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Monthly podcast featuring interviews with theatre professionals of all types--from playwrights to techies to producers. If it has to do with theatre--in any part of the world--we have it covered! We also do readings of short plays. Since 2013! #theatre #theater #playwriting #acting #directing #dramaturgy #producing. Questions? Comments? Email us at onstageoffstagepodcast@gmail.com!
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Monday Apr 01, 2024
#176: Marci J. Duncan & Kerry Sandell - "Dissonance"
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Monday Apr 01, 2024
Florida-based playwrights/actors/producers of the challenging hit play, "Dissonance," which begs the question, "Can a Black woman and a White woman--who have been friends for 20 years--have an honest, open conversation about race?" #theatre,#race,#friendship,#privilege,#dissonance, #equality, #blacklivesmatter, #racism, #whitefragility, #thisisamerica, #systemicracism, #blm, #america, #socialjustice
Friday Mar 01, 2024
#175: Dionne Lea
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Friday Mar 01, 2024
Dionne Lea is a Broadway World award nominated actor, singer, producer. She does improv, variety shows, theater, commercials, television, voice-over, film and is currently bringing her show "The Way It Is...Now," an evening of stories and musical numbers, around the united states to enthusiastic audiences. We have a great chat about so many different things--come tune us in!
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
#174: Ekaterina Wagner
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Thursday Feb 01, 2024
Ekaterina Wagner is a playwright, art critic, and editor based in Moscow, Russia. Her articles appeared in Robb Report, ELLE and other media outlets in Russia, Ukraine, and India. She worked as an editor and deputy editor-in-chief of several international publications in Russia, including ELLE Decoration, Harper’s Bazaar Art, and The Art Newspaper. She is currently a deputy editor-in-chief of Art Focus Now, an English-language website on contemporary art in Russia and its neighboring countries.
Monday Jan 01, 2024
#173 Playzoomers
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Monday Jan 01, 2024
Welcome to 2024! Jan Carpman and Mary Ann Nichols Hubbard are the movers and shakers behind Playzoomers, a live, online theatre company founded in 2020. They present over 20 full video plays per year on zoom - from full-length plays to multiple short plays – featuring professional theatre artists. As of this broadcast they will have produced and aired over 100 plays.
Friday Dec 01, 2023
#172: Anne Flammang
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Friday Dec 01, 2023
Anne is a true gift to the theatre community. Since 2015 she's run The Depot, a production company featuring Zoom play readings. We talk about teaching, her life in theatre, her writing, and the Coast Guard!
https://www.thedepot.space
#theatre #drama #teaching #writer #thedepot #coastguard #zoom
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
#171: Kelly McBurnette-Andronicos
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Wednesday Nov 01, 2023
Kelly is a playwright whose work explores various cultures and belief systems. Her full-length plays are about, as she says, women and events you’ve likely never heard of. She goes on to say that she's lived in a few different places, and enjoys getting to know a place through its often obscure history. She has at least one play for every region she's lived in.
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
#170: Play reading - Nothing to Declare /Michael Burgan
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
This month our guest is Michael Burgan, a playwright, novelist, and professional writer with over 250 published books. (We will explain that impressive number!) His short play, "Nothing to Declare," is our October '23 play selection. And we talk with Michael about his other work, including textbooks and “Celebrating Survival,” an evening of staged readings of short plays about cancer, benefitting the Cancer Foundation for New Mexico.
Friday Sep 01, 2023
#169: Play Reading - Yours / Christine Benvenuto
Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
In the waiting room of a DNA testing laboratory, Oliver and Larry meet to hear results of their DNA tests. Plus an interview with Christine Benvenuto.
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
#168: Sophie Vudakin
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
Tuesday Aug 01, 2023
is a playwright and junior in high school from Houston, Texas. I had the privilege of reading her play Tell Us Your Story (A Tale of Family Lost and Found) not long ago. Tell Us Your Story describes what it's like for one young woman when she discovers that her birth mother has been looking for her. Sophie is also a theatre enthusiast and has been learning all of what it takes to make the magic happen.
Saturday Jul 01, 2023
#167: Play Reading - For the Record / FJ Hartland
Saturday Jul 01, 2023
Saturday Jul 01, 2023
FJ Hartland is a playwright, director, and professional actor whose plays have won awards too numerous to mention. His play "For the Record," the next selection in our 2023 theme of Exploration, is a story of two people finding a way to connect and reach an understanding. Join us for a great conversation after the play!
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
#166: Play reading - Birthday Boat / Michele Markarian
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Thursday Jun 01, 2023
Playwright / reading. When is a gift worth twice as much? When it includes your partner and helps you conquer a phobia.
Facebook / Twitter / Unborn Children of America / Heuer Publications
Saturday May 27, 2023
#165: Midge Guerrera
Saturday May 27, 2023
Saturday May 27, 2023
Midge Guerrera is a playwright, blogger, travel consultant, memoirist, university education planner, arts management/public relations and much more. Our talk this month is chock full of stories, anecdotes, and inspiration.
midgeguerrera.com / New Play Exchange / Facebook / Cars, Castles, Cows, and Chaos / Nonna's Mulberry Tree
Over eleven years of podcasting!
Onstage/Offstage 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