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From Broadway to your hometown stage, Richard Patterson shares how a musical joins the licensing catalogue with Music Theatre International (MTI).

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About Richard Patterson:

Richard Patterson has worked in the professional licensing department since 2015, having joined the MTI family in 2012 as a Customer Account Representative in the amateur licensing department. In his role as International Licensing Director, Richard’s focus is on international professional licensing, including coordination between MTI’s New York, London, and Melbourne offices. Originally from Drexel Hill, PA, Richard studied Dramatic Literature and Creative Writing at New York University and previously worked as a licensing representative at Samuel French, Inc. In addition to his work at MTI, Richard is a writer whose theatre reporting has been featured on Playbill.com and in The Sondheim Review.

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Digital marketer of Broadway favorites including Hamilton, Hadestown, and Be More Chill, Micayla Brewster breaks down her process at Marathan Digital and beyond.

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About Micayla Brewster:

Micayla is a creative, detail-oriented, driven person who loves to share stories and cultivate relationships. Those skills helped her as she developed a passion for digital marketing and social media management. 

She is currently based in New York City and is an Account Manager at Marathon Digital where she runs the official social media accounts of fan-centric Broadway shows like Hamilton, Hadestown, and Be More Chill.

Micayla loves working in the world of entertainment is excited to be doing it through her passion for social media and digital marketing. There is absolutely nothing more captivating to her than an innovative campaign with a detailed strategy.

As a daughter of successful entrepreneurs and a product of California’s Bay Area, she learned at a young age how important hard work is in achieving success. She had the privilege of watching her parents start a worldwide transportation company from humble beginnings in their garage and grew up in a place that values innovation and groundbreaking ideas. She knows that it takes grit and passion to make something successful out of nothing. 

As a California-native turned New Yorker, she is the proud owner of her first winter coat.

Resources from this episode:

• Marathon Digital

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From American Idol to bedroom closet, Justin breaks down the artrepreneur lifestyle and how you can find your core confidence.

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About Justin Guarini:

Justin Guarini’s robust performance career launched with the first season of American Idol in 2002. His stage and screen appearances since then include Broadway productions of American Idiot, Romeo and Juliet, Wicked, and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

Justin has hosted shows like Idol Wrap and Idol Tonight along with live events for the TV Guide Network, the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Grammys. He continues to reprise his role as the lovable Lil’ Sweet in commercials for Diet Dr. Pepper.

Justin is a generous humanitarian: he has advocated for music education funding on Capitol Hill by lobbying for the International Music Products Association. He has worked with Education Through Music Los Angeles, a nonprofit utilizing music education as a catalyst to improve academic achievement, motivation for school, and self-confidence in underserved communities. Justin has also partnered with RandomActs.org and GISH.com to participate in global kindness campaigns.

In 2019, Justin founded The Warrior Artist Alliance to help performers achieve success in a challenging industry. He shares his tips, tricks, breadth of experience, and warrior mindset with a community of performers through podcasts, blogs, and dynamic training programs.

In 2020, he pivoted again and is now the founder of the Core Confidence Challenge where he helps influencers profit under pressure.

Justin is dedicated to his loving family; his wife, daughter, and sons make up his happy home. It is here that he draws his support and the desire to live his best life.

Resources from this conversation:

Join the FREE challenge: www.coreconfidencechallenge.com

Read "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" here.

www.BucksCountyPlayhouse.com

www.bigleapbrands.com

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Collaborating with Stephen Schwartz to update "Working" for modern audiences, Peter breaks down their process and the challenges that make this virtual production so timely.

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About Peter Flynn:

Peter is a New York based director, writer and teacher who works both in new work development, as well as staging classic American musicals in New York and for some of the most notable regional theaters.

His New York directing credits include the off-Broadway premiere of Smart Blonde by Willy Holtzman starring Andréa Burns; the off-Broadway premiere of Curvy Widow by Bobby Goldman & Drew Brody; Rhapsody in Seth starring Seth Rudetsky; Lee Blessing’s Two Rooms; the 75th Anniversary performance of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town with Adriane Lenox, B.D. Wong, S. Epatha Merkerson; On the 20th Century with Douglas Sills & Marin Mazzie; Chess with Josh Groban & Julia Murney; Funny Girl with Bebe Neuwirth, Whoopi Goldberg, & Andrea Martin; Skippyjon Jones, and Junie B. Jones (nominated for two Lucille Lortel Awards including Best Musical).

Other credits include Andrea Martin’s one woman show, Andrea Martin: Final Days Everything Must Go; Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop; Gypsy at the St. Louis MUNY; Kiss Me, Kate for the Maltz-Jupiter Theatre where he has directed productions of Man of LaMancha (Carbonell Award, Best Director & Best Musical), Sleuth, & Other Desert Cities; and Into the Woods & Ragtime (Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Direction for both productions) for Ford’s Theatre where he is an Associate Artist.

As a writer, Peter is currently under commission to create the book for two new musicals: Lily, a musical adaptation of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, and Love of the Game, an adaptation of the Michael Shaara novella. Both are written with composer/lyricist Brooks Ashmanskas. Love of the Game is receiving its first workshop in New York, spring of 2020. He has also written the scripts for the Drama Desk Awards, the Second Stage Theatre Annual Gala, the Guthrie Theatre’s 50th Anniversary Performance, and for industrials including Aztra-Seneca Pharmaceuticals.

Peter was the Artistic Director of the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca, New York for five seasons, overseeing a variety of large scale productions, intimate plays, and the development of new work. He is also the Founding Artistic Director of the Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.

Peter also creates and directs award-winning entertainment for Carnival Cruise Lines, with music ranging from Motown, rock, disco, and Cuban/Miami fusion. He is currently creating his latest show with Carnival to debut on a new vessel in the fall of 2020.

For Peter’s teaching experience, please visit the “Teaching” page.

Peter is a graduate of Northwestern University, and a member of SDC.

Website: www.peterflynndirector.com

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Is Broadway really 'end game' when it comes to theatre? Mo shares his thoughts and breaks down the process of his work as a theatre advocate.

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About Mo Brady:

Mo Brady is co-creator, podcast host and content director of The Ensemblist, the online advocate for the talent artists working in theatre ensembles. Through our podcast, website and social presence they create conversation about what it means to be a successful artist in the theatre. The Ensemblist podcast has more than 1.5 million podcast downloads and was recently named one of the Top 50 Best Selling Performing Arts Podcasts of all time.

He is the Communications Projects Manager for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, a nonprofit that unites theatre artists and theatre lovers to help those in need. As a member of their communications team, he conceptualizes, develops and creates social media campaigns to promote Broadway Flea Market, Broadway Bares, their audience appeal seasons and more.

Before joining the Broadway Cares team, he was a performer working on Broadway and regionally across the country. He made his Broadway debut in The Addams Family, where he understudied the role of Lucas Bieneke (Wednesday’s boyfriend). He also recurred in the second season of the NBC television series "Smash" as Gabe, a performer in “Hit List” on their journey from off-Broadway to the Tony Awards.

He lives in New Jersey with his husband and their four-year-old son.

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Website/Blog: www.TheEnsemblist.com

Family Account: @daddy_papa_and_me_make3

Check out The Ensemblist's episode on the 2020 Tony nominations with P2S's Mary Dina!

Make sure you check out The Ensemblist's latest series on The Addams Family!

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Can you handle the Circle of Pain? Mercedes Murphy breaks down her process of working on movement driven theatre and the questions she asks herself, her collaborators and the audience while directing.

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About Mercedes Murphy:

Mercedes Murphy (Writer/Director) has directed theater and dance at various venues including the Moscow Art Theater, Lincoln Center Outdoors, PS 122, the Vineyard Theater, the Market Theater and the American Repertory Theatre. Mercedes' work has toured throughout Europe. She has worked as an Art Director for music videos and collaborated with artists including Coleman Hough, Jody Oberfelder, Robert Woodruff, Jay Scheib and John Bucchino. Mercedes was the resident director at the New Opera and Musical Theater Initiative in Boston and is the Founding Artistic Director of Théâtre Trouvé. She has taught at the New York Film Academy, Montclair State University and Harvard University. 

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Build a Prom? Check. Dori breaks down the process of bringing The Prom from Broadway to Netflix.

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This is part of our mini-series, Page To Stream, where we'll dive deep with theatre-makers as they explore this virtual and digital space while Broadway and theatre continues to be shutdown in America.

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About Dori Berinstein:

Dori is a four-time Tony-winning Broadway producer (“Fool Moon”, “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Next”, “Thoroughly Modern Millie” and “Virgina Woolf”), an Olivier winner (Legally Blonde) and an Emmy-award-winning director, producer and writer of film and television. Dori most recently was Lead Producer on “The PROM”. Dori is partnered with Justin “Squigs” Robertson on the Lights of Broadway Show cards, is Co-Founder of Camp Broadway and is the Co-Founder and CEO of The Broadway Podcast Network.

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The Prom is coming to Netflix on December 11, 2020!

Dramatic Forces

As The Curtain Rises - Broadway's First Digital Soap Opera

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Imposter syndrome is a common side effect of the theatre industry. Bret breaks down his process bridging the gap between craft and commerce and how to cope with that feeling of imposter syndrome.

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About Bret Shuford:

As the Broadway Life Coach Bret Shuford is passionate about helping artists create a digital reputation and bridging the gap between craft and commerce. Shuford’s Broadway credits include Wicked, Cirque Du Soleil’s Paramour, Amazing Grace, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Beauty and the Beast, and The Little Mermaid. Other N.Y. credits include Actors Fund Benefit performances of A Wonderful Life, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, On the Twentieth Century, and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Shuford’s credits outside of New York City include the National Tour of Lincoln Center’s South Pacific and Dr. Fine/Dr. Madden in Next to Normal at the Adirondack Theatre Festival. He originated the role of Vernon Castle in Castlewalk, a new musical presented as part of the New York Music Theatre Festival. He has sung with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, and the Fort Worth Symphony. Shuford also has been seen on TV and Web series including Law and Order SVU, Alpha House, Submissions Only, and My Dirty Little Secret. His film credits include Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Bedfellows, and Uncle Melvin’s Apartment.

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Devising plays has no one size fits all process, but Barb breaks down how she teaches and works on devised theatre.

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About Barbara Pitts McAdams (she/her):

Our guest today is best known for her work with Tectonic Theater Project. Barbara Pitts McAdams was in the original company of The Laramie Project, a play devised from interviews with the residents of Laramie, Wyoming after the brutal murder of gay university of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard. Barb and the Members of Tectonic Theater Project share playwriting credit with artistic director Moisés Kaufman, and Barb is the co-author with Kaufman of MOMENT WORK: Tectonic’s Process of Devising Theater. Barb, as she asked us to call her, has worked regionally as an actor and appears on all the usual NY tv shows, but has found herself more and more called to teach and devise plays. Her current passion project is #HereToo: stories of youth activism. 

www.tectonictheaterproject.org

www.heretooproject.com

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Feminized labor, dirty laundry, and being 8,000 miles from home are all part of Johanna's process as a textile and visual artist.

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About Johanna Pan (she/they):

Johanna Pan is a Costume and sometimes Scenic designer for Theatre, Film, Dance and Opera, a textile and visual artist, host and co-producer of the podcast “Dirty Laundry: Unpacking the Costume Closet”. Born and raised in Singapore, she currently splits her time between New York City and home. She first discovered theatrical design while competing in the creative thinking competition Odyssey of the Mind and has never looked back. She is a proud feminist, lover of vintage clothing and all things related to textile arts. Johanna’s artistic practice is centered around decolonizing the imagination, breaking down the notions of feminized labor, and anti-racism. She continues to harbor hope for a more sustainable humankind in the face of adversity and dreams of a future filled with equity, inclusion and diversity.

Johanna is also the Resident Designer for WWTNS? and a proud member of IATSE United Scenic Artists Local 829.

MFA NYU/TISCH, BFA Ithaca College

www.johannapan.com | @jpandesign | @hannabi.studio

Costume Professionals for Wage Equity: http://cpfwe.org

Check out Johanna's new podcast, "Dirty Laundry Podcast: Unpacking the Costume Closet"

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