Backstage @ Platt House

Multidisciplinary performer and winner of the 2025 Whinnery Summer Arts Internship Award, Elliot Ross-Dick, has tips on about securing internship funding through Penn and finding community through 1812 Productions. Plus, hear about the journey from there to writing and performing his solo show in the Theatre Arts Program's inaugural Out Of The Dark Festival!

Connect with Elliot on LinkedIn and on Instagram ⁠@elliot_rd⁠, and find NuAmen on Instagram ⁠@audenanuamen⁠.

Learn more about award opportunities for students with performing arts and entertainment interests at ⁠⁠platthouse.universitylife.upenn.edu/awards⁠⁠ and at ⁠https://pennlivearts.org/engage/careerconnections.php⁠⁠.

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Our theme music is Retro Climb, by Peter Lu. This podcast was edited by Amanda Labonte and produced by Platt Student Performing Arts House at the University of Pennsylvania.

Multidisciplinary performer and winner of the 2025 Whinnery Summer Arts Internship Award, Elliot Ross-Dick, has tips on about securing internship funding through Penn and finding community through 1812 Productions. Plus, hear about the journey from there to writing and performing his solo show in the Theatre Arts Program's inaugural Out Of The Dark Festival!

Connect with Elliot on LinkedIn and on Instagram ⁠@elliot_rd⁠, and find NuAmen on Instagram ⁠@audenanuamen⁠.

Learn more about award opportunities for students with performing arts and entertainment interests at ⁠⁠platthouse.universitylife.upenn.edu/awards⁠⁠ and at ⁠https://pennlivearts.org/engage/careerconnections.php⁠⁠.

Facebook: ⁠⁠⁠PlattHouse⁠⁠⁠⁠

Instagram: ⁠@⁠⁠PennPlattHouse⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠@⁠⁠PACShop4100⁠⁠⁠

Our theme music is Retro Climb, by Peter Lu. This podcast was edited by Amanda Labonte and produced by Platt Student Performing Arts House at the University of Pennsylvania.

College Senior and awardee of not one but TWO internship funding awards, Evan Golinsky shares how he came to love TV and film, the state of arts and entertainment visibility on campus, and what it was like to get behind the scenes in the world of talent agencies during a CAA internship in 2023!

Connect with Evan on LinkedIn, and learn about the Golinsky Comedy Club at golinskycomedyclub.org. Find Sinéad Knepper on LinkedIn and on Instagram @sineadknepper.

Learn more about award opportunities for students with performing arts and entertainment interests at platthouse.universitylife.upenn.edu/awards and at pennlivearts.org/about/internshipfunding.php.

Facebook: ⁠PlattHouse⁠ and ⁠UPenn.PAC.Shop⁠

Instagram: ⁠@PennPlattHouse⁠ and ⁠@PACShop4100⁠

Our theme music is Retro Climb, by Peter Lu. This podcast was edited by Amanda Labonte and produced by Platt Student Performing Arts House at the University of Pennsylvania.

An interview with our co-host, Evan Bean, rounds out this season of stories about the Performing Arts in the Pandemic! Hear about how his a cappella group, The Pennchants, has pulled together as artists and as friends to make music through their screens. Find the Pennchants on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @thepennchants, and don't forget to check out their music on Youtube and on pennchants.com!

Find Evan Bean on Facebook and on Instagram @evan.beanstalk, and follow our other co-host and founder of the project, Jaden Cloobeck, on Instagram @jadencloo. 

The Performing Arts in the Pandemic Project lives on! To share a piece of your story through the upcoming object archive, or document your experience in other ways, contact Jaden at [email protected].

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Adam Rose, Charlotte Cecarelli, Jenna Pollack, and Laila Norford led Penn's bandos through a virtual semester of remote recording, parking garage rehearsals, and non-stop editing on the journey to releasing their new album! Follow the Penn Band on Twitter and Instagram @pennband and find them on Facebook as University of Pennsylvania Band. Their new album, The Penn Band Breaks... The Internet! is available on Spotify, Apple Music, and anywhere you listen to music. Read more about them at pennband.net.

To document your experience of the pandemic, contact our team at [email protected].

Find our Season 2 host, Jaden Cloobeck, on Facebook and on Instagram @jadencloo.

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For this episode, Jaden logged in to chat with John McInerney, Chloe Reison, and Tamara Suber of the Sachs Program Staff. Listen in on their conversation about how their team has uplifted Penn and West Philadelphia artists through arts promotion and grantmaking! Read more about the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation at www.sachsarts.org, and keep tabs on their grants and programming via Facebook and Instagram @sachsartsphilly.

To document your experience of the pandemic, contact our team at [email protected].

Find our Season 2 host, Jaden Cloobeck, on Facebook and on Instagram @jadencloo.

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Even in the midst of a pandemic, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts generated a flurry of safely virtual and distanced plans, programs, and performances! Find out how from our latest guest, Caroline Leipf, who serves as the Annenberg Center's Assistant Director for Education & Engagement. Find the Annenberg Center on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @annenbergcenter, and on their website at annenbergcenter.org - and if you're a current student, consider applying for a position their Student Advisory Council! Just contact Caroline for details. 

To document your experience of the pandemic, contact our team at [email protected].

Find our Season 2 host, Jaden Cloobeck, on Facebook and on Instagram @jadencloo.

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Introducing two new voices on this episode of the Performing Arts in the Pandemic series! Vasant Iyer sits down with our new co-host, Evan Bean, to talk about how Penn's South Asian Fusion group has adapted to new ways of making music together over the last year. Find Sargam on Facebook and on Instagram @pennsargam. To share your own journey on our podcast or document your experience in other ways, contact our team at [email protected].

Find our Season 2 host, Evan Bean, on Facebook and on Instagram @evan.beanstalk.

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Not only have Marina Dauer and Jake Milner led their groups, Penn Sirens and Penn Glee Club, through the pandemic - they've also fulfilled a years-in-the-making merger, making the Penn Glee Club fully gender-inclusive for the first time in its 159-year history! Read their interview with Penn Today. Find Penn Sirens on Instagram @pennsirens and at www.pennsirens.com, and check out the Glee Club @penngleeclub and at www.penngleeclub.com. To share your own journey on our podcast or document your experience in other ways, contact our team at [email protected].

Find our Season 2 host, Jaden Cloobeck, on Facebook and on Instagram @jadencloo.

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Jaden gets the scoop from four members of the past year's Performing Arts Council Executive board, who navigated uncharted territory as student leaders guiding the performing arts community through the pandemic. Find Adam First, Ayaka Shimada, Connor Beard, and Hannah Paquet on Facebook or on Instagram @adamdfirst (and adamfirstdesign.com!), @ayakashimada_, @connor.beard, and @hannahpaquet. Also check out the other two members of this PAC-Exec Committee, Hannah Lottenberg and Henry Platt, @hannahlottenberg and @henryjplatt! To share your own journey on our podcast or document your experience in other ways, contact our team at [email protected].

Find our Season 2 host, Jaden Cloobeck, on Facebook and on Instagram @jadencloo.

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