Are You Famous, Yet?

0:03:36 Managing time and figuring out how to be mobile and productive is still an interesting process for Bryn.

0:10:08 Bryn’s writing a screenplay called “Killing Your Neighbors” which launches a discussion about bad neighbors, cross-promotional product placement, and Dr. Strangelove.

0:21:25 Nilsa has a reading of her solo-show on September 29 and she drops some other major bombs! (Hint: we may not be hearing her for a little while)

0:33:05 Laura’s re-thinking her approach to doing theater leads to a discussion of the crazy jobs creatives find.

0:44.55 Now we let you the listener behind the curtain as we brainstorm some ideas for redesigning the podcast. If you have some ideas, tweet them at us!

1:11:45  Congratulations Dan and Jackie on getting engaged!!!

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Intro and Outro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet? (Remix)"

Written By: B. Packard and L. Scruggs

Performed By: B. Packard, N. Reyna, J. Scruggs, L. Scruggs

Guest: Lindsay Porter who is a Chicago actress, director, teacher, writer and storyteller: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LindsayPorter5

Lindsay's blogs: https://chimeragirl2010.wordpress.com/2013/04/11/a-farewell-to-mythmaking/ and https://talkitoutamerica.wordpress.com/tag/liberals/

4:51 - Lindsay is teaching women theatre at the Lake County Jail and has been doing this since 2008. 

5:51 - Lindsay would rather teach women in jail than children!

12:56 - A Christmas story

25:40 - the best interruption we've ever had on the podcast!

27:05 - Radical nuns! A transgendered nun? An 80 year old nun who said Jesus might have been gay!?! These ladies…

32:38 - The Steve Harvey hidden camera story, the most terrifying acting job Lindsay has ever had.

41:02 - Lindsay's brushes with fame and advice for Bryn about how to be famous

1:01:23 - CJ, Lindsay's son, makes history by being our first child on the podcast. He somehow ends up beat boxing with Bryn!

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Intro and Outro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet? (Remix).” Written By: B. Packard and L. Scruggs. Performed By: B. Packard, N. Reyna, J. Scruggs, L. Scruggs.

Our guest this week is Reginald Edmund: social activist, student of history, playwright of Blacula. Check him out.

Guest: Reginald Edmund 

Email: [email protected] Website: reginaldedmund.com twitter: @reginald.edmund

0:03:23 Our guest, playwright, Reggie Edmund’s current project is the “Black Lives, Black Words” series of events. Chicago’s was a success and then it will move to Minneapolis, Cleveland, Cincinnati… and each event features the work of artists from each location. And it will be going to London, England in Phase 2 (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/black-lives-black-words-project-phase-1#/story)

0:11:00 Reggie used indiegogo to fund “Black Lives, Black Words”, his third experience with the platform.

0:24:40 Creatively, Reggie, is writing a nine play series called “The City of the Bayou Collection” that spans centuries and moves from Africa to Houston. A reading of the first installment just happened 8/22 at Chicago Dramatists.

0:28:49 He’s also working on a sequel to his play “Blacula: Young, Black and Undead”- which he describes as Black Exploitation Cinema meets Edgar Wright.

0:33:36 Reggie breaks down the common traits between theatre and organized religion.

0:44:17 What was the origin story of his life in theatre? A girl, of course.

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Intro and Outro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet? (Remix)"

Written By: B. Packard and L. Scruggs

Performed By: B. Packard, N. Reyna, J. Scruggs, L. Scruggs

8:03 - Nilsa asks if Jake is big on birthdays

9:03 - Jake got some really cool Legos for his birthday - check out Jake's Twitter feed! 

13:49 - Jake didn't want to go out for his birthday; he just asked Laura to make tuna casserole and a chocolate caramel cake

15:41 - A scary science fiction moment while Laura is cooking the birthday dinner

20:03 - How does Jake feel about being 44?

24:39 - Nilsa loves to celebrate her birthday.

27:13 - Laura received two awards at The Planet Connections Theatre Festivity for her performance of "Punk Grandpa:” 

34:43 - Bryn and Nilsa saw former podcast guest Jakub Haczkiewicz at Carolines on Broadway

37:28 - Laura got to be a fairyologist/guest artist for former podcast guest Jason Paul Smith's "Magic, Mystery and Myth" camp this week

42:49 - New products at http://www.zazzle.com/r_u_famousyetpodcast

45:27 - Nilsa has had a lot of auditions lately.

46:33 - Bryn booked an industrial which will be shot in late August

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Intro and Outro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet? (Remix).” Written By: B. Packard and L. Scruggs. Performed By: B. Packard, N. Reyna, J. Scruggs, L. Scruggs.

Our guests this week are Patricia Cardona Roca and Kendra Augustin, co-artistic directors of the Leela Play Festival!

Guests: 

Patricia Cardona Roca- http://www.patriciacardonaroca.com/ and on Facebook

Kendra Agustin- Twitter: @quietgirlriot; Facebook: kendra.agustin

Leela NYC Theatre Festival will be August 27 & 28 at El Centro Español de Queens: http://www.leelanycfestival.org/ 

0:01:55 We introduce our guests Patricia and Kendra and discover that things are not looking good for Twitter, these days!

0:09:05 Difficulty getting cast because of accents and non-traditional appearances spurred Patricia and Kendra to develop their festival

0:17:03 And by the way, Laura's "Punk Grandpa" was nominated for five awards at Planet Connections, plus she won a congeniality award

0:22:20 A key component of their fest is to ensure that participating artists get paid. Indiegogo is how they are funding this mission. IATI has also been a generous supporter (http://www.iatitheater.org/)

0:27:45 Patricia has a time constraint- and that limitation has fueled her.

0:35:19 And Bryn comes-up with a ludicrously complex solution to a problem that may not need solving

0:39:06 They have some pretty exciting perks for their indiegogo campaign- get in on them! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/leela-nyc-theatre-festival-fa#/story

0:46:00 They've used a lot of different methods of promote the show, one of the most important being a publicist.

0:48:30 Patricia will be doing a one woman cabaret in late September

0:52:45 Kendra is writing the story component of a cabaret show

0:55:05 Watch CJ3 Likes A Nice Catsy - Episodes 1 and 2 

0:56:15 NIlsa was just named one of the resident playwrights for the Lone Star Theater Company 2015-2016 season

Intro and Outro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet? (Remix)"

Written By: B. Packard and L. Scruggs

Performed By: B. Packard, N. Reyna, J. Scruggs, L. Scruggs

Tweet: .@quietgirlriot and Patricia Cardona Roca are all about creating a festival, artists supporting artists and hamster birthdays!

1:35 - Guest Andrew Seller can be found on Facebook

1:44 - Laura and Andrew met through the Art Meets Science at the Theater Festival

3:31 - Andrew was like Anauf, from ”Meet Me on the Ceiling,” as a child.

4:49 - Full-fledged play version of ”Meet Me on the Ceiling” at Chicago Fringe and commentary on the workshop version

6:55 - Workshops can change the script very quickly

10:06 - How did the actors walk on the ceiling?

12:05 - Sound issues during full-out production

14:14 - Andrew's special skills - violin (Suzuki-trained) and singing

16:33 - Andrew played the violin in Mammal's "Joan of Arc” is an unusual way.

17:23 - Bryn and Nilsa's special skills. Bryn, of course, lays down a sample of beat boxing/mouth-developed melody

19:42 - CJ3 likes a nice catsy - second episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLV44zOUusY

24:29 - Has Andrew considered producing his own work?

27:19 - What does Andrew think of the Chicago theatre scene?

28:09 - Andrew was at Columbia for a while and did a conservatory at Black Box Acting Studio, figuring out what he's going to do next 

32:15 - Meisner discussion

38:48 - How does seeing theatre in NY and Chicago compare?

40:17 - Andrew saw theater in London and Berlin

43:31 - What has surprised Andrew about doing theater in Chicago?

45:42 - Andrew's Columbia experience

51:25 - The part in which Andrew is declared a muse and Laura gushes about him as an actor and specifically as Anauf.

52:29 - Andrew is in "Midsummer Mayhem 3,”  He sings and sword fights in Shakespeare's Motley Crew at Winnemac Park through the end of August! 

56:55 - Buy our merchandise! http://www.zazzle.com/r_u_famousyetpodcast

A Shapely And Beautiful Hostful - Episode 88

This hostful is filled website overhauls, workshop productions and merchandise. 

0:02:15 Thanks to Jake Scruggs- our Libsyn site (areyoufamousyet.com) is lookin' great and you'll be looking great rockin' merch with our new logo (http://www.zazzle.com/r_u_famousyetpodcast)

0:10:00 brynpackard.com has been completely overhauled. It was a 60 hour experience. Check it out and let us know how you like it! 

0:18:30 If you're techno awesome, you can use Amazon Route 53 for your web hosting… but you better truly be techno-awesome. 

0:22:57 And Nilsa created an "Are You Famous, Yet?"  Facebook fan page (https://www.facebook.com/areyoufamousyet?fref=ts)

0:24:40 Nilsa had an bummer experience with the fickle world of advertising

0:27:07 Bryn and Nilsa have been having regular Naked Palace Entertainment meetings and may have an act that they will debut at the "Are You Famous, Yet?" live event (should that event ever happen).

0:36:11 Laura's show "Punk Grandpa" got a workshop production with the Waukegan Theater Festival- and she wasn't in it! 

0:49:23 And she had a workshop performance of her new play "You Even Run Like A Goody-Goody" at Chicago Dramatists.

Intro and Outro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet? (Remix)"

Written By: B. Packard and L. Scruggs

Performed By: B. Packard, N. Reyna, J. Scruggs, L. Scruggs

3:00 - Where can you find Jakub "hot cabbage" Haczkiewicz online? https://twitter.com/creativejakub https://instagram.com/creativejakub/

4:13 - Jakub has a really arresting image, which includes his face and is inspired by the formerly trapped Chilean miners. It is currently on his “about” page http://cargocollective.com/creativejakub/About-Jakub-Haczkiewicz

6:26 - Jakub's sister and girlfriend see all of his shows; you have to have someone in your corner

7:20 - Jakub talks about how long he's been doing comedy and his journey (literal and figurative). 

20:06 - Nilsa and Jakub collaborated together on bobrauschenbergamerica 

20:16 Jakub is the only person Nilsa has worked with that cracks her up so much she can't keep it together on stage.

26:23 - "Twelve Hungry Men" 

31:30 - What made Jakub pursue stand-up comedy?

46:29 - Jakub has a son. Also, he tries to be a clean comic

49:29 - The difference between Chicago and New York

55:11 - What keeps Jakub in New York as opposed to Chicago

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Edited/Notes by Laura and Jake Scruggs. Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?” - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "The Devil Is In The Beats” - The Chemical Brothers