The Scout Archives: Live

A new segment where Allegra discusses impactful art and cultural moments with her friends and colleagues. The expert? Best friend, child lover, and tree hugger Julia. The cultural zeitgeist moment? The love affair she shared with many girls and boys starting in 2011 with 5 men named Harry, Louis, Zayn, Niall, and Liam, who formed the band One Direction.

A new segment where Allegra discusses impactful art and cultural moments with her friends and colleagues. The expert? Best friend, child lover, and tree hugger Julia. The cultural zeitgeist moment? The love affair she shared with many girls and boys starting in 2011 with 5 men named Harry, Louis, Zayn, Niall, and Liam, who formed the band One Direction.

A new segment where Allegra discusses impactful art and cultural moments with her friends and colleagues. The expert? Best friend, child lover, and tree hugger Julia. The cultural zeitgeist moment? The love affair she shared with many girls and boys starting in 2011 with 5 men named Harry, Louis, Zayn, Niall, and Liam, who formed the band One Direction.

A new segment where Allegra discusses impactful art and cultural moments with her friends and colleagues. The expert? Favorite guest on the podcast, actor, fashion encyclopedia, creator of @satcbreakdown on Instagram, and best friend, Max Weinstein. The cultural zeitgeist moment? The hit HBO television series, Sex and The City.

A new segment where Allegra discusses impactful art and cultural moments with her friends and colleagues. The expert? Favorite guest on the podcast, actor, fashion encyclopedia, creator of @satcbreakdown on Instagram, and best friend, Max Weinstein. The cultural zeitgeist moment? The hit HBO television series, Sex and The City.

A new segment where Allegra discusses impactful art and cultural moments with her friends and colleagues. The expert? Favorite guest on the podcast, actor, fashion encyclopedia, creator of @satcbreakdown on Instagram, and best friend, Max Weinstein. The cultural zeitgeist moment? The hit HBO television series, Sex and The City.

Allegra invites her brother Cameron on the podcast to discuss his fast-growing hair, what they are listening to in quarantine, and how they rate the game "INCOHEARENT."

When I first reached out to Holliday to join me in a conversation, I was slightly nervous. I really hadn’t known much about her; in our acting class where she served as TA, she saw me take punches from teachers and try to hang on to every shred of control. I would find myself shrinking before her. In every show, I would watch her command a stage. She was stoic. She was well-respected. It was clear she was incredibly talented. However easy it may have appeared, behind-the-scenes, Holly was an intensely hard worker and incredibly dedicated, putting aside a “play hard” lifestyle in college to get what she wanted. She always led with kindness, writing notes to everyone in her cast and crew and remembering everyone’s names, a tradition she has taken with her as she reaches new heights in her artistic career. Holliday’s humility has allowed her to be thoughtful. For someone who has achieved such success so quickly, she is incredibly inquisitive about the world around her and her place in it; her perspective on her life now is wise and mature. She has reached a level she did not think possible so early on - booking The Ferryman on Broadway and now, working with a group of incredibly important women in theater on The Suffragists all before 24 years old. But it is the time she spends wondering not in a group of artists but alone that may be the most special to hear about, for she is tackling every obstacle and celebrating every victory in an artistic way, whether it be through a public visual journal or at a piano. In those years since we were TA and student, much has happened to us both. It took us a while to reconnect and for me to find common ground, but now we have a mutual understanding that this reconnection needed to happen at this time, specifically. I never expect a cosmic connection in an interview, especially with a subject I didn’t know as well as some others, so this interview took me by surprise. Holliday’s ability to ask questions about herself, what she knows and what she does not, led to one of the most open and honest communications about art and love. I am indebted to Holliday for this conversation and for reminding me why I love talking to artists. She is the perfect person to start off the year for The Scout Archives. Whether she is writing songs about the women who have left an impact on her or thinking about the diverging paths of love, the curious way she moves through life is infectious. She is a reminder of how being candid with yourself and with others can only lead to great things. In part two, Holly shares the story behind her public visual journal and her thoughts on mental health, her journey to self discovery with the help of the musical Fun Home, and how she feels about falling and being in love.

When I first reached out to Holliday to join me in a conversation, I was slightly nervous. I really hadn’t known much about her; in our acting class where she served as TA, she saw me take punches from teachers and try to hang on to every shred of control. I would find myself shrinking before her. In every show, I would watch her command a stage. She was stoic. She was well-respected. It was clear she was incredibly talented. However easy it may have appeared, behind-the-scenes, Holly was an intensely hard worker and incredibly dedicated, putting aside a “play hard” lifestyle in college to get what she wanted. She always led with kindness, writing notes to everyone in her cast and crew and remembering everyone’s names, a tradition she has taken with her as she reaches new heights in her artistic career. Holliday’s humility has allowed her to be thoughtful. For someone who has achieved such success so quickly, she is incredibly inquisitive about the world around her and her place in it; her perspective on her life now is wise and mature. She has reached a level she did not think possible so early on - booking The Ferryman on Broadway and now, working with a group of incredibly important women in theater on The Suffragists all before 24 years old. But it is the time she spends wondering not in a group of artists but alone that may be the most special to hear about, for she is tackling every obstacle and celebrating every victory in an artistic way, whether it be through a public visual journal or at a piano. In those years since we were TA and student, much has happened to us both. It took us a while to reconnect and for me to find common ground, but now we have a mutual understanding that this reconnection needed to happen at this time, specifically. I never expect a cosmic connection in an interview, especially with a subject I didn’t know as well as some others, so this interview took me by surprise. Holliday’s ability to ask questions about herself, what she knows and what she does not, led to one of the most open and honest communications about art and love. I am indebted to Holliday for this conversation and for reminding me why I love talking to artists. She is the perfect person to start off the year for The Scout Archives. Whether she is writing songs about the women who have left an impact on her or thinking about the diverging paths of love, the curious way she moves through life is infectious. She is a reminder of how being candid with yourself and with others can only lead to great things. In part one, we delve into conversation about the moment she got the call telling her she had booked a broadway show, about her role in creating safe spaces for female artists, and what the name 'Holliday' means for her.

I always knew Beth Million was more capable than she gave herself credit for. We met in a transition period for both of us, a scary time - I was navigating life as a transfer student, and Beth was on her own in America since moving from Switzerland. I have always been in awe of how Beth could work a room, how everyone marveled at her personality and charm. She would have the room silent after a vocal performance class, or leave me laughing during a Shakespeare scene we did in French in acting class. She was a friend to all, enemy to none. It always seemed as though Beth wasn’t as aware of her affect on people, but she has told me since then that she felt throughout her life that she was often mistaken for naive and her loyalty has been abused. We have both been through emotional trials as a result of our giving too hard and too much to people, but Beth decided to turn that potential energy into kinetic energy in the most elegant, authentic, badass way. She is certainly not seen as naive anymore. Since returning from a semester in London, she is working on her new music and attending Stonestreet Studios, the film and television acting studio. She has found a way to pursue every dream: making sure her dreams are unrealistic, but her level of effort is not. I have seen a serious change in how she views her self-worth and it is infectious, especially when watching her perform live. Her songs may be sick bops on their own through headphones or on a speaker, but Beth and her band give her music a new life because of how confident Beth appears to be, even when she is singing about the hard times. Beth has shown me that it is okay to trust the process and to trust yourself, to feel content with being enough as you are right now. It is okay to accept the person you once were in order to become who you were destined to be. She may still be a loyal, trustworthy, and charming friend and artist, but it is when she began fully accepting her capabilities that she was able to be more true and fair to herself. In turn, she has become a multi-dimensional version of Beth, as friend and artist. It is this Beth, the one who is flying high and not afraid of what the sky will throw at her, that is my favorite, the one I will always look up to.