Laurie talks to FUSION Executive Director, Dennis Gromelski, about civic engagement, arts and culture, the open road, New Orleans meets Albuquerque, the joy of cooking, college ball, and The Grateful Dead.

FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.

Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to Julia Youngs, Accelerations Program Manager for Creative Startups, about the changing face of entrepreneurship locally and globally, urban design, running marathons, the life of theatre, and her passion for Flamenco.

FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.

Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to actor Trey Caperton about being a student of theatre, life and love in the time of COVID-19, and the little beauties of New Mexico.

FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.

Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to theatre artist, writer, poetry lover, and Netflix Finance Associate Evan Garrett about production - production of immersive theatre, poetry, film and television, politics, and a new normal in L.A.

FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre

Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.

Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to FUSION Co-Founder, Jacqueline Reid about new normals. the suspense of Annie Baker's The Antipodes, initial steps, the spirit, New Mexico, and turtles.

FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.

Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to actor, writer, arts administrator, and FUSION family member Blair Nodelman about Boston, the arts, quarantine collaborations, writing, acting in life, and the state of New Mexico.

FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.

Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to actor, director, and curator of FUSION's short play festival The Seven, Jen Grigg. They discuss the upcoming festival's theme and Jen's process of reading and selecting from over five hundred submissions. They also share thoughts on acting process, creativity during quarantine, and the passions in Jen's life that nurture her artistry.

FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.

Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks with poet, educator, actor, musician and Deputy Director for the City of Albuquerque's Cultural Services Department, Hakim Bellamy, about the city's strategies for sustaining Albuquerque's artists and arts organizations during the pandemic. They also take on the creative process of poetry, Hakim's earliest storytelling, his love for the Southwest, and his experience with Annie Baker's play The Antipodes.

FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.

Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast