The Next Canon Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dani Rei
The Next Canon Podcast is working to Recreate and Reimagine the Theatre Canon. With my guest we talk about their opinions on a "Show that's gotta go!" and the "Shows you aught to know!" Next Canon is all about amplifying the voices of artists and creating change.
Today Danielle and I talk about the importance of empathy and cheering each other on. We believe that supporting each other and growing together is really a key to success in the entertainment industry!
Danielle Beckmann is a bicoastal multi-hyphenate creative based in Los Angeles. In 2017 Danielle co-founded the production company Brooklyn Quarter where she most recently produced and starred in their 2021 Tribeca Film Festival official selection short film, Liza Anonymous. Danielle also loves leading actors and creatives into their full potential and power through her coaching company The Spirited Storyteller. Connect with Danielle @deebeck on IG or visit her site daniellebeckmann.com
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Today Cessa and I talk about stepping out of our comfort zones to make sure we can see amazing new work. We discuss the risks involved in walking into a theatre no knowing what to expect! This is us encouraging you to take the risk!!
Francesca Betancourt aka Cessa is an actor, intimacy director, facilitator, and producer originally from the Southwest but is now based on the East coast. She has worked as an artist & theatre/dance teacher in Ireland, India, the Philippines, New York, Washington, Wisconsin, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Florida. She holds two BAs from Western Washington University in Theatre Arts and Sociology, and has trained in Applied Theatre at City University of New York. Her work is based in trauma informed social/emotional arts practice, equity, compassion, access, autonomy, and physical storytelling.
Folks can find her and her blog at francescabetancourt.com or on instagram at @betandalsocourt
She has a storytelling show that's currently a budding podcast called she is FIERCE: stories from the female and genderqueer perspective
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Today Kylie and I talk about our burlesque experiences and how we come alive on stage! We also discuss ways to update our dear old Shakespeare and build the Next Canon! Catch Kylie as Moonlit Marie SOON on a burlesque stage near you!
Kylie is a queer (pansexual, demisexual) visual artist and performer, typically performing burlesque and circus arts. They write short stories and are in the process of starting an online watercolor landscape class through the Sol Acting School out of Albuquerque, New Mexico for their new media department. They were a ticketer and usher for the Seattle Theater Groups for about two years, getting high exposure to theater through work. Kylie graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in 2019 with a BFA in Graphic Design with a focus on illustration. During their senior year, Kylie took Cherry Manhattan’s Neo-burlesque class and began to explore burlesque that way. They have been a stagehand and worn various hats for several burlesque shows over the past three years.
https://www.instagram.com/kylinarench14/
Mysterious influences from Victorian, gothic, and the fantastic become Moonlit Marie on the stage. This mystical tease offers subtle slyness and organic flow that will take you to your knees. Fiercely fluid, and always flexible, you’ll always hope Moonlit Marie will reveal just one more layer - and wonder who might show up next. With acts reminiscent of vaudeville, saucy sweet stripteases, to high elf fan dances and aerial silk flows, Moonlit Marie is flexible, unpredictable and adventitious.
https://www.instagram.com/moonlitmarie14/
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Today Wilysha and I talk about how New Work totally changed our views as artists. We also talk A LOT about movies and TV in today's episode so if you like Rom-coms, Comedy or Eddie Murphy you will enjoy today's episode!
Wilysha Nicole Walton is a writer, actor, singer, and dancer living in Seattle, Washington. She has trained in various forms of performance such as musical theatre, improv, Shakespeare, clown, and urban dance and has written 2 full-length plays and a number of monologues, short stories, 10 minute and 1 act plays, poems, and group generative work. Since graduating from Cornish College of the Arts in 2019, Wilysha has had the fortune of working with theatre companies such as Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Freehold Theatre and participating in local festivals like 14/48: The World's Quickest Theatre Festival, where she has been both an actor and writer. Though she participates in many forms of theatre, playwriting holds a special place in Wilysha's heart. Since she was young she's always had a larger-than-life imagination and loved to dream of worlds that were vastly different from reality. Couple that with her love for her own culture and others, amplifying Black and non-Black POC voices, and comedy, you get plays that are a whole lot of fun!
Wilysha: https://www.instagram.com/thee_real_alien/
Legacy Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/welcomematradio/
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Today Nicolas and I talk about planning the most RADICAL production of ANNIE! and it’s barely radical at all! We talk about some of Nicholas’s favorite hella Black hella Queer Plays and Musicals that NEED to join the Canon. We have a grand old time convincing the masses to watch the Zoom Theatre if you’re not planning on showing up when those in-person doors finally OPEN! So if you want to know what Play got us so riled up in the title, make sure you listen in!
Nicholas Japaul Bernard is not a fan of writing bios but has begun the process of accepting they are a necessary part of his profession. A Seattle-based Theatre Artists and Writer, with a slick mouth, Nicholas dares to give the girls what needs to be given, one show at a time. Buy and Stream Jessie Ware's "What's Your Pleasure?" where ever you consume music.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/njapaulbernard/
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Today Annelih and I talk about some of our Absolute FAVORITE Philippino/a/x Theatre Makers who are doing amazing work and working their way into the NEXT CANON! There are so many amazing shout-outs in this episode so listen close! Also, stay till the end for a really dope conversation that neither of us saw coming! We Love It!
Annelih GH Hamilton (she/her), a 1st generation Filipina/x-American, is perpetually a work in progress, the multi-hyphenate she is currently experimenting with is an actor - storyteller - educator - activist - and - lifelong learner. Currently residing on the lands of the Coast Salish Indigenous Peoples & Puyallup Tribe of Indians, past & present. Aries Sun, Taurus Moon, & Scorpio Rising!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annelihghh/
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Today Shannon and I go on soooo many tangents! We discuss the hope that the theater community will stop telling the same stories. We talk about how we are sick of stories mocking people for being who they are. It was so fun to catch up with Shan and talk Next Canon and BEYOND! Go get your tickets for The Dirty Darlings Present: LUBE! June 18th!
Shannon Johnson (she/her) is a 2019 BFA recipient from Cornish College of The Arts in Theater with an emphasis in Musical Theater. Her most recent shows are The Diary of Anne Frank as Anne’s Understudy with SCT, and as a co-producer/performer for The Dirty Darling’s show Debutante: A Coming Out Cotillion. Within the last year, she has become a trained wedding planner, learned how to self-tape, and allowed time and space for her mental health. Her current project is co-producing/performing in The Dirty Darling’s upcoming show, LUBE. She is immensely grateful for the loved ones, and especially grateful for her corgi, Cora.
Headshot: Photo by Zachary Johnson
Shannon: https://www.instagram.com/theshanjohnson/
Shannon’s Cosplay: https://www.instagram.com/shanaynay_cosplay/
The Dirty Darlings insta: https://www.instagram.com/thedirtydarlingspresent/
LUBE! Tickets: https://linktr.ee/TheDirtyDarlings
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IF YOU ARE AN ACTOR WHO WANTS TO BOOK YOUR DREAM ROLE:
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Today William and I discuss how important it is for the Book and Music to be cohesive in musical theatre. So Many beautiful shows are tainted by a sketchy book. We also take time to remember that THEATRE IS NOT BROADWAY. It’s like the rectangle and the square thing. Broadway is theater, but theater is not JUST Broadway. Remember that the best performance you may ever see could be just around the corner. No matter where you are. So go out there and see some local theatre!!!
William Douglas Johnson (He/They) has been local to the Seattle area all his life. Graduated in 2020 from Cornish College the Arts, William has worked with Seattle Repertory theater and their Public Works group, Showtunes theater, Sound theater company, Village theater KIDSTAGE, and others. Since this shift to virtual for the pandemic, William has been exploring podcasting, streaming, and film.
William’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/william_d_johnson/
Maelstrom Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Rz4J8UPeiqZQ39nO8tuja
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Today Anasofia and I discuss how modern canon shows often fall into the same traps as shows from 50 years ago. We need to have more shows depicting diverse human experiences, written and composed by the people they are representing. PERIOD. Anasofia has amazing words on the topic of activism and especially activism in the theatre. Go follow them on instagram @a.gal
Anasofia Gallegos (they/them) is a fat, queer, neurodivergent desert-born actor/activist. Anasofia has worked with Fifth Avenue, Seattle Opera, Village Theatre, Book-It Repertory, and other local seattle theatres as both a teaching artist and performer. "We must be impatient for change. Let us remember that our voice is a precious gift and we must use it."--Claudia Flores
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Today Shermona and I talk about Breaking up with a show that is considered “Classic American Literature.” We also wonder how we all forgot how to learn like children do, through experience discovery and exposure to new circumstances. This Episode is jam packed with laughs and deep talks ya’ll! You don’t want to miss it!
Shermona Mitchell (she/they)
Shermona is an actor, director, educational artist, adaptor, musician and artist-activist- transplanted in Seattle by way of Kentucky. After spending over 20 years in Seattle, Shermona has had a myriad of opportunities to share her artistic abilities in Oregon, Canada, Turkmenistan in addition to Washington. Shermona is an Artistic Associate for Seattle Public Theater and Board President for Sound Theatre Company.
https://www.instagram.com/monalisaturtle/
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Today Candice and I talk about wanting to get more Women and POC into the Directing and Producing Chairs because we are AWESOME at it! Candice also gives us a list of shows to discover and definitely not to bootleg them… wink?
Candice Donehoo is a teaching artist specializing in musical theater with a concentration in voice. She is a proud member of the AEA, NATS, PAVA, and MTEA. She has advanced her voice teaching and CCM training through professional workshops in Somatic VoiceworkSM The LoVetri Method plus Rock the Audition Teachers Training with Sheri Sanders. She is also the co-host of “The Mind Your Show Business” podcast which discusses the ins and outs of navigating the musical theatre business. Some of her performance credits include: 1996 Tony Award Winning production of The King and I (Broadway/1st National), Jekyll and Hyde (1st National), multiple productions at the 5th Avenue Theatre including: Miss Saigon, Sweeny Todd, The Sound of Music, A Christmas Story, Carousel, The Secret Garden, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Sister Act. Candice can be heard on the original cast recording of Tony Award nominated musical A Christmas Story as the soprano in the Radio Quartet. Other theatre credits: ACT Theatre, Theater Under The Stars, Village Theater, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Casa Mañana Theatre, and the Ogunquit Playhouse. B.S. Music Industry Management Georgia State University. https://www.instagram.com/candicedonehoo/
If you would like to support the Next Canon Podcast please Email dani@danirei.com with the subject line "Support Next Canon" and we can discuss avenues for support! IF YOU ARE AN ACTOR WHO WANTS TO BOOK YOUR DREAM ROLE: I am an Audition Coach focused on helping artists achieve their personal goals. To learn more about my curated audition training and support and to learn how you can OWN YOUR AUDITION Please visit danirei.com/services
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Today Brandon and I Talk about the Shakespeare Play that is truly the most unnecessary and we also talk about the beauty that happens when theatre makes an impact on your life. We also just hang out and catch up about life so be ready for that.
Brandon JonesMooney is multi hyphenated artist from Oakland,CA. He’s a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory Of Performing Arts and Cornish College of the Arts. He’s also a founding member of the Young Hot Thespian collective. Past productions for Brandon include “Endgame”(Hamm) with Young Hot Thespian,“The Brother’s Size” (Oshoosi) with Young Hot Thespian, “Reparations”(Leonard/Jimmy/Maceo) with Sound Theatre Company, “The Tempest”(Ensemble) with Seattle Shakespeare, and “As You Like It”(Oliver) with Freehold Theatre. He also served as a writer for “Black 365”
and “7-11”(Young Hot Thespian)
Brandon IG: https://www.instagram.com/brandonjonesmooney/
YHT Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/younghotthespian/
Black365: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC079YNxkNdc_vVIB0wv0waQ
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Today Jaye and I talk about finding a way to put your art out there, the IMPORTANCE of bringing children to the arts and helping them Identify with theatre. We also get our weekly dose of inspiration from Ms. Jaye over here. She is dropping truth bombs all over and reminding you of your worths so GET INTO IT!
Jacqueline ‘Jaye’ Ware was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. A Poet, Spoken Word Artist, and recent Playwright; she is drawn and leans towards material that taps into social justice and injustice issues. With a heart for children and seniors, Jaye writes stories, poetry, and prose geared towards their age groups. Access to Jaye’s videos for children can be found on YouTube; Pop up Time, Children’s Poetry and Prose. She is a member artist with the 4Culture Touring Arts Roster. She wrote two short play’s, and both were produced. Madison Park Bench is a short “on location” staged play found on YouTube, Menrva Labs. COVID Dreams, on-demand, is a short, hip, hop pandemic play featuring two students discussing how the pandemic has impacted their lives while singing, dancing, and waiting for the Professor. She has performed at Town Hall, libraries, festivals, museums, on Orcas and Vashon Islands, schools, tea shops, bookstores, and art galleries.
Madison Park Bench. Produced by Mahogany Project. A short, filmed, on-location reading. It is about an encounter with an older African American male at Madison Park Beach by three young adults and how the experience affected their lives.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4CxxMRO8nw&ab_channel=MenrvaLabs
COVID Dreams. Produced by 18th & Union. A short, filmed on stage play about two college students conversing about how the pandemic has impacted their lives, singing, and dancing while waiting for the Professor. Foot-tapping, fun, and engaging. It will leave viewers singing. Play is on-demand.
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/pandemicplayscoviddreams
UPCOMING
Invited for thirty minutes of poetry/spoken word performance Sunday, May 16, 2021 from 4:30-5:00 pm with Artists of Color Expo & Symposium (ACES 2021). Google for program details closer to the event.
Performing spoken word piece in response to art produced by Jacob Lawrence as part of the African American Writers’ Alliance (AAWA) at the Seattle Art Museum. Live-streamed Thursday, May 20, 2021 from 5-6 pm. Google their website for more details closer to the event..
RECENT PERFORMANCE LINK, IT’S ABOUT TIME FOR SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY SPONSORED BY AT LARGE IN BALLARD.
https://youtu.be/1u9fcyAeF0M
“Spread honesty liberally.” Jaye Ware
Today Jazz and I talk about how the next generation is taking the world by storm and how we want people to see more burlesque in their lives!
Jasmine Flora (she/her/hers) is storyteller & showgirl that believes in the magical healing properties of song, dance, and sharing with one another. Passionate about empowering audiences and casting aside shame, Jasmine is also a burlesque performer and producer under the name Miss Lola California. As Lola, she explores and queers archetypes inviting the audience to engage in the liberating rebellion that is burlesque. She is currently working with her theatre burlesque troupe, The Dirty Darlings, on their next narrative burlesque show coming June 2021.
To learn more about Jazz: www.jazzjazzflora.com & to learn more about her burlesque world, follow @misslolacalifornia on IG and The Dirty Darlings at @thedirtydarlingspresent on IG and patreon.com/thedirtydarlings
If you would like to support the Next Canon Podcast please Email dani@danirei.com with the subject line "Support Next Canon" and we can discuss avenues for support!
IF YOU ARE AN ACTOR WHO WANTS TO BOOK YOUR DREAM ROLE:
I am an Audition Coach focused on helping artists achieve their personal goals. To learn more about my curated audition training and support and to learn how you can OWN YOUR AUDITION Please visit danirei.com/services
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Today Raya and I talk about What it was like for her as a student during the pandemic and about the types of theatre that we want to keep seeing creating and supporting throughout our theatrical journeys.
Raya Tuffaha (She/her) is a Palestinian-American actor and writer from Seattle, WA. Currently a student at Swarthmore College, her training encompasses both classical and contemporary styles of acting and music. In March 2020, Tuffaha published her first full-length poetry collection, To All the Yellow Flowers, with Golden Antelope Press. Since then, almost a hundred copies have been sold around the country. Prior to that, she helped Team Seattle place third internationally at Brave New Voices, the largest international youth slam poetry competition in the world. Tuffaha hopes to continue weaving her passions of writing and performing together to uplift her communities.
https://rayatuffaha.com/
https://www.instagram.com/rayatuffaha/
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IF YOU ARE AN ACTOR WHO WANTS TO BOOK YOUR DREAM ROLE:
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Today Matty and I talk about wanting more queer and BIPOC representation in theatre and about being teaching artists who love growing more empathetic young artists.
Matty Sythandone (he.him)
Is a multi-hyphenated artist and Board Member at Theatre Puget Sound . He is a graduate of Cornish College of the Arts. Matty holds a BFA in Theatre with an emphasis in Musical Theater. He is a Teaching Artist with Dandylyon Drama and the Seattle Rep’s Public Works Program. Through teaching, directing, performing and burlesquing he hopes to make the world a brighter and safer place. When he's not on the stage you can catch him running virtual puzzle rooms for Puzzle Break Seattle!
https://mattysythandone.com
Teaching Artist-Actor-Producer-Burlesque
https://www.celebratenhdd.online/the-play
https://dandylyondrama.org/
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IF YOU ARE AN ACTOR WHO WANTS TO BOOK YOUR DREAM ROLE:
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Today Trace and I talk about what we really want from a piece of theatre. I can tell you right now its not men screaming in a kitchen sink drama.
Trace Turner (he/they) is a multi-disciplinary theatre generator and collaborator born and raised in Austin, TX. I got my degree in Directing from Webster Conservatory in St. Louis, MO. I have just recently moved to Seattle from NYC after the pandemic ended my project there. I have bene a Director, Playwright, Deviser, Adaptor, Actor, Stage Manager, Photographer, as well as many other odd jobs in the theater industry. Some projects that I am apart of is Ghost Light Audition Group, a new non-profit aimed at aiding BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and any other high school students interested in theatre making navigate the college audition process. I am also set to direct a production of The Sound Of Music at Grandstreet Theatre in Helena, MT. My instagram is @tracemturner and my portfolio can be found at www.traceturner.com.
https://www.ghostlightauditiongroup.org/
https://www.frankwomencollective.com/?fbclid=IwAR3Ht33yjK72bUKcI4SbBdc1eGqexA9lOGS_zdAQ6O0BkoOolp-_JVxYqgc
If you would like to support the Next Canon Podcast please Email dani@danirei.com with the subject line "Support Next Canon" and we can discuss avenues for support!
IF YOU ARE AN ACTOR WHO WANTS TO BOOK YOUR DREAM ROLE:
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Today Ayo and I talk about her experience creating theatre and attending school in predominantly white populations. We discuss learning and unlearning as well as how the canon needs to be improved to join the changing world.
Ayo Tushinde
Pronouns are she/her.
Ayo is a Seattle based actor and activist with a passion for creating art for the stage and creating important change in an ever- shifting world. In addition to recent ventures as a teaching artist, she has enjoyed working with many local theatres. Her most recent performances Cafe Nordo, Living Voices, ACT, Intiman, Seattle Public Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Intiman Theatre. She currently is serving on the board of directors for The Seagull Project.
FOLLOW AYO:
https://www.instagram.com/ayotushinde/
https://www.facebook.com/atushi20
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ONE MORE DAY TO CATCH HOUSE OF SUENOS!!
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Today Micaela and I talked about pivoting online during the pandemic and how Dance and Theatre idolize works by people who don’t deserve to be idolized. It truly is a Fun and Sexy Time!
Micaela Gonzales comes from a Panamanian/Mexican family that cherishes the arts. She began her training at age three, thanks to the help and support of her mother, and has dedicated her life to dance ever since. She is a graduate from Cornish College of the Arts where she was trained by local Seattle natives. She continues to explore performance in modern, contemporary, jazz, improvisational, and burlesque based movement.
Scarlett Folds -- Miss Folds if you’re nasty -- is THE raunchy red-lipped lady. Scarlett knows love can be tough sometimes. She also knows you like it that way. This rebel will whip you into shape and light a fire inside you that only she can put out.
With her extensive background in dance as a performer and a movement director, Scarlett brings jaw-dropping shimmies and twirls that will mesmerize you to follow her every whim. She studied burlesque under Cherry Manhattan, and is now a TA for the dirty debutante’s Neo-Burlesque class at Cornish College of the Arts. Scarlett made her professional burlesque debut with Sinner Saint Burlesque in A Midsummer Night’s Reverie in 2018, and has since had a joyously naughty time in shows such as BurlesKaraoke, Moonwake and more.
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We have a virtual show every third Thursday of the month! Catch us at our next one on March 18th. Tickets are as little as $2!
Simone Pin
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Today Xandii and I talk about creating and encouraging work done in the last 21 years and letting go of the rest for a bit. We need some fun jukebox musicals to lift our spirits these days. Smiling Laughing and Dancing together once we can all be together again! Cant Wait!
Xandria Easterday Callahan (they/them) was tickled pink to chat with Dani on Next Canon, as a stage manager you may have seen their work, but not them, working with such various theaters such as Village, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Wooden O, Seattle Public Theater and more to come! They are also the production and personal manager for Albatross Theater Lab. When not in the theater, they are an amateur painter, sound designer, and general eccentric artist. You can most often find them talking to their cats in West Seattle. As always, most thanks to their wife Alina. #MaskUp #StaySafe
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Today Wiley and I talk about THE END on Phantom of the Opera (on broadway and perhaps in our hearts)… Isn’t it really just a show about a show that a guy writes so he can be the lead in a show and kiss the girl he likes? Kinda. Yeah, I would say so. High Drama over here. In 30 years though Wiley is going to direct a Brechtian Phantom and that sounds like HONESTLY a rip roaring time at the theatre to me.
Wiley Basho Gorn (he/him/his) is a director, dramaturg, text coach, and teaching artist. His work focuses on developing a personal connection to heightened language both on and off the stage. Directing credits include: house of sueños: an audio drama (Seattle Shakespeare Company’s Rough Magic podcast), Twelfth Night, or What You Will (Fern Shakespeare Company, Seattle WA) house of sueños and It Will Be Now (18th⋃, Seattle WA), As You Like It (ACT Theatre, Seattle WA) and The Tempest (Taksu Theatre Co. Brooklyn NY). Dramaturgical credits include: Bring Down The House Pt 1&2, As You Like It, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland OR), Richard III (Seattle Shakespeare Company and upstart crow collective, Seattle, WA). Wiley is an affiliate artist of upstart crow collective and received his BFA from the School of Drama at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. wileybashogorn.com
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Today Meme and I talk about the ways you SHOULD do Shakespeare as well as how we can search for the next generation of GREAT creators during this moment of pause in our community!
House of Sueños information: https://www.seattleshakespeare.org/houseofsuenos/
Meme García (they/them) is an actor and playwright originally from El Salvador. They are a Fulbright Scholar and graduated with a MA in Classical Acting from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. They hold degrees in Theatre and Women and Gender and Sexuality Studies from Seattle University and are currently based out of Ashland, OR. For the last two years they have been a member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s resident acting company (La Comedia of Errors, and Bring Down the House parts I&II). Previously they have worked with upstart crow collective, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT Theatre, Strawberry Workshop Theatre, and Book-It Repertory Theatre. house of sueños is their debut play, and they are currently working on a coming of age TV show called “Las Siguanabas.” more info at: memerosagarcia.com
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Today I have compiled a bunch of clips from every episode for a fun recap of season 1!
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I am so grateful to all of the artists who shared their time and opinions with me. Their work is fantastic so please check them out!
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Today Gloria and I talked about JAZZ BABY! Well, honestly we talked a lot about how misogynistic shows and people are the worst. We also talked about some wonderful musicals that are thoughtfully written and deserve to be seen by EVERYONE! Woot woot!
Gloria Lee Alcalá
(They/Them)
Gloria Lee Alcalá (BFA - Theatre/Emphasis in Musical Theatre - Cornish College of the Arts) is an actor/writer/musician based in Seattle, WA, who is currently on a pandemic-induced sabbatical in northern Arizona. Presently playing their mother’s out of tune piano everyday, and prepping zoom theatre material here and there, they are missing the days of bright lights and full houses, and therefore delighted to reminisce the past and ideate the future with Dani on the Next Canon Podcast. Pre-pandemic stage credits include: The Tempest (Seattle Shakespeare Company), Bright Star the Musical (Taproot Theatre), The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (Seattle Children's Theatre), Native Gardens (Intiman), Disenchanted! the Musical (Mamches Presents/2019 Gregory award nomination).
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Today Leilani and I talk about wanting to turn everything into a Burlesque and how we miss going to the theatre. I’m sure you can relate to one if not both of those things!
We discuss a racist show that CANNOT be salvaged by a creative change in casting or directing. No matter which way we tried to spin it “This isn’t comedy, this is just racism.” MIC DROP BY LEILANI BOSTOCK! You’ll have to listen to hear what show we are talking about!
Leilani Bostock
She/Her
Born in Sussex, England, and raised in Hawaiʻi, Leilani is an actor, singer, director, and avid crafter who is passionate about telling Native stories and giving voice to the voiceless. She is currently working as director & co producer of The Dirty Darlings, a narrative burlesque troupe that uses striptease to tell queer stories.
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This Week Christian and I talk about Awesome Latino Theatre and how much we love strong female characters! We also discuss how we need to be careful and mindful with the messaging of the shows we choose to put up and support.
Christian Zumbado (he/him/his)
Christian Zumbado is a graduate of PCPA,the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, and is in his last semester of Cornish College of the Arts. Most recent roles include Macbeth, Larry in Company, Rick Coca in Sonnets for an Old Century and Tomas in Shoe by Marisela Treviño. He is a proud member of YHT (Young Hot Thespian Theatre Company) and is on the mission to bring BIPOC stories to our communities.
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Ana María and I talk about kicking Neil LaBute out of the Canon SPOILERS he’s got to go. I know, you’re all shocked. We talk about AWESOME Latinx Playwrights and theatre makers that deserve more recognition and about major systemic change that needs to happen in the theatre community and in our country. Just another AMAZING Conversation at The Next Canon Podcast!
Ana María Campoy (she/her/hers)
Ana María Campoy is a Mexican-American theatre artist, educator, and advocate. She moved to Seattle in fall 2010 to participate in Seattle Repertory Theatre’s Professional Arts Training Program and was part of TAT Lab’s inaugural class in 2011-2012. In addition to Seattle Rep, she has taught for the Pacific Northwest Ballet, Arts Impact, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, and Village Theatre. For the last five years, she has worked as an arts teaching mentor in Arts Impact's Voices from the Fields program; working with public schools in migrant districts throughout Washington state. As an actor, director, adaptor, or dramaturg, she has worked for OSF, Seattle Children's Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Washington Ensemble Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company, and Pork Filled Productions. One of her most cherished acting roles includes Catherine in a bilingual adaptation of David Auburn's Proof, which she also produced and translated alongside director Arlene Martínez-Vásquez, and is now under consideration for publication. She has toured nationally in Living Voices's solo show, La Causa. She is a passionate and proud advocate of the performing arts, believing that performance provides communities a voice and individuals self-exploration. At the center of her work lives the driving desire to create opportunities for artists of color, to remove economic and geographical barriers for audiences and students, and to expand and deepen our American identity. Her current projects include organizing and running the all-volunteer mutual aid collective, WashMasks, which works to provide PPE support and advocacy for migrant and seasonal farm workers and their families during this current pandemic.
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Starting Tuesday, December 1st, we shall have a landing page for all upcoming events about our bookdrive and food drive.
Book drive list via Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/wishlists/a4c102b5d7d18c982f7af2749fc38ab44e9a5eef
We recommend that books are purchased either through Estrelita's Library of Seattle or King's Books of Tacoma. Please ship all purchases to:
WashMasks
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Maya and I discuss why Theatre companies need to do more shows and seasons that are full of actors and creators of color! We also talk about some awesome shows and creators that are amazing and deserve to be more widely known.
Maya Burton is an actor, writer, producer, and theater educator from sunny South Florida. After earning her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts she worked with many different theater companies in and around Seattle, Washington. Some include Taproot Theatre Co., Washington Ensemble Theater, Seattle Shakespeare Co, The 5th Avenue Theater and her favorite by far, Off Road Shakespeare Co. Maya is currently the Director of Education & Community Engagement and resident teaching artist at Renegade Theatre Company and Conservatory in Lauderhill, Florida. She is also the co-creator of Raisins in a Glass of Milk; an annual verbatim play series centered on true stories directly told by Artists of Color.
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Leah Adcock-Starr https://www.instagram.com/leah.adcock.starr/
Lexi and I discuss how women and POC are represented in theatre and how we are working to change the narrative of all of the harmful stories that perpetuate negative feelings without a sense of hope.
Lexi Chipman is a Southern California native, who graduated from the Cornish College of the Arts Theater Department in 2016. Since graduating she has performed with Seattle Shakespeare Company, Off Road Shakespeare Company, The Williams Project, Island Shakespeare Company, Theater22, and more. She is currently The Marketing and Development Coordinator at The Williams Project, a national theater ensemble whose mission is to make theatrical excellence accessible to diverse and engaged audiences while paying artists a living wage. She is also a teaching artist who has worked with advanced high school students at Storybook Theater in Cottage Grove, Oregon and The Center for Creative Youth housed at Wesleyan University. She is also the co-creator of “Raisins in a Glass of Milk” a national play series based on interviews done with artists of color, you can find more information about their 2021 production at raisinsinaglassofmilk.com. Lexi is currently living in Los Angeles, California.
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Let's talk about how important representation in theatre is. VERY. Anuhea and I discuss all sorts of amazing shows as well as a few shows that gotta go!
Anuhea Brown (she/them)
Pronounced
(ah-new-hay-uh)
Anuhea Brown is an emerging actor, playwright, and activist based in the greater Seattle area. Anuhea is a proud Hawaiian Portuguese Filipino woman that hopes to decolonize theatre; creating a theatrical space that is fearless, daring, and most of all inclusive. She is planning to attend NYU’s Rita and Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing in the fall (:
Anuhea shares with us their "Show That's Gotta Go" and a few "Shows you aught to know". We discuss how this pandemic has created an epic pause in the theatre community that we need to use to make the changes we want to see.
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Stream Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu Directed by Spike Lee on Amazon Prime Video
Welcome to the first interview of the Next Canon Podcast! Today Hayden and I will be talking all about the canon. My personal definition of the theatrical canon is the group of shows that are most generally taught and known by theatre artists and theatre goers. We are taking this moment of pause in the theatre community to talk about how we can take action to update the shows being celebrated in our community and move into the future.
Hayden Irving Ware (he/they) is an actor, musician and writer on an "extended sabbatical" from the arts industry. Armed with a BFA in Acting in Musical Theatre from Cornish College of the Arts. They plan to someday, maybe, possibly get back into the theatre scene. Until then, they are content to make lattes and cocktails during the day, and over-analyze media and play taylor swift songs on the piano at night.
Welcome to the Next Canon Podcast! This podcast was created to start the conversation about reimagining and recreating the theatre canon to make it more representative of our modern theatre community. My personal definition of the theatrical canon is the group of shows that are most generally taught and known by theatre artists and theatre goers. We are taking this moment of pause to talk about how we can take action to update the shows being celebrated in our community and move into the future.
Join me as I talk with theatre makers around the nation about the changes that they would like to see!
Dani Rei