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Ep. 10: Rebekah Greer Melocik (Book and Lyric Writer) How to Dance in Ohio Broadway Musical  Rebekah Greer Melocik's projects with composer-collaborator Jacob Yandura include THE LAST QUEEN OF CANAAN (book by Harrison David Rivers), WRINGER, based on the novel by Jerry Spinelli (Off-Broadway, City Center) and HOW TO DANCE IN OHIO, based on the award-winning documentary (dir: Sammi Cannold). Recognitions and Residencies: SPACE at Ryder Farm (2021), Ars Nova's two-year UNCHARTED residency, 2016 Jonathan Larson Finalist, 2015 NAMT Festival (THE LAST QUEEN OF CANAN), the 2014 Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed MusicalsA, The York Theatre's NEO 2014 residency, 2013 Yale Institute for Music Theatre, the 2012-2013 Dramatists Guild Fellowship, the 2012 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Cap21's Writers Residency and Ant Fest 2013 (The Fearful Earful ). Rebekah holds a B.A. in Poetry from the University of Southern California and an MFA from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU. She also wrote curriculum stories for the award-winning early childhood chess company, Chess at Three.  https://melocik.com/ About our How to Dance in Ohio Podcast Building Moo-Mentum is a very, very unofficial podcast about the Broadway Musical "How to Dance in Ohio". Each interview is a researched conversation (30 min. to hour in length) with host Richard Wexler with those that are involved with the production from cast, crew, and more.  https://www.vintageannalsarchive.com/building-moo-mentum-a-very-unofficial-how-to-dance-in-ohio-podcast.html Credits  Produced and Edited by Otter Castro    Produced, Research and Interview by Rich Wexler   Music   Richie by B.J Snowden https://bjsnowdenmusic.com/  There Was a light Instrumental   I Never Feel Alone Instrumental by Stephen Bluhm  https://www.stephenbluhm.fun/  Website https://www.vintageannalsarchive.com/

It's been a while since true crime writer Ellison Oswalt had a bestseller, and the strain is starting to show on Ellison, his wife Tracy, and their kids Trevor and Ashley.  Local law enforcement isn't keen on him, either, as his last few books didn't cast them in too fond a light. So Ellison and his family take up residence in a modest Pennsylvania ranch house with something of a history – something we learn when we watch as a family is lynched in the house's back yard.  Unfortunately, this may be his last chance at the big time, so Ellison neglects to inform Tracy of this, and when things start going bump in the night, and the home movies left behind reveal ominous clues about a killer's identity, Ellison finds himself turning from the hunter to the hunted.  A helpful deputy steps in to assist, as well as a professor of the occult, but by the time they reveal their own information, the situation has devolved from strange… to sinister. Intro, Math Club, Debate Society, Hot for Teacher (spoiler-free): 00:00-28:47Honor Roll and Detention (spoiler-heavy): 28:48-1:00:57Superlatives (spoiler-heavier): 1:00:58-1:23:12 Director Scott DerricksonScreenplay C. Robert Cargill & Scott DerricksonFeaturing Michael Hall D'Addario, Vincent D'Onofrio, Clare Foley, Ethan Hawke, James Ransone, Juliet Rylance, Fred Dalton Thompson Hannah Cabell is a New York-based actor, director, and writer. She wrote, directed, and starred in the short film Lost Nation, which won Best NH Short at the 2023 New Hampshire Film Festival. As well as the feature version of Lost Nation, she has written The Hills and the Sky, about an archivist's obsession with Betty and Barney Hill's 1961 alien abduction, and the comedy television pilot Brother Husbandry. Hannah's acting credits include “The Black List,” “The Good Fight,” “Madam Secretary,” “Mr. Robot,” and “The Leftovers,” and she currently plays Judge Renee Gittens on “Law & Order.” Film work includes The Surrogate, Luce, and Thine Ears Shall Bleed (upcoming). She has been nominated for Lortel and Drama Desk awards for her stage performances. MFA, NYU. Ryan King is a screenwriter, playwright, and actor who grew up in Central Texas and now lives in New York with his wife and daughter. He wrote the screenplay for Black Flies, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year, starring Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan, after being selected for the 2018 Black List of Hollywood's favorite unproduced screenplays. His original thriller screenplay, The Tutor, starring Garrett Hedlund and Noah Schnapp. HAs a playwright, he's been a member of the Ars Nova Playgroup, the Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, the Working Farm @ SPACE on Ryder Farm, and the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group. His plays have been developed by Cape Cod Theatre Project (twice), Williamstown Theatre Festival, Naked Angels, Rattlestick Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Colt Coeur, Primary Stages, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Ars Nova, Theater of NOTE, Tofte Lake Emerging Artists Program, and Ground Up Productions, and his short play Antares Returning was produced as part of Fit Club's 2017 Spring Fling festival and nominated for Best Short Play by the NY Innovative Theatre Awards. As an actor, he has appeared regionally and Off-Broadway. Our theme music is by Sir Cubworth, with embellishments by Edward Elgar.  Music from Sinister by Christopher Young. For more information on this film (including why the Professor chose it, on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Our Blog⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), the pod, essays from your hosts, and other assorted bric-a-brac, visit our website, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠scareupod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Please subscribe to this podcast via Apple or Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave us a 5-star rating. Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ group. Follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Mershad Torabi sat down with the one and only Will Arbery.Will Arbery is a playwright, TV/film writer, and filmmaker from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters.Plays: Corsicana (Playwrights Horizons) // Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons) // Plano (Clubbed Thumb) //  Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (The New Group 2022, New Neighborhood 2018) // Wheelchair (3 Hole Press) // You Hateful Things (development at The Public, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and NYTW Dartmouth Residency). He's currently under commission from Audible, MTC, and Playwrights Horizons. TV/Film: Writer and Co-Producer on "Succession" (HBO). Supervising Producer on "Irma Vep" (HBO). Currently developing a TV project with Fifth Season and Boku Films. Previous TV development with A24/HBO, Littlefield Co./Hulu. Film projects with BBC Films/A24, Tango/Animal Kingdom, and Sight Unseen. http://weareactors.comhttp://weareactors.com

On "Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg," Dani speaks with Lakisha May, actor, producer, and advocate Her advocacy work includes being the Chair of the Leadership Awards Committee at the James Beard Foundation. She serves as Co-Vice Chair of the board at Space on Ryder Farm, a non-profit residency program and organic farm in Brewster, New York. She is also on the board at Süprseed which provides education, programming, and low cost organic produce to residents of South LA through the social enterprise Süprmarkt. They discuss the importance of using one's platform for good, as well as finding purpose through garden grown food and organic produce.   While you're listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts

We spoke with Julia Gibson about being a philosopher living on a multi-generational farm co-owned by their extended family since 1795. As you might imagine, a lot of issues come up in a situation like that! We talk about how decisions are made for the farm, their current attempts to get a conservation easement to protect the farm into the future as the surrounding countryside gets developed, issues of justice involved with owning a farm on land that was originally stolen from indigenous people, and (in a connection to the last two episodes) her work as a vegan living on a farm with livestock and hunting, to think through animal rights, animal welfare, and how to talk about these things with her family. It's a great conversation; check it out! Show Notes: Follow us on Twitter at @FoodThoughtPod, and you can drop us a line at ThoughtAboutFood on Gmail. Rate our podcast and leave us a review wherever you get your podcasts! It helps people find the show. We have a YouTube channel! It features more conversations about the meaning of food in our lives, and includes some great recipes to boot. Check it out here and subscribe! The first video we've uploaded was made by a former student in Ian's Philosophy of Food class, talking about carne asada and the meaning that food has for him. Julia Gibson is a philosopher who works at Antioch University New England while living on their family farm. Julia has a blog about "Life on Ryder Farm" that's well worth reading! Julia shared a recipe for vegan Buffalo Tofu Pizza. As she says, "I was trying to find a recipe using food on the farm, but my relationship to food on the farm is that I'm so happy to have fresh food that I just eat it. I wanted to share something I'm working on. The first time I made this it looked like a transporter accident. It was delicious! But hideous. I really love buffalo sauce, and I love that vegan buffalo sauce is just as easy as regular buffalo sauce. Recipe for Buffalo Tofu Pizza Pizza dough: homemade or store bought. Recipes abound online. I recommend using one that calls for half 00 flour and weighing it out. White Sauce: -1 cup raw cashews -3/4 cup vegetable broth -2 tbsp olive oil -1 tbsp lemon juice -1/4 nutritional yeast (or more to taste) -3 cloves garlic (or more to taste) -1/2 cup chopped white onion  -dash dried rosemary -dash black pepper   1. Soak cashews overnight. 2. Drain cashews and blend in food processor with broth, oil garlic, lemon juice, onion, nutritional yeast, and herbs.   Buffalo sauce: It's just original Frank's RedHot and melted earth balance. Roughly 1:1, with a smidge more hot sauce than butter. Between 6-8 tbsp should do. You can always make more.    Tofu: -16oz firm or extra firm tofu -1/4 apple cider vinegar -2 tbsp tamari -1 tbsp toasted sesame oil -2 tsp garlic powder -1 tsp liquid smoke -dash black pepper   1. Preheat oven to 350 2. Cut tofu into 6-8 slices and arrange in single layer in a 8x8 glass baking dish. 3. Combine other ingredients. 4. Pour over tofu.(Flip once to get both sides.) 5. Bake 30 minutes and flip. Bake 30 more minutes or until desired texture is achieved. 6. Cube slices and toss with Buffalo sauce.    Ranch (makes more than you need): -1.5 cups Vegenaise or other vegan mayo -1/4-1/2 cup plain, unsweetened nondairy milk (I prefer WestSoy) -1.5 tsp apple cider vinegar -3 cloves garlic, crushed or minced -dash dried parsley -dash dried dill -dash onion powder -pinch paprika -pinch black pepper -salt to taste   Assembly:   1. Preheat oven (and pizza stone if you have one) to 475.  2. Roll out pizza dough. 3. Top with white sauce and cheese (I use daiya mozzarella). 4. Scatter tofu on top. Drizzle with half of the remaining sauce. 5. Bake for 8-12 minutes until crust is golden brown. 6. Drizzle with more Buffalo sauce, ranch sauce, and chopped fresh dill. " The intro and outro music is "Whiskey Before Breakfast" which is both a great traditional song and a nice way to start a day of rambling around a farm. It was performed and shared by The Dan River Ramblers under a Creative Commons license.

Be sure to subscribe for more - Creation Grounds Podcast Level up in your acting career & book more consistent work with an easy to use online tool that tracks audition & workshop metrics at: Auditiontrackers.com ________ IG: Insta Website: Tylie Working on: Labor ________ TyLie Shider is the recipient of the 2021-22 Liberty Live Commission at Premiere Stages, a 2020-21 Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellow, and an I Am Soul Playwright Resident at the National Black Theatre. His plays include Parable of the Backyard Roots (2019 Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Finalist), Bastard, Platform States of Mind and Talk. His work has been developed by The Kennedy Center, Liberation Theatre Company, Dixon Place, La MaMa, Frank Silvera Writers' Workshop, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Harlem 9, Homebase Theatre Collective, 3:5 Creative[s], Yendor Arts, The Classical Theatre of Harlem, Luna Stage, Joust Theatre co., New York New Works Theater Festival, and The Theater Project. Awards include: Drama Desk from Delaware State University, and The Theater Project's One-Act competition 2015 Best Play and Audience Favorite. Member: Dramatist Guild of America, 2018 Playwright in residence at the Liberation Theatre Company, 2019-20 Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellow, and the 2020-21 The Civilians R&D Group. He holds a BA in journalism from Delaware State University and an MFA in playwriting from New York University. ___________ Some Questions I Ask: What draws you to writing? (2:00) On the day he started to write. (2:32) What about playwrighting specifically interests you? (3:04) What's process of writing? Does it vary project to project or is it the same? (4:31) What inspires you or most interests you currently? (5:54) Where did inspiration for your new play "Labor" come from? (7:50) What is "Labor" about? (9:45) On working with actors with a new play. (12:27) What distinguishes character voice on the page? How do you make them different on the page? (13:24) What is process of a writer bringing their work to theaters & getting their work in front of producers? (16:59) What advice do you have for aspiring writers? (18:26) When you think of the word "creative" who comes to mind for you and why? (20:24) How can people connect with you? (21:32) ____________ You can follow Arron at: Website: ArronLloyd.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arronlloyd/ Facebook: Arron Lloyd Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArronLloyd Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/arronsl316 TikTok:Arronslloyd Youtube: Arron Lloyd This is NYC merch -

Join my conversation with Jean Marie KeevinsJean Marie Keevins is a NYC-based, multi-hyphenate creative and business expert. Known in the arts as an Emmy-nominated supervisor, award-winning producer, writer, puppet artist and designer she is most proud of her role as an all around cheerleader and coach for those who work outside of the box and are on a mission. At her production company, Jean Marie serves as chief creative visionary, business planner and team coach. She has gained a wealth of knowledge gained with companies such as Apple, Sesame Workshop, Disney and the like. However it is her work in the theater that still brings the largest creative pull. Jean Marie has produced award winning productions with Ibex Puppetry, James Godwin (Lunatic Cunning and The Flatiron Hex), Martin P. Robinson (All Hallows Eve) and so many more. Her personal and collaborative work has been supported by the Jim Henson Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, Space at Ryder Farm, the Orchard Project and more. Premiering works at Dixon Place, Art NY and beyond, Jean Marie finds her creative home at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center where she has served as the Associate Artistic Director of the National Puppetry Conference. When Jean Marie is not on set, on stage, in the rehearsal or the studio, Jean Marie can be found coaching creatives and executives alike. As a natural space holder, Jean Marie's coaching practice brings her equal joy to that in the arts. "There's nothing like helping someone craft their new narrative". Her new ebook, "52 Simple Weekly Meditations to Guide You Through Life's Transitions" is now available at ibooks and barnes&noble.comJeanMarieKeevins.com@JeanMarieNYSpecial thanks you to Marcus for podcast music Sunday Coffee. You can reach him at: https://linktr.ee/mrcxsIf you like to be a sponsor, send email request to:livingthelifepodcast2020@gmail.comSubscribe and share and like:IG: @livingthelifepodcastFB Page: Living the Life Podcast Twitter: LTLpodcast2020Website: https://living-the-life-podcast.square.Support the showNwanneka Tesy is the Host and Creator of Living the Life Podcast

On today's special SeriesFest Insiders episode, Randi discusses "Impeachment: American Crime Story" with Head Writer, Showrunner & Executive Producer, Sarah Burgess.Sarah is a New York playwright and screenwriter. Her play Dry Powder won the 2016 Laurents Hatcher Prize, was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was nominated for an Olivier Award in London. It premiered at the Public Theater in a production directed by Thomas Kail, starring Claire Danes, John Krasinski, Hank Azaria and Sanjit De Silva. Burgess' additional plays include Kings (Public Theater world premiere) and Camdenside (Ground Floor selection, Berkeley Rep), and she has been a writer-in-residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm and the Cape Cod Theatre Project.

Tom talks with Former SPACE on Ryder Farm Executive Director Emily Simoness*, Consultant and Co-Facilitator Edie Demas, and playwright and SPACE Strategic Plan Working Group member Deepa Purohit. Tom and this trio of panelists talk about the ways in which SPACE approached and developed their 2021 Strategic Plan (which Tom co-facilitated) through the lens of DEIA and Anti-Racism, and suggest approaches and resources to combat common challenges, as well as anticipate resistance from funders and stakeholders. Tema Okun's piece on white supremacy culture is referenced several times in the conversation and can be found through the link. The full SPACE on Ryder Farm Strategic Plan can be found here. *NOTE: this conversation was recorded in Summer of 2021 as Emily Simoness was concluding her tenure as SPACE's Founding Executive Director, and as SPACE was undergoing a search for her successor. For more on Tom O'Connor Consulting Group, visit www.tomocgroup.com.

Every month, we pick a play or two to discuss, and this week's episode is a play called "Heroe's of the Fourth Turning" by Will Arbery. The play was recommended to us from one of our listeners and recurring guest of the podcast, Shaun Leisher! Shaun pointed out that lots of guests have mentioned this play, so we decided it was time to read it for ourselves! We discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. SPOILER ALERT: There are going to be some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! About the Play: It's a “scrupulously hewn drama centering on four alumni of a conservative Catholic college who confront themselves and each other, clashing over theology, politics and personal responsibility. It's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-party. They've returned home to toast their mentor Gina, newly inducted as president of a tiny Catholic college. But as their reunion spirals into spiritual chaos and clashing generational politics, it becomes less a celebration than a vicious fight to be understood. On a chilly night in the middle of America, Will Arbery's haunting play offers grace and disarming clarity, speaking to the heart of a country at war with itself. -- From Playwrights Horizons' website About the Playwright: Will Arbery is a playwright, TV/film writer, and filmmaker from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters. Other plays include: Plano, Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, Corsicana (development at Playwrights Horizons & Ojai Playwrights Conference) // Wheelchair (3 Hole Press) // You Hateful Things (development at The Public, SPACE on Ryder Farm, and NYTW Dartmouth Residency). He's currently under commission from Audible, MTC, and Playwrights Horizons. Will Arbery is currently developing TV series with A24/HBO, as well as Littlefield Co./Touchstone. Film projects with BBC Films/A24, Animal Kingdom, and Sight Unseen. Consultant on "Succession" (HBO). Glistens: Cho - my new play Stains!! October 9th, 6pm PST. Moving Arts Theater. Tickets are now live. Sam - The New American Gothic dance performance on a FARM (Claire Kendall Creative Projects) ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beckettsbabies/support

NGOZI ANYANWU is a playwright, storyteller, and most recently a 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award winner. Previous productions include Good Grief (Vineyard Theatre in NYC / Center Theatre Group in LA) and The Homecoming Queen (sold-out world premiere run at Atlantic Theater Company). Good Grief was on the Kilroys List 2016 and a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award, and won the Humanitas Award. The Homecoming Queen was on the Kilroys List 2017 and was a Leah Ryan Finalist. Her play Nike… (Kilroys List 2017) was workshopped at The New Black Fest in conjunction with The Lark and The Strand Festival in conjunction with A.C.T and Space on Ryder Farm. Ngozi also has commissions with NYU, The Old Globe, Two Rivers Theatre, Atlantic Theater, and Steppenwolf. Anyanwu has also received residencies from LCT3, Space on Ryder Farm, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The New Harmony Project, New York Stage and Film, and Page 73. She attended Point Park University (BA) and received her MFA in Acting from University of California, San Diego. DANIEL J. WATTS is an NYC-based multidisciplinary artist. For acting, Watts is a 2020 Tony Award nominee and Outer Critics Circle Award winner for his portrayal of Ike Turner in the hit Broadway musical TINA. He has appeared in nine Broadway shows including Hamilton, Memphis, and After Midnight. He received the Barrymore Award (People's Light) and the LA Ovation Award (Geffen Playhouse) for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Sammy Davis, Jr. in Lights Out: Nat King Cole opposite Dulé Hill. TV credits include Season 3 of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” Seasons 1 & 2 of “The Last OG,” “Blindspot,” and “Vinyl.” Off-Broadway he has starred as the title character in Suzan-Lori Parks' Death of the Last Black Man in the Entire World AKA The Negro Book of the Dead (Signature Theatre) and Whorl Inside a Loop (Second Stage Theater). A play-on-words, Daniel J. Watts' The Jam pays homage to Watts' great-grandmother who, after making jam from scratch, would share with others what she was unable to consume herself. The Jam is Watts' continuation of that legacy, blending elements of stand-up comedy and compelling storytelling with his original spoken word, often set to music and/or dance. The Jam: Only Child was a wide success at the 2020 Public Theater Under the Radar Festival and has also streamed as part of the Signature Theater (DC) 2020-2021 season. Inaugural (2020) ANTONYO Award Winner for Best Quarantine Content. His original work and musical collaborations are featured on Raphael Saadiq's newest album “Jimmy Lee,” Tituss Burgess' “Saint Tituss,” Divinity Roxx's “ImPossible,” Nick Blaemire's “Ampersand;” as a contributing artist for Armstrong Now in conjunction with The Louis Armstrong House Museum; and featured in the young adult anthology "How I Resist" edited by The New York Times Best Seller Maureen Johnson for Wednesday Books/Macmillan. His TED talk “To Accomplish Great Things, You Need to Let Paint Dry” appears at go.Ted.com/danieljwatts. Watts is an artist in residence at ASU Gammage and also serves as an adjunct professor of NYU's Tisch New Studio. BFA, Elon University Music Theatre Program. 2021 Commencement SpDaniel J. Watts has appeared in eight Broadway shows including Tina : The Tina Turner Musical, Hamilton, In The Heights and Memphis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a decade running SPACE at Ryder Farm, a non-profit artist retreat and organic farm in Brewster, New York, Emily Simoness is stepping down as co-founder and executive director. She's not sure what next for her, but whatever it is, she'll be doing it with the support of her husband, Michael Chernus, a busy film, television and stage actor probably best known for his role as Cal in “Orange is the New Black.” The two of them join us today to discuss their respective careers, starting a pro-Biden tie dye t-shirt side hustle during the pandemic and the Grateful Dead. Plus a quiz! Brooklyn news and views you can use: bkmag.com Email: hello@bkmag.com Follow along on Facebook: Brooklyn Magazine Twitter: @brooklynmag Instagram: @brooklynmagazine Follow Brian Braiker on Twitter: @slarkpope

(S5, EP 7) Trigger Warning: Episode will contain topics on personal Anti-Asian violence. Queer Khmer American playwright Vichet Chum joins me as part of Season 5's "Our Becoming: An LGBTQ Asian Experience" for this week's episode. This episode was recorded back in April 15th during Khmer New Year's. We talk about the ongoing anti-Asian violence and his family's own experience with anti-Asian racism as a child. We discussed the controversy with VICE News and the Tuol Sleng Prison photo controversy, and how cultural appropriation and colonizing harms our Khmer community to learn history and begin the healing process. Vichet shares his excitement over his upcoming plays that he's working on, and the goals that he seeks to amplify the Cambodian-American experience. Check out this episode and follow Vichet on IG @vichetchum . Bio: Vichet Chum is a Cambodian-American playwright and theater maker, originally from Dallas, Texas and now living in New York City. His plays have been workshopped at Steppenwolf Theatre, the Magic Theater, the Alley Theatre, the UCROSS Foundation, Fault Line Theatre, Crowded Outlet, Second Generation Productions, Weston Playhouse, Cleveland Public Theatre, All For One Theater, Amios, Florida State University, Merrimack Repertory Theatre and the New Harmony Project. He received the 2018-19 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting with New Dramatists and is a current board member for the New Harmony Project. Vichet was a part of the 2019-20 Resident Working Farm Group at Space on Ryder Farm, the 2020 Interstate 73 Writer's Group at Page 73 and the 2020 Ars Nova Play Group. In the 2022/23 season, his plays High School Play: A Nostalgia Fest will have its world premiere at the Alley Theatre and Bald Sisters will have its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre Company. He is a proud graduate of the University of Evansville (BFA) and Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company (MFA). He's represented by Beth Blickers at APA. vichetchum.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/banhmichronicles/support

Napping is a portal. Carolina Đỗ is an actor, playwright, producer and proud daughter of Vietnamese freedom fighters and refugees. She's a community organizer and advocate for art that facilitates healing in marginalized communities. Broadway: NYT's Critics' Pick LINDA VISTA (u/s), GRAND HORIZONS (u/s). She's worked with numerous NYC theater companies, including: PlayCo, The Tank, New Dramatists, New Collectives. Her play, MY MOTHER'S DAUGHTER, was a semifinalist for Space on Ryder Farm and a 2020 finalist for BRICLab. Co-founder & co-Artistic Leader of The Sống Collective. @carolinakaydo, www.carolinado.com

In today's episode, Divinia chats with Will Arbery (he/him). Will's bio: "Will Arbery is a playwright from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters. His play Heroes of the Fourth Turning was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and the winner of an OBIE for Playwriting, the Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the John Gassner Playwriting Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He's also the recipient of a Whiting Award for Drama. Other plays: Plano (Clubbed Thumb), Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (New Neighborhood), and Wheelchair (3 Hole Press). Commissions: Playwrights Horizons, Audible, MTC. He's a member/alum of New Dramatists, The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Page 73's Interstate 73, Colt Coeur, Youngblood, and Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group. New plays: Corsicana (dir. Sam Gold, developed at Playwrights Horizons/Ojai), and You Hateful Things (developed at The Public/NYTW/SPACE on Ryder Farm). He is currently developing a slate of film/TV projects at HBO, A24, BBC Films, Sight Unseen, and Hulu. MFA: Northwestern. BA: Kenyon College." Will's website: http://willarbery.com/ (http://willarbery.com/) Host: Divinia Shorter Producer: Jacob Zeranko Charity of Choice: Creativity Explored. For more information, check out their website: https://www.creativityexplored.org/ (https://www.creativityexplored.org/) Follow us! Twitter: @greatestcityco Instagram: @greatestcityco Facebook: @greatestcityco Website: https://www.greatestcitycollective.org/ (https://www.greatestcitycollective.org/)

Allison & Ivana welcome Adam Mahon from Ryder Farm. Did you know that farmers get greenhouse envy?

Join the Antiracist Artist Podcast community on Saturday, February 20 at 3 PM EST on Zoom in our third workshop, led by Amara Brady! Get your ticket by clicking this link, or visit antiracistartist.simpletix.com.In honor of Black History Month, join us for a facilitated workshop that empowers folx with the tools to effectively dissect a few seminal moments in the history of the struggle toward liberation, and how to facilitate that into forward action.Main points of focus may include: A brief survey of a few monumental moments in the history of the struggle toward liberation and racial equity.Tools on how to look at historical events with curiosity and rigor.Connecting history to the present.Pulling on themes of learning from our history to inform our future.And, YES, Amara was indeed our second guest on the podcast! We are thrilled to have her back in this capacity. You can listen to that episode by clicking here.|Amara (She/Her/Hers) is a generative artist & cultural dramaturg from Chicago. At the crux of her artistry is uplifting Black women and connecting underserved communities to theatrical experiences. She’s currently in Residence with Experimental Bitch Presents and The Parsnip Ship and created her own production company (Un)Solicited Productions. As an actor she’s been on stage at The Lark, Joe’s Pub, Barrington Stage Co., NYTW, 54 Below, & others. She’s a member of Joe Iconis’ & family As a writer she has been been a semi-finalist for Space on Ryder Farm, an inaugural member of the Showdogs playwriting collective, The Parsnip Ship’s Radio Roots Writers Group, and a member of SHECreates NYC’s Myths and Legends program. Her work has been staged at The Drama League, The Dramatists Guild, Joe’s Pub, and The Wow Cafe Theatre. As a producer she helped put on Theatre Communications Groups National Conference (2019) and was the Associate Producer of the NYT’s Critic Pick, SKiNFoLK by Jillian Walker. Check out her YouTube Series, ‘Skinny & White’ Aren’t Character Traits. In This Paper I’ll Explain. She wants to remind you to resist, check your privilege, & then give some space to Women of Color & Trans Folx. Ashé to the ancestors. All Power to all people. Website: https://linktr.ee/ajbradyInstagram: @bradynotthebunch|For more information on this workshop and our community, please visit us at www.AntiracistArtist.com, www.Facebook.com/AAPcommunity, and on Instagram @AntiracistArtist.

Welcome everyone! You're in for some deep nourishment today. Our conversation is with Ren Dara Santiago. We cover so many heart centered things in this conversation. We talk about how to dispel narratives through truly seeing someone's heart, building families, her work as a playwright, and so much more. Ren is a Big Sister first and foremost! Every space carries Beanie, Butchie, and Kaying. This Fila-Rican playwright was born in the Bronx, raised in Yonkers and Harlem at intersections of Coded Streets and Bodega Avenues. She's proud of her history and shares in the practice of uplifting the wisdom that comes from her community. From the originators and generators. From creators thriving despite the exploitation of our cultures, loved ones, systematic debts, and geographies. Ren writes stories that activate our potential for deep loving, for brave loving, for healing, for the hustlers. For people that work hard. For the real heroes, who deserve their lives to be honored in stories; complex, expansive, simple and great. Theater should give communities room to dream. To honor the unknowable, conjured by theater-makers of resilient lineages, offering us the opportunity to shift the limits of possibility. Ren is currently working with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater as the showrunner for the MTA Radio Plays, launching December 13th; and commissions with En Garde Arts, The Drama Club NYC, The Theatre Co, and New York Rep. Ren teaches playwriting at the National Theater Institute, MCC Youth Company, Williams College, and Williamstown Community Works. She is a founding member of Middle Voice at Rattlestick, a member of Rising Phoenix Rep. She's the recipient of the TOW Foundation 2020 Residency at Rattlestick, Rising Phoenix Rep's Cornelia Street American Playwriting Award, and the MCC Alumni Award. She's developed work with The Bushwick Starr, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Gingold Theatrical Group, LAByrinth, The Lark Play Development Center, MCC Theater, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Rising Phoenix Rep, and SPACE on Ryder Farm. www.rendarasantiago.com @rendsanti, @rattlestickny --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/britt-dorazio/support

Award-winning playwright, actor, writer and first-gen badass femme Ngozi Anyanwu (IG: @gozeface) joins Chisara for a Joy+Well Conversation you do not want to miss. Like what you heard in this episode? Leave us a review, rating, or comment. Or visit us on Instagram— @livejoywell — and drop us a note. Thanks for listening!Here's some more about Ngozi Anyanwu (Playwright) Education: University of California, San Diego (MFA in Acting), Point Park University (BA). Acting: The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, The City Theatre, Barrington Stage, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, and The Mark Taper Forum. Television credits include “Limitless,” “Deadbeat,” “The Affair,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “The Mysteries of Laura,” and “The Deuce.” Good Grief, Victory Is Ours, The Homecoming Queen, and Nike or We Don't Need Another Hero. Film credits include Split and Women Who Kill. Good Grief(kilroys list 2016, semi finalist Princess Grace, Humanitas Award) was produced at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles in Spring 2017 which Anyanwu also starred in. NIKE(kilroys list 2017) was recently workshopped at The New Black Fest in conjunction with The Lark and The Strand Festival in conjunction with A.C.T and Space on Ryder Farm. The Homecoming Queen(kilroys list 2017, Leah Ryan Finalist) recently had its  world premiere at The Atlantic theater which also had a sold out run. Anyanwu has also received residencies from LCT3, Space on Ryder Farm, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, The New Harmony Project, New York Stage and Film and Page 73. Anyanwu is developing a pilot with Juvee Productions and Abc Signature. She is also commissioned with NYU, The Old Globe and The Atlantic Theatre.Intro Music:Too Cool by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4534-too-coolLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Playwright, actor, and activist Matthew-Lee Erlbach joins Half Hour to share insights from the ongoing advocacy movement, Be An #ArtsHero. In this conversation with ensemble member Audrey Francis, Erlbach relates data and stories about the vitality of the arts in American life, speaks to the struggle facing the Arts and Culture field during the COVID Crisis, and suggests how we can reshape our American society to place a higher value on art—and the workers who make art possible. Interview begins at 4:38Matthew-Lee Erlbach is a Co-Organizer of Be An #ArtsHero, a national labor movement of Arts Workers urging Congress for an extension of FPUC, a 100% COBRA subsidy, and the passage of the DAWN Act, the nation’s only comprehensive arts worker relief bill. Playwright credits include THE DOPPELGÄNGER (an international farce), starring Rainn Wilson and directed by Tina Landau (Steppenwolf); his solo-play HANDBOOK FOR AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY (Gym at Judson/Tony Speciale.); EAGER TO LOSE: A BURLESQUE FARCE IN RHYMING VERSE (Ars Nova/ Wes Grantom/Portia Krieger); SEX OF THE BABY (Access/Michelle Bossy); and his work has been developed/produced with The New Group, Steppenwolf, Vineyard, Ars Nova, MCC, Williamstown, NYTW, Gym at Judson the Orchard Project, and SPACE on Ryder Farm, among others. He has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Laurents/Hatcher Foundation, Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, Puffin Foundation, was a member of Ars Nova's Play Group, MVMNT Theatre’s Play Group, and is a HUMANITAS New Voices recipient. TV, credits include MASTERS OF SEX/Showtime, GYPSY/Netflix, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS/ Netflix, and WWE, MTV, and Nickelodeon. He is currently writing an UNTITLED FEATURE with Rainn Wilson and has TV projects set up with SONY, Killer Films, Cavalry, and Mermade/Merman; he is also the writer/director of HUMAN INTEREST which won “Best Digital Short Series” at SeriesFest. A proud graduate of the public school system from K-College, his civic work includes a writing program for single mothers transitioning out of homelessness and prison, building shelters with Habitat for Humanity, and working with labor on economic justice issues. BE AN #ARTS HERO is a national, non-partisan grassroots movement that emphasizes Arts & Culture’s contribution to the economy, urging Congress for immediate relief. We are a united, intersectional, sector-wide coalition calling for an extension of FPUC, a 100% COBRA subsidy, and the passage of the DAWN ACT, the only comprehensive arts worker relief bill which would authorize $43.85B to the NEA, NEH, IMLS, CPB, and SBA to make grants to the operators, employees, and artists of live venues, recording venues, cultural spaces, and related businesses to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on all Arts Workers across the national Arts Economy. Be An #ArtsHero has appeared on Morning Joe, TODAY, GMA, Late Night w/Seth Meyers and the viral Open Letter to the US Senate has been signed over 13K times by the leaders of every major Arts Org; Pulitzer, Oscar, Tony, and Emmy winners; and countless high-profile names across the Arts. More info at www.BeAnArtsHero.com. Learn more at steppenwolf.org.Want to get in touch? Email halfhour@steppenwolf.org. You can find a transcript of this podcast here:https://www.steppenwolf.org/globalassets/half-hour-podcast/half-hour-ep10-transcript.pdf

Lindsay ‘Lindz’ Amer creates LGBTQ+ and social justice media for kids and families. Through their multi-media production company, Queer Kid Creative, they write, produce, and co-host Queer Kid Stuff, an original LGBTQ+ educational webseries for all ages, and a brand new family-friendly podcast called Activist, You! where they explore social justice topics through interviews with kid & youth activists. They perform QKS music and stories at schools, museums, libraries, and local LGBTQ+ community centers around the country. They recently performed to a packed house at the Bill and Melinda Gates Discovery Center in Seattle, WA as a part of Amplifier’s We The Future Campaign. Artwork from the campaign depicting Lindsay has been distributed to over 13,000 schools and seen by an estimated 500,000 students nation-wide. They are a fellow with The Coaching Fellowship, a Creative Resident at SPACE on Ryder Farm, and a TED Resident, they were named a Rising Star by GLAAD, a 2018 Queero by them.us, were a 2018 Webby Honoree, and have received grants from the Tegan and Sara Foundation, Made in NYC Women’s Media Fund, the Awesome Project, and VidCon’s Emerging Creator program. The Huffington Post calls Queer Kid Stuff a “groundbreaking YouTube educational resource.” Teen Vogue praised their episode on consent during the height of #MeToo that “shows exactly why there’s no excuse not to grasp consent. Even toddlers can understand it.” And @shondarhimes tweeted she’s “so here for this!” Lindz is currently developing a picture book, scripts for television, and a full-length screenplay about a non-binary kid!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/transcasterradio)

Today on “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Founder and Executive Director of SPACE on Ryder Farm, Emily Simoness, talks about SPACE’s intentions to support food-insecure families, the intersection of the food system and the arts, and the ways that artist residencies at SPACE can bring more people into the food system.  While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

Sarah E. Brook is a Brooklyn-based sculptor and installation artist from the Nevada high desert.  Brook explores the relationship between external and internal (psychic) vastness through the use of translucency, layering and color gradients to morph her architectural structures into perceptual experiments. She is particularly interested in the way perceptual experience can align (queer) identities. Brook has exhibited at Lesley Heller, Field Projects, Re:Art, the (un)Scene, NARS, Ground Floor Gallery, The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (NY) and was included in the 2019 BRIC Biennial in Brooklyn. She has been awarded the 2019-2020 Leslie-Lohman Museum Fellowship (NY), the 2018 Media Arts Fellowship from BRIC (NY) and residencies from Marble House Projects, I-Park, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Jentel Foundation, Playa and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.  Public art sculptures include Open Shelter (Prospect Park, NY, 2016), Viewfinding, a year-long installation and collaboration with queer poets (Riverside Park, NY, 2018-2019), Align (permanent installation, Crystal Park, NY, 2019) and a forthcoming permanent work commissioned by the City of New York (2023). Here are the book mentioned in the interview - Interrupted Life and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal. JWS2, spray paint on synthetic poplin, string, rebar, photography, dimensions variable, installed in rural Wyoming, 2017. JWS2 is an example of the types of short term, low-impact installations I create in solitude in remote landscapes.

follow Carolina: @carolinakaydo follow Adrián: @adrian.burke follow La Mezcla: @lamezclapod About Carolina: Carolina Do is an actor, playwright, producer. She is a firm believer in, and advocate for, art to address and activate change in the community it serves. Co-founder of The Sống Collective. Broadway: Tracy Lett's Linda Vista and Bess Wohl's Grand Horizons. NYC theater: Loading Dock, The Tank, New Dramatists, Primary Stages, The Flea. TV/Film: FBI: Most Wanted, Children of The Dust, Catfight, Queens The Series. Her play, My Mother's Daughter was recently a semifinalist for Space on Ryder Farm and a finalist for BRICLab. www.carolinado.com Upcoming: Collective Stories, May 20th @8pm ET, Streaming Live on Youtube. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

  Jason's guests this week on the pod are Micheal Chernus and Emily Simoness, a married couple who join him to take a very deep dive into all the wonderful, like, greatness, man, of 'The Big Lebowski'.   Michael's a Julliard-trained stage, TV, and film actor currently appearing on TV as speechwriter Ken Rosey opposite Edie Falco on the CBS series 'Tommy'.     You might have also seen him as  Piper's brother Cal Chapman on 'Orange Is The New Black' or playing Congressman Edward Tavner in Amazon's 'Patriot'.   Michael's movie roles include portraying The Tinkerer, the original McGyver, in Marvel's Spider-Man: Homecoming; playing Tom Hanks' first mate Shane Murphy in the excellent Paul Greengrass film 'Captain Phillips'; and appearing opposite Will Smith in 2012's 'Men In Black 3".     The other half of this power-couple, Emily, is the founder and executive Director of SPACE on Ryder Farm, a non-profit artistic residency program and organic farm located on the grounds of a 225-year-old family homestead in Putnam County, New York.   But outside their professional accomplishments, they're just wonderful midwestern good people, whose self-effacing humor and innate smarts you'll hear on display in the podcast as we discuss the Coen Brother's 'The Big Lebowski'. ABOUT THE MOVIE:  The Big Lebowski (/ləˈbaʊski/) is a 1998 crime comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler. He is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, after which The Dude learns that a millionaire (also named Jeffrey Lebowski) was the intended victim. The millionaire Lebowski's trophy wife is kidnapped, and he commissions The Dude to deliver the ransom to secure her release; the plan goes awry when the Dude's friend Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) schemes to keep the ransom money. Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, John Turturro and Philip Seymour Hoffman also appear, in supporting roles. The film is loosely inspired by the work of Raymond Chandler. Joel Coen stated, "We wanted to do a Chandler kind of story – how it moves episodically, and deals with the characters trying to unravel a mystery, as well as having a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant."[4] The original score was composed by Carter Burwell, a longtime collaborator of the Coen brothers. The Big Lebowski was a disappointment at the U.S. box office and received mixed reviews at the time of its release. Over time, reviews have become largely positive, and the film has become a cult favorite,[5] noted for its eccentric characters, comedic dream sequences, idiosyncratic dialogue, and eclectic soundtrack.[6] In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[7][8] A spin-off based on John Turturro's character, titled The Jesus Rolls, was released in 2019 with Turturro also acting as writer and director. Cast Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski. Bridges had heard or was told by the Coen brothers that they had written a screenplay for him. John Goodman as Walter Sobchak; a Vietnam veteran and bowling partner and friend of "The Dude." Walter was based, in part, on screenwriter and director John Milius. Julianne Moore as Maude Lebowski; Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski's daughter, a feminist and an avant-garde artist. Steve Buscemi as Theodore Donald "Donny" Kerabatsos; a bowling partner and friend of "The Dude." Walter's repeated response, "Shut the fuck up, Donny!" is a reference to Fargo, in which Buscemi's character was constantly talking and interrupting conversations when he is not paying attention to the story. David Huddleston as Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski; a millionaire philanthropist for whom "The Dude" is mistaken. Philip Seymour Hoffman as Brandt; Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski's executive assistant Tara Reid as Bunny Lebowski; Jeffrey "The Big" Lebowski's blonde 20s-something trophy wife and former porn video performer (“Log Jammin’”) for Jackie Treehorn Productions. According to Reid, Charlize Theron also tried out for the role. Philip Moon as Woo; a Jackie Treehorn thug Mark Pellegrino as the Blond Treehorn thug Peter Stormare, Torsten Voges, and Flea as Uli Kunkel/Karl Hungus, Franz, and Kieffer, the German nihilists; Uli originated on the set of Fargo between Ethan Coen and Stormare, who often spoke in a mock German accent. Jimmie Dale Gilmore as Smokey; a hippie bowler in the league whom Walter threatens at gunpoint over an attempt to mark his frame an eight despite letting his foot move over the alley line Jack Kehler as Marty; The Dude's landlord, who is also a performance artist John Turturro as Jesus Quintana. The Coen brothers let Turturro come up with a lot of his own ideas for the character, like towel-shining the bowling ball and the scene where he dances backward from his bowling alley line, which he says was inspired by Muhammad Ali. David Thewlis as Knox Harrington, an avant-garde videographer-friend of Maude Lebowski Sam Elliott as The Stranger, a smooth-talking urban cowboy who also serves as the narrator of the film Ben Gazzara as big-time porn video producer Jackie Treehorn, to whom Bunny Lebowski owes money Jon Polito as Da Fino, a private dick who mistakes the Dude for a "brother shamus", hired by Bunny's family to return her to them Leon Russom as the Malibu police chief Aimee Mann as Nihilist Woman/Franz's Girlfriend who donates her amputated green nail-polished little toe (proof of Bunny Lebowski's kidnapping) Lu Elrod coffee shop waitress SOUNDTRACK The original score was composed by Carter Burwell, a veteran of all the Coen Brothers' films. While the Coens were writing the screenplay they had Kenny Rogers' "Just Dropped In (to See What Condition My Condition Was in)", the Gipsy Kings' cover of "Hotel California", and several Creedence Clearwater Revival songs in mind.[25] They asked T-Bone Burnett (who would later work with the Coens on O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Inside Llewyn Davis) to pick songs for the soundtrack of the film. They knew that they wanted different genres of music from different times but, as Joel remembers, "T-Bone even came up with some far-out Henry Mancini and Yma Sumac."[26] Burnett was able to secure songs by Kenny Rogers and the Gipsy Kings and also added tracks by Captain Beefheart, Moondog and Bob Dylan's "The Man in Me".[25] However, he had a tough time securing the rights to Townes Van Zandt's cover of the Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers", which plays over the film's closing credits. Former Stones manager Allen Klein owned the rights to the song and wanted $150,000 for it. Burnett convinced Klein to watch an early cut of the film and remembers, "It got to the part where the Dude says, 'I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man!' Klein stands up and says, 'That's it, you can have the song!' That was beautiful."[25][27] Burnett was going to be credited on the film as "Music Supervisor", but asked his credit to be "Music Archivist" because he "hated the notion of being a supervisor; I wouldn't want anyone to think of me as management".[26] For Joel, "the original music, as with other elements of the movie, had to echo the retro sounds of the Sixties and early Seventies".[16]:156 Music defines each character. For example, "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" by Bob Nolan was chosen for the Stranger at the time the Coens wrote the screenplay, as was "Lujon" by Henry Mancini for Jackie Treehorn. "The German nihilists are accompanied by techno-pop and Jeff Bridges by Creedence. So there's a musical signature for each of them", remarked Ethan in an interview.[16]:156 The character Uli Kunkel was in the German electronic band Autobahn, an homage to the band Kraftwerk. The album cover of their record Nagelbett (bed of nails) is a parody of the Kraftwerk album cover for The Man-Machine and the group name Autobahn shares the name of a Kraftwerk song and album. In the lyrics the phrase "We believe in nothing" is repeated with electronic distortion. This is a reference to Autobahn's nihilism in the film.[28]

Sarah DeLappe interviewed by Amelia Bethel (SLC21) Karen Loewy Movilla (SLC21) Sarah DeLappe's play The Wolves premiered Off-Broadway at The Playwrights Realm, following an engagement at New York Stage and Film, and development at Clubbed Thumb and Great Plains Theatre Conference. The Wolves received the American Playwriting Foundation's inaugural Relentless Award, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Yale Drama Series Prize. DeLappe is the Page One Playwright for The Playwrights Realm and has been a resident artist at the Sitka Fellows Program and SPACE on Ryder Farm. Past affiliations: Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers' Group, New Georges Audrey Residency. Current: Ars Nova's Play Group, Resident Playwright at LCT3. MFA in process at Brooklyn College.

COME TO OUR LIVE SHOW AT CAVEAT IN MANHATTAN: https://www.caveat.nyc/event/la-mezcla--3-19-2020 follow us on IG and Facebook: @lamezclapod follow Adrian: @adrian.burke Andrea Thome is a Chilean/Costa Rican-American playwright. Her play Pinkolandia received the Lark Play Development Center's Launching New Plays fellowship and a rolling world premiere at INTAR, Austin's Salvage Vanguard Theater, Two River Theater (NJ), and 16th Street Theater (Chicago). For the Public Theater, Thome created Troy with Public Works' ACTivate Ensemble. Her plays include Undone (Queens College, Victory Gardens, Lark), Worm Girl (Cherry Red Productions) and her play translations have been produced by the Public, CTG, La Jolla Playhouse and others. Thome co-directs FULANA, an all-Latina satire collective, has directed the Lark's Mexico-U.S. Playwright Exchange Program since 2006, and teaches theater at SUNY Purchase. Residencies include Blue Mountain Center, MacDowell, SPACE on Ryder Farm and Keen Company. She was a New Dramatists resident from 2009-2016. Andrea teaches theater at SUNY Purchase college. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Emily Simoness is the Founder and Executive Director of SPACE on Ryder Farm, a nonprofit artist residency program and organic farm located on a 225-year-old, 127-acre family homestead in Putnam County, New York. Artists from all over are invited to live and work on the farm, with the space and time they need to create their art. In this episode, Emily and Erik talk about how SPACE on Ryder Farm transformed from an idea into one of the premier centers for the development of new artistic work in the U.S. They also talk about the radical power of analog connection in our tech-obsessed world.

The girls go upstate for a magical night at artist residency/organic farm SPACE on Ryder Farm, where they speak to founder Emily Simoness about the importance of the dinner party within the creative community. They also help chef Stephen Sanders cook an epic dinner (on air!), and are joined by a special guest. Instagram: @havinganight Havinganightpodcast.com Email us! hello@havinganightpodcast.com

Here's another minute from Mr. Welfare's time at SPACE on Ryder Farm, with Dylan Pickus, Operations and Programs Associate.

Jahna Ferron-Smith is a graduate of Boston University College of Fine Arts with a Bachelor's in Fine Arts and Performance. She is currently a Lila Acheson Wallace Playwriting Fellow at the Juilliard School, as well as a member of the Obie Award-winning playwrights collective, Youngblood. She shared this minute with Mister Welfare during their time at SPACE on Ryder Farm. https://newplayexchange.org/users/27868/jahna-ferron-smith

In 2009, Emily Simoness, a 7th generation Ryder, became involved with Ryder Farm upon recognizing that her own artistic community could both benefit from, and contribute to, the long-standing but aging family farm. In 2011, she co-founded SPACE on Ryder Farm with the two-fold mission of providing time and space for artists and innovators to develop new work, while contributing to the sustainability and resourceful preservation of Ryder Farm. With the help of an army of inspired artists, volunteers, friends and family, SPACE was born. https://www.spaceonryderfarm.org/

Michael Chernus is an actor in films and television. He is also on the Advisory Board of SPACE at Ryder Farm, where this story was recorded. Find him on Twitter: @MichaelChernus, as Edward Tavner in the Amazon Prime Original Series Patriot, and as Cal Chapman in Netflix's Orange Is The New Black.

At the tail end of Mr. Welfare’s residency at SPACE on Ryder Farm, he gets to sit down with Farm Director Julie Noble. They discuss her role on Ryder Farm, her journey through various types of farms over the past 8 years, seed varieties, goats and much more! https://www.spaceonryderfarm.org/

Charly Evon Simpson's play Jump explores the themes of grief, suicide, mental illness and how we connect with each other. PlayMakers’ Producing Artistic Director Vivienne Benesch calls Playwright Charly Evon Simpson and Director Whitney White a dynamic duo, part of an amazing pipeline of women’s voices in theatre. Towards the end of this episode, you’ll hear what Playwright Charly Evon Simpson has to say about her writing process and the process of bringing a new play from page to stage. But first, I sat down with Director Whitney White to talk about the joys and challenges of directing a new play, the theatricality of Jump, and the importance of gender parity in the theatre. About the Guests Charly Evon Simpson’s plays include Jump, Scratching the Surface, form of a girl unknown, it’s not a trip it’s a journey, and more. Her work has been seen and/or developed with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, The Lark, Page 73, Chautauqua Theater Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, National New Play Network through its NNPN/Kennedy Center MFA Playwrights Workshop and National Showcase of New Plays, and others. Jump is receiving a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere with productions at PlayMakers Repertory Company (Chapel Hill, NC), Milagro Theatre in a co-production with Confrontation Theatre (Portland, OR), Shrewd Productions (Austin, TX), and Actor’s Express (Atlanta, GA) in 2019. Behind the Sheet is premiering at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City this month. She’s currently a member of WP Theater’s 2018-2020 Lab, The New Georges Jam, The Amoralists 18/19 ‘Wright Club and she’s The Pack’s current playwright-in-residence. Charly is a former member of SPACE on Ryder Farm’s The Working Farm, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers’ Group, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s Youngblood, and Pipeline Theatre Company’s PlayLab. She is currently an adjunct lecturer at SUNY Purchase. For more information visit, http://www.charlyevonsimpson.com/ (http://www.charlyevonsimpson.com.) Whitney White is 2018 recipient of the Susan Stroman Directing Award. She is currently in residency with Ars Nova as part of their 2018 Makers Lab, where she is developing Definition an original concert-play, and The Drama League as part of their Next Wave Residency where she is developing an original adaptation of Anton Chekov’s Three Sisters, with music. She is an Associate Artist at Roundabout Theatre Company and was a 2050 fellow at New York Theatre Workshop. White directed the critically acclaimed What to Send Up When it Goes Down by Aleshea Harris (The Movement) last fall. For more information visit: https://whitney-white.com/ (https://whitney-white.com/). Connect with RDU on Stage: Facebook – www.facebook.com/rduonstage Twitter – www.twitter.com/rduonstage Instagram – @rduonstage Web http://www.rduonstage.com/ (www.rduonstage.com) Support this podcast

Hope Chest returns with a new essay written at SPACE on Ryder Farm's Family Residency in July 2018. A week-long artist's residency for parents and their children, SPACE on Ryder Farm affords families that ever-elusive commodity that's so difficult for many artists to find, post-parenting: time. While there, Stacia writes to Story about how the culmination of her academic and professional decisions to date have led her to face some harsh realities of late.

Max & Tony talk with Michael Chernus... Acting in New Work as an original character, Meeting on Patriot + Paris, Tony's Marrying Record, Navigating Through Success + Failure, The Evil Internet Comments, Harith Augustus, Gun Control, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Getting noticed in public, and Cleveland's loss of LeBron James... https://www.spaceonryderfarm.org/ MUSIC CREDIT "Train Song" - Vashti Bunyan https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/train-song-columbia-single-1966/265096293?i=265096509

Andrew Rosendorf is a playwright based in Minneapolis. He is a 2016-2017 McKnight Fellow in Playwriting at The Playwrights’ Center. His work has been produced or developed at La Jolla Playhouse, MCC, Luna Stage, American Theater Company, Nashville Rep, City Theatre, Geva Theatre, Actor’s Express, Palm Beach Dramaworks, UglyRhino, and Toftee Lake Center.  Andrew is an alum of terraNOVA Collective’s Groundbreakers Playwrights Group, the Ingram New Works program, National New Plays Network Playwright-in-Residence program, and has been a SPACE on Ryder Farm, VCCA, and MacDowell Colony Fellow.  He was a 2015-2016 Jerome Fellow at The Playwrights’ Center.  Andrew earned his MFA from The New School for Drama in Playwriting.   Andrew shares with Marc about his newest play that he just started researching, writing about sexuality, gender, and identity, the importance of theatricality and emotion in play, his writing process, and how he's learned to write with risk and vulnerability.

Sarah Burgess is a playwright and writer for "The Tenant" (Woodshed Collective) and Naked Angels podcast series, "Naked Radio." She has been a writer-in-residence at SPACE on Ryder Farm and the Cape Cod Theatre Project. Burgess is a member of the WP Lab and is an Ars Nova Play Group alum. Her play "Dry Powder" was a recipient of the 2016 Laurents/Hatcher Foundation Award and a finalist for the Blackburn prize. Other plays include "Camdenside" and "FAIL: Failures."    

Emily Simoness is the Co-Founder & Executive Director of SPACE on Ryder Farm, an artist residency in upstate NY. She shares her thoughts on the dark side, moving from a background as an actor into a new focus as SPACE has grown, the technical side of creating a non-profit, and building community. www.spaceonryderfarm.org Also, info on the upcoming Live Episode of The Compass on 11/6/2016. Check out The Compass Podcast on Facebook for all the details! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rachel Rusch is an actor and social worker, she shares her experiences working with children, deciding to pursue masters degrees in social work and child development, how she uses her artistry and creativity in the new environments she's working in, her work with SPACE on Ryder Farm, and her relationship to New York City.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices