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The Audition Helper

The Audition Helper

Written by: Ken Kaissar
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 Interviews with Broadway actors about the reality of being a professional actor in the American Theatre. The Audition Helper podcast is ranked in the Top 15 Audition Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/audition_podcasts/© 2023 The Audition Helper Art Entertainment & Performing Arts
Episodes
  • Director and Playwright Joan Thorne

    Director and Playwright Joan Thorne
    Sep 4 2023

    Joan Thorne's career goes way back to assisting Zelda Fichhandler at Arena Stage and legendary director Alan Schneider who directed the American premiere of Waiting for Godot. Joan Thorne's career has crossed paths with Becket, Pinter, Edward Albee, and Thornton Wilder. She even had a run in with Katharine Hepburn. Hear stories of these legends firsthand through Joan's dazzling life in the American Theatre.

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    44 mins
  • Pulitzer Prize Finalist Clare Barron

    Pulitzer Prize Finalist Clare Barron
    May 13 2022

    Playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Clare Barron stops by to talk about her latest play Shhh which premiered at the Atlantic Theater Company in January. Clare talks about feeling exposed and vulnerable in her writing, and her experience with sexual assault.

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    57 mins
  • Tony Award Nominated Actor Jeremy Shamos

    Tony Award Nominated Actor Jeremy Shamos
    Jan 30 2022

    Jeremy Shamos stops by to discuss working with Denzel Washington and George C. Wolfe in the film version of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, as well as his Tony-nominated role in Bruce Norris's Clyborne Park which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. Jeremy discusses his trajectory as an actor as well his experience in his favorite productions.

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    43 mins
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