When Lightning Strikes!
Broadway’s top talents reveal their lightning bolt moments that set them on the course of their dreams. When Lightning Strikes! Is hosted by Forbes.com and Parade.com contributor Jeryl Brunner. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” - Mark Twain We’ve all had it. Eureka! Your proverbial lightbulb goes off. The heavens open. The seas part. That wondrous, heart thumping, tingly, glorious mic drop moment when you realized what you were meant to do. No matter what it took. Lightning has struck! And from then on nothing is ever, ever the same. Host Jeryl Brunner presents candid, sometimes soul-baring, often funny chats with actors, writers, producers, directors and creatives as they lay down their THIS IS IT! discoveries about why they do what they do and what led them into theater. Learn more about Jeryl at @jeryl_brunner or www.jerylbrunner.com." When Lightning Strikes" theme song by Tom McGovern. Producer and talent booker: Anna Strout. Part of the Broadway Podcast Network.
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 83
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#23 - Christina Papagjika
Christina Papagjika is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer who creates film, television and theater. Just a few of her productions includes the six-time Tony Award-winning Best Musical "Kinky B…
00:50:11 |
Mon 22 Mar 2021
#22 - Nina Meehan and Khalia Davis
Meet two forces from the Bay Area Children’s Theatre: Nina Meehan, the theater’s founder and CEO. And artistic director, Khalia Davis. Bay Area Children’s Theatre is one of the leading theaters for y…
00:56:43 |
Sat 20 Feb 2021
#21 - John Lloyd Young
A Tony and Grammy Award-winning force, John Lloyd Young played Frankie Valli in the Original Broadway Cast of Jersey Boys. He also starred as Valli in Clint Eastwood's Warner Bros. movie adaptation o…
00:45:12 |
Mon 08 Feb 2021
#20 - Frank DiLella
Frank DiLella is the host of “On Stage” on Spectrum News NY1. He won a Best News Magazine Emmy Award for his special on the musical “Come From Away.” Frank has interviewed everyone including James Ea…
00:52:25 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
#19 - Jonah Platt
Jonah Platt is a prolific performer and creator who has appeared on stages around the country. On Broadway he played Fiyero in Wicked. He did Hair at the Hollywood Bowl and was also in Floyd Collins,…
00:47:18 |
Sun 13 Dec 2020
#18 - David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, screenwriter, lyricist and librettist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his devastatingly beautiful play Rabbit Hole. As the Hollywood Report…
00:50:32 |
Wed 25 Nov 2020
#17 - Shaina Taub and Roz Lichter
By the time she was a student at Bennington College, Elizabeth Swados was already a force, considered an exceptional talent as a writer, composer and director. In 1978 when she was in her twenties he…
00:50:43 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
#16 - Christine Ebersole
For more than three decades Christine Ebersole has dazzled on stage, screen, in television series, concert appearances, recordings and on and on. A two-time Tony winning actress, her eclectic career …
00:50:03 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
#15 - Krista Detor
Rolling Stone magazine calls Krista Detor’s soul-nourishing music "A small miracle.” A singer/song-writer, her solo albums have reached national and international prominence on the Euro-Americana and…
00:53:44 |
Wed 07 Oct 2020
#14 - James Sampliner
There are musicians, composers, arrangers, orchestrators and then there is James Sampliner. He is a pianist, composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, music producer, percussionist and music copyi…
00:57:41 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
#13 - Patrick Boll
In his thirty year career Patrick Boll has performed on Broadway, off Broadway and around the country. For nearly three years he starred as Bill Austin in Mamma Mia! on Broadway. Patrick was also in …
00:59:44 |
Wed 16 Sep 2020
#12 - Marin Ireland
As New York Times theater critic Ben Brantley wrote, Marin Ireland is “one of New York theater’s most inspired and entertaining interpreters of people programmed to self-destruct.” Just a few of her …
00:57:39 |
Sat 05 Sep 2020
#11 - Astrid Van Wieren
Astrid Van Wieren is an original cast member of the the hit Broadway musical, Come From Away. She has been in the show since it opened in 2017. Van Wieren also co-wrote, co-produced and stars in the …
00:49:47 |
Sat 29 Aug 2020
#10 - Charlotte Moore and Ciarán O’Reilly (Irish Repertory Theatre)
Charlotte Moore and Ciarán O’Reilly founded Irish Repertory Theatre in 1988. Ever since they have been passionately devoted to bringing Irish and Irish-American works to the stage. The Irish Rep pres…
00:47:17 |
Wed 12 Aug 2020
#9 - Michael Zegen
Michael Zegen stars as Joel Maisel in the beloved Amazon hit series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. His vast theater resume includes Bad Jews, The Spoils, A View From The Bridge and most recently Bob and…
00:47:50 |
Mon 10 Aug 2020
#8 - Tedra Millan
Tedra Millan appeared on Broadway in Present Laughter. Her Off-Broadway credits include: Happy Talk,The Wolves, On the Shore of the Wide World, Nassim. On television you can see her in Fosse/Verdon, …
00:46:33 |
Mon 03 Aug 2020
#7 - Katie Brayben
Katie Brayben won a Olivier Award playing Carole King in the West End premiere of Beautiful. Just a few of her theater credits include Girl from the North Country, Honour, A Walk on The Moon, The Spo…
00:49:38 |
Mon 27 Jul 2020
#6 - Aneesa Folds
Aneesa Folds shares how she went from being a student at the Freestyle Love Supreme Academy to starring on Broadway a few months later in Freestyle Love Supreme. Her other theater credits includes Si…
00:35:23 |
Tue 21 Jul 2020
#5 - Jonathan Marc Sherman
Jonathan Marc Sherman has been a professional playwright since he was a teenager. At 18 his play, Women and Wallace, was part of the Young Playwrights Festival and directed by James LaPine and then D…
00:56:26 |
Thu 09 Jul 2020
#4 - Asmeret Ghebremichael
Asmeret Ghebremichael is a force on Broadway, off Broadway and the West End. A Drama Desk winner, she has been working on Broadway for twenty years. Just some of her credits include The Book of Mormo…
00:39:59 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
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