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Songs for the Struggling Artist — 506 episodes

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1

Inside a Big Win

2

Re-Broadcast of Awards Cost Money

3

A Decade of Podcasting

4

What Happened to First Night?

5

Re-Broadcast of Episode Three - Why Going Away for Inspiration Is a Good Idea

6

Pronounce "Queens"

7

Chalamet Gate

8

Acting Is Embarrassing

9

The Credulous and the Scammed

10

Preparing for Editing

11

A Clown Teacher Exits

12

Dealing with Egotistical Narcissistic A**holes

13

Theatre, Epstein and Me, Two Degrees Away

14

Networking Tips

15

A Book Called Theatre (With Very Little Theatre)

16

Comments on The Heroine's Journey

17

Health Care Every Year

18

Giving Tuesday

19

This Show Needed Gertrude Stein

20

Further Thoughts on Type

21

Seven Pages in the New Yorker

22

A Cultural Misreading of TV

23

Women's Business

24

My Type

25

My Local Race Goes International (Or, Mamdani and Simotas)

26

My Art Won't Buy Me a Car

27

A Blurry Line Between Art and Advertising

28

Money and the Little Guys in Podcasting

29

Artists as Planes

30

The Difference Between a Play and a Podcast

31

Sending Postcards

32

Evelyn Waugh HATED Picasso

33

This Is Part of the Art

34

Good Will Is Good Currency

35

We Are the Test Subjects

36

The Fitzgeralds' Laundry

37

The Limits of My Imagination

38

Rebroadcast of Get Out of the Boom Boom Room

39

Back at the Buccaneers Well

40

What I'm Really Ambitious For

41

Retrograde Musical Theatre

42

The Cost of an Audio Drama

43

Yes I Am Glad. But Also...

44

"Get a Job"

45

Fine Young Ladies

46

Quality and the Reach for Greatness

47

Letting Go of Perfection

48

The Tedium Scale

49

Gen X Podcasts

50

An Obdurate Donkey

51

Twenty Smiles a Day

52

John Proctor Is the Villain Made Me Cry

53

Yes Of Course I Feel Bad About the NEA Stuff

54

This Forwardness Makes Our Hopes Fair

55

Kill Your First Born

56

I'm Worried About the Coffee

57

Arts and Charity

58

Federal Arts Funding

59

Choreography for Kids

60

Forgetting Feminist History

61

Wave Him Through

62

Not Into Politics

63

My Computer's New Nickname

64

I Went to See a Play About a Quilt

65

Tips for Structuring a Creative Life

66

The Song That Broke the Dam

67

Monologue from a 1913 Suffrage Meeting

68

Will This Residency Be Kind?

69

Sh*t Bag Shelf

70

Discoverability Is the Issue

71

What Should We Do With All This Bad Art?

72

America Hates Women a Lot More than I Realized - Or, Thoughts from the First Week, Post-Election

73

The Little Sister Effect

74

Trying to Write the Day After the Election

75

The Canon Is Stuck

76

Something I Was Thinking About On Election Day 2024

77

An Ode to Professor Bobo

78

The Resistance Will Be Recycled

79

Please Don't Start Your Play Like This

80

What Can I Say to Keep You from Putting Your Finger in that Socket?

81

I Am Not Compliant

82

My Laptop Is in Memphis

83

What We Store, What We Delete

84

Apple Seems to Be Getting into My Business

85

"Can You Make a Living Doing That?"

86

I Let You Down SInéad

87

Missing Writing Practice

88

A Goggle Story

89

I Finally Saw Purple Rain

90

Tips for the Rejected from Someone Oft Rejected

91

Female Opt Out

92

Writing in a Beautiful Place

93

A Day at the End of May

94

A Different Measure of Success

95

Print This for Extra Comprehension

96

Something Familiar About this Russian Show

97

Signature Strengths Seem Neat But Confusing

98

Boxed Up Knowledge

99

Poor Things AKA Sexy Baby Lady Frankenstein

100

I Would Accept that Time Travel Invitation

101

Documentary Theatre in a Documentary

102

Social Media Silos

103

"I Don't Do Zoom"

104

What's Next?

105

Promotional Tips for Everything

106

Click the Clicks You Want to See in the World

107

Is Anger a Symptom of COVID 19?

108

Working on a Theme

109

Are They Trying to Go Out of Business?

110

It's the Indifference that Will Get You

111

Whisper Acting

112

An Indie Theatre Person Visits Some Casting Sites

113

Rebroadcast of Performing Arts Going Dark

114

Your Favorite Feminist Killjoy Goes to See Six, The Musical

115

Introducing The Defense

116

It Is So Much Easier to Not Make Things

117

Rebroadcast of I Am a Dragon Now. The Fear of Men Is My Food.

118

Rebroadcast of The Glamour of Grammys - Ep 82

119

SEO Is So Dumb

120

Some Good News for Some Friends, From the Future

121

Timeline Confusion on a TV Show

122

An AI Dilemma (in Podcasting and Beyond)

123

Welcome to My Grant Info Session

124

How I Became the #4 Singer-Songwriter in Queens

125

I May Have Listened to My Last Wrongful Conviction Podcast

126

Spotify Is Acting Like a Cartoon Villain

127

Questioning My Sense of History - Or, Some Historical Inquiry Inspired by Deutschland 83

128

Some Actor Training You Don't Get in School

129

I Wish Lockwood and Co Would Give George a Break

130

More Empress Elisabeth Rage Content (Or, Yes, I Watched Corsage)

131

Why Are You Wasting Your Time Directing?

132

Can Businesses Do the Business They Do, Please?

133

Writers Aren't Magic

134

Productivity and the Arts

135

Wait, A Playwright Is an Artist?!

136

The Mysterious Disappearance of My Local Arts Council

137

Feminist Art Might Mean Something Different to Us

138

Was the Residency Productive?

139

Emily Is Fun

140

The One Thing I Might Have in Common with Ron DeSantis

141

In Praise of Medicines

142

Internet Memories and Fandoms

143

Some Passport Drama (A Piece in Three Locations)

144

Joining the Under the Radar Mourners

145

The Answer Is Magnets

146

Rebroadcast of Still Waiting to Be Discovered

147

Rebroadcast of Art, Entertainment and Spongebob Squarepants

148

You Just Don't Get It, Do You?

149

Bring Those Knees In, Boys!

150

Rebroadcast of Ideas, Glitter and Places to Put Them

151

Replay -Screaming Songs for Men

152

A Nugget of an Idea

153

Some Secrets of a Migraine Life

154

Part Two of Lessons in Adaptation (from the Disappointing TV Version of The Power)

155

Lessons in Adaptation (from the Disappointing TV Version of The Power)

156

It Feels Like Cheating

157

Travel through International TV

158

Theatre Doesn't Have to Be Toxic

159

How to Be a Spotify Top Artist

160

Targeting the Regulars

161

How to Shine a Light on the Dark Corners in Healthcare?

162

Awards Cost Money

163

People, Trojan Horsing and More Fleishman Is In Trouble Content

164

The Stupidity of Tár

165

Art or Hobby?

166

Writing Experience

167

Smiling on Zoom

168

Some Gen X Quibbles with Fleishman Is in Trouble

169

Medication Denied. Many Things Questioned.

170

I Love Your Terrible Show

171

Can Gen X Women Play Gen X Women Please?

172

In Which I Read that Dragon Book - Part 4 - The Final Chapters

173

In Which I Read that Dragon Book, Part Three

174

The Death of Gatsby and the Scene

175

A Moment with Ferlinghetti

176

Cheffing and Cooking in Education

177

The Empress' Shoes

178

The Free Ride Mystery

179

Making Shakespeare Accessible

180

A Visit from the TikTok Fairy Godfather

181

Playwright in a Novel, Playwright in a Film

182

Your Work Isn't Trash

183

Part Two of In Which I Read that Dragon Book

184

In Which I Read that Dragon Book

185

I Also Know Victoria's Secret

186

Thinking About Respectability in Law and Theatre

187

Gluttons for Our Doom

188

Put Up Your Dukes

189

An Applause Button for Podcasts

190

We Need Fiction in Schools

191

That Thing Playbill Said About Peter Brook

192

Rebroadcast of This Hour's for You

193

The Theatre of the Court

194

Is This a Dragon Zeitgeist?

195

What I Was Supposed to Get Out of Jury Service and What I Got Instead

196

Men Most Macho in Theatre

197

Do I Make Media?

198

Melt the Guns

199

My Real Job

200

No Right to Be Disappointed in Me

201

The Ship Is Turning

202

Maybe Stick Around Twitter a Little While Longer?

203

How to Be with a Grieving Person

204

Confusing Art with Money

205

Do People Really Have an Aversion to Creativity?

206

Crowdfunding the Arts Doesn't Work

207

Should I Try to Work with Egotistical D-bags?

208

In Praise of the Monologue

209

Predicting the Grief Weather

210

Three Hundredth Episode - Horn Blowin' Time!

211

The Theatre Theater Problem and the Intermission

212

The Macintosh in Tick, Tick...Boom!

213

Have You Ever Used This Before?

214

Context Is Everything: A Gen X Look at the Lost Daughter

215

This Reboot Sucks

216

My Pandemic Guide to International TV - Part Two

217

My Pandemic Guide to International TV - Part One

218

The Women's Lane

219

Thrashing Acceptance

220

Waterworks at the Street Circus

221

Inspiration Obstacles

222

The Face I Made Up

223

I'm Sorry But the Temptation to Say This Will Be Great

224

My Genius Idea for a Book

225

The One Who Called 911

226

Now Is the Winter of My Discontent

227

"What's a PDF?"

228

Maybe I Should Go Into Business

229

Inclusive Gatekeeping

230

Give Me Your Witches, Your Ghouls, Your Severed Limbs Hanging in Trees

231

Circles of Gen X Friends

232

Lessons from Italian Media

233

The Internet Is Not a Friend

234

A Grant Ain't One

235

Non-Regulation Time Machine Dream

236

In Which I Attempt to Reflect on the 20th Anniversary of the Things

237

The Time Machine of Music

238

Every Word I Wrote

239

A Body of Work

240

Making "Something"

241

A Night at the Wet Opera

242

The Arts Save the Children

243

The Intersection of Capitalism and Patriarchy Is a Killer

244

I'm Going to Have to Ask You to Not Silver Lining This

245

"Trying to Help Women Is Exhausting"

246

A $5000 Grant Would Be a $5000 Problem

247

Actors Are Not So Replaceable

248

Here Comes the Wave

249

Tricksy Feminists

250

Paulina Forgot to Cancel the Mariachi

251

They Locked Up the Toothpaste

252

Would I Go Back to the 20th Century?

253

Should I Quit Acting Because of X?

254

South Park World, Or, Learning to Like the Boy Stuff

255

And Now I'm Mad About Curious George

256

The Stumbler, Or, F**k Around Fridays

257

A Performance Once a Week

258

Arts "Coming Back Strong"

259

An Idea Is a Little Monster

260

Remembering What Might Have Been

261

I Am a Vaccinated Puppy

262

I'm Mad About Kiss Me, Kate

263

WTF with Jake Gyllenhaal

264

Sexy Jobs

265

I Guess I Have to Talk About Cuomo

266

Some Invisible Gifts of Theatre Training

267

This Sucks

268

Men Crying

269

"You Can't Live in Fear"

270

Tell an Artist You Saw/Heard/Experienced Their Art

271

A Highly Competitive Mystery Solved

272

Creativity Might Be Seasonal

273

Gen X and the Deadly Virus

274

Snot Acting

275

4500 Teaching Artists (Predictably) Fall Through the Cracks

276

Searching for the Seams

277

Is There a Gen X Aesthetic?

278

2020 Year in Review

279

Howard Dean Came for Gen X. It Did Not Go Well for Him.

280

Brilliant Theatre and the Pit

281

It's Really Nothing

282

The S*** My D*** Party

283

Is This Why Men Won't Wear Masks?

284

More Tips on Masks from a Mask Theatre Person

285

The New SCOTUS Handmaiden of the Patriarchy

286

Kittens and Fluffy Clouds

287

Frustrated Artists and Tyrants

288

Everybody's Favorite Nice Guy Has a New Gig

289

I Miss the Smiling

290

Bill and Ted's Bogus Handling of Older Women

291

And Then the Internet Went Out

292

Comfort Is Not the Point

293

Do You Have Power?

294

I Am a Genius

295

Is a Seventeen Year Old Girl Convincible?

296

The Benefits of No One Caring About Your Work

297

Theatre, Celebrities, Hope and What We're Doing Now

298

Theatre Is Dead. Long Live the Theatre.

299

Favorite Sons and Unicorns

300

Now Would Be a Hard Time to Start a Creative Practice

301

The Difference Between A and Z and Progressive Politics

302

A View from a Small Apartment in NYC

303

How to Help Artists the Most

304

Something About Juliet, Naked

305

"You Have Theatre. I Have the Bachelor."

306

You're Late. I'm Late. Let's Get to Work.

307

We Tried Asking Nicely

308

The Inspiring Solidarity of the Cable Girls

309

Tips on Masks from a Mask Theatre Person

310

The World I Imagined When I Was a Teen

311

Digital Gentrification and Ontological Insecurity

312

You Don't Have to Write Your Lear. Or Your Venus and Adonis Even.

313

Toilet Paper and Art

314

Holding Contradictory Truths Is the Work

315

Introducing The Dragoning

316

Performing Arts Going Dark

317

Charmed Again

318

A Bereft, Heartbroken, Furious, Hopeless, Bad Mood

319

What I'm Built For

320

Beautiful People Wearing Glasses

321

Something About Warren

322

The Other Currency in Theatre Economics

323

There Will Never Be a Gen X President?!?

324

Charting the Journey of a Creative Ship

325

Terry Gilliam in the Toaster Oven

326

A Duck Message on New Year's Eve

327

All the Times I Wrote My Last Thing

328

Is There, Was There, a Gen X Theatre?

329

The Gen X Nod

330

A Thanksgiving Visit from the Patriarchy

331

Screaming Songs for Men

332

Put Me In Your Show

333

A Visit from the Rejection Fairy and the Missing Legitimacy Fairy

334

What to Do When Weinstein Shows Up at the Bar

335

My New Coping Mechanism

336

The Weird Perils of Surviving in the Arts

337

The Collective Emily Davis

338

Who Gets to Rage in American Theatre?

339

Small Victories

340

Be the Weirdo You Want to See in the World

341

"Believe in Yourself"

342

Invite Me to Your Party

343

In Which I Learn Again that Popularity Does Not Equal Quality, or a Show Called Bike

344

This Hour Is for You

345

In Which I Get Myself F-ing Mad About the Roma movie

346

Be Quiet. You're Disturbing the Movie.

347

Finishing Things

348

Harry Potter and the Hangover

349

O God, that I were a man!

350

The Hamlet Project - 'Tis a Knavish Piece of Work

351

I Am Literally Making All This Up

352

I've Got My Plans for July 4th Next Year Already

353

How to Make Money as an Artist

354

I'm Not Busy

355

Gen X Is a Mess?!?

356

Posse. Team. Community.

357

Excuse Me, Ma'am

358

The Podcast Drama That No One Is Talking About

359

Medusa Long Shot Rocket Rejection

360

A Better Way to Read on the Internet - Episode One Hundred and Fifty

361

A Taste of Being a Patriarch in the Patriarchy

362

Americans Need Dario Fo

363

Fortune Favors the Bold and It Also Likes to Watch the Bold Fall On Its Face

364

The Velvet Rope

365

Here Is My Blush

366

These Ads Aren't Helping

367

Flashback Friday - The Very First Episode of SFTSA

368

Who Is this Arts Education Experience for?

369

The One Who Says Thank You

370

Thirty Five Cents

371

This Is Not a Good Story

372

Get Out of the Boom Boom Room

373

The Default Character Or Why Elizabeth Acevedo Made Me Cry

374

Atmosphere, Art, Magic and Soufflés

375

The Cafe Wall of Fame

376

The Tribal Boost

377

In Which I Try to Defend My (Seemingly Terrible) Choice to Dedicate My Life to Theatre

378

This Is My Motherf---ing Brand

379

Anger Is My Superpower

380

In Praise of Violence (Onstage)

381

Claiming My Name

382

Advice for Artists

383

Amplify Wednesday

384

Books About Anger and the Safety Tax

385

We Might Be Okay

386

If She's Not Shooting Fire from Her Fingers, I Don't Want to See It

387

Thoughts on Defiance

388

I'm Not a Productive Member of Society and I Have No Worth

389

Why, Yes, I Am Unhinged. Thank you for noticing!

390

Real Talk About Imagination

391

How We Can Win

392

One Woman's Dystopia Is Another Man's Utopia, I guess.

393

My Blog-o-versary! A Decade of Blogging.

394

Maybe It's Something. Maybe It's Nothing. Or, Much Ado About a Black Square.

395

I Am Also Part Witch

396

I'm a Dragon Now. The Fear of Men Is My Food.

397

This Post Is One Big Trigger Warning

398

Theatre is Not a Training Ground or a Compost Bin

399

"She's a Female, So That's Interesting"

400

Owning Our Expertise: One Way Zephyr Teachout Is Inspiring Me

401

Art By the Numbers - SFTSA 110

402

The Change, The Phone Booth and a Sense of Doom

403

Sometimes I Need Applause - SFTSA 108

404

#MigrainePose

405

Mature

406

TV Folks Feeling Uncomfortable

407

Tortoising and Hare-ing

408

Café Culture's Death by Proliferation

409

SFTSA Bonus - Announcing My New Podcast (You Know, For Kids!)

410

Why I'm Thinking About Lullabies So Much

411

"He Just Came with the Building"

412

SFTSA Episode 100 - 100th Episode

413

A Great Idea for a Musical

414

Just One Song

415

A Big Disappointment and How to Go On

416

What No Money Means

417

Everything Interesting Happens at the Edges

418

My Dentist Thinks I'm Cool

419

Hope Hangover

420

Migraine and the F-ing Patriarchy

421

Spotify for Good or Ill. For Good and Ill.

422

Keith Richards Wouldn't Worry About His Bra

423

Art As Service

424

What People Click On

425

Please Stop Asking For Recommendations

426

How To Not Be A Creep

427

The Imbalance Of Talent Crushes

428

Art, Entertainment And SpongeBob SquarePants

429

The Glamour Of The Grammys

430

Is It More Than A Thousand?

431

View From The Women's March NYC 2018

432

To Sing Is To Survive

433

Gen X Part Eight - The Coda - We're Not Gonna Take It

434

How To Congratulate An Artist

435

My Grandmother's Genius

436

Hello Little Girl Culture And #MeAt14

437

How I Learned To Be A Savvier Voter

438

You Had One Job, Man

439

My Respect Was Yours To Lose, Or, Why Radiolab Broke My Heart A Little

440

Why I Am Indebted To Charmed (Yes, The TV Show)

441

Don't Step on my Exit

442

The Most Womany Woman Episode Ever

443

There Was So Much Less Sexism Then

444

Gen X Part Seven - Born At The Right Time - Episode Sixty Seven

445

I mean, Me Too, Of Course. But this is it, right?

446

Feeling American

447

A Remedy for What's-the-Point-itis

448

Age Is a Feature Not a Bug

449

Apparently, Being a Sexist Jerk Pays Well

450

Will You Wish You'd Been There?

451

Generation X - Part 6 - Selling the Drama

452

Generation X Part 5 - It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

453

(Still) Waiting to Be Discovered

454

The Beginning of Authority in Theatre (and Beyond)

455

Where I'm From

456

Gen X - Part 4 - I'm the Only One

457

Generation X Part 3 - Islands in the Stream

458

Social Media and Discussion

459

Gen X Part 2 - We Belong

460

Another Kind of Story I Never Want to See Again

461

Why Giving Up Art Is Not an Option

462

Generation X - Stuck in the Middle with You

463

Health Care and the Struggling Artist

464

No One's Asking for Your Art - Episode Forty Seven

465

Single Gender on a Train

466

“A True Artist – the Perfect Candidate”

467

Sexism Can Still Surprise Me

468

I'm Done Watching Nashville and It's Probably Not Why You Think

469

In the Dark Times There Will Always Be Singing

470

Theatre's Loss: Janelle Monae

471

Sticky Benevolent Sexism

472

The Resistance Will Be Handcrafted

473

If My Pen is Rockin', Don't Come A-Knockin'

474

Devices in Auditions and Rehearsals

475

Where in the World? - Episode 36

476

The Kind of Story I Never Want to See Again

477

How to Value a Voice

478

The Guys

479

My Hagification Has Begun

480

The Sherlock Fridging

481

We Almost Had It. 38 Years to Go Now.

482

A Day Without Immigrants

483

A Universal Symbol for "That's Racist."

484

"Art Under Fascism Is Good, Actually"

485

The Discomfort of Being Different Part 2

486

The Discomfort of Being Different - Episode 24

487

No More Muses

488

Why I Started Podcasting

489

If We Knew What We Were Doing - Episode 21

490

The Danger of Relying on Opinions

491

ID NYC Makes a Difference

492

The Panic at the Beginning

493

Why I Shouldn't Work in Schools Anymore

494

Juliet Capulet, Feminist Role Model

495

How to Talk to an Artist

496

Ecosystem of a Theatre Scene

497

Can We Find Another Word for Emerging?

498

Ideas and Glitter and Places to Put Them

499

The Best Time to Post

500

Thank You for Your Smile - Episode Eight

501

So Others May Dream - Episode Seven

502

Doing One Thing Is a Privilege - Episode Six

503

The Selfless Teacher Story - Episode Five

504

When You're Winning - Episode Four

505

Why Going Away for Inspiration Is a Good Idea - Episode Three

506

The End of the Show Experience - Episode Two