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Forge Theater Labs

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Frequency: 1 episode/1d. Total Eps: 11

Our podcast series explores theater history, theatrical innovations, and perspectives from theater artists. Part scripted, part roundtable, part 1-on-1 interviews, we feature those who are shaping the future of the craft. Each season, we bring together artists from all over the world to reimagine how we can reach new audiences. Learn more about us at forgetheaterlabs.com. © 2025 Forge Theater Labs LLC. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction, redistribution, or use of this material is strictly prohibited. For licensing or partnership inquiries, contact: info@forgetheaterlabs.com

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🇺🇸 USA - Performing Arts
15/10/2025
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Guest Artist Compilation

Season 1 · Episode 10

Monday, October 13, 2025 • Duration 40:57

Episode 0.10 “GUEST ARTIST COMPILATION”

Record Date: Various

Air Date: Monday, October 13th, 2025

Hosted by Sam Rapaport

SYNOPSIS: On each of our live shows, we invite local Maine storytellers, musicians, and artists to share their work with us. At the end of each season, we compile their work here.

Featuring Amanda Eaton, Sam Fin Cutler, Parker Hough, Ryan Higgins, Cory Melancon, Tara McDonough, Megan Tripaldi, and Ashanti Williams

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Design-or-Bust: Life is a Dream

Season 1 · Episode 6

Monday, October 13, 2025 • Duration 01:15:25

SYNOPSIS:A crackpot team of director and designers has ONLY 90 minutes to design Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Can they make it?! See what they came up with by visiting forgetheaterlabs.com

Record Date: Wednesday, June 5th, 2025
Air Date: Monday, October 13th, 2025
Hosted by Joshua Hsu and Sam Rapaport
Featuring Liz Carlson, Christopher Sousa Wynn, and Elisha Griego

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Dangerous Art: Plato V. Sidney

Season 1 · Episode 3

Monday, October 13, 2025 • Duration 30:26

SYNOPSIS: We throw down with Plato and Sidney to see what constitutes “Dangerous Art” and the effects of the stories we tell. Maybe one is a Cylon after all.

Record Date: Sunday, April 27th, 2025
Air Date: Monday, October 13th, 2025
Brought to you in part by The Circular Series
Recorded Live at Cassidy Point, Portland, Maine.

Written by Andrew J. Henkes
Featuring Joshua Hsu, Maya Williams, Sam Rapaport, Jared Mongeau, and Mark Rubin

Featuring Music by Superorder

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, fictional or non-fictional, or actual events is purely coincidental and should be treated as parody.

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Back to the Greeks: Lysistrata Edition

Season 1 · Episode 2

Monday, October 13, 2025 • Duration 33:38

SYNOPSIS: Doc Brown arrives from the past to our dystopian future to bring Maya and Josh back to Ancient Greece to speak to the basis for Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, Lysimacha, and how to use theater for the greater good in these “unprecedented times.” The regime tries to take over our podcast and our ad breaks with AI Josh.

Record Date: Sunday, April 26th, 2025
Air Date: Monday, October 13th, 2025
Brought to you in part by The Circular Series
Recorded Live at Cassidy Point, Portland, Maine.

Written by Alicia Tycer
Featuring Joshua Hsu, Maya Williams, Mark Rubin, and Kendall Cooper
Featuring Music by Superorder, Conor Linehan, and Joe Beninati

DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, fictional or non-fictional, or actual events is purely coincidental and should be treated as parody.

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Counter/Current: Collective (Courtney Hayes and John Jurcheck)

Season 1 · Episode 4

Monday, October 13, 2025 • Duration 46:02

SYNOPSIS : Josh speaks to Counter/Current: Collective, Belfast ME’s newest theater company, about how they're finding ways to bring immersive theater to Maine, how they choose their shows, and their experience building a theater that’s rooted in community.

About Counter/Current: Collective: John and Courtney have been partners in life, art, and business for over 20 years, and recently founded Belfast's newest immersive theatre company, counter/current: collective, dedicated to bringing adventurous, thought-provoking theatre and dance to Midcoast Maine that inspires conversation and creates space for transformation. Find out more at www.becountercurrent.com.

Learn more about them: https://www.becountercurrent.com

Record Date: Thursday, May 29th, 2025
Air Date: Monday, October 13th, 2025
Hosted by Joshua N Hsu

Featuring Courtney Hayes and John Jurcheck

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Rogue Artists Ensemble (Chelsea Sutton)

Season 1 · Episode 8

Monday, October 13, 2025 • Duration 49:40

SYNOPSIS: Chelsea Sutton, interim artistic director at Rogue Artist Ensemble, and Josh explore how Rogue Artists Ensemble brings to life their hypertheatrical pieces with design at its inception. We explore how she and the Rogues approach the "Why Now" test to ensure their work stays relevant.

About Chelsea Sutton

Chelsea Sutton (she/her) is an LA-based writer and director. She’s a PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow, a graduate of the 2022 Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Workshop, and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside. Her macabre steampunk adaptation of Pinocchio written with Rogue Artists Ensemble, Wood Boy Dog Fish, appeared in the inaugural season at the Garry Marshall Theatre. She also co-wrote the Emmy-nominated Welcome to the Blumhouse Live, an interactive film event for Blumhouse/Amazon. She has worked with Rogue Artists Ensemble in Los Angeles for over 12 years, and is currently serving as the Interim Artistic Director; she previously served as Associate Artistic Director for two years and Marketing Manager for a decade before that. At Rogue she also co-founded the Rogue Lab New Play Incubator in 2018 with Lisa Sanaye Dring. Also a fiction writer, she has over 25 short stories published and her first novella is forthcoming February 2026 from Split/Lip Press

Record Date: Tuesday, July 17th, 2025
Air Date: Monday, October 13th, 2025
Hosted by Joshua Hsu
Featuring Chelsea Sutton

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The Inescapable Plot, Aristotle, and Kevin Bacon

Season 1 · Episode 1

Monday, October 13, 2025 • Duration 38:10

SYNOPSIS: Maya and Josh meet Aristotle and the inescapability of Aristotelian notions of plot and of Kevin Bacon movies.
Record Date: Sunday, April 13th, 2025
Air Date: Monday, October 13th, 2025
Brought to you in part by The Circular Series
Recorded live at Cassidy Point, Portland, Maine.

Written by Joshua N Hsu, Rachel Price Cooper, and Maya Williams

Featuring Joshua Hsu, Maya Williams, Sam Rapaport, and Jared Mongeau
Featuring Music by Superorder.

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A Dramaturgy Rountable: The Hell is a Dramaturg

Season 1 · Episode 9

Monday, October 13, 2025 • Duration 53:12

SYNOPSIS: Josh asks a team of dramaturgs and playwrights: how do we continue to build upon the roles dramaturgs have in established and new works? How can they better integrate with our teams? How do we nurture the next generation of dramaturgs?

Record Date: Tuesday, June 11th, 2025
Air Date: Monday, October 13th, 2025
Hosted by Joshua Hsu
Featuring John Patrick Bray, Andrew J. Henkes, Alicia Tycer, and Dr. Janna Segal

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Leland Faulkner

Season 1 · Episode 7

Monday, October 13, 2025 • Duration 58:41

SYNOPSIS: Josh speaks to Leland Faulkner, a former artistic director and former co-owner of Celebration Barn Theater in Maine, about his experience with experimentation and how to sustain the spirit of experimentation after all these years.

About Leland Faulkner

Leland Faulkner is an acclaimed performing artist with over thirty years of experience in theater and film. A master of visual storytelling, Leland has created original productions that have toured internationally, from Japan to Turkiye, Russia, Canada, and China. A pivotal chapter in Leland’s career began when he served as Artistic Director and co-owner of Celebration Barn Theater in Maine. There, he launched his journey as a teaching artist, curating intensive training forums that brought world-renowned masters of mime, movement, physical comedy, Commedia dell’arte, and voice to teach aspiring performers. His commitment to arts education grew through programs like Arts for Learning and the RAISE teaching artist initiative, and continues today with “The Kinetic Connection,” a virtual workshop series for professionals. Leland’s legacy includes directing award-winning stage works such as Shadowplay, recognized by the Kennedy Center, as well as innovative film and media projects, including the acclaimed The King O’ Cats and his contributions to The Polar Express. As both artist and educator, Leland Faulkner blends imagination, global experience, and a deep dedication to the transformative power of the arts.

Record Date: Tueday, June 17th, 2025
Air Date: Monday, October 13th, 2025
Hosted by Joshua Hsu
Featuring Leland Faulkner

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Reboot Theatre Company (Jasmine Joshua)

Season 1 · Episode 5

Monday, October 13, 2025 • Duration 53:31

SYNOPSIS: Maya and Josh speak to Jasmine Joshua (they/them) about their groundbreaking work with Reboot Theatre Company in Seattle, WA, their journey developing their new musical Here and Their, and how they go about choosing their next project

About Jasmine Joshua

Jasmine Joshua (they/them) is the founder and Artistic Director of Reboot Theatre Company, a queer and trans-focused company in Seattle. Jasmine graduated magna cum laude from UC Santa Cruz with a degree in Creative Writing. They studied with the Larry Moss Studio and the Groundlings. Directing credits: Book-It (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd); Intiman (The Mystery of Irma Vep); Reboot Theatre (Private Lives, Cabaret); Cafe Nordo (Down the Rabbit Hole, Christmas Killing at Corgi Cliffs); Annex (Gold); assistant director at 5th Avenue Theatre (Bliss); associate director at Village Theatre (XY, Sherwood). On stage: 5th Avenue Theatre, Village, Seattle Shakes, Seattle Public Theatre, Book-it, Intiman, Reboot, Seattle Musical Theatre. Jasmine is also a musical theatre writer and composer (And So That Happened, 5th Ave; Bread Crumbs, ACT and ArsNova), their musical Here and Their will premiere at 12th Avenue Arts in June 2025. Before moving to Seattle, Jasmine was a theatrical publicist in the Bay Area, managing clients from LORT theatres and Broadway tours to opera, ballet, and a monster truck rally. Learn more at www.jasminejoshua.com

Record Date: Wednedsay, June 18th, 2025
Air Date: Monday, October 13th, 2025
Hosted by Joshua Hsu and Maya Williams
Featuring Jasmine Joshua

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