The 29-Hour Podcast Podcast

The 29-Hour Podcast

Julia Meinwald & Sam Heldt
Conversations with theater actors, writers and directors hosted by Sam Heldt and Julia Meinwald.
#42: Season Two Finale
In this week's season finale mini-episode, Sam and Julia talk to each other about how the podcast has changed over its first two seasons, predictions for the next year, and all our angst over making reels for ourselves.
Nov 25, 2019
27 min
#41: Christiana Cole
This week we talk to performer and writer Christiana Cole about a career in opera performance as a war of attrition, the trickiness of inhabiting liminal identities, and the worst piece of advice she ever got.
Nov 11, 2019
1 hr 4 min
#40: Daniel K. Isaac
This week we talked with writer and performer Daniel K. Isaac about getting job offers via Instagram, writing autobiographically, and the moment you realize you can quit your day job.
Oct 28, 2019
59 min
#39: Austen Danielle Bohmer
This week we talk with performer Austen Danielle Bohmer about why to avoid explicit discussions about tone in the rehearsal process, how to identify a good human, and her recent performance with Sam in Fall Springs at Barrington Stage.
Oct 14, 2019
1 hr 2 min
#38: Max Chernin
This week we talk with performer Max Chernin about lessons learned from luminous castmates, setting the right tone in a rehearsal room, and what we're all hoping to find in Brooklyn.
Sep 30, 2019
1 hr 7 min
#37: Ellen Condon Macy
This week we talk with actress Ellen Condon Macy about finding a healthy way to emotionally connect with your performance, using Instagram to relieve artistic frustration, and the difference between confidence and arrogance. And nobody cries.
Sep 16, 2019
1 hr 1 min
#36: Evan Maltby
This week we talk with performer Evan Maltby about feeling like an imposter in musical theatre spaces, paths not taken backstage at Spring Awakenings, and whether our careers are more like snowballs or flowering tendrils.
Sep 2, 2019
1 hr 3 min
#35: Amina Henry
This week we talked with writer Amina Henry about naturalism and surrealism, multiple attempts to write her grandmother into a play, and our various reasons for avoiding vacations.
Aug 19, 2019
1 hr
#34: Hana Slevin
This week we talk with actress Hana Slevin about how to stand out on paper, choosing to move to NYC, and the difference between acting for stage and film.
Aug 5, 2019
55 min
#33: Chris Dimond
This week's conversation with writer Chris Dimond features his origin story with collaborator Michael Kooman, thoughts on balancing commercial viability with personal predilections, and a sneak peak at the new studio album for The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes.
Jul 22, 2019
1 hr 9 min
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