Podcast appearances and mentions of lauren maul

Tàhlia Audrí and I first crossed paths as cast members in Lauren Maul‘s Bucolic a couple of years ago. I’ve followed all of her work since then, but was especially [...] Continue reading → The post MikeyPod 321 | Writer and Performer Táhlia Audrí appeared first on MikeyPod.

This week, Selena sits down with her friend, the uber-talented Lauren Maul, to discuss an unlit candle as a life unlived, Lauren's brief tenure as a wax experimenter, and the hard truths about beeswax candles. They swoon over SLOW BURN, a glorious candle from country superstar Kacey Musgraves (named after her gorgeous, moody song) and discuss Dylan McKay's wick. (music: bensound.com) 

We are 75 Episodes old as of of tonight, October 29, 2019.  Our guest co-host is choreographer, teacher, tennis fanatic and trivia master Joe Celej. Joe joins Shonali Bhowmik to discuss all things horrific.  Joe and Shonali are joined by guests artist Trish Tillman, comedian Clare O'Kane, Gary The Vampire and performer, musician, comic Lauren Maul.   Trish Tillman is a visual artist who lives currently in NYC and in one of Oscar Wilde's former residences.  We discuss the plight of an artist - working all alone for hours on end and not talking to anyone; having multiple jobs to supplement your income as an artist and making art as a child in Washington, DC.  Shonali is convinced Trish's sculptures are influenced by the art residency she did in India in terms of the colors, decorations, materials and simple forms she uses. We discuss Bollywood horror films, slackers & Trish's solo show opening at Aysa Geisberg Gallery in Chelsea on Thursday Nov.7.  Go to her opening party from 6-8pm to see her gorgeous work up close!  Thomas Kelsey joins us from the audience to play the game, Name That Mystery Candy!  We blindfold him and find out how many candies he named correctly after Joe inserts the candy into Thomas Mouth. Congrats to Thomas who won some seriously wonderful gifts!  Clare O'Kane is a comedian from San Jose, California. We discuss opening for the emo punk band Jawbox, being a newlywed, DNA testing and how she's changed as a comedian in the past 9 years.  Make sure to check out her comedy album, Let It Be and her work as a writer on the second season of Shrill. Be on the lookout for Clare in a comedy club near you!  Gary The Vampire (aka comedian Matt Little) makes a surprise appearance at WDEK.  He's really loud and was born in the 1600's before NYC became edgy.  He quickly let us know, he's not into Halloween and we commiserate with him.  Did you know that Vampires wear jean jackets?   Our final guest of the night is performer, creator, musician, comic and all around do everything artist Lauren Maul. She calls herself a good witch and hosts her own show called Gathering of the Coven during the full moon. She fills us in on her latest project, an album of love songs which come from her recent agreement with her husband to have an open marriage.  It turns out initially it wasn't easy for Lauren's husband to go along with Lauren's request, but a year later accommodated for her.  Lauren performs two original songs in the Red Room live, 1) With A Witch and 2) All Her Things. We hope you enjoy. 

While Christian is traveling for work, we are pleased to have Duane Harriott, join us as Shonali's guest co-host.  Duane is a wedding DJ, a legendary DJ on WFMU, a composer AND one of the stars of the Other Music Documentary which was released over the spring of 2019.  Shonali and Duane discuss the power of the wedding DJ and strangers eating your food.  Their first guest is writer Tamara Best. (Timecode at 10:33) Her articles have been published in the New York Times, Time Out and The Daily Beast. She is the assistant managing editor of The Daily Beast.  Her work centers on the intersection of identity and culture for communities of people of color.  Tamara is of West Indian descent and also lived in Atlanta as did Shonali. They discuss Tamara's success in NYC as a writer and her parents' pride.  Tamara specifically shares her insight as to the urgency of the work (Fairview, Slave Play, Strange Loop, What To Send Up When It Goes Down) of a slew of African American playwrights who have recently burst onto the theater world. She and her husband a psychologist have healthy intellectual sparring matches. He happens to be in the audience and we notice his facial expressions throughout the night. HA! Tamara is in the process of writing her own play titled Hindsbury Hill, a tribute to her family. We look forward to seeing it when it is finished! Our next guest is comedian Rob Cantrell   (Time code 31:52)  Rob so graciously performs some stand up for our studio audience in which he kills the Red Room.  Notice the two Bhowmik sisters laughing on both sides of the room. (Time code 42:06) Duane and Shonali talk to Rob about the "magic trick" of comedy and bombing.  He grew up in DC later moved to small town Virginia and eventually started his comedy career in San Francisco.  Duane and Rob bond on both being parents and Scorpios.  Rob is a very successful comedian who toured with Tracy Morgan this summer.  His tour story will blow your mind. Highlights include gyros, a blue turtleneck and leather shoes.  (Time code 52:40 - 59:01) Duane also has a Tracy Morgan story! #OtherMusic  (Time code 59:40)  Our last guest is composer, teacher & musician Chris Opperman.  His Wikipedia page is outrageous.  Chris realized he wanted to be a composer when he first heard the music of Frank Zappa. He went to Berklee and he came up with his indie hit song Ain't Got No Beef as a result of a homework assignment after a visit to Taco Bell.  Check out his orchestration for a 54 piece orchestra for Steve Vai's For the Love of God here.  Duane and Chris have some Frank Zappa talk on which Shonali is clueless. Chris performs for the first time performs two piano pieces by other composers.  The first song (1:18:17) is Ann Southam's Pond Life.  His second performance is Ellen Zwilich's Lament (1:22:27).  If are interested in learning more about classical music, Chris has hundreds of Spotify playlists which he made for his students at Montclair State University. Check them out. Also stay tuned for Chris' Chamber Music from Hell project which is based on the concept of "What would Aliens write if they made BeBop music?"  What a show! Thank you all!  Our next show is October 29, 2019 with comedian Clare O'Kane, artist Trish Tillman and music by Lauren Maul.  See you there!  Also please share our podcast with your friends and family.  They will thank you. Follow us on all social media @wdekpodcast

The theme of our October show is "The Other Side"... Shamanic healer and animal communicator Ilka Pinheiro returns to gab about ghosts, writer and ghost tour guide Marie Carter regales us with her favorite NYC ghost story, astrologer and clairvoyant Janelle Belgrave shares stories of spirits, host Lauren Maul shares a true-crime inspired song from her new musical in progress "Bucolic", and Gabe Morales returns with ghost tales of his own. Recorded live at The Peoples Improv Theater on the Full Hunter's Moon. Transitional music from Julianna Barwick, Shannon Shaw, Yoko Ono, Magic Wands, Britta Phillips, & VV Brown. 

I got a message from Bianca at Shark Party Media early last week that she had a perfect guest for the podcast: Lauren Maul. One glance at her latest project, [...] Continue reading → The post MikeyPod 253 | Comedian, Composer, and Filmmaker Lauren Maul appeared first on MikeyPod.

I got a message from Bianca at Shark Party Media early last week that she had a perfect guest for the podcast: Lauren Maul. One glance at her latest project, [...] Continue reading → The post MikeyPod 253 | Comedian, Composer, and Filmmaker Lauren Maul appeared first on MikeyPod.

Learn how to produce your own live comedy show in this miniseries hosted by Emily Winter. Winter is a comedian who produces two Time Out Critics’ Pick comedy shows in Brooklyn, BackFat Variety and Side Ponytail. She also co-created an international comedy festival, WHAT A JOKE, which took place in 32 cities simultaneously and raised more than $50K for The ACLU. Logo photo credit from WHAT A JOKE Festival: Andrew Bisdale, www.andrewbisdale.com. Series producer: John Rosenberger @johnjohnphenom Emily Winter: @emilymcwinter, emilywintercomedy.com.

Well now, don't we have a fresh episode for you this time 'round?  There's Garry Hannon, telling of his VERY GAY celebrity sightings.  Then there's a sketch in which a modern American family finds out what they have in common with THOSE people.  Following closely behind is Lauren Maul with her earworm fetish.  And lastly, there's Greg Dubin remembering some childhood fears that involve Fruit Juicy.

This bi-monthly LIVE radio show on Radio Free Brooklyn hosted by NYC's Killy "Mock$tar" Dwyer is a tasty comedy music treat for your ear holes. Mock-U-Mental is served up with a healthy dose of live jams and interviews with your favorite comedic musicians, topped with listener questions, comments, requests and prank calls, paired with a feel good, mock bottom drinking game. Come play along with Killy Dwyer, her enigmatic husband Craig Schober and special guest Lauren Maul (Bitchcraft, Dudes Being Dudes Being Dudes, Amazon Reviews The Musical) Listen here to the LIVE show!: http://radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/moc... every other Friday from 8-10pmAND CALL IN AT 718-928-9RFB (9732) FEATURED MUSIC by Adira Amram, Micah and Micah, Amazon Reviews The Musical, Twisted Sister, Rachel Bloom, Shirley Gnome and Bo Burnham

Ta! You're currently holding a very special episode of Sketch Pod! While we were recording, we kept getting a line crossed with WYUP-FM in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  We decided to leave the interruptions in anyway.  Around those interruptions, we have Lauren Maul waxing poetic about pizza.  There's also Carolyn Castiglia with the tale of her first stage appearance.  Mark Sam Rosenthal is here too, and tells of an exciting celeb sighting.  And lastly but certainly not leastly, H. Alan Scott remembers a performance at a very special fundraiser.

Jason just doesn't get it about the Oxford Comma, and so that leads to an argument to start our fifty-third shindig here. We rebound by having Katie Compa tell of her very temporary Halloween costume one year. Then Greg Dubin remembers a costume that wasn't temporary enough. Just in time for the election (ugh) we have a chance for you to buy your own Make America Great Again Chess Set - operators are standing by! And we wind things up with Lauren Maul experiencing a glitch in the matrix on the subway one day.  But it was probably nothing!

Katie and Raquel talk with Lauren Maul, comedian, composer and cat lady, about managing chronic pain, growing up in small-town Nebraska, sharing privilege, and the clean-up song.   (music: www.bensound.com)