Podcasts about best solo performer

An award-winning solo show artist and nationally recognized writing coach who is making a big impact everywhere from off-Broadway to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Ann's show Loveland, played for two years in San Francisco where it won the SF Weekly Award for Best Solo Show and garnered the SF Bay Critic's Award for Best Original Script. In LA it won the LA Weekly award for Best Solo Show. Her solo show, Squeeze Box, was produced by Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft and enjoyed a successful off-Broadway run before touring the US, where it received both the Los Angeles Ovation Award and the LA Weekly Award for Best Solo Show. Ann's other solo works include Down Home, Shelter and Miss America, for which she won the LA Weekly award for Best Solo Performer. Her current solo show, Inappropriate in All the Right Ways, has been described by The Huffington Post as “a show like no other.” A favorite spoken word artist, Ann is a Moth StorySLAM winner and has been a regular on LA's long running spoken word series including Tasty Words, SPARK and Gorgeous Stories. Her personal essays and interviews have been featured on NPR, PBS and the BBC. As a member of the WGA, she has written scripts for Gullane Pictures, Lifetime TV, Brooksfilms, PAX, and Klasky-Csupo. Her widely popular writing workshop Unmute Yourself is offered in cities across the US and now online. 

Ann Randolph is an award-winning writer and performer. She has performed her solo shows in theaters across the U.S, garnering awards along the way including the Los Angeles Ovation Award for “Best Solo Show” and the San Francisco Bay Critic's award for “Best Solo Performer.” Mel Brooks produced her first big hit, Squeeze Box, Off-Broadway.She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:That in these times, more people are feeling compelled to tell their stories and speak their truths That our stories of flaws and shame can give others permission to live authentically and to be fully themselvesThat healing, integration, and transformation can come from sharing storiesThat preaching rarely works when trying to change minds, but vulnerable story-telling will create impactThat finding commonality in our human experience allows for unity in conflictResourcesOnline non-religious church of sharing stories: www.happycockchurch.com Connect with Ann RandolphWebsite: www.annrandolph.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/annrandolph12 Facebook: www.facebook.com/ann.randolph.56 Follow WCPGR/Resilience.orgFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience​Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilienceLearn More: https://bit.ly/wcpgr-resSupport the show (https://www.resilience.org/what-could-possibly-go-right-podcast-vicki-robin/supportthepodcast/)

Conversations with Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart on January 28, 2014. Moderated by Richard Ridge, Broadway World. IAN McKELLEN (Spooner in No Man's Land and Estragon in Waiting for Godot) has over 40 international awards for his half-century on screen and stage. He has worked regularly for Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre of Great Britain and on the West End stage in Shakespeare and a wide range of classic and new plays. In New York, he won every available award for Amadeus (1981). His solo show Acting Shakespeare packed theatres across the States and is now a teaching aid throughout the country. In 2001, he returned to Broadway in Dance of Death and hosted Saturday Night Live. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2004. Most recently, he played King Lear for the RSC at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. McKellen has starred in more than 40 movies: Richard III, Stephen King's Apt Pupil, Gods and Monsters, The Da Vinci Code, four X-Men films, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. Lately UK/PBS sitcom Vicous. Full career at www.mckellen.com. PATRICK STEWART (Hirst in No Man's Land and Vladimir in Waiting for Godot). Theater: No Man's Land (Berkeley Rep.), Waiting for Godot (What's on Stage Theatre Event of the Year), Macbeth (Tony nomination), Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Young Vic. London Fringe Best Actor Award), The Ride Down Mount Morgan (Broadway), The Tempest (Shakespeare in the Park, Broadway), Othello (Washington, DC), A Christmas Carol (LA, Broadway, London, Olivier for Best Entertainment, Drama Desk Award for Best Solo Performer, What's On People's Choice Award for Best Solo Performance), over forty productions with The Royal Shakespeare Company, including Hamlet (Olivier - Best Actor), Antony and Cleopatra (SWET Best Actor), The Merchant of Venice (SWET Best Actor nomination) and Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Television: Macbeth (Great Performances), Hamlet (Emmy nomination, Great Performances), Star Trek: The Next Generation (SAG Award nomination), Extras (Emmy nomination), Frasier, The Lion in Winter (Golden Globe nomination), King of Texas, A Christmas Carol (Emmy and SAG nominations), Moby Dick (Golden Globe, Emmy, SAG nominations). Film: Conspiracy Theory, Jeffery, Robin Hood -- Men in Tights, LA Story, Dune, Excalibur, four Star Trek: The Next Generation movies, Stephen Belber's Match, Hunting Elephants and three X-Men movies, with a fourth -- X-Men: Days of Future Past -- coming in 2014. Stewart was knighted by The Queen in the 2010 New Year Honours for Services to Drama.

Tune in the Spoken Word on 3CR to hear Josh Cake in conversation with Carmen Main.  -----------------------------Josh Cake is a writer and performer from Melbourne, Australia. He has worked in Australia, France, and Italy.His poetry was first published at the age of 10 in Random House’s collection 'Poems by Young Australians, Volume 3'. He wrote the comedy blog 'Penguin on Porpoise', a repeat finalist at the International Weblog Awards. A former member of the Paris Spoken Word community, he was a lead performer at the 2015 'Poetry Brothel' in Paris.He has written, directed, and performed in hundreds of comedy, music, cabaret, theatre, and short film productions. His debut solo stand-up and musical comedy show, 'A Death By Chocolate', won the 2014 Degraves Award for Best Comedy. His cabaret work in Paris won him The Weekly Beckett's award for Best Cabaret in 2015, and Humour Nouveau's awards for Best Musical Comedian and Best Solo Performer in 2016. He currently hosts a weekly inclusive space for experimental comedy at Sloth Bar in Footscray.He has worked as a radio and television host for SYN 90.7FM, 88.3 Southern FM, and Channel 31, as well as appearances on Radio Fodder, SBS Radio, and ABC RN.His recent credits include composing and performing a 2018 concert series for the National Gallery of Victoria, a 2018 storytelling feature on ABC Radio National, directing and composing the 2018 cabaret 'Foreign Woman' for the Melbourne Fringe Festival and Sydney audiences, producing 'Three Guards on Manus Island' at the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival, delivering a TEDx talk in September 2019, and receiving an Honourable Mention at the 2019 Melbourne Spoken Word Prize.Josh loves teaching music and comedy. As well as his piano, guitar, and composition students, he regularly runs comedy workshops at the University of Melbourne, and is also passionate about languages - you can hear him on the Spanish course CDs of the Victorian School of Languages.Josh is currently active in the Melbourne Spoken Word community. His poetry is informed by his background in music and comedy, aiming to entertain and provide laughter while drawing out the rhythms and melody of the spoken word, as well as urging audiences to reflect on the world in which they live. His recent poetry has centred around themes of climate change, emotions in digital spaces, and anecdotal encounters between the personal and the political.Josh is grateful to the Melbourne and broader Australian poetry community for their welcome, friendship, advice, and inspiration. He would like to particularly thank all the people who work hard, often unseen, to create opportunities for poets.---Reviews:★★★★★"a stunningly intelligent performer ... extraordinary awareness of his audience" - Red Kangaroo, 2019★★★★★"Josh Cake weaves simple, universally recognisable objects into extraordinarily beautiful metaphors for the human condition." - The Recruiting Officer, 2018★★★★★"he moves from a masterful display of meticulously timed hilarity to metaphors that bypass the brain and land straight in your tear glands ... intensely funny and heartbreakingly poignant, with a core of sincere hope" - The Bullock, 2018★★★★★"virtuosic in his comedic intelligence, his musical dexterity, and his control of an audience" - The Weekly Beckett, 2015"That was so good that I'm a little bit angry. Fuck you, Josh." - Tim Evans, 2019

Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias are part of a creative partnership called Salvador Dinosaur.  They are the multi-award winning creators of Otto & Astrid (Die Roten Punkte), The Orchid and the Crow, and Sunny Ray and the Magnificent Moon. Since 2006 they have toured their irreverent brand of cabaret theatre to the USA, Canada, Europe, the UK and New Zealand. Nominated for 13 Greenroom Awards in Melbourne, winning Best Production twice for Die Roten Punkte and Best Writing for The Orchid and the Crow, winner of Best Comedy in Victoria, Best Solo and Most Outstanding show in Ottawa, Most Outstanding show for Die Roten Punkte and Best Solo Performer at the London Fringe, the TO&ST – Time Out & Soho Theatre Award and Total Theatre Award nominees in Edinburgh amongst many other awards. In this episode:  We chat about working in a duo and what it takes to self-produce your work. Other topics include the Canadian touring circuit, the importance of talking with your venue, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the difference between producing in Australian and overseas. More info: http://www.milke.com.au/runtheshow/

JANIVA MAGNESS is one of the most beloved figures in the Americana, blues and roots music world. She is the winner of seven Blues Music Awards (with 25 nominations) including awards for B.B. King Entertainer of the year, Contemporary Blues Female Artist Of The Year and Song Of The Year. Her new album �Love Wins Again� is yet another evolutionary step for the soulful, elegant, award-winning singer-songwriter. Also in the works, Magness explores her own turbulent youth, her rise to stardom and more in her just-finished, yet-untitled memoir�a book that took three years to write and has already inspired an in-the-works musical. MATT ANDERSEN is a powerhouse performer with a giant soul-filled voice and commanding stage presence. With nearly 10 million views on YouTube, a 2013 European Blues Award, and winning Best Solo Performer at the Memphis Blues Challenge, it appears that the entire world is now discovering Matt. His new album 'Honest Man' follows up the JUNO Award nominated Weightless and sees the songwriter pushing himself into new territory. WoodSongs Kid: Mikaya Taylor is from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky and has a deep love for bluegrass and country music. This ten year old young vocalist just released her first CD.

TravCast is the Writer's Podcast from the Traverse, Scotland’s New Writing Theatre. Literary Associate, Rosie Kellagher, interviews well known playwrights whose work features in the year round programme at the Traverse. In this episode, Rosie Speaks to Matthew Zajac. Matthew is from Inverness. He studied Drama at Bristol University and has worked as an actor for 33 years. Theatre includes work at the Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Manchester Royal Exchange, Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool Everyman, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, the Lyric Hammersmith, Bush Theatre and the Young Vic. Most recently, he played Bishop Gornik in the feature film The Crucifixion, directed by Xavier Gens and due for release in 2016. He directed Seven Ages (2001), The Seer (2006), ‘e Polish Quine (2007), Jacobite Country (2010), Sweetness (2011) and The Baroness (2013) for Dogstar and wrote and performed The Tailor of Inverness for the company, winning the 2009 Best Actor Award at the Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland, a Scotsman Fringe First, the Holden Street Theatres Award and the Stage Award for Best Solo Performer at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe. The Tailor of Inverness went on to run for a month at the 2009 Adelaide Fringe Festival, winning nominations for Best Production and Best Performance. Original music by James Iremonger www.jamesiremonger.co.uk Conceived, produced and engineered by Cian O Siochain.

MATT ANDERSEN hails from the blue collar community of Perth�Andover, New Brunswick, and has been steadily building his sizable following in Canada. With over 2 million views on YouTube, a 2013 European Blues Award and winning Best Solo Performer at the Memphis International Blues Challenge, it appears that the entire world is now discovering his skilled guitar work, over-the-top showmanship and his narrative-driven songs blending blues and folk, encompassed in total honesty. Matt's THE HOWLIN' BROTHERS had a very good year in 2013, following the release of their critically acclaimed debut album HOWL. In one year they graced the cover of Acoustic Guitar magazine; recorded in the legendary Sun Studio; shared the stage with Grammy® winner Ricky Skaggs; placed on over 17 end-of-year “best of� lists, and reached #6 on the Americana Music radio chart. The trio toured their brand of “old-time string country blues with an indie-rock edge� throughout the U.S. and into Canada. The band return with a new release 'Trouble' featuring 13 new original songs that gives

At the top of the hour Marie interviewed writer, performer and educator, Ann Randolph. For the second half of the show Marie continued her conversation from last week on fear. Ann Randolph is an Ovation Award® winning playwright and performer. Her multi-character solo show Squeeze Box was originally produced by Mel Brooks and the late Anne Bancroft and went on to become a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway hit. Her current solo show, LOVELAND, is currently playing every weekend in San Francisco where Randolph was recently awarded, “Best Solo Performer in San Francisco” by the San Francisco Examiner. In 2011, Randolph was awarded “Best Solo Performer” by the LA Weekly for LOVELAND. A resident of Los Angeles, Randolph's previous solo shows and plays have garnered many awards. She is a former member of the Groundlings and Unsafe Sketch receiving LA Weekly's, “Best Female Comedy Performer.” Her solo show, Miss America, was awarded “Best Solo Show,” by the LA Weekly and as an actress she has appeared in numerous plays, including the long running cult classic, Bob's Office Party, for which she created the roles of Brandy and Carol. An LA Times critic wrote of Randolph's performance, “In a pair of wickedly hysterical roles, Randolph steals the show.”