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Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg

Hosted by Joel Greenberg, Life in Stages is a series of weekly conversations with established performing arts professionals – actors, directors, writers, etc. – who discuss their lives, careers, challenges, triumphs, and not-so-triumphs. Please consider supporting the show by becoming a Patron or sending an e-transfer to jericalifeinstages (at) rogers (dot) com.

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Ep. 21 – Maria Ricossa

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2025/04/10

Maria began her career (and her life) in the United States. But once she had a taste of life in Canada, both personal and professional, Toronto soon became her home base. And I met Maria when we worked together on a production of “Lend Me a Tenor”, at Theatre Aquarius – and that was probably about 30 years ago. Maria has worked in every medium and she has criss-crossed the performing landscape with an enviable agility. Our conversation ranges from early influences in Chicago and at the

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Ep. 20 - Nancy Palk

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2025/04/03

Nancy is originally from Winnipeg, studied at Queen’s University and then trained at The National Theatre School, in Montreal. She was among the first members of the Young Company at the Stratford Festival, which soon led to the creation of Soulpepper Theatre Company, of which Nancy is a founding member. (She continues to represent the Founding Members on the Soulpepper Board.) Nancy has worked across the country, although her base continues to be in Toronto. Anyone who has attended theatre in

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Ep. 19 - Jonathan Wilson

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2025/03/27

Jonathan and I met at an audition. I didn’t cast him, but I knew that I wanted to work with him one day. Before I had that opportunity, I saw My Own Private Oshawa, his revelatory solo play about his escape to Toronto and his life as a young gay man finding his way. The Normal Heart and My Night with Reg are recent plays that, finally, allowed us the shameless pleasure of working together. Jonathan has much more to fill in between arriving in Toronto and working with Studio 180 Theatre – tune

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Ep. 18 - Morris Panych

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2025/03/20

Morris’s recollection of how discovering theatre transformed him is both moving and chuckle-worthy. Like so many of my guests, he underlines that, for him, the work is a necessity. For survival, sure, but much, much more than that: Morris makes it clear, without having to say it literally, that he cannot be doing anything else with his professional life. Playwright, director, actor – Morris works, and has worked, across the country and beyond. His more than 100 theatre and opera productions are

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Ep. 17 - Jessica Greenberg

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2025/03/13

Jessica is my older daughter, so let’s get that on the table and move on. Jess discusses her college years at McGill, where she focussed on Political Science and Women’s Studies. But it was her passionate involvement with both theatre and music – strictly extracurricular – that defined four years spent on a student-driven campus, where she was inspired by like-minded friends. Theatre school in New York followed and the exploits of surviving that city reveal a tenacity and resilience that have

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Ep. 16 - Ted Dykstra

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2025/03/06

Ted is among our guests who has accomplished just about everything one can imagine a theatre artist achieving. As an actor, a musician, a writer, and more recently a producer, Ted demonstrates the widest possible range with an inexhaustible energy to match. In our conversation, he discusses the projects that have brought him a very public profile. Ted goes further and reveals that seeing his name on a West End marquee yielded results that he couldn’t have imagined. He exposes aspects of his

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Ep. 15 – Sharry Flett

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2025/02/27

Sharry and I met and worked together for the first time as company members in the Summer Festival of Arts in Montreal, 1969. I directed Sharry on productions of The Fantasticks, America Hurrah, and Oh, What a Lovely War! The festival was fertile ground for many of us as we did our best to start professional careers. Sharry takes us through her training in London, her return to Canada, where she performed in a variety of musical and dramatic productions. The work took her to the Charlottetown

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Ep. 14 – Patrick Galligan

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2025/02/20

Patrick’s career might have been in the Law, following his father and grandfather before him, had he not found himself in a university production about the same time that he was writing the LSAT. As he will tell us, Chekov upended him and reshaped his professional life. A long-serving member of the Shaw Festival company, since the early 2000’s, Patrick’s first years in the profession were a mix of regional and local (i.e., Toronto) theatre. Seasons with Theatre Plus provided a stronger base of

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Ep. 13 – Corrine Koslo

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2025/02/13

Corrine joins me as the first of our new season’s guests. Although we haven’t worked together before, I have certainly seen her work in many Toronto and Shaw Festival productions. And we have met socially a few times, enough for me to recognize that Corrine’s passion for the theatre, as both performer and attendee, is intense. In the best way, of course. Perhaps this accounts for her many awards, coast-to-coast. In this episode, Corrine looks back at the early influences that led her to an

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00:40:46

Ep. 12 – Mike and Joel

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2025/02/06

Series 2 of Life in Stages begins with Mike engaging me in conversation about my thoughts and responses to Series 1’s 11 episodes. We discuss how a first time opportunity played out, what was learned and what changes might be implemented in this follow-up series. It’s also a fun conversation between new, best friends.

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01:29:41

Ep. 11 – Final Episode of Series One

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2024/12/05

LIFE IN STAGES ends Series One with this special episode, responding to comments and suggestions from listeners and supporters. It seems that my ten episodes as the podcast host have sparked some curiosity about my own path, journey, trajectory, whatever. And so, here we are with roles reversed – Mike Boon, producer and one-man-does-it-all, also the host of his own terrific podcast, Toronto Mike’d, takes on host duties while I switch to the guest chair – more figurative than literal, but you

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Ep. 10 – Fiona Reid

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2024/11/28

One aspect that links all our guests is the unqualified ability to refuse to take ‘No’ for an answer. Fiona Reid understands this as well as anyone.Born in England, Fiona moved to Canada when she was 12 – and although it may be slightly hyperbolic to say so, Fiona has been working steadily since then. She has performed in theatres across Canada, including many seasons at both the Stratford and Shaw Festivals. She has acted in the USA and the UK, and in 2019 played in the Broadway production of

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00:02:27

Joel Makes an Exciting Announcement

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2024/11/25

Enjoy this quick bonus episode of Life in Stages in which Joel Greenberg makes an exciting announcement.

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Ep. 9 – Ron Lea

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2024/11/21

When Ron was performing in the Studio 180-HGJT production of My Name is Asher Lev, I was struck by the fact that audience members refused to believe that he wasn’t as Jewish as the role he’d played onstage. But that is precisely what defines Ron Lea, an actor who so completely inhabits the characters he plays, whether on stage, on film or television. In our conversation, Ron walks us through his professional and personal life with the simple, straightforward approach that he seems to take with

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Ep. 8 – Janelle Hutchison

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2024/11/14

Of all my guests this first season series, I have known Janelle Hutchison the longest. We met in the early 70’s when we were cast as understudies for the cabaret revue, What’s a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State Like This? I was hired to understudy Martin Short and Janelle covered for Andrea Martin.Janelle has long since added considerably to her professional CV – perhaps most celebrated of her stage appearances was as Mme. Thenardier in the Canadian production of Les Miserables. Janelle is

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Ep. 7 – Sterling Jarvis

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2024/11/07

Sterling Jarvis began his performing life as a singer – bands, receptions of all kinds. But that wasn’t how I met him. In fact, I first worked with Sterling on The Overwhelming, a play about the Rwandan genocide – not exactly The Lion King or We Will Rock You, the two theatre productions he had just completed.Sterling discusses his rather atypical career path -- touring with The Book of Mormon and his subsequent run in the Broadway production and then the sudden lockdown in 2020. What happens to an

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Ep. 6 – Tracy Michailidis

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2024/10/31

Early in my conversation with Tracy Michailidis, as we discuss professional training, she jokingly refers to herself as ‘an impostor’ because, rather than attending a conservatory programme, she chose a liberal arts education. And as we chat further, Tracy details the depth of study, the vitality and shared passions of her cohort, friends she has worked with and maintains to this day. All joking aside, it’s abundantly clear that Tracy hasn’t been hobbled by her decision.We discuss Tracy’s early

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Ep. 5 – Michael Healey

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2024/10/24

It’s hard to believe that Michael Healey, playwright of The Drawer Boy and The Master Plan (and several original and adapted projects in between), spent the first ten years of his career as an actor before writing for the stage became his principal passion. Which is not to say that he gave up his acting career. On the contrary, I first met and worked with Michael on the Studio 180 Theatre production of Stuff Happens, in 2008 and 2009, and a few years later on Clybourne Park. Michael’s wholly candid

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Ep. 4 – Sarah Orenstein

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2024/10/17

Sarah Orenstein was a touchstone for me during the pandemic lockdown. We’d meet outdoors, drink coffee and inflict ourselves and our anxieties on each other. We also found time to laugh at the insanity of the world around us. Sarah works, and has worked, at every major theatre in the country, including both the Stratford and Shaw Festivals.We met in 2008, when Sarah joined the Studio 180 Theatre production of Stuff Happens, one of those watershed moments that we cherish. And among the gifts of that

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Ep. 3 – Jeff Miller

Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg ·

2024/10/10

Meeting Jeff Miller is a guaranteed good time. Possessed of a great sense of humour and delighting in the absurdities of life, Jeff is a model of the actor’s playbook: you commit passionately to each project and when the acting work isn’t coming fast and furious, you commit passionately to teaching theatre and a wide range of life-sustaining jobs. But in spite of the inevitable dry periods, Jeff’s resilience is inspiring.Jeff and I first worked together in the early 90’s, and more recently with

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