Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast
Monthly podcast featuring interviews with theatre professionals from around the world. If it has to do with theatre, we have it covered! We also do readings of short plays. Since 2013! Please make sure to download your favorite episodes! Questions? Comments? Email us at onstageoffstagepodcast@gmail.com!
Episodes

Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
#192: Cris Eli Blak
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Tuesday Jul 01, 2025
Cris Eli Blak is an emerging proud Black playwright and screenwriter whose work has been performed and produced around the world, from Off-Broadway; across the United States; on university stages; as well as in London, Australia, Ireland, and Canada.He is the winner of the first Black Broadway Men Playwriting Intiative, the winner of the 2024 Charles M. Getchell New Play Award, and the first place winner of Atlanta Shakespeare Company's inaugural Muse of Fire BIPOC Playwriting Fesitval. His short play, “Impact Turn,” was an immediate standout in the tidal wave of submissions for our 2025 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion plays.
Cris's Website | Facebook | Instagram

Sunday Jun 01, 2025
#191: Laura Shamas / Harriette Feliz
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Sunday Jun 01, 2025
Our guests are playwright Laura Shamas and multidisciplinary artist Harriette Feliz, who are here to talk about Laura's play “Four Women in Red” which recently finished a run at the Victory Theatre in Burbank, CA. Harriette is one of the four cast members. “Four Women in Red” addresses the ongoing epidemic of violence against Native American women. Some of the material in this podcast may be unsettling to some audience members.
"Four Women in Red" review
Dept. of Interior - Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples
Dept. of Interior - Not Invisible Act Commission

Thursday May 01, 2025
#190: Philip Middleton Williams
Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
Philip Middleton WIlliams has been produced around the world and published in many anthologies and seven of his plays by Next Stage Press. He has an MFA in playwriting from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in playwriting and dramatic criticism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He also serves on the national advisory board of the William Inge Theatre Festival and the board of directors of the Midwest Dramatists Center.
Philip's website / Facebook / New Play Exchange

Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
#189: Diane Quinn and Bill Fuller - Unseen Theatre
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
Tuesday Apr 01, 2025
This month's guests are Diane Quinn and Bill Fuller, co-founders and driving force behind Unseen Theatre, an audio podcast showcasing (unproduced), original plays, featuring---something very much after my own heart---strong female protagonists, performed by SAG-AFTRA actors. Diane is Artistic Director/Co-Producer, and also has been an actor and playwright for Unseen Theatre, (and is additionally the podcast's marketing director). Bill, her Co-Producer, audio engineers every sonic second, composes and arranges the podcast's original music,(and handles web design, graphics) and is also a playwright.
Unseen Theatre websiteBill's website
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For the Full Festival listening for all the productions heard at the UK International Audio Drama Festival

Saturday Mar 01, 2025
#188: Svetlana Arestova
Saturday Mar 01, 2025
Saturday Mar 01, 2025
Svetlana Arestova is a literary translator and professor of translation at HSE University in Moscow, Russia. Her list of accomplishments is extensive, including translations of books by Andrew Sean Greer, Daniel Mason and Elizabeth Strout. We talk about the intricacies of translating not just words, but intent, meaning, and finding ways to make the differences of two linguistic cultures meet, especially for rthe genre of theatre, where the words—or is it the story?--are paramount.
Find her on Facebook!
#translation #playwriting #theatre #russian #svetlanaarestova

Saturday Feb 01, 2025
#187: Scott C. Sickles
Saturday Feb 01, 2025
Saturday Feb 01, 2025
Scott is an LGBTQ/neurodivergent/biracial Korean American writer. He has received five consecutive Writers Guild of America Awards for the daytime serial General Hospital, and numerous Emmy Award nominations. For over thirty years, his plays have been performed in New York City, his native Pittsburgh, across the United States, as well as internationally in Canada, Australia, the UK, Hungary, Singapore, Indonesia, Lebanon, and Dubai. His "Second World Trilogy," a speculative alt-history political/environmental love story, consists of three full-length plays spanning nearly 50 years. In addition, his sequence of short plays, "Playing on the Periphery," which tells the story of four LGBTQ+ third-graders, was previously presented as a concert reading by Reading Theatre Project, deep in red Pennsylvania. Monologues and scenes from the piece have been performed in “Don’t Say Gay” Florida.
Scott's website / Instagram / New Play Exchange

Wednesday Jan 01, 2025
#186: Gene Kato
Wednesday Jan 01, 2025
Wednesday Jan 01, 2025
Gene Kato is the mastermind behind Next Stage Press, an online boutique publishing house that has grown exponentially over the past few years. Gene has singlehandedly created a showroom for hundreds of playwrights to market their creative opuses. A lively, fun interview with lots to talk about!
NPX / X / Facebook / Genekato.com
#genekato #publishing #playwriting #theatre #nextstagepress

Sunday Dec 01, 2024
#185: Play reading - Joey - Donald Loftus
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Sunday Dec 01, 2024
Donald Loftus is a playwright/lyricist whose work has been performed around the globe and is one of the masterminds behind the online play reading group New York Pages. He's has written the book and lyrics to several musicals (Abbey Victoria, Pollyanna, ‘Round Duffy Square, and Illusion), and his one-acts have been presented in over 100 play festivals around the country. Donald's play “Joey” is the last of our 2024 Missing Home series.
DonaldLoftus.com / New Play Exchange
Facebook / Playwright's Center

Friday Nov 01, 2024
#184: Play reading - Melting the Ice - JB Alexander
Friday Nov 01, 2024
Friday Nov 01, 2024
JB Alexander is a playwright, an actor, and sometimes he directs. This month we present his exceptional play “Melting the Ice,” a face-off between an ICE officer and a lawyer who won't take no for an answer. This is the third in our 2024 "Missing Home” series.
#jbalexander #playwriting #theatre #ice #detention #separatedfamily #refugees #immigration

Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
#183: Play reading - "Where Do We Go?" / Raymond Alvin
Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
Tuesday Oct 15, 2024
Danny's on the run and hiding out from a guy who should never have been crossed. Good thing he's got his best friend Charlie with him. Featuring Sean Kimber as Danny and George Sapio as Charlie. Plus, we have a very down-to-Earth talk with the playwright, Raymond Alvin. Come join us!
Raymond's Facebook page

Over twelve years of podcasting!
Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast brings you interviews with theatre professionals of every kind and from all corners of the world.
George Sapio is a playwright, director, producer, actor, and dramaturg. Oatmeal and a Cigarette is published by Broadway Play Publishing. Fault Lines, a comedic full-length, is published by Next Stage Press. Several shorter plays appear in “Best of” anthologies.
He wrote Workshopping the New Play: A Guide for Playwrights, Directors, and Dramaturgs, published by Globe Pequot.
Website: www.gsapio.com