It's Miriam Shor, y'all! You Might Know Her From Younger, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Magic Hour, GCB, Shortbus, Swingtown, Maestro, American Fiction, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3.

Miriam gave us all the scoop on grounding the zaniness of Diana Trout on Darren Star's Younger, leading the indie comedy Magic Hour, and appearing in "brilliant but canceled" series like GCB and Swingtown.

All that, plus Miriam talked to us about being one of John Cameron Mitchell's "players," appearing in Shortbus and, of course, originating the role of Yitzhak in the Hedwig universe; popping up in prestige Oscar films; her musical theatre roots; New York City history; and dying by way of a paintbrush in The Americans.

We just LOVED Miriam.

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Discussed this episode:

Genesis’ “Land of Confusion” + Garbage Pail Kids + Whoopi Goldberg latex mask

Realistic latex masks on TikTok

Eddie Fisher was married to Debbie Reynolds but cheated on Debbie with Elizabeth Taylor when her husband (their friend), Mike Todd died 

Christina Milian and The Dream; Little Wayne and Nivea swapped

Damian loves a sexy network drama and also HBO’s Real Sex, Taxicab Confessions

People raising hyper realistic fake babies

Lars and the Real Girl ; Companion

MIriam’s first leading film role is in Magic Hour

Dons a bald cap in Guardians of the Galaxy III

American Fiction had a $5M budget

Cord Jefferson’s Oscar speech

Played Diana Trout on Darren Star’s Younger for 6 seasons

Darren Star also made Beverly Hills, 90210, Melrose Place, Sex and the City, Emily in Paris, Good Christian Bitches

Robert Harling wrote Steel Magnolias

Cricket Caruth Reilly

Met her husband doing karaoke - also with Bridget Everett

Marie’s Crisis got a resurgence thanks to Younger

St Marks Is Dead by Ada Calhoun

Il Posto Accanto (thanks to Debi Mazar); Supper; Gnocco

Swingtown was championed by Nina Tassler but killed by Les Moonves

Hedwig and the Angry Inch was Miriam’s first audition and show in New York

Met Lou Reed, Joey Ramone, Elliot Smith, Pete Townsend because of Hedwig

Anne saw Debbie Does Dallas in the Jane Street Theatre but didn’t get to see Hedwig

Shortbus with John Cameron Mitchell

Did Fiddler on the Roof tour in 1994 with Theodore Bikel (Captain Von Trapp in Original Broadway cast of The Sound of Music). “Edelweiss” was written for him by Rodgers & Hammerstein 

Appeared at Public Theatre’s production Lynn Nottage’s Sweat (it later won the Pulitzer Prize) 

Wants to do Shakespeare in the Park

Was Mary in Kennedy Center Production of Merrily We Roll Along (A GREAT DRUNK in a FAT SUIT, her big scene at 15:40)

Was a waitress in Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce miniseries 

Was directed by Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro

Appeared as lesbian in The Wild Party with Sutton at Encores, played gay in And Just Like That Season 2; and was Yitzak in Hedwig

Anne’s obsessed with this portrait Morgan Freeman is supposed to have painted of a nude Diane Keaton in Five Flights Up (see right) 

Friends with Cynthia Nixon and her wife Christine

Played an artist in The Americans (“I’m pulling the drawing OUT of the paper”)

Adam Scott and Carol Burnett are great drunks; we love a pilled out Samatha Mathis in American Psycho

“Room Tone” is when Sound Dept records sound of the room to lay under the scene if necessary

“Corpsing” is when you break character (Peter Hermann is worst)

Miriam is Directing a documentary about NDAs

Quincy Jones said that Richard Pryor had sex with Marlon Brando

We hope Amanda Bynes gets a comeback. Faye Dunaway, Tatyana Ali, Leanna Creel and her triplets. Not Millie Bobby Brown

Matlock cast on Jennifer Hudson runway