The Shotgun Players Podcast

Patrick Dooley talks to playwright Adam Bock and director Mary Ann Rodgers about childhood theatre companies, writing process, and Shotgun's upcoming production of Bock's play A Small Fire.

Leigh Rondon-Davis talks to Babes in Ho-lland playwright Deneen Reynolds-Knott about Riot Grrrl, starting college, and the Black experience in predominately white environments.

Deneen's "Babes" playlist!

Check out Shoebox Picnic Road Side at Alabama Shakes if you're in Montgomery!

Leigh Rondon-Davis talks about spectacle, spite, and HGTV with Dream Hou$e playwright Eliana Pipes and director Karina Gutiérrez.

Music:

Welcome to the Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Join Tony Award-winning creator of 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' creator Dave Malloy in conversation with co-directors Patrick Dooley and Erin Mei-Ling Stuart as they discuss the genesis of the musical and Malloy's start in theatre.

More cool stuff:

Dave's website: http://davemalloy.com/

Erin's website: https://www.erinmstuart.com/

Music is "Shack" by Dave Malloy from Beardo at the Shotgun Players

Let’s Talk About Theatre will feature interviews with playwrights and other contributing artists of past and future shows. The interviews will be focused on shows from our upcoming 30th Anniversary Season as well as conversations about past programming. The program will be offered as a video series and an audio podcast.

'The Cassandra Sessions: Recording This World' creators Beth Wilmurt and Jake Rodriguez appear live with Shotgun Players founding artistic director Patrick Dooley on June 17, 2021 at 5pm PST.

Cassandra—that mythic figure from Greek legend, cursed with prophecies that nobody believes—knows she is soon to die. She locks herself in a studio to record an album of songs entitled This World, hoping to leave a time capsule of truths about the state of the world that might one day be heard. How to tell the truth in a way that compels people not only to listen and sing along, but to make the changes they haven’t? Featuring songs by Berkeley native, Malvina Reynolds, 'The Cassandra Sessions: Recording This World' is a new theater piece about making meaning of the world by making music about it.

Let’s Talk About Theatre will feature interviews with playwrights and other contributing artists of past and future shows. The interviews will be focused on shows from our upcoming 30th Anniversary Season as well as conversations about past programming. Tune in on YouTube or listen to the audio version right here! 'My H8 Letter to the Gr8 American Theatre' playwright Diana Oh appears live with director Mina Morita and TBA director-in-residence Leigh Rondon-Davis, recorded on June 10, 2021. A brutally candid, painful, and bitingly funny play about transparency, honesty, and repairing centuries of damage done in the American theatre industry. Oh’s play embraces the power of naming and celebrates truth on a journey toward building a balanced relationship that is no longer oppressive, silencing, and damaging.

Music is You Make Your Money Now, written and performed by Diana Oh and Matt Park!

Hanah talks with Celeste Martore, set designer of Kill Move Paradise and The Niceties, about the architecture and set design, what makes an oppressive space, and figuring out how to design in the wild world of Zoom. 

Don't miss our live digital production of The Niceties, this weekend only! Tickets are pay-what-you-can and available here. 

To see Celeste's design for Kill Move Paradise, and her other work, check out celestemartore.com.

For some examples of International Style, i.e. not what Celeste is going for, here's some wikipedia for you all. 

To support Shotgun, and our ability to keep paying artists in quarantine, visit www.shotgunplayers.org and click "Donate!"

Intro music by Dave Malloy, davemalloy.com Outro music by Misner & Smith, misnerandsmith.com

Hanah talks with Brooke Jennings, designer of Arcadia, Vinegar Tom, Henry V, and assistant on Iron Shoes. Learn about helping actors find characters, why you should be kind to costume shop managers, how to make a fake pregnancy belly, and that one time Brooke threw together a whole Regency gown in 48 hours.

To see some of Brooke's work at Shotgun, visit our show pages below:

Iron Shoes (assisting designer Alina Bokovikova) Arcadia Vinegar Tom

To support Shotgun, and our ability to keep paying artists in quarantine, visit www.shotgunplayers.org and click "Donate!"

Intro music by Dave Malloy, davemalloy.com Outro music by Misner & Smith, misnerandsmith.com

Hanah talks with Ray Oppenheimer about lighting at the Ashby Stage, from The Coast of Utopia to the 2016 Season in Rep. Listen through the end for a meditation on the ethereal nature of light and sound and hot tips for getting the best lighting for your next Zoom call. 

We talk about a lot of shows and gear in this episode! Click here to see photos.

If you haven't heard the The Claim yet, check it out here!

And don't miss our panel discussion about black immigration experiences, inspired by The Claim, on YouTube here. 

To support Shotgun, and our ability to keep paying artists in quarantine, visit www.shotgunplayers.org and click "Donate!"

Intro music by Dave Malloy, davemalloy.com Outro music by Misner & Smith, misnerandsmith.com

Hanah talks with Sara Witsch (The Claim) and Elton Bradman (Kill Move Paradise) about their recent experiences designing radio plays in quarantine, missing their in-person theater collaborators, and their attempts to compose in harmony with the Ashby Stage air conditioner.  

If you haven't heard the The Claim yet, check it out here!

For more of Elton's work, visit eltonsounds.com and Bass Magazine.

For more of Sara's work, visit Sound Play Media.

Also check out Sara's recommendation of Unseen, an audio comic with a blind heroine, for blind (and sighted) audiences.

To support Shotgun, and our ability to keep paying artists in quarantine, visit www.shotgunplayers.org and click "Donate!"

Intro music by Dave Malloy, davemalloy.com Outro music by Misner & Smith, misnerandsmith.com