Cooking Up Creativity with Jonas Cohen & Marcus Baker

Life, music, biscuits and theatre! Actor Jonas Cohen and Musical Director and Pianist Marcus Baker join us to discuss creativity in the kitchen and theatre. Cohen and Baker are professional theatre artists in NYC, and, as the pandemic began, it became clear that a pivot was necessary. To nurture themselves and others, as well as create a source of income, the two friends created a drop biscuit business, the Drop Everything Biscuit Company.

Our Conversation Includes:
- How the Drop Everything Biscuit Company came to be
- Two stories about creativity from Marcus and Jonas
- The importance of being open to process
- Asking the question, "Can you fail?"
- Why biscuits?
- The connections between life, music, biscuits and theatre

You can find their tasty biscuits at: www.dropeverythingbiscuitcompany.com
Follow Marcus and Jonas at Instagram: @dropeverythingbiscuitco

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Guest Bios: Jonas Cohen is a professional actor, and Marcus Baker is a professional pianist and musical director. Their combined theatrical credits span TV, Film, web series, off-Broadway, regional theater, and educational theater. During the quarantine of 2020, these two friends had no choice but to drop everything and focus on self-care. 
It was during this time that they repaired to the kitchen and began to experiment with the humble Drop Biscuit  - a southern staple made with simple ingredients that can be endlessly enhanced with a variety of add-ins. Fascinated with the possibility of creating all kinds of flavor combinations these two theatermakers decided to ‘drop everything,’ introduce NYC to the Drop Biscuit, and provide the Big Apple with a little of the comfort and connection we were all craving. 
That’s how the Drop Everything Biscuit Co was born. Different from regular biscuits, our biscuits are crisp on the outside, soft and flakey on the inside and can handle all kinds of savory and sweet add-ins making them a treat you can enjoy with a meal, with butter, honey, or jam, or simply on their own. 

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