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| 05 Apr 2021 | 97. Sam & Sarah Go Off-Script (uh-oh!) | 00:43:09 | |
Hello, listeners! In this week's episode, we decide to throw our usual script out the window and share our thoughts on playwriting and theater in this mix-bag of an episode. We discuss what's on our minds regarding theater and writing. You just don't know what you're going to get in this episode, so we hope you enjoy it! GLISTENS Sam: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell Sarah: Moving Arts / MADlab _____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friend! 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 The Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 11 Oct 2021 | 124. TOPIC: Play Ideas from Childhood Writings... | 00:42:26 | |
Hello, listeners! In this week's episode, we share writings from our childhood to help us generate ideas for possible play or story ideas. Is this a recipe of a disaster? Probably! Enjoy! GLISTENS Cho - SQUID GAME ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or | |||
| 05 Aug 2019 | 27. TOPIC: Plays that Haunt Us | 00:37:38 | |
What are the plays that have haunted you? In this episode we discuss plays that we have seen or read that’s stucked with us long after they’ve been seen or read. The plays can also be the ones you haven’t written yet and are stewing in your mind or the ghost-twins of the plays you have written or even bad plays you’ve seen. We attempt to unpack these ideas to think about why some plays stick with us. Related Links & Glistens
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| 04 Mar 2019 | 5. TOPIC: Rejections | 00:34:03 | |
Almost every writer submit their work to be considered for conferences, residencies, and publishing. The question is, how do you handle the rejections? Join hosts Sam and Sarah as they share their personal coping mechanisms they may (or may not) have when it comes to dealing with the rejections. Also included are a few helpful links to help you start submitting your plays!
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Helpful Links:
New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/
Playwrights' Center: https://pwcenter.org/
Kat's Play & Musical Submission Central: https://www.facebook.com/groups/172232179854587/
Episode 5: 10 Seconds/ 1,000 Years Playwriting Exercise
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| 06 May 2019 | 14. TOPIC: Every Beginning is a Beginning. What is a Beginning. | 00:37:06 | |
In this episode, we discuss the beginning of a play. What do you think is considered a beginning? How long should the beginning be? What makes the beginning of a play memorable? We share our thoughts on this very important and serious episode. GLISTENS: Sam's - "Running Out of Children, a South Korea School Enrolls Illiterate Grandmothers" by Choe Sang-Hun (NY Times) Sarah's - "Wedding planning is taking over my life and I can't deal." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies | |||
| 04 Jul 2022 | 141. INTERVIEW: Steven Strafford | 00:57:32 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is STEVEN STRAFFORD! Sarah first met Steven at the Great Plains Theatre Conference where they bonded over playwriting and new plays. We're so excited to have him on the show!!! Steven Strafford is a playwright and actor, Brooklyn-born and New Jersey-raised. His acting credits include Spamalot directed by Mike Nichols, Wonderful Town directed by Mary Zimmerman. He's been on TV, in commercials, and a movie or two. As a writer, his plays include the one man show, Methtacular! along with The Match Game, Mona Quimby: Age 38, Greater Illinois, The Model Congressman, and Small Jokes About Monsters which will be published and licensed by Broadway Licensing this fall. He lives in Athens, Ohio with his husband and ludicrously adorable foster son. To learn more about Steven and his work: GLISTENS: Cho - Great Plains Theatre Conference ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and 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) | |||
| 28 Oct 2019 | 39. TOPIC: Writing Monologues | 00:35:19 | |
What the heck are monologues? Don't get it confused with the "kissing disease". In this episode, we discuss the different kinds of monologues in plays, what are they for, what makes a good monologue for a play vs. a standalone monologue, how to write one and when do we use them in our plays. What do you think? Do you have any tips or tricks on writing monologues? If so, send us your thoughts (or questions)and we might discuss it on our upcoming episode! Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 13 May 2019 | 15. INTERVIEW: Writing for Young Audiences with Playwright Chris Leyva | 00:58:21 | |
In this episode, Columbus-based playwright and director Chris Leyva (also a fellow Iowa Playwrights Alum!) joins our show to share what his life has been like after graduate school and his journey into writing theater for young audiences. As playwrights, we were able to relate to so much of Chris' experiences including working day jobs, finding the time to write, handling rejections, and the journey we all take to find our voice as writers. Listeners, you don't want to miss this episode!
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| 20 May 2024 | 166. INTERVIEW: Kira Rockwell | 00:56:14 | |
Hello listeners! This week's guest is Kira Rockwell! Kira (she/her) is a neurodivergent playwright, originally from the heart of Texas. Through a trauma informed, healing centered lens, she aims to nurture communal spaces that disrupt passivity and empower agency. This summer she will develop her play WICKED BITTER BEAST(S) with Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Her play, OH TO BE PURE AGAIN, was developed with The Kennedy Center, National New Play Network, and Great Plains Theatre Commons. It premiered at Actor’s Express in 2023 going on to win the Gene Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award. Rockwell's work is often based on her nuanced experiences growing up in "culty" Pentecostal Christian Communities. She is based in Atlanta with her creative husband and their sweet lab pit. When she’s not writing, she’s probably trying to talk to a caterpillar. Additional Links: Kira's recent spotlight in American Theatre Magazine Insta: @kirarockwell website: www.kirarockwell.com Kira's plays on NPX GLISTEN Cho - new play "Screen Time" Sam - Slime mold Kira - experiments with ChatGPT! ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram or Threads: @beckettsbabies 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 07 Sep 2020 | 75. TOPIC: Notes, Notes, Notes... Oh My! | 00:53:37 | |
This episode is all about receiving and providing notes on our plays. What the heck do you do with all the feedback? What are some best practices when receiving notes? When is it useful? When is it not? Can notes be too prescriptive? Or could it be more prescriptive? We attempt to discuss by sharing our own experiences as note givers and takers to shed some light on best practices. GLISTENS RELATED LINKS: Scriptnotes Podcast Howlround - “Notes to the Note-Givers; or, Embracing the Paradox” essay by Catherine Trieschman How to Organize Writing Feedback so You Can Rewrite With Confidence by David Safford ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 12 Aug 2019 | 28. Sarah Interviews Sam | 00:31:45 | |
Sarah interviews Sam Collier.... and you won't believe what she says! We are a two-woman operation in creating this podcast show. Please help to support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it on our next episode. | |||
| 10 Feb 2020 | 46. INTERVIEW: Tiana Randall-Quant | 00:46:33 | |
What is "devised theater"? How can one start devising new work? In this week's episode, a fellow Beckett's Babies listener, Tiana Randall-Quant, reached out to us to share her experiences creating new work with The Wallis Studio Ensemble Their show "Lucid" opens on February 20th and we can't wait for you to hear what she has to say about the process. Listen to this episode to learn about Tiana's trajectory into theater, devising and creating new work, and how she feels about when someone says that LA is not a theater town. Be sure to grab your tickets to Lucid here! GLISTENS: Sarah's Glisten - American inventor Mary Kenner ABOUT TIANA RANDALL-QUANT Tiana Randall-Quant is a Los Angeles based theatre artist working to change the narrative that LA is “not a theatre town”. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where she studied under theatre makers like Rhodessa Jones of the Medea Project and playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, and geared her education towards making art that centers marginalized communities and community healing. She is working now on her debut performance with the Wallis Studio Ensemble, which opens February 20th at the Hudson Theatres, and is preparing to remount Project Nongenue’s What You Will (or Twelfth Night) as the character Olivia. She is also in the process of becoming a certified teaching artist, and is building a curriculum around Augusta Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. To learn more about Tiana Randall-Quant, be sure to follow her on instagram: www.instagram.com/t_quant/ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 24 Oct 2023 | 158. INTERVIEW: Greg Geffrard | 01:06:18 | |
Hello listeners! This week on the show, we had GREG GEFFRARD on the show! This is a JUICY one with so much pearl of wisdom. Greg is here to make sure your sexy sustainable. PLEASE ENJOY! Greg Geffrard is an educator, Intimacy professional, culture worker, actor, poet, and facilitator. He cultivates sustainable artistic spaces of exploration by sharing consent-based trauma-informed advocacy tools. He is an Associate Faculty member with Theatrical Intimacy Education. As an Intimacy Professional, he has worked on 62+ productions ranging from theatre and opera to building policies with arts institutions as an Intimacy Consultant. He is the Associate Artist Director of the Gainesville Theatre Alliance and Head of the BFA Acting program at Brenau University. Shows currently in production:
GLISTEN Cho - Sedona, AZ Sam - old home videos Greg - bandwidth / what does singularly focus version look like ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and 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) ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 07 Jun 2021 | 106. TOPIC: Social Media for Writers | 01:07:44 | |
Hello, listeners! In this week’s episode, we discuss the topic of social media and our personal experiences with social media through the lens of writers. This was actually a suggestion from our guest Terry Guest, and we thought it would be a great topic to explore! When is social media helpful? When is it detrimental? Let the venting begin! GLISTENS Sam: Wolfwalkers ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 18 Oct 2021 | 125. PLAYWRIGHT: María Irene Fornés | 00:53:18 | |
We return to our Playwright Series where we look at a single playwright and their large body of work. In this episode, we discuss the life and work of María Irene Fornés. We read the three plays: FEFU AND HER FRIENDS (1977) (Awarded an Obie for Playwriting), MUD (1983) (Awarded an Obie for Playwriting and Direction), and LETTERS FROM CUBA (2000) to share our thoughts on María Irene Fornés' craft in playwriting. We hope you will check these plays out and listen to our conversation! GLISTENS: CHO - Stand-up comedy SAM - Aspen Trees _____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friend! 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 05 Sep 2022 | 145. We took a very short hiatus and now we're back...!!! | 00:44:53 | |
Hey listeners! We had a very busy summer! It's been awhile since we last recorded so we're checking in! GLISTENS Sarah: Pregnant & Michigan ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or | |||
| 04 Apr 2022 | 135. INTERVIEW: Shannon TL Kearns | 00:47:03 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is SHANNON TL KEARNS! A former fundamentalist who became the first openly transgender man ordained to the Old Catholic priesthood, Shannon TL Kearns believes in the transformative power of story. As an ordained priest, a playwright, a theologian, and a writer all of his work revolves around making meaning through story. Shannon TL Kearns was a recipient of the Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellowship in 20/21, a playwright in residence at the Inge House in 2021, a Lambda Literary Fellow for 2019, and a Finnovation Fellow for 2019/2020. Shannon’s plays include Body+Blood, in a stand of dying trees, Line of Sight, Twisted Deaths, The Resistance of My Skin, and Who Has Eyes To See. His television pilots include The Family Unit, Transformed, and Freedom, Kansas. He and his plays have been: a finalist for the Equity Library Theatre of Chicago’s Reading Series, 2019 TransLab, and American Stages 2019 New Play Festival, semi-finalist for the New Works series at Garry Marshall Theatre. He was a semi-finalist for SPACE on Ryder farm in 2020. To learn more about Shannon and his work, be sure to visit his website and on social media: GLISTENS:
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| 04 May 2020 | 58. INTERVIEW: Shaun Leisher | 00:55:28 | |
Hello, listeners! In this episode, we chat with dramaturg, new play doula, and an incredible supporter of Beckett's Babies-- SHAUN LEISHER! He shares his journey into dramaturgy, what he loves about new plays, and how we can best support new work. It was an incredible joy to speak with Shaun. We could all learn a thing or two from his passion to support and advocate for new work. Check it out! Shaun Leisher (pronouns: he/him/his) is a dramaturg and new play doula based in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. As a dramaturg, he has worked on productions at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA and a workshop production of RAW PASTA by Maya Macdonald at the 2019 Ice Factory Festival at the New Ohio in NYC. In his local theatre community, Shaun is a co-founder and the Literary Manager of Emerge Theatre Company, co-created the Allentown Public Theatre's play reading series, Theatre Cafe, and has produced various readings and new play festivals throughout the region. He is also proud to be a reader/nominator r for a number of organizations dedicated to the advocacy and development of new work including: The Kilroys, Normal Ave, 50 Playwrights Project, and Play Penn. His dream is to one day run a theatre dedicated to bold new plays somewhere remote like Montana. To follow what Shaun's up to, be sure to follow him on instagram: www.instagram.com/shaunaturgy/ To read Shan's incredible play recommendations, be sure to check out his New Play Exchange: newplayexchange.org/users/1297/shaun-leisher GLISTENS: ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 15 Nov 2021 | 129. TOPIC: Dreams | 00:41:00 | |
Hello, listeners! In today’s episode we discuss the topic of DREAMS. We share some recent dreams we’ve had, share some play ideas based on our dreams, and share our thought son why we might add dreams to our storytelling. What do they evoke? Hope you enjoy the conversation! Article Mentioned: Did Covid Change How We Dream? by Brooke Jarvis GLISTENS Cho - Discovery + / The Lost Kitchen Special thanks to our sponsor Play Submissions Helper! ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or | |||
| 11 May 2020 | 59. TOPIC: Writing Radio Plays | 00:40:54 | |
In this episode, Sam and Sarah discuss writing plays for the radio. We bring on a special guest, Nik Frank-Lehrer, to help us kick off the episode by sharing his experience on writing ad copy for radio. We also look at ways in how radio plays have been written and produced. Check out the links below and we'd love to hear your thoughts on writing radio plays. If you have a page or two that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to send our way. Check this episode out! GLISTENS: Sam: How Should A Person Be? By Sheila Heti
BBC’s Radio 4 Drama Spotify Playlist “Vintage Radio Dramas” The Renaissance of the Humble Radio Drama by ANGELICA CABRAL LA Theatre Works’s Catalog of Over 500 plays on Audio Sam Beckett Radio Plays on Openculture Sam Beckett Radio Plays on Irish Times "The Strange Survival of Radio Drama" by Professor David Hendy (BBC) Playing On Air - Podcast ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 18 Feb 2019 | 3. TOPIC: Rituals and Routines | 00:31:13 | |
Hosts Sam Collier and Sarah Cho dive into discussion about rituals and routines. In this episode, we explore how we stay motivated to write every day and share our own personal tips in getting inspired. Listeners, we would love to know... what's your favorite beverage of choice when you write? Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies We would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting or writing and we'd love to share it on our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com Website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like The Kids" from Audio Network --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 20 Sep 2021 | 121. PLAYWRIGHT: Suzan-Lori Parks | 01:03:19 | |
We return to our Playwright Series where we look at a single playwright and their large body of work. In this episode, we discuss the life and work of SUZAN-LORI PARKS. We read the three plays: Venus (1996), Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer Prize Winner), and Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (2015) to share our thoughts on Suzan-Lori Park's craft in playwriting. We hope you will check these plays out and listen to our conversation! SUZAN-LORI PARKS
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| 22 Nov 2021 | 130. SEASON FINALE: First the Worst, Second the Best...Third the Nerd? | 00:38:34 | |
THAT'S A WRAP FOR SEASON 3! Thank you all so much for tuning in every week and hear us chat about all things playwriting. We appreciate you and your support! In this episode, we highlight just a FEW of our favorite episodes of this season. We loved every single one of our guests on this season so even if they're not mentioned here, we suggest you going back and give it a listen! Thank you again for another incredible season. Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season... See you next year! After three seasons of Beckett’s Babies… GLISTENS
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| 18 Jul 2022 | 142. INTERVIEW: G. Flores | 01:03:08 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest joining us on the show is G.FLORES! We first met Lupe at Iowa Playwrights Workshop. We're so excited to have him on the show to share his playwriting journey and all his thoughts on playwriting. This was such an enlightening conversation and we hope you enjoy! Guadalupe Flores has worked in communications and public relations in the non-profit sphere for over two decades, with a primary focus in the arts, higher education, higher education policy and election policy. Some of his creative achievements include “The Coyote Stratagem,” published in Applause Books’ “The Best American Short Plays 2010-2011,” the 2012 Kennedy Center’s Ken Ludwig Scholarship, and was a finalist for the 2012 Arizona Theater Company’s National Latino Playwriting award. Flores has an adult son who is (fortunately) smarter and better looking than he was at that age. He holds a BA in English and theatre arts from the University of the Incarnate Word, an MA in playwriting from Texas State University, and an MFA in playwriting from the University of Iowa. To learn more about Lupe and his work: Twitter: @theliterateGeek (The Bad Hombre Your Parents Warned You About) GLISTENS: Cho - Stranger Things Season 4 ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and 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) | |||
| 03 Aug 2020 | 70. INTERVIEW: Marjorie Muller | 00:57:07 | |
Hello listeners! We are so excited for you to listen to this new episode of Beckett's Babies! We had an amazing conversation discussing all-things playwriting with playwright, actor, producer MARJORIE MULLER! In this episode, Marjorie shares how she got into playwriting, her tips and tricks, and we also do a little deep dive in the social media (uh oh!). We hope you enjoy this episode! Marjorie Muller is a Chicago-based playwright, actor, and producer, whose work has been featured at Urbanite Theater, the Women's Theatre Festival, Impostors Theatre Company, and more. She is currently developing an adaptation of Dracula for young adults called "Lucy Westenra Is Definitely Not (And Will Never Be) a Vampire" that will be performed this Fall at the Latin School of Chicago. She is also producing a live audio drama with Theatre in the Dark based on War of the Worlds which will be happening this upcoming Fall. GLISTENS: To learn more about Marjorie and her work, be sure to check out the following websites: Also! Marjorie shared with us her favorite playwriting exercise. Go to our website www.beckettsbabies.com to learn more! Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 02 Aug 2021 | 114. INTERVIEW: Peppur Chambers | 00:57:50 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is PEPPUR CHAMBERS! PEPPUR CHAMBERS is an international writer, producer, and educator. A member of Circle X Emerging Playwrights Group, Moving Arts MADLab, and Antaeus Playwrights Lab, she uses her voice to scream, shout or sing about women’s issues, social justice and love. She has been commissioned for LA's Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble and you can catch her radio play, End of the Line, about human trafficking in Antaeus Theatre Company’s The Zip Code Plays Season Two. To learn more about Peppur, check out the links below! Instagram: @peppurthehotone GLISTENS: Sarah: Sudoku ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies | |||
| 15 Jul 2019 | 24. TOPIC: Formatting Plays | 00:41:56 | |
Listeners, sometimes you gotta learn the format to break it. In this episode, we discuss the standard format for playwriting, different writing programs to use for playwriting, and what we love (or sometimes we don't love) about the format. Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies As always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it on our next episode. | |||
| 15 Aug 2023 | 153. INTERVIEW: Charly Evon Simpson | 01:11:47 | |
Hello listeners! We were so fortunate to have CHARLY EVON SIMPSON join us on the show! We had such an incredible time chatting with Charly about writing and life as playwright and TV writer. We hope you enjoy!!! Charly Evon Simpson is a playwright, TV writer, and teacher based in Brooklyn. Her plays include Behind the Sheet, sandblasted, Jump, 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 Vineyard Theatre, WP Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Round House Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Salt Lake Acting Company, and others. She is a recipient of the Vineyard Theatre’s Paula Vogel Playwriting Award and the Dramatists Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award. She is currently a resident of New Dramatists. In TV, she has worked on shows for Showtime, HBO, and Netflix including American Rust and Industry. Charly has a BA from Brown University, a master’s in Women’s Studies from University of Oxford, New College, and her MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College. www.charlyevonsimpson.com GLISTENS: Cho - "How to Sell a Haunted House" by Grady Hendrix ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 30 Aug 2021 | 118. INTERVIEW: Erin Mallon | 00:49:02 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is ERIN MALLON! Erin Mallon is a playwright, author, and narrator of over 550 audiobooks with a special affinity for the romance genre. She is a six-time Earphones Award Winner and a five-time Audie Award Nominee. Her audio play These Walls Can Talk is a 2021 Independent Audiobook Award Winner for Humor. Her play The Net Will Appear is now available on Audible.com as an audio drama co-starring Matilda Lawler (Disney Plus’ Flora & Ulysses, Broadway’s The Ferryman). Erin’s other full-length plays include: Good Riddance, Soft Animals, Hand Me Down, Stunning Displays of Prowess, and Skin Hungry. To learn more about Erin and her work, check out the links below! GLISTENS:
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| 22 Jun 2020 | 64. INTERVIEW: Tanuja Jagernauth Returns! | 01:15:15 | |
Based in Chicago, Tanuja Jagernauth is an Indo-Caribbean playwright, dramaturg, and ceramic artist who believes in the necessity of creation during times of destruction. We talked with Tanuja a few months ago about her theatrical work, and we have her back on to discuss her work organizing the response of Chicago theaters to the Black Lives Matter movement, the coronavirus pandemic, and this moment in time. She will be working on a musical adaptation of FAUST with Prop Thtr with Olivia Lilley as the director. They start a workshop in July and the production will be in the spring of 2021. Be sure to be on the lookout! GLISTENS: Tanuja's Recommendations, References & Uplifts: WASTED by Free Street Theater "Victory Gardens Boards Windows Against Black Lives, Arts Community Protests Leadership" by Regina Victor TransformHarm "It takes more than #OpenYourLobby to address racism in American theater" by Miranda Gonzalez Brave Space Alliance Chicago Freedom School Let Us Breathe Collective ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 27 May 2018 | Bonus: Beckett’s Babies Returns! | 00:32:22 | |
Sam Collier and Sarah Cho reunite on this special homecoming episode to discuss life after graduation, writing, and "glistens". #playwriting
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| 16 Aug 2021 | 116. TOPIC: Unpaid Theater Internships (Part 2) | 00:34:02 | |
Hello, listeners! This week's episode is a two-part episode! In the first part, we share some exciting life updates (Spoiler alert: One of us relocated to a NEW STATE) and we get into the topic of unpaid, or low-wage, theater internships, and why we think it's unethical. If you haven't listened to the first part, be sure to check out last week's episode! We hope you enjoy it! GLISTENS
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| 15 Apr 2024 | 164. INTERVIEW: Lucas Baisch | 00:54:40 | |
Hello listeners! We're excited to return to our regular programming with an interview with a fellow playwright! Today’s guest is Lucas Baisch, a playwright from San Francisco currently based in Brooklyn. He is an instructor at Pratt, a Workspace resident with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and a Play Group member at Ars Nova. His play 404 Not Found is about to be published by 53rd State Press. Welcome to the show Lucas Baisch! Additional links: Website: www.lucasbaisch.com Instagram: @lucbaisch Cho - moved to Ventura! Sam - Marx for Cats Lucas - Keyboard Fantasies documentary ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram or Threads: @beckettsbabies 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 25 May 2020 | 61. INTERVIEW: Art Borreca (Special Episode!) | 01:48:58 | |
Hello, listeners! Boy, do we have a treat for you! This is an in-depth special episode where we had the greatest pleasure of chatting with one of our favorite people from Iowa... ART BORRECA! He is the Co-Head of the Playwriting Program and Head of the Dramaturgy Program at the University of Iowa (aka where Sam and I met and became friends!). Art talks about his journey into theater and dramaturgy, what he loves about new plays, and shares with us the Iowa Playwrights Workshop program. We are so excited for you to listen to this one. So please, grab your favorite drink, kick your feet up, and listen to this very special episode. Art Borreca is associate professor of dramaturgy, dramatic literature, and theatre history, co-head of the playwriting program, and head of the dramaturgy program. He has worked as a dramaturg with a number of leading theatre artists, including Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka, Theodora Skipitares, David Gothard, and Naomi Wallace in such venues as the Yale Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, LaMama ETC, Oxford Stage Company in the U.K., and T.P.T (Theatre Project Tokyo) in Japan. His research interests include contemporary British and American theatre, new play dramaturgy, and political dramaturgy. His articles and reviews have appeared in TDR (The Drama Review), Modern Drama, and Theatre Journal; as well as in several books, including Dramaturgy in American Theatre, What is Dramaturgy? and Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America. Professor Borreca is a contributing editor of the two-volume Norton Anthology of Drama. GLISTENS: ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 13 Jul 2020 | 67. INTERVIEW: Reginald Edmund | 00:46:04 | |
Hi listeners! In this episode, we chat with the one and only Playwright, Co-Founder and Managing Curating Producer of Black Lives Black Words International Project Reginald Edmund. Black Lives Black Words International Project launched an online play season celebrating the diversity of the African-American and African experience in today’s world called ‘Plays for the People’. The season features new works from seven cutting-edge black playwrights: Reginald Edmund, Chisa Hutchinson, Anya Pearson, Dominic Taylor, Idris Goodwin, Katrina D. RiChard, and Wole Oguntokun. The season opened on July 8th and will continue to run through November 8th, 2020. Learn more about Black Lives Black Words and be sure to catch a show this season at www.blacklivesblackwords.org/get-tickets To learn more about Reginald's plays, check out his New Play Exchange here: GLISTENS Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 05 Jun 2023 | 149. WE ARE BACK FOR SEASON 5, BABIES! | 00:44:15 | |
Hello, listeners! We officially started Kindergarten and we're a little nervous after taking a long break! In this episode, we share a few life updates. One of us had a baby so you better tune in to find out WHO. And we all want to know... will their baby go into the life of theater?! GLISTENS: Cho: trying out commonplace book / using Wit & Delight journal notebook Sam: Nightwalking podcast Bianca Giaever and Terry Tempest Williams ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends | |||
| 06 Nov 2023 | 159. INTERVIEW: Rebecca Wear | 01:03:34 | |
Hello listeners! This week on the show, we have the one and only director REBECCA WEAR! Rebecca is a freelance director and dramaturg with a focus on new play development, as well as an assistant professor in performance, play, and design. To learn more about Rebecca, be sure to check out her website at https://www.rebeccawear.com/ GLISTEN Cho - Amazon Prime TV show "Invincible" Sam - Movie "Swimmers" on Netflix Rebecca - Pear Tree ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and 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) ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 02 Dec 2019 | 44. We'll See You in 2020! | 00:30:27 | |
Hello, listeners! It's been an incredible year of discussing all things playwriting and interviewing theater guests from all walks of life on Beckett's Babies. In this episode, we share some of our favorite interviews and highlights from the year. We even share some of our dream goals for guests on our future episodes... Dream Goal Guests. DGG! SEASON 1 HIGHLIGHTS - Episodes You Should Check Out If You Haven't! 1. Alison Ruth's Interview But really, you should check out all the episodes! :)
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| 20 Apr 2020 | 56. INTERVIEW: Olivia Lilley | 00:52:18 | |
In this episode, Sam and Sarah get the opportunity to chat with playwright, director, deviser and artistic director of Prop Theater -- Olivia Lilley! Olivia Lilley is a playwright, director, and deviser who came up in Chicago's DIY scene. She uses a devised process to create and develop her plays that she's been honing since 2013. Olivia's work often ransacks classic literature or nonfiction with a collective and builds a new story for the current moment. Part Mary Zimmerman, Part John Cassavettes, Olivia's work is actor centric while also boldly multidisciplinary. She often collaborates with choreographer Kelly Anderson. Olivia is Artistic Director of Prop Thtr. She was the founding Artistic Director of The Runaways Lab Theatre and currently sits on their advisory board. She's an Artistic Associate at Pivot Arts, and she's curated at The Museum of Contemporary Art. Olivia attended Carnegie Mellon School of Drama for Directing, and Interlochen Arts Academy for Music Composition. To learn more about Olivia Lilley and her work, check her New Play Exchange at newplayexchange.org/users/10813/olivia-lilley To learn more about Prop Theater, visit the website at www.propthtr.org/ ------------------------------------------ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 26 Jul 2021 | 113. PLAY: BureauCRAZY by Kate Danley | 00:39:38 | |
Every month, we pick a play or two to discuss, and this week's episode is a play called "BureauCRAZY" by Kate Danley. We discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. Note: There are some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! About the Play: Grace and Amy, two outrageous admins stuck in a soul-sucking job, are just slogging their way through the work week. But when their supervisor chokes, everything goes awry and begins a domino-effect of destruction. 9-to-5 meets One Man, Two Guvnors in this quick-witted, sidesplitting farce. About the Playwright: Kate Danley is a USA TODAY Bestselling author and thirty-year veteran of stage and screen and one of the original co-founders of the Seattle Playwrights Salon. Glistens: Sarah - no-screen sunday and peaches and cream pie ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with | |||
| 21 Feb 2022 | 132. INTERVIEW: Scott Bradley | 01:04:38 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is SCOTT BRADLEY! Scott Bradley is a writer and theatre artist best known for Chicago’s long-running "cult" musicals Alien Queen, Carpenters Halloween, and We Three Lizas. His solo show Packing premiered in Chicago in 2019 and streamed to national audiences in 2020. He's hard at work right now on an immersive rock opera about the birth of gay leather culture. To learn more about Scott and his work, be sure to check out his website: https://www.scottbradleyink.com GLISTENS:
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| 21 Oct 2019 | 38. INTERVIEW: Gwydion Suilebhan | 00:46:55 | |
“We are all healthier when we live in a culturally diverse world. When there are more stories that are accessible to us when every voice is part of every cultural conversation. It’s not about excluding traditional voices. It’s about expanding the range of what people know is there.” If you are a playwright or someone who is just starting to write plays, then you must know the New Play Exchange. We had the pleasure of interviewing writer, innovator, and arts advocate, Gwydion Suilebhan. He serves as both the Executive Director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and the chief architect and evangelist of the New Play Exchange for the National New Play Network. He is also a co-founder of The Welders, award-winning playwrights collective in Washington DC. He’s the author of several plays, and he has a Master of Arts in poetry from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His forthcoming series All Souls is currently in post-production. To learn more about Gwydion and his work, you can visit the following links RELATED LINKS: Gwydion’s New Series “For All Souls” Tanuja Jagernauth’s “Public Newsroom 124: Creating A World Beyond Racism and Fascism" on Nov 7th at City Bureau in Chicago. _____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! | |||
| 22 Jul 2019 | 25. TOPIC: Talkbacks / Post-Show Discussions | 00:42:08 | |
In this episode, we share our thoughts on talkbacks and post-show discussions. What are the different approaches or structures to talkbacks? What are talkbacks for? In an ideal world, what would a talkback provide to artists, audience members, and the theater institution? What are the pitfalls of talkbacks? What makes them go wrong? How can we make them better? Well, we attempted to answer these questions the only way we know how-- The BB Way. As always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting or any topics discussed on this show and we might discuss it on our next episode. LINKS GLISTENS Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 06 Oct 2024 | 172. PLAY: English by Sanaz Toossi | 00:40:35 | |
In this episode, we pick a play to discuss, and for this week's episode, we read "English" by Sanaz Toossi. 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! ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Instagram @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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 27 May 2019 | 17. Ways to Get Inspired | 00:46:26 | |
For the days when we don't feel like writing, we look to others to inspire us. In this episode, we share words of wisdom from other writers. FAVE ESSAYS, BOOKS, ARTICLES, CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WRITING “Pitching and Moaning” SLP Elements of Style Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg (book) On Writing by Stephen King (book) Octavia Butler’s notes to herself “Draft No. 4” and “On Structure” by John Mcphee “Communicating with Theatres” - Mary Sue Price A conversation with Paula Vogel Jose Rivera’s 36 Assumptions on Writing Plays --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it on our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com | |||
| 02 May 2022 | 137. INTERVIEW: Darcy Parker Bruce | 00:40:18 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is DARCY PARKER BRUCE! Darcy is a playwright, theater activist, and coffee enthusiast. We were so excited to have Darcy on the show and had a great time chatting. We know you will enjoy this interview too! Darcy Parker Bruce is a playwright and educator from New Haven, CT, and a graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at Smith College. In the summer they join the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as part of their staff. Darcy was the recipient of a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a 2019 LAMBDA Literary Fellowship, and was granted ATHE's 2018 Judith Royer Award For Excellence in Theater for their play SOLDIER POET. They are currently working on several projects including commissions from Chester Theatre Company and Acadiana Repertory Theater, and a cycle of plays investigating the relationship between small towns, queers, and American Glory. Their play Always Plenty of Light at the Starlight All Night Diner can now be purchased through Broadway Play Publishing and their play The Place That Made You, the second play in the Piedmont Cycle, is forthcoming from the same press. To learn more about Darcy and their work, be sure to visit their New Play Exchange! GLISTENS:
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| 02 Sep 2024 | 170. INTERVIEW: Jen Leno | 01:00:05 | |
Hello listeners! We have another fun episode for you this week. We had the pleasure of speaking to Jen Leno. Jen Leno (she/they) is a lighting designer, a photographer, and a generative multi-media artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Jen knew that she would pursue art as a career when she was a child, but lighting design has been an unexpected and always exciting main practice for the last eight years. When they're not in the theater, you can find them floating in the ocean somewhere or grabbing her new found love- oysters, with friends. To learn more about Jen Leno, check out the following: Website: http://www.jenlenodesign.com/ Instagram: @jdl.lxd GLISTEN Cho - Creating floral arrangements Sam - Jenny Holzer Jen - Ferris Wheel at Coney Island ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram or Threads: @beckettsbabies 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 20 Jul 2020 | 68. TOPIC: Researching for a New Play | 00:49:59 | |
How do you think about research when beginning a new play? When do you begin the research process? How do you know when to start writing? In this episode we discuss our own experiences on which plays of ours have required research; how did we do this research; and how do we feel about research. We ask ourselves how do we incorporate research without making the play overly expositional or boring and what are some best practices in organizing all this research? Let us know what you think! We'd love to hear from you. GLISTENS:
"On the Fine Art of Researching For Fiction" by Jake Wolff “Inspiration from artifacts: writing plays for the future inspired by the past” by Katie Bender On dramaturgy _______________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies | |||
| 26 Apr 2021 | 100. INTERVIEW: Brian James Polak (HAPPY 100TH EPISODE!!!) | 01:09:58 | |
HAPPY 100TH EPISODE, LISTENERS! For those who've been with us from the beginning, we can't thank you enough for going on this journey with us. For those who just recently learned of the show, welcome and thank you! We appreciate all your support and always tuning in. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you. We wanted to celebrate our 100th episode by bringing onto a show another fellow theater-loving playwright and podcaster... It's BRIAN JAMES POLAK! Brian was born and raised in New Hampshire and currently resides in Chicago. When not writing plays, he can be found working as the producer and host of American Theatre magazine's "The Subtext," a podcast about what makes playwrights tick. He received his MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts. We're so fortunate to chat with him and listeners, buckle in because Brian is an incredible storyteller. You're not going to want to miss this episode! GLISTENS Sarah: Happy Birthday, Nik! ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, | |||
| 07 Oct 2019 | 36. INTERVIEW: Dawson Moore | 00:41:29 | |
“We’re an artistic weed. We crop up anywhere there’s a room and a couple of people to tell a story. We’re never going to go away." We had the pleasure of interviewing playwright and coordinator of the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Dawson Moore. He shared incredible stories from his life and how it's lead him to where he is today. He provides us some insight into how he curates the play lab for this week-long theater conference. He’s also an actor, director, and internationally produced playwright and we know you're going to enjoy this episode, folks! Check it out! Dawson Moore lives in Valdez, Alaska, where he works for Prince William Sound College as the Coordinator of the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference (www.theatreconference.org). His plays have been produced across the country, as well as internationally in Australia, Canada, Italy, and Namibia. His play Six Dead Bodies Duct-Taped to a Merry-Go-Round, co-written with Lindsay Mariana Walker, is published in Applause Books' Best American Short Plays 2010-2011. Since 2002, he's produced the play-in-a-day Alaska Overnighters 2-3 times yearly in Anchorage, Alaska, in collaboration with TBA Theatre. He is a member of the Dramatist Guild of America and the National Theatre Conference (obviously). For more about the Overnighters and his other work, visit www.dawsonmoore.com _____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 23 Dec 2023 | 162. SEASON FINALE: We graduated kindergarten. Hooray! | 00:37:45 | |
THAT'S A WRAP FOR SEASON 5! Thank you all so much for tuning in every week and hear us chat about all things playwriting. NOTE: Towards the second half of the episode, Sarah's mic went off and had some audio issues. We apologize for the quality! A real cherry on top to the year Sarah had... we hope you enjoy nonetheless. Thank you again for another incredible season. Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season... See you next year! ____________________________________________ 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 16 Sep 2024 | 171. INTERVIEW: Nicholas Pilapil | 01:00:09 | |
Hello listeners! On this week's episode, we had the wonderful Nicholas Pilapil on the show! Nicholas is funny and insightful. We enjoyed the conversation and we hope you will too! His play "God Will Do The Rest" is currently having its World Premiere in Los Angeles. Please check out the link to learn more! GET TICKETS! https://www.latinotheaterco.org/godwilldotherest Nicholas Pilapil is a Filipino American playwright. His plays include "God Will Do The Rest" (world premiere with Artists at Play & Latino Theater Company), "The Bottoming Process" (world premiere with IAMA Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Ignition Festival of New Plays), and "if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets" (winner of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival). His work has also been developed with Geffen Playhouse, Playwrights Foundation, Abingdon Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, Theatre Rhinoceros, and The Workshop Theater, among others. Nicholas is a member of Boston Court Pasadena's Playwrights Group and is an alum of The Writers’ Room at the Geffen Playhouse, IAMA Theatre Company’s Emerging Playwrights Lab, The Vagrancy Playwrights Group, and artEquity. To learn more about Nicholas' work, check out his NPX! https://newplayexchange.org/users/5530/nicholas-pilapil GLISTENS Cho - Teaching Acting to High School students Sam - Casa Bonita Nicholas - People have been telling him he looks skinny at his shows and he loves it. ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram or Threads: @beckettsbabies 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 06 Jun 2022 | 139. INTERVIEW: Chris Leyva Returns! | 01:11:02 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is CHRIS LEYVA! Chris Leyva was one of our first guests on the show. He returns to share with us what he's been up since we last talked to him and what the pandemic has taught him when it comes to playwriting. Chris uses humor and whimsy to ask larger questions about our humanity. His plays take place in heightened worlds and are grounded by authentic characters. He is a playwright and director based in Columbus, OH. Chris was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and his plays have been commissioned and developed by the Contemporary American Theatre Company, CLIMB Theatre, MadLab Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Curtain Players New Play Initiative, Great Plains Theatre Conference, and the Columbus School for Girls, among others. He received an M.F.A. from the Playwrights Workshop at The University of Iowa, a B.A. in Directing from Coe College, and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. GLISTENS:
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| 09 Mar 2020 | 50. The Comedy Club: "Let's Talk Comedies" Part I | 00:40:53 | |
An ongoing series about understanding comedies, welcome to "The Comedy Club". In this first part of "possibly many part" series, Sarah dives into what she thinks about comedy and her love/hate relationship with it. In this episode, we introduce the series by asking ourselves why we laugh, what is happening on stage or on the text that is making our audience laugh. Why is laughter so infectious? Why do we NEED to laugh? What makes something funny? GLISTENS: Sarah's Glisten: Sarah quits coffee and sleeps really Sam's Glisten: Oscar Nominated Shorts - Live-Action Listen to the episode and come at us! _____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 14 Sep 2020 | 76. INTERVIEW: Marina J. Bergenstock | 00:54:47 | |
Hello listeners! We are so excited for you to listen to this new episode of Beckett's Babies! We had an amazing conversation discussing all-things theater and directing new work with the one and only MARINA J. BERGENSTOCK! Marina J. Bergenstock (she/her) is a director, dramaturg, performer, and educator. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Iowa. She formerly was on faculty at Beloit College in Wisconsin. She starts her Ph.D. studies at Stanford University in Theatre and Performance Studies, specializing in Arab Theatre. To learn more about Marina and her work, be sure to check out her website at www.marinabergenstock.com GLISTENS: Sam - Nina Morrison's reading of Hearts on Fire / Gabrielle Calvocoressi reading with Grinnell/Prairie Lights Marina - Netflix's The Babysitter's Club / Google Map Add-On Stanford Gleaning Project / Helpful Advice from Ph.D. Orientation Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 19 Aug 2024 | 169. More rambling from yours truly... | 00:26:38 | |
Hello listeners! It's been a while (again). We've had a busy summer so we're here to share what we've been up to. Hope you all are having a great summer. ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram or Threads: @beckettsbabies 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 03 Jun 2019 | 18. INTERVIEW: Creating a More Compassionate World with Monica Trausch | 01:08:22 | |
In this episode, Brooklyn-based playwright and screenwriter Monica Trausch shares insight into her life in New York, writing her play "The ABCs", and why she writes. We also play a fun game called "Premises" and you won't want to miss what Sam and Monica have to say. To learn more about Monica Trausch, visit her website www.monicatrausch.com and follow her on social @monicatrausch --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it on our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 18 Apr 2022 | 136. TOPIC: Working With/As a Dramaturg | 00:52:09 | |
Hello, listeners! In today’s episode we discuss the topic of working with a Dramaturg! Sam also shares her experience working as one as well! We get into discussing what's helpful and what's not helpful when working with a dramaturg. Check it out! Article Mentioned:
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| 25 Oct 2021 | 126. TOPIC: Ghosts in Theaters and the Stories We Tell... w/ Special Guest Heather Kelley! | 00:52:25 | |
Hey listeners! Halloween is just around the corner and we decided to bring on a guest who can share some spooky stories with us! This week’s guest on the show is HEATHER KELLEY! Heather Kelley (she/her) is an actor, educator, and theatre administrator currently enrolled in CU Boulder’s PhD program in Theatre & Performance Studies. A former company member of the New York Neo-Futurists and Mad Dog Theatre Company, Heather performed with South Brooklyn Shakespeare for many seasons, and served as Director of Audience Services for Premiere Stages, the Equity theatre in residence at Kean University, for seven years. She is the recipient of a 2019 State of New Jersey Senate & General Assembly Citation commending her work with Plainfield Senior Citizens Services as an actor and teaching artist, and received a 2019 New Jersey Theatre Alliance Award of Excellence honoring her contributions to professional, non-profit theatre throughout the state. A lover of all things scary, Heather's current research centers on dark tourism, haunted attractions, mediumship as performance, and depictions of the supernatural on stage and on screen. If YOU have theater ghost stories you'd like to share, go to the link below! GLISTENS: Cho - The Simpsons Treehouse Horror
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| 10 Jun 2019 | 19. TOPIC: Headlines! Headlines! Get Your Ideas Here! | 00:40:35 | |
Do you ever feel stuck and want to write something new but don't know where to even begin? How could one even start generating ideas? Have no fear! Sam and Sarah look to news headlines of the week to brainstorm possible stories for a new play. Try it out yourself and tell us what you thought about the exercise! LINKS New York Times - “My Daughter Was a Preschool Biter” Los Angeles Times - “A 102-year-old woman faces eviction so the landlords’ daughter can move in. It’s completely legal” USA Today - “Trump, first lady have tea with Prince Charles” Entertainment Weekly - “Anderson Cooper forgot to tell his mom he was coming out: 'You could've given me a heads up! Washington Post - “He asked the FBI to analyze ‘Bigfoot’ hair 40 years ago and never heard back. Until now.” The Atlantic - “When Your Final Exam is Surviving The Wilderness” Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it on our next episode. | |||
| 21 Mar 2022 | 134. INTERVIEW: Ben Stasny | 00:48:25 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is BEN STASNY! Ben is a second-year graduate student at CU Boulder. Ben's research is centered around queer theory, eco-criticism and performance studies. How can theatre act as a space for ethical action on queer and climate justice? Ben served as the Artistic Director for the opening fall show The Climate Cabaret--an evening of short plays about the climate crisis. We partnered with Climate Change Theatre Action out of New York City to bring this project to life. Ben worked with his/bevs advisor, Dr. Beth Osnes, this summer on an interspecies arts/science partnership between humans and barn swallows. They were led by a group of courageous youth which culminated in a film and public performance titled Side by Side. Ben was a recipient of the Hazel Barnes Flat which brought bev to London, UK in November. While there, Ben led workshops on climate comedy with a local arts/science organization, Your Canal Boat CIC. Ben served as the Artistic Director for the 6th Annual New Plays Festival at CU Boulder in Spring 2021. Ben graduated with a BFA in Acting from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Ben lived and worked as a professional actor for several years in New York City. New York credits include: Off-Broadway: Harry in When Harry Met Nancy (New York New Works Festival), Voice of Mayor Humdinger in Paw Patrol (Event Box). Other credits: The Narrator in The Soldier's Tale (Boulder Philharmonic), The Genie in Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular (Disney Cruise Line), Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, Henry Etches in Titanic (Arizona Broadway Theatre), Zach in A Chorus Line, Ernst Ludwig in Cabaret, Fred in A Christmas Carol (The Palace Theatre), Father in Ragtime (Interlakes Summer Theatre) Ernst Ludwig in Cabaret (Sierra Repertory Theatre), The Cat in the Hat in Seussical the Musical (Highland Summer Theatre). Touring Theatre: Punchin in A Commedia Cinderella (Sierra Repertory Theatre, Northern California), Shaggy in Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of the Pyramid, Maddie in Care Bears (Event Box in Saudi Arabia). Ben is filled with more questions than answers these days...which feels just about right for grad school. To learn more about Ben and his/bevs work, be sure to check out his/bevs instagram! https://www.instagram.com/snackfishbenji/ GLISTENS:
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| 02 Sep 2019 | 31. TOPIC: When is Self-Promotion Too Much? | 00:33:12 | |
As playwrights and writers, we must be able to talk about ourselves and our work. In this episode, we get into the idea of self-promotion... the good, the bad, and the ugly. _____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it on our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 15 Aug 2022 | 144. TOPIC: New Play Development | 00:36:10 | |
Hello, listeners! In today’s episode we get into a discussion about new play development! Sarah attended the Great Plains Theatre Conference this past year and had an incredible time! We share our thoughts about attending New Play Development and Conferences. We hope you enjoy this discussion! GLISTENS Sam: chili lime rolled tortilla chips ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or | |||
| 03 May 2021 | 101. PLAY: Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi | 00:42:27 | |
Every month, we pick a play to discuss and this month’s play is "Kim's Convenience" by Ins Choi. To make it even more interesting... we also watched the TV version of the play! We discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play AND seeing the pilot episode of the show. Note: There are some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! GLISTENS: CHO - Paderia Bakery SAM - The Only Donut ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends | |||
| 25 Nov 2019 | 43. INTERVIEW: Megan Gogerty | 00:48:13 | |
"Process is all." "The difference between an entrepreneur and artist is that the entrepreneur is focused on product, the artist is focused on process." "Every play teaches me what I need to make a new play." "Creativity and productivity are yin and yang." "We’re party planners, playwrights. We’re planning experiences. Experiences can not be captured and can not be recreated easily. They’re unique “you had to be there” experiences." MEGAN GOGERTY is not only laugh-out-loud hilarious but truly inspirational. Megan is a playwright, comedian, and delightful person. She just closed a run of her one-person show FEAST. at Riverside Theatre in Iowa City. Her other plays include Lady Macbeth and Her Pal Megan, Bad Panda, Hillary Clinton Got Me Pregnant, and Save Me, Dolly Parton. Her musical tribute album to the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer is widely available online. Megan was a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow, is a WordBRIDGE alum, and earned her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently teaches playwriting at the University of Iowa and is a regularly returning visiting faculty for the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University. Listen to this episode to hear Megan's hot take on creativity and productivity. It's freakin' wonderful. GLISTENS: Sam's Glisten - Hot Water ABOUT MEGAN GOGERTY Megan Gogerty is a playwright and comedian. Her solo show Lady Macbeth and Her Pal, Megan played the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and won the Audience Pick of the Fringe at the Cincinnati Fringe Festival. Her play Bad Panda (Theatre Without Borders, Beijing; Iron Crow Theatre Co.; WordBRIDGE Boomerang Playwright honoree) is published by Original Works Publishing and was translated into Spanish for a five-month run at Del Teatro Milan in Mexico City. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution listed her solo show Hillary Clinton Got Me Pregnant in their yearly Top Ten Best Plays. Megan’s musical drama Love Jerry was produced in the New York Musical Theatre Festival where it won three Talkin’ Broadway Citations and four NYMF Excellence Awards including Excellence in Writing (Book). Her ten-minute play Rumple Schmumple (Dramatic Pub.) was a Kennedy Center/National ACTF honoree. Other plays include: Housebroken (Riverside Theatre, Hollins University); Save Me, Dolly Parton (Riverside Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre; named among Best Plays in Atlanta by Creative Loafing). Her musical tribute album to the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer is widely available online. Megan was a Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellow, a WordBRIDGE alum, and she earned her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently teaches playwriting at the University of Iowa and is a regularly returning visiting faculty for the Playwright's Lab at Hollins University. To learn more about Megan Gogerty and her work, check out her website at www.megangogerty.com Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 08 Apr 2019 | 10. Happy Birthday, Samuel Beckett | 00:33:49 | |
Hosts Sam Collier and Sarah Cho celebrate their 10th episode of the show the only way they know how... by also celebrating Samuel Beckett's Birthday. Samuel Beckett, the Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator was born on April 13, 1906. In this episode, we take a glimpse into Samuel Beckett's life and work as we try to figure out why we named ourselves after him. Enjoy! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Listeners, we'd love to hear your thoughts on all the matter we discussed on the show. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies | |||
| 11 Feb 2019 | 1. Hello, World! We Are Beckett's Babies! | 00:34:35 | |
Hosts Sam Collier and Sarah Cho make their big return to the podcasting world since their last recording. Join us as we catch up what we've been up to since our last episode. It feels great to be back! Visit the website below to learn about your new favorite hosts! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: We would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it on our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like The Kids" from Audio Network --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 01 Nov 2021 | 127. TOPIC: Act and Scene Breaks | 00:38:29 | |
Hello, listeners! In this week's episode, we discuss the Scene and Act Breaks. What’s going on between the scenes? Between the Act breaks? What would justify the time jumps? Let's dig in! GLISTENS Cho: London Writers Salon Sam: STAINS by Sarah Cho Special thanks to our sponsor Play Submissions Helper! ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or | |||
| 20 May 2019 | 16. TOPIC: Endings End. The End. | 00:40:17 | |
Every play has an ending and in this episode, we try to understand what makes an ending work and memorable. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it on our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com | |||
| 24 Oct 2024 | 173. Season 6 Finale??? Already??? + Updates | 00:30:40 | |
THAT'S A WRAP FOR SEASON 6! Thank you all so much for tuning in and hearing us chat about all things playwriting. Thank you again for another incredible season. Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season... See you next year! ____________________________________________ 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 20 Nov 2023 | 160. INTERVIEW: Sherry Kramer | 01:07:25 | |
Hello listeners! On this episode of BB, we have the one and only SHERRY KRAMER on the show! Sherry Kramer is a playwright and professor who has been writing plays for 50 years and teaching playwriting for 40. Her book about meaning making in timebound art, Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience, was published this summer by Methuen Publishing. In this episode, Sherry shares her knowledge on writing and we know you will want to save this episode to revisit for your playwriting journey! We can't wait for you to listen!
Sherry Kramer’s plays have been produced here and abroad and include David’s RedHaired Death, When Something Wonderful Ends, The Wall of Water, and Three Quarter Inches of Sky. Her work is centered in the personal as political, and often speaks to the power of class and money and philanthropy: The Bay of Fundy, How Water Behaves; the power of a conservative press to distort and sway a people and a country: The Ruling Passion; the power of the beauty myth: A Thing of Beauty; and the power of anti-Semitism: Ivanhoe, MO. Her awards include the Weissberger, a National McKnight, The Jane Chambers Award, an NEA, and a NYFA. She taught regularly in the MFA programs of The Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin, the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop, where she has served as head of the workshop, and currently teaches playwriting at Bennington College. She was the first national member of New Dramatists. Her book Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience was published by Bloomsbury in July, 2023.
To learn more about Sherry's work, be sure to check out her website at sherrykramer.net
GLISTEN
Cho - My baby is teething! Help!
Sam - Haunted cornfield
Sherry - Israel / Gaza conflict
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| 27 Sep 2021 | 122. TOPIC: What Makes a Good Character? | 00:39:10 | |
Hello, listeners! In this week's episode, we’ll be discussing the topic of character. Are there characters that stand out to you? Why do certain characters stand out? Listen to us attempt to answer: What Makes A Good Character? GLISTENS Sam: Climate Cabaret ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or | |||
| 24 Feb 2020 | 48. TOPIC: Creating Play Titles | 00:44:13 | |
In this episode, Sam and Sarah discuss creating titles for our plays. We share some of our favorite titles and discuss why we like certain play titles and why we do not like others. We look to how we create titles for our own work and be inspired by others. Check this episode out and share us your thoughts on creating play titles! GLISTENS: _____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 03 Jul 2023 | 151. INTERVIEW: Jihye Kim | 01:21:01 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest joining us on the show is JIHYE KIM! We had such an incredible time having Jihye on the show. She is so insightful!!! We hope you enjoy her brilliant mind! Jihye is a freelance dramaturg and a deviser based in L.A and Seoul. Her interest and specialty lie in new play development, ensemble-devising, site-specific immersive works, and literary translation (Korean to English). Jihye has worked for Great Plains Theatre Common’s New Play Conference in 2022 and 2023 and Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists Playwrights Project in 2022, UCSB’s Launch Pad in 2019, DMV Q Fest 4.0 in 2021, and Clay & Water in 2022. She is a current season researcher at Doosan Art Center in Seoul. In 2021-2022, Dogs or Cats; Augmented Body, the experimental puppet show she co-developed with Chicago-based puppet artist Jaerin Son has performed in Steppenwolf and Links Hall Chicago. In addition to her dramaturgy work, she enjoys teaching devising and solo performance workshop for non-professional performers. GLISTENS: Cho - TV show 1883 ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 01 Aug 2022 | 143. SPECIAL TOPIC: Intimacy Design & Training with Dr. Kate Busselle | 00:58:14 | |
Hello listeners! Get ready to LEARN something today! We're super stoked to have Dr. Kate Busselle joining us to discuss Intimacy Design and Training in Theatre. This was such an insightful discussion. We know you will learn a thing or two! Dr. Kate Busselle is Founder of Heartland Intimacy Design & Training, which offers academic, accessible, and affordable intimacy training entirely online through self-paced asynchronous modules. She is also Assistant Professor of Movement and Stage Combat at the University of Oklahoma and is an Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. As a researcher, Kate is invested in not only providing the tools of staging intimacy, but providing context as to how and why theatrical intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence needs to be staged. Most recently, she served as the Conference Intimacy Consultant for the Great Plains Theatre Commons Playlab. To learn more about Dr. Kate and her work, be sure to check her out on social media! Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/heartlandintimacydesign ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 12 Oct 2020 | 80. INTERVIEW: Mack Gordon / Theatre In The Dark | 00:45:35 | |
Hello listeners! This week, we chat with Artistic Producer and resident playwright of Theatre in the Dark, Mack Gordon. He is the co-adapter and performer of “A War of the Worlds”, which will be playing this October 15th until November 21st. Be sure to check out the links below to learn more about the show and how you can get tickets. You're not going to want to miss this incredibly unique audio drama! THEATRE IN THE DARK creates stories through sound. To follow Mack Gordon and see what he's up to, be sure to follow him! GLISTENS: ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies | |||
| 23 Sep 2019 | 34. INTERVIEW: Amy Berryman | 00:44:01 | |
“From your own community, you can create opportunities for yourself.“ New York-based writer and actor Amy Berryman joins us on this episode to share her experience with playwriting and creating new work. It was such a pleasure to have her on the show! Amy shares how she started writing and provides wonderful advice to aspiring playwrights. We hope you'll enjoy this conversation! Amy Berryman is a writer and actor originally from Seattle. She was recently seen off-Broadway in The Convent by Jessica Dickey, directed by Daniel Talbott. Her full length plays include Walden (Premiere Play Festival Runner Up 2019, Title Wave Theatre Festival at Bay Street, Great Plains Theatre Conference), The New Galileos (O'Neill Finalist 2019, Playwrights Realm Fellowship Finalist 2018) Three Year Summer, and The Whole of You (commissioned by Rising Phoenix Rep for Cino Nights). Her work has been developed with Portland Stage, Premiere Stages, Nomad Theatricals, Caltech, Prop Thtr, and Last Frontier Theatre Conference. Her short film "You Are Everywhere" won "Best Short Drama" in the LA Short Film Festival 2018. To learn more about Amy and her work, visit her website amy-berryman.com _____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 07 Feb 2022 | 131. We're Back! SEASON 4!!! Let's goooo! | 00:41:07 | |
Hello, Listeners! We are back for Season 4! Did you miss us??? Just admit it. You missed us! In this episode, we check-in and share some quick show updates! Apologies in advance if our show sounds like one big QVC channel. We're just excited to share what we discovered! And, if you've been following our show, we have been doing our show every week and we share about how we're going change things up on how we release our episodes. Thanks for listening! GLISTENS: Cho - Shower Filter ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends | |||
| 11 Sep 2023 | 155. INTERVIEW: Alex Casillas | 01:16:29 | |
Hello listeners! We were so fortunate to have designer ALEX CASILLAS join us on the show! We had such an incredible time chatting with Alex about her life and experience as a designer as well as thinking about representation in the creative teams. Enjoy!!! Alex Casillas, a native of Houston, TX, is a professional scenic and lighting designer holding a dual MFA from The University of Iowa. Previously, Alex has designed scenery for The Revolutionists (Strawdog Theatre), Mas Cara (The Vortex) Sonia, Vanya, Masha and Spike, Seven Spots on the Sun, and Braided Sorrow (University of Iowa) and has created a conceptual design for December (Alley Theatre: All New Festival). Also a professional lighting designer, Alex has worked on Secret Things (1st Stage Theatre), Cabaret, The Crucible(Parallel 45), and Peter and the Starcatcher, The Addams Family and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Festival 56). A dramaturgy-focused designer specializing in new work, Alex brings special focus to script analysis and structure to assist playwrights, directors and devisers truly realize their vision. She has a passion for educating young designers and theatre artists from marginalized communities and hopes to one day see true representation both on and off the stage.
Instagram: @acasdesigns To Learn More about Design, here are Alex's Top Book recommendations!
GLISTEN Cho: Monologue Joke Writing Challenge / LaughtHER Collective Sam: Film "Patrick and The Whale" Alex: Dungeons and Dragqueens EPISODE CORRECTION: Please note that in the podcast, Alex mentioned Jennifer Tipton had a book when it was equally prolific female lighting pioneer Jean Rosenthal who wrote a book. ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and 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) ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 16 Nov 2020 | 85. INTERVIEW: Kevin Kautzman | 00:58:34 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is Kevin Kautzman! Kevin is a playwright originally from North Dakota, living in Minneapolis, whose work has been performed around the UK and the US. Kevin first studied playwriting at the Royal Court Theatre in London and has been a fellow at the Playwrights' Center and Michener Center for Writers, where he completed his MFA in playwriting and screenwriting. He is the co-founder of Cut Edge Collective, an experimental playwriting group, and can be found at kevinkautzman.com. To learn more about Kevin, be sure to check out the additional links below:
GLISTENS: Cho: Queen’s Gambit on Netflix ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! | |||
| 09 Aug 2021 | 115. TOPIC: Life Updates + Unpaid Theater Internships (Part 1) | 00:31:34 | |
Hello, listeners! This week's episode is a two-part episode! In the first part, we share some exciting life updates (Spoiler alert: One of us relocated to a NEW STATE) and we get into the topic of unpaid, or low-wage, theater internships, and why we think it's unethical. We hope you enjoy it! GLISTENS
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| 01 Apr 2024 | 163. Season 6 Premiere! (We Hope People Will Finally Take Us Seriously) | 00:42:00 | |
Hello Listeners! Happy April 1st to those that celebrate. On this episode... you won't believe the incredible conversation we had. We hope you enjoy this very serious episode on very very serious theatre things. Enjoy! ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Instagram @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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 24 Aug 2020 | 73. PLAYWRIGHT: Paula Vogel | 01:14:41 | |
We return to our Playwright Series where we look at a single playwright and their large body of work. We discuss plays from their early, mid-career, and the latest or most recent play of their career. In this episode, we discuss the life and work of Paula Vogel. We read the three plays: And Baby Makes Seven (1984), How I Learned to Drive (1997), and Indecent (2017) to share our thoughts on Paula Vogel's craft in playwriting. We hope you will check these plays out and listen in to our conversation!
PAULA VOGEL’S PLAYS:
1. And Baby Makes Seven (1984)
2. How I Learned to Drive (1997)
3. Indecent (2017)
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Sarah's: California Wildfires
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| 18 May 2020 | 60. PLAY: The King Of Hell's Palace by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig | 00:39:51 | |
As part of our new monthly play series, we pick a play to discuss and this month’s play is “The King of Hell's Palace" by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig. In this episode, we discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. This play was also recommended to us by one of our listeners and we are so glad! Thank you, Mickey! Note: There are some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! SHORT SUMMARY: June's Play of the Month: "Power Plays" by Elaine May & Alan Arkin GLISTENS: ___________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. | |||
| 02 Nov 2020 | 83. PLAYBACK: Sean David DeMers Interview | 00:59:37 | |
Hey listeners, we’re starting something new and exciting. If you’ve been enjoying our show -- be sure to sign-up for our new monthly newsletter. Visit our website at www.beckettsbabies.com to sign up for our newsletter today. This week’s episode is a “PLAYBACK” episode with our interview with Sean David DeMers. Sean David DeMers is a playwright with New England and New York City roots. Plays include FACULTY PORTRAIT, produced at IRT Theatre in New York City, the musical JULES VERNE'S FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON with FringeNYC, LITTLE BLUE PILL read at the Last Frontier Conference in 2019, and ENCAPSULATED produced by The Navigators as part of their one-act sci-fi play festival. Sean has two short plays published by Samuel French/Concord Theatricals, OFF TACKLE GLIDE and FOUR MOVEMENTS. Sean is a graduate of the Iowa MFA Playwright's Workshop and recently picked up a project started there with the play FAYE by translating and adapting the existing Ancient Greek plays, starting with the most obscure. Keep listening to find out why you should throw away your first ten plays! We loved talking to Sean, who is incredibly cheerful and funny, probably because he takes so many naps. You won’t be disappointed! End of this year, we’ll play old favorites from the year. Thanks for listening! ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on 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. | |||
| 15 Mar 2021 | 94. INTERVIEW: Daniel Olivas | 00:54:03 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is DANIEL OLIVAS! Daniel Olivas is the author of nine books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His first full-length play, Waiting for Godínez, was selected for the Playwrights' Arena 2020 Summer Reading Series. Daniel was selected for Circle X Theatre Co.'s inaugural Evolving Playwrights Group where he is adapting his 2011 novel, The Book of Want, with a planned Zoom reading in 2021. By day, he is an attorney and makes his home in Southern California with his wife. To learn more about Daniel, check out the links below! Website: http://danielolivas.com GLISTENS: ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, | |||
| 22 Mar 2021 | 95. TOPIC: Understanding Writer's Resume | 00:33:15 | |
Hello, listeners! This week, we will be discussing a topic on writing resumes and CV. What is the difference between the two? Why is it important? Should we even have different versions? What should be on there? What do we add on our resumes specifically for a writer? What does that look like? A lot of questions so be sure to listen in! GLISTENS Sarah - Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar Sam - Lost tourist in Bangor 1977 Erwin Kreuz ____________________________________________ 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) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 06 Sep 2021 | 119. PLAY: The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up by Carla Ching | 00:39:36 | |
Every month, we pick a play or two to discuss, and this week's episode is a play called "The Two Kids That Blow Shit" by Carla Ching. 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: Here’s what the play’s about which you can read on New Play Exchange: ”As kids, Max and Diana meet on their parents’ date, then are kicked out of the house so their parents can get it on. They are forced to play together even though they aren’t really that fond of each other. Through over two decades of their parents’ tumultuous relationship of getting together, breaking up, getting married and then divorced, Max and Diana are perpetually forced together and become the most unlikely of friends. They see each other through their own marriages and divorces, rehabs and spin-outs, career rejiggerings and epic life fails. But when they actually fall into each other, will they lose the only family they’ve ever known? A play about falling in and out of love with your best friend.” About the Playwright: An LA native, Carla Ching’s other plays include Revenge Porn or the Story of a Body, Nomad Motel, Fast Company, and The Sugar House at the Edge of the Wilderness. Just to name a few-- her full-length plays have been produced or workshopped by Artists at Play, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Center Theater Group, The Lark Play Development Center, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, The National New Play Network Showcase of New Plays, and The O’Neill Playwrights Conference. She is a member of New Dramatists and founding member of The Kilroys. Carla wrote on USA’s Graceland, AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead, Amazon’s I Love Dick, Apple’s Home Before Dark and the forthcoming Mr. and Mrs. Smith co-created by Francesca Sloane, Phoebe Waller Bridge and Donald Glover. She is currently developing a new project with Netflix. Glistens: Cho - Took a trip to Michigan. Met Nik’s extended family. Mosquito bites all over my face… cool. ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with | |||
| 21 Jun 2021 | 108. PLAYBACK: Interview with Gwydion Suilebhan (2019) | 00:47:23 | |
Hey listeners! During the month of June, we’re taking a short break and replaying some of our favorite episodes. This week we want to share our interview with playwright and arts advocate Gwydion Suilebhan. If you are a playwright or someone who is just starting to write plays, then you must know the New Play Exchange. Gwydion is the chief architect of the New Play Exchange and he has so much to tell us about making plays and creating your own vision of what theater can be. Enjoy! To learn more about Gwydion and his work, you can visit the following links ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 15 Feb 2021 | 90. TOPIC: Writing Love in Playwriting (Happy Valentine's Day!) | 00:36:36 | |
This episode is all about LOVE for all you lovebirds (or singles) out there in this special 'very on-theme' episode. We share our general thoughts about writing love, and why is it so cringy? How do we make it fresh and not clichéd? Can we even avoid writing about love? We also share some different types of love and some of our favorite plays that we think do an incredible job writing on this love. And should we rename this show to Shepard's Babies? Because Sarah is way too obsessed with Sam Shepard.... GLISTENS
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| 26 Aug 2019 | 30. INTERVIEW: Write and Don't Judge What You Write with John Mabey | 00:45:25 | |
Playwright, improviser and mental health counselor John Mabey joins us on this episode to discuss all things playwriting, theater, improv, and more. John is a listener of the show who reached out to us and we wanted to reach back to bring him on show! John began writing plays as a child before he knew that’s what he was doing. He’s spent the past 10 years living in New York, London and Amsterdam and now lives in the American South. He studied human behavior, emotion and relationships by earning a master’s degree in Counseling and Psychology, and infuses into his playwriting everything he’s learned about what it means to be human. In addition to plays, he also publishes in academic books and journals on the topics of sexual identity and spirituality. In playwriting, John enjoys experimenting with structure and uses improvisation as a way to generate creative ideas as well as its own art form. He now teaches and performs improvisation around the world with ensembles and as a solo act, and is a regular performer in true storytelling events. Last year, John co-authored a play that was produced in Amsterdam titled, The B Word, which had a successful 2-week run and multiple sold-out performances. Next month his short play, The Most Brave Girl In The Whole Wide World, is included in the Los Angeles play festival ‘A Light In Dark Places’ at the Stella Adler Theatre. Follow John on Instagram @jmabey to learn more! _____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it on our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 28 Jun 2021 | 109. PLAYBACK: Interview with Deborah Yarchun (2020) | 00:51:10 | |
Hey listeners! During the month of June, we’re taking a short break and replaying some of our favorite episodes. In Season 2, we had an amazing conversation discussing all-things playwriting with fellow Iowa playwright DEBORAH YARCHUN! Deborah Yarchun has had two Jerome Fellowships at the Playwrights’ Center and won many more awards for her plays. She shares her experiences and some of her best practices in how she writes her plays. Enjoy! To learn more about Deborah and her work, be sure to check out the following websites: Be sure to check out Deborah's article "Staying Focused in the Time of COVID: 22 Tips and Strategies to Finding Focus" on the Playwright Center website: https://pwcenter.org/playwriting-toolkit/staying-focused-time-covid-22-tips-and-strategies-finding-focus
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| 18 Mar 2019 | 7. TOPIC: Writing 10-Minute Plays | 00:31:46 | |
"What do you mean plays can be 10 minutes long?!" That's right, listeners. Plays can be ten minutes long too. In this episode, we discuss the 10-minute play, the structure, and the benefits and drawbacks of writing plays in ten minutes. ----------------------------------- Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies | |||
| 20 Jun 2022 | 140. TOPIC: History of Musicals | 00:53:35 | |
Hello, listeners! In today’s episode we discuss the history of Musicals! Sam taught a class all about musicals so we figured let's see what Sam learned and bring it to Beckett's Babies! We share our general thoughts on musicals, preconceptions, misconceptions, and so much more. We hope you enjoy! GLISTENS Cho - Sarah Ruhl “Letters from Max” ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or | |||
| 31 May 2021 | 105. PLAY: 36 Views by Naomi Iizuka | 00:39:18 | |
Every month, we pick a play or two to discuss and this week's episode is a play called "36 Views" by Naomi Iizuka. We discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. Note: There are some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! GLISTENS: Sam: Aeropress!!! ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends Sponsorships: on for this episode --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 29 Apr 2019 | 13. INTERVIEW: Stay Open Throughout the Process with Actor Regina Morones | 00:57:06 | |
In this episode, we speak with native Bay Area actor, singer, educator, a Resident Artist at San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and a company member at Ubuntu Theater Project-- REGINA MORONES! A talented actor and great collaborator to playwrights, Regina shares with us her audition experience into the MFA Acting program and her life after. To learn more about Regina and her work visit: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies | |||
| 30 Nov 2020 | 87. SEASON FINALE: The Year of Terrible Twos | 01:02:48 | |
Hi Listeners... This week is our last episode of Season 2! Also known as our year of the terrible twos... How do we feel about that?! For the full episodes of the interviews mentioned on our show, check out the links below!
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| 16 Sep 2019 | 33. TOPIC: How Do We Teach Playwriting? | 00:34:13 | |
How do we teach playwriting? How do we teach writing in general? In this episode, we discuss what we think are best practices, writing exercises, approaches to workshopping students' new plays, and how do we grade creative work. If teaching playwriting is something you're passionate about or interested in discussing, we'd love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it on our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com _____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode to your friends, or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter: @beckettsbabies --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support | |||
| 26 Oct 2020 | 82. INTERVIEW: Dr. Lisa Quoresimo | 00:43:33 | |
Hello listeners! This week, we had such an incredible time chatting with the one and only Dr. Lisa Quoresimo! In this episode, Lisa tells us all about the voice and how it’s shaped by bodily practices. You don’t want to miss our interview! Lisa is Assistant Professor of Theatre at Southern Utah University, and co-founder and director of Catalyst: a Theatre Think Tank. Her work as a performer and composer has been seen recently in the SF Bay Area at Berkeley Rep, Shotgun Players, and many more. Her theatrical research has been published in major journals including Theatre Topics and Frontiers, and she has been invited to present her research on voice and gender at the Voice and Speech Teachers' Association, Performance Studies International, and the National Conference on Women’s Studies. To learn more about Lisa and all her incredible research, visit her at Website - quoresimo.com/index.html Catalyst, a Theatre Think Tank - catalyst3t.com/ GLISTENS: Sam - Bald Rock Mountain / apple-picking ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! | |||
| 01 Mar 2021 | 92. INTERVIEW: Andy Boyd | 00:53:16 | |
Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is ANDY BOYD! Andy Boyd is a playwright based in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. His play The Trade Federation, or, Let's Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels is available through NoPassport Press, and his play Three Scenes in the Life of a Trotskyist is available as a podcast. To learn more about Andy and his work, be sure to visit his website at https://www.andyjboyd.com/ Also, follow Andy and his cartoons on Instagram @AndyJBoyd! GLISTENS:
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