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Through the support of the Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Elissa & Melissa invite us to there time watching two of Orlando Shakes PlayFest shows. The first being 'Bite Me' written by Eliana Pipes. And the second being 'Repossessed' written by Greg Lam, who you can also hear in our recent episode from the Orlando Shakespeare Theater.If you'd like to catch any of Orlando Shakes events, check out there website at https://www.orlandoshakes.org/.
With Noir Hamlet, John Minigan managed to turn Hamlet into a short, fun comedy, and he stopped by the show to tell us how he did it. In this episode, we discuss:How Noir was the perfect genre to adapt Shakespeare's most famous play and why John has three versions of this scriptthe many Easter eggs hidden in the script of Noir Hamlet to what John attributes his Edinburgh Fringe successTONS of writing tipsAnd more!Resources MentionedNew Play ExchangePatrick Gabridge and Playwright Marketing BingeFor Fall 2022 only: Catch John's adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow at Greater Boston Stage Company. Streaming options available! About Our GuestJohn Minigan's Queen of Sad Mischance received the 2022 Judith Royer Award for Excellence in Playwriting from ATHE/The Kennedy Center, the 2022 Louise Wigglesworth Excellence in Playwriting Award from the Lab Theatre of Florida, and was a Gold Prize winner in the 2019 Clauder Competition for New England playwrights. He is a recent Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing and New Repertory Theatre Playwriting Fellow. His work has been included in the Best American Short Plays, Best Ten-Minute Short Plays, and multiple other anthologies. His full-length plays have been developed with Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Gloucester Stage Company, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Portland Stage Company, and the Great Plains Theatre Conference. His comedy Noir Hamlet was a Boston Globe Critics' Pick, an Elliot Norton Outstanding New Script nominee, and named an EDGE Media Best of Boston Theater for 2018. In his time as a public high school teacher, John worked with students to devise more than twenty original works, including commissions and two overall winners of the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild's High School Drama Festival. John is currently on the faculty of Emerson College and serves as a Dramatists Guild Ambassador for Greater Boston. Connect with Our GuestConnect with host Melissa Schmitz***Sign up for the 101 Stage Adaptations Newsletter***101 Stage AdaptationsFollow the Podcast on Facebook & InstagramRead Melissa's plays on New Play ExchangeConnect with Melissa on LinkedInWays to support the show:- Buy Me a Coffee- Tell us your thoughts in our Listener Survey!- Give a 5-Star rating- Write a glowing review on Apple Podcasts - Send this episode to a friend- Share on social media (Tag us so we can thank you!)Creators: Host your podcast through Buzzsprout using my affiliate link & get a $20 credit on your paid account. Let your fans directly support you via Buy Me a Coffee (affiliate link).
The Whole Artist with Courtney Rioux: Conversations with artists about acting, purpose, and the journey to finding wholeness. You are so much more than the last job you booked. This week Courtney sits down with Torrey Devitto. Torrey is an actor who is known for the NBC drama Chicago Med (2015-2021), Amy Makes Three (2016) , and the CW television series The Vampire Diaries (2009), among many others. Born and raised in Huntington, New York, to Mary Devitto & Liberty DeVitto, from the time Torrey was born, she was surrounded by the entertainment industry. For 28 years, her father played the drums for Billy Joel. She spent most of her early years traveling on the road with her parents. She began violin lessons at age six and was in the 4th grade when she had already earned her place as the 4th chair violinist in a New York high school orchestra. She played in the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Florida Youth Artist Orchestra. In 1997, Torrey played on stage with her father at a Terri Binion show in Orlando, earning her first standing ovation. At 15, she started working in commercials, modeling, and print ads. Her break came when she earned the lead in playwright Lee Blessing's three-woman play Eleemosynary, which was performed at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater. Torrey moved to Los Angeles, where her career as an actress took off. Outside work, Torrey has worked with SafeBAE and been a longtime Hospice Ambassador, and also supports PETA and The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). She shares, "To most, death is an incredibly scary and taboo idea. Hospice provides a shoulder to lean on... and the important duty of easing the fears and doubts that naturally reside in our minds as we approach the end of our lifetime. There is nothing I am more proud or passionate about than being a part of this work. It is a life-long commitment for me. A passion that I find to be more gratifying than anything I have ever known…”. Find Torrey online at: ig: @torreydevitto Torrey's former acting teacher: Michael Woolson | https://MichaelWoolson.com Hospice https://www.nhpco.org/ SafeBAE https://safebae.org Sign up for V.I.P. updates and free gifts at: https://www.courtneyrioux.com Find Courtney on Social Media: https://instagram.com/courtneyrioux ### Special thanks to: Henrique Lazary for editing and mixing this episode. Mandy Work Wetzel for all of your hard work. Photography by Joe Mazza, Brave Lux. For more information, go to https://bravelux.com/ Music by Blythe Martin Productions. For more info, please contact Jamie and Erik at erik@SoundAnswer.com Co-Edited by Courtney Rioux --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/courtneyrioux/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/courtneyrioux/support
This first podcast focuses on Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation (the dialect of English spoken in the late 16th and early 17th century). It also serves as an introduction to the entire In a Manner of Speaking series, as Paul briefly touches on several topics of upcoming podcasts. For more information about the Orlando Shakespeare Theater’s upcoming production of Twelfth Night, visit the site.
This week on From the HeART, Mary Thompson Hunt talks to Anne Hering, Christian Knightly, and Jack Smith of the Orlando Shakespeare Theater about the the current season and what's coming up!
Is God Is, Brief Chronicle (Books 6-8) (3 Hole Press) 3 Hole Press is a small press bringing new audiences to new plays in printed formats. To celebrate the publications of its two newest books, 3 Hole Press presents short readings from each play, followed by a conversation with the authors. Winner of the 2016 Relentless Award from the American Playwriting Foundation, Aleshea Harris’ Is God Is is a classic revenge tale about two sisters that blends tragedy, typography, the Spaghetti Western, hip-hop and Afropunk. In this necessary new work, emotions are laid bare through gaps in language and characters are a window into the canon as well as our own broken times. In Brief Chronicle (Books 6–8), Alexander Borinsky delivers a quietly heartbreaking new play that grounds epic themes—unabated longing, violence and imperialism, and the bond between mother and son—in the small ways we hurt and love one another and decide where to go on vacation. Praise for IS GOD IS A rigorous new work that unearths our deepest fears about humanity and who we think we are in relation to ourselves and the divine.—Dawn Lundy Martin Family, as the old tragedians knew, is our first country. Therefore, it’s the earth from which we forge our first weapons, the fields of our first wars, the very turf over which we fight. With Is God Is, Aleshea Harris audaciously scours tragedy down with the rough edge of a rock. To read this merciless play is to get blood in your eye — and in Harris’ sure grip, you’ll recall that blood washes and stains, can run hot or cold, means both violence and family. —Douglas Kearney Praise for BRIEF CHRONICLE, BOOKS 6-8 Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8 is a remarkable creature of our shattered and shuttered time. Borinsky’s theater examines everything that it encounters—including the various artifices of theater itself, i.e. character, costumes, boxes, supposed emotions (real or imagined), action as it would have its way, place/s, and all the supposed ends and means of the theater making apparatus—with a scrupulous but loving attentiveness. There is no one quite like him writing and making theater today.—Mac Wellman In this big, small play, people learn who they are as they say things, punctuation makes gaps where lonely spirits and dances live, and stuff gets sticky between tender, selfish hearts. This is a battle cry for doing the daily work of becoming better in America.—Jennie Liu If the world feels a little unknowable after reading this play, if you feel unknowable to yourself, how do you talk about that, how do you narrate what it was like? Still, I will tell you what I thought about when I finished Alexander Borinsky’s Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8, though it changed when I read it again, and it may be different for you too. Intimacy. The many ways (sometimes strange or uncomfortable) in which it’s possible to know another person. What it means to appear. What it means to live.—Amina Cain Alexander Borinsky is a playwright, born in Baltimore in 1986. Aleshea Harris is a playwright, poet and educator who received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been presented at the Costume Shop at American Conservatory Theater, Playfest at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, freeFall Theatre Company, VOXfest at Dartmouth, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, La Comédie de Saint-Étienne- National Drama Center in France, the Skirball Center, The Theatre @ Boston Court, REDCAT and in the 2015 anthology, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop. Harris is a MacDowell Fellow and winner of the 2016 Relentless Award from the American Playwriting Foundation for Is God Is.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
Episode 196 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download. In this week's episode, I interview the actor Joe Vincent, Plus John McMahon writes about how Moby Dick changed his life. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Check out Orlando Shakespeare Theater's current offerings, and use the discount code mentioned at the beginning of this week's episode. See my reviews of OST's Tempest and Pericles. Check out C.T. McMillan's blog, McMillan's Codex. Check out Lisa Marten's blog, On Top of It. I am so proud to share this wonderful Kerouac House/Burrow Press event from last month, My Queer Valentine, starring Ashley Inguanta, Claire Robin Thorne, Amber Norman, and Sarah Viren. Episode 196 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing, literature, and drinking, is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's episode, I interview fiction writer Mary Gaitskill, and share her reading from Miami Book Fair International, plus Beverly Army Williams and I discuss Mary Gaitskill's new novel, The Mare. TEXTS DISCUSSED The Mare" target="_blank" rel="attachment wp-att-11673"> Veronica" target="_blank" rel="attachment wp-att-11672">NOTES Check out Beverly Army Williams's site, Mothershould. Get tickets for Litlando here. The music used in this show was by Michael Hearst. "Alprazolam" (Songs for Fearful Flyers) and "Nicht Lustig Fight" (Film Music and Other Scores, Vol. 1) appeared in the opening, and "Theme From Magic Camp" (Film Music and Other Scores, Vol. 1) at the close. Check out his wonderful music. Songs For Fearful Flyers" target="_blank" rel="attachment wp-att-11854">If you live in Orlando, check out Orlando Shakespeare Theater's 2016 production of The Tempest. Greg Thornton (Prospero) & Lisa Wolpe (Antonia) in OST's The Tempest. (Photo by Luke Evans.)
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's episode, I talk to the memoirist, Chelsey Clammer, plus Susan Brennan shares her poetry sequence, Chromoluminarism, based on the last days of the pointillist, George Seraut. TEXTS DISCUSSED "The Circus" by George Seraut, 1891. NOTES If you live in the city beautiful (Orlando, in case you don't know), come out to see a great show and support a great cause on May 1st. Check out Jennifer Hoppe-House's Bad Dog, playing at Orlando Shakespeare Theater through May 3rd. Ginger Lee McDermott as Molly in Jennifer Hoppe-House's Bad Dog (Photo by Tony Firriolo). On May 8th, experience Poetry-O-Rama on the historic Wonder Wheel in Coney Island. Be sure to buy tickets in advance.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's episode, I talk to the playwright Jennifer Hoppe-House, whose extraordinary debut play is experiencing its world premiere at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, plus Lori D'Angelo writes about discovering The Scarlet Letter as a teenager, and reading it in a way probably not endorsed by her high school curriculum. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Ginger Lee McDermott as Molly in Jennifer Hoppe-House's Bad Dog (Photo by Tony Firriolo). Check out Jennifer Hoppe-House's Bad Dog, playing at Orlando Shakespeare Theater through May 5th.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
In this week's episode, I talk to the poet Scott Bailey, Scott Bailey and Raquel Obando. plus Chad W. Lutz writes about Stephen King's novella "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption." TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES The music accompanying Chad W. Lutz's essay was "Crater" by The Spanish Donkey. Ginger Lee McDermott as Molly in Jennifer Hoppe-House's Bad Dog (Photo by Tony Firriolo). Check out Jennifer Hoppe-House's Bad Dog, playing at Orlando Shakespeare Theater through May 5th.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week's show, I talk to the poet Eleanor Lerman, Plus Alden Jones writes about her time working in Cuba. TEXTS DISCUSSED Check out episode 48 to hear Eleanor Lerman's essay about Leonard Cohen's Spice Box of Earth. NOTES Check out the indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark's Bookshop to a new home in the East Village. Endorsed by this show and Anne Waldman. I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater's production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th. Check out Beating Windward Press's call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, The Things They Did For Money: How Writers, Artists, and Creatives Support the Habit.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week's show, I talk to Bob Contant and Terry McCoy, the owners of St. Mark's Bookshop, Plus Dan Lauer writes about identity and New York City. NOTES Check out the indiegogo crowd-sourcing effort to bring St. Mark's Bookshop to a new home in the East Village. Endorsed by this show and Anne Waldman. I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater's production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th. Check out Beating Windward Press's call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, The Things They Did For Money: How Writers, Artists, and Creatives Support the Habit. Episode 93 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week's show, I talk to the multidisciplinary wonder that is J. Bradley, Plus Molly Gleeson writes about reading Anthony Trollope while teaching in Saudia Arabia. TEXTS DISCUSSED Hear J. Bradley read his "You + Me = Awwwwwww Yeah" + "Pussycat Interstellar Naked Hotrod Mofo Ladybug Lust Blaster" by Derrick Brown on the second erotic poetry live show of The Drunken Odyssey. NOTES I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater's production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th. Check out Beating Windward Press's call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, The Things They Did For Money: How Writers, Artists, and Creatives Support the Habit. In England, authors are protesting a new measure that prohibits inmates from getting access to books in the mail (BBC). Beckett once directed his own plays, in performances featuring San Quentin inmates. Here's an image of the Chronic City finale poster.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week's show, I talk to fiction writer Laura Van Den Berg, Plus Will Dowd reads two poems. TEXTS DISCUSSED Three Thousand Dollars"> The Art Fair"> NOTES I recommend Orlando Shakespeare Theater's production of Julius Caesar, playing until April 20th. Check out Beating Windward Press's call for essays for its forthcoming essay collection, THE THINGS THEY DID FOR MONEY: HOW WRITERS, ARTISTS, AND CREATIVES SUPPORT THE HABIT.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week's show, I talk to fiction writer David James Poissant, Plus Max Bakke writes about Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. TEXTS DISCUSSED Read David James Poissant's "I Want to be Friends with Republicans" here. NOTES OST's William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar can be seen from March 19 - April 20, 2014. Go here for more details. Anne Hering, Esau Pritchett, Paul Bernardo, from Orlando Shakespeare Theater's forthcoming production of Julius Caesar.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week's show, I answer some mail with my friend, David James Poissant, Plus Dan Lauer writes about a unique book that changed his life. NOTES R.I.P., Oscar Hijuelos. The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is remarkable fucking reading. Orlando Shakespeare Theater presents Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker, from October 9 – November 10, 2013.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week's show, I talk to the fiction writer Tessa Mellas, Plus Todd Sentell writes about Huckleberry Finn, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and the Near Death of Literature. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES The Heaven of Animals, the forthcoming collection from friend-of-the-show David James Poissant, is available for pre-order. Please support the launch of his book, which is remarkable fucking reading. Orlando Shakespeare Theater presents Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker, from October 9 - November 10, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Js56KlfJoGY The Drunken Odyssey's review of this production will appear next week.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week's show, I talk to the novelist Kalliope Lee, plus Scott Hoffman talks about John Demos's The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES Until Tuesday, September 17th, 8 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, you can get a free ebook of Sunday Girl by going to smashwords, searching for Sunday Girl, and entering the code CV74V. The Taming of the Shrew runs September 11th through October 6th at Orlando Shakespeare Theater. Get tickets here. An author's first duty is to let down his country. --Brandon Behan. See my Pinupalooza photos here.
The Drunken Odyssey with John King: A Podcast About the Writing Life
On this week's show, I talk to three of the stars of Orlando Shakespeare Theatre's production of The Taming of the Shrew. Geoffrey Kent (Petruchio) And Deanna Gibson (Kate) John Ahlin (Baptista) And J. Bradley talks about being haunted by The Cure. TEXTS DISCUSSED NOTES OST's The Taming of the Shrew runs September 11th through October 6th. Get tickets here.
E.B. White's classic children's tale of an unlikely friendship comes to life on Orlando Shakespeare Theater's stage this spring. In this special episode of ArtBeat, we meet the actors who play Charlotte and Wilbur and find out why their story still touches hearts 60 years after its first publication. ArtBeat is hosted by Ann Kenda with production assistant from Matt Immerman.
The Orlando Shakespeare Theater has opened a winter production of the classic comedy turned tragedy "Romeo and Juliet." Meet Director Thomas Ouellette, Michael Raver as Romeo and Stella Heath as Juliet in this special episode of ArtBeat, hosted by Ann Kenda with production assistance from Matt Immerman.
Actor Michael Kevin Baldwin has just a few minutes to change costumes and personalities as he portrays a dozen citizens of Tuna, Texas in Orlando Shakespeare Theater's production of "A Tuna Christmas." This special two-part series is hosted by Ann Kenda and edited by Matt Immerman.
The Orlando Shakespeare Theater, in partnership with UCF, is celebrating the holiday season with the light-hearted comedy "A Tuna Christmas," set in the mythical town of Tuna, Texas. We hear from the stars of the show in this special two-part series hosted by Ann Kenda and edited by Matt Immerman.
The third in our series of season previews. A conversation with Melissa Mason from the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in partnership with UCF.
The Orlando Shakespeare Theater in partnership with UCF gets ready for Playfest - a ten-day theater event, this year featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman. We talk with Patrick Flick, the Shakespeare Theater's Director of New Play Development.
"Yankee Tavern" at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF - a mystery thriller that tackles the topic of 9/11 governmental conspiracy theories. Tune in to hear about Director Anne Hering's hopes and concerns for the production.
The Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF – what exactly does that mean? Jim Helsinger, Artistic Director of Orlando Shakes and UCF Theater Instructor, explains. Also, a sneak peak at “The Big Bang”, a two-person musical hoping to tell the history of the world in 90 hilarious minutes.