A Star is Bored

Keith Weiss

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Keith Weiss is supposed to be touring theatre. Instead, he'll be cov-ersing on zoom with guests far too successful to be on this podcast. This will be distributed everywhere podcasts are available, but full video interviews of the interviews you're listening to can be found on our Instagram, @starisbored.pod

09/16/2021

Jacob Ming Trent

Jacob Ming-Trent is an actor currently starring as Falstaff in THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR at The Delacourte Theater, adapted by Jocelyn Bioh and directed by Saheem Ali. Tickets are free and Performances run until 9/18. Most recently seen in The Forty-Year-Old Version (Netflix) and R#J (Sundance). TV: starred in the series “White Famous” (Showtime), played Panda in “Watchmen” (HBO), “Ray Donovan” season six (Showtime), “Feed the Beast” (AMC), etc. Film: Starred in the reboot of SuperFly (Sony), The Possession of Hanna Grace (Screen Gems), etc. Upcoming: “Only Murders in the Building” opposite Steve Martin and Martin Short (Hulu) and “Wu-Tang: An American Saga” (Hulu). Broadway: Hands on a Hardbody and Shrek The Musical. Several Off-Broadway productions, including Father Comes Home From the Wars..., for which he earned a Lortel Award for Best Supporting Actor. 0:53 A day off for Jacob 3:15 Being a part of the first production since the pandemic 6:00 Performing on Stage after 6 years 7:45 Pros and cons of performing outside 11:20 The Shakespeare Lab at the Public Theater 14:10 Demystifying Shakespeare at 12 Years Old 16:00 Hip Hop and Shakespeare 21:30 Reaction to Merry Wives of Windsor being set in Harlem 23:00 “Every character I bring to Shakespeare is black” 25:09 Decolonizing the Eurocentric Values of Shakespeare 27:30 The Pandemic Monologue in MERRY WIVES 29:00 The Traditions Of Shakespeare Are The Freshest Moments in the Show 33:50 White Famous/Representing All Bodies In Our Industry 35:15 Perform like it is Your Last Time You’ll Ever Do It 38:40 Discerning The Clown Vs. the Fool 42:25 Choosing Joy

44 min
07/06/2021

Felicia Boswell

Felicia Boswell is an actress and singer currently starting as The Baker’s Wife in City Springs Theatre Company’s production of INTO THE WOODS at Byers Theatre opening on Friday 7/9. She has appeared on Broadway in MOTOWN THE MUSICAL, SHUFFLE ALONG, and MEMPHIS. Additional credits include EMOJILAND and JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR on NBC. We recap our lockdown with one another. CHAPTERS 0:00 Emojiland 3:25 Playing the Straight Man in Comedy 5:50 Not Being Allowed to Stagedoor Amidst in March 2020 10:20 Post-Emojiland 16:20 The Sanity of Performing on a Stage Again 20:00 The Role of The Baker’s Wife - Into The Woods 23:30 Normalizing Numbness 25:00 You Cannot Go Through Life a Ruin 28:50 As Storytellers We Should be Telling the Stories of Today 32:50 Why Broadway Will Be Better. 37:45 Working Towards the Greatness of Our Descendants 38:20 Lack of Accessibility in Theatre/Our Elitist Industry 43:00 Art Saves Us 48:10 Check Out Felicia Boswell in Into The Woods! #broadway #musicals #musicaltheatre #musical #theatre #broadwaymusical #hamilton #bway #rosaparks #theater #broadwaymusicals #theaterpodcast #broadwaymemes #theatreproblems #podcastersofinstagram #nyc #actor #music #podcast #musicaltheater #heathers #theatrelife #singer #theatrekid #theater #newyork #theatre #sondheim #teatro #bhfyp

50 min
06/11/2021

Devina Sabnis

Devina Sabnis is currently playing Kelly Kapoor in @theofficemusical The Office: A Musical Parody! at The Theater Center in NYC playing Thursdays-Sundays. Since it reopened in April, Devina is one of the first actors to perform onstage in NY since the Pandemic #theofficememes #theofficememesfunny #kellykapoor #southasian #representationmatters #twittermemes #dankmemes #dankmemesdaily #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #pod #podcastlife #theatre #theatrekid #theatrelife #theatrememes #musical #musicaltheatre #nyu #nyugraduation #officememes #theater #standup #comedy #anchorfm #theatreproblems #actress #actorslife #actor #headshots

21 min
06/03/2021

Eleri Ward (Recording Artist, Ghostlight Records)

Eleri Ward is an actress and singer/songwriter who drops her first solo album with Ghostlight Records, A Perfect Little Death, on Spotify Friday 6/4. She is best known for SUF/SOND, her brainchild that celebrates the music of Stephen Sondheim in the style of Sufjan Stevens. 0:00 - Introduction 5:00 - Eleri’s Audience Finding Her 6:30 - Sondheim Stannhood 9:00 - Exposure to Sondheim in High School 12:00 - How To Unleash Your Inner Elaine Stritch 14:30 - Creating Space for Yourself in the Industry/MCC Theater’s Miscast Gala 21:00 - 99 Problems and Musical Theatre is All of Em/Art is about Exploring Humanity 26:00 - Expanding the Musical Theatre Palette 28:00 Your Deepest Insecurity Becomes Your Signature 29:30 - Musical Inspiration : Caroline Polachek, Lake Street Dive, Vulfpeck, Sufjan Stevens 32:00 - Egoless Collaboration/Reemerging Professionally with Lessons Learned from The Pandemic 35:00 - Flock Ya Feathers Fam :) 40:00 - Gatekeepers be Gaslighting Us Bruh 42:30 - Performative Allyship and Pageantry BS 46:00 - Check out Eleri’s work! #cover #singersongwriter #sufsond #musicaltheatre #musical #tiktok #sondheim #sufjanstevens #recordingartist #theatre #theater #guitar #independent #folk #bemorechill #bookofmormon #intheheights #broadway #broadwaymusicals #nyc #elainestritch #theatrekid #theatrelife #theatrememes #spotify #elainestritch #sundayintheparkwithgeorge #podcastsofinstagram #covers #podcast

48 min
05/28/2021

Aaron Salazar

Aaron Salazar, the Producing Artistic Director and a founder of Poseidon Theatre Company. He recently Salazar’s artistic home is Poseidon Theatre Company, of which he is the Producing Artistic Director and Founder. He enters into his second decade in New York with his most recent work: X The Experience (an interactive cinema experience) starring Kim Exum & Cheech Manohar. He is the Creative Director of Alvarez Keko Salazar Productions’ current works included the For F**k’s Sake a theatre podcast aka “4FS Podcast”, Drama: an aural experience and audio fiction series. AKS’s namesake is an homage to his family & ancestors and the courage they had to want a better life for future generations. "I stand on the strength of their bravery.” #podcast #podcastersofinstagram #pod #podcastlife #theatre #theatrekid #theatrelife #theatrememes #theatrepodcast #musical #musicaltheatre #latinx #latino #graduation #theater #standup #comedy #comedypodcast #tiktok #twitter #anchorfm #theatreproblems #actress #actorslife #actor #headshots #dankmemesdaily #dankmemes #twittermemes

16 min
05/13/2021

Blair Russell, Broadway Producer of Slave Play

Blair Russell @barussell4 is a Tony-nominated producer, developer, supporter, and lover of theatre whose experience ranges from fringe festivals to Broadway shows. He specializes in the development of new plays and musicals. As a producer, Blair is most proud of bringing Slave Play by Jeremy O. Harris to Broadway. During the pandemic, he lead Out of the Box Theatrics' site-specfic production of The Last Five Years. Some of his other favorite credits include the critically acclaimed immersive Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd at the Greenwich House Theater, and the West End production of Gyspy with Imelda Staunton. He just wrapped producing the residency of Resounding, an immersive theater company, at Radial Park with live, in-person audio plays, including a remount of the company’s popular Treasure Island, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, & a new ghost thriller 'Beyond The Veil'. His current projects include developing the musicals Hypatia & the Heathens and For Tonight as well as an XR experience series about the Black Imagination. He's a recipient of AKA NYC's Black Producer 500 Hours Initiative. 0:00 - Introduction to Blair 3:00 - Hypatia & The Heathens-New Musical about the First Female Mathematician 7:30 - Theater in South Africa 10:30 - How Do We Make Theatre Global 13:00 - We Need to Change All Theater, Not just Broadway 20:50 - You Don’t Solve a Problem by Trying to Fix All of the Symptoms 22:00 - Expanding Accessibility to All Theatergoers 28:00 - Diverging Consumerism from Broadway To Off-Broadway and Independent Theaters 30:00 - Recalibrating Our Perception of Theatre Producers 33:00 - Different Types of Theater for Different People 33:50 - How Scott Rudin Murdered Beetlejuice 37:30 - Producing Filmed Theatre (The Last Five Years) During the Pandemic 42:00 - Live Theatre in Astoria #broadwaymemes #thelastfiveyears #slaveplay #producer #twittermemes #covid_19 #broadway #offbroadway #actor #brooklyn #plays #broadwayproducer #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #podcastlife #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #americantheatre #actor #actors #actorlife #nycactors #nycactor #musicaltheatre #musical #hamilton

48 min
05/03/2021

Mark Armstrong, Artistic Director of The 24 Hour Plays

Ahead of the Release of Round 27 of The 24 Hour Plays Viral Musicals, we release our conversation with the Artistic Director of The 24 Hour Plays, Mark Armstrong, which took place earlier this year at the Region Five Conference of the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival. He discusses transforming his leadership and the vision of The 24 Hour Plays in the midst of a global pandemic by creating Viral Monologues featuring actors from a Broadway, film, and TV, and cultivating the Nationals Program into a more inclusive training grounds for emerging artists to meet future collaborators, and tells a slew of incredible stories such as actors performing on an ice sculpture in the American Airlines Theatre, and the importance of looking around you instead of looking up. #24hourplays #playwrightsofinstagram #director #artisticdirector #twittermemes #covid_19 #broadway #offbroadway #actor #brooklyn #noahgalvin #daveeddiggs #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #podcastlife #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #americantheatre #actor #actors #actorlife #nycactors #nycactor #musicaltheatre #musical #hamilton #hamiltonmemes

47 min
04/30/2021

Joel Perez

Joel Perez is an Award Winning Performer and Actor. His credits include Fun Home on Broadway, Jesus Christ Superstar on NBC, Stuck Elevator, John Leguizamo’s Kiss My Aztec, and most recently Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice at The New Group. Joel’s upcoming comedy special, PLAYING WITH MYSELF, at Ars Nova this summer with their CAMP Residency. Check out his countless bizarre characters in his Instagram reels at @misterjoelperez . His play The Black Beans Project he wrote with Melinda Lopez will stream on-demand May 11th with Huntington Theatre Company . He is a member of Broken Box Mime Theatre, Shiz Comedy and sketch group The Downstairs Party. 0:00 - Taking Control of Your Career During A Pandemic/UCB, Shiz, and Sketch Comedy 4:25 - Theaters Scrambling to Become Media Companies Throughout the pandemic 5:35 - The Pros and Cons of Developing Theatre Digitally 6:30 - Broken Box Mime Theater 8:00 - Distributing Theatre As Streaming Media in The Digital World 10:50 - Broadway is No Longer the Ticket 11:50 - Stories of Marginalized Communities on Broadway are Often Not Truthful 13:50 - Times Square is a Capitalist Mall Now 16:30 - Scott Rudin/The Beetlejuice Debacle/Give People the Space to Create on a Commercial Landscape 17:40 - The Universe of Joel Perez’s Instagram Reels @misterjoelperez 18:45 - Joel’s Journey from Chemistry Major to Broadway Performer 22:00 - In the Heights National Tour 24:10 - Developing Pain In My Aztec with John Leguizamo 25:30 - Refuting Latino Stereotypes in Theatre and Comedy 27:00 - Improv World - Lack of Representation 29:00 - Ars Nova Comedy Special Coming This June 30:00 - Joel’s Loop Machine and Other Quarantine Hobbies 31:00 - How has Auditioning Evolved since you started 36:30 - Finding Your Chosen Family in the Industry 40:00 - Black Beans Project Streaming 5/11 at Huntington Theatre Company 42:45 - Interrogating the Status Quo/Desire to have a Communal Experience of Joy 47:30 - Check Out Joel’s Work!! 48:30 - Squirrel Improv Theater; Equity, Transparency, Funny #broadway #funhome #musicaltheatre #queercomedy #latinoactor #comedy #musicals #improv #sketch #intheheights #johnleguizamo #offbroadway #actor #nyctheatre #nyctheater #theatre #theater #podcast #podcastlife #podcasts #podcastsofinstagram #theatrepodcast #anchorfm #blackbeans #cooking #mime #musicaltheater #sundance #shiz

49 min

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Keith Weiss is supposed to be touring theatre. Instead, he'll be cov-ersing on zoom with guests far too successful to be on this podcast. This will be distributed everywhere podcasts are available, but full video interviews of the interviews you're listening to can be found on our Instagram, @starisbored.pod

Creator

Keith Weiss
Years Active

2020 - 2021
Episodes

46
Rating

Explicit
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A Star is Bored