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October Guest Co-Host Composer & Lyricist Rona Siddiqui (Jonathan Larson Grant and Billie Burke Ziegfeld award recipient and ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Lyric Award, music director of the Off-Broadway Pulitzer Prize-winning A Strange Loop at Playwrights Horizons) continues the October conversation with Host Aaron Salazar (Award Wining Theatre Director, Featured in the New York Times, Producing Artistic Director (www.poseidontheatrecompany.com)) We unpack a lot in this "Dense Slice" of cake of an episode, discussing everything from the parallel of the political climate in Afghanistan and the U.S. to the power of forgiveness, and everything in between. Listen in on this intimate candid conversation.
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And we're back! And better than ever with our October Guest Co-Host the brilliant RONA SIDDIQUI she is a composer/lyricist based in NYC. She is a recipient of the Jonathan Larson Grant and Billie Burke Ziegfeld award. She was named one of Broadway Women's Fund's Women to Watch and is currently an MTF Maker. Her show Salaam Medina: Tales of a Halfghan, an autobiographical comedy about growing up bi-ethnic in America, had a reading at Playwrights Horizons (dir. by Raja Feather Kelly). Other musicals include One Good Day, The Tin, and Treasure in NYC. She is the recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Lyric Award, Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award and ASCAP Foundation/Max Dreyfus Scholarship. She has written pieces for Wicked's 16th anniversary commemoration Flying Free, 24 Hour Musicals, Prospect Theater Company, The Civilians, NYC Gay Men's Chorus, and 52nd St Project, and has performed concerts of her work at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Feinstein's/54 Below. Original scores include The Vagina Monologues, Middletown and The Good Person of Szechuan. Rona music directed the Off-Broadway Pulitzer Prize-winning A Strange Loop for which she received an Obie along with the cast and creative team (Playwrights Horizons), Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons), and Who's Your Baghdaddy: Or How I Started the Iraq War (St. Lukes Theatre). She has orchestrated for Broadway Records, Broadway Backwards, NAMT and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera. www.ronasiddiqui.com
Rona brings her light, and laughter to kick off October with Host Aaron Salazar (Award Wining Theatre Director, Featured in the NY TIMES, Producing Artistic Director of Poseidon Theatre Company) we dive into everything from the current state of politics, self-love, the importance of finding your inner joy, and how comedy is key to Rona's style of storytelling. This and so much more. Happy FALL!
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Broadway Actress Morgan Siobhan Green (Broadway in Be More Chill, Regional & Off-Broadway in "Moby Dick" at American Repertory Theater, Pipeline Theatre Company "Folk Wandering" at A.R.T./NY, "Between The Lines" at KCRW, "Sweetee" Signature Theatre Company & "Missed Connections" at New Ohio Theatre). Joins Host Aaron Salazar (Award-Winning Theatre Director & Producer Featured in the New York Times) bringing her time as September Co-Host to a close with our 12th Episode.
Morgan and Aaron usher in the fall taking on subjects head-on including paying tribute to RBG, racism, the power of individuality as a theatre artist, the crafting of performance and production, the importance of amplification in our community, we learn more about Morgan's dog "Pip", and talk about examples of icons of theatre who have been allowed to take up their space by being authentic to themselves as artists. Plus so much more. This conversation is off the hook! Jump in and join us for Episode 12. Much love! 
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Broadway Actress Morgan Siobhan Green (Broadway in Be More Chill, Regional & Off-Broadway in "Moby Dick" at American Repertory Theater, Pipeline Theatre Company "Folk Wandering" at A.R.T./NY, "Between The Lines" at KCRW, "Sweetee" Signature Theatre Company & "Missed Connections" at New Ohio Theatre). Joins Host Aaron Salazar (Award-Winning Theatre Director & Producer Featured in the New York Times) as she keeps the conversation going as our September Guest Co-Host for Episode 11.
In this Episode Morgan and Aaron unpack and unpack and unpack, covering a variety of topics. Highlights include: what it means to have the audacity of joy, which was sparked by Patti LaBelle & Gladys Knight on Verzuz, what it means to create identification within one's work as an artist, the complexities of spirituality vs religion, and how the abstract can oftentimes create a more nuanced and penetrating story to an audience & Morgan and Aaron talk about their latest projects, bringing it home with thoughts on their ancestors. That's just a taste of what's in store.
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Broadway Actress Morgan Siobhan Green (Broadway in Be More Chill, Regional & Off-Broadway in "Moby Dick" at American Repertory Theater, Pipeline Theatre Company "Folk Wandering" at A.R.T./NY, "Between The Lines" at KCRW, "Sweetee" Signature Theatre Company & "Missed Connections" at New Ohio Theatre). Joins Host Aaron Salazar (Award-Winning Theatre Director & Producer Featured in the New York Times) as she keeps the conversation going as our September Guest Co-Host.
This week we take a deep dive into the art of theatre, what authenticity means to us, the misconception of monolith mentality in the industry, maintaining one's own joy, and our hopes for the future of our beloved theatre industry. Plus so much more.
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THIS MONTH Host Aaron Salazar and Legend in the making Broadway Actress Morgan Siobhan Green set a match and ignite September with an unflinching conversation unpacking politics, intersectionality, Chadwick Boseman & the educational system in the U.S.