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A Star is Bored
by Keith Weiss
Keith Weiss is supposed to be touring theatre. Instead, he'll be cov-ersing on zoom with guests far too successful to be on this podcast. This will be distributed everywhere podcasts are available, but full video interviews of the interviews you're listening to can be found on our Instagram, @starisbored.pod
Episodes
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Jacob Ming Trent
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)....
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Felicia Boswell
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…
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Devina Sabnis
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...
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Eleri Ward (Recording Artist, Ghostlight Records)
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…
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Aaron Salazar
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...
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Blair Russell, Broadway Producer of Slave Play
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....
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Mark Armstrong, Artistic Director of The 24 Hour Plays
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…
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Joel Perez
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…
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Alyssa Haddad
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…
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Jesse James Keitel
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...
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Rachel Sussman at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
Rachel Sussman is a Tony-Nominated Creative Producer of critically acclaimed productions such as Pulitzer Finalist ‘What The Constitution Means To Me’ (Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video), The Woodsman, and Endlings at NYTW. This is our first episode in conjunction with the Kennedy Center’s...
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Michael Potts (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)
Michael Potts stars as Slow Drag in the film adaptatin of August Wilson's Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Now Streaming on Netflix, and will be starring in Prodigal Son on FOX. Spanning a 30 year career on stage and screen, his Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon, Grey Gardens, The Prom…
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Acting the Bong with Lesli Margherita
Lesli Margherita is an Olivier Award winning actress and has starred on Broadway in Dames At Sea, Matilda, as well as Emojiland. Her solo performance in Who's Holiday just streamed for BCEFA, she is currently appears in the Broadway Podcast Network's As the Curtain Rises, and is starring in the...
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Producers Roundtable w/ The 24 Hour Plays Nationals
Need a Roundtable About Ratatouille the Musical? I guess you do. Well you’ll have to find it in Episode 33, featuring the Producers from the 24 Hour Plays: Nationals Cohort where we promote their upcoming projects which include attempting breaking world records, producing podcasts, trivia nights,...
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Flipping the Senate with Ari Afsar and Erin Ortman
We sit with the composer of Jeannette: the Musical, Hamilton star and American Idol Semi-Finalist Ari Afsar, and director Erin Ortman to discuss the inclusivity of their work, dismantling hierarchy in theatre, separating your ego from your collaboration, and enlisting young musical theatre fans…
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Choppin it Up with Delores Pereira
Delores Pereira @queen_davery is an actress and finalist in the Ya Tu Sabes Monologue Slam from NBC, where you watch her work on FB Watch TONIGHT at 8:30 on December 9th. We discuss our work fighting the labor injustices and erasure of the Resident Artists of the Flea Theater and the formation of...
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Merlixse Ventura, Little Veras, Dilson Hernandez from The Dominican Artists Collective
The Cooking Project by the Dominican Artists Collective Is Available to Stream until 12/15. https://www.nytw.org/show/the-cooking-project/tickets/ Highlights : 1:50 Cooking Project Process 3:06 Cooking with these ingredients and now we got a meal 4:45 The first time domincan artists have come...
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Creative Team of ‘and we will eat your grief’
I sit down with Ryan Duncan-Ayala, Executive Director of RDA Producing, Annika Perez Krikorian, and Abe Johnson, the playwright of ‘and we will eat your grief.’ We discuss writing plays about middle school, how we each got into theatre, the election, the sad lyrics of pop stars that we only…
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A Star Must Vote: Rory Pelsue
We are BACK THIS WEEK after a long hiatus. Tonight’s episode will be available on our podcast platforms, and features a conversation w/ Rory Pelsue, Co Director of the play CIRCLE JERK by Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley, currently streaming until November 7th. We talk about gay meme culture,...
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Asmeret Ghebremichael
Amidst her recent Forbes profile and BroadwayNews op-ed (links in the bio), Asmeret can be seen on the new BBC series GET EVEN now streaming on Netflix, she starred on Broadway as Nabalungi in Book of Mormon and in the West End alongside Amber Riley in Dreamgirls. We discuss how speaking up and...
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Tay Bass, Malik E. Childs, Ryan Dobrin
Add Episode 25 to the queue with belated birthday queen actress Tay Bass, whose performance in meet you at the Galaxy Diner by Gina Femia can be seen for two more days at the link in the bio, and my 24 Hour Plays: Nationals fam, her boo actor Malik E. Childs, who will be making his major...
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Garlia Cornelia Jones, Gina Femia, Will Steinberger
Will and Gina are the creative team behind the upcoming co-production from New Light Theatre Company/The Tank of 'meet you at the Galaxy Diner' on August 21st and be on demand on Cybertank until the 27th. Garlia is producing an exciting the annual theatre festival 48 Hours in Harlem which you can...
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Maia Kinney-Petrucha and Susannah Holub
ASIB Presents our Sister Podcast Series, where we interview pods run by friends of the show. These podcasts make us better and we’re proud to share them with you! We are thrilled to introduce, to some, The OCDiaries, hosted by Maia Kinney-Petrucha and Susannah Holub. The OCDiaries is a podcast…
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Gregg Mozgala and A.A. Brenner
A.A. Brenner and Gregg Mozgala are the Playwrights of Emily Driver’s Great Race Through Time and Space, which was selected for the Kilroys, premiered at La Jolla Playhouse in January, and the reading with the original cast of this play will be streaming at queenstheatre.org until the end of the…
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Renee Harrison
We hung out with Renee Harrison to talk about her social media brand, @blackgirlsdotheater , The Flea, BLM, how black women are treated in the industry, Debbie Allen, the difference between theatre and theater, and so much more!
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Zhengisode: Finessin’ with David Zheng
David Zheng came thru to talk about his Fellowship at NYTW and his Residency at the O’Neill Center, where he is developing Kidnapping Jane Doe, a dank ass play that was presented at the end of his residency at the Public Theater. David talks the importance of finesse, starting out writing out of...
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Birthday JAM with John-Andrew Morrison
My friend Tom Meglio and I hang with birthday boy and actor John-Andrew Morrison, who most recently won a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical for his work in A STRANGE LOOP and also received an Antonyo Award nomination. He and James Jackson Jr. have an IGTV series...
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L Morgan Lee
L Morgan Lee is an actress and photographer best known for originating Thought #1 in A Strange Loop, for which she snagged a Lucille Lortel Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. You can see her work on the @24hourplays Instagram, Playbill.com. We talked about taking power over...
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Juwan Crawley
Keith and Mariah hang out with Actor and recording artist Juwan Crawley who’s played the Genie 🧞♂️ in Aladdin on Broadway where they talk about his recent EP BECOMING, Black Lives Matter, different levels of complicity, fashion, Tyler Perry, Ryan Murphy, and more! #aladdin #blacklivesmatter...
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Shakin’ the Table with Jordan E. Cooper
I hung out with Jordan E. Cooper, who was recently nominated for an Antonyo Award for his short film Mama Got a Cough starring Danielle Brooks, and recently started in his play Ain’t No Mo’ at The Public Theater last Spring. We discuss predicting the queer future, how Black people aren’t made to...
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Burn It Down! — THE PRIDE PODCASTS — Writer’s Roundtable
Part Two of our Writer’s Roundtable continues Cristina Pitter (24 Hour Plays, The Ashe Collective), Mykal Monroe (HBO’s Insecure), A.A. Brenner (La Jolla Playhouse), and Johnny Lloyd (The Tank/Inversion Theatre), where we discuss surviving grad school, advocating for yourself, body positivity…
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THE PRIDE PODCASTS: Writer’s Roundtable (Part 1/2)
Our guests are all interdisciplinary artists that wear multiple hats besides writers including dramaturg, director, painter, and producer. Cristina Pitter (24 Hour Plays, The Ashe Collective), Mykal Monroe (HBO’s Insecure), A.A. Brenner (La Jolla Playhouse), and Johnny Lloyd (The Tank/Inversion...
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Michael R. Jackson Has Some BIG Questions
On our Inaugural Episode of THE PRIDE PODCASTS, Michael R. Jackson is the first Black Gay man to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his musical A Strange Loop, which premiered at Playwrights Horizons last summer, and its cast recording is available on Spotify and Apple Music. The show won 5…
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Allyhood and Effecting Social Change with Broadway Actress Carolina Do (Linda Vista, Grand Horizons)
Donate to bail funds here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd I spent this amazing hour doing a lot of shutting up, and listening. My producer Mariah Cameron leads an incredible conversation with Carolina Do, where we discuss becoming a constructive ally, where we discuss...
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Fishing, Costco, and a Lifetime of Theatre with Chuck Cooper
Broadway veteran Chuck Cooper brings us to the porch of his lakeside tavern In New Jersey. We talk about getting into Costco, getting into show business, understudying Gregory Hines, the timelessness of August Wilson, what makes a successful Chekhov adaptation, the power of doing nothing on…
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Sir Gregolas in the Building: The Gregisode
Keith sits down with his former college roommate Greg Lakhan, an Actor-Rapper-Director-Editor-Playwright who is best known for his rapper altar-ego Sir Gregolas and currently in his second year with the NYC Neo Futurists. He also runs a production company with Mike Santee called Amusement…
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Jess Darrow Has a Dark Secret
Jess Darrow is an actress, comedian, and songwriter from Miami. She is currently a member of the Resident Acting Company, The Bats, at the Flea Theater. She recently appeared in her first feature film, Feast of the Seven Fishes. We sat down Bat to Bat for a dank dialogue her latest single ‘Da…
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Blocked By Kirstie Alley on Twitter; Praised for A Lifetime: The James Jackson Jr. Story
Ahead of producing A STRANGE LOOP REUNION SPECIAL on Facebook this Friday 5/15 at 7pm, James Jackson Jr. sat down with Mariah and I to talk about the universal impact of A Strange Loop, breaking into the ether of the NY theatre, cabarets, our qualms with Ryan Murphy, Tyler Perry, and of course,...
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Blair Goldberg Balances Broadway and Babies
We snagged another one of my fellow Plainview native Blair Goldberg (Kinky Boots, Carrie, Broadway Baby Mama’s) who chatted with me about Motherhood, auditioning, Broadway Baby Mama’s, Kinky Boots, being on Broadway at 9 years old, and our mutual love for a certain High School Choir teacher.…
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Kaitlyn Herman and Tommy Bracco Manifest The Truth Bro!
Expect the Unexpected! Episode 7 is a Big Brother Crossover Episode with Kaitlyn Herman and Tommy Bracco dropping Thursday at Noon. We talk New York, the game of Big Brother, our respective native islands, spirituality, the power of manifestation, and going back to school
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Gabrielle Ruiz is SO New York
We had a blast with Broadway and TV’s Gabrielle Ruiz. Ahead of her @gethappyhour performance on 5/5 at 8pmEST, we talk about proving yourself in the moments that count, NY vs. LA, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, her Broadway debut, showmances, her friendship with Lin-Manuel Miranda, A Chorus Line, and much...
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Shower Tears with Brando Crawford (Acting for A Cause) and Caturah Brown (Online Theatre Company)
Chris and I sit down with two theatre artists who have spent their quarantine cultivating their own theatre companies: Caturah Brown, of Online Theatre Company, and Brandon Crawford, Executive Director and Producer of Acting For a Cause. We talk about what it takes in this ‘Rona Age to use one’s...
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Crowns and Balloons with Raja Feather Kelly
Raja Feather Kelly is an award winning choreographer and director and the Artistic Director of The Feath3r Theory and the New Brooklyn Theatre. He was just nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award for A STRANGE LOOP, and is known for his work Off-Broadway, choreographed the Pulitzer Prize- winning...
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Taste the Rainbow with SkittLeZ (Shit Spanish Girls Say, High Maintenance)
SkittLeZ is an actor, vocalist, music educator, content creator, and the CEO of SkittLeZMusicTV, and best known for their appearences on HIGH MAINTENANCE on HBO and SHIT SPANISH GIRLS SAY, which has 8.8 million views on YouTube. SkittLeZ gets real with the gang about being a public school…
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THE GANG GETS LIT fo’ twenty hourz
Chris and Keith (and eventually Mariah) interview our beautiful panel of 4/20 patronage: Gabriella Marzetta (Dawn in Waitress Nt'l Tour), Michael Nigro (The Sound of Music: Live), Jacen Ziev (The Naked Truth), and Gabriel Florentino (Old Man & The Sea). Among topics discussed are…
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JOSH LAMON ft. the Cookie Dough Boyz
Josh Lamon is an actor and podcast host that the NY Times called "delicious(ly campy)". Before his acclaimed work in Emojiland at the Duke on on 42nd Street, he recently starred as Sheldon in The Prom on Broadway (which was nominated for 7 2019 Tony Awards including best musical). Josh made his...
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Keith Weiss is supposed to be touring theatre. Instead, he'll be cov-ersing on zoom with guests far too successful to be on this podcast. This will be distributed everywhere podcasts are available, but full video interviews of the interviews you're listening to can be found on our Instagram, @starisbored.pod
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