ECHO OFFSTAGE: Theater Women Speak

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Mentioned in this episode:
New School Parsons School of Design 
University of Hartford Art School
Edward Allan Baker
Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST)
Estenfanía Fadul (Co-Artistic Director of EST) on Echo Offstage!
John Belluso
Christopher Shinn
Lucy Thurber
Daniel Talbott
Francine Volpe
Mary & Max (film)
Mary & Max: The Musical
Geek! by Crystal Skillman
Bobby Cronin
Adam Elliot
Memoir of a Snail (film)
Fred Van Lente
Jared Mezzocchi
Christopher Gattelli
What If...? (Marvel) 
Caryl Churchill
King Kirby (Podcast)
King Kirby, American Chronicle Theatre Co. (July 4-12 ‘25) - Brenn Rapp
Steven Ratazzi
Marymount Manhattan College
TDF Young Playwrights Summer Program
Moonlighting (TV Show)
SIX (Muscial)
Paula Vogel
Liz W. Garcia
Rattlestick Theater
William Jackson Harper
New Harmony Project 
Megan Hill
Jessie Hill
Morgan Janness 
The Tank NYC
Meghan Finn
Lisa McNulty
WP (Rebecca Martínez & Nidia Medina) on EOS!
Museum of Broadway
Rachel Wax
Lily Ali-Oschatz 
Kimberly Belflower
John Proctor is the Villain
Sadie Sink
Issa Rae
Constance Macy
Phoenix Theater
Synchronicity Theater (Atlanta)
Angels Theatre Company (Nebraska)

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Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights.

Host: Catherine Whiteman
Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg
Editor & Audio Engineer: Isaac Young
Graphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley Shipley
Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director
Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!   You can also sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage!

Get Flex Tickets to Echo's 2025 Season--FAMILY: The Bonds that Break Us and Make Us.

Listen to Echo Offstage's interview with Lisa's wife and fellow playwright, Madeleine George!

Find out more about Echo Theatre! 
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Insta: @echotheatredallas

Mentioned in this episode:
Sada Thompson 
Lowry Marshall
Split Britches
Paula Vogel
Peggy Shaw
Deb Margolin
Lois Weaver
Split Britches Archive (NYU)
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
WOW Cafe
The Five Lesbian Brothers
Moe Angelos
The Secretaries
Jeanine Tesori
Fun Home
Alison Bechdel
Caroline, or Change
Sam Gold
Emma Horowitz
Bailey Williams
Carmelita Tropicana
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Barrie Kosky 
Yentl the Yeshiva Boy
The States Project

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Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights.

Host: Catherine Whiteman
Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg
Editor & Audio Engineer: Isaac Young
Graphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley Shipley
Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director
Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!   You can also sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage!

Get Flex Tickets to Echo's 2025 Season--FAMILY: The Bonds that Break Us and Make Us.

Find out more about Echo Theatre! 
FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas
Insta: @echotheatredallas

Keep up with Maura Sheffler on TACA's website.

Mentioned in this episode:
Manhattan School of Music
Southern Methodist University (SMU)
Chee-Yun
Dr. Zannie Voss
TRG Arts
Rick Lester
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Dallas Theater Center
Public Works Dallas
City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture
Sarah Cotton Nelson
Gabrielle Kurlander
 

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Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights.

Host: Catherine Whiteman
Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg
Editor & Audio Engineer: Isaac Young
Graphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley Shipley
Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director
Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!   You can also sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage!

Get Flex Tickets to Echo's 2025 Season--FAMILY: The Bonds that Break Us and Make Us.

Find out more about Echo Theatre! 
FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas
Insta: @echotheatredallas

Keep up with Roberta Emerson on her website.

Mentioned in this episode:
The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Madea by Euripides
Treemonisha (Opera Orlando) by Scott Joplin
Orlando Shakes
University of Central Florida
The Arts Bridge Charity
National New Play Network
Central Florida Entertainment Advocacy
Patricia McGregor
Hana S. Sharif
Nataki Garrett

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Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights.

Host: Catherine Whiteman
Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg
Editor & Audio Engineer: Isaac Young
Graphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley Shipley
Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director
Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!   You can also sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage!

Get Flex Tickets to Echo's 2025 Season--FAMILY: The Bonds that Break Us and Make Us.

Find out more about Echo Theatre! 
FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas
Insta: @echotheatredallas

Keep up with Joanna on the Sammons Arts Center website.

Mentioned in this episode:
Sammons Arts Center 
Dallas Area Cultural Advocacy Coalition
Dallas Office of Arts & Culture
Your Brain on Art by Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen
Bruce Wood Dance
Dallas Black Dance
Texas Ballet Theater
Avant Chamber Ballet
Kitchen Dog Theater
Dallas Theater Center
SoulRep Theater
Cara Mía Theatre
ArtSpace Projects
Corgan Architecture
Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra
African American Museum of Dallas
Margie Johnson Reese

 

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Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights.

Host: Catherine Whiteman
Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg
Editor & Audio Engineer: Isaac Young
Graphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley Shipley
Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director
Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage.

See Echo's whole 26th Season with a Subscription!

Find out more about Echo Theatre! 
FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas
X (Twitter): @echodallas
Insta: @echotheatredallas

Keep up with Robyn on the Dallas Children's Theater website.

Mentioned in this episode:
Paul Baker
Texas Trilogy by Preston Jones
Theatre of Nations
On Golden Pond
Oldest Living Graduate
Summer in Smoke
Irene Corey 
Ed Herrmann
Carole Cooke
Charles Laughton
Burgess Meredith
Ann M. Williams
Steven Kellogg
Treasure Island Reimagined!
Tomás and the Library Lady
The Secret Life of Girls
BJ Cleveland
Andi Boi
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
Baker Idea Institute 
Vicki Meek

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Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights.

Host: Catherine Whiteman
Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg
Editor & Audio Engineer: Isaac Young
Graphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley Shipley
Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director
Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage.

See Echo's whole 26th Season with a Subscription!

Find out more about Echo Theatre! 
FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas
X (Twitter): @echodallas
Insta: @echotheatredallas

Keep up with Hilary on her Instagram!

Mentioned in this episode:
The O’Neill
Romulus Linney 
Marsha Norman
National New Play Network (NNPN)
NNPN Rolling World Premiere (RWP)
The Ghosts of Lote Bravo
Queen of Basel
Miami New Drama
Michel Hausmann
Alley Theater
The Americans (FX)
The Dropout (Hulu)
Lileana Blain-Cruz
Will Davis
Eboni Booth
Christy Hall

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Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights.

Host: Catherine Whiteman
Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg
Editor & Audio Engineer: Isaac Young
Graphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley Shipley
Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director
Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage.

See Echo's whole 26th Season with a Subscription!

Find out more about Echo Theatre! 
FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas
X (Twitter): @echodallas
Insta: @echotheatredallas

Keep up with Johannah and the National Women's Theatre Festival on their website!

Mentioned in the episode:
Playwrights Horizons
Judson Jones
Marlene Pennison
Kitty Leech
Sharifa Yasmin
Dance Nation by Clare Barron
Caridad Svich on Echo Offstage!
Albermarle by Caridad Svich
Lauren Gunderson on Echo Offstage!
Audrey Cefaly
Mathilde Dratwa
Raleigh Arts
Learning Community for Universal Access
Natural Shocks (Echo 2023)
Momversations Project
Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL)
Seed Art Share
Christine Toy Johnson 
Asian American Performers Arts Coalition (AAPAC)
Vivienne Benesch
Playmakers Repertory Company 
Renee Wimberly
Lauren Kennedy Brady
Theatre Raleigh 
 

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Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights.

Host: Catherine Whiteman
Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg
Editor & Audio Engineer: Isaac Young
Graphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley Shipley
Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director
Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage.

See Echo's whole 26th Season with a Subscription!

Find out more about Echo Theatre! 
FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas
X (Twitter): @echodallas
Insta: @echotheatredallas

Keep up with Becca Blackwell on their website!

Mentioned in the episode:
Jennifer Miller
Circus Amok!
Tina Satter
Is This a Room
Erin Markey
A Ride On The Irish Cream
Untitled Feminist Show
Young Jean Lee
The Shipment
Bianca Leigh
Madeleine George on Echo Offstage! 
Hurricane Diane
Reality Winner Case
Emily Davis
They, Themself, and Schmerm
Back to She
The Body Never Lies
Max Bernstein
Soho Rep
Project Number One
Amanda Villalobos
Amanda Duarte
The Duplex
Wild Project
Sarah Benson
Miss PepperMint
Charlotte Brathwaite
Cornerstone Theater Company
Jess Barbagallo




 

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Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights.

Host: Catherine Whiteman
Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg
Editor & Audio Engineer: Isaac Young
Graphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley Shipley
Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director
Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage.

See Echo's whole 26th Season with a Subscription!

Find out more about Echo Theatre! 
FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas
X (Twitter): @echodallas
Insta: @echotheatredallas

Since the time of recording, Nidia has been promoted to Producing Director at INTAR  and Rebecca directed the Public Theater's Mobile Unit production of The Comedy of Errors (featured on PBS’  Great Performances) which will be returning to parks around NYC this summer. Rebecca is also the Cohort Collaborations Director for the One Nation/One Project .

 Keep up with WP's work on their website. Find Rebecca's work at her website and Nidia's work at INTAR's website.

Mentioned in the episode:
Sojourn Theatre
Emory University Theater
WP Labs
Milagro Theater
Public Theater
Lisa McNulty
Sally Cade Holmes
Pipeline Festival '24  (4/4-5/4/24)
viBe Theater Experience
Theater for a New Audience
Tamilla Woodard
Laurie Woolery
Awoye Timpo
Classix

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Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights.

Host: Catherine Whiteman
Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg
Editor & Audio Engineer: Isaac Young
Graphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley Shipley
Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director
Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance