Hey y’all! Welcome to the Theatre Artist Podcast | Diving Into the Craft and Business for Theatre Artists. 

Today’s conversation is with Gabi Chiriboga. Gabi is my classmate and one of my friends from Boston Conservatory who graduated with me and the class of 2020 a few weeks ago. For most of her life Gabi has lived in Zumbahua, Ecuador and Cambridge, MA. Her dad is Ecuadorian and her mom American. They met while trying to save the world, running a missionary hospital in the Andes, where Gabi spent her childhood years. Gabi’s family has been discussing the details of Covid and she shares the importance of social distancing and how not-so-little of a crisis this really is, as is reinforced by her parents. We discuss what it’s really like being a young artist, being a pandemic artist, auditioning, having agency, sexism in auditions, navigating your morals and ethics in what we do, standing up for what is right, theatre being activism, double standards, and theatre being a collaborative art form.

A few things to note before we get into the episode; we reference some people that I will have linked for you and talk about during the Fact Check, but I wanted to mention them at the top so that you have some reference. I mention Tyler Lenhart and Lauren Lukacek, both of which are Boston Conservatory alumni, and were part of a Q+A session that was held for the seniors of the Musical Theatre Department. Gabi mentions a list of theatres that I created, which is a breakdown of information listing theatre companies that are led by women that I started curating about a year ago. If you know of any that aren’t listed, I’d love to hear about them and add them to the list. We also mention Joy Arcolano, who taught us a couple of Voice Over courses and also gave me the nudge to start this podcast.

I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

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