Cause an Effect

We are closing up our #passthemic series on Cause an Effect with a GREAT introduction to new RTA Team member Brennan Srisirikul. I couldn’t be more excited to call him creative collaborator, as he lives and thrives at the intersection of being Queer, Disabled and Chinese. We are AMPED about him and check out why in this absolutely awesome interview!

you can find Brennan @brennansrisirikul and www.BrennanSrisirikul.com

You can find the RTA Team at @rocktheaudition

www.rock-the-audition.com.

Find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect. Produced by Dori Bernstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore.

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RTA family for years, BIPOC Delegate for AEA, GREAT actor Mental Health advocate, Carla Martinez DeNicola sits down with Elijah to talk about what a safe theatre space really looks like and what it's going to take to make it happen.

You can find Carla @_cmdnicola, Elijah at @thisiscaldwell

You can find the RTA Team at @rocktheaudition www.rock-the-audition.com. Find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect. Produced by Dori Bernstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore.

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Jamie Gamonez, Actor and RED Branch Leader with Millikin CARE, sits down with California Therapist Nicole Calvento to talk about being Filipina in college, the world, and in the world of theatre.

You can find the RTA Team at @rocktheaudition www.rock-the-audition.com.

You can find @milikin.care on Instagram

You can find Jamie at https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCdMwoPizZkTwJlrMF67NzbA and Nicole at www.ncalventolmft.com

Find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect. Produced by Dori Bernstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore.

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Meet the DNA Branch of Millikin CARE! Disability, Neurodivergence and Accessibility is literally what DNA STANDS FOR.

Please enjoy this JUICY #passthemic. It’s facilitated by RTA Company Member Adam Roberts, creator of The Award-winning Tilt Theatre in Austin and members of the Millikin CARE Coalition’s NDA Branch, Rebecca, Owen and Taylor and you’ll get great tools for leading with a Disability, as well as how to holds space for the some very necessary leadership!

You can find the First Revised Second Edition at http://www.rock-the-audition.com & find the Rock The Audition Team on Insta @rocktheaudition

Find more info about the podcast via http://bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect

Produced by Dori Bernstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore.

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This entire year, Rock The Audition built the CARE COALITION (Creatives for Artistic and Realistic Equity) with both Oklahoma City University, and Millikin University. While leading our Mental Health initiatives, we also launched a brand new branch, BE, The Body Empowerment branch.

This episode is a crucial conversation between Mandy Dulny, Junior and Mental Health and Wellness branch leader with Millikin CARE, Trans theatre-maker and RTA Team member Sandy Sahar Gooen, and incredible Therapist Rebekah Sauder-Russo on the culture and spectrum of Eating Disorders this industry has brought to the very artists they are counting on.

You can find the Rock The Audition Team on Insta @rocktheaudition

Find more info about the podcast via http://bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect

Produced by Dori Bernstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore.

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At 5:30 PM on Tuesday RTA Member Jenna Mee Dosch sat down with therapist Rachel Forbes on Cause an Effect to open up the first of many conversations with AAPI members of the theater community and mental health community. After they completed our interview, we found out about the mass shooting at three massage spas in Atlanta, in which 6 out of 8 who were murdered were Asian women.

Because we wanted to start these conversations with an RTA team members’ experience first, we also wanted to make sure they shared a few words here today before you listen to their episode.

From Rachel and Jenna:

While we are in mourning with the AAPI community, we also want to acknowledge our unique positioning within the community as transracial adoptees. Though we can empathize with experiencing microaggressions, fetishization, model minority stereotyping, and overt xenophobia, we also recognize our close proximity to white privilege and thus our disconnect from living in an Asian community with ancestral experiences of systemic racism. It is also worth noting that the transracial Asian adoptee community has consequently experienced perpetual confusion about belonging - i.e., “I’m neither fully white, nor fully Asian.” We hope that our words are heard and understood within this layered context as we grieve with the AAPI community.

You can find Jenna Mee Dosch at @jennamee & Rachel Forbes at @rachelforbes.lcsw

you can find our REVISED Second Edition at www.rock-the-audition.com

You can find The Rock The Audition team on Insta @rocktheaudition

Find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect. Produced by Dori Bernstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore.

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Mary and the RTA Team here with some exciting happenings! We are thrilled to launch Rock The Audition’s #PASSSTHEMIC Podcast Season on the Broadway Podcast Network! Last season Sheri’s Podcast, Cause an Effect, introduced industry members in open conversation about their mental health and the emotional wellness of our community during the Pandemic. 

THIS season we’ve got so much in store and we’re starting it off with a bang!

Enjoy Part One of ‘Meet the Team’ where we discuss the completely redone, team-built Edition of our book and the current state of our industry at large. THEN, please keep your eyes peeled for team member Jenna Mee Dosch and Part Two, which will be a conversation focused on the AAPI Experience within the industry and beyond. 

Follow us to keep up with all the changes happening in-house!

You can find the First Revised Second Edition at www.rock-the-audition.com

You can find the Rock The Audition Team on Insta @rocktheaudition

Find more info about the podcast via http://bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect

Produced by Dori Bernstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore.

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I have always been marginalized, but NEVER alone in the margins. When I created a Coalition as a part of the launch of my Second Edition, it immediately asked the question: "What if we all helped each other out of the margins? What if the disability community lifted the LGBTQUIA Community, and what if they held space for the BIPOC community, and we all changed theatre together?"

Please meet the pioneers of Rock The Auditions CARE Coalition. They are the wild student and faculty at Oklahoma City University's Wanda L. Bass School of Music, who are changing the theatre culture at college with me, so we can change the industry from here.

You can find OCU CARE on INSTA at @OCU_CARE. You can also inquire about bringing CARE into your College or TEEN Program by contacting [email protected].

You can find Sheri at www.rock-the-audition.com or on Instagram @rocktheaudition

To find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect

Produced by Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore.

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MTEA is the Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance. These people are not only my siblings, but they are here to change college culture-because the teachers and facilitators of these MT programs are raising the future of Musical Theatre in the middle of a pandemic. When I interviewed them, It was just as if we were about to go back to school. Thank you for joining me: Stacy Alley from The University of Alabama, our first female PREZZIE, The WILD WILD WONDERFUL healer of the human voice Gwen Walker from Penn State University, and Tim Espinosa from Fullerton College, the head of our brand new Diversity and Inclusion program.

To learn more about MTEA, visit www.musicaltheatreeducators.org and follow them on Instagram @mteducators

You can find Sheri at www.rock-the-audition.com or on Instagram @rocktheaudition

To find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect

Produced by Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore.

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You may have heard that film-maker and friend- to- ALL Shayla Benoit was the first person in the history of the universe to survive a rare Cancer diagnosis, and FULL Treatment during the PEAK of the pandemic. She's my collaborator, my Shero, and my guest on this episode. She will surely astound you and fill you with awe and hope. You can find Shayla's work in every professional commercial I've made, but also on Insta at: @shaylabenoit and @shadytheatrics

Learn more about Shayla at www.shaylabenoit.com & www.shadytheatrics.com and on Instagram @shaylabenoit

You can find Sheri at www.rock-the-audition.com or on Instagram @rocktheaudition

To find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect

Produced by Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore.

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