Life in Stages with Joel Greenberg

When I begin talking with Sheila McCarthy, I know that I’m in for a good time – and so will you be. In addition to discussing her stage debut at age 6 in a production of Peter Pan, her years at the country’s leading theatres, her first feature film, I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (Best Actress in Canada AND the Charles Chaplin Award at the Cannes Film Festival), and so much more, Sheila talks easily and openly about a career that is always evolving and challenging.---- NOTE: please consider

A great way to launch LIFE IN STAGES is with our first guest, Mark McGrinder. Mark and I met in 1990 at the University of Waterloo – he was entering first year and I was newly arrived as the Chair of the Drama Department. Over the next four years we spent a lot of time together in class and in rehearsals. Jump to 2002, eight years after he graduated, and Mark and I, along with three other UW alumni, met to consider a large project that could include many UW alum who were still carving out

Here’s a preview of what you will be hearing in the first series of LIFE IN STAGES, conversations with many of our most accomplished Canadian actors, writers and directors. Joel Greenberg sits down with our guests to learn how and why they have devoted their professional lives to such a precarious career. THE FIRST EPISODE DROPS SEPTEMBER 26, so go to wherever you get your podcasts and subscribe/follow LIFE IN STAGES. And please take a moment to pass this on to friends, colleagues, family,