It's all about Tony Award predictions today on the podcast! Theater critic Jose Solís comes back to the podcast to make his picks. Jose has been writing about film and theatre since 2003 and his work has appeared in major film and theatre publ

Isaac Butler - Shakespeare, Angels, and Politics

Jun 6th, 2018 42m 53s

Isaac Butler is a writer and theater director, recently of The Trump Card, about the rise of Donald Trump with solo performer Mike Daisey. Isaac also wrote and directed Real Enemies, which was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and n

Idris Goodwin - Playwright Spotlight

Jun 1st, 2018 41m 15s

Idris Goodwin is an award-winning playwright, poet, performer, and essayist. This summer, he will become the Producing Artistic Director of StageOne Family Theater in Louisville, KY. For StageOne, Idris penned American Tales and the widely prod

Ken Urban - Playwright Spotlight

May 8th, 2018 51m 16s

Ken Urban is a playwright, screenwriter, and musician based in New York. His plays include Sense of an Ending, The Correspondent, A Future Perfect, The Awake, The Happy Sad, Nibbler, A Guide for the Homesick which recently premiered just a few

Jessica Burr - Bodies Moving Through Space

Feb 19th, 2018 47m

Jessica Burr is the artistic director of Blessed Unrest, an ensemble-based experimental theatre company in New York City, co-founded with Matt Opatrny. In 2011, Jessica received the Lucille Lortel Award from the League of Professional Theatre W

Dámaso Rodriguez - Transforming Artists Repertory Theatre

Feb 13th, 2018 50m 31s

Dámaso Rodriguez is a Cuban American director based in Portland, Oregon, where he serves as artistic director of Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland's longest-running professional theatre company, which became a member of the League of Resident

Julia Sirna-Frest - All the Weird, Crazy Stuff Downtown

Jan 29th, 2018 33m

Julia Sirna-Frest is an actor and singer based in New York. She was most recently seen as Margit in Seder at Hartford Stage. And in the title role of: [Porto] which played at The Bushwick Starr last year where it was an NYT Critics Pick and T

Jose Solís - Theater Critic Spotlight

Jan 26th, 2018 45m 15s

Jose Solís, as a theater critic, has been writing about film and theater since 2003, and his work has appeared in major film and theater publications including (links are reviews or articles): The New York Times, American Theatre, and Backstage

Jamil Jude - Community Conversations

Jan 25th, 2018 52m 16s

Jamil Jude is a director, producer, playwright, and dramaturg. Self-identifying as an "Artist Plus", Jamil feels most at home bringing socially relevant art to the community. Jamil is the Associate Artistic Director at Kenny Leon’s True Colors

Brendan Hines - Fueled by Performance and Collaboration

Dec 14th, 2017 49m 33s

Brendan Hines is a versatile actor and singer-songwriter. He currently stars in Amazon's The Tick as Superian. The show is based on Ben Edlund's comic book of the same name, with new episodes in February 2018. Brendan is also performing Histri

Rachel Grossman - Inclusivity as a Practice

Dec 8th, 2017 36m 26s

Rachel Grossman is the Ensemble Director and a co-founder of dog & pony dc where audience integration is their guiding artistic principle. She is also a theater artist and engagement strategist. She likes to explore the triangulation between ar

Ilana Levine - Little Known Facts

Nov 30th, 2017 37m 35s

Ilana Levine is an acclaimed actor on Broadway, TV and film. She’s also a producer, and the amazing host of one of my favorite podcasts, Little Known Facts. Ilana is probably best known to Broadway fans for her comedic turn as "Lucy Van Pelt"

Andrew Rosendorf, Playwright - Risky Writing

Nov 24th, 2017 40m 27s

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, Nashvi

Seth Bockley - Visual, Lyrical Literary Adaptations

Nov 20th, 2017 48m 41s

Seth Bockley is a playwright and theater director, specializing in literary adaptation, physical and object theater as well as multimedia works. As a director, Seth has led productions throughout the United States and around the world, includin

Guillermo Reyes - Playwright Spotlight

Nov 9th, 2017 46m 15s

Guillermo Reyes has produced and published a variety of plays including Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown and Mother Lolita as off-Broadway productions with Urban Stages, Chilean Holiday and Saints at the Rave at the Humana Festival at

Deborah Yarchun, Playwright - Spinning Stories

Nov 2nd, 2017 29m 8s

Deborah Yarchun is a New York City playwright from Austin, Texas. Her honors include two Jerome Fellowships, an EST/Sloan Commission, The Kennedy Center’s Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award for The Man in the Sukkah, the Kernodle New Play Awa

20: Spinning Stories with Deborah Yarchun, Playwright

Nov 2nd, 2017 29m 8s

Lauren Gunderson - Writing as Activist and Artist

Oct 25th, 2017 41m 17s

Lauren Gunderson is the most-produced living playwright in America for both 2016 and 2017. Her work has been commissioned, produced and developed at companies across the US including South Coast Rep (Emilie, Silent Sky), The Kennedy Center (T

18: Making the Classics Her Own with Kate Hamill, Playwright

Oct 17th, 2017 36m 22s

Kate Hamill is a playwright and actor based in New York City. In 2014, her adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility premiered off-Broadway where it was named in the "Top 10 Theater of 2014" by both Ben Brantley of the NY Times and by

Kate Hamill, Playwright -- Adapting the Classics

Oct 17th, 2017 36m 22s

Adam Szymkowicz - Playwright Spotlight

Oct 10th, 2017 34m 20s

Adam Szymkowicz is a playwright based in New York City. His plays have been produced throughout the U.S., Canada, England, and around the world. Adam’s plays include The Wooden Heart, Deflowering Waldo, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like

Davis McCallum - Leading the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival

Jul 19th, 2017 43m 17s

Davis McCallum is the Artistic Director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, where he’s also directing The Book of Will, which is now playing. His recent productions in New York include Fashions for Men, which received Drama Desk, Lortel

Mark Armstrong - Bringing Together Artists to Create 24 Hour Plays

Jul 11th, 2017 34m 16s

Mark Armstrong is a Brooklyn-based theater director and the Executive Director for The 24 Hour Plays, where he recently oversaw the 16th annual The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway. Mark spent four years as the Director of New Work for off-Broadway’s

Jared Zeigler - Creating a Supportive and Safe Space as Equity Stage Manager

Jul 3rd, 2017 36m 20s

Jared Zeigler is an Equity stage manager, arts administrator, and theatre artist based in Minneapolis. As a stage manager, Jared has worked with many of the leading professional theaters in Minneapolis, including Dark & Stormy Productions, Fran

Annie Enneking - Body, Connection, and Collaboration as Fight Director, Musician, and Actor

Jun 21st, 2017 35m 35s

Annie Enneking is an actor, songwriter, musician, teaching artist, and fight director. She started performing at the age of 14, and has acted on or created fights for almost every stage in the Twin Cities. Annie is an associate instructor with