The Heartbeat of Georgia Storytellers Macon

We feature some of our favorite superhero women as they tell their origin stories in this episode. We go to small town Oklahoma with Holly Cole to see the devious *spark* of creation she had at a young age and then travel to Haiti to ask Christele Parham how she got her name. In between, we interview Wayne Woodard about his businesses and how being an entrepreneur is kind of like being a superhero.

The Heartbeat of Georgia is hosted by Julia Morrison and Koryn Young and episodes are produced by Storytellers Macon based off of the limited stage series in partnership with The Grand Opera House.

In this episode, we try to let our storytellers speak for themselves, whether they've been a victim of violence or whether they feel conflicted on their role. All these stories come from the Nefarious edition of our live show, and feature Carl Myers discussing his life and journey in prison, Tonja Khabir talking about a trauma occurring to her a world away while working at a USAID program, and Kevin Bradley with a college frat boy arrest.

The Heartbeat of Georgia is hosted by Julia Morrison and Koryn Young and episodes are produced by Storytellers Macon based off of the limited stage series in partnership with The Grand Opera House.

Sometimes, answering a phone call or an evening folding clothes in the laundry room can make your heart drop into the floor. In this episode, we tackle matters of the heart - self-discovery through romance, breakups, heart-pounding decisions, and coming out. Our featured voices include a reprise of Mariana Furlin's tale of sisterhood, Lauren Beaty's story dedicated to her daughters, Lacey Cruse shouting out Storytellers friends, and Ivy Marie Clarke deconstructing the woman she was missing - the one inside herself.

The Heartbeat of Georgia is hosted by Julia Morrison and Koryn Young and episodes are produced by Storytellers Macon based off of the limited stage series in partnership with The Grand Opera House.

Talking about racism and anti-Blackness can be hard to do, but these stories talk about the wounds created when two men first see hatred face to face. Our featured voices include Weston Stroud from "Macon Magic" and Jerry Anderson from our "Blossoming" performance as well as Nancy Cleveland.

The Heartbeat of Georgia is hosted by Koryn Young and Julia Morrison and episodes are produced by Storytellers Macon based off of the limited stage series in partnership with The Grand Opera House.

The episode we had planned was appropriately titled "Spirits Among Us." We didn't know then that one of our featured storytellers from our Grand Opera House season and a dear friend to all of Macon, Steven Fulbright, would end up leaving us far before his time last summer. We dedicate this episode and the refresh of our podcast series for its second season for Steven, on the day a memorial performance (a fitting one - a Broadway-style cabaret) takes place in the midst of Macon's Cherry Blossom Festival and a new spring for our city. We share memories from friends from different parts of his life before hearing his story, heard boisterously from The Grand Opera House stage. There is no spotlight that shined brighter than Steven, whose memory continues to be a blessing.



The Heartbeat of Georgia is hosted by Koryn Young and Julia Rubens and episodes are produced by Storytellers Macon based off of the limited stage series in partnership with The Grand Opera House.

It was Shakespeare who said that all the world's a stage, but the weird performative nature of our lives feels all the more real in the time of wearing real masks and taking on new roles. In this episode, we discuss performance, both in costume inside the theatre and in real life playing an unexpected role in someone else's drama. Our featured voices include Southern storyteller and multi-talented creative Elliot James from our "Kings and Queens" live show and Rabbi Larry Schlesinger from our inaugural "Macon Magic" performance.

Woven in between the two of them is JP Haynie of Macon Little Theatre as the theatre is set to re-open for live performances for the first time since COVID-19. Buy tickets now to their upcoming show, Songs for a New World, here.

The Heartbeat of Georgia is hosted by Koryn Young and Julia Rubens and episodes are produced by Storytellers Macon based off of the limited stage series in partnership with The Grand Opera House.