Best Stephanie Reid Podcasts (2024)

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Reid Pope: Reclaiming Labels 29:06

27d ago29:06

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Alot of the reasons why the male/female -- the binary, in general, was for men specifically like white men and colonizers, to assert dominance and control over people who were lesser than them or predominantly women and women of color is that they could marry them, own them, and enslave them. So, these containers were a sort of act of violence on p…

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Earth Crew 2042 28:06

27d ago28:06

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Earth Crew 2042 is a new episodic radio play by the Sisters of Sci-Fi podcast that is a light-hearted love letter to 1970s sci-fi. In the year 2042, Earthlings have conquered their solar system. The United Earth government has selected two astronauts to travel deep into the unknowns of our galaxy to expand the realms of humanity. But after slingsho…

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Graphic novels, literature circles, and social justice with Dr. David Low... 1:04:44

1M ago1:04:44

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Send us a Text Message. In the final episode of Season 2, Dani chats with Dr. David Low, a comics and graphic novel scholar whose research focuses on issues of identity and social justice. David shares how he came to be a comics scholar, why he believes comics have a place in education, how literature circles can be reenvisioned for graphic novels,…

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Steven Hauck: Stripping Away Stereotypes 27:47

2M ago27:47

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Theater is both a spiritual healing and emotional healing and even physical healing for me, and it's been my raison d'etre for most of my life, and that's been problematic, at times, because...as a professional actor there are going to be times when you're not engaged or employed in my chosen profession, but I still go back to the theater to look f…

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Creator Spotlight: J. Gonzo discusses creating comics, being a Chicano artist, and using his comics in the classroom... 1:08:54

2M ago1:08:54

1:08:54

Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Dani chats with J. Gonzo about his career as a comic book artist and author. He shares his experiences as Chicano artist and discusses the importance of representation in the comics medium. Additionally, he shares his views on the importance of the comics in classroom spaces as well as how he hopes educators…

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Emily Mann: The Humanist Code of Theater 31:23

3M ago31:23

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The theater is essential to the health of a nation - of any democracy. And perhaps we are so impoverished right now is because of our inability to communicate with each other and see anyone else's point of view other than our own is that we are theater starved. This is where one gets the whole package of the humanist code is in the theater. This is…

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Christine Dixon: Black History Brought to Life 20:57

3M ago20:57

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Harriet Tubman knows how to relate to the different groups because Harriet doesn't 'see' people like [cultural entities]; my audience is seen as humans, a beautiful mélange of people that are just there -- all together -- breathing in sync. ~Christine Dixon Chris Dixon has been directing, producing, booking, and starring in the award-winning, one w…

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Teachers' reflections on teaching Gareth Hinds' graphic novel adaptation of The Odyssey... 43:23

3M ago43:23

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Send us a Text Message. Host Dani Kachorsky welcomes high school English teachers Shelby Stringer and Amanda Molitor to Reading in the Gutter to reflect on their experiences teaching Gareth Hinds' graphic novel adaptation of The Odyssey. The three teachers discuss why they selected Gareth Hinds' adaptation, their successes and challenges using this…

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Ellen Kaplan: The Promise of Play 28:02

4M ago28:02

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I believe that [National Women's History month] is about women and social change. Leaders of change reside with women. Ellen W. Kaplan is Professor Emerita of acting and directing at Smith, a Fulbright Scholar in Costa Rica, Fulbright Senior Specialist in Pakistan, Romania and Hong Kong, an actress, director and playwright. Ellen works extensively …

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Teaching 'Maus' for the first time: Challenges, successes, and future directions 29:19

4M ago29:19

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Reading in the Gutter, Dani chats with Brooke Feldman-Cryan, a high school English and Theater teacher, about her experiences teaching the graphic novel Maus for the first time. Brooke shares her motivation behind selecting the text as well as some challenges and successes she experienced, and ultimately, …

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Reading and creating graphic novel memoirs with Dr. Sean P. Connors... 36:49

6M ago36:49

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Reading in the Gutter, Dani hosts Dr. Sean P. Connors from the University of Arkansas to discuss reading and creating graphic novel memoirs. Sean shares his experiences teaching a college course focused on graphic novel memoirs, as well as a culminating experience in which students draft their own comic bo…

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Janet Mitchko: Holding Hands 30:54

6M ago30:54

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I would like to believe I attract heart-centered individuals to work with. I create a sense of safety in the rooms, empowerment and we are in service of the text. I pick plays that are going to take us on a journey that we all want to go on; that we're all going to leave a little bit better; that we're going to share with our audience, and we're al…

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Digital storytelling, digital comics, and STEM with Dr. Daryl Axelrod... 33:09

6M ago33:09

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Reading in the Gutter, Dani hosts Dr. Daryl Axelrod for a fun-filled discussion about using digital tools to create digital comics. Daryl shares his experiences helping kids to create original comics related to science topics as well as his experiences guiding students through transmediating (or adapting) …

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Robert Viagas: Audience Auteur 32:16

7M ago32:16

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Losing or winning an argument is not just a zero-sum game. Working together, collaborating is something that you have to learn. The most important part is not you getting all you want all the time, but learning how to feel satisfaction, even if your collaborator talks you into something else. How to find satisfaction within that and helping them to…

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Author Interview: Frank Baker discusses 'We Survived the Holocaust'... 28:33

8M ago28:33

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Send us a Text Message. Reading in the Gutter host, Dani Kachorsky, interviews Frank Baker, author of the graphic novel, We Survived the Holocaust. In this episode, Frank discusses the importance of sharing and teaching Holocaust stories in today's day and age, as well as the importance of preparing students to be critical thinkers. Additionally, F…

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Adrienne D. Williams: Art is Ageless 28:11

8M ago28:11

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"Art is ageless. There is no number on Art. As long as your heart is in it, you can do it. And that's a fantastic thing because very often we do put age limits on things, and we put age limits on PEOPLE, and I don't think that's necessarily so. I think these people are teaching us that it's absolutely possible." ADRIENNE D. WILLIAMS is New York bas…

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Teaching comics in different contexts (college, high school, and middle school)... 35:02

9M ago35:02

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Send us a Text Message. Reading in the Gutter returns with our first episode for Season 2 to discuss "Teaching comics in different contexts (college, high school, and middle school)..." with Jason D. DeHart. In this episode, Dani, Ashley, Stephanie, and Jason consider the similarities and differences in teaching comics at different grade levels, ho…

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Carla Debbie Alleyne: Stand Together for Fairness 30:11

9M ago30:11

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"Artivism is a combination of Art and Activism. I wrote about Bayard Rustin who served as the right hand of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for many years. He was a gay Quaker from Pennsylvania and a black man who was instrumental in organizing the March On Washington. Many had issues with Bayard working with Dr. King due to his sexuality. However, it …

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Stephanie Okun: Empath Superpower 33:07

10M ago33:07

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"It's so important to have that outlook of everyone is human, everyone is worthy, but I also think it's important, for me, and for everyone to protect ourselves. [As a sensitive child growing up] to protect myself, I dove into movies, I dove into playwriting when I couldn't get that connection from anywhere else. The Arts is what saved me." Stephan…

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Catherine Filloux: Shaped by Change 29:47

11M ago29:47

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How can I explain change? It's something that makes me feel hopeful...that audiences, and as people, and most importantly as human beings, we can, by looking at the big picture, be much better equipped, I think, at making change...we have to look at how can we work together to make change in the world. CATHERINE FILLOUX (Playwright/Librettist/Activ…

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Clara Francesca: Creating Socially Aware AI Art 28:15

12M ago28:15

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How do we create a world where we allow people to express themselves, and if they need to be called in, or if they're doing something that really is egregious? How do we help teach them [students] why it's problematic rather than me having to shut them down? Clara Francesca is an award-winning artist, activist, educator and speech coach and holds a…

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Valerie David: Celebrating Differences 30:48

1y ago30:48

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My mission is to keep [Iraqi Jewish] culture alive; to sustain that culture because we don't want history repeating itself. And to educate - we are all the same people. We are all in the mindset of being ONE. And that we should celebrate our differences instead of fearing them or being alienated by those differences. ~Valerie David Valerie David, i…

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Maleni Chaitoo: Breaking Through the Silence 30:59

1y ago30:59

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Even though [Don't Shoot the Messenger] is comical it's an opportunity to change thoughts about who we are, and they can see us as normal people with disabilities. There should be no barriers between us. We find ways to communicate. We find ways to be together and collaborate. I was filled with hope. We can achieve great things when we work togethe…

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Jeffrey Sweet: Striking Back 39:58

1y ago39:58

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"Here's the thing about AI. It doesn't have a soul, and it doesn't understand psychology, and it doesn't understand the quirks of human behavior. All it can do is strip-mine what has already been written by other people. So, AI is first and foremost in violation of copyright because it's using our material without compensating. Secondly, it has no …

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Donna Benedicto: A New Generation of Actors 25:10

1y ago25:10

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Focusing outside of yourself helps you thrive in this industry and helps you deal with so much and all the obstacles we face. ~Donna Benedicto Donna Benedicto is a Filipina Canadian actress and singer born and raised in Vancouver, BC. Growing up as an ethnic minority, Donna decided to make a switch from full-time singing to pursue acting in 2013 be…

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Avra Sidiropoulou: Addressing an Age of Upheaval 27:08

1+ y ago27:08

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My work has always been about bringing people together, forging new transcultural and transnational artistic relationships, and combining research with theatre-making in order to explore and extend the limits of creativity. Avra Sidiropoulou is a theatre director and academic. She is the Artistic Director of Persona Theatre Company. She has publish…

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Theresa Chaze: Feisty Filmmaker 30:30

1+ y ago30:30

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Telling stories that activate emotions helps audiences be open to new ideas. People can only change themselves. But until they experience the new they will remain stuck in the old--in other words, we are growing and changing or stagnating and dying. My work helps people find the best of themselves. Theresa Chaze began her career in the mid-1980s at…

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Pamela S.K. Glasner: Fighting for Fairness 31:25

1+ y ago31:25

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Getting my Masters at Harvard at age sixty-nine, I hope that I'm inspiring other women that there are no limits. There's absolutely no limits except for those you place on yourself. I never actually wrote a screenplay and now all these Film Festivals think I'm such a great writer.. . There's always a first time for everything. Why not me? Pamela S.…

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Naomi McDougall Jones: Defying Gravity 26:35

1+ y ago26:35

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I truly believe we are in an apocalyptic culture shift ; truly, an historical, multi-century, multi-millennial shift and in the last gasp of the white-supremacist patriarchal society. We are living through that moment...So, what I focus on these days more than railing against what has been we had to tear the scales from people's eyes: 'Hey, wake up…

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BAB on 3 Productions: Acknowledging Our Authentic Selves 31:00

1+ y ago31:00

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We are a film production company on a mission to inspire, empower and light a fire! Not just for women. We can acknowledge that we're all damaged, we're all broken. That doesn't mean that we're destroyed because beautiful things can grow out of damage. ~ Gina Dobson I'm exploring a me that I would have never known before. Women wear so many hats. H…

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Cindy Cooper: Seeking Asylum Through The Arts 27:03

1+ y ago27:03

27:03

Human rights and civil rights will be realized only when we fully hear the voices, ideas and creative concepts of womxn over 40, whose perspectives have long been marginalized and stifled. ~ Cindy Cooper Cynthia L. Cooper (Cindy to most people) is an award-winning playwright, journalist, author and activist. She became a playwright to use the power…

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Pat Addiss: Humble Guru 23:25

1+ y ago23:25

23:25

Patt Addiss, Theater Producer, I didn’t start out wanting to be a theatrical producer. She was busy running the promotion company she founded, but after 30 years, she handed the reins over to her daughter. Then in 2005, after ‘learning the tools of the trade,’ Pat went on to produce more than 18 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions including: “Spr…

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Janet Stilson: Shiny Objects Exposed 23:16

1+ y ago23:16

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On one hand, Janet Stilson is a journalist. On the other, she writes scripts, novels and short stories that largely fall in the grounded sci-fi and fantasy genres and illuminate the human condition in provocative ways. I [want] people to think a little bit more about where we might be headed from the standpoint of communications and how it's manipu…

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Emma Goldman-Sherman: Living In Your Power 29:43

1+ y ago29:43

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"We can heal. I think it's really important to be in control of what we're taking in so that we don't feel that we have to worry...that we can feel like we can live in our power, we can do things, as artists, that will hopefully push the needle and change the culture and make people think more deeply about what THEY can do if they're not artists." …

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Karen Cecilia: Challenging the New Normal 21:17

2y ago21:17

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We're in a time where we are seeing new voices, new types of voices telling their stories and people create their identity through seeing themselves reflected in work, in all Art, all literature, in any aspect. And if you don't see yourself reflected EVER then think about how that impacts your life and not only in the character, but the narratives …

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Romy Nordlinger: An Empowering Voice 27:14

2y ago27:14

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Learning through The Arts [as] being one of the most transformative vehicles in which we really get to a person's soul and to realize they're not alone in their feelings and that is by exchanging [ideas] and THAT is what theatre does...We have everything to gain by stories being told that we need to hear now and now more than ever. Romy Nordlinger …

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Yvette Heyliger: Lessons to Learn 22:08

2y ago22:08

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YVETTE HEYLIGER Playwright/Director/Producing Artist/Author is a lifelong theatre artist, as well as an educator, and the author of What a Piece of Work is Man! Full-Length Plays for Leading Women. Yvette is a long-time activist for women in the American theatre and was recently named a finalist for the Advance Gender Equity in the Arts 2022 AGE Le…

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Joan Kane: Speaking Truth 30:09

2y ago30:09

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Joan Kane (writer/actor/producer) is the founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus. I had to tell my story. I needed to be able to say, 'Look, I grew up in a time period in Brooklyn where racism was horrific and it was rampant.' I needed to talk about sexual assault. I needed to talk about survival; how you can have horrible things happen to you. And…

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Emma Palzere-rae: Raising Representation Awareness 25:28

2y ago25:28

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Emma Palzere-Rae is a playwright, actor, director, producer and non-profit administrator. Emma spent 15 years as part of the NYC theater community, where she began producing one-woman plays and founded the Womenkind Festival. Over its ten-year run, Womenkind presented nearly 75 different performers, mainly original works. She is the Associate Direc…

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Dani Martineck: Pronouns Matter 26:01

2y ago26:01

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Dani Martineck is a New York-based non-binary actor, writer, and award-winning audiobook narrator with a background in experimental psychology. I'm a storyteller. I've found that in communicating truthfully through the stories I tell, other people feel seen and understood, and it just radiates this ripple of openheartedness outward to places I'll n…

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Nicky Beer: Real Phonies & Genuine Fakes, an exploration of our divided selves 26:07

2+ y ago26:07

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Nicky Beer is a bi/queer writer, and the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes (Milkweed, 2022). Her first two books, The Diminishing House (Carnegie Mellon, 2010) and The Octopus Game (Carnegie Mellon, 2015), were both winners of the Colorado Book Award for Poetry. She has received honors from the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, the…

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Erika Ewing: Fashioning Change 34:12

2+ y ago34:12

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"When we're talking about the power of The Arts -- the healing, the transformative powers -- we're really talking about the fact that we're human. We're humanizing the experience of others. So, we lead with empathy, and we lead in such a way that we put ourselves in someone else's shoes. It's more than meeting people for where they are --it's BEING…

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Moise Morancy: Returning the Favor 29:45

2+ y ago29:45

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Moise Morancy is an American actor, writer, director, producer, poet and activist from Brooklyn, New York. Moise always had a passion for telling stories. His career as a writer began as a young boy, capturing personal aspects of life’s challenges through written expressions such as poetry, songwriting and eventually screenwriting. His literary wor…

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Margarita Espada: Teatro Yerbabruja, a Conduit for Change 29:46

2+ y ago29:46

29:46

The immigrant stories that are here. . . when they see in us the possibility that it's real. That's why I focus on a specific community because we know the challenges . . . so young artists they see in us, [and] know that [change] is possible and we are here to support them. Margarita Espada has traveled the world in her careers as an artist, educa…

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Coni Koepfinger & Dan Carter: LIVE FROM THE BARDO: My Dinner With Mary 28:26

3y ago28:26

28:26

Writing plays became my way of communicating with all life- from the ordinary people to the sublime consciousness… all of which seemed to operate on the same plane for me. It was clear that we are all human life forms that can conform, reform or deform to the energetic stimulus around us- but when we PERForm- we are able perfect the form, taking it…

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Jessica Wu: Open Access Paths to Success 30:22

3y ago30:22

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Actors Equity is opening its doors. I think this is one of the most exciting things that's happening in my almost two decades as a Union member. It shifts the way people can become members. . . It is now OUR choice to become a member and that's incredible. Jessica Wu is an award-winning NYC-based playwright, director, songwriter, educator, and acto…

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Yiqing Zhao: Would-be-doctor-turned Actor/Writer/Creative Life Coach 33:45

3y ago33:45

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Everything is connected. Everything, all these things, becomes a part of YOU. But then this journey does not stop. Some people stop from manifesting what they want because they understand the importance of training and then they let the training stop them...I'm not going to wait until I get the certification [to become] a certified coach. I know tr…

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Jenny Lynn Stewart: A New York Spirit

3y ago

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It makes me feel happy. I feel happy when I sing. People who hear me sing tell me THEY feel happy; that I make their hearts happy. It's the most joyful thing that I can do, I feel, for me and for others. ~Jenny Lynn Stewart City Artist Corps Grants support NYC-based working artists who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. Funding is o…

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