Sunday Pancakes with Celia Keenan-Bolger

In this final minisode, Celia reflects on our first season of the pod and looks ahead with hope towards the unknown future. For the Weekly Round-Up and more, visit playbill.com/sundaypancakes.

Celia’s artist siblings, Maggie and Andrew, join for our last full-length episode of the season to examine the complexity and vulnerability in processing trauma with the people you love most.They also consider how the last 16 months of social isolation led them to deepen their bond to one another. For the Weekly Round-Up and more, visit playbill.com/sundaypancakes.

This week, Celia connects with Tony Award nominated actress and television star Ashley Park who is shooting on location in Paris. A teenage cancer survivor, Ashley and Celia explore the ways in which the disease informed her career and activism, deepened her relationships, and offered perspective on what it means to lead with empathy. For the Weekly Round-Up and more, visit playbill.com/sundaypancakes.

Pioneering transgender artist and activist Shakina Nayfack sits down with Celia to share her journey of intersecting identities - from spirituality to gender and sexuality - and her leadership in fighting for representation and justice for the Trans community and beyond. For the Weekly Round-Up and more, visit playbill.com/sundaypancakes.

As we move into Pride month, actor, activist and Hamilton star Javier Muñoz openly shares his coming out journey, experience living with HIV, and how we can uplift and learn from the next generation. He and Celia also explore the parallels between the AIDS epidemic and our current crisis of COVID.

Grammy Award winner Sara Bareilles and Celia explore the uneasiness of branching out and trying something new and the accompanying fear of not getting it “right.” Sara also shares her own growth in learning how to balance her public and private life.

In this week’s episode, Tony-nominated actor Joshua Henry talks to Celia about how his faith has been a source of inspiration and solace, especially this past year as he unexpectedly found himself becoming the father of new twins during the pandemic.

This week, Celia speaks with her longtime friend, the Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti about the ongoing struggle of “comparing and despairing” as a woman and a mother, especially over the last year. They also discuss how to claim your power to become an effective, empathetic leader and discover strength in vulnerability.

Every few weeks, Celia will do a mini bonus episode on how she's feeling and navigating through the world.

This week, Celia sits down with Tony Award winning actor, and activist Karen Olivo to examine the action necessary to manifest a theatre industry built on transparency, equity, and accountability from their equally meaningful but different roles in a social justice ecosystem: Celia as a weaver, and Karen as a disrupter. Influenced by conversations before and after Karen's decision to leave Moulin Rouge! following the public allegations of abuse by Scott Rudin, this episode intentionally seeks to sit in discomfort and ask more nuanced questions than provide concrete answers.