Jacob Ming-Trent is an actor currently starring as Falstaff in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at The Delacourte Theater, adapted by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Saheem Ali. Tickets are free and Performances run until 9/18. Most recently seen in The Forty-Year-Old Version (Netflix) and R#J (Sundance). TV: starred in the series “White Famous” (Showtime), played Panda in “Watchmen” (HBO), “Ray Donovan” season six (Showtime), “Feed the Beast” (AMC), etc. Film: Starred in the reboot of SuperFly (Sony), The Possession of Hanna Grace (Screen Gems), etc. Upcoming: “Only Murders in the Building” opposite Steve Martin and Martin Short (Hulu) and “Wu-Tang: An American Saga” (Hulu). Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody and Shrek The Musical. Several Off-Broadway productions, including Father Comes Home From the Wars..., for which he earned a Lortel Award for Best Supporting Actor. 0:53 A day off for Jacob 3:15 Being a part of the first production since the pandemic 6:00 Performing on Stage after 6 years 7:45 Pros and cons of performing outside 11:20 The Shakespeare Lab at the Public Theater 14:10 Demystifying Shakespeare at 12 Years Old 16:00 Hip Hop and Shakespeare 21:30 Reaction to Merry Wives of Windsor being set in Harlem 23:00 “Every character I bring to Shakespeare is black” 25:09 Decolonizing the Eurocentric Values of Shakespeare 27:30 The Pandemic Monologue in MERRY WIVES 29:00 The Traditions Of Shakespeare Are The Freshest Moments in the Show 33:50 White Famous/Representing All Bodies In Our Industry 35:15 Perform like it is Your Last Time You’ll Ever Do It 38:40 Discerning The Clown Vs. the Fool 42:25 Choosing Joy

Felicia Boswell is an actress and singer currently starting as The Baker’s Wife in City Springs Theatre Company’s production of INTO THE WOODS at Byers Theatre opening on Friday 7/9. She has appeared on Broadway in MOTOWN THE MUSICAL, SHUFFLE ALONG, and MEMPHIS. Additional credits include EMOJILAND and JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR on NBC. We recap our lockdown with one another. CHAPTERS 0:00 Emojiland 3:25 Playing the Straight Man in Comedy 5:50 Not Being Allowed to Stagedoor Amidst in March 2020 10:20 Post-Emojiland 16:20 The Sanity of Performing on a Stage Again 20:00 The Role of The Baker’s Wife - Into The Woods 23:30 Normalizing Numbness 25:00 You Cannot Go Through Life a Ruin 28:50 As Storytellers We Should be Telling the Stories of Today 32:50 Why Broadway Will Be Better. 37:45 Working Towards the Greatness of Our Descendants 38:20 Lack of Accessibility in Theatre/Our Elitist Industry 43:00 Art Saves Us 48:10 Check Out Felicia Boswell in Into The Woods! #broadway #musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theatre #broadwaymusical #hamilton #bway #rosaparks #theater #broadwaymusicals #theaterpodcast #broadwaymemes #theatreproblems #podcastersofinstagram #nyc #actor #music #podcast #musicaltheater #heathers #theatrelife #singer #theatrekid #theater #newyork #theatre #sondheim #teatro #bhfyp

Rachel Sussman is a Tony-Nominated Creative Producer of critically acclaimed productions such as Pulitzer Finalist ‘What The Constitution Means To Me’ (Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video), The Woodsman, and Endlings at NYTW. This is our first episode in conjunction with the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival, with the goals that holding conversation with artists native to each region of students, demonstrates that theatre knows no bounds, can be made wherever you make space to let it. She is a co-founder of  The MITTEN Lab, an emerging artist residency program in her native state of Michigan focused on nurturing the next generation of theatre artists. She is also a co-founder of The Business of Broadway, a new educational venture with the aim of democratizing commercial producing knowledge in an effort to develop more transparency between artists and producers. 

Chapters:

0:00 Introduction

2:00 Insurrection of the Capitol/Racism/Anti-Semitism

9:30 Rachel’s Start in the Theatre

13:00 New Play Development 

13:50 Why Asking Questions Is Important  

15:50 Learning from your mistakes

16:20 Now Is the Time To Reach out to Artists For  Advice! Be Brave. 

18:10 Co-Founding The Mitten Lab/The Regional Theatre Renaissance 

23:20 Democratizing Theatre/Dismantling Hierarchy in the Producing Model 

25:25 Theater Producers of Color

26:35 Industry Standard Group/The Antiquated System of 3 Old White Dudes Running Broadway

28:25 We are Pushing for a More Equitable Theater Community 

30:00 Mean Girls in the AUGUST WILSON Theater...bruh.

31:30 Thoughts of a Colored Man/Moving a Production to Broadway  

34:00 Theatrical Work Should Speak for Itself/Being Mindful in Anti-Racism 

36:00 Marketing Commercial Hits/Co-Producing What the Constitution Means to Me

40:00 The Concept of A Penumbra Is SO CURRENT- We are stuck between what we can see what we cannot see

41:45 Putting What the Constitution Means to Me on Amazon Prime/ If you love theatre when it is on streaming, you’ll want to see it live and view it in a more meaningful way

45:10 The Power of Accessibility/Questioning the rhetoric of theater existing solely as a live experience 

47:00 Theater as a tool for Activism/Tikkun Olam- Leave the World Better Than You Found It

49:00 Theater Being Created during the AIDS Epidemic/Developing A Suffragist Musical

51:00 Highlighting The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals

Michael Potts stars as Slow Drag in the film adaptatin of August Wilson's  Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Now Streaming on Netflix, and will be starring in Prodigal Son on FOX. Spanning a 30 year career on stage and screen, his Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon, Grey Gardens, The Prom, Jitney, and the Iceman Cometh with Denzel Washington.

Chapters:

0:00 Welcoming Michael/1st Preview

2:00 Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

4:50 The Weeknd/Abuse of Black Artists In the Music Industry

6:00 LGBTQ+ Stories on Stage and Screen

9:20 Changes Made from The Play

11:00 Reckoning with Racism in the Theatre

14:00 George C. Wolfe

17:00 Rehearsing Ma Rainey

19:30 Colman Domingo, Viola Davis, Glynn Turman

21:30 Bonding with Denzel Washington

24:00 Wilsonian Scholars (Anthony Chisholm, Stephen Henderson, Theresa Merritt)

25:00 The White Gaze Eclipsing the Authentic Black Identity In Entertainment

31:50 Chadwick Boseman “The King of Wakanda Just Walks Down the Street”

35:00 Reflecting on 28 years on Stage

36:45 The Book of Mormon

43:45 How Has The Book of Mormon Aged?

46:30 Taking Religion with a Grain of Salt

48:30 Joining the cast of FOX’s Prodigal Son

51:00 Theatre Coming Back: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand.

#MaRaineyFilm #netflix #thebookofmormon #theprom #broadway #broadwaymusicals #truedetective #broadwaytheatre #augustwilson #blackmovies #theatre #theater #theatrekid #theatrelife #hasadigaeebowai #chadwickboseman #bethleavel #theprommusical #thepromnetflix #rubensantiagohudson #netflix #hbo #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #podcastlife #theatrepodcast #musicaltheatre #keepcreating #blkcreatives #stayempowered

Lesli Margherita is an Olivier Award winning actress and has starred on Broadway in Dames At Sea, Matilda, as well as Emojiland. Her solo performance in Who's Holiday just streamed for BCEFA, she is currently appears in the Broadway Podcast Network's As the Curtain Rises, and is starring in the upcoming prequel to The Soprano's, The Many Saints of Newark coming to HBOMAX this March.

0:00 Welcoming Lesli Margherita

3:00 Learning The Bong for the Stage

5:00 Who was in charge of getting it approved? Lesli explains

6:00 Lesli’s iconic BC/EFA speech 

8:00 Getting AEA points at Disneyland/ A Chorus Line

9:45 How Lesli Got Involved in Who’s Holiday

14:33 Lessons Lesli Learned

15:30 Male Playwrights Writing for Women 

17:30 Pushing comedic boundaries 

19:35 Messages from this shows

20:00 Self tapes 

22:00 Seeing Friends Booking on Social Media/”Cats out of the Bag” Posts

25:55 Emojiland!/Loving Josh Lamon

28:26 Keith Talks About Getting A Gastric Sleeve

31:05 Funny Ladies/Triple Threats

32:45 Ann Reinking

35:20 As the Curtain Rises/Ratatouille Parallel

39:40 Sopranos Prequel 

42:45 Secret Quarantine Project 

44:50 WeSeeYouWAT

49:15 West End Theatre 

52:00 Reuniting with the Zorro Cast 

52:30 Fuck Resolutions

Need a Roundtable About Ratatouille the Musical? I guess you do. Well you’ll have to find it in Episode 33, featuring the Producers from the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals Cohort where we promote their upcoming projects which include attempting breaking world records, producing podcasts, trivia nights, and short films. We go on to discuss how this past year’s injustices have reshaped producing in the American Theatre, and specifically.....#RatatouilleTheMusical

Guests: Chloe Brevik-Rich @sothishappened , Ryan Duncan-Ayala @ryan_d99 , Dylan Tashjian @dyltash , Olivia Facini @oliviafacini , Kelsi Parsons @kelsiparsons , Narissa Agustin @narissa_agustin

0:00 Introduction of Producers/What do producers do that people don’t know about?

8:05 Hickory Playground/Public Education/Community Based

11:00 Why did you become a producer?

12:53 Stage manager to producer

15:15 What you been doing in quarantine?

17:20 Meeting people only online

19:20 Tetrology

21:00 Narissa Breaking a Guinness World Record - Album of people singing the same song

23:00 What are we gonna be like after quarantine

23:42 Millie Boden short film 'Too Black' produced by Olivia Facini

27:00 Balcony Scene

28:00 Kelsey is Tall

28:30 Cara and Kelsey talk about height

30:00 Listen to Best Paper I Ever Wrote produced by Dylan Tashjian on Spotify

32:40 Keith loves Joe Rogan wtf.

35:00 Trivia Nights

39:00 Chloe promotes DO NOT AIR, sketch comedy show

42:40 RATAOUILLE/What are you looking forward to for our industry?

45:30 Disney ruins everything/anyone can make a musical

47:00 We are pigeonholeing things into theater or film, but there needs to be a third thing. This is where innovation happens

49:00 Non-profit world

53:00 Tony Awards

55:00 It is our job to make change happen!

57:00 Sustainability

#theatre #broadway #broadwaymemes #producer #producergrind #theatrekidproblems #theatreislife #ratatouillememes #onstage #toystorymemes #industrystandard #peanutsgang #hamiltonmemes #tiktok #onceonthisisland #findingnemo #mammamia #jennifercoolidge #phantomoftheopera #guinessworldrecord #armenian

We sit with the composer of Jeannette: the Musical, Hamilton star and American Idol Semi-Finalist Ari Afsar, and director Erin Ortman to discuss the inclusivity of their work, dismantling hierarchy in theatre, separating your ego from your collaboration, and enlisting young musical theatre fans in flipping Georgia. You can check out the concept album for the musical, WE WON'T SLEEP, on Spotify. Chapter Timestamps Below: 0:00 Introduction of Guests 1:22 Jeanette Brigade  3:10 Team Genie (high school and college student focus groups. December 15th) 7:00 This play is for all people  7:30 Songwriting Journey - American Idol To Hamilton 10:00 How they got into theater 11:40 Cherish Your Mentors 13:00 Erin’s directing journey 14:10 Ensemble Studio Theater/Dismantling Hierarchy 19:00 Influences in theater and music 21:00 Ari digging into her sound for Jeanette  21:50 Erin On The Genius of Ari 24:25 Being Fearless in the Unknown 25:27 Musicality  26:45 Republican means something different now. It is always changing. 28:20 Changing how we look at theater in the virtual space 30:00 Change that can be made to the piece following the death of George Floyd 32:00 What is theater going to look like? #georgia #fundraiser #benefitconcert #bethechange #makeadifference #flipthesenate #vote #aretha #ossoff #warnock #staceyabrams #runoff #georgiaartist #activist #artivist #playwright #screenwriter #singer #actor #musicaltheater #theater #musicals #newmusicals #broadway

Delores Pereira @queen_davery is an actress and finalist in the Ya Tu Sabes Monologue Slam from NBC, where you watch her work on FB Watch TONIGHT at 8:30 on December 9th. We discuss our work fighting the labor injustices and erasure of the Resident Artists of the Flea Theater and the formation of the The Fled. https://nosotrosorg.com/yatusabes/ya-tu-sabes-vote-now/ Chapters: 00:25 DLO Intro 0:45 How DLO got involved with The Flea 3:00 Nosotros explanation 5:40 DLO went to LA as a finalist 10:45 Cuomo haters and Cuomo lovers 13:30 You hate when your parents are right 16:05 You can’t be a well rounded artist without a well rounded life 17:00 When ya’ll found out about the flea 19:40 Letter from Flea 20:50 Niegel Smith 25:25 Formation of The Fled Theater 27:45 Dave Chappelle 31:10 Analysis of Flea Statement 32:40 Delores is beautiful! 38:10 Kinfolk #fleetheflea #ajoyfulhell #giveusthekeys #thefled #thefledtheater #bestintentions #dominicanartist #nosotros #yatusabes #broadway #offbroadway #actor #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #podcastlife #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #nbcuniversal #dominicanamerican #anchorfm

The Cooking Project by the Dominican Artists Collective Is Available to Stream until 12/15. 

https://www.nytw.org/show/the-cooking-project/tickets/

Highlights : 

1:50 Cooking Project Process

3:06 Cooking with these ingredients and now we got a meal

4:45 The first time domincan artists have come together for theater

5:03 This is a happy hour bitch 

6:25 The last days of judas iscariot. Merlixse’s first play

10:10 Fingers 

11:15 Outline of Cooking Project : poetry, meditation, original songs, etc. 

11:35 Spoiler dope riff off of the twilight zone

16:00 Dilson’s community engagement 

16:58 Dilson explains how he didn't talk the talk. He wanted to do more than just create art.

19:00 Dilson is the coolest person ever. Did hip hop workshops on Reicher’s island. Now working with incarcerated youth. 

20:00 Did Keith pass out?

23:00 Little Veras does not need her students finding her

24:05 Keith used to jam and now his friend moved away 

25:49 When you are a musician you just listen for the music

27:36 The importance of listening, incorporating different staples

28:30 TRUST THE PROCESS and TRUST YOURSELF

30:56 Authenticity. Professionalism is bullshit 

31:31 Learn to take up space

32:00 Racism Transcends Time

33:32 What keeps you up at night? “This country”

33:40 We are living in the twilight zone 

36:25 time to knock the door down and hear new voices

36:45 This has never been done in American Theater

37:50 We are always thinking about our community

39:00 I have the bootlegs COME AT ME WHITE AMERICAN THEATER

43:45 We aren’t talking about Ned’s Declassified 

45:00 artists can’t survive without those creative outlets

MERLIXSE VENTURA is an Afro-Dominican artist born and raised in Washington Heights. She is an alumnus of SUNY Purchase, where she studied Theater and Performance, and Philosophy. Ventura is currently pursuing her Masters of Fine Arts in Acting at Columbia University.

DILSON HERNANDEZ's talents include playing various instruments, spoken-word, singing, audio engineering, and beat making. Though self-taught in many of these skills, he received a Bachelor's of Arts in both English and Music from the University at Albany. He also received a certification in audio engineering from the Institute of Audio Research. Dilson wishes to change the world with his art and community work, striving for a more progressive future. In addition to music, Dilson facilitates artistic workshops for NYC youth and is employed by Friends of Island Academy, an organization that provides services and advocates for sixteen to twenty-four year olds who are justice-involved people.

LITTLE VERAS is a multidimensional Dominican-American artist from New York City. She is an alumna of the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts and the Diller-Quaile School of Music, where she became a classically trained musician. Veras has continued working on her craft at the renowned UBC, has trained with film director Pete Jensen, and continues under the tutelage of grammy-nominated opera singer and actress Monique McDonald. Little Veras has performed in comedy festivals and independent films such as the Dominican York Web Series, as well as sketch shows at the PIT, UCB and CAVEAT. You can also catch her singing your favorite jazz standards at open mics around the city. From femme fatale to your Latinx Daria - she's your gal.

I sit down with Ryan Duncan-Ayala, Executive Director of RDA Producing, Annika Perez Krikorian, and Abe Johnson, the playwright of ‘and we will eat your grief.’ We discuss writing plays about middle school, how we each got into theatre, the election, the sad lyrics of pop stars that we only vaguely remember, end up talking The Sound of Music, the 2005 International Sensation the film The Pacifier starring Vin Diesel, and Keith learns that Andre 3000 is in OutKast. Highlights : 3:50 Annika talking about how most songs in middle school were inappropriate/ Hey Ya dark lyrics 4:50 Keith forgetting that Outcast is called Outcast not Hey Ya 5:20 cut the cameras dead ass 9:17 Abe flower child moment 11:30 Only first act of Into the Woods IS NOT INTO THE WOODS RYAN 13:40 Ryan’s BIPOC centered dating show!! 14:30 Love that looks like the world we live in 16:20 Anika’s departure was staged and Keith goes NO. 19:00 Anika loved the guillotine! Don’t treat children like they are dumb! 21:38 RIP Big Ups to Ghandi 23:33 Abe “Saw a chorus line. Very scarring but very formative” 26:30 Abe said he wouldn’t waste his time on a show if he couldn’t be the lead 30:30 Jesse McCartney was “that kid” 32:45 Abe singing Eidelweiss 36:20 Bring back good book musicals 2021 42:20 Ted Cruz in the crucible 45:30 Jon Osoff total thirst trap 46:50 GEORGIA KIDS VOTE 59:20 Abe’s emergency vomit 1:00:00 She parked that MF van 1:06:00 Circle Jerk 1:09:00 “I will respect theater more when it respects more people”

We are BACK THIS WEEK after a long hiatus. Tonight’s episode will be available on our podcast platforms, and features a conversation w/ Rory Pelsue, Co Director of the play CIRCLE JERK by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, currently streaming until November 7th. We talk about gay meme culture, creating theatre that deals with social media, directing for a streaming audience, institutional theatre, the queerest horror movie ever, and much more! CHAPTERS OF THE EPISODE Description of Circle Jerk How BLM impacted this production and what changed from the live performance at Ars Nova to the streaming version AI References It was shot on 3 cameras. Originally in the live version there were 3 projections, but it turned into filming on 3 phones How supremacy and queerness manifest/How it impacted the show How/When Rory started participating in this production Close relationships with multiple people working on the show. Michael boyfriend, dramaturg is his roommate. Theory was a big part of the making of the piece. Questioning institutional theater All we have right now is the ability to make theater on our own time Why Rory started being a director Roundabout Apprenticeship program Hopeful about multimedia theatrical experiences I hope theater grows Hoping for change with this coming election

Amidst her recent Forbes profile and BroadwayNews op-ed (links in the bio), Asmeret can be seen on the new BBC series GET EVEN now streaming on Netflix, she starred on Broadway as Nabalungi in Book of Mormon and in the West End alongside Amber Riley in Dreamgirls. We discuss how speaking up and using her voice has affected her career, her recent turn as a Producing Artistic Director, how the impact of television is changing the landscape of storytelling, and whether shows like the Book of Mormon need to be re-examined. 1:30 Finding her Voice Amidst The 2020 BLM Protests 3:00 Sharing the Mic/Sutton Foster 5:33 Making A Broadway Debut While Getting Your Degree 10:00 Unpacking the Book of Mormon 14:30 Unpacking 90s sitcoms on HBOMAX/ How White “Legendary” Television Lacks Critical Autonomy 16:54 I May Destroy You/Michaela Cole (SPOILER ALERT🚨 ) 18:46 West End/UK 21:00 Casey Nicholaw/Dreamgirls Journey 22:18 What We’re Supposed to be Doing 23:17 These Murder Mystery Zoom Musicals? 23:44 Millennials are killing Musicals/Zoom readings 25:14 Becoming An Artistic Director 28:30 Roger Q Mason 30:04 Asmeret on Being Profiled for Forbes 31:54 The Line Between Artist and Activist 36:28 The Prophecy of Self-Aware Theatre #dreamgirls #actress #musicaltheatre #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #broadway #forbes #amplifyblackvoices #westendtheatre #americantheatre #actor #actors #actorlife #nycactors #nycactor #blackexcellence #bookofmormon #freshprinceofbelair #geteven #broadwayworld #blackgirlsdotheater #podcastsofinstagram #podcast #podcasts #blackgirlmagic #imaydestroyyou #blackvoicesmatter #🎭

Devina Sabnis is currently playing Kelly Kapoor in @theofficemusical The Office: A Musical Parody! at The Theater Center in NYC playing Thursdays-Sundays. Since it reopened in April, Devina is one of the first actors to perform onstage in NY since the Pandemic #theofficememes #theofficememesfunny #kellykapoor #southasian #representationmatters #twittermemes #dankmemes #dankmemesdaily #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #pod #podcastlife #theatre #theatrekid #theatrelife #theatrememes #musical #musicaltheatre #nyu #nyugraduation #officememes #theater #standup #comedy #anchorfm #theatreproblems #actress #actorslife #actor #headshots

Add Episode 25 to the queue with belated birthday queen actress Tay Bass, whose performance in meet you at the Galaxy Diner by Gina Femia can be seen for two more days at the link in the bio, and my 24 Hour Plays: Nationals fam, her boo actor Malik E. Childs, who will be making his major Off-Broadway NYC debut in 'Exception to the Rule' at Roundabout Underground next spring and worked with our next guest Ryan Dobrin and I on the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals this past month. We talk about the demand for institutions to amplify black joy instead of black trauma onstage, Exception to the Rule, the toxicity of Long Island theatre, and our plight with acting over zoom 🏎 #playwright #patreon #thepublictheater #playwrightsofinstagram #lofi #48hoursinharlem #broadway #offbroadway #thetank #24viralmonologues #blackvoicesmatter #zoomtheatre #playwrightsofinstagram #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #producer #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #americantheatre #musicaltheater

Will and Gina are the creative team behind the upcoming co-production from New Light Theatre Company/The Tank of 'meet you at the Galaxy Diner' on August 21st and be on demand on Cybertank until the 27th. Garlia is producing an exciting the annual theatre festival 48 Hours in Harlem which you can stream August 20-24th. Artists involved include April Matthis, Larry Owens, & Raja Feather Kelly. We talk about how digital theatre is shaping the culture of accessibility in the theatre, the validity of virtual romance, AIM instant messenger, discrimination against BIPOC as well as Outer Burroughs in institutional theatre, and how to build a community over Patreon.

ASIB Presents our Sister Podcast Series, where we interview pods run by friends of the show. These podcasts make us better and we’re proud to share them with you! We are thrilled to introduce, to some, The OCDiaries, hosted by Maia Kinney-Petrucha and Susannah Holub. The OCDiaries is a podcast and a Child of the Quran, much like A Star is Bored, and that’s why they’re our sister Podcast this week. Follow the OCDiaries on Instagram @so_odc_show, and Facebook for updates, memes and mental health education. Also subscribe to their Youtube Channel @theOCDiaries to hear about new episodes! About The OCDiaries: Maia and Susannah were preparing to tour with ‘So OCD’, a show they’d written and produced to explain the way OCD actually affects folks in a fun personable way. They took the terror that can come with living with OCD and turned it into a humorous and informative production. When the ‘Rona hit, it had confirmed all their germ-riddled fears, while unfortunately, upending their tour. But they didn’t give up! Maia and Sus quickly reimagined their show as a youtube series, called the OCDiaries, which is returning soon, for season 2. the theater and education they’re able to provide will be a bright spot on your week. They featured co-host Mariah as Comrade Cameron, on their final episode to talk about Activism and Anxiety. #playwright #playwrightsofinstagram #mcctheater #thelark #broadway #offbroadway #actor #cherrylane #labyrinththeatercompany #publictheater #playwrightsofinstagram #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #podcastlife #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #americantheatre #actor #actors #actorlife #nycactors #nycactor

A.A. Brenner and Gregg Mozgala are the Playwrights of Emily Driver’s Great Race Through Time and Space, which was selected for the Kilroys, premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in January, and the reading with the original cast of this play will be streaming at queenstheatre.org until the end of the day on Saturday 7/31st #playwright #thelark #offbroadway #actor #publictheater #playwrightsofinstagram #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #podcastlife #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #americantheatre #actors #actorlife #nycactors #nycactor #inclusionmatters #nonbinary #NB #nonbinarywoman #gay #queer #queerstyle #emilydriversgreatracethroughtimeandspace #queenstheatre #thisiswhatnonbinarylookslike

We hung out with Renee Harrison to talk about her social media brand, @blackgirlsdotheater , The Flea, BLM, how black women are treated in the industry, Debbie Allen, the difference between theatre and theater, and so much more!

David Zheng came thru to talk about his Fellowship at NYTW and his Residency at the O’Neill Center, where he is developing Kidnapping Jane Doe, a dank ass play that was presented at the end of his residency at the Public Theater. David talks the importance of finesse, starting out writing out of the MCC Youth Company thanks to Lucy Thurber, his new fondness of reality tv, why we shouldn’t limit our artistry to one medium, and much more! #purchasemafia #playwright #playwrightsofinstagram #mcctheater #thelark #broadway #offbroadway #actor #cherrylane #labyrinththeatercompany #publictheater #playwrightsofinstagram #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #podcastlife #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #americantheatre #actor #actors #actorlife #nycactors #nycactor

My friend Tom Meglio and I hang with birthday boy and actor John-Andrew Morrison, who most recently won a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his work in A STRANGE LOOP and also received an Antonyo Award nomination. He and James Jackson Jr. have an IGTV series called 5 Questions with James and JAM that you can check out at @johnandymori John-Andrew dishes about A Strange Loop, winning an award, showcase hell, his side hustles, meeting Michael R. Jackson, and what he wishes he could have told himself when he was a young actor. #astrangeloop #lortelawards #playwrightshorizons #pulitzerprizewinner #periodically #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #blackbroadway #musicaltheater #jamaicanartist #musicaltheatrefactory #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #broadway #offbroadway #offoffbroadway #americantheatre #actor #actors #antonyoawards#playbill #pridenyc #actorlife #nycactors #nycactor #broadwayworld #pride🌈 #🎭

L Morgan Lee is an actress and photographer best known for originating Thought #1 in A Strange Loop, for which she snagged a Lucille Lortel Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. You can see her work on the @24hourplays Instagram, Playbill.com. We talked about taking power over your voice as an artist, navigating the industry as a trans artist unabashedly, letting go of what you can’t control, and the magnitude of LGBT communal culture in 2015, and last, but not least, Ryan Murphy.

Keith and Mariah hang out with Actor and recording artist Juwan Crawley who’s played the Genie 🧞‍♂️ in Aladdin on Broadway where they talk about his recent EP BECOMING, Black Lives Matter, different levels of complicity, fashion, Tyler Perry, Ryan Murphy, and more! #aladdin #blacklivesmatter #blackexcellence #blackboyjoy #Broadway #MusicalTheater #Disney #DisneyonBroadway #FriendLikeMe #Genie #pride🌈 #pridenyc #nojusticenopeace

I hung out with Jordan E. Cooper, who was recently nominated for an Antonyo Award for his short film Mama Got a Cough starring Danielle Brooks, and recently started in his play Ain’t No Mo’ at The Public Theater last Spring. We discuss predicting the queer future, how Black people aren’t made to feel welcome at certain theaters, the lasting effects of Hamilton, education vs. liberation, and the 2017 Oscars snafu. You can watch that film on YouTube, and you can also catch a monologue he wrote FREEDOM on the The 24 Hour Plays IGTV and YouTube Channel.

Eleri Ward is an actress and singer/songwriter who drops her first solo album with Ghostlight Records, A Perfect Little Death, on Spotify Friday 6/4. She is best known for SUF/SOND, her brainchild that celebrates the music of Stephen Sondheim in the style of Sufjan Stevens. 0:00 - Introduction 5:00 - Eleri’s Audience Finding Her 6:30 - Sondheim Stannhood 9:00 - Exposure to Sondheim in High School 12:00 - How To Unleash Your Inner Elaine Stritch 14:30 - Creating Space for Yourself in the Industry/MCC Theater’s Miscast Gala 21:00 - 99 Problems and Musical Theatre is All of Em/Art is about Exploring Humanity 26:00 - Expanding the Musical Theatre Palette 28:00 Your Deepest Insecurity Becomes Your Signature 29:30 - Musical Inspiration : Caroline Polachek, Lake Street Dive, Vulfpeck, Sufjan Stevens 32:00 - Egoless Collaboration/Reemerging Professionally with Lessons Learned from The Pandemic 35:00 - Flock Ya Feathers Fam :) 40:00 - Gatekeepers be Gaslighting Us Bruh 42:30 - Performative Allyship and Pageantry BS 46:00 - Check out Eleri’s work! #cover #singersongwriter #sufsond #musicaltheatre #musical #tiktok #sondheim #sufjanstevens #recordingartist #theatre #theater #guitar #independent #folk #bemorechill #bookofmormon #intheheights #broadway #broadwaymusicals #nyc #elainestritch #theatrekid #theatrelife #theatrememes #spotify #elainestritch #sundayintheparkwithgeorge #podcastsofinstagram #covers #podcast

Part Two of our Writer’s Roundtable continues Cristina Pitter (24 Hour Plays, The Ashe Collective), Mykal Monroe (HBO’s Insecure), A.A. Brenner (La Jolla Playhouse), and Johnny Lloyd (The Tank/Inversion Theatre), where we discuss surviving grad school, advocating for yourself, body positivity, what it will take to rebuild the institution of theatre now that its burnt down, fun times with Seth Meyers, and much more!

Our guests are all interdisciplinary artists that wear multiple hats besides writers including dramaturg, director, painter, and producer. Cristina Pitter (24 Hour Plays, The Ashe Collective), Mykal Monroe (HBO’s Insecure), A.A. Brenner (La Jolla Playhouse), and Johnny Lloyd (The Tank/Inversion Theatre) discuss the revolution outside, our relationship with the police, putting allyhood to action, the toxicity of White Judaism, experiencing the inherent nature of tokenization in institutional theatre, and many more topics

On our Inaugural Episode of THE PRIDE PODCASTS, Michael R. Jackson is the first Black Gay man to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his musical A Strange Loop, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons last summer, and its cast recording is available on Spotify and Apple Music. The show won 5 Drama Desk Awards, Michael winning two for Outstanding Book and Lyrics. It is also nominated for 7 of Broadway Black’s Antonyo Awards. We talk about the early development of A Strange Loop, Racism, Capitalism, how they’re linked, Black Lives Matter, his questions for Michelle Obama, the evolution of the idea of the white moderate, and One Life To Live.

Donate to bail funds here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd I spent this amazing hour doing a lot of shutting up, and listening. My producer Mariah Cameron leads an incredible conversation with Carolina Do, where we discuss becoming a constructive ally, where we discuss allyhood, white fragility, the egregious hypocrisies of certain institutional theatres, and bringing your own solutions to the table. Carolina Do is a first generation Vietnamese American, who believes strongly in the power of weaving new narratives into the fabric of American history and culture. She is the co-founder of The Sống Collective. She served as a panelist on LaMama Theater's LiveTalks, addressing the recent rise of hate crimes against Asians and creative forms of resilience. Text FLOYD to 55156

Broadway veteran Chuck Cooper brings us to the porch of his lakeside tavern In New Jersey. We talk about getting into Costco, getting into show business, understudying Gregory Hines, the timelessness of August Wilson, what makes a successful Chekhov adaptation, the power of doing nothing on stage, and much more! Caturah Brown from Online Theatre Company, which goes live on their Facebook page every Friday and Saturday at 8pm EST, co-hosts this hilarious, exhilarating chat.

Keith sits down with his former college roommate Greg Lakhan, an Actor-Rapper-Director-Editor-Playwright who is best known for his rapper altar-ego Sir Gregolas and currently in his second year with the NYC Neo Futurists. He also runs a production company with Mike Santee called Amusement Studios. We reminisce about our obstacles creating theatre in college, our achievements creating theatre in college, the future of Blunt Civility, our habitual inhalation, his music career and swag. This is the link to Greg's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=22493639

Jess Darrow is an actress, comedian, and songwriter from Miami. She is currently a member of the Resident Acting Company, The Bats, at the Flea Theater. She recently appeared in her first feature film, Feast of the Seven Fishes. We sat down Bat to Bat for a dank dialogue her latest single ‘Da Rona (Ay)’, her training, YoungArts, dark truths about Suite Life of Zach and Cody, White Claw, gushing over actors on Ozark, acrylic nails, the Flea, loving Musical Theater as a kid and loving it as an adult from a safe distance, and much more! #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #offbroadway #offoffbroadway #americantheatre #actor #actors #actorlife #nycactors #nycactor #whiteclaw #broadwayworld #theatermania #show #stage #entertainment #performer #performancelife #nyc #newyork #tonys #obies #oscars #hollywood #thefleatheater #serialsattheflea #suitelife

Ahead of producing A STRANGE LOOP REUNION SPECIAL on Facebook this Friday 5/15 at 7pm, James Jackson Jr. sat down with Mariah and I to talk about the universal impact of A Strange Loop, breaking into the ether of the NY theatre, cabarets, our qualms with Ryan Murphy, Tyler Perry, and of course, getting blocked on Twitter by Kirstie Alley.

We snagged another one of my fellow Plainview native Blair Goldberg (Kinky Boots, Carrie, Broadway Baby Mama’s) who chatted with me about Motherhood, auditioning, Broadway Baby Mama’s, Kinky Boots, being on Broadway at 9 years old, and our mutual love for a certain High School Choir teacher. Blair Goldberg most recently appeared on Broadway in the smash hit musical, KINKY BOOTS. She got her start in the theater at the young age of 9, appearing in the Original Broadway Revival Cast of ANNIE GET YOUR GUN starring Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat. She went on to study theater in both high school and college, earning a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at NYU. On the very day of graduation from undergrad, she found out she had been cast in a developmental lab of the musical CARRIE. After taking part in the workshop, she was offered a spot in the Off-Broadway production, produced by MCC Theater, where she played the role of Norma, as well as understudying and performing the role of Chris. She can be heard on the Original Cast Album, produced by Sh-K-Boom records. Blair performed in the THE NUTTY PROFESSOR, directed by Jerry Lewis, music by Marvin Hamlisch, and book/lyrics by Rupert Holmes, playing the role of Peg and Understudying the lead role of Stella. She then toured the country as a nun in the 1st National Tour of SISTER ACT, directed by Jerry Zaks. When not on stage, she enjoys watching lots of trashy television, working out, and is a self proclaimed foodie. She resides in New York City with her husband, Adam, their daughter Lyla, and their son, Nolan. She eats Chipotle about 5 times a week. She wishes she was joking. If you liked it, subscribe to the channel! ✔ Subscribe to A Star is Bored on YouTube on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4BB6Xkpwa3T7vaNXnaFNYg/

Expect the Unexpected! Episode 7 is a Big Brother Crossover Episode with Kaitlyn Herman and Tommy Bracco dropping Thursday at Noon. We talk New York, the game of Big Brother, our respective native islands, spirituality, the power of manifestation, and going back to school

Aaron Salazar, the Producing Artistic Director and a founder of Poseidon Theatre Company. He recently Salazar’s artistic home is Poseidon Theatre Company, of which he is the Producing Artistic Director and Founder. He enters into his second decade in New York with his most recent work: X The Experience (an interactive cinema experience) starring Kim Exum & Cheech Manohar. He is the Creative Director of Alvarez Keko Salazar Productions’ current works included the For F**k’s Sake a theatre podcast aka “4FS Podcast”, Drama: an aural experience and audio fiction series. AKS’s namesake is an homage to his family & ancestors and the courage they had to want a better life for future generations. "I stand on the strength of their bravery.” #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #pod #podcastlife #theatre #theatrekid #theatrelife #theatrememes #theatrepodcast #musical #musicaltheatre #latinx #latino #graduation #theater #standup #comedy #comedypodcast #tiktok #twitter #anchorfm #theatreproblems #actress #actorslife #actor #headshots #dankmemesdaily #dankmemes #twittermemes

We had a blast with Broadway and TV’s Gabrielle Ruiz. Ahead of her @gethappyhour performance on 5/5 at 8pmEST, we talk about proving yourself in the moments that count, NY vs. LA, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, her Broadway debut, showmances, her friendship with Lin-Manuel Miranda, A Chorus Line, and much more! Photo by Kat Hennessey

Chris and I sit down with two theatre artists who have spent their quarantine cultivating their own theatre companies: Caturah Brown, of Online Theatre Company, and Brandon Crawford, Executive Director and Producer of Acting For a Cause. We talk about what it takes in this ‘Rona Age to use one’s resources to start a theatre company, the power of using young Hollywood for philanthropy, how to congregate as artists in a time where it’s easy to lose hope, Little Fires Everywhere, Ozark, and how we stand in the shower nowadays because…what else Is there to do? Online Theatre Company streams live from Facebook every Friday at 8/7CST. Acting For A Cause streams live from YouTube every Friday at 5/4CST. If you liked it, subscribe to the channel! ✔ Subscribe to A Star is Bored on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4BB6Xkpwa3T7vaNXnaFNYg/

Raja Feather Kelly is an award winning choreographer and director and the Artistic Director of The Feath3r Theory and the New Brooklyn Theatre. He was just nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for A STRANGE LOOP, and is known for his work Off-Broadway, choreographed the Pulitzer Prize- winning FAIRVIEW as well as WE’RE GONNA DIE (2nd STAGE), AND a sequence in Sam Gold’s Broadway revival of KING LEAR. Our extensive conversation with Raja included his body of work, riding the line between being a leader and a collaborator, a crown, WE MAY NEVER DANCE AGAIN, the impact of our late Mentors, Andy Warhol, and funding your art from your apartment. Photo by Kate Enman (@kate_shot_me) If you liked it, subscribe to the channel! ✔ Subscribe to A Star is Bored on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4BB6Xkpwa3T7vaNXnaFNYg/

SkittLeZ is an actor, vocalist, music educator, content creator, and the CEO of SkittLeZMusicTV, and best known for their appearences on HIGH MAINTENANCE on HBO and SHIT SPANISH GIRLS SAY, which has 8.8 million views on YouTube. SkittLeZ gets real with the gang about being a public school teacher, viral fame, Cessa LaPrincessa, Locked Up Bitches, navigating audiences on different platforms, Brittney Spears, and creating their own path to stardom.

Chris and Keith (and eventually Mariah) interview our beautiful panel of 4/20 patronage: Gabriella Marzetta (Dawn in Waitress Nt'l Tour), Michael Nigro (The Sound of Music: Live), Jacen Ziev (The Naked Truth), and Gabriel Florentino (Old Man & The Sea). Among topics discussed are intersectionality in the AfroLatinx community and how it affects the state of theatre, Tiger King, visibility for Transgender as well as Nonbinary artists in our industry, touring a Broadway musical around the country, how waking up early can change your life and again, Tiger King.

Josh Lamon is an actor and podcast host that the NY Times called "delicious(ly campy)". Before his acclaimed work in Emojiland at the Duke on on 42nd Street, he recently starred as Sheldon in The Prom on Broadway (which was nominated for 7 2019 Tony Awards including best musical). Josh made his Broadway debut in 2009 in the revival of Hair before landing iconic roles in Elf, Finding Neverland, and Groundhog Day. He has also toured Hair and Wicked. We talk with Josh about our favorite ice cream, how being plus-sized in our industry, our undying love for 'A Strange Loop', cuddling, and much more.

Blair Russell @barussell4 is a Tony-nominated producer, developer, supporter, and lover of theatre whose experience ranges from fringe festivals to Broadway shows. He specializes in the development of new plays and musicals. As a producer, Blair is most proud of bringing Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris to Broadway. During the pandemic, he lead Out of the Box Theatrics' site-specfic production of The Last Five Years. Some of his other favorite credits include the critically acclaimed immersive Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd at the Greenwich House Theater, and the West End production of Gyspy with Imelda Staunton. He just wrapped producing the residency of Resounding, an immersive theater company, at Radial Park with live, in-person audio plays, including a remount of the company’s popular Treasure Island, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, & a new ghost thriller 'Beyond The Veil'. His current projects include developing the musicals Hypatia & the Heathens and For Tonight as well as an XR experience series about the Black Imagination. He's a recipient of AKA NYC's Black Producer 500 Hours Initiative. 0:00 - Introduction to Blair 3:00 - Hypatia & The Heathens-New Musical about the First Female Mathematician 7:30 - Theater in South Africa 10:30 - How Do We Make Theatre Global 13:00 - We Need to Change All Theater, Not just Broadway 20:50 - You Don’t Solve a Problem by Trying to Fix All of the Symptoms 22:00 - Expanding Accessibility to All Theatergoers 28:00 - Diverging Consumerism from Broadway To Off-Broadway and Independent Theaters 30:00 - Recalibrating Our Perception of Theatre Producers 33:00 - Different Types of Theater for Different People 33:50 - How Scott Rudin Murdered Beetlejuice 37:30 - Producing Filmed Theatre (The Last Five Years) During the Pandemic 42:00 - Live Theatre in Astoria #broadwaymemes #thelastfiveyears #slaveplay #producer #twittermemes #covid_19 #broadway #offbroadway #actor #brooklyn #plays #broadwayproducer #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #podcastlife #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #americantheatre #actor #actors #actorlife #nycactors #nycactor #musicaltheatre #musical #hamilton

Ahead of the Release of Round 27 of The 24 Hour Plays Viral Musicals, we release our conversation with the Artistic Director of The 24 Hour Plays, Mark Armstrong, which took place earlier this year at the Region Five Conference of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival. He discusses transforming his leadership and the vision of The 24 Hour Plays in the midst of a global pandemic by creating Viral Monologues featuring actors from a Broadway, film, and TV, and cultivating the Nationals Program into a more inclusive training grounds for emerging artists to meet future collaborators, and tells a slew of incredible stories such as actors performing on an ice sculpture in the American Airlines Theatre, and the importance of looking around you instead of looking up. #24hourplays #playwrightsofinstagram #director #artisticdirector #twittermemes #covid_19 #broadway #offbroadway #actor #brooklyn #noahgalvin #daveeddiggs #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #podcastlife #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #americantheatre #actor #actors #actorlife #nycactors #nycactor #musicaltheatre #musical #hamilton #hamiltonmemes

Joel Perez is an Award Winning Performer and Actor. His credits include Fun Home on Broadway, Jesus Christ Superstar on NBC, Stuck Elevator, John Leguizamo’s Kiss My Aztec, and most recently Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice at The New Group. Joel’s upcoming comedy special, PLAYING WITH MYSELF, at Ars Nova this summer with their CAMP Residency. Check out his countless bizarre characters in his Instagram reels at @misterjoelperez . His play The Black Beans Project he wrote with Melinda Lopez will stream on-demand May 11th with Huntington Theatre Company . He is a member of Broken Box Mime Theatre, Shiz Comedy and sketch group The Downstairs Party.

0:00 - Taking Control of Your Career During A Pandemic/UCB, Shiz, and Sketch Comedy

4:25 - Theaters Scrambling to Become Media Companies Throughout the pandemic

5:35 - The Pros and Cons of Developing Theatre Digitally

6:30 - Broken Box Mime Theater

8:00 - Distributing Theatre As Streaming Media in The Digital World

10:50 - Broadway is No Longer the Ticket

11:50 - Stories of Marginalized Communities on Broadway are Often Not Truthful

13:50 - Times Square is a Capitalist Mall Now

16:30 - Scott Rudin/The Beetlejuice Debacle/Give People the Space to Create on a Commercial Landscape

17:40 - The Universe of Joel Perez’s Instagram Reels @misterjoelperez 

18:45 - Joel’s Journey from Chemistry Major to Broadway Performer

22:00 - In the Heights National Tour 

24:10 - Developing Pain In My Aztec with John Leguizamo

25:30 - Refuting Latino Stereotypes in Theatre and Comedy 

27:00 - Improv World - Lack of Representation 

29:00 - Ars Nova Comedy Special Coming This June 

30:00 - Joel’s Loop Machine and Other Quarantine Hobbies

31:00 - How has Auditioning Evolved since you started

36:30 - Finding Your Chosen Family in the Industry

40:00 - Black Beans Project Streaming 5/11 at Huntington Theatre Company 

42:45 - Interrogating the Status Quo/Desire to have a Communal Experience of Joy

47:30 - Check Out Joel’s Work!!

48:30 - Squirrel Improv Theater; Equity, Transparency, Funny

#broadway #funhome #musicaltheatre #queercomedy #latinoactor #comedy #musicals #improv #sketch #intheheights #johnleguizamo #offbroadway #actor #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #podcastlife #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #anchorfm #blackbeans #cooking #mime #musicaltheater #sundance #shiz

TW: Shitty MIC Our guest/BK Baddie Alyssa Haddad is the playwright of Off White: Or the Arab House Party (Ticket Link), a post 9/11 Mean Girls play that premieres on Friday 4/16 at 6:30 at the Pre-Emerging Artists Festival. We chat about the prevelance of Anti-Arabism in our childhood, Missy Elliot then and now, The Amanda Show, the legacy of Nickelodeon, and lessons learned in quarantine. Check out our episode here, on Spotify/Apple Podcasts, and on our YouTube Channel. #playwrightsofinstagram #offwhite #lebanesewriters #twittermemes #covid_19 #broadway #offbroadway #actor #brooklyn #nickelodeon #theamandashow #missyelliot #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #podcastlife #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #americantheatre #actor #actors #actorlife #nycactors #nycactor

Our guest this week is Jesse James Keitel. They currently star as Jerrie Kennedy on Big Sky at 10/9 CT on ABC, and in that role they are making history as the first non binary series regular on Primetime Network Television. They are also a writer and an activist, recently speaking at the Human Rights Campaign’s LGBTQ+ Inaugural Event and is also known by their drag persona as Peroxide in the Haus of FemAnon, and featured in Vogue Print and NYFW’s Opening Ceremony. They have been featured in OutMagazine’s OUT100 for ushering in a new era of diversity for genderqueer on film and tv in performances on the series Younger and Alex Strangelove.  CHAPTERS:  0:00 Canada vs. US COVID Response 2:30 Keith and his national tour  5:45 Keith Growing Up in Long Island  8:00 Jesse Growing up Queer in Conservative LI 10:30 Fear of the Unknown 12:45 The Power of Good Television - Queerness is starting to be well received on TV  13:30 Trans & Queer Stories 15:40 Authenticity Equals a Stronger Product  17:00 Growing Up at Gateway Playhouse 19:00 Booking Auditions Means Trusting Your Gut 24:30 The Scariest Part of Booking Big Sky 30:00 Harboring On ‘Firsts’ Detracts From the Work That Still Needs To Be Done 31:30 The Biggest Issues Facing the Nonbinary and Trans Communities 35:45 Pronouns - The Word Preferential Makes it Seem like it is Okay to Use Something Instead 38:50 Labels Are For Cis People/Actor vs. Actress Label - Why is This a Binary? 41:00 Who Fought For The Privileges of The White Gaytriarchy 43:00 The Golden Globes Shitshow 44:00 Jesse On Writing Their Children’s Book/Pitching A Sci Fi Vehicle