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Songs for the Struggling Artist — 524 episodes
Three Questions I Was Asked Recently
When the Wind Is With You
Circumspection Around My Work
The Dabbler Economy
The Stink and The Sparkle
Like a Dog on a Roof
They Can't Take It From Me
Ladies First Should Have Been a Better Movie
Yes, I Know Substack Is Problematic
Shakespeare's Wife
The Roller Coaster of Supporting an Artist
Rebroadcast: Gen X - Stuck in the Middle with You
MOB Dress
Best Actor/Actress Ratios at the Oscars
A Spaghetti Junction of Milestones
The Angle Is Women
Sign Your Name
Why I Got Weird About Medusa
Inside a Big Win
Re-Broadcast of Awards Cost Money
A Decade of Podcasting
What Happened to First Night?
Re-Broadcast of Episode Three - Why Going Away for Inspiration Is a Good Idea
Pronounce "Queens"
Chalamet Gate
Acting Is Embarrassing
The Credulous and the Scammed
Preparing for Editing
A Clown Teacher Exits
Dealing with Egotistical Narcissistic A**holes
Theatre, Epstein and Me, Two Degrees Away
Networking Tips
A Book Called Theatre (With Very Little Theatre)
Comments on The Heroine's Journey
Health Care Every Year
Giving Tuesday
This Show Needed Gertrude Stein
Further Thoughts on Type
Seven Pages in the New Yorker
A Cultural Misreading of TV
Women's Business
My Type
My Local Race Goes International (Or, Mamdani and Simotas)
My Art Won't Buy Me a Car
A Blurry Line Between Art and Advertising
Money and the Little Guys in Podcasting
Artists as Planes
The Difference Between a Play and a Podcast
Sending Postcards
Evelyn Waugh HATED Picasso
This Is Part of the Art
Good Will Is Good Currency
We Are the Test Subjects
The Fitzgeralds' Laundry
The Limits of My Imagination
Rebroadcast of Get Out of the Boom Boom Room
Back at the Buccaneers Well
What I'm Really Ambitious For
Retrograde Musical Theatre
The Cost of an Audio Drama
Yes I Am Glad. But Also...
"Get a Job"
Fine Young Ladies
Quality and the Reach for Greatness
Letting Go of Perfection
The Tedium Scale
Gen X Podcasts
An Obdurate Donkey
Twenty Smiles a Day
John Proctor Is the Villain Made Me Cry
Yes Of Course I Feel Bad About the NEA Stuff
This Forwardness Makes Our Hopes Fair
Kill Your First Born
I'm Worried About the Coffee
Arts and Charity
Federal Arts Funding
Choreography for Kids
Forgetting Feminist History
Wave Him Through
Not Into Politics
My Computer's New Nickname
I Went to See a Play About a Quilt
Tips for Structuring a Creative Life
The Song That Broke the Dam
Monologue from a 1913 Suffrage Meeting
Will This Residency Be Kind?
Sh*t Bag Shelf
Discoverability Is the Issue
What Should We Do With All This Bad Art?
America Hates Women a Lot More than I Realized - Or, Thoughts from the First Week, Post-Election
The Little Sister Effect
Trying to Write the Day After the Election
The Canon Is Stuck
Something I Was Thinking About On Election Day 2024
An Ode to Professor Bobo
The Resistance Will Be Recycled
Please Don't Start Your Play Like This
What Can I Say to Keep You from Putting Your Finger in that Socket?
I Am Not Compliant
My Laptop Is in Memphis
What We Store, What We Delete
Apple Seems to Be Getting into My Business
"Can You Make a Living Doing That?"
I Let You Down SInéad
Missing Writing Practice
A Goggle Story
I Finally Saw Purple Rain
Tips for the Rejected from Someone Oft Rejected
Female Opt Out
Writing in a Beautiful Place
A Day at the End of May
A Different Measure of Success
Print This for Extra Comprehension
Something Familiar About this Russian Show
Signature Strengths Seem Neat But Confusing
Boxed Up Knowledge
Poor Things AKA Sexy Baby Lady Frankenstein
I Would Accept that Time Travel Invitation
Documentary Theatre in a Documentary
Social Media Silos
"I Don't Do Zoom"
What's Next?
Promotional Tips for Everything
Click the Clicks You Want to See in the World
Is Anger a Symptom of COVID 19?
Working on a Theme
Are They Trying to Go Out of Business?
It's the Indifference that Will Get You
Whisper Acting
An Indie Theatre Person Visits Some Casting Sites
Rebroadcast of Performing Arts Going Dark
Your Favorite Feminist Killjoy Goes to See Six, The Musical
Introducing The Defense
It Is So Much Easier to Not Make Things
Rebroadcast of I Am a Dragon Now. The Fear of Men Is My Food.
Rebroadcast of The Glamour of Grammys - Ep 82
SEO Is So Dumb
Some Good News for Some Friends, From the Future
Timeline Confusion on a TV Show
An AI Dilemma (in Podcasting and Beyond)
Welcome to My Grant Info Session
How I Became the #4 Singer-Songwriter in Queens
I May Have Listened to My Last Wrongful Conviction Podcast
Spotify Is Acting Like a Cartoon Villain
Questioning My Sense of History - Or, Some Historical Inquiry Inspired by Deutschland 83
Some Actor Training You Don't Get in School
I Wish Lockwood and Co Would Give George a Break
More Empress Elisabeth Rage Content (Or, Yes, I Watched Corsage)
Why Are You Wasting Your Time Directing?
Can Businesses Do the Business They Do, Please?
Writers Aren't Magic
Productivity and the Arts
Wait, A Playwright Is an Artist?!
The Mysterious Disappearance of My Local Arts Council
Feminist Art Might Mean Something Different to Us
Was the Residency Productive?
Emily Is Fun
The One Thing I Might Have in Common with Ron DeSantis
In Praise of Medicines
Internet Memories and Fandoms
Some Passport Drama (A Piece in Three Locations)
Joining the Under the Radar Mourners
The Answer Is Magnets
Rebroadcast of Still Waiting to Be Discovered
Rebroadcast of Art, Entertainment and Spongebob Squarepants
You Just Don't Get It, Do You?
Bring Those Knees In, Boys!
Rebroadcast of Ideas, Glitter and Places to Put Them
Replay -Screaming Songs for Men
A Nugget of an Idea
Some Secrets of a Migraine Life
Part Two of Lessons in Adaptation (from the Disappointing TV Version of The Power)
Lessons in Adaptation (from the Disappointing TV Version of The Power)
It Feels Like Cheating
Travel through International TV
Theatre Doesn't Have to Be Toxic
How to Be a Spotify Top Artist
Targeting the Regulars
How to Shine a Light on the Dark Corners in Healthcare?
Awards Cost Money
People, Trojan Horsing and More Fleishman Is In Trouble Content
The Stupidity of Tár
Art or Hobby?
Writing Experience
Smiling on Zoom
Some Gen X Quibbles with Fleishman Is in Trouble
Medication Denied. Many Things Questioned.
I Love Your Terrible Show
Can Gen X Women Play Gen X Women Please?
In Which I Read that Dragon Book - Part 4 - The Final Chapters
In Which I Read that Dragon Book, Part Three
The Death of Gatsby and the Scene
A Moment with Ferlinghetti
Cheffing and Cooking in Education
The Empress' Shoes
The Free Ride Mystery
Making Shakespeare Accessible
A Visit from the TikTok Fairy Godfather
Playwright in a Novel, Playwright in a Film
Your Work Isn't Trash
Part Two of In Which I Read that Dragon Book
In Which I Read that Dragon Book
I Also Know Victoria's Secret
Thinking About Respectability in Law and Theatre
Gluttons for Our Doom
Put Up Your Dukes
An Applause Button for Podcasts
We Need Fiction in Schools
That Thing Playbill Said About Peter Brook
Rebroadcast of This Hour's for You
The Theatre of the Court
Is This a Dragon Zeitgeist?
What I Was Supposed to Get Out of Jury Service and What I Got Instead
Men Most Macho in Theatre
Do I Make Media?
Melt the Guns
My Real Job
No Right to Be Disappointed in Me
The Ship Is Turning
Maybe Stick Around Twitter a Little While Longer?
How to Be with a Grieving Person
Confusing Art with Money
Do People Really Have an Aversion to Creativity?
Crowdfunding the Arts Doesn't Work
Should I Try to Work with Egotistical D-bags?
In Praise of the Monologue
Predicting the Grief Weather
Three Hundredth Episode - Horn Blowin' Time!
The Theatre Theater Problem and the Intermission
The Macintosh in Tick, Tick...Boom!
Have You Ever Used This Before?
Context Is Everything: A Gen X Look at the Lost Daughter
This Reboot Sucks
My Pandemic Guide to International TV - Part Two
My Pandemic Guide to International TV - Part One
The Women's Lane
Thrashing Acceptance
Waterworks at the Street Circus
Inspiration Obstacles
The Face I Made Up
I'm Sorry But the Temptation to Say This Will Be Great
My Genius Idea for a Book
The One Who Called 911
Now Is the Winter of My Discontent
"What's a PDF?"
Maybe I Should Go Into Business
Inclusive Gatekeeping
Give Me Your Witches, Your Ghouls, Your Severed Limbs Hanging in Trees
Circles of Gen X Friends
Lessons from Italian Media
The Internet Is Not a Friend
A Grant Ain't One
Non-Regulation Time Machine Dream
In Which I Attempt to Reflect on the 20th Anniversary of the Things
The Time Machine of Music
Every Word I Wrote
A Body of Work
Making "Something"
A Night at the Wet Opera
The Arts Save the Children
The Intersection of Capitalism and Patriarchy Is a Killer
I'm Going to Have to Ask You to Not Silver Lining This
"Trying to Help Women Is Exhausting"
A $5000 Grant Would Be a $5000 Problem
Actors Are Not So Replaceable
Here Comes the Wave
Tricksy Feminists
Paulina Forgot to Cancel the Mariachi
They Locked Up the Toothpaste
Would I Go Back to the 20th Century?
Should I Quit Acting Because of X?
South Park World, Or, Learning to Like the Boy Stuff
And Now I'm Mad About Curious George
The Stumbler, Or, F**k Around Fridays
A Performance Once a Week
Arts "Coming Back Strong"
An Idea Is a Little Monster
Remembering What Might Have Been
I Am a Vaccinated Puppy
I'm Mad About Kiss Me, Kate
WTF with Jake Gyllenhaal
Sexy Jobs
I Guess I Have to Talk About Cuomo
Some Invisible Gifts of Theatre Training
This Sucks
Men Crying
"You Can't Live in Fear"
Tell an Artist You Saw/Heard/Experienced Their Art
A Highly Competitive Mystery Solved
Creativity Might Be Seasonal
Gen X and the Deadly Virus
Snot Acting
4500 Teaching Artists (Predictably) Fall Through the Cracks
Searching for the Seams
Is There a Gen X Aesthetic?
2020 Year in Review
Howard Dean Came for Gen X. It Did Not Go Well for Him.
Brilliant Theatre and the Pit
It's Really Nothing
The S*** My D*** Party
Is This Why Men Won't Wear Masks?
More Tips on Masks from a Mask Theatre Person
The New SCOTUS Handmaiden of the Patriarchy
Kittens and Fluffy Clouds
Frustrated Artists and Tyrants
Everybody's Favorite Nice Guy Has a New Gig
I Miss the Smiling
Bill and Ted's Bogus Handling of Older Women
And Then the Internet Went Out
Comfort Is Not the Point
Do You Have Power?
I Am a Genius
Is a Seventeen Year Old Girl Convincible?
The Benefits of No One Caring About Your Work
Theatre, Celebrities, Hope and What We're Doing Now
Theatre Is Dead. Long Live the Theatre.
Favorite Sons and Unicorns
Now Would Be a Hard Time to Start a Creative Practice
The Difference Between A and Z and Progressive Politics
A View from a Small Apartment in NYC
How to Help Artists the Most
Something About Juliet, Naked
"You Have Theatre. I Have the Bachelor."
You're Late. I'm Late. Let's Get to Work.
We Tried Asking Nicely
The Inspiring Solidarity of the Cable Girls
Tips on Masks from a Mask Theatre Person
The World I Imagined When I Was a Teen
Digital Gentrification and Ontological Insecurity
You Don't Have to Write Your Lear. Or Your Venus and Adonis Even.
Toilet Paper and Art
Holding Contradictory Truths Is the Work
Introducing The Dragoning
Performing Arts Going Dark
Charmed Again
A Bereft, Heartbroken, Furious, Hopeless, Bad Mood
What I'm Built For
Beautiful People Wearing Glasses
Something About Warren
The Other Currency in Theatre Economics
There Will Never Be a Gen X President?!?
Charting the Journey of a Creative Ship
Terry Gilliam in the Toaster Oven
A Duck Message on New Year's Eve
All the Times I Wrote My Last Thing
Is There, Was There, a Gen X Theatre?
The Gen X Nod
A Thanksgiving Visit from the Patriarchy
Screaming Songs for Men
Put Me In Your Show
A Visit from the Rejection Fairy and the Missing Legitimacy Fairy
What to Do When Weinstein Shows Up at the Bar
My New Coping Mechanism
The Weird Perils of Surviving in the Arts
The Collective Emily Davis
Who Gets to Rage in American Theatre?
Small Victories
Be the Weirdo You Want to See in the World
"Believe in Yourself"
Invite Me to Your Party
In Which I Learn Again that Popularity Does Not Equal Quality, or a Show Called Bike
This Hour Is for You
In Which I Get Myself F-ing Mad About the Roma movie
Be Quiet. You're Disturbing the Movie.
Finishing Things
Harry Potter and the Hangover
O God, that I were a man!
The Hamlet Project - 'Tis a Knavish Piece of Work
I Am Literally Making All This Up
I've Got My Plans for July 4th Next Year Already
How to Make Money as an Artist
I'm Not Busy
Gen X Is a Mess?!?
Posse. Team. Community.
Excuse Me, Ma'am
The Podcast Drama That No One Is Talking About
Medusa Long Shot Rocket Rejection
A Better Way to Read on the Internet - Episode One Hundred and Fifty
A Taste of Being a Patriarch in the Patriarchy
Americans Need Dario Fo
Fortune Favors the Bold and It Also Likes to Watch the Bold Fall On Its Face
The Velvet Rope
Here Is My Blush
These Ads Aren't Helping
Flashback Friday - The Very First Episode of SFTSA
Who Is this Arts Education Experience for?
The One Who Says Thank You
Thirty Five Cents
This Is Not a Good Story
Get Out of the Boom Boom Room
The Default Character Or Why Elizabeth Acevedo Made Me Cry
Atmosphere, Art, Magic and Soufflés
The Cafe Wall of Fame
The Tribal Boost
In Which I Try to Defend My (Seemingly Terrible) Choice to Dedicate My Life to Theatre
This Is My Motherf---ing Brand
Anger Is My Superpower
In Praise of Violence (Onstage)
Claiming My Name
Advice for Artists
Amplify Wednesday
Books About Anger and the Safety Tax
We Might Be Okay
If She's Not Shooting Fire from Her Fingers, I Don't Want to See It
Thoughts on Defiance
I'm Not a Productive Member of Society and I Have No Worth
Why, Yes, I Am Unhinged. Thank you for noticing!
Real Talk About Imagination
How We Can Win
One Woman's Dystopia Is Another Man's Utopia, I guess.
My Blog-o-versary! A Decade of Blogging.
Maybe It's Something. Maybe It's Nothing. Or, Much Ado About a Black Square.
I Am Also Part Witch
I'm a Dragon Now. The Fear of Men Is My Food.
This Post Is One Big Trigger Warning
Theatre is Not a Training Ground or a Compost Bin
"She's a Female, So That's Interesting"
Owning Our Expertise: One Way Zephyr Teachout Is Inspiring Me
Art By the Numbers - SFTSA 110
The Change, The Phone Booth and a Sense of Doom
Sometimes I Need Applause - SFTSA 108
#MigrainePose
Mature
TV Folks Feeling Uncomfortable
Tortoising and Hare-ing
Café Culture's Death by Proliferation
SFTSA Bonus - Announcing My New Podcast (You Know, For Kids!)
Why I'm Thinking About Lullabies So Much
"He Just Came with the Building"
SFTSA Episode 100 - 100th Episode
A Great Idea for a Musical
Just One Song
A Big Disappointment and How to Go On
What No Money Means
Everything Interesting Happens at the Edges
My Dentist Thinks I'm Cool
Hope Hangover
Migraine and the F-ing Patriarchy
Spotify for Good or Ill. For Good and Ill.
Keith Richards Wouldn't Worry About His Bra
Art As Service
What People Click On
Please Stop Asking For Recommendations
How To Not Be A Creep
The Imbalance Of Talent Crushes
Art, Entertainment And SpongeBob SquarePants
The Glamour Of The Grammys
Is It More Than A Thousand?
View From The Women's March NYC 2018
To Sing Is To Survive
Gen X Part Eight - The Coda - We're Not Gonna Take It
How To Congratulate An Artist
My Grandmother's Genius
Hello Little Girl Culture And #MeAt14
How I Learned To Be A Savvier Voter
You Had One Job, Man
My Respect Was Yours To Lose, Or, Why Radiolab Broke My Heart A Little
Why I Am Indebted To Charmed (Yes, The TV Show)
Don't Step on my Exit
The Most Womany Woman Episode Ever
There Was So Much Less Sexism Then
Gen X Part Seven - Born At The Right Time - Episode Sixty Seven
I mean, Me Too, Of Course. But this is it, right?
Feeling American
A Remedy for What's-the-Point-itis
Age Is a Feature Not a Bug
Apparently, Being a Sexist Jerk Pays Well
Will You Wish You'd Been There?
Generation X - Part 6 - Selling the Drama
Generation X Part 5 - It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
(Still) Waiting to Be Discovered
The Beginning of Authority in Theatre (and Beyond)
Where I'm From
Gen X - Part 4 - I'm the Only One
Generation X Part 3 - Islands in the Stream
Social Media and Discussion
Gen X Part 2 - We Belong
Another Kind of Story I Never Want to See Again
Why Giving Up Art Is Not an Option
Generation X - Stuck in the Middle with You
Health Care and the Struggling Artist
No One's Asking for Your Art - Episode Forty Seven
Single Gender on a Train
“A True Artist – the Perfect Candidate”
Sexism Can Still Surprise Me
I'm Done Watching Nashville and It's Probably Not Why You Think
In the Dark Times There Will Always Be Singing
Theatre's Loss: Janelle Monae
Sticky Benevolent Sexism
The Resistance Will Be Handcrafted
If My Pen is Rockin', Don't Come A-Knockin'
Devices in Auditions and Rehearsals
Where in the World? - Episode 36
The Kind of Story I Never Want to See Again
How to Value a Voice
The Guys
My Hagification Has Begun
The Sherlock Fridging
We Almost Had It. 38 Years to Go Now.
A Day Without Immigrants
A Universal Symbol for "That's Racist."
"Art Under Fascism Is Good, Actually"
The Discomfort of Being Different Part 2
The Discomfort of Being Different - Episode 24
No More Muses
Why I Started Podcasting
If We Knew What We Were Doing - Episode 21
The Danger of Relying on Opinions
ID NYC Makes a Difference
The Panic at the Beginning
Why I Shouldn't Work in Schools Anymore
Juliet Capulet, Feminist Role Model
How to Talk to an Artist
Ecosystem of a Theatre Scene
Can We Find Another Word for Emerging?
Ideas and Glitter and Places to Put Them
The Best Time to Post
Thank You for Your Smile - Episode Eight
So Others May Dream - Episode Seven
Doing One Thing Is a Privilege - Episode Six
The Selfless Teacher Story - Episode Five
When You're Winning - Episode Four
Why Going Away for Inspiration Is a Good Idea - Episode Three
The End of the Show Experience - Episode Two