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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “I have no inheritance” Playwright, theater artist, and teacher Jeannine Coulombe talks about deciding to concentrate on playwriting once she became a mother. “I do find a parallel between playwriting and my father’s carpentry” She talks about being a founding member of the Workhaus Collective and how much [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “The comedic soul of a piece is all in the editing” Video maker and father TJ Kudalis talks about the comic timing in editing video and film. TJ talks about his study of Scottish and Irish poetry and how close he came to being a professor of Scotch/Irish [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Being a dad is kinda awesome. It’s way better than when I worked at Best Buy” DJ, producer, record collector, and musician Brendan Kelly, aka BK-One, talks about growing up learning music, obsessing about records, stumbling into DJing and becoming a stay at home dad. “Every big thing [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “What I put out into the world has a through-line of personal transformation” Space Guru, holistic wellness practitioner, musician, producer, designer, radio host, and stepmother Susan Shehata talks about the challenges of describing the work she does because she does so many different creative things. She also talks [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “I love my kids but at the same time there’s always that intrinsic need to do ‘something’” Jayson Clark talks about retiring from the professional rap world to focus on family while also exploring other creative projects. “I wish when I was 20 I had gone a little [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “My perception of everything has changed since becoming a parent” Cory talks about starting out as an actor and transitioning into playwriting. He talks about being a part of Workhaus collective and the motivations behind pulling together as a group of playwrights to help get each others work [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “It seems weird to me now that we would think about community as something that didn’t have children in it” Colin Kloecker and Shanai Matteson of Works Progress talk about balancing their personal partnership, their artistic partnership, and their work partnership as they’ve transitioned in to parenthood. They [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “If you ever get crazy opportunities just make the best of them” Quinton talks about how working in the arts and for arts organizations by day is bolstered by doing creative work. Quinton talks about how his work as a theater critic rarely felt like a job because [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “When you’re listening from a place of love rather than judgment, it really changes what you hear.” In this episode Poet, spoken word artistic, and activist Suzi Q Smith talks about poetry, competition, education, race, class, gender, and modern motherhood. “I need those things to exist in the [...]
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download “I’ve have this side of me that needs to put myself in front of an audience, for God knows what reason” Improviser and educator Damian Johnson attempts to feed and tend to his daughter while carrying on a conversation about his work and life. He talks about his [...]
