Two teenage interns, Wyatt and Courtney, on what changed after a few months in the adult class: a Southern accent out of nowhere, carrying a conversation at school, wiping a table nobody sees, and why you can count your real friends on one hand.
Dakota George is in class with two players who are about to make their Chaos Comedy debut, and he is not sure he is ready. Brian, Joey and me on why the only cure for stage fear is stage time, how not to get discouraged when nobody tells you that you did great, why an actor should crave the critique, and what to do about the people judging you from the ground.
Our first teen podcast. Brian with two teenage interns, Isabel and Truman, on self-image in high school, a bad haircut and a beanie, why listening made them better friends, and the one move that changes a room: be the first to jump.
Bebe Katsenes, back from USC, on walking into masterclass at sixteen with her mom, seeing truth on a stage for the first time, and the audio drama she wrote and cast at college. Why the class went from weekly to a four-day intensive, and the pillar of the next book: we versus me.
Shea hosts with the Sweeney brothers while I’m at Christmas: the thirty minutes they spent rapping before the show, the question every coach asks before pushing a student somewhere new, the day Shea refused to scream in the old back room, and why they were all at the studio at 7 a.m. two days before Christmas.
The week before Thanksgiving 2019. Brian lost his voice to six hours of Ninja Star, Shea asked for my mom’s deviled egg recipe, and we got into Black Friday, Santa, white elephant rules and the roofer who did his job like a craftsman. Then the real point: why people stop investing in themselves in December, and why the studio is the gym for your soul.
Shea sent me a thank-you text after a hard week and it made everything melt away. I read it, showed my wife, and forgot to reply. Twelve minutes on why a thank-you matters more than you think, and why the people who loved your audition will never tell you.
A team argues, on air, about the etiquette of asking someone to bring you coffee, what replying K actually means, and whether a favor comes with a debt. It sounds like nothing. It’s the whole reason this team still works: the small fights get had out loud, kindly, before they grow.
Hanna Spence-Schehr of The Phoenix Theatre Company on a company that opened in January 1920 and never shut its doors, the camps where four-year-olds with autism share the main stage with their peers, and what a ballet dancer learned about mastery.
The night after what Joey called the best class ever: why you can’t grow until you get to failure, how perceived pressure in a room with no stakes teaches you to handle the real thing, and the ex-ASU football player with the notebook.
The sound on a Monday livestream was botched, three tired people started blaming each other at 10:45 at night, and the next morning we did it differently. Forty-five minutes on watching your own game tape, the wrong Sally, accountability, and how to handle a teammate who screwed up.
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