Hello! This is it folks, the big meta episode where a projection designer (or . . . whatever, we get into it) talks to another projection designer. It was a huge pleasure for me to sit down with Patrick Lord in the comfy confines of the Silver Spring library. This was aaaaaaalll the way back in August and I’ve been keeping it in my pocket for a rai…

Intro 0:00.000 Patrick Flynn Intro 2:43.774 Anything Goes 3:48.801 Twisted Melodies 11:48.113 Fun Home 16:00.961 Into the Woods 20:04.773 Olney: South Pacific, Elf, Once, Matilda 23:14.130 Signature: Passion, Billy Elliot, Ain't Misbehavin', Grand Hotel, Blackbeard, Spunk 47:35.718 Klytemnestra: an epic slam poem 1:11:56.949 Plugs! 1:16:23.661…

Episode Guide for my conservation Lauren and Linda (approximate!): Intro: 0 - 4:00 Studio's 18/19 Season: 4:55.454 Art and Escapism 12:04.404 Lauren's Trend Spotting for Multiyear 14:16.113 How a Play Gets to DC 18:26.064 Baltimore Audience Share 19:34.804 Linda's Freelance Life 21:24.765 Taffety Punk and Linda's Gig 26:12.298 Challenges of Announc…

Ok, I did not actually sit down for a chat with any arsonists (not even the amazing actors who play the arsonists, Kimberly Gilbert and Tim Getman), but I did have a fantastic conversation with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's Connectivity Director, Kristen Jackson, Civic Organizer Laurenellen McCann, and Literary Director Kirsten Bowen to talk abo…

When I was doing my research on this year's Capital Fringe, I stumbled across one theater company in particular that got my attention: Naked Theatre Company. I was absolutely fascinated by their desire to create a 21st century theatre company that understood the open source community and that wanted to bring people into the company, not just to see…

Hello again! My gosh, it's a been awhile, since last Fringe in fact and what better way to end a hiatus than to dive back into the deep waters and strong current of the Capital Fringe Festival. First up, I talked to the creative team behind The Nasty Women of the Ecstatic Rainbow Mystical Retreat (get all your ticket info for CapFringe here), who w…

Twitter keeps being a source of wonder and surprise connections. Richard Byrne reached out to me after I sent the bat-signal for more Fringe producers and put me in touch with Greg Oliver Bodine, author and star of Poe, Times Two and we put together a podcast with Greg and DeLisa White, director and frequent collaborator, in between his rehearsal a…

Well, the delightfully small world of DC Theatre keeps on giving (as does the amazing Kate Robards, who you might have heard of, if not from me, then from this awesome review). One bat-signal goes out and several more answers are received and here we are, talking to Helen Aberger of Victorian Lyric Opera Company out of Rockville, who is directing a…

It's Fringe time in the Capital (not to be confused with the Capitol, which is looking mighty fine these days) and we are kicking it off right: with podcasting. First, we had The Real World: Kabul's Emily Liner and now we have Studio Theatre alum and world-class human being, Kate Robards! Her (second!) solo Fringe show is called Ain't That Rich and…

We are kicking off some Capital Fringe (buy your buttons!) coverage this week with not one but two chats with folks who are producing their own work, which is a celebration of what Fringe is all about: self-producing! First up, the playwright and producer of The Real World: Kabul, who is inspired by the story of the lonely satellite channel in Kabu…

It was a long and winding road to get here, but Kathryn Zoerb's (of the OP production of The Winter's Tale put on by Baltimore Shakespeare Factory - you may remember them) recommendation for a podcast finally came through (thanks Kathryn!). I sat down with Toby Mulford, Rachel Spicknall Mulford and Kaiylah Watts to take about commedia del arte (and…

I've been working my way around the theatre and I am proud to say that I've got another awesome front office conversation in the can! I've been casting my net further afield, going from people I know to people I've never met in my everloving life. I'm story working off of people that I have already interviewed and while digging into Pinky Swear's a…

I recently teamed up with DC Metro Theater Arts to start providing reviews (of movies even!). In fact, there's already one up on the site: a review of Baltimore Shakespeare Factory's production of The Winter's Tale. I know that I should probably talk more about the reviewing and the writing and stuff and I will, but what matters right now is that s…

Holy crap, it's been a while. I'm working on that, but, in the mean time we've got Lauren Juanita Hines, the freshly minted managing director of Adventure Theatre MTC. Lauren and I actually have mutual friends, and it took the genius of one of those friends to make this connection. I have really cool friends. Basically, Lauren is amazing. It was my…

So, I know that this podcast is dedicated to the Washington DC/Baltimore megaplex, but I spent a good amount of time outside of that megaplex recently and I was making some theatre to boot. So my point is, I recorded a podcast with someone who works in the Houston area (because that's where I was). I think you'll forgive me because Andy Vance, the …

Hey! The show goes on! For reals! I am bummed that the pace of the shows has slowed waaaay down but, we’ve got a good one for you this month: it’s Shayla Roland! Shayla is the Special Programming Manager at Ford’s Theatre and we spent a lot of time talking about what exactly that means (hint: lots) and a few things she's done, including Ford's even…

Welp, the run of play finally went against me and this bi-weekly podcast took a whole month to come up with a new episode. But in the very act of promising to do more episodes on Twitter, I caught the attention of one of my favorite theatre companies in the area: Pinky Swear Productions (also to be found on the New Play Exchange) who have been prod…

Usually, the podcast is a chance to catch up with interesting people and learn about their stories. This time up, we are catching up with interesting people on a production! #NotAReview. Salomé adapted from Oscar Wilde's play by Yael Farber and directed by Farber as well, is playing from now through November 8 at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's L…

I hope that you have been listening to High on Film. They have been great friends of the show and they host such a fun discussion on a more or less random movie each week (they choose guests and those guests choose movies, which might as well be random). They have been huge supporters of Exit the Stage Door for a long time now, please, give them a …

Ok, you got me. I'm not into this whole season 2 rhythm yet. This is late. But, better late than . . . Never mind. It's much more important to celebrate this guest on the podcast: Celia Wren! Celia is a theatre critic freelancing in the Washington D.C. area. Her byline appears in a couple local newspapers, a little rag called the Washington Post, w…

It's finally here: Season 2! Woohoo! I'm celebrating with a little Barbados rum, I highly encourage all of my listeners to celebrate in their own unique ways. Though, what better way is there to celebrate than find out more about an Annalisa Dias based project! This Monday, September 28th, the Women of Welders 2.0 have a featured presentation at th…

I am so excited to wrap up season one of Exit the Stage Door with Danielle Mohlman. There's just a great symmetry to it. It's a shame that we are doing it under the circumstances: Danielle is moving to Seattle, so she can enrich the theatre scene in the Pacific Northwest, among other reasons, and it will be great to keep an eye and an ear out for w…

I've been away, living the jet-setting life of walking hundreds of kilometers and not washing clothes in search of spiritual enlightenment or whatever, and that's a shame really. It's a shame because it deprived y'all of the timely release of a fantastic conversation I had with friend of the podcast, Catherine Rodriguez and Gavin Witt. Catherine is…

It was a great pleasure to finally meet Lauren Halvorsen, who I should have met years ago. You'll hear all about it in the podcast, don't you worry. Lauren and I talked about a ton of stuff, especially Houston, Pittsburgh, online dating and our digital portraits, what it's like in the Studio Theatre House Manager's office, how to end up in a great …

Ok, I cheated just a little bit with this one. Ryan is based out of Cincinnati, OH and the real connection to the Baltimore/Washington scene is through me, EXCEPT, that he spent a season singing with Virginia Opera. It's also possible that you've seen Ryan around at MAGFest, since he makes that trek on the regular. Ryan Connelly is one of my oldest…

I am so happy to bring you this episode, y'all. It was recorded the same day as Brittany's, which feels like a lifetime ago, and it was a great way to end a day of podcasting. Jeanette Porter and Alina Gerall were kind enough to host me in a Lansburgh dressing room and ply me with wine. Jeanette Porter is the wardrobe supervisor for Shakespeare The…

Hey everybody, welcome back. I've been away and back again. But I still managed to sit down with Brittany Diliberto (PlaidLeaf photography!) to talk about life, lighting, Richmond, Chuck Klosterman thought exercise games and space ballets (indeed, Richmond Ballet in general, plus the Pillars of Creation). I'm really stuck on that part of Brittany's…

It went down like this. I needed a place to record a chat between myself and the good people behind Field Trip Theatre, Nick Vargas and Maureen Monterubio. I had directed them to the place I knew the best in downtown Washington, DC: the Sydney Harman Center for the Arts. In the process of securing a room for our recording session, I also secured so…

It all started because I dissed Carole King on Facebook. Ok, that's not quite accurate. I've been following Elissa Goetschius (@egoetschius) on Twitter almost since I arrived in DC in 2012. She was one of the first people I wanted on the podcast and I am really happy that we could find some time for this conversation (on her birthday no less!). We …

After Gwydion Suilebhan (his episode here) sang her praises, I'd been trying to hammer out a time to sit down with Jojo Ruf, the executive and creative director of the Welders and former associate executive director of the National New Play Network. We managed to make that happen after she had some time to settle in as the new Managing Director of …

This episode was such a blast to record. All the way up in the wilds of upstate New York in tiny Cambridge. And absolutely worth every second. Even the terrible play about the dairy farmers. Because I got to see a performance of Danielle Mohlman's Nexus (more fun here). You may have heard her before. The production starred Emma Jackson, you've hear…

Who doesn't love a field trip? In this case, I talked to Maureen Monterubio and Nick Vargas, the artistic directors of Field Trip Theatre, owners of an awesome mission statement: No dead white guys. We are talking about new plays, y'all! We talk about Fringe, new plays, and what it takes to make yourselves a brand new theatre company. Field Trip Th…

My first lighting designer! It was a genuine pleasure to spend some time with Mr. Colin K. Bills. Colin had a few things on his mind to guide our conversation and that turned out to be a great idea. We talked about community events and what light itself means to holiday rituals and it all kind of expanded from there. We recorded this episode before…

Yet another of the fantastic theater makers that Danielle Mohlman begged me to get in touch with, Emma Jackson is an actress and recent entrant to the Washington, DC theatre scene. We sat down in the director's booth at Shakespeare Theatre Company (hopefully you saw The Tempest already) and got right down to business. We talk about the Peace Corps,…

It's a New Year's miracle. Or something. Actually, it's much simpler than that. Michael Dove and Forum Theatre have a lot going on. Walking the City of Silence and Stone drops a new episode on January 5th (check that awesome project out, walk Washington, DC in an entirely new way). And the T-Party gets underway TODAY (January 2nd). It's an exciting…

I have a few friends here and there who work in theatre and are willing to tolerate my cooking and my presence. Fortunately for me, they were also really good sports about letting me stick microphones in their faces. Before the pie was even served on Thanksgiving, for heaven's sake. This is my Christmas present to y'all, this year: a good time with…

Catherine Rodriguez, @latinadramaturg on the ole Twitter, was so awesome to squeeze me into her busy schedule. We recorded on the 6th floor of Center Stage, a delightful theater that I've had the privilege of working for (#FullDisclosure). The conversation starts off strong with Christmas movies (Elf, Die Hard, The Court Jester, Emmet Otter's Jug B…

Ok, let's get the bad news out of the way: I made a curious technical choice and I didn't plug in my backup hard drive because . . . because I'm an idiot, let's face it. So, the audio comes from a small digital recorder (which turns out to be pretty quality, thanks to Wirecutter) rather than my wonderful microphones. Which is to say, there is a cra…

Will and I are old friends, dating back to our days on the stage of a community youth theatre that I hope will one day be famous as a hotbed of creativity and a cultivator of talent: Stewartstown Summer Theatre (a ministry of Stewartstown United Methodist Church). It was awesome to sit him down and talk about his career and how he found his vocatio…

Folks, I am stoked about this one. Mr. Gwydion Suilebhan is a hard working man but he still finds time to be awesome at Twitter (@GwydionS) and to power through a cold to sit down and have a chat with me. Many of you will be familiar with him and his work. Gwydion is one of the founding members of the Welders, a playwright focused cooperative with …

Hi there! The podcast continues to exist, to my great surprise, but I am so glad that it does because it means that I got to sit down with Liz Maestri (don't forget her Tumblr). Liz is the author of Somersaulting, Condo Condo Condoland, and Fallbeil, among others, and she is a delight. To top it all off in a moment of (gulp) synergy, we talked on t…

Welcome back for Part 2! My time with Patrick was so excellent and there was just one more topic that we had to cover, because once you bring up The Room, you have to keep talking about it (if you are really feeling motivated, check out one of the periodic screenings at the E Street Cinema). Also, if you like the sound of the folk that Patrick has …

Ladies and gentlemen, the podcast is off to a great start. Episode 1 was wonderful and Patrick Flynn, playwright, filmmaker, and professor keeps it rolling in Episode 2. Patrick is a fantastic conversationalist. We got started and it took a long time before we were forced to stop, so Episode 2 is going to be, wait for it, a two parter (and it is ce…

Welcome to Exit the Stage Door, a series of conversations with the folks working hard to make the DC theatre scene such a great one. It's Episode 1 and with it comes a talk with Danielle Mohlman, author of Dust, and curator of a great Tumblr about books and the joy of reading. You can find out more about Danielle and her work at her own website, da…