Explore every episode of the podcast Call Time with Katie Birenboim

Katie checks in with former Artistic Director of City Center Encores! and Creative Director/Senior Vice President of Jujamcyn Theaters, Jack Viertel, about his new theatre-centric novel, Broadway Melody.

Katie checks in with Artistic Director (and former principal dancer) of Smuin Contemporary Ballet, Celia Fushille.

Katie checks in with writer (One Story, the Boston Review, PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize), translator (Asymptote, Columbia Journal, The Boy from Clearwater), and former employee of world-renowned visual artist, Cai Guo-Qiang, Lin King.

Katie checks in with the CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, founder of Giving Tuesday, former Executive Director of the 92nd Street Y, and author of New Power, Henry Timms.

Katie checks in with commercial producer, Eric Cornell (Co-Producer: Oklahoma!, To Kill a Mockingbird, What the Constitution Means to Me, Head Over Heels, Hello Dolly! First National Tour; Executive Producer: Anastasia, Rocky; Upcoming: Anne of Green Gables).

Katie checks in with actor (The Visit on Broadway; Which Way to the Stage Off-Broadway; The Beauty and the Baker on ABC; Gotham on Fox; upcoming: Nine at the Kennedy Center), Michelle Veintimilla.

Katie checks in with Broadway drummer (Mr. Saturday Night, KPOP; subs for MJ the Musical, & Juliet, Titanique), Jesse-Ray Leich.

Katie checks in with performer Allison Bailey, known for her role as Glinda in the National Tour of Wicked (and Glinda standby on Broadway).

Katie checks in with dancer, actor, and singer (Broadway: Mean Girls, Finding Neverland; Mean Girls & Hamilton National Tours), Ixchel Cuellar.

Katie checks in with music director, music supervisor, conductor, and pianist (associate conductor/keys 2 for Gutenberg!, assistant conductor/keys 3 for The Who's Tommy, and associate music director/lyric dramaturg for KPOP on Broadway; The Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Picnic at Hanging Rock; Anne of Green Gables), Amanda Morton.

Katie checks in with actor, Eli Mayer (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Barrington Stage, the MUNY, Ride the Cyclone at Arena Stage and McCarter Theatre Center, and currently Reuven in The Chosen at Cincinatti Playhouse).

Katie checks in with actor (My Name is Asher Lev, A Bronx Tale, Fiddler on the Roof, and Annie National Tours) and musician (West Side Waltz and the Voxies), Stefanie Londino.

Katie checks in with choreographer (Funny Girl, Mr. Saturday Night, Grey House on Broadway; Little Shop of Horrors, Kate Hamill's Pride and Prejudice, Jeremy O'Harris' Black Exhibition, Titanique Off Broadway) and director (upcoming: The Lonely Few, with Tripp Cullman), Ellenore Scott.

Katie has a roundtable discussion with director & choreographer, Eamon Foley, and star, Talia Suskauer, of the upcoming Sunday in the Park with George at Axelrod Performing Arts Center, a production which she is co-producing.

Katie checks in with actor (13 on Broadway, Sunday in the Park with George at Pasadena Playhouse, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Geffen, The Good Wife, Riverdale, The Little Mermaid Live!), director, and writer (The Mediator, The Bygone, and Rumble Through the Dark), Graham Phillips.

Katie checks in with set designer (Broadway: Cost of Living, Pass Over, Next Fall; Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, Roundabout, and more; Lortel and Drama Desk nominations), Wilson Chin.

Katie checks in with director and theatre maker (associate on Sabbath's Theater, Invincible the Musical; The Apostle Peter and His Lover John Also an Apostle; Notes From the Basement; 2022 member of Directors’ Lab North; one of New York Jewish Week’s “36 to Watch" 2022), Molly Rose Heller.

Katie checks in with former actor and director, arts manager (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arts West), and author, Alan Harrison, on his new book, Scene Change: Why Today's Non-Profit Arts Organizations Have to Stop Producing Art and Start Producing Impact.

Katie checks in with actor and singer (Annie National Tour, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Burn the Floor, Walnut Street Theatre), Julia Nicole Hunter.

Katie checks in with actor (Life After, The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation) and singer/songwriter (Morninglory music), Livvy Marcus.

Katie discusses Shy: the Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers (available everywhere) with its co-author, and Chief Theatre Critic for The New York Times, Jesse Green.

Katie checks in with NAACP and Fred Astaire award-winning Broadway choreographer (Motown the Musical, A Night with Janis Joplin, Annie National Tour), Patti Wilcox.

Katie checks in with screenwriter and director (Francophrenia (or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is), Burn Country, and Slow Machine -- Rotterdam, Viennale, and New York Film Festivals), Paul Felten.

Katie checks in with music director, pianist, orchestrator, and educator (Berkshire Theatre Group, the MUNY, Opera Memphis, the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition, developmental teams for Oklahoma! (2019) and Hadestown), Jacob Kerzner.

Katie checks in with actor (Les Miz National Tour and on Broadway, Phantom of the Opera National Tour, Stages St. Louis, Goodspeed Opera House, Tuacahn, Theatre Works Palo Alto, and more), Edward Juvier.

Katie checks in with former actor (Annie, The Heiress, Ah, Wilderness!, Little Darlings) and Drama Desk, Lortel, and SDC Joe A. Callaway Award nominated director (Annie National Tour, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Hartford Stage, Pioneer Theatre Company, Mint Theatre Company), Jenn Thompson.

Katie reflects on the late, great Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist for Broadway masterpieces like Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me, Fiorello!, The Apple Tree, and more.

Katie checks in with Broadway star (Damn Yankees, Song and Dance, Cats, Steel Pier, Annie Get Your Gun, Elf, Tuck Everlasting, Kimberly Akimbo), Valerie Wright.

Katie checks in with star of Wicked on Broadway (Elphaba), Be More Chill on Broadway, and, currently, Gypsy at Goodspeed Opera House (Louise), Talia Suskauer.

Katie checks in with former Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at American Express, former Executive Director of Second Stage Theater, and current Executive Director of Signature Theatre, Timothy J. McClimon.

Katie checks in with dancer, choreographer, and founder of Shades Dance Theater, Cameron Terry.

Katie checks in with playwright (Great Plains Theatre Conference Selection, Edward F. Albee Fellow, Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellow, upcoming: Brainsmash at 59E59) and writer (New York Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly), Sophie Weisskoff.

Katie checks in with dancer and performing artist (Broadway's Jagged Little Pill, Lohengrin and The Hours at the Metropolitan Opera, Vogue World for New York Fashion Week, and more), Runako Campbell.

Katie checks in with Ryan Steele (Broadway's Newsies, Carousel, Matilda, and more) and Gaby Diaz (winner of So You Think You Can Dance season 12, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, Tick Tick Boom), both of whom recently starred in MCC's dance musical Only Gold.

Katie checks in with theatre maker, co-Artistic Director of Nightdrive (Thank You Sorry, The Grown-Ups), and illusions and magic associate at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child US, Skylar Fox.

Katie checks in with former dancer and actor (50th anniversary West Side Story national tour, Goodspeed Opera House, TUTS) and assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Duke University, as well as the author of the forthcoming book, Broadway Bodies (available February 10), Ryan Donovan.

Katie checks in with arts marketer (The Vineyard Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Premiere Consulting Group China), Bella Wang.

Katie checks in with journalist (Deputy Editor of Impact and Innovation at the Huffington Post, Editor of Tech at Mic, Editor at the New York Times' branded content studio T Brand, Editor for Axios' in-house branded content studio, Smart Brevity Studio) and comedian, Alexis Kleinman.

Katie checks in with dancer and choreographer (currently: Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz; previously: YC2, TL Collective, Springboard Dance Montreal), Alexander Quetell. Photo of Alexander by Philipp Romer.

Katie checks in with dancer and arts administrator (American Ballet Theatre, Jacob's Pillow, Liam Francis), Sophie Blue.

Katie checks in with former Broadway dancer (On the Town, Memphis, Cinderella, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), producer of NY1's "On Stage" program and the PBS documentary Reopening: The Broadway Revival, and current owner/producer/director of the production company, Ordinary Sunday, Cody Williams.

Katie checks in with senior consultant at Capacity Interactive, the premier digital marketing consulting firm for culture and the arts, and her professor at NYU, Jane Whitty.

Katie checks in with actor of stage (St. Louis Rep, Barrington Stage, Arden Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, the Mint, the Metropolitan Opera) and screen (Law and Order: SVU, The Good Fight, Elementary, Gossip Girl), Peterson Townsend.

Katie checks in with former director of public engagement at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, former public relations director for The Drawing Center, former director of development and communications for Socrates Sculpture Park, and current Executive Director of the Asian American Arts Alliance, Lisa Gold.

Katie checks in with actor, writer, and co-founder/co-Artistic Director of The Hearth, a theatre company dedicated to stories by, about, and for women and other under-represented genders, Julia Greer.

Katie checks in with actor (the Mint Theater Company, The York Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group, Barrington Stage, Goodspeed Opera House, Theatre Works Hartford, Law & Order SVU), Claire Saunders.

Katie checks in with Artistic Director and Producer of the Mint Theater, Jonathan Bank.

In this special episode, Katie focuses on the development of a new, boundary and genre-pushing "photographic play," Horrors of the Heart, written and directed by her NYU classmate Hunter Carrico, and produced by Bad Behavior Lab.

Katie checks in with production manager (Signature Theatre, Aspen Opera Theater Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Gotham Chamber Opera), co-founder of Intuitive Production Management, and curator of the American Packard Museum, Rob Signom.

Katie checks in with actor (Royal Shakespeare Company, War Horse, Cymbeline, The Audience, and The Utopia Trilogy on Broadway) and composer (music for over 30 theatrical productions), Anthony Cochrane.