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Episode two of season three is out now! Join us for an inspiring conversation with Anastasia Koss—a bilingual American singer, actress, and content creator bridging the creative worlds of New York and Hong Kong. In this episode, Anastasia opens up about her musical theater roots, her transition into solo pop music releases, screen acting across the US and Asia, and her viral digital presence as "Mao Mao Chong." From navigating the logistical and cultural differences between Western and Eastern entertainment industries to adapting her performance style for vertical dramas and independent music, Anastasia shares the lessons, challenges, and defining moments of building a multifaceted bicoastal career.

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Welcome to a brand new series!! 

In this episode of #warrentellingtales, Broadway star and comedic powerhouse J. Elaine Marcos (Annie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, A Chorus Line) joins the show!

Known for her hilarious scene-stealing roles and unbelievable comedic timing, J. Elaine traces her journey from Burlington, Ontario, to the heights of Broadway and the big screen. She opens up about sharing the stage with icons like Jane Lynch, earning an Astaire Award nomination for dance, and appearing in hit films alongside Bill Murray (St. Vincent) and Rachel McAdams (Morning Glory).

Plus, J. Elaine dives into the reality of the Broadway hustle featured in the acclaimed documentary Every Little Step, building her signature multi-hyphenate comedy brand, and why she's earned the title of the "Asian Kristin Chenoweth." Tune in for an inspiring, unfiltered, and laugh-out-loud conversation about what it truly takes to sing, dance, and act your way to the top!

We hope you enjoy it. 

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This week’s episode of Warren Telling Tales is a relaxed catch-up with Neil Harris, joining us out in Hong Kong to talk about what he’s making and teaching—plus the creative process behind it all.

We explore everything from theatre projects and drama education, to Neil’s writing for BBC Radio 4, and the lessons he brings from the rehearsal room into real learning spaces. Neil also shares reflections around “The Plum Tree” and the themes behind the work, and we finish with a few thoughts on creative practice, collaboration, and what drives him to keep building stories that connect.

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• The Plum Tree by Neil Harris
• Neil’s work on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn
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This episode was a long time coming—and it is worth every single minute!
Join us for a deep dive into the extraordinary life and career of Keon Lee: General Manager of Faust, writer, actor, director, and self-proclaimed comic book fanatic.
In this open and inspiring conversation, Keon takes us behind the scenes of his journey. We explore his childhood roots, his path through the creative worlds of acting, directing, and writing, and what it really took to transition into leadership at Faust. Plus, Keon opens up about his incredible personal transformation and how he managed to lose a staggering amount of weight.
Whether you're passionate about theatre, leadership, personal growth, or just love a great story, this episode is packed with inspiration!
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• LinkedIn: Keon Lee on LinkedIn
• Faust World: faustworld.com
• Facebook: @fausthongkong
• Email: [email protected]

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This episode, we meet Trevor is an ICF and EMCC accredited coach and experienced facilitator working across a variety of industries. Until November 2013 he was a member of the Executive Management Team of Standard Life (Asia), a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Life plc, one of the UK’s most respected investment groups and FTSE 100 Company. Previously he was Sales Director, North Asia for Friends Provident International, now part of Aviva plc and FTSE100 listed company.

This C-corridor experience and front line know-how gives him great credibility when working with senior leaders, executives and teams at all levels. He is able to apply this practical business knowledge as a highly effective executive coach and facilitator.

He participates in various industry committees and is a former board member of a Hong Kong children’s charity.

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Sophie Rankin – Actress & Model! 

Sophie is a very talented actress with a lot of great acting experience in film and television roles gained from working all over the world. Sophie has had lead roles in four feature films, including a role in the very popular UK TV series Emmerdale playing Erica, and much more. 

Sophie is a lovely individual with bundles of energy and a ton of enthusiasm for life. She’s known for always being smiling, and she brings a lot of hard work, energy, and positivity to everything she pursues. She has a very versatile acting ability and has played a wide range of genre-spanning characters. She loves getting into character and helping a piece of film work come to life. She has always had very professional work ethics—highly reliable, extremely hardworking, and never afraid of a challenge!

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Sophie has also been working as a model for the last 10 years and has done a lot of published print work, commercials, fashion/editorial beauty portrait work, and lingerie/bikini modelling in the UK, the Philippines, China, Japan, Malaysia, and America. She gets regularly booked to model for skincare products, makeup lines, and fashion lines in magazines, websites, and catalogues—and has had endorsements for big brands in Asia.

Sophie is also a beauty queen title holder. She won Miss Wonderful UK 2015 and Miss Harmony World 2017, and was also Miss Global England 2015. Sophie also models for a lot of TV work and has been in E4’s My Mad Fat Diary, and has featured in 31 music videos and several TV commercials in the UK, Asia, and America.

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Machteld Van De Gaag is a trilingual voice artist and voices for most of Europe, Britain and America!

You’ll learn how to build your career, when to make the move to VO, sacrifice, home studios, working in three languages and more.

Machteld: I used to be an advertising copywriter, combined it with VO work from 1994 and am now a full time VO since 2016.

I work for clients in Europe and outside Europe, am the only one with three pages with Voicebooking, who work internationally.

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Episode 19!
International dancer, choreographer and video producer! 

In this episode, we will discuss his journey, challenges he has faced along the way and how he overcame them. We will look at his experience to date and how to be successfull as a hip hop dancer and choreographer. 

Felipe's BIOG: I am a multimixer artist. Choreographer/producer/performer. I love my job , having the chance to meet new people, new cultures, new ideas and different perspectives. I do story telling choreographies on my own and always try to send a message. If you need someone to make a video for you isn't a better solution for the person you want to hire knowing their job but what YOU want to do at the same time? Hope you enjoy my work as much as I do and support me to make more and more . Welcome to my life hope you stay for sometime.

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This week, we meet Paul Glaser, who was born into a family of music and theatre with the classical composer Werner Wolf Glaser as his grandfather and director/actor Etienne Glaser as his uncle. He studied music and several instruments and wrote songs from early on. He started his professional career as a trained classical dancer after graduating from the Royal Swedish Ballet School. He was awarded the Carina Ari Award upon his graduation. He also studied with Robert Denver in New York. During these years he also studied voice and theatre. 

His international career spans well over 35 years and incorporates just about every aspect of the performing industry.

He has worked professionally as dancer, singer, actor, director, choreographer, composer, music producer, light- and sound-designer, writer and teacher.

Here as well, Paul gets offered a unique contract. Never before had the singing role of “Rum Rum Tugger” been offered in the same contract as the dancing role of “Mr Mistoffelees”, worldwide.

Prior to moving to Hamburg Paul is offered the job as Choreographer and dancer for the Swedish TV series SOLSTOLLARNA where he worked with stars such as SAMANTHA FOX, MANDY SMITH, LENA PHILIPSON, ANNA BOOK, PERNILLA WAHLGREN and many more.

Paul had continuously written music as well as now being a published author with the book ATT ODLA PAPAYA PA OSTERLEN (Prisma publishing) parallel to his career as a performer. Soon after he arrived in Germany, Paul was offered a recording contract with EAST WEST RECORDS and a publishing deal with MCA where he released his first single VOICES. Parallel to his engagements in musicals Paul grew into being a sought-after composer and songwriter and was hired by companies like NIKON, CASIO, VW, AIR HAMBURG, PLUS SIZE FASHION WEEK, PEACE BRUSH, JENA PHARM, ADEXAR, OPTICLICK, Pomp Duck and Circumstance to name a few, to write corporate songs and music for launches and other events. He was also commissioned to compose music for the show “YMA” at FRIEDRICHSTADTPALAST in Berlin, for the MENDELSSOHN CHOIR in Hamburg, for whom he wrote “HOME” as well as for films such as SHUT (in which he also acted a lead role) or PROFILE OF FEAR as well as for the German national TV station NDR and by THE ENGLISH THEATRE OF HAMBURG for plays such as SHAKESPEARES 12th NIGHT, THE FOX, SIX DANCE LESSONS IN SIX WEEKS (which he also choreographed), VISITING MR. GREEN, THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES, BIG BOYS, and many more. He has currently composed music and created sound design for over 40 plays in theatres, including for his own productions such as THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY (Oscar Wilde), THE WOMAN IN BLACK (Stephen Mallatratt), DEATH KNELL (James Cawood), MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS (Ron Hutchinson).

In 1999 Paul wrote book and music as well as directed his own musical PEGGY, which he premiered in the Star Theatre in Hamburg and for which he received outstanding reviews and audience responses.

As Paul went more and more into directing he was not only hired by theatres but also, due to his experience and vast network (which led the management of OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN to contact Paul about finding a pianist to accompany her in a gala in Berlin) he was also hired by companies to create innovative and impressive shows for companies like VISIT SWEDEN, CLAAS, NRW as well as gala versions of LES MISERABLES for Verdi Bundeseröffnungsveranstaltung, ALL FOR ONE an adaptation of THE THREE MUSKETEERS, HAIR and many more.

Following his director’s debut in LONDON’S WEST END, with his production of Stephen Dolginoff’s musical THRILL ME at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2016, he was offered the position as managing director of THE ENGLISH THEATRE OF HAMBURG. “This still allows me to work on projects outside of the theatre” – says Paul. Working on several projects at the same time is something he’s done throughout his whole career. 

“This is a great advantage as a director, writer, and composer. Having all of this experience gives me such a unique advantage when directing. I know how to incorporate music, dance, acting and singing, whatever the production I’m working on is calling for, as well as effectively utilizing light and sound design. For the theatre I direct mostly straight plays and the occasional musical, but for my clients outside the theatre it can be anything, and that’s very exciting”  says Paul, who is also a teacher, currently at the Musical Academy in Milano/Italy where he travels when he can to give MASTER CLASSES in musical theatre. 

He now works as a freelance COMPOSER, DIRECTOR, WRITER and CREATIVE MIND for projects outside his duties as managing director of The English Theatre of Hamburg.

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Episode 17 - In this weeks episode, we meet Ines was raised in Chicago with immigrant parents.  Her mother is Russian, her father is Latvian, her first language growing up was Latvian.  A classically trained dancer, lead to modelling and then to theater while at Northwestern University.  She has always been in front of the camera or on stage, most comfortable there creating characters and telling stories.

Ines speaks Mandarin fluently and can read as well.  She spent two years in Taipei learning the language and then two years at Hong Kong University obtaining a certificate in Mandarin proficiency, reading, writing, and speaking.  She has worked with many mainland China actors including Li Yifeng, Wang Chuanjun, Li Tingting, George Hu, and Aarif Lee (Li Zhiting)


She has been very fortunate to have worked with some talented actors and directors in the industry including Joe Pytka, Xu Jing Lei, Miguel Ferrer, Tiger Chen, Keanu Reeves, and Sidse Babett Knudsen.  Mostly recently she has worked with director Lulu Wang and actors Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, and Diana Lin in "The Farewell" and for a second time with Emily Ting in her film "Go Back to China".

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https://ineslaimins.com/
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