Hey y’all! Welcome to the Theatre Artist Podcast | Diving Into the Craft and Business for Theatre Artists. Today’s conversation is with Tucker Stampen, my fellow Midwesterner. We attended Interlochen Arts Academy together and have kept in touch since then, following each other’s journeys and supporting them from states away. Tucker is originally from Middleton, Wisconsin, attended Elon University for Musical Theatre, discovered his love for casting and worked at Stewart/Whitley, Roundabout Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, and Tara Rubin Casting, and is currently an Agent Assistant at TalentWorks.

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. We talk about our experiences at Interlochen and refer to Gulsh and Matt. Gulshirin Dubash and Matthew Lindstrom are Instructors of Theatre Arts and were our respective teachers and also directed and choreographed a musical that I was in there titled A Secret in Wings. I also have scheduled to record an episode with Gulsh and I can’t wait for y’all to hear and experience an hour of Gulsh. I’m so glad that I could catch up with Tucker and talk about theatre education, normalizing the strength of diversity, and try to figure out what our views on representations are. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did.

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