What's Your Jam?: Recent Episodes
Jennifer
Inspired by interview and storytelling podcasts, and driven by a desire to create art in the comfort of her own home, award-winning Fringe veteran Jennifer O'Sullivan sits down for 21 one-on-one chats with local and visiting makers and shakers over tea with scones and jam. Published daily during NZ Fringe 2017.
Hannah Clarke is a performance facilitator, boss lady of Fringe, scapegoat for technicalities and best friend to the house sav. Passionate about Fringe and its kaupapa from a young age Hannah has invested most of her adult life in creating and supporting performance that sits outside the usual, before shattering your expectations and defining the new usual. Coming to full-time art making with a marketing and information management background, a theatre degree from Vic Uni, and an inclination toward risky beautiful wild creations, Hannah has been behind Fringe since 2011, having spent eight years in front and still actively presenting new works with Present Company Live.
Over the past 10 years Stephii Onassiss has gone from obscure, messy drag queen wannabe to a shining light of the Wellington Drag scene. With her unique style and love of heavy costuming and make up, she's a stand out and always a crowd fave.
Megan is a 29 year old senior software engineer at ShowGizmo Ltd, an event app company based in Wellington. She's passionate about increasing diversity in tech, transgender issues, and more lately, the burgeoning video game industry in New Zealand.
Lisa is a Melbourne-based writer and performer, and Australia's favourite Femme Daddy Comedian Sparklepuppy.
Laura Irish is an award-winning actress, improviser and playwright based in Nelson, NZ. She is the recently appointed Artistic Director of the Nelson Fringe Festival.
Jonny Potts is a four-time nominee for Best Comedy in the NZ Fringe Festival, as well as winning and being nominated for various awards from the Dunedin Fringe, NZ Comedy Festival, NZ Comedy Guild, NZ 48 Hour Film and Wellington Comedy Awards. In 2015, his show 'Loose' won Best Stand Up and Best Writing in the NZ Fringe, and has subsequently toured to Sydney and around New Zealand.
Amelia Ryan has traversed the stages of New York City, London, Edinburgh, Australia and (very soon) NZ, with her one woman comedy cabaret shows. She has a slew of awards to her name, including winner of the Your Theatrics cabaret contest, Sydney Fringe Springboard award, and Best Cabaret at the Adelaide and Perth Fringe Weekly awards. She mentors young cabaret artists, and is passionate inspiring laughter and liberty in all she does.
Tabitha Arthur is creatively restless. She constantly seeks out fresh challenges across her chosen fields of directing, photography, and graphic design.
Marianne Elliott is a mouthy introvert and word geek who helps rally NZers to stand for truth, justice and a kinder way at ActionStation, a new force for Kiwis who believe in a fair and flourishing New Zealand.
Um. It's me? But interviewed by Matt Powell, who is an improvisor and director and general rad dude. We make shows together a lot.
Linda Calgaro is a Nelson-based Improv actor, teacher, director, singer and musician, who is passionate about making improv theatre. She thrives on getting the best and unexpected out of people and pushing the boundaries to creativity to inspire different, interesting, fun work.
Conor Twyford is the new General Manager of Wellington Sexual Abuse HELP. She has a campaign and communications background and has worked for many years in the union movement and community organising. She's new to the sexual violence sector but not new to the debate around gender violence, inequality and the need to turn that around.
Sameena Zehra is a consummate writer and performer and has a great connection with her audience. Her humour is dark and her mind is absurd. She is a storyteller, political satirist, feminist and humanist with a unique take on the world, equally at home exploring the individual experiences of daily life and the larger issues of the world we live in.
Ren Lunicke is originally from Cascadia and has been writing and performing poems and stories, singing, making messes with various visual arts mediums, and creating drama since ze was cute enough that people didn’t care if it was actually good. Most of zir peers grew out of it. Ze did not.
My dad is a scientist, a smallbore rifle shooting enthusiast, a home cook, a past-stay-at-home-dad, and a generally well known and well liked fellow. Ross is a regular attendee at my improv shows and frequent commenter on my Facebook posts. He's also on Twitter now and you should totally tweet him on @rossmason65.
Cassandra Tse is a writer and director all over Wellington. She's the Artistic Director of Red Scare Theatre Company and a member of Wellington Footlights.
Jem Yoshioka is an illustrator and comic artist living in Wellington, New Zealand. Deftly weaving words and pictures together, Jem’s comics tell evocative and emotional stories with themes of belonging, place, and heritage. Jem’s recent work explores the fluidity of her mixed race identity, documenting the challenges, delights and frustrations of being from more than one place at once.
Blair and Sateen are Wellington based sex workers and will be performing in Paying For It during Fringe Festival 2017. They are lovely. You can meet them and find out more by going to their show!
Dayna lives in Upper Hutt, and works from home, mainly in her pyjamas, as a Contract Data Wrangler. She lives with her husband Phil, daughter Freya, and an incredibly large Norwegian Forest Cat named Tasha. Dayna’s hobby for the most part of 10+ years has been medieval re-enactment, and the sport of medieval combat...
Join host Jennifer Alice as she experiments with Garageband and puts together the first ever episode of WYJ. But it's not really an episode, it's just a teaser to get you hooked...