Call Time with Katie Birenboim: Recent Episodes
Katie Birenboim
Katie checks in with actor (Hellraiser, Sweet Dreams, Everything's Gonna Be Okay, Grace and Frankie, and Ronnie McCurtry on Amazon Prime's hit show, Fallout), Adam Faison.
Katie checks in with scenic designer (Cymbeline, The Wolves, The Chinese Lady, Push Party, Royale, Wolf Play and The Ally as assistant/associate, and my production of The Lucky Ones), Yi-Hsuan (Ant) Ma.
Katie checks in with producer (Marcel on the Train, Cellino v. Barnes, Maybe Happy Ending, recipient of the Hal Prince Creative Producing Fellowship), Max Beer.
Katie checks in with actor (Black Milk at CSC, Cancer, Cancer, Cancer at Ars Nova, Lost in Yonkers at Hartford Stage), playwright (The Matriarchs, The Gett), and TV writer (Star City on Apple TV), Liba Vaynberg.
Katie checks in with actor/writer/performance artist Katy Murphy about her play/performance art piece (No) Refunds, set to return to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer.
Katie checks in with director (Tender Napalm, No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh, currently: Blackout Songs; The Lehman Trilogy, Glengarry Glen Ross, Sea Wall/ A Life as associate), Rory McGregor.
Katie checks in with actor (American Desi, Green Card Fever, Cosmopolitan, Sully, The Assistant on screen; ER, The West Wing, Gossip Girl, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, and Billions on television; Dance Nation, An Ordinary Muslim, The Lucky Ones, Coach Coach, and Wives Off-Broadway, and so much more), Purva Bedi.
Katie checks in with sound designer (Well I'll Let You Go, Nina, On Set with Theda Bara, The Lucky Ones, N/A at Barrington Stage), Brandon Bulls.
Katie checks in with playwright (N/A, Tail! Spin!, Commander, Santa for President), screenwriter (Dark Waters), and former Congressional aide, Mario Correa.
Katie checks in with lighting designer Wheeler Moon (Barrington Stage, Theatre Aspen, Bucks County Playhouse, Sharon Playhouse, Forestburgh Playhouse, Theaterlab, and more).
Katie checks in with Tony, Drama Desk, and Lortel nominted actor (High School Musical: the Musical: the Series, Into the Woods on Broadway, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, All Nighter), Julia Lester.
For the hundredth episode (!!), Katie checks in with Lucille Lortel award winning actor (Chicken and Biscuits on Broadway, (pray), Nina), Aigner Mizzelle.
Katie checks in with actor (To Kill a Mockingbird and The Iceman Cometh on Broadway; The Hard Problem and Nina Off-Broadway; Bad Monkey on Apple TV) and pop musician (Softee), Nina Ross.
Katie checks in with director (Grangeville, Uncle Vanya, The Animal Kingdom, This Beautiful Future, Obie Award winner), Jack Serio.
Katie checks in with actor, playwright, teacher, and the author of the upcoming Off-Broadway play, Nina, directed by Katie and produced by Katie and Francesca Carpanini. Nina runs at Theaterlab January 23-February 9.
Katie checks in with actor (Maria in West Side Story at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Luisa in The Fantasticks at the Cape Playhouse, upcoming: Magnolia in Showboat at Target Margin Theater) and writer (The Question, 2024 Eugene O'Neill finalist, BMI program), Rebbekah Vega-Romero.
Katie checks in with founder, and Executive Artistic Director, of the Jewish Plays Project, David Winitsky.
Katie checks in with actor, Eva Kaminsky (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and The Lyons on Broadway; Made in Poland and a Bright New Boise Off-Broadway; Law and Order: SVU, Billions, the Gilded Age, and more).
Katie checks in with co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company, as well as noted dancer and choreographer (The Joyce, the Bolshoi, The Marinsky, BAM, Cairo Opera House, Holland Dance Festival, and more), Dwight Rhoden.
Katie checks in with actor, Ella Stiller (Festival of New Jewish Plays, Escape at Dannemora, Juilliard).
Katie checks in with co-founder and Artistic and Executive Director of BalletX, Christine Cox, about the company's upcoming shows at the Joyce Theater.
Katie checks in with former Artistic Director of City Center Encores! and Creative Director/Senior Vice President of Jujamcyn Theaters, Jack Viertel, about his new theatre-centric novel, Broadway Melody.
Katie checks in with Artistic Director (and former principal dancer) of Smuin Contemporary Ballet, Celia Fushille.
Katie checks in with writer (One Story, the Boston Review, PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize), translator (Asymptote, Columbia Journal, The Boy from Clearwater), and former employee of world-renowned visual artist, Cai Guo-Qiang, Lin King.
Katie checks in with the CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, founder of Giving Tuesday, former Executive Director of the 92nd Street Y, and author of New Power, Henry Timms.
Katie checks in with commercial producer, Eric Cornell (Co-Producer: Oklahoma!, To Kill a Mockingbird, What the Constitution Means to Me, Head Over Heels, Hello Dolly! First National Tour; Executive Producer: Anastasia, Rocky; Upcoming: Anne of Green Gables).
Katie checks in with actor (The Visit on Broadway; Which Way to the Stage Off-Broadway; The Beauty and the Baker on ABC; Gotham on Fox; upcoming: Nine at the Kennedy Center), Michelle Veintimilla.
Katie checks in with Broadway drummer (Mr. Saturday Night, KPOP; subs for MJ the Musical, & Juliet, Titanique), Jesse-Ray Leich.
Katie checks in with performer Allison Bailey, known for her role as Glinda in the National Tour of Wicked (and Glinda standby on Broadway).
Katie checks in with dancer, actor, and singer (Broadway: Mean Girls, Finding Neverland; Mean Girls & Hamilton National Tours), Ixchel Cuellar.
Katie checks in with music director, music supervisor, conductor, and pianist (associate conductor/keys 2 for Gutenberg!, assistant conductor/keys 3 for The Who's Tommy, and associate music director/lyric dramaturg for KPOP on Broadway; The Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Picnic at Hanging Rock; Anne of Green Gables), Amanda Morton.
Katie checks in with actor, Eli Mayer (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Barrington Stage, the MUNY, Ride the Cyclone at Arena Stage and McCarter Theatre Center, and currently Reuven in The Chosen at Cincinatti Playhouse).
Katie checks in with actor (My Name is Asher Lev, A Bronx Tale, Fiddler on the Roof, and Annie National Tours) and musician (West Side Waltz and the Voxies), Stefanie Londino.
Katie checks in with choreographer (Funny Girl, Mr. Saturday Night, Grey House on Broadway; Little Shop of Horrors, Kate Hamill's Pride and Prejudice, Jeremy O'Harris' Black Exhibition, Titanique Off Broadway) and director (upcoming: The Lonely Few, with Tripp Cullman), Ellenore Scott.
Katie has a roundtable discussion with director & choreographer, Eamon Foley, and star, Talia Suskauer, of the upcoming Sunday in the Park with George at Axelrod Performing Arts Center, a production which she is co-producing.
Katie checks in with actor (13 on Broadway, Sunday in the Park with George at Pasadena Playhouse, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Geffen, The Good Wife, Riverdale, The Little Mermaid Live!), director, and writer (The Mediator, The Bygone, and Rumble Through the Dark), Graham Phillips.
Katie checks in with set designer (Broadway: Cost of Living, Pass Over, Next Fall; Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, Roundabout, and more; Lortel and Drama Desk nominations), Wilson Chin.
Katie checks in with director and theatre maker (associate on Sabbath's Theater, Invincible the Musical; The Apostle Peter and His Lover John Also an Apostle; Notes From the Basement; 2022 member of Directors’ Lab North; one of New York Jewish Week’s “36 to Watch" 2022), Molly Rose Heller.
Katie checks in with former actor and director, arts manager (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arts West), and author, Alan Harrison, on his new book, Scene Change: Why Today's Non-Profit Arts Organizations Have to Stop Producing Art and Start Producing Impact.
Katie checks in with actor and singer (Annie National Tour, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Burn the Floor, Walnut Street Theatre), Julia Nicole Hunter.
Katie checks in with actor (Life After, The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation) and singer/songwriter (Morninglory music), Livvy Marcus.
Katie discusses Shy: the Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers (available everywhere) with its co-author, and Chief Theatre Critic for The New York Times, Jesse Green.
Katie checks in with NAACP and Fred Astaire award-winning Broadway choreographer (Motown the Musical, A Night with Janis Joplin, Annie National Tour), Patti Wilcox.
Katie checks in with screenwriter and director (Francophrenia (or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is), Burn Country, and Slow Machine -- Rotterdam, Viennale, and New York Film Festivals), Paul Felten.
Katie checks in with music director, pianist, orchestrator, and educator (Berkshire Theatre Group, the MUNY, Opera Memphis, the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition, developmental teams for Oklahoma! (2019) and Hadestown), Jacob Kerzner.
Katie checks in with actor (Les Miz National Tour and on Broadway, Phantom of the Opera National Tour, Stages St. Louis, Goodspeed Opera House, Tuacahn, Theatre Works Palo Alto, and more), Edward Juvier.
Katie checks in with former actor (Annie, The Heiress, Ah, Wilderness!, Little Darlings) and Drama Desk, Lortel, and SDC Joe A. Callaway Award nominated director (Annie National Tour, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Hartford Stage, Pioneer Theatre Company, Mint Theatre Company), Jenn Thompson.
Katie reflects on the late, great Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist for Broadway masterpieces like Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me, Fiorello!, The Apple Tree, and more.
Katie checks in with Broadway star (Damn Yankees, Song and Dance, Cats, Steel Pier, Annie Get Your Gun, Elf, Tuck Everlasting, Kimberly Akimbo), Valerie Wright.
Katie checks in with star of Wicked on Broadway (Elphaba), Be More Chill on Broadway, and, currently, Gypsy at Goodspeed Opera House (Louise), Talia Suskauer.
Katie checks in with former Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at American Express, former Executive Director of Second Stage Theater, and current Executive Director of Signature Theatre, Timothy J. McClimon.
Katie checks in with dancer, choreographer, and founder of Shades Dance Theater, Cameron Terry.
Katie checks in with playwright (Great Plains Theatre Conference Selection, Edward F. Albee Fellow, Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellow, upcoming: Brainsmash at 59E59) and writer (New York Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly), Sophie Weisskoff.
Katie checks in with dancer and performing artist (Broadway's Jagged Little Pill, Lohengrin and The Hours at the Metropolitan Opera, Vogue World for New York Fashion Week, and more), Runako Campbell.
Katie checks in with Ryan Steele (Broadway's Newsies, Carousel, Matilda, and more) and Gaby Diaz (winner of So You Think You Can Dance season 12, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, Tick Tick Boom), both of whom recently starred in MCC's dance musical Only Gold.
Katie checks in with theatre maker, co-Artistic Director of Nightdrive (Thank You Sorry, The Grown-Ups), and illusions and magic associate at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child US, Skylar Fox.
Katie checks in with former dancer and actor (50th anniversary West Side Story national tour, Goodspeed Opera House, TUTS) and assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Duke University, as well as the author of the forthcoming book, Broadway Bodies (available February 10), Ryan Donovan.
Katie checks in with arts marketer (The Vineyard Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Premiere Consulting Group China), Bella Wang.
Katie checks in with journalist (Deputy Editor of Impact and Innovation at the Huffington Post, Editor of Tech at Mic, Editor at the New York Times' branded content studio T Brand, Editor for Axios' in-house branded content studio, Smart Brevity Studio) and comedian, Alexis Kleinman.
Katie checks in with dancer and choreographer (currently: Staatstheater am Gartnerplatz; previously: YC2, TL Collective, Springboard Dance Montreal), Alexander Quetell.Photo of Alexander by Philipp Romer.
Katie checks in with dancer and arts administrator (American Ballet Theatre, Jacob's Pillow, Liam Francis), Sophie Blue.
Katie checks in with former Broadway dancer (On the Town, Memphis, Cinderella, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), producer of NY1's "On Stage" program and the PBS documentary Reopening: The Broadway Revival, and current owner/producer/director of the production company, Ordinary Sunday, Cody Williams.
Katie checks in with senior consultant at Capacity Interactive, the premier digital marketing consulting firm for culture and the arts, and her professor at NYU, Jane Whitty.
Katie checks in with actor of stage (St. Louis Rep, Barrington Stage, Arden Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, the Mint, the Metropolitan Opera) and screen (Law and Order: SVU, The Good Fight, Elementary, Gossip Girl), Peterson Townsend.
Katie checks in with former director of public engagement at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, former public relations director for The Drawing Center, former director of development and communications for Socrates Sculpture Park, and current Executive Director of the Asian American Arts Alliance, Lisa Gold.
Katie checks in with actor, writer, and co-founder/co-Artistic Director of The Hearth, a theatre company dedicated to stories by, about, and for women and other under-represented genders, Julia Greer.
Katie checks in with actor (the Mint Theater Company, The York Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group, Barrington Stage, Goodspeed Opera House, Theatre Works Hartford, Law & Order SVU), Claire Saunders.
Katie checks in with Artistic Director and Producer of the Mint Theater, Jonathan Bank.
In this special episode, Katie focuses on the development of a new, boundary and genre-pushing "photographic play," Horrors of the Heart, written and directed by her NYU classmate Hunter Carrico, and produced by Bad Behavior Lab.
Katie checks in with production manager (Signature Theatre, Aspen Opera Theater Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Gotham Chamber Opera), co-founder of Intuitive Production Management, and curator of the American Packard Museum, Rob Signom.
Katie checks in with actor (Royal Shakespeare Company, War Horse, Cymbeline, The Audience, and The Utopia Trilogy on Broadway) and composer (music for over 30 theatrical productions), Anthony Cochrane.
Katie checks in with star of stage (The Guthrie, Seattle Rep, the Humana Festival, LCT's The Wolves, currently: Chains at the Mint Theater) and screen (16 Bars, the Blacklist, FBI Most Wanted, Madam Secretary, Succession), Laakan McHardy.
Katie checks in with screenwriter (The Lake House), director (Side Effects at MCC, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Skin of Our Teeth, Petrified Forest at Berkshire Theatre Group), and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Skyscraper, The Columnist, Lost Lake, Proof), David Auburn.
Katie checks in with actor (Goodspeed Opera House, Theatre Aspen, The Band's Visit National Tour), Billy Cohen.
Katie checks in with playwright (The Hairy Dutchman, Spuyten Duyvil, Notes on My Mother's Decline, This Is My Office -- Drama Desk nomination), former fellow with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Dramatists' Guild, Berkeley Rep, and New Dramatists, and founder of Andy Bragen Theatre Projects, Andy Bragen.
Katie checks in with New York City Ballet principal dancer, star of On the Town on Broadway, and author of The Ballerina Mindset, Megan Fairchild.
Katie checks in with professor of executive leadership, gender theory, and conflict management, with research published in periodicals like The Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, The Women in Management Review, and The Journal of International Business Disciplines, as well as Katie's current NYU Stern professor, Dr. Kellye Jones.
Katie checks in with star of stage (Selling Kabul and The Profane at Playwrights Horizons, Three Women at 59E59, and most recently Prayer for the French Republic at Manhattan Theatre Club) and screen (Arranged, Daredevil, Inside Amy Schumer, Life and Beth), Francis Benhamou.
In this special episode, Katie gets into the nitty gritty of auditioning in New York City -- the highs, the lows, the union, the studios, etc., all helped by actor (Fiorello!, Criminal Minds), dancer (Newsies, West Side Story, A Chorus Line), and friend, Drew Carr.
Katie checks in with dancer, actor, model, and star of Netflix's Tiny Pretty Things, Barton Cowperthwaite.
Celebrating one year of Call Time (!!), Katie checks in with actor (Mary Page Marlowe, These Paper Bullets!, Dance Dance Revolution, The Skin of Our Teeth, and currently: The Minutes on Broadway), Ariana Venturi.
Katie checks in with stage manager Ryan Gohsman, whose credits include Here Lies Love, The Death of the Last Black Man, The Light Years, and Mary Jane, and who is currently the production stage manager for Little Shop of Horrors at The Westside Theater (featuring Christian Borle, Tammy Blanchard, and Conrad Ricamora).
Katie checks in with Broadway actor, singer, dancer (Hairspray, Wicked, Hello Dolly!, Anything Goes, Chaplin), and QVC host, Hayley Podschun.
Katie checks in with playwright (The Power of Punctuation, The Day the Butcher Shop Closed, Party Hop Off-Broadway; upcoming: All Nighter), Natalie Margolin.
Katie checks in with actor (Lysistrata Jones and Spring Awakening on Broadway, Marvel's Iron Fist and The Bold and The Beautiful), composer/writer (A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet), producer (What the Constitution Means to Me and How I Learned to Drive - upcoming- on Broadway), and co-creator, director, and star of Indoor Boys, Alex Wyse.
Katie checks in with production designer, stage manager, curator, and producer, Maimouna Camara, who started off her professional career at Towne Street Theatre, LA's "premier African American theatre company," and now studies in the performing arts administration graduate program at NYU.
Katie checks in with, according to the Arts and Business Council, the nation's "foremost expert" in audience development, founder of Walker Communications Group, Senior Community Engagement Advisor for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, multi-cultural marketer and group sales liaison for over 22 Broadway shows (including Once on This Island, The Lion King, Aladdin, Smokey Joe's Cafe, and Ragtime), founder of Impact Broadway, and the recipient of countless awards, including the 2019 League of Professional Theatre Women Rachel Crothers Leadership Award, Donna Walker-Kuhne.
Katie checks in with Broadway dancer, singer, and actor (Ambrose Kemper in Hello Dolly!, Kiss Me, Kate, An American in Paris, Holiday Inn), Will Burton.
Katie checks in with two-time Tony nominee (Sharon McLonergan in Finian's Rainbow and Irene Molloy in Hello Dolly!), and star of such Broadway and Off-Broadway shows as Thoroughly Modern Millie, Big Fish, Giant, John & Jen, and Superhero, Kate Baldwin.
In this special episode, Katie attempts to honor the late, great Stephen Sondheim by discussing his work, and what it's meant to her personally, with Comparative Literature PhD candidate, Evan Strouss.
Katie checks in with star of stage (Fiorello!, Grease, The Boston Pops with Kristen Chenoweth), screen (The Purge: Election Year, Selah and the Spades, Woe Is Mary, Puddysticks), co-founder of the Sappho Project, and digital marketer, Christy Coco.
Katie checks in with marketing consultant (clients include IBM, Kodak, Pfizer, McCann Erickson, Time, and more) -- and her current professor at NYU Stern (director of the Stern Fashion and Luxury Lab, former executive director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Faculty of the Year, Stern/Citibank Teacher of the year)! -- Jeffrey Carr.
Katie checks in with star of Mean Girls (Cady) on Broadway, Les Miserables (Fantine) on Broadway, and Girls5Eva on Peacock, Erika Henningsen.
Katie checks in with actor (New York Classical Theatre, the Keen Company, Shakespeare on the Sound, Netflix's The Politician, and CBS's The Equalizer) and theatre educator (teaching fellow at Juilliard and Director of Education at the Keen Company), Jasminn Johnson.
Katie checks in with three-time Tony winner, seven-time Tony nominee, celebrated director (All My Sons, Carousel, Hairspray, The Coast of Utopia, The Full Monty, Henry IV, Catch Me If You Can, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Imaginary Friends, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and more), former Artistic Director of the Old Globe in San Diego (1981-2007), and giant of the American theatre, Jack O'Brien.
Katie checks in with actor and singer, Sam Gravitte (Almost Famous, Wicked National Tour), currently starring as Fiyero in Wicked on Broadway.
Katie checks in with star of stage (Shrek The Musical, The Low Road) and screen (Younger, Happy Days, Phoebe in Wonderland, Generation, The Good Wife), Tessa Albertson.