Ep 204 – Rewind  - Ep. 22 Dominic Moore-Dunson: Defining Success

Following Episode 200, The following 9 episodes will be replays of episodes that had points or quotes that stuck with the pod squad over the last nearly 4 years.  

On this episode, our hosts talk about safety leading into Danielle’s engaging conversation with Dominic Moore-Dunson. Dominic shares his creative process, including his perspective on how an audience perceives his projects after creation, and how becoming a parent changed the way he was making art. Dominic and Danielle also discuss the act of “trauma mining” in the arts and specifically funding of minority art works. As a note, Dominic mentions a story about a singer at Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech, that singer was Mahalia Jackson.

Dominic Moore-Dunson (https://www.dommooredun.com/) is a dancer, choreographer, podcaster, and all-around creative entrepreneur.  Dominic’s podcast inCOPnegro can be found here: https://www.incopnegro.com/

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Ep 203 – Rewind  - Ep. 20 Michael Mushalla: Be Curious. Don’t Be Afraid.

Following Episode 200, The following 9 episodes will be replays of episodes that had points or quotes that stuck with the pod squad over the last nearly 4 years.  . 

This week's episode is another special one! It highlights Michael Mushalla who introduced our hosts and helped us all think differently about what comes next. 

Michael Mushalla is the Owner and Founder of Double M Arts & Events, LLC (https://double-m-arts.com/), as well as a wine consultant. Michael Mushalla along with Christine Cox created “The Summit” that brought the hosts of “There’s No Business Like...” together. 

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Ep 202  – Rewind  - Ep. 5 Max Darwin: Magic and Mental Health

Following Episode 200, The following 9 episodes will be replays of episodes that had points or quotes that stuck with the pod squad over the last nearly 4 years.  . 

We talk about our origin stories on this episode, and Katie has a heartfelt conversation with our friend, Max Darwin, about creating a magic show, hard work, empathy, and mental health.

Max Darwin is an actor, public speaker, and magician who might be best known by his stage persona, The Amazing Max (http://theamazingmaxlive.com/).

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Ep 201 – Rewind  Ep. 1 Gail Boyd: Follow Your Bliss

Following Episode 200, our next 9 episodes will be replays of episodes that had points or quotes that stuck with the pod squad over the last nearly 4 years.  If you missed the big news in episode 200, Katie, Danielle, Bryan, and Kevin  are taking a step back and will not be a regular part of the podcast as it moves forward. 

It’s finally here, our first episode! On this episode we learn which of our hosts are rule-followers and who are willing to bend the rules, and Bryan interviews Gail Boyd. Gail Boyd is President of Gail Boyd Artist Management (https://gailboyd.com/), Co-founder of arts consulting company Vanguard Arts (https://vanguard-arts.com/), and more. Learn how one concert changed her life and how she went from lawyer to artist manager.

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Ep. 200 So Long to Season One

Your hosts and producers are Bryan Zellmer, Josh Benson, Kevin Maynard, Katie Trzaska-Miller, and Danielle Van Hook.

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Ep. 199 Ryan VanDenBoom: Mentorship Is the Key

Ryan VanDenBoom’s Broadway credits include the original casts of Something Rotten, Bandstand, and MJ the Musical; he most recently was the Associate Movement Consultant on the off-Broadway production of Marcel on the Train with Ethan Slater. Ryan can be seen in the TV show Fosse/Verdon and movie Kiss of the Spider Woman, and is one of the co-founders of the Spark Artistic Mentorship Program (www.sparkartisticmentorship.org).

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Ep 198 Emma Orme – Under the Radar – Nobody Knows What They Are Doing, So Ask Questions.

This week Kevin and Josh continue with the Under the Radar Series by sitting down with Emma Orme, Producer of Reconstructing by The Team and Friday Night Rat Catchers by Lisa Fagan and Lena Engelstein; both a part of the 2026 Under the Radar Festival.  In this episode we discuss the role of producer specific to those productions for UTR.

Emma Orme is an Obie award-winning creative producer who works in close partnership with experimental artists like Lisa Fagan & Lena Engelstein (the “High Weird” - Helen Shaw) and nicHi douglas, and companies like Fake Friends and CHILD. She is currently the Producing Director of the internationally renowned theater collective the TEAM, working in close partnership with Artistic Director Rachel Chavkin and artists such as Libby King, Josiah Davis, Eric Berryman, Zhailon Levingston, James Monaco, Jillian Walker, and more.

To learn more about Under the Radar Festival go to their website here. https://utrfest.org

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Ep. 197 Olivia Aston Bosworth: Reveling in the Magic

Katie sits down this week with Olivia Aston Bosworth of TYA/USA and the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, GA. Katie checks in with Olivia on the most recent TYA/USA Annual Festival and Conference, learns about the fantastic programming at the Alliance Theatre, and discusses the breadth of opportunity for creatives and audiences in the Theater for Young Audiences world.

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Ep. 196 AI: A Tool or the End of the Artist

Josh, Katie, and Danielle take some time to discuss Real world use of AI as an administrative tool.  We also discuss and discover ways that we have been using AI without advertently intending to.  We remain hopeful that it remains a tool, but also express a fair amount of skepticism of what capitalism will do with it. Share your thoughts with our on our socials. 

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Ep. 195 Joshua Holden: Puppets and Whoopi Goldberg

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