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In this week's episode, Joel Crump is bringing you to all the Broadway Award ceremonies! He takes you to the Drama League Awards, Lucille Lortel Awards, Chita Rivera Awards, and the Tony Awards Press Day! He interviews Tony Award nominees Eddie Redmayne, Nichelle Lewis, Camille A. Brown, Brody Grant, Bernadette Peters, Kenny Ortega, Lisa Mordente, and Eli Gelb! Joel also discusses what's happening this week on Broadway (May 13-21)! Indulge in Broadway buzz like never before with "The Weekly Dose of Joel: Everything Broadway and More." This podcast, brought to you by the Broadway Podcast Network and Broadway Time, delivers the latest news, theater history, and exclusive interviews with Broadway stars, all in one podcast! Don't miss out on your front-row seat to the magic of Broadway! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Past lives. Musical improv. Celine Dion. Nicole Parker joins us on what it's like to leave a show not once, but twice.  Nicole Parker has been able to play Celine Dion twice on the New York stage. The first during Martin Short's Fame Becomes Me, and the second during Titanique. She's had to say goodbye to the show once before, but returned for a second run – now having to say her heart will go on again. So what's it like saying goodbye to a show that will keep running while you move on? This is a topic not many actors speak about, so tune in and listen to this hysterical, yet touching episode about Nicole Parker's experience as Celine Dion in Titanique.  Nicole Parker is best known for her work on Fox's sketch comedy show Mad TV (2003–2009, 2016), which she was a regular cast member. In July 2009, Parker concluded her run as Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked, a role that she reprised on tour across North America. She voiced Penelope Pitstop in the animated series Wacky Races (2017–2019) and has appeared in the parody films Meet the Spartans and Disaster Movie (both 2008). Parker currently co-hosts the Earwolf podcast The Neighborhood Listen, along with comedian Paul F. Tompkins. Titanique is a jukebox musical created by book writers Tye Blue, Marla Mindelle, and Constantine Rousouli, and music supervisor Nicholas Connell. The musical is a parody of the 1997 film Titanic and uses music introduced by Céline Dion. The show premiered in Los Angeles in 2017. It began an off-Broadway run at The Asylum Theatre in June 2022, transferring to the Daryl Roth Theatre in November. The production won the 2023 Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Musical and for lead performer (Mindelle) and costume design (Alejo Vietti). The musical follows the main events of the film, with the exception of the present-day framing device; instead of treasure hunters searching for the Heart of the Ocean, Céline Dion surprises visitors at a Titanic museum and hijacks their tour. Dion serves as a Greek chorus for most of the show. The musical uses pop culture references, including allusions to RuPaul's Drag Race and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. The critically acclaimed show has played off Broadway since 2022. Get Titanique tickets now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are excited to bring you another episode in our podcast series Choreographers in Conversation.  This series allows choreographers to interview other choreographers whose work excites them as a way to learn more about their craft and preserve the stories of these exciting artists in our industry. In this episode Choreographer Camden Gonzales interviews Choreographer Sonya Tayeh. They explore Sonya's choreographic process, philosophy around the importance and impact of choreography and dancers in the theatre world, as well as delving into the work she has done throughout her career.  Bios:  Camden Gonzales is an artist, performer, and choreographer based in NYC. She is currently the Associate Choreographer for Moulin Rouge The Musical overseeing multiple companies across the globe. She is also the Associate Choreographer for the upcoming musical Gatsby (featuring original music by Florence Welch) which will debut at A.R.T. in Boston this summer. Other select credits include Sing Street (Associate Choreographer) at The Huntington Theatre, A Sherlock Carol (Assistant Director) New World Stages, Peter and The Starcatcher (Choreographer) White Heron Theatre, Hamilton (Dance Captain/Swing) National Tour, Groundhog Day (Dance Captain/Swing) Broadway. www.camdengonzales.com  Sonya Tayeh is a New York City based TONY® Award winning choreographer and director. Since paving her professional career, her work has been characterized as a blend of powerful versatility and theatrical range.   Selected credits include: Moulin Rouge! Broadway, Australia, UK, Tour (Hirschfeld theatre/Dir Alex Timbers), UP HERE (Hulu Musical Series), The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Broadway (James Earl Jones Theatre), Is It Thursday Yet? (La Jolla Playhouse), Sing Street Broadway (Huntington Theatre, Boston/Dir Rebecca Taichman), Martha Graham Dance Company (Joyce Theatre/Tour), American Ballet Theatre/What Becomes of Love Film, Unveiling with Moses and dancers (Fall For Dance/City Center), Rent Live! (Fox Network/Dir Michael Grief and Alex Rudzinski), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova/Dir. Anne Kauffman), Face the Torrent for Malpaso Dance Co. (commissioned by The Music Center/LA), You'll Still Call Me By Name (commissioned by New York Live Arts and Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival), Martha Graham Dance Company's Lamentation Variation Series (Joyce Theatre), Hundred Days (New York Theatre Workshop/Dir. Anne Kauffman), The Skin Of Our Teeth (Theatre for a New Audience/Dir. Arin Arbus), Andrew Lippas' The Wild Party (City Center Encores!/Dir. Leigh Silverman), Kung Fu (Signature Theatre/Dir. Leigh Silverman) Tayeh has directed and choreographed for world renowned music artists including Miley Cyrus (Directed and Choreographed The Gypsy Heart Tour), Florence and the Machine (Choreographed performances for The Brit Awards, The Voice and American Idol), Kyle Minogue (Aphrodite Tour)  She has gleaned many accolades for her versatile work, including a Tony award, two Emmy noms, one Drama Desk award, an Obie Award and two Lucille Lortel Awards for “Outstanding Choreography.” https://www.sonyatayeh.com/

Beowulf Boritt is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony Award® winning set for Susan Stroman's production of New York, New York. He designed the Tony Award® winning set for James Lapine's Act One. He has received four additional Tony Award® nominations for his designs of The Scottsboro Boys, POTUS, Therese Raquin, and Flying Over Sunset, for which he won a Drama Desk award. His book about set design, Transforming Space Over Time, is available on Amazon. He is the founder and manager of The 1/52 Project which provides financial support to encourage early career designers from historically excluded groups, with the aim of diversifying and strengthening the Broadway design community. Beowulf designed Harold Prince's final Broadway shows: Prince of Broadway and LoveMusik. In addition, he designed the sets for Sondheim on Sondheim, The Twenty-Fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Steve Martin's Meteor Shower, A Bronx Tale, August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, Come From Away. Freestyle Love Supreme, Ohio State Murders, Mike Birbiglia's The New One and The Old Man and The Pool. Other highlights include the New York and Russian productions of Chaplin, the revival of On The Town, Rob Askins' Hand To God and the long running hit Rock of Ages. Off-Broadway, he has designed over one hundred shows, including Much Ado About Nothing, Merry Wives, and Coriolanus for Shakespeare in the Park, Fiddler on The Roof (in Yiddish), The Last Five Years, Mike Birbiglia's The New One, Sleepwalk With Me, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend, Thank God For Jokes and Strindberg's Miss Julie. His designs are in the permanent collections of The Smithsonian Museum of American History and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as well as several private collections. In addition to a Tony Award he has been honored with an 2007 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence in Set Design, an Audelco Award, a Barrymore award, a Live Design Award for Innovation in Scenic Design, a Broadway Beacon Award, and a St. Louis Theater Circle Award. He has been nominated for four Drama Desk Awards, three Lucille Lortel Awards, four NY Outer Critic's Circle Awards, an LA Ovation Award, an LA NAACP Award, a San Francisco Critic's Circle Award and six Henry Hewes Awards. 

Tony and Emmy Winning Production Designer Derek McLane and Eila Mell have come together to create the new hit book Designing Broadway, available wherever books are sold! This episode is incredible for all artists – especially theatre designers who are beginning to explore their multi-hyphenate identities.  Together with other leading set design and theatre talents, McLane invites us into the immersive and exhilarating experience of building the striking visual worlds that have brought so many of our favorite stories to life. Discover how designers generate innovative ideas, research period and place, solve staging challenges, and collaborate with directors, projectionists, costume designers, and other artists to capture the essence of a show in powerful scenic design. With co-writer Eila Mell, McLane and contributors discuss Moulin Rouge!, Hamilton, Hadestown, Beautiful, and many more of the most iconic productions of our generation. Among the Broadway luminaries who contribute are John Lee Beatty, Danny Burstein, Cameron Crowe, Ethan Hawke, Moisés Kaufman, Carole King, Kenny Leon, Santo Loquasto, Kathleen Marshall, Lynn Nottage, David Rabe, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Wallace Shawn, John Leguizamo, and Robin Wagner. Filled with personal sketches and photographs from the artists' archives, this stunningly designed book is truly a behind-the-scenes journey that theatre fans will love. Derek McLane is an Emmy and Tony Award winning production designer for Broadway and television, who's nearly 350 designs include: Broadway credits such as MJ, The Michael Jackson Musical, Moulin Rouge! (Tony Award), A Soldier's Play (Tony Nomination), American Son, Parisian Woman, The Price, Beautiful, Fully Committed, Noises Off, Gigi, 33 Variations (with Jane Fonda) (Tony Award), China Doll (with Al Pacino), How to Succeed in Business Without Even Trying (with Daniel Radcliffe), Follies, Anything Goes, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (with Robin Williams), Ragtime, The Pajama Game, I Am My Own Wife. Off-Broadway: Buried Child, Jerry Springer The Opera, Merrily We Roll Along, The Spoils, If I Forget, Love, Love, Love; The Night of the Iguana, Sweet Charity, Buried Child, Into the Woods, Ruined, The Last Five Years, Television 6 years of Academy Awards, NBC Musicals: The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, The Wiz & Hairspray. Derek is the Chairman of the Board of The New Group Theatre. His many awards include: 2 Tony Awards, 2 Emmy's, 2 Obie's, 2 Drama Desks, 3 Lucille Lortel Awards, and 3 Art Directors Guild Awards. @derekmclane Eila Mell is the author of Designing Broadway as well as the official guide to the hit television series Project Runway, titled Project Runway: The Show That Changed Fashion. Among her other books are New York Fashion Week and, with Ty Hunter, Makeover from Within: Lessons in Hardship, Acceptance, and Self-Discovery. Mell has been featured in the New York Times, Marie Claire, Glamour, and CBS's The Insider, as well as in the documentary Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's. She is the co-host of the podcast Jiffy Pop Culture with comedian Frank Liotti. @eilamell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Abigail and Shaun Bengson, the celebrated composing and performing duo, known for their acclaimed off-Broadway shows “The Lucky Ones” and “A Hundred Years” will perform at Ancram Opera House's Circa 1799 Barn tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock.The Bengsons have received the Jonathan Larson and Richard Rogers Awards and nominations for the Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel Awards.The Bengsons' work is often autobiographical. They have a trio of musical theatre pieces titled “Hundred Days,” “The Lucky Ones,” and “Prays from Ohio” that focus on their individual childhoods and their shared love story.

Pooya Mohseni is a New York based award winning actor, writer, and transgender activist, born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She has appeared on stage in New York and regional theaters, including Hamlet and Comedy of Errors at the Play On Shakespeare Festival, One Woman with United Solo Festival, Galatea with the WP Project, The Good Muslim at EST, White Snake at Baltimore Center Stage, Death of the Persian Prince with the Midtown International Theater Festival and the SAIPAF, A Touch of Forever with the New York International Fringe Festival and she recently appeared in the world premiere of English in an Atlantic Theater Company and Roundabout Theater co-production, which has been nominated for Outstanding Play, Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding Scenic Design by the Lucille Lortel Awards. Her film and television credits include Law & Order: SVU, Big Dogs, Falling Water, Madam Secretary, Lucky, Terrifier and award winning film See You Then, available now to stream on VOD.  IG @ Pooyaland

MY FAIR LADY COMPOSER: Frederick Loewe LYRICIST: Alan Jay Lerner BOOK: Alan Jay Lerner SOURCE: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1913) DIRECTOR: Moss Hart CHOREOGRAPHER: Hanya Holm PRINCIPLE CAST: Julie Andrews (Eliza), Rex Harrison (Higgins), Stanley Holloway (Doolittle) OPENING DATE: March 15th, 1956 CLOSING DATE: September 29th, 1962 PERFORMANCES: 2717 SYNOPSIS: Celebrated phonetician Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can pass lowly flowerseller Eliza Doolittle off as a Duchess through the simple means of teaching her how to speak correctly. Based on George Bernard Shaw's politically sharp drama, Pygmalion, My Fair Lady was a major musical success which helped cement Lerner and Loewe, as well as performers Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison, in American pop culture history. This chapter explores how character composition evolved with the casting of classically trained Rex Harrison, an actor who was not a singer. Filichia examines the importance of strong vocal technique in the Golden Age and how those with limited voices were often not successful in carrying a musical, as well as how the cementing of “speak-sing” trained audiences to forgive the singer to focus on their acting and how that opened the doors to non-musical artists such as Zero Mostel, Sid Cesar, Vivian Leigh and Shirley Booth. Peter Filichia has written about theater for The Star-Ledger, TheaterWeek; Playbill, Theatermania, Broadway Select, Encore and MasterworksBroadway. He's written six books on theater, including three editions of Let's Put on a Musical.  This four-term president of the Drama Desk Awards serves on its current nominating committee as well as those for the Lucille Lortel Awards and Theatre World Awards, whose ceremony he writes and emcees. He's a National Endowment for the Arts assessor, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music critic-in-residence, musical theater judge for ASCAP's awards, Broadway Radio commentator, and creator of his one-man show A Personal History of the American Theater.  FURTHER READING/VIEWING/LISTENING RESOURCES Dominic, McHugh. Loverly: the life and times of My fair lady. Oxford University Press. Keith Garebian. Making of My Fair Lady. ECW Press. Alan Jay Lerner. The Street Where I Live. W. W. Norton & Co. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Tovah Feldshuh. Chances are you've seen Tovah in one of her many performances which have spanned Broadway stages, film and television. Tovah is also an author, having recently published a memoir entitled, “LILYVILLE: , Mother, Daughter and other Roles I've played.” She is currently raising funds to bring a theater production called “Becoming Dr. Ruth to New York.” Tovah is a six-time Emmy & Tony nominee and has been awarded three honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters. She has won four Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circle, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the Theatre World, and the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress. Tovah is a playwright, concert artist, and author. Her memoir, “LILYVILLE: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I've Played” was named #1 New Release in Parent Child Relationships and #8 in Theater Biographies on Amazon. TV credits include: “Holocaust, Law & Order”, “The Walking Dead”, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”, and HBO mini-series “Scenes from a Marriage.” Films include: the just completed “Armageddon Time” opposite Tony Hopkins and “Start Without Me” with Finn Wittrock, “Kissing Jessica Stein”, “A Walk on the Moon”, “The Idolmaker”, and “Clifford The Red Dog.” Broadway: “Yentl”, “Golda's Balcony”, “Irena's Vow”, “Pippin”, etc. Most recent theatre portrayal: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in “Sisters in Law” by Jonathan Shapiro and Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer in Becoming Dr. Ruth by Mark St. Germain which just closed Off-Broadway. Tovah most recently returned from a concert tour of “Tovah is LEONA!” where she plays the infamous real estate mogul and hotelier Queen of Mean: Leona Helmsley. Follow Tovah on Instagram @tovahfeld, and on her website tovahfeldshuh.com.Learn more about Money Tale$ > Subscribe to the podcast Recent episodes See all episodes > Form CRS Form ADV Terms of Use Privacy Rights and Policies

In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Tovah Feldshuh. Chances are you've seen Tovah in one of her many performances which have spanned Broadway stages, film and television. Tovah is also an author, having recently published a memoir entitled, “LILYVILLE: , Mother, Daughter and other Roles I've played.” She is currently raising funds to bring a theater production called “Becoming Dr. Ruth to New York.” Tovah is a six-time Emmy & Tony nominee and has been awarded three honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters. She has won four Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circle, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the Theatre World, and the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress. Tovah is a playwright, concert artist, and author. Her memoir, “LILYVILLE: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I've Played” was named #1 New Release in Parent Child Relationships and #8 in Theater Biographies on Amazon. TV credits include: “Holocaust, Law & Order”, “The Walking Dead”, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”, and HBO mini-series “Scenes from a Marriage.” Films include: the just completed “Armageddon Time” opposite Tony Hopkins and “Start Without Me” with Finn Wittrock, “Kissing Jessica Stein”, “A Walk on the Moon”, “The Idolmaker”, and “Clifford The Red Dog.” Broadway: “Yentl”, “Golda's Balcony”, “Irena's Vow”, “Pippin”, etc. Most recent theatre portrayal: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in “Sisters in Law” by Jonathan Shapiro and Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer in Becoming Dr. Ruth by Mark St. Germain which just closed Off-Broadway. Tovah most recently returned from a concert tour of “Tovah is LEONA!” where she plays the infamous real estate mogul and hotelier Queen of Mean: Leona Helmsley. Follow Tovah on Instagram @tovahfeld, and on her website tovahfeldshuh.com. See all episodes >

It's the final episode of our first season (sob), and there is no better artist, soul, human to help us close it out than Michael Urie. We talk about the crazy time we all find ourselves in, the value - and the work - of real self care, how to pay attention to the signals we are given, and how our understanding of spirituality has evolved individually and over the course of this podcast. A self-proclaimed agnostic, Michael never thought he'd be invited to the show (even though he's our hashtag number one listener), so we were thrilled to go deep, share some laughs, and sit in the warm glow of his charisma. As an actor, Michael is most well known for his television work as Marc St. James on Ugly Betty, Gavin Sinclair on Modern Family, Redmond on Younger, roles on Partners, Workaholics, Hot in Cleveland, The Good Wife, and The Good Fight. Movies include: Single All The Way, Swan Song, The Decoy Bride, Petunia, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Lavender, the upcoming Jersey Boys Live starring Nick Jonas. On Broadway, Michael has appeared in Douglas Lyons' Chicken & Biscuits, Bess Wohl's Grand Horizons, Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song and How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Off Broadway, on tour and in London, he did more than 600 performances of Jonathan Tolins' solo play Buyer & Cellar - including one from his living room early in the pandemic streamed live on Broadway.com, raising nearly 300k for Broadway Care Equity Fights Aids. Other Off Broadway plays include Jane Anger, The Temperamentals, The Government Inspector, Homos or Everyone in America, Shows for Days, High Button Shoes, The Cherry Orchard, and two Tony Kushner plays: A Bright Room Called Day and Angels in America. Behind the scenes, Michael directed Bright Colors and Bold Patterns and produced Happy Birthday Doug (both plays written and performed by Drew Droege and both available on BroadwayHD), directed the short film The Hyperglot, feature comedy film He's Way More Famous Than You and co-directed Thank You For Judging an award winning documentary about High School speech tournaments. He's narrated the audiobooks Lily And The Octopus, Hero, Midnight Cowboy and The Editor. He is the recipient of two Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, an Obie, an LA Drama Critics Award, Actors Equity's Clarence Derwent award, as well as GMHC's Howard Ashman Award, The Broadway Beacon Award, Coach Art's Coach Champion Award and Juilliard's John Houseman Award. He lives in New York with his partner Ryan and their children, a dog and cat. Follow Michael: On IG: @michaelurielikesit On Twitter: @michaelurie This week's Do: Support Equality Florida - https://www.eqfl.org/   Follow us! On IG: @art.fully.grounded On FB: @art.fully.grounded On Twitter: @AFGpod Podcast's website: www.sweptbythewind.com/podcast 

In 1944, a Jewish couple in Paris desperately await news of their missing family. More than 70 years later, the couple's great-grandchildren find themselves facing the same question as their ancestors: "Are we safe?"Following five generations of a French Jewish family, the new play “Prayer for the French Republic” is a sweeping look at history, home, and the effects of an ancient hatred. The powerful world premiere comes from acclaimed playwright Joshua Harmon and director David Cromer. Manhattan Theatre Club's world premiere of Prayer for the French Republic opened Tuesday, February 1 at New York City Center – Stage I and is scheduled to run through March 13.Actor and director David Cromer has received a Tony Award - for direction of The Band's Visit, , Drama Desk Award, three Obie Awards, three Lucille Lortel Awards, a Joe A. Callaway Award, four Jeff Awards, and in 2010 was made a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

Paul Tazewell has been designing costumes for Broadway, Regional Theater, Film and Television, Dance, and Opera Productions for close to thirty years. He began his Broadway career with the groundbreaking musical, ‘Bring in Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk, directed by George C. Wolfe. Most recently, Paul is known for his work with both of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony Award winning, Original Broadway productions of Hamilton and In the Heights. He was recently nominated for an Oscar for his costumes for Steven Spielberg's West Side Story.Other feature film credits include; Harriet for Focus Features, Hamilton for Disney+ and the recently released West Side Story, directed by Steven Spielberg. TV credits include the HBO Original Film; The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks starring Oprah Winfrey, and both The Wiz! Live, and Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert for NBC.  In 2016, he received an Emmy Award for NBC's The Wiz! Live, as well as a Tony Award for Hamilton.  Other notable honors include two Lucille Lortel Awards, four Helen Hayes Awards, a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship, and The Princess Grace Statue Award.Learn more about Paul :  paultazewelldesign.com SUPPORT STOPTIME: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/STOPTIMEEpisode recorded January 26th, 2022Support the show (https://buymeacoffee.com/STOPTIME )

KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ and ROBERT LOPEZ are the Oscar, Emmy and Grammy award winning, married songwriting team behind the Disney animated films, Frozen and Frozen 2. Together they also wrote the Oscar winning song “Remember Me” from Pixar's Coco, songs for Marvel's WandaVision, and the Obama-produced We the People. Their adaptation of Frozen for the Broadway stage earned them a Tony nomination. Robert co-conceived and co-wrote the hit musicals Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, both earning him Tony Awards. Kristen's show In Transit made history as the first all a cappella musical to run on Broadway, after earning recognition at the Drama Desk, Drama League and Lucille Lortel Awards for its Off-Broadway run. Lopez and Anderson-Lopez have written for television, film and stage, including Finding Nemo: The Musical; songs for “The Wonder Pets” (two Emmy Award wins) and the Winnie the Pooh animated film. Lopez and Anderson-Lopez both serve on the Dramatist Guild Council. Graduates of Yale University and Williams College, respectively, they now reside in Brooklyn with their two daughters.

Tovah Feldshuh, a six-time Emmy & Tony nominee, has been awarded three honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters. For her theatre work, she has won four Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circle, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the Theatre World, the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress. She is a playwright, concert artist, and author. Her first memoir, LILYVILLE: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I've Played, has been chosen as a “Must Read” by Good Morning America and was immediately ranked the Number One New Release in Parent and Adult Child Relationships on Amazon. Feldshuh is this year's winner of THE AUDIE award for best narration of THE GIFT by Edith Eger. TV credits include: Holocaust, Law & Order, The Walking Dead, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend where Feldshuh can be seen singing the dignified showstopper: "Where's the Bathroom!". Philanthropic/Activist Causes: Hand in Hand

DESCRIPTION: Half Hour welcomes its first designer on the show: Tony Award-Winner Clint Ramos. Audrey Francis interviews Ramos, and their conversation largely centers on how Clint aims to transform the American theatre to be more equitable and just. The pair also discuss the designer’s process, and how Clint balances his twin niches of costume and scenic design. Plus, Ramos shares insights from his childhood watching street theatre in the Philippines.  Interview begins at 2:39Clint Ramos is a designer, educator, activist, and creative producer. He is the recipient of a TONY Award for Best Costume Design of a Play for Eclipsed making him the first person of color to win that category. He is a current 2020 TONY double nominee for his scenic design for Slave Play and costume design for The Rose Tattoo. Prior TONY nominations were for his designs for Once On This Island and Torch Song. He also is the recipient of two OBIE Awards, including one for Sustained Excellence in Design, three Lucille Lortel Awards, a Drama Desk Award, an Outer Critics Circle Award, two American Theater Wing Henry Hewes Awards, TDF Irene Sharraf Young Master Award, Helen Hayes Award, Craig Noel Award, among other honors. He is the recipient of the Ani ng Dangal Presidential Medal for dramatic arts from the President of the Philippines—he received this honor twice. He is the producing creative director for Encores! at New York City Center. Steppenwolf Credits include: Downstate, and The Doppelgänger (an international farce) (costumes) and The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington and Marie Antoinette (scenic).Learn more at Steppenwolf.orgWant to get in touch? Email halfhour@steppenwolf.orgA transcript of this episode can be found HERE

For the video interview, click here: https://youtu.be/_e6WYrdLL8w SPECIAL OFFER FROM TOVAH: Anyone who pre-orders the hardcover and sends me a copy of their receipt and their address to info@concertsbytovah.com will receive a personalized autographed bookplate. Her memoir, LILYVILLE: Mother, Daughter, and Other Roles I’ve Played, comes out April 13 for Mother’s Day. https://www.amazon.com/Lilyville-Mother-Daughter-Other-Played/dp/0306924021/       TOVAH FELDSHUH is a six-time Emmy & Tony nominee. Additionally, for her theatre work, she has won four Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circle Awards, three Dramalogues, the Obie, the Theatre World, and the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Actress. On Broadway: Yentl, Cyrano, Rodgers & Hart, Dreyfus in Rehearsal, Sarava!, Lend Me a Tenor, Golda's Balcony, Irena's Vow, and Berthe in Pippin. On TV: The Walking Dead, Law & Order, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend where Feldshuh can be seen singing the dignified showstopper "Where's the Bathroom?" Films include: Kissing Jessica Stein, A Walk on the Moon, Brewster's Millions, Just My Luck, The Idolmaker, and most recently, Ms. Feldshuh's award-winning performance as Prime Minister Golda Meir in Golda's Balcony, now a film entitled Golda's Balcony: The Film. Follow Tovah’s travels around the world on Instagram @tovahfeld. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0271165/bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tovah_Feldshuh

Collaborating with Stephen Schwartz to update "Working" for modern audiences, Peter breaks down their process and the challenges that make this virtual production so timely. Thank you for taking the time to listen to our chat with Peter Flynn! If you are listening to this on Apple Podcast, we'd love it if you could share your love in a review! About Peter Flynn: Peter is a New York based director, writer and teacher who works both in new work development, as well as staging classic American musicals in New York and for some of the most notable regional theaters. His New York directing credits include the off-Broadway premiere of Smart Blonde by Willy Holtzman starring Andréa Burns; the off-Broadway premiere of Curvy Widow by Bobby Goldman & Drew Brody; Rhapsody in Seth starring Seth Rudetsky; Lee Blessing's Two Rooms; the 75th Anniversary performance of Thornton Wilder's Our Town with Adriane Lenox, B.D. Wong, S. Epatha Merkerson; On the 20th Century with Douglas Sills & Marin Mazzie; Chess with Josh Groban & Julia Murney; Funny Girl with Bebe Neuwirth, Whoopi Goldberg, & Andrea Martin; Skippyjon Jones, and Junie B. Jones (nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards including Best Musical). Other credits include Andrea Martin's one woman show, Andrea Martin: Final Days Everything Must Go; Katori Hall's The Mountaintop; Gypsy at the St. Louis MUNY; Kiss Me, Kate for the Maltz-Jupiter Theatre where he has directed productions of Man of LaMancha (Carbonell Award, Best Director & Best Musical), Sleuth, & Other Desert Cities; and Into the Woods & Ragtime (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Direction for both productions) for Ford's Theatre where he is an Associate Artist. As a writer, Peter is currently under commission to create the book for two new musicals: Lily, a musical adaptation of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, and Love of the Game, an adaptation of the Michael Shaara novella. Both are written with composer/lyricist Brooks Ashmanskas. Love of the Game is receiving its first workshop in New York, spring of 2020. He has also written the scripts for the Drama Desk Awards, the Second Stage Theatre Annual Gala, the Guthrie Theatre's 50th Anniversary Performance, and for industrials including Aztra-Seneca Pharmaceuticals. Peter was the Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York for five seasons, overseeing a variety of large scale productions, intimate plays, and the development of new work. He is also the Founding Artistic Director of the Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Peter also creates and directs award-winning entertainment for Carnival Cruise Lines, with music ranging from Motown, rock, disco, and Cuban/Miami fusion. He is currently creating his latest show with Carnival to debut on a new vessel in the fall of 2020. For Peter's teaching experience, please visit the “Teaching” page. Peter is a graduate of Northwestern University, and a member of SDC. Website: www.peterflynndirector.com   --- Come say hi to us! Facebook: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Instagram: @PageToStagePodcast @TheMaryDina @BrianSedita @BroadwayPodcastNetwork Twitter: @TheMaryDina @BwayPodNetwork Youtube: @PageToStagePodcast @BroadwayPodcastNetwork #PageToStagePodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the 22nd episode of Broadway Babies! This week Noelle and Stephanie welcome the wonderful Joe Iconis (Be More Chill, Smash)! Joe Iconis is a musical theater writer and performer. He has been nominated for a Tony Award, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Outer Critics’ Circle Awards, and is the recipient of an Ed Kleban Award, a Jonathan Larson Award, and a Richard Rodgers Award. Be More Chill (with Joe Tracz) is currently playing London’s West End, after running at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre and off-Broadway’s The Pershing Square Signature Center after a world premiere at Two River Theater. Joe is the author of Love in Hate Nation (directed by John Simpkins; Two River Theater), Broadway Bounty Hunter (with Lance Rubin and Jason SweetTooth Williams; Barrington Stage Company and Greenwich House Theater Off-Broadway), Bloodsong of Love (Ars Nova, NAMT), The Black Suits (with Robert Maddock; Center Theater Group, Barrington Stage Company), ReWrite (Urban Stages, Goodspeed Opera House), and Theaterworks USA’s The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks and We the People. Musicals currently in development include The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson for La Jolla Playhouse (directed by Christopher Ashley), Punk Rock Girl! His music appeared on season two of NBC’s Smash. Albums: Be More Chill (OCR and OBCR, which over 500 million streams); Broadway Bounty Hunter (OCR); Things to Ruin (OCR); Two-Player Game, The Joe Iconis Rock & Roll Jamboree, and the upcoming Broadway Bounty Hunter (OCR) all available on Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records. Joe is hugely inspired by Robert Altman, Dolly Parton, The Muppets, and the Family of artists he frequently surrounds himself with. www.MrJoeIconis.com --- Stephanie Andersen (Bare: A Pop Opera, Original Cast, Cast Recording and Revival) and Noelle Hannibal (Hair: 20th Anniversary Production, Star Trek, Buffy) and are professional performers and fangirls with a deep and never-ending love for musical theatre. Join them as they chat about all things Broadway on this special podcast which will feature interviews with some of Broadway's most beloved stars. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/broadway-babies/support

Joe Iconis is a musical theater writer and performer. He has been nominated for a Tony Award, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Outer Critics’ Circle Awards, and is the recipient of an Ed Kleban Award, a Jonathan Larson Award, and a Richard Rodgers Award. Be More Chill (with Joe Tracz) is currently playing London’s West End, after running at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre and off-Broadway’s The Pershing Square Signature Center after a world premiere at Two River Theater. Joe is the author of Love in Hate Nation (directed by John Simpkins; Two River Theater), Broadway Bounty Hunter (with Lance Rubin and Jason SweetTooth Williams; Barrington Stage Company and Greenwich House Theater Off-Broadway), Bloodsong of Love (Ars Nova, NAMT), The Black Suits (with Robert Maddock; Center Theater Group, Barrington Stage Company), ReWrite (Urban Stages, Goodspeed Opera House), and Theaterworks USA’s The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks and We the People. Musicals currently in development include The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson for La Jolla Playhouse (directed by Christopher Ashley), Punk Rock Girl! His music appeared on season two of NBC’s Smash. Albums: Be More Chill (OCR and OBCR, which over 500 million streams); Broadway Bounty Hunter (OCR); Things to Ruin (OCR); Two-Player Game, The Joe Iconis Rock & Roll Jamboree, and the upcoming Broadway Bounty Hunter (OCR) all available on Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records. Joe is hugely inspired by Robert Altman, Dolly Parton, The Muppets, and the Family of artists he frequently surrounds himself with. www.MrJoeIconis.com @mrjoeiconis Jennifer Ashley Tepper is producer of the musicals Be More Chill, Broadway Bounty Hunter, and Love In Hate Nation, recent projects that are part of a decade-long collaboration with the group known as Joe Iconis & Family. From producing small concerts in basements to producing a show on Broadway, Tepper has cultivated the theatrical collective which The New York Times called “the future of musical theatre”. She is also the Creative and Programming Director at Feinstein’s/54 Below, where she has curated or produced over 3000 shows, including musicals in concert, original solo acts, theatrical reunions, songwriter celebrations, and more. Tepper's leadership at the venue has gained praise from publications including The Huffington Post, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Playbill, Newsday, The New York Post, and more. As a writer, Tepper has authored three volumes of The Untold Stories of Broadway book series, published by Dress Circle. NBC New York has called the books an "inspiring Must-Read". Published in 2013, 2014, and 2016, each book has occupied the #1 spot on Amazon.com's Best Sellers List in Broadway & Musicals. On Broadway, Tepper has worked on [title of show], The Performers, Godspell, Macbeth, and The Parisian Woman, and off-Broadway Smokey Joe’s Café and Boys’ Life. Tepper is the conceiver and director of The Jonathan Larson Project which premiered in fall 2018 and received an original cast recording from Ghostlight Records. She is historian consultant on the upcoming tick, tick… BOOM! movie and co-creator of the Bistro Award- winning concert series, If It Only Even Runs A Minute, now in its 11th year. Tepper recently received a 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. She was named one of the 10 professionals on Backstage Magazine's "1st Annual Broadway Future Power List", which stated: "Proving herself both a zeitgeist predictor and theatrical historian with her eclectic programming, Tepper is leading the conversation on contemporary musical theatre." @jenashtep . Want more of My Broadway Memory?! Follow us on Social! @MyBroadwayMemory on Instagram and Facebook and @MyBwayMemory on Twitter MICHAEL KUSCHNER: Instagram or The Dressing Room Project Dear Multi-Hyphenate Podcast BRIAN SEDITA: Instagram, Website, Page to Stage Podcast BROADWAY PODCAST NETWORK: Website or Instagram #MyBroadwayMemory Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As part of our new monthly series, we pick a play to discuss and this month's play is “Cost of Living" by Martyna Majok. It is the winner of 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Play. In this episode, we discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. Note: There are some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! SHORT SUMMARY: “Cost of Living deftly challenges the typical perceptions of those living with disabilities and delves deep into the ways class, race, nationality, and wealth can create gulfs between people, even as they long for the ability to connect. Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, and his estranged ex-wife, Ani, find themselves unexpectedly reunited after a terrible accident leaves her quadriplegic. John, a brilliant PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a first-generation recent graduate who has fallen on desperate times, as his new aide..” GLISTENS: Sarah's Glisten: Originals by Adam Grant Sam's Glisten: Two Hong Kong Pandas https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/asia/panda-mating-hong-kong.html ___________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beckettsbabies/support

As part of our new monthly series, we pick a play to discuss and this month’s play is “Cost of Living" by Martyna Majok. It is the winner of 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama as well as two Lucille Lortel Awards, including Outstanding Play. In this episode, we discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. Note: There are some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! SHORT SUMMARY: “Cost of Living deftly challenges the typical perceptions of those living with disabilities and delves deep into the ways class, race, nationality, and wealth can create gulfs between people, even as they long for the ability to connect. Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, and his estranged ex-wife, Ani, find themselves unexpectedly reunited after a terrible accident leaves her quadriplegic. John, a brilliant PhD student with cerebral palsy, hires Jess, a first-generation recent graduate who has fallen on desperate times, as his new aide..” GLISTENS: Sarah's Glisten: Originals by Adam Grant Sam's Glisten: Two Hong Kong Pandas https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/asia/panda-mating-hong-kong.html _____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com

A career retrospective with Jake Gyllenhaal on December 1, 2016. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Jake Gyllenhaal, an Academy Award nominee, has established himself as one of the finest actors of his generation. With his new production company Nine Stories, he is also on his way to becoming a filmmaker of note – sourcing material, developing it from the ground up, collaborating with bold storytellers, and shepherding the projects through release. In 2014, he starred in Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler, which he also produced. For his performance as Louis Bloom, Mr. Gyllenhaal received BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, Critics’ Choice, and Spirit Award nominations, as well as Best Actor citations from numerous critics’ groups. He received an Academy Award nomination, and won a BAFTA Award, for his performance as Jack Twist in Ang Lee’s classic Brokeback Mountain, also for Focus Features. Working with some of the world’s finest filmmakers on both independent and studio features, Mr. Gyllenhaal has also starred in David Ayer’s End of Watch, which he executive-produced; Dennis Villeneuve’s highly acclaimed Prisoners and Enemy, playing a dual role in the latter; Richard Kelly’s cult hit Donnie Darko; Antoine Fuqua’s Southpaw; Jean-Marc Vallee’s Demolition; Baltasar Kormákur’s Everest; Jim Sheridan’s Brothers; Duncan Jones’ Source Code; David Fincher’s Zodiac; Sam Mendes’ Jarhead; John Madden’s Proof; Miguel Arteta’s The Good Girl; Brad Silberling’s Moonlight Mile; Nicole Holofcener’s Lovely & Amazing; Joe Johnston’s October Sky; and Ed Zwick’s Love & Other Drugs, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination. In 2014, Mr. Gyllenhaal made his Broadway debut in Nick Payne’s Constellations and his musical theatre debut in the Encores! production of Little Shop of Horrors. The actor made his New York stage debut in 2012 starring in If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet, for the Roundabout Theatre Company, which earned him nominations from the Drama League and the Lucille Lortel Awards. The latter marked his first stage work since 2002, when he starred on London’s West End in Kenneth Lonergan’s revival ofThis is Our Youth, for which he won an Evening Standard Theater Award for Outstanding Newcomer. He recently formed Nine Stories, a production company acquiring and developing new material. The company is in development on a number of titles, including Denis Villeneuve’s The Son, which is based on Jo Nesbo’s critically acclaimed novel of the same name; a scripted limited series for A&E centered on cults throughout history; and the cartel drama The Man Who Made It Snow, to be directed by Antoine Fuqua. Additional projects in development include Theater of War, based on an episode of “This American Life,” which will be directed by Alex Timbers; and Ubisoft’s film adaptation of the Tom Clancy video game “The Division,” in which Mr. Gyllenhaal will also star. Through Nine Stories, he has produced Stronger, inspired by a true story and based on The New York Times bestseller of the same name. The movie, directed by David Gordon Green and to be released in 2017, is the deeply personal account of the heroic journey of Boston Marathon survivor Jeff Bauman (whom Mr. Gyllenhaal portrays). He currently stars in Focus Feature’s Nocturnal Animals.

Recipient of multiple Obie and Lucille Lortel Awards whose recent productions include A Woman of the World (The Acting Company) and Novenas for a Lost Hospital (Rattlestick).

David Cromer is starring in The Waverly Gallery. A Tony winner for directing The Band's Visit, Cromer has also directed Broadway shows The House of Blue Leaves and Brighton Beach Memoirs. He has also appeared as a performer in A Raisin in the Sun. Cromer has received a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, three Obie Awards, three Lucille Lortel Awards, a Joe A. Callaway Award, four Jeff Awards, and in 2010 was made a MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Follow him on social media at @davidmcromer!Hosted by Caitlin Moynihan, Ryan Lee Gilbert and Eric King.

Voice character acting is a growth industry in the animation and gaming industry. Keythe Farley is an actor, voice actor, casting director and voice director with a long list of notable credits. Keythe has also written for, produced and/or voice-directed episodes of Rugrats, As Told by Ginger and The Wild Thornberries. Keythe is also the co-author of Bat Boy: The Musical (with Brian Flemming and Laurence O'Keefe) which was the recipient of the 2001 Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Off-Broadway Musical. With all that talent and experience, Keythe knows more about the animation, gaming and film business than most. He's our in-studio guest this week on Voice Over Body Shop as we discuss his wide-ranging career, how to create compelling characters, dealing with the casting process and taking direction. We'll answer your questions for Keythe, along with all your VO studio tech questions for Dan and George Brought to you by Voiceoveressentials.com, Vo2Gogo.com,  Sourceelements.com, VoiceOverXtra.com, VOICEACTORWEBSITES.comand J. Michael Collins Demos  jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production

oice character acting is a growth industry in the animation and gaming industry. Keythe Farley is an actor, voice actor, casting director and voice director with a long list of notable credits. Keythe has also written for, produced and/or voice-directed episodes of Rugrats, As Told by Ginger and The Wild Thornberries. Keythe is also the co-author of Bat Boy: The Musical (with Brian Flemming and Laurence O'Keefe) which was the recipient of the 2001 Outer Critics Circle and Lucille Lortel Awards for Best Off-Broadway Musical. With all that talent and experience, Keythe knows more about the animation, gaming and film business than most. He's our in-studio guest this week on Voice Over Body Shop as we discuss his wide-ranging career, how to create compelling characters, dealing with the casting process and taking direction. We'll answer your questions for Keythe, along with all your VO studio tech questions for Dan and George Brought to you by Voiceoveressentials.com, Vo2Gogo.com,  Sourceelements.com, VoiceOverXtra.com, VOICEACTORWEBSITES.comand J. Michael Collins Demos  jmcvoiceover.com/demo-production  

Michael Heitzman is a gifted director and writer, who happens to be one of the funniest humans I know! His eclectic, creative background includes playing baritone horn, singing in his high school chorus and performing in plays and musical theater, his college double major of theater and telecommunications and his post college internship at Mary Tyler Moore Enterprises, as production assistant for television writers and producers. Michael believes that his variety of experiences as actor, musician, dancer, television script writer, even ‘temp' for a head hunter allowed him to speak the multiple languages necessary to direct successful collaborative processes. Michael most recent, critically acclaimed production of 42nd Street at Drury Lane Theater in Chicago, captured his vision of seeing this classic show through a contemporary lens, representing our vibrant melting pot, with ethnic diversity, gritty choreography and creative innovations. Other recent productions Michael has directed include: Legally Blonde, Big River at Sacramento Music Circus, and Beauty and the Beast, Shrek The Musical and Disney's The Little Mermaid at North Shore Music Theater for which he was nominated for seven of Boston's IRNE Awards, including Best Director. Michael will be directing the following upcoming productions: Newsies at California Musical Theater/Sacramento Music Circus and Beauty and the Beast at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. For the last 8 years, Michael has been the Resident Director of the Lucille Lortel Awards, celebrating excellence in Off-Broadway productions. He is also the director and co-writer of VICES, which was nominated for 8 Jefferson Awards, including Best Director. A 2009 Dramatist Guild Fellow, he and longtime writing partner Ilene Reid are co-writers of the Grammy-nominated song “Throw That Girl Around” from the Broadway musical “Swing!”  Michael and Ms. Reid are currently working with director/choreographer Josh Rhodes on their new musical “Solana”. Michael and Ilene, along with David Holcenberg, wrote the musical "Bingo", which had a successful off-­Broadway run and continues to have numerous productions both nationally and internationally. You may have previously heard my conversation with Michael's husband, David Holcenberg in episode #6. If you haven't, I encourage you to give it a listen. Links: michaelheitzman.com 42nd Street review: Chris Jones, critic for Chicago Tribune “A Production for the Ages” heitzmanreid.com samuelfrench.com Other Credits: Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" (associate director, Moscow, Paris, Amsterdam) Disney's "The Little Mermaid" (associate director, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, Dallas Summer Musicals, 5th Avenue)

Hosts Briana Phipps and Jacque Borowski discuss the musical Fun Home. Fun Home is a musical adapted by Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori from Alison Bechdel's 2006 graphic memoir of the same name. The story concerns Bechdel's discovery of her own sexuality, her relationship with her gay father, and her attempts to unlock the mysteries surrounding his life. It is the first Broadway musical with a lesbian protagonist. The musical was developed through several readings and performances, including at the Ojai Playwrights Conference in 2009 and at the Sundance Theatre Lab and The Public Theater's Public Lab in 2012. It opened Off-Broadway at the Public Theater in September 2013 to positive reviews. Its run was extended several times, until January 2014. The Public Theater production of Fun Home was nominated for nine Lucille Lortel Awards (winning three, including Outstanding Musical), two Obie Awards and eight Drama Desk Awards, among others. The original

  Tovah Feldshuh portrays Mrs. Bunch, Rachel’s domineering mother, on the CW awardwinning musical series Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, which was recently renewed for a third season. Ms. Feldshuh is widely known for her starring turn as Deanna, the head of Alexandria, on AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead. Prior to that, she recurred on the Starz’ ballet series Flesh and Bone as ballet master Ivana. Ms. Feldshuh received her first Emmy nomination for Helena, the Czech freedom fighter, in the NBC mini-series Holocaust, and her second nomination for her continuing role as defense attorney Danielle Melnick on NBC’s Law & Order, a role she recently reprised for Chicago Justice. Ms. Feldshuh starred opposite Tommy Lee Jones in The Amazing Howard Hughes, James Woods in Citizen Cohn, Bill Cosby on The Cosby Mysteries and The Cosby Show, Richard Dreyfuss in The Education of Max Bickford, Piper Perabo in Covert Affairs, America Ferrara in Ugly Betty, and in The Good Wife, with Julianna Margulies, among others. Ms. Feldshuh recently displayed her theater skills as Berthe in the Tony Award-winning Musical Pippin. Her show, Golda’s Balcony, by William Gibson, became the longestrunning one-woman play in Broadway history, and she also starred in Yentl, Sarava, Lend Me a Tenor, and Irena’s Vow. For her work on the New York stage, she has earned four Tony nominations for Best Actress and won four Drama Desks, four Outer Critics Circles, the Obie, the Theatre World and the Lucille Lortel Awards. Film audiences recognize Ms. Feldshuh from Kissing Jessica Stein (for which she won a Golden Satellite Award), A Walk on the Moon, The Idolmaker, Lady in the Water, Just My Luck, Brewster’s Millions, The Blue Iguana, among others. Ms. Feldshuh recently completed filming roles in Peter Bogdanovich’s She’s Funny That Way with Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson, Angelica with Janet McTeer, and Jena Malone, Unreachable by Conventional Means, The Life, and the title role in Glinda, a film that centers on a widow of jazz musician reclaiming the joy of life, which was selected as the “Best in Fest” at the 2014 Palm Beach Film Festival. Ms. Feldshuh, long known for her commitment to social justice causes, is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, has taught at Yale, Cornell and New York Universities. She was awarded two honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees and is the recipient of the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award, the Hadassah Mother of the Year Award, and the Israel Peace Medal. Ms. Feldshuh is married to New York attorney, Andrew Harris Levy. They have two children, Garson Brandon and Amanda Claire.

Alex Timbers is a two-time Tony-nominated writer and director and the recipient of Golden Globe, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and London Evening Standard Awards, as well as two OBIE and Lucille Lortel Awards. He is the recipient of the 2016 Jerome Robbins Award. His Broadway directing credits include Oh Hello! On Broadway, Rocky, Peter and the Starcatcher (2012 Tony Award nomination for Best Director), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (2011 Tony Award nomination for Best Book), and The Pee-wee Herman Show. His Off-Broadway credits include Here Lies Love, and The Robber Bridegroom. He is a co-creator of the Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle which won the 2016 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy. Oh Hello! on Broadway was filmed for Netflix and The Pee-wee Herman Show was filmed for HBO and received a 2011 Emmy nomination.   Tune into this, our 98th podcast, to hear talk about his experimental beginnings and . . . Why most new theater companies never make it past the first year, and how he made sure his did. How a log line of a project helps him decide to do it . . . or not. What a right-wing Christian preacher has to do with his success. What’s going to become of the “immersive” movement. How he matches up the people he wants to work with, with the projects he’s working on (or how The Robber Bridegroom came to be). Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBway www.theproducersperspective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Susan Stroman is a theatre director, choreographer, film director and performer. Her notable theater productions include The Producers, Crazy for You, Contact, and The Scottsboro Boys. She is a five-time Tony Award winner, four for Best Choreography and one as Best Director of a Musical for The Producers. In addition, she is a recipient of two Laurence Olivier Awards, five Drama Desk Awards, eight Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, and the George Abbott Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater. She is a 2014 inductee in the American Theater Hall of Fame in New York City.  “Stro” started her career as a Choreographer of shows like Show Boat and Crazy for You, before following in the steps of Fosse and Bennett and becoming a Director/Choreographer.  The Music Man, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, and The Scottsboro Boys are just a few of the titles on her long resume. That transition from Broadway dancer to Broadway Choreographer to Broadway Director-Choreographer is just one of the things we discussed in her podcast, along with: How she convinced Kander & Ebb to let her and some friends create the (fantastic) revue that started her Choreographic career. Her first step when she’s creating “steps.” Why she doesn’t have a style, but how she does have a signature (and hear my mind get blown as I realize what she’s talking about). Why Choreographers make great Directors. How to work with titans of the entertainment industry like Mel Brooks and Woody Allen. Oh, and, in this podcast, you’ll hear the debut of my brand new James Lipton-like question, which I’m calling “The Smithsonian.” Keep up with me: @KenDavenportBway www.theproducersperspective.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TNT’s MURDER in the FIRST garnered an Emmy nod, but The New York Times critic Mike Hale wanted to know how Hollywood forgot to nominate LAILA ROBINS for Best Supporting Actress. He is not alone. Laila Robins has steadily worked in film and television for decades since her breakout role in John Hughes’ PLANES, TRAINS and AUTOMBILES with Steve Martin and the beloved John Candy back in 1987. Most recently she did a stint on Showtime’s Homeland. But New York theater directors and producers may not want to share their best kept secret. On Broadway and off, Theater royalty, from the late great Mike Nichols to Pulitzer (and Employee of the Month Award winner) Jon Robin Baitz cast Robins because she consistently delivers her signature subtle, sly, supple, and seductive performances. She’s won the Drama League Award and been nominated for the Helen Hayes and Lucille Lortel Awards, but a consummate worker bee, Robins would rather focus on what’s coming down the pipeline. She just wrapped shooting A WOMAN, A PART and...