THAT'S A WRAP FOR SEASON 6! Thank you all so much for tuning in and hearing us chat about all things playwriting.
Thank you again for another incredible season. Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season... See you next year!
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In this episode, we pick a play to discuss, and for this week's episode, we read "English" by Sanaz Toossi. We discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. SPOILER ALERT: There are going to be some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode!
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Hello listeners!
On this week's episode, we had the wonderful Nicholas Pilapil on the show! Nicholas is funny and insightful. We enjoyed the conversation and we hope you will too! His play "God Will Do The Rest" is currently having its World Premiere in Los Angeles. Please check out the link to learn more!
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https://www.latinotheaterco.org/godwilldotherest
Nicholas Pilapil is a Filipino American playwright. His plays include "God Will Do The Rest" (world premiere with Artists at Play & Latino Theater Company), "The Bottoming Process" (world premiere with IAMA Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Ignition Festival of New Plays), and "if all that You take from this is courage, then I've no regrets" (winner of the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival). His work has also been developed with Geffen Playhouse, Playwrights Foundation, Abingdon Theatre Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, Theatre Rhinoceros, and The Workshop Theater, among others. Nicholas is a member of Boston Court Pasadena's Playwrights Group and is an alum of The Writersâ Room at the Geffen Playhouse, IAMA Theatre Companyâs Emerging Playwrights Lab, The Vagrancy Playwrights Group, and artEquity.
To learn more about Nicholas' work, check out his NPX!
https://newplayexchange.org/users/5530/nicholas-pilapil
GLISTENS
Cho - Teaching Acting to High School students
Sam - Casa Bonita
Nicholas - People have been telling him he looks skinny at his shows and he loves it.
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Hello listeners!
We have another fun episode for you this week. We had the pleasure of speaking to Jen Leno.
Jen Leno (she/they) is a lighting designer, a photographer, and a generative multi-media artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Jen knew that she would pursue art as a career when she was a child, but lighting design has been an unexpected and always exciting main practice for the last eight years. When they're not in the theater, you can find them floating in the ocean somewhere or grabbing her new found love- oysters, with friends.Â
To learn more about Jen Leno, check out the following:
Website: http://www.jenlenodesign.com/
Instagram:Â @jdl.lxdÂ
GLISTEN
Cho - Creating floral arrangements
Sam - Jenny Holzer
Jen - Ferris Wheel at Coney Island
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Hello listeners!
It's been a while (again). We've had a busy summer so we're here to share what we've been up to. Hope you all are having a great summer.
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Hello listeners!
This week, we chat with jack-of-all trades, Aaron Klass!
Aaron Klass is a founding member of Blunt Force Drama Theater Company, a teaching company for emerging artists with a decade long production history. He is a playwright, director, designer, production manager, and actor. He has joint custody of several unimpressive screenwriting and filmmaking accolades and awards. He is also serves as a Curator at The Merchant Tailor Museum, a 19th century textile collection, where he supports and examines the intersection between public history and the arts.
To learn more about The Merchant Tailor Museum, check out it out here: http://www.tmtmuseum.com/
GLISTENS
Cho - Sudoku
Sam - summer writing program at naropa
Aaron - trip to Mexico City
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Hello listeners!
We have another fun episode for you this week. We had the pleasure of speaking to Taylor Edelle Stuart who we first met at Iowa!
Taylor Edelle Stuart is a film & theatre director, video artist, and projection designer.  Her work focuses on the interplay between the digital and physical by cultivating harmony and tension between theatrical and cinematic modes. Taylor designed projections (alongside co-designer Tal Yarden) for the world premiere of The Outsiders ahead of its run on Broadway. She also recently designed video for the National Tour of R.E.S.P.E.C.T., a concert series celebrating the life and work of Aretha Franklin. She served as Assistant Projection Designer to David Bengali on the Broadway Musical Water for Elephants (Tony Nominee), and on New York Theatre Workshop + Tectonic Theatre Projectâs co-production of Here There Are Blueberries (Pulitzer Prize Finalist.). She is currently developing an original multi-media work as a part of Mercury Store's Emerging Directors Lab.
To learn more about Taylor and her work, check out her website www.tayloredellestuart.com or Insta @tayloredelle.
GLISTEN
Cho - peanut butter chocolate brownies
Sam - gardening
Taylor - wasps!
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Hello listeners!
This week's guest is Kira Rockwell!
Kira (she/her) is a neurodivergent playwright, originally from the heart of Texas. Through a trauma informed, healing centered lens, she aims to nurture communal spaces that disrupt passivity and empower agency. This summer she will develop her play WICKED BITTER BEAST(S) with Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Her play, OH TO BE PURE AGAIN, was developed with The Kennedy Center, National New Play Network, and Great Plains Theatre Commons. It premiered at Actorâs Express in 2023 going on to win the Gene Gabriel Moore Playwriting Award. Rockwell's work is often based on her nuanced experiences growing up in "culty" Pentecostal Christian Communities. She is based in Atlanta with her creative husband and their sweet lab pit. When sheâs not writing, sheâs probably trying to talk to a caterpillar.
Additional Links:Â
Kira's recent spotlight in American Theatre Magazine
Insta:Â @kirarockwell
website:Â www.kirarockwell.com
Kira's plays on NPX
GLISTEN
Cho - new play "Screen Time"
Sam - Slime mold
Kira - experiments with ChatGPT!
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Hello listeners!
It's been awhile since we checked in so please enjoy our ramble and babble.
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Hello listeners!
We're excited to return to our regular programming with an interview with a fellow playwright!
Todayâs guest is Lucas Baisch, a playwright from San Francisco currently based in Brooklyn. He is an instructor at Pratt, a Workspace resident with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and a Play Group member at Ars Nova. His play 404 Not Found is about to be published by 53rd State Press. Welcome to the show Lucas Baisch!
Additional links:Â
Website: www.lucasbaisch.com
Instagram: @lucbaisch
GLISTEN
Cho - moved to Ventura!
Sam - Marx for Cats
Lucas - Keyboard Fantasies documentary
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Hello Listeners!
Happy April 1st to those that celebrate.
On this episode... you won't believe the incredible conversation we had. We hope you enjoy this very serious episode on very very serious theatre things.
Enjoy!
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THAT'S A WRAP FOR SEASON 5! Thank you all so much for tuning in every week and hear us chat about all things playwriting.
NOTE: Towards the second half of the episode, Sarah's mic went off and had some audio issues. We apologize for the quality!
A real cherry on top to the year Sarah had... we hope you enjoy nonetheless.
Thank you again for another incredible season. Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season... See you next year!
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Hello listeners! On this episode, we are so excited to bring on a fellow colleague from our days at Iowa, SARAH JOHNSON! Sarah Johnson is Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy and Head of the M.F.A. Dramaturgy program at Indiana University Bloomington. She researches and writes about intercultural theatre, new play development, and dramaturgy for applied theatre. In her creative work, she works professionally as a dramaturg with theatre companies across the country. Sarah Johnson is Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy and Head of the M.F.A. Dramaturgy program at Indiana University Bloomington. Her research focuses on intercultural theatre, new play development, and dramaturgical methodologies. Her writing has been featured in Asian Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, and multiple edited volumes. She works professionally as a dramaturg with theatre companies across the country. She was a casebook writer for Broadway's Allegiance. In regional theatre, she has provided dramaturgical support for productions with Outpost Repertory Theatre (as Resident Dramaturg), Timeline Theatre, Portland Stage, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Athena Arts Project, National Womenâs Theatre Festival, and several playwriting clients. She serves as the Performance Review Editor for PARtake: The Journal for Performance as Research. Before her time at Indiana University Bloomington, she was the Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy and Head of Playwriting at Texas Tech University and Executive Director and Resident Dramaturg of the WildWind Performance Lab. https://theatre.indiana.edu/about/faculty/johnson-sarah.html GLISTEN Cho - Zebra Gel Pen .07mm Sam - Standard Time Sarah - Coach Bob Knightsâ passing and Chair sale in his honor ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram or Threads: @beckettsbabies
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Hello listeners! This week on the show, we have the one and only director REBECCA WEAR! Rebecca is a freelance director and dramaturg with a focus on new play development, as well as an assistant professor in performance, play, and design.
To learn more about Rebecca, be sure to check out her website at https://www.rebeccawear.com/
GLISTEN
Cho - Amazon Prime TV show "Invincible"
Sam - Movie "Swimmers" on Netflix
Rebecca - Pear Tree
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Hello listeners! This week on the show, we had GREG GEFFRARD on the show! This is a JUICY one with so much pearl of wisdom. Greg is here to make sure your sexy sustainable. PLEASE ENJOY!
Greg Geffrard is an educator, Intimacy professional, culture worker, actor, poet, and facilitator. He cultivates sustainable artistic spaces of exploration by sharing consent-based trauma-informed advocacy tools. He is an Associate Faculty member with Theatrical Intimacy Education. As an Intimacy Professional, he has worked on 62+ productions ranging from theatre and opera to building policies with arts institutions as an Intimacy Consultant. He is the Associate Artist Director of the Gainesville Theatre Alliance and Head of the BFA Acting program at Brenau University.
Shows currently in production:
GLISTEN
Cho - Sedona, AZ
Sam - old home videos
Greg - bandwidth / what does singularly focus version look like
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Hello listeners! This week on the show, we had the one and only David Hanzal on the show! David is a Minneapolis-based director, puppeteer, and teaching artist. We first met David in our first year of graduate school in Iowa. We had an amazing time speaking with David and catching up! There's so much pearls of wisdom packed in this episode. PLEASE ENJOY!
David Hanzal (they/he) is a Minneapolis-based director, puppeteer, and teaching artist. They were the Artistic Director of Collective Unconscious Performance from 2014-2020. Previously, their stage direction and design has received awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre National Festival and the University of Iowa. They completed their Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Directing at the University of Iowa, where they regularly developed and directed premieres of new plays and devised work with writers from the nationally recognized Iowa Playwrightsâ Workshop. David has also trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Kari Margolis and the Margolis Brown Adaptors Company, Czech master puppeteer Miroslav Trejtnar, the Wesley Balk Opera/Music-Theatre Institute, and the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.
To learn more about David, check out his work on:
https://davidhanzaltheatre.carbonmade.com/
Instagram: @lavender_scented_nostalgia
GLISTEN
Cho -Â Olivia Rodrigoâs GUTS
Sam - bears
David - Save the Cat book, Once upon a Disney podcast
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Hello listeners! We here at BB love a good WOO-WOO sesh especially as we're approaching the Halloween season so we are fortunate to have actor, director, choreographer, playwright, and workaholic witch WAI YIM join us this week. We get into talking about this path into theater and TAROT CARDS. Oh, this is a juicy one folks. ENJOY!
Wai Yim is basically a workaholic. He's an actor/ director/ choreographer/ playwright. He is one of those "multi-hyphenate artists". He is the managing director of Token Theatre in Chicago, an Asian-American Theatre Company. He is also a witch.Â
Instagram: @whyyimÂ
GLISTEN
Cho:Â GHOSTS??
Sam: "Saving Time Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" by Jenny Odell
Wai: Childhood
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Hello listeners! We were so fortunate to have designer ALEX CASILLAS join us on the show! We had such an incredible time chatting with Alex about her life and experience as a designer as well as thinking about representation in the creative teams. Enjoy!!!
Alex Casillas, a native of Houston, TX, is a professional scenic and lighting designer holding a dual MFA from The University of Iowa. Previously, Alex has designed scenery for The Revolutionists (Strawdog Theatre), Mas Cara (The Vortex) Sonia, Vanya, Masha and Spike, Seven Spots on the Sun, and Braided Sorrow (University of Iowa) and has created a conceptual design for December (Alley Theatre: All New Festival). Also a professional lighting designer, Alex has worked on Secret Things (1st Stage Theatre), Cabaret, The Crucible(Parallel 45), and Peter and the Starcatcher, The Addams Family and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Festival 56). A dramaturgy-focused designer specializing in new work, Alex brings special focus to script analysis and structure to assist playwrights, directors and devisers truly realize their vision. She has a passion for educating young designers and theatre artists from marginalized communities and hopes to one day see true representation both on and off the stage.
Website:Â http://www.acdesigns.space/
Instagram:Â @acasdesignsÂ
To Learn More about Design, here are Alex's Top Book recommendations!
GLISTEN
Cho:Â Monologue Joke Writing Challenge / LaughtHER Collective
Sam: Film "Patrick and The Whale"
Alex: Dungeons and Dragqueens
EPISODE CORRECTION:
Please note that in the podcast, Alex mentioned Jennifer Tipton had a book when it was equally prolific female lighting pioneer Jean Rosenthal who wrote a book.Â
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Hello, listeners! Â In todayâs episode, we attempt to get 'unstuck' ourselves with scenes from plays we wrote. We read, discuss, and ask questions about the scenes we're stuck on. Do we get unstuck with our work? You'll have to listen to find out!
GLISTENS
Sam - Ellen McLaughlin in King Lear at CSF
Cho - a dream within a dream
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