La Mezcla

La Mezcla

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La Mezcla episodes

  • E7 - Janette Martinez

    Janette is born and raised in the Bronx, NY, where she developed an affinity for competition [dancing], music, and laughing hysterically with her twin sister. She works as the Assistant Manager of Education and Audience Engagement at Disney Theatrical Group. When she is not sharing her love for jazz hands, she likes to make multi-sensory theatre for young people and their families, volunteer with the amazing organization CO/LAB and write letters, haikus and short stories.

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    1 hr 9 min
  • E6 - Curtis Retherford

    Curtis is a writer and improvisor who lives in New York City and has studied at UCB since 2006. He performs at Harold night with his team Fluffty and contributes to McSweeney's and other such websites and magazines. He hosts the improv podcast Improv, Beat by Beat, in which each episode focuses on a certain aspect of improv. He is also the co-creator, co-star, and co-writer of the web series Quest for an Unknown Planet and the web series Magic Phone. He plays guitar, drums, and banjo, draws, and writes biographies in the third person. Twitter: @ActuallyCurtis http://www.curtisretherford.com

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    1 hr 1 min
  • E5 - Karen Sepulveda

    Karen Sepulveda is a New York based actor, comedian, and content creator of Dominican descent. She’s studied and performed improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade, NY. She is a writer and performer for DEADASS.TV, a stage manager and co-organizer for the Diverse as Fuck Comedy Festival (DaF), and an improvisor for indie improv team Sir Carter Carter. She was also the former co-host, producer, and sound editor of StreetClassPodcast, a podcast where people of color discuss making it in NYC. She writes and produces her own comedy sketches, which you can find on her YouTube channel. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Art in Media Studies at The New School for Media Studies. You can follow her on all social media platforms @TheKarenSep.

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    1 hr 18 min
  • E4 - Michael Varamogiannis

    Michael is a Comedian, actor, and musician Michael Varamogiannis is a Greek & Puerto Rican native of Queens New York. He spent 8 years of his childhood in Los Angeles California, he’s got the spice.

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    1 hr
  • E3 - Kimberly Chatterjee

    Kimberly Chatterjee is a mixed race South Asian actor born to an Indian-American father and Anglo-American mother. Born and raised in Fremont, California, she grew up surrounded by people and cultures with roots from around the world, particularly Asian and Middle Eastern cultures. She came to NYC to go to NYU Tisch's New Studio on Broadway, where she got her BFA in Drama with a focus on Musical Theatre, a BA in English & American Literature, as well as a certificate in Shakespeare Performance from a semester at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She most recently performed in both the World and NYC premiere of Kate Hamill's Pride and Prejudice, a co-production with Primary Stages and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Next up she will be performing in a two week workshop of Bhangin' It by Rehana Mirza, Mike Lew, and Sam Willmott through the Jerome Robbins Foundation. She loves chocolate, puppies, talking about her friends lives (clearly) and her generous/complex/beautiful family. Find out more at her website www.kimberlychatterjee.com

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    1 hr 7 min
  • E2 - Chloe Jury-Fogel

    Chloe-Jury Fogel joins the podcast!

    Chloe is a biracial filmmaker, actor, and improviser born to a Brazilian mother and Jewish-American father. Originally from San Francisco, she moved to NYC to attend film school at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. There, she wrote, directed, and acted in her thesis film, Stevie, which premiered in her hometown at the prestigious Frameline Film Festival before going on to play several festivals in the US and internationally. in 2015, Chloe wrote and directed Noah and the Band, a short based on her award-winning feature script of the same title. She is currently developing her first feature, Cherry, which was a 2017 finalist for the Richard Vague Production Fund. Chloe is also a proud member of NYC-based musical improv team, Good Catch. She likes cats and dogs the same, so don't make her choose! You can find out more at her website, chloejuryfogel.com.

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    1 hr 13 min

About La Mezcla

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La Mezcla is a freeform conversation with mixed race and first-generation artists and comedians in New York City. Each week we explore themes of culture, belonging, perseverance, awkwardness, and home…