassano, Victoria and Vancouver), ensemble creation, how to be, which premiered at The Cultch, and her solo I can't remember the word for I can't remember, toured widely, and her newest solo Body Parts has been made into a stunning film which is currently touring virtually. Tara lives on the unceded Coast Salish territories with her partner composer Marc Stewart and their child.
Join the Drama Mamas Podcast as they chat with Alan Reynolds, Artistic Managing Director of Lakeland Community Theatre about their production of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"and the inner workings of managing a community theatre. Join them as they go behind the scenes of Lakeland Community Theatre's latest show and get a glimpse of the exciting world of community theatre. Buy Tickets: https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?actions=4&p=1 Evening By The Lake: bit.ly/3SzvsoJ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourlct Website: https://www.lakelandcommunitytheatre.com Correction: When Cathi mentions Jenna Rhode she mean Jenna Snyder --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dramamamas/message
Andrew G. Cooper is a Canadian playwright, director, and puppeteer. As an artist, Andrew's focus is on the creation of new works with a particular emphasis on storytelling through physical mediums such as puppetry, movement, mask, and stage combat. They hold their Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from Thompson Rivers University and are the recipient of the Kamloops Mayor's Emerging Artist Award as well as a nominee of the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Award. They won multiple awards for Outstanding Choreography for their work in Musical Theatre with the Academy of Dance and are the founding Artistic Managing Director of Chimera Theatre in Kamloops, BC and the founding and current Artistic Producer of Jupiter Theatre in Calgary, AB. Andrew debuted on television as a puppeteer on Apple TV+ with The Jim Henson Company's Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock. Andrew is a lover of astronomy and animals and currently lives in Calgary, AB. www.andrewgcooper.com Twitter: @AndrewGCooper22 Instagram: @andrewgcooper22 Support Stageworthy Donate: tips.pinecast.com/jar/stageworthy
Ulrich Wegenast ist Artistic Managing Director der Film- und Medienfestival gGmbH (FMF), Dieter Krauß deren Commercial Managing Director. Beide zusammen leiten das ITFS, das Internationale Trickfilmfestival in Stuttgart (04. Mai bis 09. Mai 2021), das sich zur führenden Veranstaltung für den Animationsfilm weltweit entwickelt hat - auch im digitalen Format. In diesem Jahr steht es unter dem Titel “Creating Diversity”. Bewusst stellen die beiden Direktoren das Festival breit auf und verankern es mitten in der Stadt. Damit es als Leuchtturm für einen starken Film- und Medienstandort strahlen kann, wovon alle profitieren: Die Stuttgarter:innen mitten auf dem Schlossplatz genauso wie die Animationsspezialist:innen weltweit. Für Krauß und Wegenast ist das bewegte Bild Mission. Film prägt ihre Vita und sie verstehen es, mit der FMF auch die Kreativregion zu prägen. Nicht nur mit dem ITFS, sondern auch mit der Plattform für Szenografie und Architektur, den “Raumwelten”. So überrascht es nicht, dass beide im Podcast ein feines Gespür für die öffentlichen Räume in der Stadt zeigen. Befragt werden sie in der Wunschlocation Cinema-Kino von zwei Hosts: Prof. Stephan Ferdinand ist Direktor des Instituts für Moderation (imo) an der Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart (HdM). Anja Lange ist Absolventin des Qualifikationsprogramms Moderation am imo und freie Moderatorin. SPRICH:STUTTGART - der Podcast für und über Stuttgart: www.sprichstuttgart.de und auf Instagram sprichstuttgart_podcast (aufgezeichnet am 12.04.2021).
Join Lesley and Beth Ann Kennedy as they discuss the quest for self-love that most women face. “If you do not love yourself, you are fighting a completely uphill battle,” shares Beth Ann. Between the culture of celebrity, the quest for perfection and the constant inundation of ‘not enough' messages from advertisers, the path to self-love is not a gentle, for women. Regardless of how we get there, it is one of the most important undertakings we can embrace. In this conversation Beth Ann shares from what she learned about her own absence of self-love and how she reclaimed this essential access to her greater self. Beth Ann Kennedy, Artistic Managing Director of the Bozeman Film Celebration, has been producing and directing live theatrical events since the mid 90's throughout the USA, primarily in Washington, DC and NYC. Beth is a founding member of the Colorado Environmental Film Festival and a longtime member of SAG AFTRA. Her entrepreneurial spirit & professional contacts enabled Beth Ann to launch and manage the Bozeman International Film Festival, beginning in 2018. Under Beth Ann's leadership, BZN Film Celebration is placing a primary focus on films about the great mother to us all, Mother Earth, and films written, directed and produced by women.
In today's episode, Amanda sits down over some delicious Apothic Red wine with actor, improvisor, curator and director, & current Artistic and Manasging director of Bad Dog Theatre Company Coko Galore (Coko & Daphney, Black and Funny Toronto) to discuss taking on her new role at Bad Dog Theatre during a pandemic, the connection between empathy and human dignity, and how guilty pleasures should just be guilt-free pleasures! Coko is one-half of the infamous comedy duo Coko and Daphney alongside Daphney Joseph, and the producer behind Black and Funny Toronto: a comedy showcase of Black comics and performers making audiences laugh on stages across Toronto. She is also the newly appointed Artistic & Managing Director of the award-winning Bad Dog Theatre Company, one of Toronto's main sources of comedy classes and live comedy entertainment. Since the pandemic, Bad Dog has created Bad Dog TV on YouTube where you can watch loads of awesome, live shows 5 days a week! Bad Dog Theatre is a not-for-profit, charitable organization that offers comedy classes and live comedy entertainment to Toronto and beyond. During these times they could really use our support, so head over to Bad Dog TV on YouTube, subscribe, enjoy all the hilarious shows, and make sure to donate! Bad Dog Theatre Company: www.baddogtheatre.com // Bad Dog Comedy TV The Liquid Courage Podcast: insta @liquidcouragepodcast twitter @liquidcpodcast YouTube Video Episodes & more! email podcastliquidcourage@gmail.com Amanda Pereira: insta @hotcoldspicy / twitter @amanda_pereira Coko Galore: @cokogalore on insta & twitter *Photo Credit (photo of Coko Galore in front of the brick wall background): Katherine Foglar @katherinefoglerphotography **Warning: This episode contains swearing.
I am elated to bring this episode of Cue To Cue with Founder/ Artistic and Managing Director of The Musical Stage Company, Mitchell Marcus! Mitchell has become an influencer in the Toronto MusicTheatre scene and has been quite successful in a medium where many theatre companies don’t make it past their first season and I have been dying to have a conversation to hear his thoughts on creativity, entrepreneurship and the place of musical theatre in today's ever-shifting arts landscape. WISDOM: When I asked Mitchell what advice he would give someone who is thinking of starting a theatre company he said, “don’t”, with a laugh and continued to say, if you feel you must go through with it then find the Gap. How are you going to differentiate yourself from every theatre company out there? Do you need to do a show or become a theatre company because that is a totally different undertaking. In this Episode: What is missing from the Canadian musical theatre scene How to embrace the art of fundraising and get people to support your idea What he believes holds artists back from creating and how you can overcome it How to discern the right path for yourself A Little about Mitchell: Mitchell is the founder and Artistic & Managing Director of The Musical Stage Company – Canada’s leading and largest not-for-profit musical theatre company. Over fourteen years, The Musical Stage Company (previously Acting Up Stage Company) productions have been recognized with 61 Dora Award nominations, 11 Dora Awards and 12 Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards and programming partnerships have been built with Mirvish, Canadian Stage, AGO, TIFF, Massey Hall, Obsidian Theatre Company, and the Regent Park School of Music amongst others. Outside of The Musical Stage Company, Mitchell was the Associate Producer for the inaugural six years of Luminato, producing over 100 productions for one-million attendees annually. Mitchell has twice been the Creative Producer for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize as well as the producer of the Dora Awards. He organized four years of It’s Always Something, working with a team that raised over $500,000 annually for Gilda’s Club Greater Toronto. Mitchell is active on committees that serve the arts community. He is an advisor to the Metcalf Foundation for its Creative Strategies Incubator program, a member of Sheridan College’s Performing Arts Committee, a member of the Dora Eligibility Committee, and a member of the Advisory Committee of the Canadian Musical Theatre Writers Collective. Mitchell has held positions in the arts management departments at University of Toronto and Ryerson University. He is the recipient of a Harold Award and the 2017 The Leonard McHardy and John Harvey Award for Outstanding Leadership in Administration.
In this week’s episode, I sit down with Laura Nanni. Laura Nanni is the Artistic & Managing Director of the SummerWorks Festival. In our conversation today we discuss what audiences can expect from the 2019 SummerWorks Performance Festival running August 8th to 18th, how the company has been exploring the idea of public vs private spaces, as well as the conversations they have been having around when theatre experiences begin and end. We also discuss how she began working with the SummerWorks Festival and the benefits that come from practicing a constant curiosity when it comes to all aspects of theatre, how SummerWorks is working to build an informed audience that understands the creative and developmental process, as well as where she hopes to see new works and the conversations around key issues facing our community in Canada headed in the future.
In this week’s episode, I sit down with Laura Nanni. Laura Nanni is the Artistic & Managing Director of the SummerWorks Festival. In our conversation today we discuss what audiences can expect from the 2019 SummerWorks Performance Festival running August 8th to 18th, how the company has been exploring the idea of public vs private spaces, as well as the conversations they have been having around when theatre experiences begin and end. We also discuss how she began working with the SummerWorks Festival and the benefits that come from practicing a constant curiosity when it comes to all aspects of theatre, how SummerWorks is working to build an informed audience that understands the creative and developmental process, as well as where she hopes to see new works and the conversations around key issues facing our community in Canada headed in the future.
In this week’s episode, I sit down with Mitchell Marcus. Mitchell Marcus is the Artistic & Managing Director of the Musical Stage Company and a Let’s Grab Coffee veteran. In our conversation today we recap some of the Musical Stage Company’s biggest moments over the past year and what they learned from those experiences, the importance of having a clear idea of your personal or company mandate and allowing that mandate to dictate how you navigate the industry, as well as the concept of vertical programming and how it relates to the Musical Stage Company’s unique place in the Toronto theatre industry. We also discuss some of the exciting programs the Musical Stage Company is offering such as their Make Me A Song and Launch Pad programs, what they have learned from their partnership with Britta Johnson through the Crescendo series and what people can expect from their third show in the series Kelly v Kelly, as well as what audiences can look forward to in the coming year from the Musical Stage Company and where he sees theatre in Canada headed in the future.
In this week’s episode, I sit down with Mitchell Marcus. Mitchell Marcus is the Artistic & Managing Director of the Musical Stage Company and a Let’s Grab Coffee veteran. In our conversation today we recap some of the Musical Stage Company’s biggest moments over the past year and what they learned from those experiences, the importance of having a clear idea of your personal or company mandate and allowing that mandate to dictate how you navigate the industry, as well as the concept of vertical programming and how it relates to the Musical Stage Company’s unique place in the Toronto theatre industry. We also discuss some of the exciting programs the Musical Stage Company is offering such as their Make Me A Song and Launch Pad programs, what they have learned from their partnership with Britta Johnson through the Crescendo series and what people can expect from their third show in the series Kelly v Kelly, as well as what audiences can look forward to in the coming year from the Musical Stage Company and where he sees theatre in Canada headed in the future.
In this week’s episode I sit down with Mitchell Marcus. Mitchell Marcus is the Artistic & Managing Director for Acting Up Stage. In our conversation today we discuss Mitchell’s introduction to theatre and the path he took that lead him to create Acting Up Stage. We discuss some of the things Acting Up Stage is doing including the Uncovered series and the Banks Prize as well as where he sees theatre in Canada headed in the future. Mitchell also spoke about the differences he has noticed between theatre writers in Canada and in the United States and how American’s can sometimes get caught up writing for or at Broadway.
In this week’s episode I sit down with Mitchell Marcus. Mitchell Marcus is the Artistic & Managing Director for Acting Up Stage. In our conversation today we discuss Mitchell’s introduction to theatre and the path he took that lead him to create Acting Up Stage. We discuss some of the things Acting Up Stage is doing including the Uncovered series and the Banks Prize as well as where he sees theatre in Canada headed in the future. Mitchell also spoke about the differences he has noticed between theatre writers in Canada and in the United States and how American’s can sometimes get caught up writing for or at Broadway.
James Grace (Super Troopers, Beerfest, Slammin' Salmon) is the Artistic & Managing Director of the ioWest Theater in LA and an old friend of Kevin & Steve. They talk about behind the scenes at the ioWest, the origins of the theater, Del Close, Reading Glasses, Super Troopers, AC/DC, The Brady Bunch, The Cubs & Blackhawks, Ripping Jay Chandrasekhar AND Lemme gets an Improv Lesson. Enjoy the Chew!