SallyPAL

SallyPAL

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SallyPAL episodes

  • Episode 18 - Creator’s Notebook #1 - Staffing Your Show
    In today’s episode, I’ll go over Part One of your Creator’s Notebook. If you want to pause the show while you go download the pdf at SallyPAL.com/join, I can wait… (waiting music). Is everybody ready? Okay. While you wait on your printer, I’ll tell you that there will be no Concise Advice from the Interview today, but we do have Words of Wisdom from George.
    Recently I found myself thinking more and more about the team that makes a live stage show possible. Your show could include clowning and aerial acrobatics like Cirque de Soleil, or it might be a poetry reading, or a tap dance recital. What all performing arts have in common is collaboration. Even if you’re a busker playing for the quarters people toss in your guitar case, you’re still collaborating with your audience. For most shows, there’s a Production Team. (This team is forced to meet in secret in order to remain mysterious and powerful). The team includes the Director, the Stage manager, and the Technical Director, but depending on the type of show it might include a variety of other team players.
    I created a 20 page insert to a larger resource called the Creator’s Notebook. The Creator’s Notebook is based on a notebook most play directors make themselves called a director’s notebook. I’ll dig up some of my old director’s notebooks and take some pictures so you can get a look at my attempts to stay organized.
    If you send a picture to [email protected] of your well-used director or creator’s notebook, I will try to post it on SallyPAL.com. AND I’ll send you a link to a free collection of funny images I made with some public domain theatre art. You’ll find examples of the images in the 20-page pdf you can get for free when you join the SallyPAL Creative Team! Just go to sallypal.com/join.

     

    19 min
  • Episode 17 - Beer and Booze and Big Acting with Steve Barker
    Today’s episode features Steve Barker, beer and booze professional, and a terrific actor who originated the role of Drover in the musical, Hank the Cowdog by David Blakely (based on the books by John R. Erickson) and produced by Tulsa Repertory Musicals. Steve is currently performing in a new play by Bruce Dean Willis titled Time for Chocolate. The play opens October 6, 2017 and you can purchase your tickets to this exciting original work at www.hellertheatreco.com. The play has metaphysical debates, fight scenes, historical riddles, bawdy rhymes, and of course, mushroom laced hallucinogenic chocolate and it all takes place among the Aztecs. Heller Theatre is working in conjunction with Tulsa Latino Theater.
    Be sure to listen until the end of the interview for Concise Advice from the Interview, and Words of Wisdom from George.
    22 min
  • Episode 16 - Community Theatre Education with George Nelson
    Today’s episode features the coolest guy on the planet, my husband, George Nelson. We talk about getting performing arts experience at the local level. We mention Hank the Cowdog, Heller Theatre, and community theatre in general. Tomorrow, I’ll add some links to the blog and these show notes if you want to dive a little deeper.
    31 min
  • Episode 15 - Risky Venues with Michael Wright
    Actor-Director-Playwright Michael Wright and I explore risky venues as well as finding your creative voice. We talk about taking a chance with your writing and staging your original work to draw an audience into your world.
    University of Tulsa professor Michael Wright is a theatre director, actor, teacher, and playwright. Michael’s theatrical work plays with form, audience interaction, and uncommon theatrical venues. He is the author of Playwriting in Process, Playwriting Master Class, and Sensory Writing for Stage and Screen. Michael received awards for his work as a teacher of playwriting from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and the Kennedy Center.
    During the podcast, you’ll hear us mention the Tulsa Artists' Coalition Gallery and Playwright David Blakely, the playwright in residence for Tulsa’s Heller Theatre who’ll be featured in a later interview.
    We also talked about Sam Shepherd and his play True West. Michael mentioned the WomenWorks program for female playwrights in graduate school but there are no links as that is a by-nomination program. If you are a women in grad school, talk to your playwriting professor about the University of Tulsa's playwriting competition, WomenWorks.
    Be sure to listen until the end of the interview for Concise Advice from the Interview, and Words of Wisdom from George. SallyPAL can now be found on Acast, Blubrry, GooglePlay, iTunes, Overcast, PlayerFM, Pocketcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and, of course, my host platform, Podbean. Be sure to check out Podbean the week of November 27 when the SallyPAL podcast will be a featured show!  
    If you sign up for the mailing list on SallyPAL.com, you’ll get a free insert for your creator’s notebook. It’s a list of people you’ll need to help you produce your show along with some great links to more in-depth information.

     

    29 min
  • Episode 14 - Comedy Improv Lessons for Life with Angie Mitchell
    Today’s episode is an interview with Angie Mitchell. Angie is a teacher, a mom, and an improv comedy performer. Angie teaches and performs every week and can be heard online on Stories of The Century, an improvisational old timey sounding radio serial that takes place in The fictional Century Building. She’s created dozens of characters and performed with The Spontaniacs! for nearly 10 years.
    If you’re in the Tulsa area you can see The Spontaniacs! live at the pH House at 306 Phoenix. For show dates check out Spontaniacsimprov.com.
    Be sure to listen until the end of the interview for Concise Advice from the Interview, and Words of Wisdom from George.
    25 min
  • Episode 13 - Authentic Writing Voice with Sheila Black
    In Episode 13 of SallyPAL, I interview Sheila Black. Sheila is a published poet and writing professor. She’s been teaching creative writing in college classrooms and writing workshops for over 20 years. She encourages students to cdevelop their voice by writing and performing their own work.
    If you’re in the Tulsa area you can sign up for Sheila Black’s writing intensive: Writing from the Heart. This 5-week creative writing workshop runs from 6-7:30pm every Thursday evening starting September 21. To find out more contact Sheila at [email protected].
    Be sure to listen until the end of the interview for Concise Advice from the Interview, and Words of Wisdom from George.
    27 min
  • Episode 12 - Directing Advice from Sally Adams Host of SallyPAL
    In Episode 12 of SallyPAL I enlist my husband, George (the coolest guy on the planet), to ask questions about directing for the stage. I covers how to approach work when you are a beginning director, how to collaborate without giving away your job to enthusiastic performers and staff, and how a director can make an impact on an audience. At the end of the interview you get "Concise Advice from the Interview," and "Words of Wisdom from George." Listen to the podcast, read the blog, and sign up for the SallyPAL community!
    21 min
  • Episode 11 - Spirituality and Dance with Nicole Perry

    Episode 11 is an interview with Florida choreographer and dance teacher, Nicole Perry. Nicole holds degrees in Dance and Music and is currently pursuing a PhD in Spirituality and the Arts. Nicole has choreographed for Miami Children’s Theatre, Center City Opera Theater, and was the resident choreographer with Hedgerow Theatre in Philadelphia for two seasons before becoming a full-time dance teacher in Florida. Learn more about Nicole at her website: nicoleperry.org, where you can also learn about audition coaching when you add /audition-coaching to nicoleperry.org. Be sure to listen until the end for Concise Advice from the Interview, and Words of Wisdom from George.

    29 min
  • Episode 10 - Writing for Television's "The Middle" with Jana Hunter

    Episode 10 is an interview with Jana Hunter. Jana has written or produced The Drew Carey Show, According to Jim, Roommates, Gary Unmarried, Notes From the Underbelly, and for the last nine years, she and her husband Mitch have been executive producers for The Middle on ABC. Jana has also been a member of Groundlings Improv Troupe in Los Angeles. We talk about making it as a TV comedy writer, what she loves about The Middle, and gives some good writerly advice. Be sure to listen until the end for Concise Advice from the Interview, and Words of Wisdom from George.

    25 min
  • Episode 10 - Writing for Television’s “The Middle” with Jana Hunter
    Episode 10 is an interview with Jana Hunter. Jana has written or produced The Drew Carey Show, According to Jim, Roommates, Gary Unmarried, Notes From the Underbelly, and for the last nine years, she and her husband Mitch have been executive producers for The Middle on ABC. Jana has also been a member of Groundlings Improv Troupe in Los Angeles. We talk about making it as a TV comedy writer, what she loves about The Middle, and gives some good writerly advice. Be sure to listen until the end for Concise Advice from the Interview, and Words of Wisdom from George.
    25 min

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