Beckett’s Babies

Hello Listeners!

Happy April 1st to those that celebrate.

On this episode... you won't believe the incredible conversation we had. We hope you enjoy this very serious episode on very very serious theatre things.

Enjoy!

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And as always, we would love to hear from you!    

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Email: [email protected]  

For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com    

Theme Music: "Live Like the  Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

THAT'S A WRAP FOR SEASON 5! Thank you all so much for tuning in every week and hear us chat about all things playwriting.

NOTE: Towards the second half of the episode, Sarah's mic went off and had some audio issues. We apologize for the quality!

A real cherry on top to the year Sarah had... we hope you enjoy nonetheless.

Thank you again for another incredible season. Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season... See you next year!

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:  @beckettsbabies   

And as always, we would love to hear from you!   

Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode.   

Email: [email protected] For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com   

Theme Music: "Live Like the  Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

Hello listeners! On this episode, we are so excited to bring on a fellow colleague from our days at Iowa, SARAH JOHNSON! Sarah Johnson is Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy and Head of the M.F.A. Dramaturgy program at Indiana University Bloomington. She researches and writes about intercultural theatre, new play development, and dramaturgy for applied theatre. In her creative work, she works professionally as a dramaturg with theatre companies across the country. 

And as always, we would love to hear from you!

Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected]

For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠

Hello listeners! This week on the show, we have the one and only director REBECCA WEAR! Rebecca is a freelance director and dramaturg with a focus on new play development, as well as an assistant professor in performance, play, and design.

To learn more about Rebecca, be sure to check out her website at https://www.rebeccawear.com/

GLISTEN

Cho - Amazon Prime TV show "Invincible"

Sam - Movie "Swimmers" on Netflix

Rebecca - Pear Tree

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies

And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected]

For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠

Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies

And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected]

For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠

Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

Hello listeners! This week on the show, we had GREG GEFFRARD on the show! This is a JUICY one with so much pearl of wisdom. Greg is here to make sure your sexy sustainable. PLEASE ENJOY!

Greg Geffrard is an educator, Intimacy professional, culture worker, actor, poet, and facilitator. He cultivates sustainable artistic spaces of exploration by sharing consent-based trauma-informed advocacy tools. He is an Associate Faculty member with Theatrical Intimacy Education. As an Intimacy Professional, he has worked on 62+ productions ranging from theatre and opera to building policies with arts institutions as an Intimacy Consultant. He is the Associate Artist Director of the Gainesville Theatre Alliance and Head of the BFA Acting program at Brenau University.

Shows currently in production:

GLISTEN

Cho - Sedona, AZ

Sam - old home videos

Greg - bandwidth / what does singularly focus version look like

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies

And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected]

For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠

Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies

And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected]

For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠

Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

Hello listeners! This week on the show, we had the one and only David Hanzal on the show! David is a Minneapolis-based director, puppeteer, and teaching artist. We first met David in our first year of graduate school in Iowa. We had an amazing time speaking with David and catching up! There's so much pearls of wisdom packed in this episode. PLEASE ENJOY!

David Hanzal (they/he) is a Minneapolis-based director, puppeteer, and teaching artist. They were the Artistic Director of Collective Unconscious Performance from 2014-2020. Previously, their stage direction and design has received awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre National Festival and the University of Iowa. They completed their Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Directing at the University of Iowa, where they regularly developed and directed premieres of new plays and devised work with writers from the nationally recognized Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop. David has also trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company, Kari Margolis and the Margolis Brown Adaptors Company, Czech master puppeteer Miroslav Trejtnar, the Wesley Balk Opera/Music-Theatre Institute, and the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.

To learn more about David, check out his work on:

https://davidhanzaltheatre.carbonmade.com/

Instagram: @lavender_scented_nostalgia

GLISTEN

Cho -  Olivia Rodrigo’s GUTS

Sam - bears

David - Save the Cat book, Once upon a Disney podcast

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies

And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected]

For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠

Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies

And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected]

For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠

Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

Hello listeners! We here at BB love a good WOO-WOO sesh especially as we're approaching the Halloween season so we are fortunate to have actor, director, choreographer, playwright, and workaholic witch WAI YIM join us this week. We get into talking about this path into theater and TAROT CARDS. Oh, this is a juicy one folks. ENJOY!

Wai Yim is basically a workaholic. He's an actor/ director/ choreographer/ playwright. He is one of those "multi-hyphenate artists". He is the managing director of Token Theatre in Chicago, an Asian-American Theatre Company.  He is also a witch. 

Instagram: @whyyim 

GLISTEN

Cho:  GHOSTS??

Sam: "Saving Time Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock" by Jenny Odell

Wai: Childhood

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies

And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected]

For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠

Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies

And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected]

For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠

Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

Hello listeners! We were so fortunate to have designer ALEX CASILLAS join us on the show! We had such an incredible time chatting with Alex about her life and experience as a designer as well as thinking about representation in the creative teams. Enjoy!!!

Alex Casillas, a native of Houston, TX, is a professional scenic and lighting designer holding a dual MFA from The University of Iowa. Previously, Alex has designed scenery for The Revolutionists (Strawdog Theatre), Mas Cara (The Vortex) Sonia, Vanya, Masha and Spike, Seven Spots on the Sun, and Braided Sorrow (University of Iowa) and has created a conceptual design for December (Alley Theatre: All New Festival). Also a professional lighting designer, Alex has worked on Secret Things (1st Stage Theatre), Cabaret, The Crucible(Parallel 45), and Peter and the Starcatcher, The Addams Family and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Festival 56). A dramaturgy-focused designer specializing in new work, Alex brings special focus to script analysis and structure to assist playwrights, directors and devisers truly realize their vision. She has a passion for educating young designers and theatre artists from marginalized communities and hopes to one day see true representation both on and off the stage.

Website: http://www.acdesigns.space/

Instagram: @acasdesigns 

To Learn More about Design, here are Alex's Top Book recommendations!

GLISTEN

Cho:  Monologue Joke Writing Challenge / LaughtHER Collective

Sam: Film "Patrick and The Whale"

Alex: Dungeons and Dragqueens

EPISODE CORRECTION:

Please note that in the podcast, Alex mentioned Jennifer Tipton had a book when it was equally prolific female lighting pioneer Jean Rosenthal who wrote a book. 

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies

And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected]

For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠

Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies

And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: [email protected]

For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠

Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)

Hello, listeners!  In today’s episode, we attempt to get 'unstuck' ourselves with scenes from plays we wrote. We read, discuss, and ask questions about the scenes we're stuck on. Do we get unstuck with our work? You'll have to listen to find out!

GLISTENS

Sam - Ellen McLaughlin in King Lear at CSF
Cho - a dream within a dream

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Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or
follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:  @beckettsbabies  
And as always, we would love to hear from you!  
Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode.  
Email: [email protected]
For more info,  visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com  
Theme Music: "Live Like the  Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA)