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Featuring Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary things in The Arts
- Update frequency
- every 22 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 85
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Romy Nordlinger: An Empowering Voice
Learning through The Arts [as] being one of the most transformative vehicles in which we really get to a person's soul and to realize they're not alone in their feelings and that is by exchanging [id…
Yvette Heyliger: Lessons to Learn
YVETTE HEYLIGER Playwright/Director/Producing Artist/Author is a lifelong theatre artist, as well as an educator, and the author of What a Piece of Work is Man! Full-Length Plays for Leading Women. Y…
Joan Kane: Speaking Truth
Joan Kane (writer/actor/producer) is the founding Artistic Director of Ego Actus.
I had to tell my story. I needed to be able to say, 'Look, I grew up in a time period in Brooklyn where racism was hor…
Emma Palzere-rae: Raising Representation Awareness
Emma Palzere-Rae is a playwright, actor, director, producer and non-profit administrator. Emma spent 15 years as part of the NYC theater community, where she began producing one-woman plays and found…
Dani Martineck: Pronouns Matter
Dani Martineck is a New York-based non-binary actor, writer, and award-winning audiobook narrator with a background in experimental psychology.
I'm a storyteller. I've found that in communicating trut…
Nicky Beer: Real Phonies & Genuine Fakes, an exploration of our divided selves
Erika Ewing: Fashioning Change
"When we're talking about the power of The Arts -- the healing, the transformative powers -- we're really talking about the fact that we're human. We're humanizing the experience of others. So, we le…
Moise Morancy: Returning the Favor
Moise Morancy is an American actor, writer, director, producer, poet and activist from Brooklyn, New York.
Moise always had a passion for telling stories. His career as a writer began as a young boy,…
Margarita Espada: Teatro Yerbabruja, a Conduit for Change
The immigrant stories that are here. . . when they see in us the possibility that it's real. That's why I focus on a specific community because we know the challenges . . . so young artists they see …
Coni Koepfinger & Dan Carter: LIVE FROM THE BARDO: My Dinner With Mary
Writing plays became my way of communicating with all life- from the ordinary people to the sublime consciousness… all of which seemed to operate on the same plane for me. It was clear that we are al…
Jessica Wu: Open Access Paths to Success
Actors Equity is opening its doors. I think this is one of the most exciting things that's happening in my almost two decades as a Union member. It shifts the way people can become members. . . It is…
Yiqing Zhao: Would-be-doctor-turned Actor/Writer/Creative Life Coach
Everything is connected. Everything, all these things, becomes a part of YOU. But then this journey does not stop. Some people stop from manifesting what they want because they understand the importa…
Yiqing Zhao: Would-be-doctor-turned Actor/Writer/Creative Life Coach
Everything is connected. Everything, all these things, becomes a part of YOU. But then this journey does not stop. Some people stop from manifesting what they want because they understand the importa…
Jenny Lynn Stewart: A New York Spirit
It makes me feel happy. I feel happy when I sing. People who hear me sing tell me THEY feel happy; that I make their hearts happy. It's the most joyful thing that I can do, I feel, for me and for ot…
Jenny Lynn Stewart: A New York Spirit
It makes me feel happy. I feel happy when I sing. People who hear me sing tell me THEY feel happy; that I make their hearts happy. It's the most joyful thing that I can do, I feel, for me and for o…
Holly Savas: Mom, Artist, & VP Creative Action Network: An Artists' Conduit for Change
Holly Savas is a mom, artist and VP of Brand, Art & Community at Creative Action Network. She's a passionate supporter of artists and of universal arts education in schools and makes it her mission t…
Holly Savas: Mom, Artist, & VP Creative Action Network: An Artists' Conduit for Change
Holly Savas is a mom, artist and VP of Brand, Art & Community at Creative Action Network. She's a passionate supporter of artists and of universal arts education in schools and makes it her mission t…
Mike Turner: Giving Voice to Truth
Take one part blues, one part folk, one part country. Add a dash of Southern gospel, rock and jazz. Season with world-weary experience. You’ll have a taste of Mike Turner’s eclectic original music.
R…
Mike Turner: Giving Voice to Truth
Take one part blues, one part folk, one part country. Add a dash of Southern gospel, rock and jazz. Season with world-weary experience. You’ll have a taste of Mike Turner’s eclectic original music.
R…
Mike Turner: Giving Voice to Truth
Take one part blues, one part folk, one part country. Add a dash of Southern gospel, rock and jazz. Season with world-weary experience. You'll have a taste of Mike Turner's eclectic original music.
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