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In the twentieth episode of the Outcry Theatre Podcast, artistic director Becca Johnson-Spinos and marketing director Jason Johnson-Spinos talk with the incredible Katie Guiou, who has worked on costumes for over a dozen Outcry Youth Theatre productions, as well as two professional Outcry Theatre shows. Katie talks about her costume journey, including highlights, some of the her biggest challenges, and the moments that make it all worthwhile.

In the nineteenth episode of the Outcry Theatre Podcast, artistic director Becca Johnson-Spinos talks with three of the lead actors from Outcry Youth Theatre's recent production of The Great Gatsby: Brayden Lawrence and Calin Eastes as Nick Carraway and Peyton Nicholson as Jay Gatsby. They talk about this new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's American classic, written by Jason and Becca Johnson-Spinos, about the important metaphors and symbols from the novel and the play, and about how The Great Gatsby is still relevant one-hundred years later.

In the eighteenth episode of the Outcry Theatre Podcast, artistic director Becca Johnson-Spinos talks with the four lead actors from Outcry Youth Theatre's production of Assassins: Isabella Wilson and Madeline Carter as the Balladeer and Corbin Ross and Peyton Nicholson as John Wilkes Booth. They discuss the darkly funny and highly controversial musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by John Weidman.

In the seventeenth episode of the Outcry Theatre Podcast, artistic director Becca Johnson-Spinos talks with the three lead actors from Outcry Youth Theatre's production of Antigone: Peyton Nicholson as Creon and Alex Gray and Marcy Bogner as Antigone. They discuss this challenging and original post-apocalyptic version of Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy, as well as what it's like to make theatre in this difficult time.

In the sixteenth episode of the Outcry Theatre Podcast, artistic director Becca Johnson-Spinos talks with the four lead actors from Outcry Youth Theatre's production of Tuck Everlasting: Alexa Stratton and Ashlyn Koford as Winnie Foster, and Brayden Soffa and Corbin Ross as Jesse Tuck. They discuss the difficult and unusual road to the stage for a production that was cast just days before the pandemic hit.

In the fifteenth episode of the Outcry Theatre Podcast, guest host Jason Johnson-Spinos sits down with the four lead actors from the upcoming production of Cummins and Scoullar's The Little Prince: Isaac Aranda and Jordan Battey, who play the Little Prince, and Brayden Lawrence and Giulia Garbani, who play the Aviator. They discuss their characters in depth, including the challenges they went through and the extra steps they took to bring them to life.