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Jaime Lozano is a musical theatre composer who has been heralded as the “next big thing” on Broadway by Hamilton's Lin-Manuel Miranda. A native of Monterrey, Mexico, Jaime earned his BFA in Music and Composition from the School of Music at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León and was the recipient of a full scholarship to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he has the distinction of being the first Mexican to be accepted to and earn an MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. Jaime is one of the five artists selected for the 2020-2022 Joe's Pub Working Group residency and one of the artists selected as part as The Civilians R&D Group 2020-2021.  ​ A prolific composer, Jaime's works have been produced at venues such as the Minskoff Theatre (Broadway), Lucille Lortel Theatre (Off-Broadway), The Pearl Theatre (Off-Broadway), The Players Theatre (Off-Broadway), Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre (Off Broadway), Goodspeed Opera House, The Juilliard School of Music, The Triad Theatre, Theatre for the New City Jaime's works include El Otro Oz, formerly known as The Yellow Brick Road (music and lyrics with Tommy Newman, book by Mando Alvarado), which premiered Off-Broadway premiere in 2011 to critical acclaim highlighting “its accessible melodies and robust harmonies” (New York Times). That production was followed by a successful national tour. Jaime's musical Children of Salt; A New Latin Musical (book and lyrics by Lauren Epsenhart) made its New York City debut as part of the New York Musical Festival 2016 (NYMF), where it won the “Best of Fest” Production Award. Jaime also co-wrote the one-act musical Lightning Strikes Twice (book and lyrics by Noemi de la Puente), which premiered Off-Broadway at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre in 2010. Lightning Strikes Twice was translated into Spanish in 2015 and continued on to have a very successful run in Venezuela, which led to its return to New York City as part of the inaugural season of Teatro SEA MicroTheater. The Yehuatl (book and lyrics by Sara Cooper) recieved readings at NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program and at the Dramatists Guild before receiving a production at the Lee Strasberg Institute in 2009. The Yehuatl later became the first act of the musical tryptich מיתוסים . Mitos . Kamanalis / Myths (book and lyrics by Sara Cooper, additional lyrics in Spanish by Jorge Castilla), which had its World Premiere in 2012 in Monterrey, Mexico. Jaime is the composer and librettist of the musical Tlatelolco, which premiered in 2001 in Monterrey, Mexico, and was revived in 2002, 2004, and 2013.  Florencia Cuenca is a brown Mexican immigrant singer, actress, and songwriter based in New York City. “A voice that is rich, lush and sensual” (Times Square Chronicles) She made her first album Aquí - Los Nuevos Standards produced by husband Jaime Lozano which BwayTunes.com calls “One of the most unique cover albums of recent memory,” and subsequently toured all around Mexico, Latin America and New York City, performing in some of the most prestigious jazz venues and festivals and being awarded with the Hot House Jazz Award 2016 for Best New Jazz Artist. She has performed Off-Broadway in numerous shows, including Children of Salt (NYMF 2016 Best of Fest) and A Never-Ending Line (album released by Grammy award winner label Broadway Records).

Writer, Director, and co-founder of the Renaissance Theatre Company stopped by to discuss his critically acclaimed original musical From Here.The Renaissance Theatre Company is bringing the show to New York City this summer for a six-week Off-Broadway engagement at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center from June 29th through August 11th. Set in 2016, From Here tells the story of Daniel, a 30-something gay man on his journey through life, love, and family when the horrific shooting at Pulse Nightclub changes his hometown, and him, forever.Donald is an accomplished theater-maker based in Orlando, who has written and helped to create a number of successful theatrical productions, including Nosferatu; Bright Young Things; Flying Lessons (critically acclaimed at the New York Musical Festival in 2019); Oscar Wilde and Jesus Christ Walk into a Gay Bar; Once I Laughed; Lenox Ave. and more.Listen to Donald to hear first-hand about his real-life experience living in Orlando during the days surrounding the shooting and what inspired him to write From Here. 

The Talk of Fame Podcast got to talk with Carrie Berk! Carrie already has a life's worth of accomplishments under her belt. It's no wonder Bella Magazine declared her “an ambitious and dedicated boss babe,” and The Wall Street Journal dubbed her “a community-minded young creator.” She is a verified content creator across several social media channels including TikTok (3.9M+ followers; 117M+ likes), Instagram (950K+ followers), Snapchat (105K+followers), YouTube (100K+ followers) and Pinterest (227K+ followers; 10M monthly views), with a monthly engagement of more than 100M. A journalism major in college, Carrie is currently a reporter/contributing writer for HuffPost, Newsweek.com, The Daily Dot and others, on topics ranging from beauty and style to celebrity and sports. She has served as an on-camera correspondent for TigerBeat and Girls' Life, covering red carpet arrivals and interviewing celebs at the Radio Disney Music Awards, New York Fashion Week, and the Teen Choice Awards. She has contributed to Seventeen Magazine and Girls' Life's print and digital channels. She has acted on two Brat TV series, Stage Fright (as Karina) and Crown Lake (as the voice of Heather). She is a bestselling children's book author with twenty-one books to her credit. She penned her first book, Peace, Love and Cupcakes, in 2012. The Cupcake Club series went on to publish twelve books (selling 300,000+ copies worldwide), and became an award-winning Off-Broadway show and featured selection in 2017's New York Musical Festival. Her second book, Fashion Academy, stems from her passion for fashion. The six-book series also became an Off-Broadway production at Vital Theatre and is currently licensed worldwide by Concord Music Publishing. FOLLOW ME:  INSTAGRAM:  Officialkyliemontigney  Talkoffamepod  Facebook:  Officialkyliemontigney  Talkoffame  Twitter:  Kyliemontigney4  ABOUT ME: Hi, I am Kylie! I love sports, spending time with my family, traveling, and meeting people that inspire me. I love listening to other people's stories and sharing their journeys.

Join us in this empowering episode of Fearlessly Authentic as we dive into the incredible journey of twenty-year-old dynamo, Carrie Berk who already has a life's worth of accomplishments under her belt. It's no wonder Bella Magazine declared her “an ambitious and dedicated boss babe,” and The Wall Street Journal dubbed her “a community-minded young creator.” She is a verified content creator across several social media channels including TikTok (3.9M followers; 119M likes), Instagram (950K followers), Snapchat (133K followers), YouTube (101K followers) and Pinterest (227K followers; 10M monthly views), with a combined monthly engagement of more than 100M. Carrie has collaborated with top fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands including Netflix, HBO Max, Walt Disney World, Pixar, Instagram, Revolve, Wet n Wild, MAC Cosmetics, Roller Rabbit, VS PINK, Alice + Olivia, Chips Ahoy!, Dunkin' and more. She has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, New York Daily News and others. Carrie is currently a reporter/contributing writer for the New York Post, Page Six, HuffPost, Newsweek, Decider and more, on topics ranging from beauty and style to celebrity and sports. She has served as an on-camera correspondent for TigerBeat and Girls' Life, interviewing red carpet arrivals at the Radio Disney Music Awards, New York Fashion Week and the Teen Choice Awards. She has contributed to Seventeen Magazine and Girls' Life's print and digital channels. She has acted on two Brat TV series, Stage Fright (as Karina) and Crown Lake (as the voice of Heather), and appeared on the Paramount+ series Next Influencer. She is a bestselling children's book author with twenty-one books to her credit. She co-penned her first book, Peace, Love and Cupcakes, in 2012. The Cupcake Club series went on to publish twelve books (selling 300,000+ copies worldwide), and became an award-winning Off-Broadway show and featured selection in the 2017 New York Musical Festival. Carrie co-wrote the script for and starred in the show, earning her critical praise and an award for Outstanding Individual Performance. Carrie's second book, Fashion Academy, stems from her passion for fashion. The six-book series also became an Off-Broadway production at Vital Theatre and is currently licensed worldwide by Concord Music Publishing. Her most recent series, Ask Emma, springs not just from her boundless imagination, but from her personal experience as a teen lifestyle website creator and someone who has experienced cyberbullying firsthand. To purchase My Real-Life Rom Com by Carrie Berk, click the link below https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWWM4VZ6?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_HD8F2ENDH0GQR8KGJHAN

Join us in this empowering episode of Fearlessly Authentic as we dive into the incredible journey of twenty-year-old dynamo, Carrie Berk who already has a life's worth of accomplishments under her belt. It's no wonder Bella Magazine declared her “an ambitious and dedicated boss babe,” and The Wall Street Journal dubbed her “a community-minded young creator.” She is a verified content creator across several social media channels including TikTok (3.9M followers; 119M likes), Instagram (950K followers), Snapchat (133K followers), YouTube (101K followers) and Pinterest (227K followers; 10M monthly views), with a combined monthly engagement of more than 100M. Carrie has collaborated with top fashion, beauty, and lifestyle brands including Netflix, HBO Max, Walt Disney World, Pixar, Instagram, Revolve, Wet n Wild, MAC Cosmetics, Roller Rabbit, VS PINK, Alice + Olivia, Chips Ahoy!, Dunkin' and more. She has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, New York Daily News and others. Carrie is currently a reporter/contributing writer for the New York Post, Page Six, HuffPost, Newsweek, Decider and more, on topics ranging from beauty and style to celebrity and sports. She has served as an on-camera correspondent for TigerBeat and Girls' Life, interviewing red carpet arrivals at the Radio Disney Music Awards, New York Fashion Week and the Teen Choice Awards. She has contributed to Seventeen Magazine and Girls' Life's print and digital channels. She has acted on two Brat TV series, Stage Fright (as Karina) and Crown Lake (as the voice of Heather), and appeared on the Paramount+ series Next Influencer. She is a bestselling children's book author with twenty-one books to her credit. She co-penned her first book, Peace, Love and Cupcakes, in 2012. The Cupcake Club series went on to publish twelve books (selling 300,000+ copies worldwide), and became an award-winning Off-Broadway show and featured selection in the 2017 New York Musical Festival. Carrie co-wrote the script for and starred in the show, earning her critical praise and an award for Outstanding Individual Performance. Carrie's second book, Fashion Academy, stems from her passion for fashion. The six-book series also became an Off-Broadway production at Vital Theatre and is currently licensed worldwide by Concord Music Publishing. Her most recent series, Ask Emma, springs not just from her boundless imagination, but from her personal experience as a teen lifestyle website creator and someone who has experienced cyberbullying firsthand. To purchase My Real-Life Rom Com by Carrie Berk, click the link below https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BWWM4VZ6?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_HD8F2ENDH0GQR8KGJHAN

Sam Columbus (he/him) (IG:@coluumbuus)(TW:@coluumbuus)(samcolumbus.com)is a New York based composer, music director, and performer. He is also the co-creator of Never Be King. During his time studying Musical Theater at Baldwin Wallace University, Sam started to realize that he was more interested in picking apart the accompaniment to the songs he was learning than he was in studying the vocal line, which has led to him focusing more intensely on music making than on acting. In his time at Baldwin Wallace, Sam performed and music directed at theaters such as the Beck Center for the Arts, Playhouse Square, the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre, and the historic Timber Lake Playhouse. In 2019, Sam and his writing partner Charlie H. Ray opened their first show at the New York Musical Festival. In addition to the above, Sam would love for you to know that his favorite musicians span from St. Vincent to Patsy Cline to Maurice Ravel; that he once moonlit as a competitive mogul skier; and that he is extremely fond of dogs.

Sam Columbus (he/him) (IG:@coluumbuus)(TW:@coluumbuus)(samcolumbus.com)is a New York based composer, music director, and performer. During his time studying Musical Theater at Baldwin Wallace University, Sam started to realize that he was more interested in picking apart the accompaniment to the songs he was learning than he was in studying the vocal line, which has led to him focusing more intensely on music making than on acting. In his time at Baldwin Wallace, Sam performed and music directed at theaters such as the Beck Center for the Arts, Playhouse Square, the Clinton Area Showboat Theatre, and the historic Timber Lake Playhouse. In 2019, Sam and his writing partner Charlie H. Ray opened their first show at the New York Musical Festival. In addition to the above, Sam would love for you to know that his favorite musicians span from St. Vincent to Patsy Cline to Maurice Ravel; that he once moonlit as a competitive mogul skier; and that he is extremely fond of dogs.

Our episode this week features the truly talented Matthew Donnell!  An educator, professional ballet dancer, published author and Dad, we hope you enjoy our conversation.Matthew C. Donnell is a native of Mt. Airy, North Carolina. He received his formal training from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) and the Rock School of Pennsylvania Ballet. He spent his ballet career with the Kansas City Ballet, where he performed soloist and principal roles by the great ballet and contemporary masters. He has instructed, choreographed, set repertoire, and rehearsed professional ballet companies and schools across the country including Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet (CPYB), UNCSA, Steps on Broadway, Broadway Dance Center, The University of Alabama, Kansas City Ballet, Montgomery Ballet, Alabama Dance Theatre, Dance West Virginia, and Dance Teacher Web Live. He has served as the Director of the UNCSA Preparatory Dance Program and as a board member for the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), the union that represents ballet and opera performers. In addition to dance, he enjoys teaching physical comedy to dancers, actors, and anyone willing to learn. Donnell is also an actor, singer, film maker, and physical comedian (clown), and father. His theater credits include Kansas City Starlight Theatre, Kansas City New Theatre, Houston Theatre Under the Stars, and the New York Musical Festival. With partner Alana Niehoff, he wrote, produced, and performed in his one-man clown/physical comedy show The Chapeau Show in NYC benefitting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. His short film series, The Adventures of Jim has been screened in film festivals on the East and West Coasts. He is the author of the illustrated children's book The Boy with the Patch, The Nutcracker Chronicles. He has received teacher training in the CPYB syllabus, Classical Character Dance training and certification with Inna Stabrova, and is an ABT® Certified Teacher who has successfully completed the ABT® Teacher Training Intensive in Pre-Primary through Level 3 of the ABT® National Training Curriculum. Instagram: @matthewdonnell Facebook Matthew C. Donnell Twitter: @matthewdonnell Thank you for listening Jam Fam! Make sure you follow us across social media and don't forget to like and subscribe anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts!Facebook: JAM Joe and Michelle's Dance PodcastInstagram: jam_dance_podcastTwitter: @jamdancepodcastEmail: jamdancepodcast@gmail.com

On today's show, we have iconic and legendary TV actress Marion Ross, AKA Mrs. C-Mrs. Cunningham from the TV show Happy Days. Marion talks about her early days in Hollywood, Happy Days, working with and being friends with Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Anson Williams, Donny Most, Erin Moran and Mr. C himself-Tom Bosely, along with what brought her to write her HIT memoir, My Days: Happy & Otherwise. In her warm and candid memoir, My Days: Happy & Otherwise, Marion shares loving recollections from the award-winning Happy Days team from break-out star Henry Winkler to Cunningham 'wild child' Erin Moran. Marion shares what it was like to be a starry-eyed young girl with dreams in poor, rural Minnesota, and the resilience, sacrifices, and determination it took to make them come true. She recalls her early years in the business, being in the company of such luminaries as Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Noel Coward, yet always feeling the Hollywood outsider-a painful invisibility that mirrored her own childhood. She reveals the absolute joys of playing a wife and mother on TV, and the struggles of maintaining those roles in real life. Among Ross's most heart-rending recollections are those of finally finding a soul mate-another secret hope of hers made true well beyond her expectations.  Funny, poignant, revealing and featuring Gary Marshall's final illuminating interview, as well as a touching forward from her 'TV son' Ron Howard, and her conversation with her real-life son Jim Meskimen (IG: @jimpressions), Marion Ross's story is one of inspiration, persistence, and gratitude. It's also a glowing tribute to all those who fulfilled her dreams and in turn, gave us some of the happiest days of our own lives.  Get her book, My Days: Happy & Otherwise at www.amazon.com ISBN-10: 1496715152 ISBN-13: 978-14967145159   Next is our friend and the King of the Hamptons Zach Erdem (IG: @zacherdem), owner of 75 MAIN restaurant in Southampton and the STAR of the HIT reality TV show 'Serving The Hamptons', now playing on (IG: Discoveryplus). Zach talks all things 'Serving The Hamptons', his restaurant 75 Main (IG: @75main) and the sun-filled fun he and his staff have serving the Hamptons locals and celebs.  Zach also talks about his humble start in the restaurant biz. He came here from Turkey in his early twenties, slept on a park bench in NYC, and couched surfed until he put enough money together to get himself a place to live.  He not only has a place to live and eat, he also owns: Blu Mar Restaurant (IG: @blumarhamptons) where they serve the freshest fish on the east end, Harpoon House (IG: harpoonhouse) the ultimate in luxury hotel accommodations and Buddha Lounge (IG: @buddha_lounge_) where you can dance the night away.  If you want to eat, sleep, party, and play, the KING of the Hamptons, Zach Erdem (IG: @zacherdem) has you covered.  You can Peep Cyn and me on the first episode of 'Serving The Hamptons'. Thank you Zach for having us on.   To keep up with all things Zack Erdem/King of the Hamptons, follow him on the web at: www.75main.com   Wrapping up the show is singer/songwriter and musical theatre artist Oliver Houser. (IG: @oliverhouser). ***Oliver Houser will be holding an EP release concert at www.rockwoodmusichall.com in NYC on June 23, 2022 @ 7 PM EST. Oliver Houser is a New York-based singer/songwriter and musical theatre artist. Being the winner of the inaugural Stephen Schwartz Award, the ASCAP Foundation-Sammy Cahn Award, and a Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, has afforded Oliver the opportunity to present his work at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the Village Theatre, the Kennedy Center, the annual National Alliance for Musical Theatre Conference (NAMT), the SoHo Playhouse, the New York Musical Festival, the New York International Fringe Festival, the Other Palace Theatre in the UK, London's Royal Academy of Music and other venues across the United States and the world. Oliver has headlined at the Kennedy Center and performs his music throughout New York City. He has developed work at the Ucross Foundation, the KHN Center for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, the Johnny Mercer Colony at Goodspeed Musicals, and the Warren Miller Center for the Arts. Oliver is a Jonathan Larson Grant finalist, and his work was a finalist for the O'Neill Musical Theatre Conference. He was selected for Jeanine Tesori's Front & Center Master Class and is an alum of the ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, and the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project. Oliver is a proud member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild.  To keep up with all that he's doing, follow him on the web at: www.oliverhouser.com Thank you for listening to the show and follow us on IG at: The Big Fat Joey Show.

Justin has maintained a diverse career working in the theatre industry for over three decades. He served as Executive Producer to The Group Theatre Too, a theatre collective in NYC, for 15 years producing the award-winning musical, Count To Ten at The New York Musical Festival, the revival of Michael Bennett's Seesaw, and the Pulitzer-Prize nominated play, Album by David Rimmer. Other credits include: The Choreographer's Canvas at the 92nd Street Y, The World Goes Round at Circle in the Square, and Song and Dance Men at The Laurie Beechman Theatre. Justin is an award-winning director and choreographer with credits including Crazy For You (Berkshire Theatre Award), Hairspray (Lincoln Center Award), Errol and Fidel (NYMF Award), Gypsy of the Year, and the Off-Broadway musical One Night With Fanny Brice. In 2019 he was the program advisor for Peridance's Commercial Dance Program, and currently is co-director of the non-profit youth organization, New Generation Theatre, in Rockland County. Justin appeared on MTV's "Made" as a coach for aspiring performers and continues teaching as an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College and Broadway Dance Center. He is also Artistic Director of Common Ground, a project bringing tap dancing and its history to people all around the world. He's worked with such talented artists as Lady Gaga, Phillip Boykin, Nicole Fosse, Richard Kline, Chita Rivera, and many more. Justin is a member of Actors Equity and the Society of Directors and Choreographers. www.justinboccitto.comMichael Kevin Baldwin, Associate Artistic Director/Director of Education Michael has performed in dozens of productions on the Playhouse stage, most recently as Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast. Other favorite acting credits include playing Tony Whitcomb in Shear Madness at The Kennedy Center and The Notary in The Barber of Seville at The Metropolitan Opera. Michael has taught at The Brearley School, Hunter College High School, Skidmore College, Ghost Light Theater Camp, TADA NYC, SOAR, and The Falls Village Children's Theater. Michael co-created and directed the play #BraveSpace, which premiered at New York University's Forum on Ethnodrama. #BraveSpace explores the impact that theater has on the development of youth identity. Michael has conducted masterclasses and delivered speeches all over the country, most notably serving as a keynote speaker for The Educational Theatre Association's "Theater in our Schools" initiative. Michael received a Bachelor's Degree in Theater and Sociology from Skidmore College and a Master's Degree in Education from The City College of New York. 2022 SEASON CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A SEASON SUBSCRIPTION FOR ALL OUR SHOWS Please review our Covid Protocols Page before purchasing. CLICK HERE A One-Woman Musical Starring KIMBERLY FAYE GREENBERG Directed by BRIAN CHILDERS Choreographed by JUSTIN BOCCITTO SATURDAY, JULY 2ND - 8PM IN THE BOBBIE OLSEN THEATER If you're looking for laughs and Broadway style theatrical entertainment, Fanny Brice is the one to deliver ‘em to ya — well, Fanny Brice via Kimberly Faye Greenberg. The legendary comedian's life was first dramatized by Barbra Streisand in the hit Broadway musical and film Funny Girl, and now you can see Greenberg capture her hilarious spirit all over again in this original critically acclaimed and fabulous one-woman solo show. Enjoy classic show tunes, good old-fashioned fun and hilarity, as we travel through time with Fanny Brice, the legendary Jewish comedienne, Ziegfeld Follies/Broadway star, recording artist, and film actress extraordinaire. One of the most popular radio stars of all time, Fanny was the voice of “Baby Snooks” on air for 25 years and even better known as the inspiration for the musical & movie Funny Girl. “Fabulous Fanny Brice brings Fanny Brice to fabulous life!” - The Huffington PostTICKETS ON SALE HERE! A Musical Fable of Broadway Based on a Story and Characters of Damon Runyon Music and Lyrics by FRANK LOESSER Book by JO SWERLING & ABE BURROWS Directed & Choreographed by JUSTIN BOCCITTO Associate Choreography by DANI CHAMPAGNE Musical Direction by JACOB CARLL JULY 29TH - AUGUST 14TH IN THE BOBBIE OLSEN THEATER Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they've been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson, for the dough, and Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a result. Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.TICKETS ON SALE HERE! Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International. By PAUL PORTNER Directed by BRUCE JORDAN “The audience was helpless with laughter!” - The New York Times “Shrieks of laughter night after night!” - The Washington Post Presented by special arrangement with Cranberry Productions, Inc. AUGUST 27TH - SEPTEMBER 11TH IN THE BOBBIE OLSEN THEATER This unique comedy-whodunit takes place today in the Shear Madness hairstyling salon and is chock full of up-to-the-minute spontaneous humor. During the course of the action, a murder is committed and the audience gets to spot the clues, question the suspects, and solve the funniest mystery in the annals of crime. The outcome is never the same, which is why many audience members return again and again to the scene of the mayhem. Voted "Best Comedy of the Year" seven times by the Boston Globe and recipient of the title "Best Play of the Year" by both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Enquirer, Shear Madness has also received the Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America and has been inducted into the Comedy Hall of Fame, the first play ever to receive that accolade.TICKETS ON SALE HERE! By LORRAINE HANSBERRY "A pivotal play in the history of the American Black theatre." - Newsweek OCTOBER 7TH - OCTOBER 16TH IN THE BOK Set on Chicago's South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis, and matriarch Lena. When her deceased husband's insurance money comes through, Mama Lena dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. The tensions and prejudice they face form this seminal American drama. The Younger family's heroic struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration.TICKETS ON SALE HERE! Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

“The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter” from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, narrated by Yianni Papadimos. “The Diogenes Club is the queerest club in London, and Mycroft one of the queerest men.” Yianni Papadimos is a Greek-American actor and writer. His favorite credits include Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Barnstormers Theatre), Matt in Swimming Upstream (Detroit Repertory Theatre, World Premiere), and Ira Stone in Laughter on the 23rd Floor (Barnstormers Theatre). Onscreen, Papadimos has been featured in projects that have premiered across the country. Favorite credits include The Tankhouse Theatre (2018 SeriesFest) and Better To Live (2015 TriBeCa Film Festival). His first full-length musical, co-written with Ben Chavez (The Cobalteans), was an official selection of the 2015 New York Musical Festival. He received awards for Outstanding Book and Outstanding Lyrics. Elysium: An American Fable, the team's second full-length musical, has been developed at the Village Theatre (Issaquah, WA), Ohio Northern University (Ada, OH), and the Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival (Auburn, NY). Their work has been featured at NYC venues such as Feinstein's/54 Below, The Musical Theatre Factory, The Laurie Beechman Theatre, Dixon Place, and Don't Tell Mama. He proudly holds a BFA in Drama and English Literature from NYU. Content warning (and spoilers because this is a doozy!): Kidnapping, torture, violence and threats of violence, and general nasty behavior. Find recommended reading, more stories, info about the show and more on our website: https://www.howeverimprobablepodcast.com/ https://twitter.com/improbablepod

Preston Max Allen is a playwright, composer, and lyricist whose work has been featured at the New Amsterdam Theatre, Lincoln Center, Signature Theatre, Musical Theatre Factory, Feinstein's/54 Below, Joe's Pub, Theatre 80, New York Musical Festival, Laurie Beechman Theatre, York Theatre ("Tune In Time" winner), Gallery Players, Lululemon (it's a long story), and Second City Chicago. Preston conceived and wrote book, music, and lyrics for WE ARE THE TIGERS (Album now streaming; L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation winner for Best Lyrics/Composition, nominee for Best Musical); AGENT 355 (dramaturgy/co-book Jessica Kahkoska, Marion Fellowship Award Winner); and THE RAGE: CARRIE 2, AN UNAUTHORIZED MUSICAL PARODY (Jeff Nominee, Best New Musical). His play MODERN GENTLEMAN was featured as part of the 2020 PRIDE PLAYS Festival (dir. Blayze Teicher). Additional projects include music/lyrics for A VERY NETFL*X CHRISTMAS MUSICAL: NOW STREAMING LIVE! and AMY ADAMS WINS AN OSCAR (books by Edward Precht); book/lyrics for FRANKLIN PIERCE: DRAGON SLAYER (composer Will Buck); music/lyrics for BRADICAL AND THE PINK SOCKS; and music/lyrics for THE HUNTED: ENCORE (LA Webfest Outstanding Score). Preston is a member of the Ars Nova Play Group (2019/20), graduate of the Second City Chicago Comedy Studies Program, and an alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop. Above all, he is the proud father to his cat -> Hero. @prestonmaxallen

We are excited to bring you our next episode featuring Adam Cates!Adam Cates has built a career as a theatre artist working as a choreographer, director, performer, educator and writer. He created choreography for a new production of Puccini's La Boheme at The Santa Fe Opera and provided choreography for the American premiere of the Olivier-winning play Jeeves Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at Hartford Stage for UK director Sean Foley. He collaborated with Larry Grossman, Andrew Lippa, director Kaitlin Hopkins, and Peanuts Worldwide to create The World According to Snoopy as both the choreographer and co-book writer.In New York, Adam's work has been performed at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard Opera, and the New York Musical Festival off-Broadway. Adam is on the faculty of Pace University and wrote the guidebook for young professionals: The Business of Show. Adam has choreographed musicals and opera for Arkansas Rep, Music Theatre Wichita, Gulfshore Playhouse, Theatre Under the Stars, Theatre Aspen, Anchorage Opera, Memphis Playhouse on the Square, Pacific Conservatory Theatre, Bard Music Festival, New London Barn Playhouse, and commercial work in Reno/Lake Tahoe, Atlantic City, Las Vegas, Orlando, Walt Disney World, and Barcelona. He choreographed and appeared on the TV series Chicas de Viaje in Argentina, and associate choreographed episodes of 90210 (CW Network) and Live from Lincoln Center (PBS). On Broadway, Adam was the associate choreographer of the musical Anastasia by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Terrence McNally. He also associate- choreographed the Tony-winning “Best Musical” A Gentleman's Guide to Love Murder (also the First and Second national tours), and was an assistant to Kathleen Marshall on the Tony-winning revival of Anything Goes starring Sutton Foster and Joel Grey. He assisted and was the dance captain for Tommy Tune's Doctor Dolittle national tour.Our conversation with Adam was inspiring, authentic and informative.  We hope you enjoy this weeks episode!Follow us on Facebook: JAM Joe and Michelle's Dance PodcastFollow us on Instagram: @jam_dance_ podcastFollow Adam Cates on Instagram: @adamcnyc

Mexican-born musical multi-hyphenate Jaime Lozano sat down for a heart to heart with Feinstein's/54 Below's Director of Marketing, Nella Vera, ahead of his upcoming concert. The two discussed Jaime's incredible journey to NYC, how he found a chosen “familia” in the theater, and how Hamilton's Alex Lacaimore changed his life one afternoon at a performance of In The Heights. Jaime Lozano is considered by Lin-Manuel Miranda as the “next big thing” on Broadway. His recent productions include The Yellow Brick Road (for with he wrote music and lyrics with Tommy Newman, book by Mando Alvarado), which premiered Off-Broadway in 2011 and was followed by a successful national tour and also Children of Salt; A New Latin Musical (book and lyrics by Lauren Epsenhart) which made its New York City debut in 2016 as part of the New York Musical Festival and won the "Best of Fest" Production Award. Recently, Jaime's song cycle, A Never-Ending Line, a collaboration with 9 female lyricists, had its World Premiere in Paris, France as part of the concert series “Broadway au Carré” at the Comédie Nation Theatre. It had its Spanish language World Premiere in Mexico followed by an Off-Broadway run at The Players Theatre here in NYC. His others works include Con Amor…Isa Colibrí, Estocolmo, Savage, Present Perfect - A musical in broken English, among many other works.In 2015, Jaime and his wife, Mexican actress and singer Florencia Cuenca, created a jazz project called "The New Standards,” an album of contemporary musical theatre songs accompanied by jazz arrangements. Written by Jaime and Jesús Altamira, it has performed at prominent venues in New York City, Mexico, and across Latin America. He is making his Feinstein's/54 Below debut with a concert full of immigrant stories and songs written in collaboration with some of the most exciting Latinx musical theatre writers celebrating the Hispanic Heritage Month. For information about Jaime's upcoming show, visit 54Below.com/JaimeLozano The Feinstein's/54 Below podcast is hosted by Nella Vera and Kevin Ferguson, and produced by Bailey Everett and Michael Allan Galvez, with support from the Feinstein's/54 Below marketing staff. Original artwork design by Philip Romano. Follow Nella on Twitter and Instagram at @spinstripes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John O'Brien currently serves as Director of Programming for The Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis, where he is responsible for programming the U.S. Bank Broadway Series. In addition to his work with Fox Associates, he is Editor of the industry newsletter Broadway Briefing and previously served as Director of Operations for Broadway Brands, publisher of Broadway Briefing and Broadway News. Prior to working with Fox Associates, John worked with various companies in New York and St. Louis, including Roundabout Theatre Company, The Muny, New York Musical Festival, and RKO Stage. John is a member of the Broadway League and the Independent Presenters Network and is a Tony Awards voter.

"Success in music is not guaranteed, but as long as you are persevering and helping others along the way, you will reach your goals."In this episode of MFM Speaks Out, Adam Reifsteck interviews conductor and pianist Geraldine Anello about immigrating to the United States from France in her early 20s which ultimately led to a career as a Broadway musician. Topics discussed include how she created an online community and professional development resource called Theatre Music Directors, the issue of gender inequality on Broadway, and finding a new creative outlet as a writer and poet during the pandemic.Geraldine Anello has conducted Kinky Boots and School of Rock on Broadway, The Fantasticks off-Broadway, and played in the orchestras of Broadway’s School of Rock, Bronx Tale, Aladdin, and On the Town. She has also worked on the Broadway productions SpongeBob the Musical, An American in Paris, On Your Feet, and Matilda. Anello served as music director of We Are the Tigers off-Broadway, and of Renascence for the Transport Group, Finian’s Rainbow at the Irish Repertory Theatre, and Children of Salt at the New York Musical Festival.Visit Geraldine Anello at geraldineanello.comOrder Geraldine's new book of poetry on Amazon.The following music is featured in this episode:Opening track: "Fragmented Fractals" by Adam Reifsteck featuring Geraldine Anello (piano) and Roberta Michel (flute)Middle track: "Wallflower” from the musical We Are the Tigers by Preston Max Allen; Geraldine Anello, music director and pianistEnding track: "Renascence” from the musical Renascence by Carmel Dean, Dick Scanlan. Edna St. Vincent Millay; Geraldine Anello, music director and pianist

Broadway and Disney Channel star - Maya Jade Frank catches up with Marc Tumminelli this week on LITTLE ME: Growing Up Broadway. Maya Jade Frank, now 19 years old, looks back at her professional stage debut in the New York Musical Festival production of Hurricane, her first major job in the Broadway national tour of Les Miserables, making her Broadway debut in the original revival cast of EVITA starring Ricky Martin and then taking over the role of Jane banks in MARY POPPINS on Broadway. Marc and Maya remember her early days at Broadway Workshop and playing the role of the littlest star fish in very first Broadway Workshop main stage of THE LITTLE MERMAID. Maya dishes on playing Belissa in Disney Channel's Bizaardvark, and receiving an Emmy nomination for her work on Nickelodeons History and Heritage and creating the YA SISTERS with her sister Tehya, Produced by the Broadway Podcast Network https://www.theyasisters.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Broadway ReFocused is in conversation with Jaime Jarrett - a New York based composer/playwright - whose mission is to tell honest and imaginative queer stories that simultaneously break the rules of cis-heteronormativity and break the supposed rules of our physical universe. Most recently, his musical Wonder Boy was developed through a staged reading at Musical Theatre Factory. Jaime is the recipient of New York Musical Festival’s “Outstanding Emerging Artist Award” as well as the Ira Brind School of Theatre Arts’ “Excellence in Playwriting Award.” In this podcast we learn about how he came up with this incredible new musical and also listen to a beautiful new song, “The Body”. Jaime gives us the amazing backstory of how this song came to be which is authentic and vulnerable. Learn more about Jamie on his website: https://www.jarrettwritesmusicals.com, and on IG @sauci_boy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In September of 2020, two friends Jacob Ben-Shmuel (Book of Mormon) and Alan Blake Bachelor (Blumhouse’s “Uncanny Annie”) found themselves on the journey of a musical podcast lifetime. Cue: One Million Musicals. What's One Million Musicals, you ask? Well it's podcast with a simple dream: to write and produce one million podcast musicals! Each month, their team of writers, producers and performers from across Broadway, Film and TV create a brand new podcast musical for your ears to enjoy. In this episode, host Maggie Bera chats with co-creators Jacob Ben-Shmuel and Alan Blake Bachelor about their inspiration behind One Million Musicals, what exactly goes into creating a podcast musical, their latest episode Lady Jane's Radio Takeover, and what's to come!    Jacob Ben-Shmuel is is the Co-Creator and Showrunner of One Million Musicals, as well as the co-writer and composer of each of its shows, including How to Be Spooky, The Lawman with No Gun, The South Pole Santa Claus, and Lady Jane's Radio Takeover. After graduating from UC Irvine's musical theatre program, Jacob spent two and a half years touring the United States, Canada and Mexico with the hit Broadway show The Book of Mormon, as the Standby for Elder Cunningham. While on the road, his musical Brad Knows Nothing was accepted into the New York Musical Festival's 2018 season. You can hear his voice as a wide variety of characters in One Million Musicals, including most recently Bennie Berstein and Dolf "The Dink" Diggle in Lady Jane's Radio Takeover. Instagram: @jacob_benshmuel   Alan Blake Bachelor is a co-creator of One Million Musicals and has been writing musicals with Jacob since their days at UC Irvine. Their musical, Brad Knows Nothing, was featured at the New York Musical Festival in 2018. Alan and his brother, James, are writers of horror screenplays, one of which became an episode of Blumhouse’s Into the Dark entitled "Uncanny Annie.”   One Million Musicals Socials: Instagram: @onemillionmusicals TikTok: @onemillionmusicals Facebook: @onemillionmusicals  Twitter: @1MMusicals Website: onemillionmusicals.com   Submission email: CastMe1MM@gmail.com     To join the Actor Aesthetic Alliance Facebook group, click here. Spread love and don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to the Actor Aesthetic Podcast on your favorite podcast app. Visit actoraesthetic.com for more info. Follow Maggie Bera on social media Instagram: @actoraesthetic / @maggiebera Facebook: www.facebook.com/ActorAesthetic/ Email: maggie@actoraesthetic.com  

PRESTON MAX ALLEN is a playwright, composer, and lyricist whose work has been seen at the New Amsterdam Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York Musical Festival, Signature Theatre, Musical Theatre Factory, Feinstein's/54 Below, Joe's Pub, Laurie Beechman Theatre, York Theatre and Second City Chicago. Preston conceived and wrote book, music, and lyrics for We Are The Tigers which won the L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation award for Best Lyrics/Composition, Never Better, and The Rage: Carrie 2, An Unauthorized Musical Parody and many others. His play Modern Gentleman was also featured as part of the 2020 PRIDE PLAYS Festival. Preston is a member of the Ars Nova Play Group, graduate of the Second City Chicago Comedy Studies Program, and an alum of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop.

Louis Greenstein is the author of the 2014 novel Mr. Boardwalk (New Door Books) and the co-writer of One Child Born: The Music of Laura Nyro, a one-woman cabaret featuring collaborator Kate Ferber that had critically acclaimed productions at the New York Musical Festival, A.R.T.'s second stage Oberon Theater, and Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre as well as a successful east coast tour. Louis has written for Nickelodeon's EMMY-winning show Rugrats and he was commissioned to write two children’s plays for New Jersey’s Stageworks touring company. A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council of the Arts playwriting fellowship, Louis’s one-act plays, Smoke, Interview with a Scapegoat, and The Convert were commissioned by Theatre Ariel, published by Dramatic Publishing and produced many times in the U.S. and abroad. He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed With Albert Einstein, a one-man show about the great scientist that featured Don Auspitz and has been performed at the Walnut Street Theater, Princeton University, and in schools and science museums around the nation. His short stories have been included in Margins Magazine and Philadelphia Stories and presented by the award-winning performance series, Writing Aloud. Louis is also a freelance magazine writer whose articles about popular culture, history, public health, medicine, nursing, business, and technology have appeared in publications including Philadelphia Magazine, Wharton Magazine, the University of Miami Medicine Magazine, and Penn Nursing. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jae Broderick in an actor, writer and storyteller. Her first musical, FORA, was selected to the New York Musical Festival and awarded a Eugene O'Neill Residency. She is currently working on other musicals that are being developed in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop where it was featured in the BMI Industry Showcase. She is also the founder of INKUBATOR; a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to the advancement of women writers of color. Thank goodness she found some time to chat. Check out her website jaebroderick.com; --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnslonely/support

In this episode, my guest, Carrie Berk and I are chatting about cyberbullying, how to deal with it, and how to avoid it! My guest and I are sharing our stories! My Guest Carrie Berk @carrieberkk https://www.carrieschronicles.com/about-carrie Bestselling author, actress, social media influencer, anti-bullying activist... At only 17 years old, CARRIE BERK already has a life’s worth of accomplishments under her belt. Patch.com recently called her “a whirlwind of a young woman” and Bella Magazine declared her “an ambitious and dedicated boss babe.” A bestselling children’s book author with 21 books to her credit, Carrie penned her first book Peace, Love and Cupcakes, when she was only in second grade. At the time she was writing an extensive food review/recipe blog entitled “Carrie’s Cupcake Critique” which garnered her the title “The Cupcake Queen” from The Cake Boss himself, Buddy Valastro. The Cupcake Club series went on to publish 12 books (selling 400,000+ copies worldwide), and became an award-winning Off-Broadway show and featured selection in 2017’s New York Musical Festival. Carrie not only co-wrote the script for the play, but starred in it as well, earning her critical praise and a NYMF award for Outstanding Individual Performance. Carrie’s second series, Fashion Academy, stems from her passion for fashion. The six-book series also became an Off-Broadway production at Vital Theatre and is currently licensed worldwide by Tams-Witmark/Concord Music Publishing. Her latest series, Ask Emma (Bonnier Publishing), springs not just from her boundless imagination, but from her personal experience as a teen lifestyle blogger and someone who has experienced cyberbullying firsthand. Ask Emma launched in 2018 at Book Expo America and Book Con with book three of the series hitting shelves this past fall. Your Host Olyasha Novozhylova - NotBasicBlonde @notbasicblonde_ NotBasicBlonde Podcast @nbbpodcast Olyasha Novozhylova is the founder and creator of Not Basic Blonde, a fashion, and lifestyle blog dedicated to inspiring young women to create an extraordinary style. The Russian model led an impressive 10-year career in fashion and runway in Atlanta and overseas, as well as enjoying several acting roles. Now a leading influencer, Olyasha shares her beauty, wellness, and fashion tips with an audience of over half a million. https://notbasicblonde.com/about/ If you really enjoyed NotBasicBlonde Podcast, please leave a 5 star review, written with some love! Your comments and feedback mean everything to me! notbasicblondepodcast@gmail.com 

A graduate of the Boston Conservatory and a member of the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, David’s work has been featured at Joe’s Pub, The Laurie Beechman, and 54 Below, among others. His musical, ‘Cookies' was featured in the New York Musical Festival with director Jeff Whiting. He wrote the score, along with Luke Holloway, to ‘Santa Claus: The Musical' which has been featured at theaters around the country.santaclausthemusical.comSFX by Zapsplat

In this episode, I welcome Krista Eyler! Krista hails from Kansas City, and shares her stories about seeing several musicals growing up that inspired her to become the singer/songwriter/actress/producer she is now! Links to get in touch with Krista Eyler: https://www.facebook.com/sharpwomen2/ | https://www.sharpwomen.org/ | https://www.facebook.com/funkymamaBluprint: More than 13 million enthusiasts - from artists to quilters and beyond - make Bluprint their home for binge-worthy on-demand content, access to the world’s top experts and curated supplies, all served up in a fun-loving creative community. Click here and use promo code 50OFF2 for 50% off all courses!Artfully Told links: www.facebook.com/artfullytold | elevateartskc@gmail.comSchedule your interview with Artfully Told! https://calendly.com/artfullytold/podcast-interview SHOW NOTES:Episode 003: Krista EylerLindsey Dinneen: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to Artfully Told, where we share true stories about meaningful encounters with art.[00:00:06] Krista Eyler: [00:00:06] I think artists help people have different perspectives on every aspect of life.[00:00:12] Roman: [00:00:12] All I can do is put my heart in to the world.[00:00:15] Elizabeth: [00:00:15] It doesn't have to be perfect the first time. It doesn't have to be perfect ever, really. I mean, as long as you, you're enjoying doing it and you're trying your best, that can be good enough.[00:00:23] Elna: [00:00:23] Art is something that you can experience with your senses and that you just experiences as so beautiful.[00:00:31] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:00:31] Hello everyone. Welcome to Artfully Told. I'm Lindsey, and I am so excited to have a very special guest on our show today. Her name is Krista Eyler, and she is an extraordinary woman. She has done so much for the arts, not only in Kansas. City, but her reach is extending far beyond. She has co-written, co-produced her own musical, which was incredible. And I'm saying that cause I got to see it and I just love it. It's so charming. But she is constantly creating and innovating and bringing so much joy to the world. So I am so excited, Krista, that you're here. Thank you so much for joining me today.[00:01:14] Krista Eyler: [00:01:14] Thank you, Lindsey, and thank you for those kind words. That was very sweet way to start my day.[00:01:19] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:01:19] Of course. Of course. So Krista, do you mind just sharing a little bit about who you are and what you're up to these days and just?[00:01:28] Krista Eyler: [00:01:28] Sure, you know, it's funny to kind of sum up when someone says, you know, what do you do? Hard question to answer when, you know, at the age I am--43--you say, what do you, what do you do, Krista? Now there are things you get paid for and then there are things that you do. And I think as an artist, we all have to do a lot of things.[00:01:54] Now what I would say I am--I'm a mom, first, of two teenage boys. I'm a wife. I am a composer and an actress. And, I like to write. I mean, I would probably classify myself as a singer before anything else, but you see, it's hard to, it's hard to sum up, so I like to say that I'm a composer, actress, singer, mom, wife... How's that?[00:02:21] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:02:21] It's perfect. I love it.  Yeah, and so just tell us, a little bit about the different musicals. I know, obviously you got to produce one. What was that, two years ago now? Oh my gosh.[00:02:32] Krista Eyler: [00:02:32] Well, it was just, actually last summer. You mentioned--the musical's called "Overture," and it was about the 1953 season of the Kansas City Philharmonic. And the Philharmonic was kind of the, you know, the father of our current, Kansas City Symphony. So we had the great pleasure of taking 19 Kansas City people to the New York Musical Festival last summer. We were accepted as one of the 10 full-length productions and we won Best of Fest Production there. We won the Audience Choice Award. There are two kind of big festival awards and we won one of them and we had quite an adventure. It was an extraordinary, from start to finish, kind of three year endeavor.[00:03:20] And, my co-writer, Barb Nichols, she's also a local Kansas City director, and she and I have known each other for over 20 years. So our, our business partnership is very easy and we're also good friends. And, so just this last--after we got back from New York, we had an opportunity to buy a building on Southwest Boulevard, and we turned it into rehearsal studios. So we have a studio now called Sharp Women's Studios. That's the name of our LLC, and we're down on the Boulevard and this whole quarantine stuff--has messed up our entire plan. I know that is a small, small thing when there are so many people who have been suffering, truly suffering in both their physical health, emotional health, and their financial health. So I'm very grateful that we have a space. We've had a safe space to go and build things and have meetings and have social distancing. So we're  very, very fortunate. I feel very fortunate, to be in the position that I am when I know a lot of other artists have, it's so much harder than I do.[00:04:25]Lindsey Dinneen: [00:04:25] Sure. Yeah, it's a challenge for everybody, but you have a really positive outlook on it, but it is difficult.[00:04:32]Krista Eyler: [00:04:32] My brain likes to be busy all the time. I really honestly don't like to rest a lot. My battery does kind of recharging. So, my battery wants to go. And so when I have gigs canceled, or acting gigs postponed or flat out canceled, it's really, it's a blow, you know. It's one of those: I worked for that part and I got that part and now it's gone.[00:04:57] And I think artists across our city are feeling exactly the same thing cause their gig has been canceled. Their side gigs have been canceled. So what do you do when your gig has been canceled? Your side gig's canceled. That's hard. It's a difficult time that we are dealing with, but you know, art survives and art goes on because if you're an artist, you just keep making stuff.[00:05:22] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:05:22] Yeah, it's compulsory. You have to, yeah. Well, thank you for that perspective. I would just love to hear stories that you have about encounters with art. Something maybe that kind of stood out to you that made an impact on you as a person or on your work.[00:05:41]Krista Eyler: [00:05:41] I will just speak from my experience. No, my background was in television journalism. I was a news reporter for five years with Channel Nine News here in Kansas City, and before that I was a reporter in Topeka, and journalism was kind of my track.[00:05:55] I had always been a singer from the time I was four years old in church, and I've always sung, always played guitar and piano, and so, but I just took a different career path. So now, now that I'm doing full time acting and writing and performing, it's quite a different, quite a different world.[00:06:15]I don't really have a process of creating it. Like I said, my brain is always working. And so I feel like an idea will come. Usually it's a musical idea, something for the stage. And I'll, Barb and I'll sit down and we'll just kind of flesh the idea out as much as we can to see if it's worth doing.[00:06:37] And we, one of the shaping memories I had was: In 1983 I think it was, Yul Brynner came through Kansas City in a touring company of "The King and I," and it was down at The Midland. And if you've ever been to the Midland Theater, it's a more intimate theater, but it's very steep. It has lots of levels.[00:07:00] And my mom had kind of splurged to buy a tickets for my brother and I, and for my mom to go see "The King and I." And so we had really good seats and I remember so much red in the room and how the seats felt. And I remember there he was--like, he came out on stage and stopped the show. And, it's one of those very big kind of very much a sense memory for me that it was magical, you know, theater that came very magical for me.[00:07:31] Another one of those moments that I had was where I saw, Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson in "Jesus Christ Superstar." And they're the ones that you see in the movie, if you're not familiar with the show, but they were the originals, for the movie, and then spent their careers touring with "Jesus Christ Superstar."[00:07:49] I have never quite experienced a show that was stopped twice because of applause.  I mean, these two men in their prime --I got to see them in their prime. Carl Anderson is now deceased and Ted Neeley's in his seventies. But it was extraordinary, the power of something on stage to affect my emotions so deeply.[00:08:09] And it's one of those memories I have that I can access any time. And it just expresses to me the magic of musical theater because that's--that's my greatest love is musical theater. And another memory: I got to see Bernadette Peters in "Gypsy" on Broadway. My mom and I went and, her little, she's a tiny little person and she's just the tiniest little China doll of a person.[00:08:37]And as soon as people heard her voice from the back of the house, she walked through the house where the, you know, the "Sing Out, Louise," everybody stood up and stopped the show for a good three minutes applauding her. They did the same thing after she did "Rose's Turn" and I could, I mean, I could barely contain myself. It was just one of those things where you feel like you're, you're crying and you're jumping out of your skin, and everything about it is so perfect. And I, I've learned--watching her, she uses every little bit of that little body, from the top of her head to her toes, to convey emotion. And just so physical.[00:09:11] I really, there's, those are some very specific memories for me, both as a writer and an actress to go use your full instrument, whether it is, singing or acting or writing, you try to use your full instrument. When I'm writing, I sometimes tell myself like, "What else? You know, what else can I do to this? What else does this song need? What is it missing?" Or I'll record it all, put it in my phone so I can listen to it in my car speakers, and then I go, "Oh, that's what's missing." There's a string section missing, or I should have cymbals there, or, you know, it's just--I feel like writing and composing--I mean, you're a dancer, you know, it's a full body experience.[00:09:51] Whether you're a dancer or not, but I can describe it as that--anything I do when I'm creating, it's kind of a full body mind, body, spirit experience.[00:10:02]Lindsey Dinneen: [00:10:02] I love that. And I love the idea of what else, what else can there be to make it even more robust, more inspirational, more touching? I love that. What a great perspective on...[00:10:14] Krista Eyler: [00:10:14] I hope so. You know, I have my favorite instruments that make me either have goosebumps or tear up or, you know, music can break your heart. And when we say that in "Overture," because it's true, your heart, because if you put an oboe with a cello and a piano and a French horn, I mean those are the break-your-heart instruments: gorgeous.[00:10:36] Put them in a layer. Then it just gives such--it's like eating an awesome piece of cake. It's just so pleasurable that your mind, a body--it's just like all the endorphins come, and when... I think I had a moment when I wrote something, and you know when you write music and you have to listen to it over and over and over and over again, which gets very laborious--but I remember a song came on that I wrote, and it didn't register as my, my song. It was just a song that was on, and I remember getting goosebumps because of the chord formations and I was like, well, all right, let's keep it.[00:11:18] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:11:18] Yeah.[00:11:20]Krista Eyler: [00:11:20] I'm the harshest critic, of course. I'm, I'm pretty hard on myself, which I probably shouldn't be, but I am.[00:11:29] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:11:29] Every artist I think has that.[00:11:31] Krista Eyler: [00:11:31] I think artists are, I mean, I think we're sensitive and I think we're hard on ourselves. And I think being the age I am, it's given me some perspective of--give yourself some grace--and I never think I'm going to be the best at something and I probably never will be the best at something, but I'm going to do my best whatever I'm doing because there's always going to be something, someone with a different cool idea that you didn't think of, or there'll be able to do something cool that you didn't, aren't able to do. And I think I've been able to accept that more. In the last five, six years to stop being so competitive in art and just appreciate and affirm in other people what they're doing.[00:12:12] I mean, I learned from going, "Oh, that was a great layering of sound, or oh my gosh, did you hear how she's saying that?" I'm trying to be better about building other people up , making a point to note it. "Yeah, that's really good," because I mean, I like to be encouraged. I imagine other people like to be encouraged too.[00:12:33] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:12:33] Oh, yeah, absolutely. Did that come about, do you think, in more of a director role? I mean, is that something that kind of developed being in a leadership position?[00:12:42] Krista Eyler: [00:12:42] I just think I wanted to stop being so prideful about art. You know, I think we've all met artists who are arrogant, and we've met artists who are very humble, and I want to be more like the humble artists who, if there's something that I do that it touches somebody else or makes them have a moment of joy or takes them out of their normal, normal thought patterns into something really cool, then, I want to do that. But I want to do it in a way that's open to other artists, and is friendly to other artists and kind of just affirms what's good and other artists, because there's so much competition. And I was so, you know--acting is so competitive. I mean, dance is competitive. Any art form, it's competitive. Yeah, and just like my journalism jobs were competitive, you know, I had to be competitive.  I would never call myself laid back. I can be a pretty intense person when I'm working on a project. but hopefully I'm a nice person.[00:13:45]Lindsey Dinneen: [00:13:45] And so what was the experience like? I mean, I am a little biased-- I have had the wonderful experience of seeing "Overture" actually a couple times. You kind of spearheaded this whole project from start to finish in so many aspects and then you starred in it. What was it like when you took your final bow at that, the first time that you got to perform the entire thing ? What was that like?[00:14:10]Krista Eyler: [00:14:10] It was very special. I mean, when you worked so hard on something and we had so much help fundraising, helping us fundraise, because musicals are freaking expensive. We had so much help. And when you're standing out there and people are appreciating, or they've been touched by something that you've done--it's, it's, it's a very strange but wonderful feeling. I remember walking out on stage and it was funny -- not funny--it was a bit panicky. It was, we were at Fringe and we were opening the show, I think might've been the first show-- all the mics went out. We had no sound, no sound. And I remember I'm and I was just about to go on and I have the opening song in "Overture" and it really just, there's a chord roll, and then I sing and that's it.[00:15:02] And I'm a woman of faith and I remember feeling very uptight for about 30 seconds cause we were, we were only at like, we were at places, we were holding. And, I remember having a moment of, "Oh my gosh, we have no mics. We have no mics for the orchestra, we have no mics for people." And then I went, "Nope." I went, "Okay, Jesus. I see. I see. And I'm going to sing without a mic. And all the other people are going to sing without a mic because you've allowed me to train to have a bigger voice and don't need a mic."[00:15:33] So I, I turned from panic to--we're just gonna do this. We're just gonna do this. And everybody else, you know, we had an amazing team and everybody else was like, yup, that's what we're doing. I mean, I think you lead by example by working harder than everyone else, or as hard as anyone else. I kind of like to work harder or try and just not complain.[00:16:03] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:16:03] That's a hard one. Yeah.[00:16:05] Krista Eyler: [00:16:05] Especially like in New York where we were running on zero sleep, changing the show almost every day, managing, you know, driving back and forth to Brooklyn, unloading every single day. It was physically exhausting and mentally exhausting. You just gotta dig deep. Well, you gotta dig down and just do it and try not to be a jerk to the people.[00:16:31] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:16:31] Right. Right. Yeah![00:16:32] Krista Eyler: [00:16:32] It was pretty cool to open in New York, I was sitting on the side of the stage at The Signature Theatre, and we were at places and I looked around, you know, I looked across the stage and I saw my friends and I looked at the pit. You know, my brother was our accompanist and all my friends, all my friends were there. Oh, and so I looked, it was like--we're in New York on 42nd Street and we're about to open a show that I wrote and how fun is this? You know? That was a special--that's a moment I can't replicate ever in my life. Yeah. It's one of those where you, I think it's rare when you get to know that that's one of those moments in your life that you're going to look back on and when you recognize it and give thanks for it. And I remember just sitting there giving thanks for it going, "This is crazy. How did I get here?" And hearing them on the stage left of The Signature Theatre stage about to go sing my songs--it was so, it was surreal and marvelous.[00:17:30]Lindsey Dinneen: [00:17:30] There couldn't be anything like that moment. That is, that is wonderful.[00:17:35] Krista Eyler: [00:17:35] No, and I'll never have another one like it probably in my life. So when you have those moments, it's good to notice it. There's a line, and I, I won't, I promise I won't curse on your podcast.  There's a line in my favorite movie from "The Color Purple" that says, "I think it P I S S E S God off if you walk by the color purple and you don't notice it," and I feel that way very much in my life. If you don't notice those small moments of brilliant color, then I think you're not being grateful for what you have. And I'm trying to be grateful for those small and big moments.[00:18:12] Especially now, these last few months have been really hard, and it's, I think it's very hard to keep a positive attitude. You know, I've had days where I've cried, days where I've been happy. it's just, this is unprecedented time for artists especially, and everybody is just trying to find the happy where they can.[00:18:32] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:18:32] Yeah. Yeah. I absolutely agree. I love that. Well, I have a couple of questions that I like to ask my guests, if that's okay. So how do you personally define art or what is art to you?[00:18:48] Krista Eyler: [00:18:48] What is art to me? I think it's making something from nothing. And no, there's a  song called "Finishing the Hat," and it talks about that creation of, you know--I made a hat where there never was a hat, and art to me is really just that. And I'm glad I rhymed those two lines. It's making something from nothing that hopefully will make somebody else feel something very important or have a very visceral, emotional response. I mean, everything I write musically is to reach someone else, is to entertain someone else, is to give, you know, that pleasure in your ears from some really great music and singing.[00:19:38]That's, that's kind of how I see art. You know what? I'm not a scholar of art. I'm not a scholar of dance. I'm not a scholar of music theory. I'm basically not a scholar of anything except the raising my children, but when it comes to art, I just, I just really feel great satisfaction when you make something that wasn't there before and then it's there, then you've brought it into existence and then you wonder why it was not there before.[00:20:11] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:20:11] I love that. Because you hadn't created it yet, I guess![00:20:17] Krista Eyler: [00:20:17] I hadn't created it. Every once in a while I'll wake up with a song in my head. And I'll go, "What is that song?" I was like, "I know that song. What is that song?" Then I went, "Oh, I haven't written it yet. Oh, I haven't written that song yet." That's happened to me several times.[00:20:33]Lindsey Dinneen: [00:20:33] That is awesome.[00:20:34] Krista Eyler: [00:20:34] Weird, isn't it?[00:20:35] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:20:35] No, I love it. It doesn't happen to me, but, but I love it. Okay, what do you think is the most important role of an artist?[00:20:47] Krista Eyler: [00:20:47] I think artists help people in the world, see things in a different way. I think. I think artists help people have different perspectives on every aspect of life. I mean, what would we do without, you know, the great playwrights who have shown us corners of the world that I will never see or make music from different countries that I, I didn't grow up in that tradition, so I would never have heard it. I mean, an artist's job is to enrich life for others. I don't, I mean, I inherently, I think the creation of art is kind of selfish because we have to, it comes from our brain, comes from our hand.[00:21:31] We're very happy or sad with it. But I really think art is, for me, it's so cliche, but art is for everyone and artists need to create for people out in the world who are non-artists, so they can see a different perspective of the world--they can hear something, see something, do something different that will be better and change, possibly even change your mind and then change your, how you operate in your daily life. I mean, that is a profoundly important thing that art can do, is change how people think. And I mean, that's powerful. It's very powerful. Yeah.[00:22:08] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:22:08] Yeah. No, it absolutely is. Okay. I love that answer. Okay. And, my last question is, I'll explain the words I'm going to use because it's--might not be very clear--but do you think, just in your own personal opinion, do you think that art should be exclusive or inclusive? And those words I know are a little odd to use, but I'll just define that a little bit more. So exclusive being, sort of, the artist creates something, puts it out there and then doesn't give a whole lot of description. Versus inclusive, being more like, can you tell us your inspiration behind it or what the title or whatever. How do you feel about that?[00:22:48] Krista Eyler: [00:22:48] I always prefer things that are inclusive. You know, an artist can create something and put a painting up on a wall and it has deep, deep significance, but as just a lay person in society, if I walk by and all I see is red--then I would really like to be connected to a piece if you would explain it to me. I mean, I think that's the selfish part of art as well--"I'm not going to explain myself."[00:23:14] I was like, "Well, that's kinda dumb. Why would you not explain it to me? So I love it as much as you do." I think that's also an artist personality. I think every art is different, and if an artist is afraid of what someone might say of their work, then they'll just say, "I don't need to explain it to you. It is what it is." And I think I agree with some of that. Like when I write music, I don't want someone to come along and change it cause that's what was in my head, but I certainly will try to explain it. If someone said, "I don't understand why that--that sounds weird--why is that there?" And I said, "Well, it kind of goes along with what's being sung."[00:23:50] I will always go on the side of more communication and more arts understanding because, especially I think in the Midwest, if you--there are so many inner circles, there are inner circles and inside jokes with theater and musical theater and plays and dance references and art references, and if you're not included in that--then I think art's a real turnoff.[00:24:13] You know, with dance, I will admit my complete lack of knowledge. I mean, I love, I love to tap dance, but I'm, I don't know anything about ballet. I mean, I know nothing about the greats other than what I've read or picked up on my own. I know Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is my favorite dance troupe in the whole entire world because I've gotten to experience their work over and over and over watching it. And I also had some explanation behind it, so I knew what was going on. Like with a lot of ballet, I don't know what's going on with opera. I don't know what is happening. I, my brain just goes, "Okay, I'm done."[00:24:53] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:24:53] Sure.[00:24:54] Krista Eyler: [00:24:54] I will try and try and try to have patience and focus, but if it's not explained to me, then I have no clue, which leads to no interest.[00:25:03] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:25:03] Right.[00:25:03] Krista Eyler: [00:25:03] So I think art should be inclusive--as inclusive as possible. The more understanding someone can bring to their work, the more I will be drawn to it. I think that's just me though. I mean, a lot of people are just like, "Well, it's my art and I'll do what I want and take it."[00:25:22]Lindsey Dinneen: [00:25:22] Well, that's excellent. Thank you so much. I just love your perspective. And you know, just on a personal note, cause again, I've, I've had the pleasure of watching your work ,and I just wanna say thank you so much for creating art because, as someone who's been on the receiving end of it, I have to say that I've been very inspired and you've brought a lot of joy to your audiences, so thank you for that.[00:25:47] Krista Eyler: [00:25:47] I appreciate those kind words that, you know, I don't write complicated things. I hopefully write things that reach people in an emotional way that's positive and hopeful --even, you know, even when there is pain, I like to talk about, you know, redemption after the pain. So, it's been a pleasure talking with you, Lindsey.[00:26:08] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:26:08] Yeah. Well, and, okay, so, is there a way that we can connect with you? Do you have any future projects coming up you'd like to tell us about?[00:26:18] Krista Eyler: [00:26:18] I do, and I have written, we finished our second musical called "The Sparkletones" inspired by--it takes place in 1969, Kansas. It's a singing group of four women who kind of gets stuck in a diner, and a lot changes in all of their lives in one night. And the story was inspired by my mom who's sang in a Sweet Adelines Group in Kansas in the sixties and she kept in touch with her other Sparkletones. People threw a round-robin letter series, which is one person writes a letter to the second person, the second person, right, puts their letter in, and it kind of goes around, and they've been doing that for over 40 years. So, I kind of too--inspired by her story and the letters and got to work on a musical, and we're going to debut it next March at the Johnson County Arts and Heritage Center.[00:27:09] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:27:09] Oh, that's so exciting. Awesome.[00:27:12] Krista Eyler: [00:27:12] I'm in the show this time. I'm not a lead. So that takes the pressure off me to be involved. We, we have a very strong cast and creative team and it's going to be a great show. It's going to be fun.[00:27:27] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:27:27] That is exciting. And so if people want to, kind of keep up with that and keep up with some of your other work, because I know you, again, you're multifaceted, where can they connect with you.[00:27:38] Krista Eyler: [00:27:38] They can find me on Facebook, just under my name, Krista Eyler, or through Sharp Women Studios. All of that's on Facebook. We also have a website called sharpwomen.org, so I'm, I'm easy to find.[00:27:59] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:27:59] Excellent. Okay, well, perfect. Well, thank you again so much, Krista. I really appreciate your perspective.  And again, on behalf of myself because I've gotten to experience it--but on behalf of everyone who's gotten to experience your art, I do want to say thank you because I do think that there's a lot of value, in creating art and sharing it.[00:28:20]Krista Eyler: [00:28:20] Thank you for having me.[00:28:21] Lindsey Dinneen: [00:28:21] All right, well, have an amazing day and thank you to everyone who has listened to this episode, and we will catch you next time.[00:28:37] If you have a story to share with us, we would love that so much and I hope your day has been Artfully Told.[00:28:46]Hey Artfully Told listeners, I'm excited to share with you about Bluprint, which is the most amazing website for artists and makers of all levels. Bluprint lets you dig into anything you've ever daydreamed about doing like dance, fitness, yoga, art, and home decorating, plus all the arts and crafts categories you know and love. More than 13 million enthusiasts, from artists to quilters and beyond, make Bluprint their home for binge-worthy, on-demand content, access to the world's top experts, and curated supplies all served up in a fun, loving, creative community. Super cool. And even better--currently, they're offering 50% off their classes. So if you are interested in taking advantage of that--learning a new skill, having an amazing time working with experts in their fields--you will love to take advantage of this offer. And you'll just click on the link in my comments and my show notes and you'll be rocking and rolling, and we will catch you next time.    Intro & Outro Music Credits:Bad Ideas (distressed) by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3412-bad-ideas-distressed-License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Geraldine Anello has conducted Kinky Boots and School of Rock on Broadway, The Fantasticks off-Broadway, and played in the orchestras of Broadway’s School of Rock, Kinky Boots, Bronx Tale, Aladdin, and On the Town. She has also worked on the Broadway productions SpongeBob the Musical, An American in Paris, On Your Feet, and Matilda. Off Broadway credits include We Are the Tigers, Renascence for the Transport Group, Finian’s Rainbow at the Irish Repertory Theatre, and Children of Salt at the New York Musical Festival (be sure to check out the cast albums for these amazing projects!) She was the music supervisor and conductor of the benefit concert Double Standards at Town Hall in New York City, featuring Sarah Bareilles, Denee Benton, and Ingrid Michaelson, amongst others. She is the leader of Theatre Music Directors, an industry group of 8,600 members worldwide, for which she offers educational opportunities taught by Broadway conductors. She is the author of the upcoming book (title TBD) where she interviews musicians at the top of the game across all music disciplines. MM: WMU. DMA: BU Connect with Geraldine!https://geraldineanello.com/home/https://www.facebook.com/geraldinebcl[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnVaJPieF7iWPY-F0oCCmcA/feature?fbclid=IwAR1RdsbTpx3rIMb3wSDWzh3s4IlKZyHmsMIcawhOWD2e7cTmCCUzqCCGVTc](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnVaJPieF7iWPY-F0oCCmcA/feature?fbclid=IwAR1RdsbTpx3rIMb3wSDWzh3s4IlKZyHmsMIcawhOWD2e7cTmCCUzqCCGVTc) Contact us here!www.aspiringartistpodcast.comwww.rachelsandlermusic.comInstagram @rachelsandlermusicTik Tok rachelsandlermusicFor podcast inquiries: aspiringartistpodcast@gmail.comFor music & lessons inquiries: rachelsandlermusic@gmail.com

"Listen this week to meet Allyssa Blair with the Augusta Mini Theatre taking about the Mini Theatre Show “All God’s Children Got Guns” (Truth or Myth). Next week-end is the last show and the only date left is Sunday February 16 at 3PM. This is a great show to see with your children, sparking a conversation About guns for days after. The Mini Theatre programs a January/February show dedicated to the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr and Black History Month. Next on the Show this week is Mark Swanson to talk about his play ‘A Scythe of Time’ presented at the Maxwell Theatre by Theater Aug. This play, inspired by two stories by Edgar Allan Poe is “a dark and delectable little comedy. A ghoulishly prankish satire set in Victorian London..”” –The New York Times The show earned many awards at the New York Musical Festival and now you can see it in Augusta February 13-16. More details on these shows and everything discussed on the podcast can be found on our arts calendar on our website Events.Augustaarts.com Get out there and have some fun in Augusta!" Brenda

Two composers from our New Writers at 54! series join us for this week's episode.  Rona Siddiqui is the award-winning composer and lyricist behind the autobiographical comedy Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan, which completed a workshop at Playwrights Horizons in November 2019. She has also created standalone pieces for The NYC Gay Men's Chorus, Broadway Inspirational Voices, and Wicked's 16th Anniversary Commemoration and music directed the Michael R Jackson's A Strange Loop.  Billy Recce is a MAC award-winner, and a recipient of the York Theatre Company's NEO Award. He is a writer, composer, performer, and is the youngest writer ever selected for the New York Musical Festival for his show, Balloon Boy: The Musical. He released his debut album “The Perks of Being A Snowflake” in 2018 and his show A Musical About Star Wars is currently running off-Broadway at the St. Luke's Theatre. Rona and Billy sat down with our Marketing Associate Dylan MacDowell to discuss the new series, their individual journey as writers, and what sparks inspiration. For tickets and information visit: Rona Siddiqui: https://54below.com/events/new-writers-at-54-rona-siddiqui/ Billy Recce: https://54below.com/events/snowflake-songs-the-music-of-billy-recce/  Connect with Rona on Twitter at @RonaSiddiqui  Connect with Rona on Instagram at @CrazyFingers10 Connect with Billy on Twitter at @BillyRecce Connect with Billy on Instagram at @TheBillyRecce   See Billy Recce sing “Unironic Love Song”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVtTpnfrh6M  See Rona Riddiqui's song “Change the World”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JaRPU-FXeY   Credits This podcast is hosted by Nella Vera and Adrian Karnani and produced by Grace Benigni, with support from the Feinstein's/54 Below marketing staff. Artwork by Philip Romano. Follow Nella on Twitter at @spinstripes and Adrian on Instagram at @adriankarnani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Good Morning New York creator Jacklyn Thrapp calls for an investigation into exactly what happened to the money - including the $75 submission fees writers recently paid + "participation fee of $15,000" invited productions are charged. Plus - the latest on Good Morning New York (opening in just over a week) #Broadway #OffBroadway --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month, and my long time friends Greg and Aaron Tornquist called the show on Sirius XM Family Talk 131 to discuss their journey. Aaron (41) has down syndrome, is a serious bowler, works, and is an Elvis Tribute Artist.   His father, Greg, has a lengthy music/performance history and his new project, Mississippi The Musical. (it just won "Best of the Fest" in the New York Musical Festival.  https://www.mississippithemusical.com/ Greg beautifully models a creative life as a caregiver and shares about his journey as a single dad with Aaron.  Also in the show, another Nashville writer , Lisa Dale Daniels, calls in to share her journey in caring for her famous songwriter mother ...and learning to carve out her own identity as a writer.  Writers Write ...Even While Caregiving. Especially while caregiving.  The show is the family caregiver outreach of Standing With Hope.    

Joel B. New is the winner of the American Theatre Wing’s Jonathan Larson Grant and MAC's John Wallowitch Award. His musicals include "To Hell and Back,” performed at the New York Musical Festival in 2015; "McKenzie and the Missing Boy," developed by the Musical Theatre Factory; and the EP “Cabot Cove,” which is inspired by Murder She Wrote. His shows have been workshopped or performed at many of the best incubators in the country, including Ars Nova, New York Theatre Barn, Prospect Theater Company, and overseas at Broadway au Carré in Paris! Joel describes his newest work, “Monkey Trouble: Unleashed,” as “a violent musical comedy,” inspired by two critically obscure films. It will debut October 6 at The Duplex in New York City!

From www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.com, coverage of plays and musicals from Broadway to Off-Off Broadway seen during the month of July 2019 with very diverse themes and subject matter. This episode covers the first three weeks of the New York Musical Festival and Broadway's Pretty Woman.

  And we are BACK to our usual format, highlighting one local playwright per episode. This month's featured playwright is Liana Asim, who has put together an epic opera along with her husband Jabari and a few musical collaborators about the life of the slave rebellion leader Nat Turner. BROTHER NAT: RISE. REVOLT. REDEMPTION. had a concert performance last October, which is where the gorgeous excerpt in the episode came from. The piece will be performed again this month at the New York Musical Festival, July 15 & 17. IMPORTANT! You can learn more and support this endeavor by donating here: www.nymf.org/festival/2019-events/brother-nat/ Guest co-host Laura Neill and I talk with Liana about digging through history for inspiration, putting together musicals, and getting a late start on playwriting. Mentioned: New York Musical Festival, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, The Boston Foundation, Emerson College Co-Host Laura Neill Cast Duane Adolph Moody, Sirgourney Cook, Lovely Hoffman, Neal Ferreira, Mark Linehan, Joshuah Brian Campbell, James Dargan, Christina DeVaughn, Todd McNeel, Katie O'Reilly, Tiniqua Patric,, Pier Lamia Porter, Nathan Rodriguez, Carolyn Saxon, and Jermaine Tulloch.  

On Episode 65 Of "Your Program Is Your Ticket" My Guests Are Cast And Creative Team Members Of “Interstate” - A New Musical Featured In The 2018 New York Musical Festival. (Musical Intro And Outro By The Phenomenal North Coast, NYC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We continue our discussion with speakers from CODAME's Art + Tech Festival, ARTOBOTS, held at The Midway in June. Part 2 features one-on-one, on-site conversations with robotics professor Amy LaViers, technologist and performer, Catie Cuan, and NPR correspondent, Laura Sydell.In this episode, collaborators Amy LaViers and Catie Cuan from the Robotics, Automation, Dance (RAD) Lab at the University of Illinois discuss their research on incorporating natural movement into robots, how dance plays a role in this study, and their performance piece, Time to Compile. We conclude the episode with an amazing conversation with NPR Digital Culture correspondent, Laura Sydell, who shares insight on how and why artists and criminals will shape the future of technology.Thank you CODAME for inviting us to cover this awesome event, and a special shoutout to Vanessa Chang, CODAME curator, for personally extending the invitation to us. You can listen to our interview with Vanessa Chang here.-About Amy LaViers-Assistant Professor, Mechanical Science and Engineering — University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAmy develops high-level abstractions for expressive robotic systems and study human-machine interaction. She lead two interdisciplinary teams toward this end: her research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Robotics, Automation, and Dance (RAD) Lab, and her start up, AE Machines. Amy is also passionate about teaching engineers to write and roboticists to dance and about bringing artists into the design of technology. This work applies to manufacturing, national defense, personal robots, entertainment, engineering education, somatic practices, and art -- to name a few!Tweet her @alaviers Learn more about Amy here-About Catie Cuan-Catie Cuan is an artist and technologist based out of Brooklyn. As a performer she has worked with the Metropolitan Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lisa Bielawa/KCET, Katherine Helen Fisher, Clare Cook, NY Fashion Week, and CATAPULT Entertainment, as well as Broadway choreographer Peggy Hickey. Her own choreography has been presented at venues and festivals such as the Actors Fund Arts Center, DanceNOW Raw, the Brooklyn Dance Festival, Zellerbach (Berkeley), NY Theater Barn, New York Musical Festival, and The Tank, where she won the inaugural XYZNYC Choreography Competition. Her passion for technology is evidenced by her previous work experience at Google/YouTube and Bain & Company before joining Color + Information, a digital creative agency, as Vice President. She is currently a digital consultant and avid VR researcher. She graduated with High Honors from UC Berkeley with a dual degree in Business Administration and Dance and was a visiting student at the University of Oxford, New College.Catie Cuan is also a 2018 TED Resident and ThoughtWorks Arts Resident.Learn more about Catie hereFollow Catie @itscatie-About Laura Sydell-Laura Sydell fell in love with the intimate storytelling qualities of radio, which combined her passion for theatre and writing with her addiction to news. Over her career she has covered politics, arts, media, religion, and entrepreneurship. Currently Sydell is the Digital Culture Correspondent for NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, and NPR.org.Sydell's work focuses on the ways in which technology is transforming our culture and how we live. For example, she reported on robotic orchestras and independent musicians who find the Internet is a better friend than a record label as well as ways technology is changing human relationships.Tweet her @SydellLearn more about her interest in artists & criminals here-About CODAME-Sparked by the network of creative coders, designers, and artists that Bruno Fonzi and Jordan Gray knew from around the world, CODAME was founded to celebrate their passion for art and technology. The CODAME brand of immersive, engaging, and out of the ordinary experiences was coined at the inaugural CODAME ART+TECH Festival in 2010 on a foggy rooftop in downtown San Francisco. CODAME builds ART+TECH projects and nonprofit events to inspire through experience.Follow them @codameTweet them @codameLearn more here

Thicket & Thistle ensemble member Lindsay Zaroogian joins The Improviser's Guide Podcast for this edition of IT'S [Talk] TUESDAY! Their original folk musical, 'What's Your Wish?' is heading to the New York Musical Festival for five performances in July 2018 - TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW! Original Theme composed by Matt Harvey. Additional Themes produced for [By The Mummers] performances composed by Jason Purdy. 'I'm Always Chasing Rainbows', 'I'm Always Blowing Bubbles', 'Shimmy Like My Sister Kate', and 'And The Band Played On/Alexander's Ragtime Band' performed by Lindsay Zaroogian. LIKE The Improviser's Guide on Facebook. FOLLOW @FrankMCardillo on Twitter & Instagram. TheImprovisersGuide.com for more!

Rachel Avery is an award-winning actor/writer/director who recently won the Producers Encore Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival for her work developing and directing the one woman show The Pleasure Project, which just completed a run in Adelaide, Australia. She recently directed, wrote, and starred in the TV comedy Wake Up America! which is now available on Amazon Prime. Rachel’s short film Jet Lag, premiered at the California Women’s Film Festival. She was nominated for Best Director of a Musical by the Calgary Theatre Critics’ Awards for Blanche, which premiered at the New York Musical Festival and Huffington Post put it on the list of top 20 shows for 2011. Rachel has been actively shadowing TV Directors on Criminal Minds and the upcoming Roseanne reboot. As an actress, she performed Off-Broadway and around the world in Re-Animator the Musical, (Original Cast Recording) directed by Stuart Gordon and co-starring George Wendt. Film/TV appearances include Tropic Thunder, The Giant Mechanical Man, Big Love, Reno 911, State of Georgia, Movie of the Week for the Hallmark Channel, and the horror flick Big Game. She is a proud member of Rogue Machine Theater and Pacific Resident Theater in Los Angeles winning Ovation, LADCC and LA Weekly Awards. Rachel graduated from the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son. "I write with a director's mind... And I think that's why I get hung up on action, because I think that is the place where I ask, "How do you succinctly express in the written word what is ultimately going to be a visual experience for the audience." • Rachel Avery on Twitter • Rachel's pilot, Wake Up America!  • The Pleasure Project   // Pulling Your Hair Out is produced and hosted by Richard Lowe. Music by Joshua Moshier.  

In Episode 94 of the “High Regard Show,” “A Wall Apart,” we talk to Graham Russell, one half of iconic music duo Air Supply, whose latest work is "A Wall Apart." "A Wall Apart" is a rock musical that tells the story of three brothers living in Berlin at the time of the wall is erected, and Graham tells us how the musical came to be, what he hopes comes out of its run at the New York Musical Festival and which of Air Supply's many hits is his favorite. We're skipping “Roly Poly Roarty" this week as we did this show in the future (it's complicated, but you should really listen to Tom's explanation, even if Nikki didn't). In its place, we discuss the incredible — and incredibly inspiring — HBO documentary, "The Defiant Ones," which tells the intersecting stories of NWA and Jimmy Iovine and is something you should watch ASAP — or at least after you listen to this episode of HRS. For more info on "A Wall Apart," visit: Website: http://awallapart.com New York Musical Festival: http://www.nymf.org Check back for new “High Regard Show” shows every Monday on SoundCloud and iTunes (please be sure to follow and rate us)! You can also follow us right here on highregardshow.com and on these social media sites: Twitter Facebook Instagram Tumblr Google+ Pinterest You can also find hosts @TomRoarty and @NikkiMMascali on Twitter. Finally, if you would like to have your work, product, band or even your mom promoted on the show, drop us a note at highregardshow@gmail.com

On Episode 20 Of "Your Program Is Your Ticket" The Dynamic Duo Music Team For CPA Theatrical's New York Musical Festival's Production Of “Numbers Nerds"- Lyricist Alex Higgin-Houser and Composer David Kornfeld-Discuss The Amazing Experience Of Bringing This Inspirational Musical To The New York Stage! Plus, I Give A Little Background About The Festival Itself! I Highly Recommend Getting Your Ticket's To “Numbers Nerds” Right Away!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MULTISTAGES, in association with Dr. Judy Kuriansky and Jane Velez-Mitchell, is pleased to announce the award-winning musical, TEMPLE OF THE SOULS, co-written by poet Anita Velez-Mitchell, platinum-winning composers Dean Landon and Anika Paris,  and MultiStages Artistic Director Lorca Peress. Peress will also direct, with musical direction by Bruce Baumer, choreography by Enrique Brown, and visual design by Obie-winner Jan Hartley. TEMPLE OF THE SOULS will play a limited engagement as part of the New York Musical Festival at Off-Broadway’s The Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row (410 W. 42nd St., NY, NY 10036). Performances begin Wednesday, July 19 through Sunday, July 23. nymf.org/templeofthesouls www.multistages.orgwww.templeofthesouls.com Tickets  at www.nymf.org or  212-352-3101. TODAYS FEATURED GUEST DR. JUDY KURIANSKY, ANIKA PARIS AND LORRAINE VELEZ

Michael Cassara (michaelcassara.net) is a Casting Director and Educator based in New York City, dedicated to developing and fostering the growth of new musicals, plays, and film projects. He has worked with many of the nation’s top theatres including Gulfshore Playhouse, the Denver Center, the Old Globe, Great Lakes Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, The Hangar Theatre, and more. | Since 2007, Cassara has served as the resident casting director of the New York Musical Festival, where he has cast over 70 individual projects. In 2013, he became the Casting Director for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT), and casts their annual Festival of New Musicals each October. Feature film credits include Grantham & Rose, Contest, and Clear Blue Tuesday. Additionally, he has cast a number of high-profile short films including Alienated and The Hyperglot. | Originally a performer, Michael is a native Clevelander and a BFA graduate of the musical theatre program at Otterbein. He regularly teaches and lectures on musical theatre and the entertainment industry, in New York City and throughout the world. | For the live song portion of the episode, Mr. Cassara performs the brand new song, "You Just Ain't My Type". Music and lyrics by Joel B. New. | This episode was recorded at the Music Hall provided by the Dramatists Guild Fund (dgfund.org).

Jack, David, and Lindsay discuss what we’re looking forward to this month at the theater beyond Broadway. We highlight: Runaways, Off-Center Jamboree! and Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater at Encores! Off-Center (We also get to hear about Jack’s stage debut in a production of Runaways at age 11!) Summer Shorts 2016 at[...]

Eps: 222Breaking Anxiety Chains: How Carrie Berk 'Mindfire' Sparks a Mental Health Revolution (and the Art Of Surviving Adulthood) - Meet Carrie BerkIn this insightful episode, we talk with the author of "Mindfire," a compelling exploration of anxiety and adulthood. Carrie Berk opens up about her personal journey with anxiety and how it has influenced her life and perspective. We delve into the inspiration behind "Mindfire," the therapeutic process of writing intimate diary entries, and effective coping mechanisms for managing anxiety. The conversation also touches on the cultural pressures faced by millennials, the importance of self-care, and the power of community in supporting mental health. Whether you're dealing with anxiety or supporting someone who is, this episode offers valuable insights and encouragement.GuestCarrie Berk https://www.instagram.com/carrieberkk an NYC-based journalist, content creator, and bestselling author.Her most recent book, My Real-Life Rom-Com, was a Barnes & Noble bestseller and peaked at #1 in the Dating & Intimacy category on Amazon. Berk freelances for several publications, including New York Post, Page Six, HuffPost, Women's Health, and Newsweek.Berk is a bestselling children's book author with twenty-one books to hercredit. She penned her first book, Peace, Love and Cupcakes, in 2012. TheCupcake Club series went on to publish twelve books (selling over 300,000 copies worldwide), and became an award-winning Off-Broadway show and featured selection in 2017's New York Musical Festival. Her second series, Fashion Academy, stemsfrom her passion for fashion. The six-book series also became an Off-Broadway production at Vital Theatre and is currently licensed worldwide by Concord Music Publishing. She also published a three-book series, Ask Emma.She is a verified content creator with 3.8 million followers on TikTok and 880,000 on Instagram, with a combined engagement of more than 100 million.HostOlyasha Novozhylova @notbasicblonde_NotBasicBlonde Podcast @nbbpodcast