This is the final episode of The Compass Podcast! Creator, host, and actor Leah Walsh is interviewed by artist Kim Miller. Leah shares about her experiences with the dark side, the seven year evolution of The Compass, what she's looking forward to about making room for new creative projects. The extensive archives of episodes will continue to be available on The Broadway Podcast Network, on iTunes or anywhere you listen to podcasts. Please follow and review and share with your friends! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vocalist, violinist, mariachi, entrepreneur, and educator Susie Garcia shares her experiences with the dark side, leading the all female, Los Angeles based mariachi ensemble Las Colibri, growing as a leader, parenting as an artist, and balancing high expectations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Natalie Suzanne is a teacher, craftsperson, naturalist, and musician. She shares her experiences with the dark side, building a creative life in a variety of communities and environments, recording her first album as a singer songwriter, and balancing art and commerce. Check out her recent venture Folkways School at www.folkwaysschool.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guitarist and composer Kirsten Carey shares her experiences with the dark side, moving cross country, day jobs, her love of animation, the ties between meditation and jazz, and re-joining the music community in Detroit. Check out her project Persist: A Women's Mixtape for Planned Parenthood, a diverse mixtape of female-fronted bands from across America. All proceeds go to Planned Parenthood. Available on Bandcamp: https://ppmixtape.bandcamp.com/releases http://www.kirstencareymusic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Carl is an actor, comedian, writer, and impressionist. He shares his experiences with the dark side, how important his improv training has been to him, taking control of your artists life by writing your own work, collaboration, focusing on what's important, political satire, and his current show "Trump Lear". http://davidcarlonline.com, check out Trump Lear on Feb 3rd or 10th, 2018 in NYC, info at www.trumplear.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Director, actor, teacher, and activist Mauricio Salgado shares his experiences with the dark side, going back to school for directing, his commitment to social action, applying his efforts to challenge oppressive systems in society to his artistic process as well, his work with non-profit Artists Striving to End Poverty, and being married to another artist. Check out his work at: www.mauriciotsalgado.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor, director, writer, and producer Carrie Preston shares her experiences with the dark side, keeping creatively busy by making her own work along side her acting career, her involvement with The New Harmony Project supporting playwrights, growing up in an artistic family, and learning to hold on loosely to opportunities or ideas and accept change. Check out what she's up to at http://carriepreston.com and with her production company: http://daisy3pictures.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poet, preacher, and educator Lyvonne Proverbs Picou shares her experiences with the dark side, honesty, entrepreneurship, the importance of self-care, and her organization Beautiful Scars which "promotes healthy and safe conversations around religion, sex, and Blackness in order to, ultimately, address the silence in the Black Church on sexual abuse." Happy Holidays! The Compass will be back with a brand new episode on Friday, January 5th. www.lyvonnep.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I recently got to see an early screening of Steven Spielberg's "The Post", it was a very powerful film about the First Amendment. I recorded a talkback after the film with the cast (including Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks) and the casting director about the film and learning from history before it repeats itself. Check back next week for a new full episode of The Compass Podcast! Become a Patron. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Compass Podcast, Episode 101: Rivka Rivera is now online! Actor Rivka Rivera shares her experiences with the dark side, her work with Irondale Ensemble Project including a program that builds conversation and empathy between law enforcement officers and community members, her latest filmmaking project, recovering from an eating disorder, and finding balance. http://www.rivkarivera.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 100th Episode Live Event (which occurred 11/19/17 in NYC): Actor, choreographer, director, and teacher Jesse. J. Perez shares his experiences with the dark side, how he's expanded his definition of who he is as an artist and the opportunities that have opened up to him because of it, collaboration, learning to say no, and the importance of honest conversations as a teacher. Featuring musical guest Samora Pinderhughes, and song and podcast theme by Brendan Spieth. Visit www.patreon.com/thecompasspodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actress Mirirai Sithole shares her experiences with the dark side, her new creative endeavor www.ayedefy.com, the freedom of sharing through writing, day jobs, finding the people who will push you to take action on your ideas, and community. Mirirai can currently be seen in School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh at MCC.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Save the date for the upcoming event, The Compass Podcast Live, Episode 100! The evening of November 19, 2017 in NYC, more info to come.  Actor and writer Tim Nicolai shares his experiences dealing with the dark side, the importance of community, mentorship, and taking action in the current political climate.  http://patreon.com/thecompasspodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Violinist and composer Michelle Ross shares her experiences with the dark side, finding a love of improvisation, expanding your definition of yourself as an artist, and performing Bach all over New York City. www.michellerossviolin.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actress Hillary Clemens shares her experiences with the dark side, becoming a mother as a working artist, her experiences in the midwest theater community, and the almost daily news roundups she's been writing since the election in an effort to nail down the facts in a time of misinformation and distraction in the political realm. You can follow her public posts on Facebook to view the news reports or become a patron and following along here: https://www.patreon.com/harborroundup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Playwright Adam Szymkowicz shares his experiences with the dark side, persistence, becoming a parent, advising young writers, and his interview series which has just come to an end after featuring 1,000 playwrights. You can read the 1,000 Playwright Interviews on Adam's blog: http://aszym.blogspot.com/2017/09/1000-playwright-interviews.html. Please consider supporting the ongoing production of The Compass Podcast by rating and reviewing in iTunes and becoming a Patron at www.patreon.com/thecompasspodca Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor Erin Wilhelmi shares her experiences with the dark side, her love for supporting the development of new plays, mentors, day jobs, and what it's been like taking over a role in a play that's already been running. She was appearing as Emmy in A Doll's House, Part 2 on Broadway when this episode was recorded. Check out her work at www.erinwilhelmi.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor and writer Juan Francisco Villa shares his experiences with the dark side, writing his one-man show, turning his family’s story into a way to empower others, naming what you want in life, and questioning the cultural narrative. Juan can be seen in Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro at The Public Theatre starting October 3, 2017. Become a Patron of The Compass Podcast by visiting www.patreon.com/thecompasspodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stage manager Lizzie Robinson shares her experiences with the dark side, setting the tone in the rehearsal room, going after what is important to you, giving yourself projects, becoming politically active, and shifting priorities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actress and drama therapist Liz Vital shares her thoughts on dealing with the dark side, leaving L.A. for Seattle, deciding to go to graduate school for  Drama Therapy, the healing power of storytelling, becoming a parent, and producing work with friends. This episode was recorded over Skype. Please consider supporting the next year of the podcast by becoming a Patron on our new Patreon page! www.patreon.com/thecompasspodcast Thank you! Note: check out the documentary Liz mentions by Zeina Daccache Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dancer, teacher, and choreographer Lucie Baker shares her experiences with the dark side, how she approaches producing her own work, teaching, setting financial standards for yourself as an artist and asking for what you need, and her recent dive into expressive arts therapy while training at The Tamalpa Institute. Lucie is currently based in Seattle, this episode was recorded over Skype. Check out her work at www.luciebaker.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Creative producer and chef Stephen Sanders shares his experiences with the dark side, focusing on the long term, his passion for supporting artists and building community, carrying on the legacies of his mentors, and his newest creative outlet Oxford Plaid, an intimate dinner party and creative photography service which is allowing him to bring people together in a whole new way. Check it out at www.oxfordplaid.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Compass Podcast, Episode 87: Matt Lombardi is now online! Fiction writer Matt Lombardi shares his thoughts on the dark side, his process as a writer, the long game of writing a novel, teaching, and not wasting time now that he's become a parent. The Compass was created two years ago! Happy Birthday, The Compass Podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor Seth Numrich shares his thoughts on acknowledging when you're in the dark side, activism, working abroad as an American actor, the effects of commerce on the modern theatre, and coming from a creative family. Seth has been on stage in New York in shows including War Horse, Golden Boy, The Merchant of Venice, Slipping, and Iphigenia 2.0.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor and creator Damian Jermaine Thompson shares his experiences with the dark side, community, virtual teaching, overcoming adversity, joining the Actors Equity Association Council in hopes of fighting for our community of artists, Check out his short film BLACK? on youtube now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Director, choreographer, filmmaker, and dancer Yara Travieso shares her experiences with the dark side, finding a healthier way of working, coming from a creative family, the economy of art, and deciding where to put your energy. www.yaratravieso.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dancer and teacher Jamal Callender shares his experiences keeping out of the dark side, the strength he's finding in reexamining his approach to fitness and nutrition, the role technology plays in keeping him connected to his family and loved ones while dancing in Germany, the institutional differences in dance in Europe as opposed to the U.S.A., speaking up for yourself and your colleagues in a company setting, and starting the Barbados Dance Project. Check out the awesome work he's doing here: http://barbadosdanceproject.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actress and director Delia Kropp shares her experiences with the dark side, advocating for transgender actors and stories in the Chicago theatre scene, re-entering the profession, and the importance of pursuing opportunities you're passionate about. Check out her current work here:  www.therealdelia.com. Feldenkrais lesson audio recordings mentioned can be found here: www.kinesophics.ca/category/podcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor Charlie Russell, currently performing in The Play That Goes Wrong on Broadway,  shares her experiences with the dark side, creating work with a longterm company of artists, growing in a performance and owning your choices, the long journey The Play That Goes Wrong has taken to go from performing in a pub to running the show on Broadway, taking care of yourself during a long wrong of a very physical show, and exploring New York City. Check out everything Mischief Theatre is up to here: http://mischieftheatre.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Filmmaker Kat Hidalgo and Actor Anna Martine Freeman share their experiences with the dark side, being an advocate for yourself and others, Kat's move from Ecuador to Canada, the Olivier Award-winning play Rotterdam that Anna is currently starring in in London, travel, activism, being proactive as queer artists, and friendship. Check out Kat's film work here: http://kat-hidalgo.com and keep informed of Anna's acting work on Twitter @annamartine_ and @RotterdamPlay.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actress and founder of The Artist Co-op Rachel Berger shares her experiences with the dark side, how she decided to pursue her new endeavor in creating a co-working space for artists, fundraising, mentors, bringing people together, and she gives us a tour of the space! Check out The Artist Co-op here: www.theartistco-op.com Check out The Compass Podcast Facebook page for video of this mini live episode take by Dominique Taylor of The Storyscape Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Actress, singer, dancer, and producer Miranda Noelle Wilson shares her experiences with the dark side, building a community in NYC, feeding yourself artistically, starting a new theatre company, day jobs and transitions, and looking at the big picture. Check out what she's up to: www.mirandanoellewilson.com and www.clutchproductions.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Compass Podcast, Episode 78: Garrett David Kim is now online! Playwright and educator Garrett David Kim shares his experiences with the dark side, growing as a playwright, finding your footing after college, and his educational work with the kids at The 52nd St Project here in NYC. Check out his work at garrettdkim.com and 52project.org! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actress Amelia McClain shares her thoughts on the dark side, the paths that being a reader for casting directors has opened up for her, becoming a parent as an artist, auditioning, and her approach to being an understudy.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Compass Podcast, Episode 76: Ben Bartolone is now online! Playwright, actor, and producer Ben Bartolone shares his experiences with the dark side, discovering his love for playwriting, not being precious with your work, the importance of mentors helping younger artists, and The Bluestone Project which aims to foster empathy in our oft-divided nation. You can find more information about that work at: www.facebook.com/TheBluestoneProject/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer, producer, and director Priscila García-Jacquier shares her experiences with the dark side, finding her voice as a writer, using her own immigration story to speak out for others, finding your power in the industry, and embracing extreme honesty. Check out her blog here: https://priscilaelenagj.com and her production company here: http://roundroomimage.org (Originally released on November 3, 2017) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Compass Podcast, Episode 75: Danny Mefford. Choreographer Danny Mefford shares his experiences with the dark side, when he started identifying as a choreographer instead of a performer, the nature of collaboration, his artistic mentors, and challenging yourself. Danny's choreography can currently be seen in New York in Venus at the Signature Theatre, and Dear Evan Hansen at The Music Box Theatre on Broadway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor Alex Hanna shares his experiences with the dark side, self-compassion, the support of family, sustaining a long run of a play, and streamlining his life.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Visual artist Yazmany Arboleda shares his experiences with the dark side, the power of creating art in public spaces, following your heart instead of working within the system, valuing yourself, asking for help, and his latest project Espejismo, which asks the question "When people see you, what would you like them to know?". Check it out and share your own reflection at http://espejismo.art Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Compass Podcast, Episode 72: Dr. Lisa Hodge Kander. Director and teacher Dr. Lisa Hodge Kander shares her experiences with the dark side, her extensive work with youth theater, going back to school to get her PhD, the importance of defining success for yourself and building a community that can truly support you, raising a family, and the role of the artist as activist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Director Rob Goudy shares his experiences with the dark side, navigating the theatre scene in his hometown of Minneapolis, looking for new ways to support yourself as an artist, growing up in the theatre, his dream spaces to direct a show in, plus some awesome recommendations.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor and illustrator Jessica Love shares her experiences with the dark side, managing expectations, growing up in a family of artists, finding power in illustration and deciding to make that work another part of her career as opposed to a hobby, and the process of developing a children's book and finding a publisher.      Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Craftsperson and business owner Sarah Kirkham shares her experiences moving from building theatrical props to making handcrafted leather goods and starting her own company with her business partner, putting down roots in Milwaukee, being open to new opportunities, and her love for the National Park System. Check out her beautiful work at www.tactilecraftworks.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actress Kahyun Kim shares her experiences with the dark side, moving to the United States from South Korea to pursue acting, navigating the TV/Film world in LA, the support of family and friends, the casting process as an asian actress, and the new play Linda Vista by Tracy Letts that she's currently in rehearsals for at  Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In today's mini episode, host Leah Walsh talks about hard decisions, and reads an excerpt from a talk Patti Smith gave at the Louisiana Literature Festival August 24, 2012, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. See footage of the talk here: https://vimeo.com/57857893 Check back next week for a new full episode of The Compass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Violist and teacher Dawn Michelle Johnson shares her experiences with the dark side, being a passionate and involved teacher, finding ways to empower artists of color in classical music, becoming a parent, and how her faith influences her art.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor, writer and teacher Brittany Vicars shares her experiences over the past year with her diagnosis with a rare form of cancer, treatment, and processing and sharing this experience through her writing. We also discuss isolation and community, filmmaking, and artistic drive. Check out her work at https://www.brittvicars.art/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor, writer and producer Emma Ramos shares her experiences with the dark side, making a big career change, co-producing her own web series, the healing power of comedy, family, and taking care of yourself during a stressful political climate. She is currently appearing in Frontieres Sans Frontieres by Phillip Howze at The Bushwick Starr, March 1-18, 2017. Check out her digital series BUTS at www.butswebseries.com, and her other work at www.emmaramos.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor James Davis shares his thoughts on avoiding the dark side, being open to any path as an actor, New York City, taking time to uproot everything and travel, the support of family, and collaboration. Currently appearing in Mother of Invention by James License at Abingdon Theatre Company. Check out his work here: www.jamesdavisactor.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Costume Designer Caitlin Cisek shares her experiences with the dark side, juggling freelance design work, teaching, being a part of the national theatre conversation, and collaboration. Check out her work here: www.caitlincisek.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices