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

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

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

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

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