Old Heads is back with another episode!  We bring in the incredible Sujotta Pace, a casting director in New York City. Together with host's Addae Moon and EB Smith, this episode tackles questions around casting diversity, the challenge with Equity, and much more!

CONTENT WARNING: this episode contains frank discussions regarding suicide, self-harm, police brutality, and racially motivated homicide.

Two of our guests from season 1, Yolanda Bonnell and Sadie Berlin, return to talk solidarity between Indigenous and Black communities.  Together with our hosts, this episode touches on artist productivity and burnout, the land back movement, police brutality, and more.

If you haven't listened to Canadaland Thunder Bay you can listen here: https://www.canadaland.com/shows/thunder-bay/

Canadian theatre designer, Rachel Forbes, joins EB and Addae to talk design and all its subtleties, how it folds into storytelling, the importance of hair and costume, design as part of theatre education, and designers as artistic leaders and much more!

Yolanda Bonnell joins our hosts EB and Addae to talk the similarities and differences of Black and Indigenous art, hurdles, cultural identity, and colonization.  

Robert Barry Fleming joins our hosts to talk about leadership in the Theatre, and talk past leaders and their own influences as well as how to be a leader in the present moment. 

How will theatres bounce back?  How are Black arts institutions going to get funding?  Heather Infantry joins EB and Addae to reflect on her work as an arts fundraiser in Atlanta and how to get that money.

Links to content mentioned in this episode:

Ballethnic Dance Company

Check out Heather's list of Black arts groups in metro Atlanta. She updates weekly! 

The reading Addae mentioned in this episode has already happened, but you can follow Addae's new theatre company Hush Harbor Lab on Facebook to find out about future projects.

EB and Addae talk about "The Conversation" as theatre institutions open a dialogue with BIPOC artists across Canada and the US.

Sadie Berlin joins our hosts EB to discuss the emerging practice of Cultural Dramaturgy and its core components.  Sadie, Eb, and Addae talk the importance of diverse voices across the theatre industry, and how and why we need to create safer, more equitable and compassionate spaces for theatre artists to work and create in.

Addae and EB sit down with Graham Abbey and Michael Healey to talk cross-cultural collaboration it's crucial role in the creative process.  Listen in on this discussion, focusing around the case study of Front Page at the Stratford Festival

It's Juneteeth.  Addae and EB talk history, the revolution playbook, and the ongoing role of theatre in this ever-changing landscape.  

Get a tase of what's to come on this first season of Old Heads.

Take a deep dive into the struggle from behind the theatre curtain with theatre creators and leaders Addae Moon and EB Smith.

The incredible women from the Daughters of Lorraine podcast, Jordan and Leticia, join us to talk about Black Theatre Studies - it's importance, value, why we need it!

Heather Infantry is back with us again and has brought with her the wonderful Conrhonda Baker to talk more about funding and finances in the arts with our hosts EB and Addae.  Chats about funding cover also cover the value of higher education in the arts as EB shares his experience finishing his degree in arts administration.

Teniece Divya Johnson and Siobhan Richardson join our Old Heads hosts to talk about Intimacy Direction, how it's growing and what we need to make rehearsal spaces safe.

Incredible Canadian writer, director, actor, and all around leader Djanet Sears joins EB and Addae to talk about writing by and about Black creators, making space and centring Blackness. Knock that white man off your shoulder and give yourself time to dream.

We're back for another season!  We're bringing on a bunch of new guests, as well as bringing back a few old friend!  But first, where are we now?  It's been one year since this podcast started, EB and Addae discuss what's happened, and what we have to look forward to this season! 

In the wake of the recent shootings in Atlanta and ongoing conversations regarding Anti-Asian hate, EB and Addae sit down with Old Heads producer, Nicole Eun-Ju Bell, a mixed-race Korean theatre artists.  Together, they discuss historical connections between Black and Asian communities, and lateral oppression 

The team's all here for this final episode of the season!  EB and Addae chat with editor Verne Good and producer Nicole Eun-Ju Bell about this past season, reflecting on highlights and lessons and where we might be going next.

Al Letson joins EB and Addae to talk writing for TV and Theatre, the Black imagination, comic books, and the renaissance in television narratives, plus much more!