07/27/2022

Big Bones, Thick Skin

Episode 7 - Julia Skeggs

Julia Skeggs has been both an actor and casting director here in Chicago for a number of years. In this episode she opens up about eating disorders, body dysmorphia, and how the industry perpetuates many negative feelings about both. 

Karissa Murrell Myers (she/her) is a Filipino-American theatre artist based out of Chicago. She was also named American Theater Magazine's 2020 Roll Call: 13 Theatre Workers You Should Know for her work in casting. In our conversation, we cover the differences between NY, Hawaii, and Chicago theater scenes, why diversity is so important to her, going to college at 16 years old, beating out every white guy who auditioned for Iago in a Chicago production of The Scottish Play, playing Lady Nijo in Top Girls, not just in Chicago but also in Milwaukee, and her dream of creating a theatre company that fosters and grows artists - and how it may have come true!

Trigger Warning: discussions of weight, numbers in pounds, eating disorders, cutting, alcoholism.

Calls to Action:

Asian Americans Advancing Justice:
https://www.advancingjustice-chicago.org

Felines and Canines:
https://www.felinescanines.org

Edited by Amelia Driscoll at Summit Podcasting -  https://summitpodcasting.com/

Music by Eric Backus -  https://www.ericbackus.com/

Artwork by Meredith Montgomery -  https://www.meredithmontgomery.design/

02/23/2022

Big Bones, Thick Skin

Episode 5 - Jen Bosworth-Ramirez

Jen-Bosworth-Ramirez is a writer and an actor from Chicago who now lives in Los Angeles. In this episode, Jen talks about the impact her mother and family had on her feelings about being in a bigger body, how she wound up auditioning for theater school, how she handles the dreaded costumer requests for our clothing sizes, working as Nicolas Cage's assistant, her admiration for Sam Irby and Kirsten Fitzgerald, and her production company Undeniable, Ink., and her podcast "I Survived Theater School". 

Calls to Action:

Latino Union of Chicago

latinounion.org

Undeniable, Ink. - https://www.undeniablewriters.com/

Edited by Amelia Driscoll at Summit Podcasting -  https://summitpodcasting.com/

Music by Eric Backus -  https://www.ericbackus.com/

Artwork by Meredith Montgomery -  https://www.meredithmontgomery.design/