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Hadestown's Tony winning sound designer reveals her process designing Hadestown with co-designer Nevin Steinberg.

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About Jessica Paz:

Jessica Paz is a Tony Award-winning Sound Designer for theater, film and music. Most recently, she collaborated with Nevin Steinberg on the sound design for Anaïs Mitchell’s acclaimed production of Hadestown, which earned the duo a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle nomination.

On Broadway, Jessica was an Associate Sound Designer on projects including Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Disaster! The Musical; The Assembled Parties (MCC); and Fela!.

Other design credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theater); Kiss My Aztec (Berkeley Rep); Twelfth Night, Othello, Miss You Like Hell, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and As You Like It (The Public Theater); Burn All Night (A.R.T Oberon Stage); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout); A Sucker EmCee, and The Muscles in Our Toes (LAByrinth); The Kings Whore (Starcatcher Productions); Becoming Dr. Ruth (Westside Theater); Looking for the Pony (Vital Theater Co.); Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theater); STRETCH – A Fantasia (New Georges); Welcome to Fear City (KC Rep); Scott & Hem in the Garden of Allah, and See How They Run (Barrington Stage); Legally Blonde, and 9 to 5 The Musical (North Shore Music Theater); Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello, and Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare on the Sound’s Productions); SCKBSTD (Virginia Stage Co) ; Volcanoes Birthright (Organic Magnetics); TempOdyssey, And Her Hair Went With Her, Bookends, and Minstrel Show (NJ Rep).

Jessica has been a Front of House Engineer for musicians including The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Antibalas, Julia Haltigan, Femi Kuti, Lady Antebellum, Candy Shop Boys, People vs. Larson, Michael Arenetta, Bugaboo, Carte Blanche, King Holiday, The Woes, Stone Cold Fox, The African Children’s Choir and many others. She has also been a Lecturer of Sound Design in addition to student advisor for Princeton Universities production of Next To Normal, and was the Sound Designer of the Actor’s Studio Drama School’s yearly Master’s Thesis productions from 2009 – 2014.

Jessica is fascinated by music studio and live concert techniques. She is constantly learning and researching innovative approaches from the traditional music recording world, and bringing them into her theater work. A proud member of IATSE Local 829; Soundgirls.org; Woman’s Audio Mission; USITT; and Co-Chair of the board of the Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association. She currently resides in New York. Pizza is her favorite food group. 

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Imagine casting yourself in Hamilton and also being the associate choreographer. Stephanie breaks down that process and so much more!

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About Stephanie Klemons:

Stephanie Klemons is an award-winning performer, choreographer and director who has worked on the pre-Broadway and Broadway productions of HAMILTON, IN THE HEIGHTS, BRING IT ON and IF/THEN. She sang on the original cast albums of three out of four of those shows and got to perform in the now infamous Tony performance with Hamilton as they performed Yorktown sans guns as a statement against gun violence. She got her equity card doing the first national tour of BOMBAY DREAMS. Her work can be seen currently on Broadway and around the world as the Associate and Supervising Choreographer of the smash hit HAMILTON. In 2018 she directed and choreographed the Kennedy Center production of IN THE HEIGHTS to critical acclaim. She served as the director and choreographer of THIS IS SADIE, a New York City Children’s Theater Production that she developed alongside Barbara Zinn Krieger. Commercially she choreographed content for Victoria’s Secret, Vogue, Sesame Street, the new Netflix Series THE HUNT, and was the choreographer behind the viral “Time of Our Lives” Super Bowl commercial featuring Eli Manning and Odell Beckham.

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Kate Rockwell was Lori's first client. They break down their process working together and how they both see the impact of social media theatre makers' careers.

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Her Story is founded by Lori Wheat. After graduating with a major in Corporate Communications and a minor in music business, Lori spent six years working in artist management and public relations with artists such as Martina McBride, Kenny Chesney, Amy Grant, and Old Dominion. She then worked in public relations in Los Angeles with mainly Disney Stars as assistant executive before eventually gaining her own accounts, E!'s "WAGS" stars Natalie Halcro and Olivia Pierson. In 2018, Lori decided there was a serious gap in PR and brand partnership. Broadway actors have huge and loyal social media followings. Lori's goal with Her Story is to get to know her clients interests so she can target ideal brands to partner them with. @HerStoryBranding

A graduate of Baldwin Wallace University, Kate Rockwell is currently bleaching out her brain cells in Mean Girls: the Musical, originating the role of pretty-but-dim Karen Smith, for which she earned a Helen Hayes nomination during their out of town tryout in Washington DC. Her previous Broadway credits include originating the role of Skylar in Bring It On: The Musical, Sherrie in Rock of Ages, Margot in Legally Blonde, and Hair. Some of her favorite regional credits include Mabel Normand in the world premiere of Hollywood at La Jolla Playhouse, Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel at Arena Stage (for which she received a Helen Hayes nomination), and Belle in Beauty and the Beast at The Muny. Her TV/Film credits include "High Maintenance," "Deadbeat," and Sex and the City:The Movie. @KateRockwellNYC

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Cody breaks down his process working as stage manager of Broadway favorite including Hamilton, The Lion King and Freestyle Love Supreme.

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Cody Renard Richard most recently finished working on the extended Broadway run of Freestyle Love Supreme, serving as the Production Stage Manager.

Other Broadway credits include Hamilton, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, Kinky Boots, Motown the Musical, After Midnight, Ghost the Musical, Cyrano de Bergerac, Lysistrata Jones, Dear Evan Hansen, If/Then, The Lion King. TV: 2019 Tony Awards, 2019 MTV VMAs, Jesus Christ Superstar Live! (DGA Nom), Hairspray Live! (DGA Nom), The Wiz Live! (DGA Nom). Cirque du Soleil: OVO (North American Tour), Wintuk (Madison Square Garden).

Off Broadway/NY: Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera – Assistant Stage Director), Freestyle Love Supreme, Candide at Carnegie Hall, 5 productions with NY City Center Encores!, The Public Theatre, Atlantic Theatre Company, 2nd Stage, Transport Group, Pearl Theatre Company. Selected Regional: Lempicka at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Kennedy Center, The Muny, TUTS, Stages STL, Kansas City Rep, Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of STL.

Cody also currently serves as the Adjunct Professor of Stage Management for Fordham University and has been a guest lecturer at Yale School of Drama, NYU, Ithaca College, Hofstra University and SUNY Purchase. Proud AEA and DGA member. He earned a BFA in Stage Management from Webster Conservatory in St. Louis, MO under the guidance of Peter Sargent. 

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Cockeyed optimist, Alie B. is on a mission to make theatre more inclusive!

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As an actor, Alie B. Gorrie has worked in regional theatre, off-Broadway, and on tour. She seeks to tell stories that shed light on the complexities of the human condition...stories that challenge norms. She also lives for a celebratory tap break and a perfectly timed Dad-joke.

As an inclusion consultant, she helps theatre companies, organizations, and educators make their communities more accessible and inclusive for people with disabilities. 

She is a self-proclaimed “cockeyed optimist,” and she happens to live with a vision impairment. In 2008, she created Songs for Sight, an organization that provides funding and support so that children with low vision across Alabama can thrive. 

As an advocate and creative, she helped dream up and co-produce ABLE: a series, a new doc-series streaming on Amazon Prime, discussing disability inclusion in the entertainment industry. For more on ABLE, head here!

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As a child Sean visited Arizona Theatre Company as an audience member. Today Sean is the artistic director of the organization while continuing to tell his own stories.

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Sean Daniels is a Director, Playwright, Husband. Artistic Director, and most exhaustingly, the father to a toddler. As a writer, he has been produced commercially Off-Broadway by Tony Award-winning Tom Kirdahy, and at Arizona Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, City Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and Dad's Garage. His play, The White Chip, was a New York Times Critics Pick and is in talks to return when theater does. As a director, he has directed at theaters such as the Manhattan Theatre Club (Off-Broadway), The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, to the West End in London.

Sean has been named "one of the top fifteen up and coming artists in the U.S., whose work will be transforming America's stages for decades to come" and "One of 7 people reshaping and revitalizing the American musical" by American Theatre Magazine. He is the Artistic Director of Arizona Theatre Company, where he first fell in love with a theatre as a kid, though he is a native Floridian, having gone to high school and college there (Go Nobles!).

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Valli? As in Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons? Yup, Olivia shares her unique process playing her own grandmother in Jersey Boys off-Broadway as well as getting greenified on tour with Wicked.

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Olivia Valli is a performer based in New York City. Upon graduating from Montclair State University with a BFA in Musical Theatre, Olivia booked her first professional gig -- the Elphaba understudy for the Wicked Second National Tour! Most recently, Olivia was seen in the Off-Broadway production of Jersey Boys where she played her own grandmother, Mary Delgado.

Olivia has also starred in her own cabaret show at Feinstein's/54 Below. She also has her own podcast with co-host Fiona McIntyre called What's Your Backup Plan?

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Max shares their experience as a queer theatre maker and encourages listeners to stop making assumptions and keep asking questions.

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Max Vernon (Book, Music & Lyrics) is a 3 time Drama Desk nominee, Out100 Honoree, and recipient of the Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical, Richard Rodgers Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, New York Stage and Film's Founders Award, New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and the JFund Award from the Jerome Foundation. They have been a Dramatist Guild Theatre Fellow, MacDowell Fellow, and an artist in residence at Berkeley Rep, Ars Nova, Kimmel Center (viaThe Public Theater), Disney Creative Entertainment, and Rhinebeck Writer’s Retreat, among others. Their musical, The View UpStairs, ran 105 performances Off-Broadway and will have sixteen new productions around the world in 2017-2019; original cast recording on Broadway Records. Their other musical, KPOP, enjoyed a sold-out, extended run at Ars Nova this past October and was the most nominated Off-Broadway show of the 2017-2018 season. Max is also an acclaimed cabaret artist. Notable concert performances include a sold out 6 month residency at Joe’s Pub of the Public Theater (“Existential Life Crisis Lullaby”), Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.maxvernon.com

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Games, a recap of our first year, and goals for the next 365 days of Page to Stage.

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In this special birthday episode, co-hosts Brian and Mary celebrate with a few games, recap from this year, and set goals for the next 365 days.

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Mary Elizabeth Dina lives in New York City where she works for Tony Award-winning Producer Ken Davenport (Once On This Island, Spring Awakening, Daddy Long Legs). Mary is the co-host of the theatre podcast, Page To Stage: A Conversation with Theatre Makers and continues to freelance photography and social media marketing. Formerly, Mary worked in the Development office at Bucks County Playhouse and worked as a director and dramaturg. She has an MA from Montclair State University and a BA from University of Delaware. 

Brian Sedita grew up in northern New Jersey, graduated from Montclair State University where he earned his BFA in Acting, and presently considers himself an actor/director…or a director/actor depending on how you look at it! Brian is the co-host of the podcast, Page To Stage: A Conversation with Theatre Makers. As a theatre artist, Brian hopes to show audiences the world from someone else’s perspective – to engage with audiences by opening their eyes and hearts to another person’s emotions, thoughts, or way of life. “Let’s flip stigmas, stereotypes, and expectations through theatre!”

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The queen of a cappella musicals, Margot shares her process working in an ensemble.

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Margo Seibert has proven herself to be a uniquely captivating and versatile performer, writer, and activist. After originating the role of “Jane” in Broadway’s first a cappella musical, IN TRANSIT, she recently co-starred in Dave Malloy’s world premiere OCTET at Signature Theatre in New York and released her debut album “77th Street”on Yellow Sound Label . She is perhaps best known for her critically acclaimed performance as “Adrian” in the Broadway musical ROCKY.

After graduating with a degree in International Relations from American University, Margo began her acting career in the D.C. Theatre scene, seamlessly transitioning between plays and musicals at Signature Theatre, Folger Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Olney Theatre Center and the Shakespeare Theatre. Margo moved to New York after appearing in Mary Zimmerman’s CANDIDE at the Goodman in Chicago, and has continued her multifaceted career performing in plays at Playwright’s Horizons Rattlestick, The Women's Project, and Weston Playhouse, and starring in musicals at The Paper Mill Playhouse, A.C.T, and Two River Theater. She can also been seen on television in “Boardwalk Empire,” “Elementary,” “Instinct,” and “The Good Cop.”

Margo is also the co-founder of the organization RACKET, whose goal is to make as much noise about periods as it takes to normalize the conversation and draw attention to under-prioritized menstrual hygiene needs. Since inception, Margo has collected hundreds of thousands of menstrual hygiene products for transient menstruators in need, and helped eliminate the tax on those products in NY State.

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