From Another Zero

An amazing and honest conversation about talent agencies, unions, contracts, and REPRESENTATION. With the wonderful Caroline (Caro) Raedeker and Evette Torres from Shamon Freitas Model and Talent Agency.

This episode is brought to you by Jenny Bakes, where all my Vancouverians at?

A with every episode we also talked about their Other Zero, their causes, and small businesses to support. Here are the links to theirs:

Look for views, interviews, and happenings in our bilingual and fabulous blog www.fromanother0.com

If you haven't already, please follow us on Facebook, Instagram and subscribe to our YouTube channel where we also include the episodes.

Support your local arts organizations, bloggers, and podcasters! :)

Love,

Alejandra

Well, hello there! We are back full throttle with the second season of our podcast! yay!

We will be recording our episodes LIVE so we can get to interact with you in real-time.

Join us as we host Stage Manager and Producer galore Samantha Bauman-Martin and explore the world of Stage Managers and the basic question "What is it that they do"?.

Sammy's -Other Zero- is the pandemic. Listen how she got through it.

She is currently working with the company Little Cinema, her cause is Mutt Scouts and her small business recommendation is the restaurant Alforon Mediterranean Lebanese Food San Diego. Check them out and give them the love!

Give us the love too and follow us on Instagram, Facebook and subscribe to our YouTube Channel.

I apologize for the audio glitches, we will listen to each other very soon.

With love always,

Alejandra

I cannot believe we have not talked since December 2020!

This is a quick hello and recap of what has been going on since we talked. What is happening with our main ego Desde Otro Cero and what is coming for this one, our lovely alter ego.

Check out our announcements over at www.fromanother0.com 

Follow us on Facebook and Instagram

Subscribe and hit that bell on Youtube

Take care, happy to be back and we will see AND listen to each other on June 11

Love always,

Alejandra

It is the end of the season!

We do a quick recap of all the episodes and the wonderful guests we had with all the inspiring topics.

Signing off for now, wishing you all happy holidays and a wonderful new year.

Thank you for coming on this journey with me, we will listen to each other on season 2!

Love always,

Alejandra

Where is that intersection between theatre, education and engagement? 

How important are community and learning environments? 

Please join me in this amazing and raw conversation with Crystal Mercado, Artistic Director and Founder of Bocón Arts and Karen Ann Daniels, Director of Mobile Unit at The Public Theater in NYC. 

Links to what we talked about: 

Café Dionisio in Tijuana. 

Bocón Arts 

Onstage Playhouse 

More about our guests: 

Karen Ann Daniels is the Director of Mobile Unit at The Public Theater in NYC.  A native San Diegan, she is an accomplished actor, director, vocalist, and musician. In her prior role as the Associate Director of The Old Globe’s Arts Engagement, she program managed community partnerships and piloting and implementing key programs: Globe for All (the biannual tour of free plays across San Diego,) coLAB (devising original performances with community,) Community Voices (playwriting for new writers) and Reflecting Shakespeare (teaching Shakespeare in corrections facilities) across communities. She joined the Globe in 2013 after working in the technology sector and as a teaching artist and director with Studio East’s ArtsReach! program in Seattle. Karen Ann created marketing and event programs including large-scale trade shows, networking, and national recruiting events for Xbox, Halo, Windows Phone, Hardware, Server and other Microsoft Entertainment clients as well as for private entities, non-profits, and advertising clients. In 2019, her new musical, The Ruby in Us premiered as part of The Old Globe’s coLAB project, which was co-created with the Fourth District Seniors Resource Center in San Diego. Ms. Daniels served as a chair for the City of Chula Vista’s Cultural Arts Commission, held a seat on the Leadership Committee and was co-chair of Learning for the New California Arts Fund representing the future of community engagement for a cross-section of California arts organizations, via the James Irvine Foundation. She holds a B.A. in Art History from UCLA, an M.F.A in Musical Theatre from San Diego State, and a certificate in Shakespeare from the British American Drama Academy.  

Crystal Mercado is a proud native of San Diego California and the Artistic Director of Bocón, dedicated to empowering artists of all ages to create collaborative works of art that voice social perspectives on community stages. She is a theatre artist, director, facilitator, and educator passionate about the intersections of theatre and her community of San Diego. Crystal’s unswerving dedication and devotion to education has earned her a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre for Youth from Arizona State University and a BA in Children’s Theatre from San Diego State University. As the Co- Founder of TuYo Theatre, she served as the Co- Artistic Director. She co-wrote and co-directed Self-Conchas a new bilingual play for middle school. She directed Bodyguard: Protector of Anatomy (Creede Repertory Theatre), a bilingual play that toured to hundreds of schools across the American Southwest. She has worked as an artist in residence teaching theatre, creative drama, puppetry and theatre for social change in classrooms K-12 all over San Diego. Mrs. Mercado’s actions to create a dialogue and take actions around her community set a new precedent for how to engage community audiences through the many forms of storytelling and personal narrative is at the center of her artistic work and pedagogy. 

Photos of the Artwork by Reanne Acasio and Rich Soublet.

Join me in this amazing conversation with Solimar Salas, Vice President of Museum Content & Programming at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach California.

We talk about the difference between Latin American Art, Latino Art, the term Latinx and a bunch of other cool things.

Please follow us on social media: Instagram @FromAnother0 and Facebook: From Another 0. Our wonderful blog: www.FromAnother0.com 

And last but not least, our Youtube Channel where we upload our zoom calls and practically raw episodes :)

Links to the things we talked about:

Mom n' Pop shops/local businesses to support:

Causes and Non-Profits

Thank you for listening, don't be shy and leave a voicemail bellow!

Love always,

Alejandra

Sharing our POV regarding three wonderful pieces: 

(Please note two mistakes on this episode: 1) I mention Heidi Schreck doing contests... they were competitions... 2) The plays and monologues in Say Their Names have different titles from those of the names of the victims they are speaking of.

The world premiere of Roosevelt: Charge the Bear starring Phil Johnson in a virtual filmed presentation as part of their fourth season. As theatres all across the world are adapting to current conditions, many are moving their presentations to filmed productions online.  Roosevelt: Charge the Bear will run through November 2. 

Tickets for the new media release are available now at theroustabouts.org. Phil Johnson stars in this new one-man show about President Theodore Roosevelt, one of the most fascinating people of the 20th century. In this gripping 90-minute show, the new president grapples with the issues that would define his term: taking on the trusts, trying to get his message across to the people, and his colossal challenge - the coal strike of 1902. Miners and others were killed, tensions were high, and --- the biggest threat of all --- innocent people were at risk of freezing to death that winter. Rosina Reynolds helmed the production. The design team included Tony Cucuzzella (Set Design/Props), Matt Lescault-Wood (Sound Design), Joel Britt (Lighting Design), Jordyn Smiley (Costume Design), Ross Stewart (Costume Design Assistant). Jessamyn Foster was the Stage Manager. Michael Brueggemeyer was the Director of Photography/Editor. Rebecca Crigler, General Manager of The Roustabouts, produced the drama, following SAG, Federal, State, and local COVID-19 practices and protocols.

Direct from Broadway, playwright Heidi Schreck's boundary-breaking play breathes new life into our Constitution and imagines how it will shape the next generation of Americans.

Fifteen year old Heidi earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States. In this hilarious, hopeful and achingly human new play, she resurrects her teenage self in order to trace the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives.

Available on Amazon Prime.

Inspired by the #SayHerName Movement, these are readings of Plays and monologues about Black Indigenous Women of Color (BIWoC) who have died at the hands of law enforcement, written by BIWoC Honor Roll! playwrights, for BIWoC and their allies.

Say Their Names is a self-initiated Honor Roll! Project in association with Repro Freedom Arts, The Breath Project, and African American Policy Forum’s #SayHerName Campaign. Honor Roll! is an advocacy group for women+ playwrights over 40 and their allies. Honor Roll! Executive Committee: Cynthia Cooper, Cheryl Davis, Yvette Heyliger, Olga Humphrey, Sarah Tuft, Jacquelyn Reingold, and Lucy Wang.

Say Their Names Committee: Diana Burbano, Cheryl Davis, Yvette Heyliger, Jacqueline Lawton, Mildred Lewis, Celeste Walker, Lucy Wang. 

Enjoy the readings: https://www.facebook.com/Repro-Freedom-Arts-34688328022/ 

Leave a voice message and say hi! don't be shy!

My guest today:

Eric Keen-Louie joined the La Jolla Playhouse in 2018 as Producing Director, overseeing the day-to-day management of the artistic and producing operations of the theater. He spent seven years at The Old Globe, where he started as Associate Producer and later became Associate Artistic Director. At the Globe, he helped guide nearly fifty productions, eleven of which moved to Broadway or off-Broadway, including Bright Star, Allegiance, and the Tony Award-winning A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. 

Links about what was discussed during the episode:

Eric's Mom and pop shop recs: 

Eric's causes: 

More info on Eric:

He co-created the theater’s new play development initiative The Powers New Voices Festival and helped launch the arts engagement programs Community Voices and Globe for All. Keen-Louie spent three years at The Public Theater as the Assistant to the Associate Producer and then Director of Special Projects, working on world premieres by Stephen Sondheim, Richard Nelson and Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as the Broadway revival of Hair and the creation of The Mobile Unit. Independently, he produced Kingdom and the GLAAD Media Award-winning when last we flew. He also assisted Broadway producer Margo Lion on Hairspray and Caroline, or Change. He is a recipient of The Edward & Sally Van Lier Arts Fellowship for Producing and an alumnus of American Express’ Leadership Academy. He graduated with a B.A. in Dramatic Literature from New York University and an M.F.A. in Theatre Management and Producing from Columbia University, where he received a Dean’s fellowship. He is on the Board of Directors for The National Alliance for Musical Theatre and is currently a member of LEAD San Diego’s 2021 Impact San Diego class.

Thank you for listening!

Love always,

Alejandra

What is a Pod-View you ask? Well, it is a review but, as we learn and democratize content this is -my point of view- when watching an artistic piece. You can listen more on this matter in our previous episode with Arts Critic Jose Solís.

You can read other (formerly known as reviews) I have done here: http://www.fromanother0.com/search?q=review.

In this episode, we will talk about works happening in San Diego: The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess, a streaming presentation from Moxie Theatre. 

You can find all the info here: http://www.moxietheatre.com/playing-now/the-niceties/ 

We will also talk about Portaleza by David Israel Reynoso/Optika Moderna, a streaming presentation as well, from The La Jolla Playhouse. And all the info for this one you can find here: https://lajollaplayhouse.org/portaleza/.

PORTALEZA was created in collaboration with the performers, and by the contribution of artists such as: SONYA CALDERON (Illustrator/contributor | sonyacalderon.com) and the DIGITAL WOW development team at La Jolla Playhouse.

I felt pretty rusty trying to get my ideas into place to be honest for this episode, I did try my best.

If you see these shows, get in contact with us! send us a DM on Instagram: @FromAnother0 or Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FromAnother0/ 

And, do not be shy, leave us a voice message so we can hear and share your lovely voice.

I am very excited to share this new chapter with you.

Love always

Alejandra