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Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast

Monthly podcast featuring interviews with theatre professionals from around the world. If it has to do with theatre, we have it covered! We also do readings of short plays. Since 2013! Please make sure to download your favorite episodes!Questions? Comments? Email us at onstageoffstagepodcast@gmail.com! Please help support this endeavor by BUYING US A COFFEE!!

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#206 Rich Pauli / 'Til Death

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2026/10/01

It's the spooky month! And we honor the creepies with Rich Pauli's comedically spooky play "Til Death." What happens when the parting of the ways brings complaints from not just the afterlife, but the present life? Edna will need to come up with a solution that settles both issues! We chat with Rich about getting started in playwriting, the romance of first plays, ghost stories, and writing for Hallmark Cards. Don't miss it!...and Happy Halloween!!

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44:51

#204: Gwydion Suilebhan

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2026/08/01

American playwright, essayist, cultural critic, and arts advocate who serves as executive director of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation as well as the Project Director of the New Play Exchange for the National New Play Network

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43:09

#203: Rachel Rubin Ladutke

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2026/07/01

Playwright, Director, Teacher, Mom, Ally. Her zoom podcast “States of Play” which serves as a place for playrights to hear their work out loud—sometimes for the first time--is now in its fifth year and still going strong. She's a lifelong theatre professional and strong advocate for local community theatres and especially theatre for younger audiences. Website | States of Play | Facebook X | New Play Exchange | Halifax Theatre for Young People

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38:52

#202: Alexandra Meda

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2026/06/01

Alexandra Meda is a nationally recognized cultural strategist, artistic director, and transformation architect working at the intersection of ensemble-based praxis, systemic change, and collective restoration. With a foundation in devised theater, stage direction, and an expansive practice that spans strategy, facilitation, and immersive experience design, she guides institutions through moments of reckoning, realignment, and radical reimagining.

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42:43

#200! Rachel Feeny-Williams

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2026/04/01

We welcome back a longtime friend and colleague and one of the hardest working theatre professionals, Rachel Feeny-Williams. Rachel's a playwright of no mean ability and a startling fecundity, the mastermind behind one of the first mid-covid zoom theatre gatherings, the Literary and Discourse Society, and now single-handedly produces Theatrical Shenanigans, a podcast that produces short audio plays and panel discussions which is now in its millionth year with how many episodes...?RFW Website /

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46:18

#199: Creative Pathways

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2026/03/01

Eve Kerrigan and Ana Bess Moyer Bell are part of a team comprised of artists, social workers, language translators, and organizers from Creative Pathways, a program that teaches English as a second language to refugees and newly arrived Americans using theatre. They employ the tools of nonfiction and documentary theatre specifically to help English learners develop their voices literally and figuratively.Genesis Center / Eve's website / Ana - LinkedIn Eve - Facebook

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40:08

#197: Joe Swenson/Broken Arts Entertainment

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2026/01/01

Joe Swenson is probably one of the busiest people in internet theatre. A playwright/producer/author and owner/president (including film producer/writer/director) at Broken Arts Entertainment.Broken Arts Entertainment | Joe's website | Facebook | New Play Exchange |

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34:34

#196: Jesus Granados

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2025/12/01

This month our guest is Jesus Granados, a high school coordinator, and english teacher at Complejo Educativo Santa Lucía in Santiago de Puriscal in the canton of San José in Costa Rica. Jesus is also an actor, director, and experienced theatre professional.

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33:14

#195: Dave Osmundsen

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2025/10/01

Dave Osmundsen is autistic playwright / dramaturg / actor whose article “Finding Autistic Theatre Artists Is a Challenge (If You Make It a Challenge)” appeared in Howlround this past February. It's a terrific article and I wholly recommend reading it because it will definitely broaden your knowledge base around autism. In the article Dave addresses several questions of how the theatre world could include, accommodate, and better understand autistic theatre artists while also allowing those

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35:37

#192: Cris Eli Blak

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2025/07/01

Cris Eli Blak is an emerging proud Black playwright and screenwriter whose work has been performed and produced around the world, from Off-Broadway; across the United States; on university stages; as well as in London, Australia, Ireland, and Canada.He is the winner of the first Black Broadway Men Playwriting Intiative, the winner of the 2024 Charles M. Getchell New Play Award, and the first place winner of Atlanta Shakespeare Company's inaugural Muse of Fire BIPOC Playwriting Fesitval. His short

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35:05

#189: Diane Quinn and Bill Fuller - Unseen Theatre

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2025/04/01

This month's guests are Diane Quinn and Bill Fuller, co-founders and driving force behind Unseen Theatre, an audio podcast showcasing (unproduced), original plays, featuring---something very much after my own heart---strong female protagonists, performed by SAG-AFTRA actors. Diane is Artistic Director/Co-Producer, and also has been an actor and playwright for Unseen Theatre, (and is additionally the podcast's marketing director). Bill, her Co-Producer, audio engineers every sonic second, composes

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27:46

#188: Svetlana Arestova

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2025/03/01

Svetlana Arestova is a literary translator and professor of translation at HSE University in Moscow, Russia. Her list of accomplishments is extensive, including translations of books by Andrew Sean Greer, Daniel Mason and Elizabeth Strout. We talk about the intricacies of translating not just words, but intent, meaning, and finding ways to make the differences of two linguistic cultures meet, especially for rthe genre of theatre, where the words—or is it the story?--are paramount.Find her on

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40:02

#186: Gene Kato

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2025/01/01

Gene Kato is the mastermind behind Next Stage Press, an online boutique publishing house that has grown exponentially over the past few years. Gene has singlehandedly created a showroom for hundreds of playwrights to market their creative opuses. A lively, fun interview with lots to talk about!NPX / X / Facebook / Genekato.com #genekato #publishing #playwriting #theatre #nextstagepress

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39:56

#185: Play reading - Joey - Donald Loftus

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2024/12/01

Donald Loftus is a playwright/lyricist whose work has been performed around the globe and is one of the masterminds behind the online play reading group New York Pages. He's has written the book and lyrics to several musicals (Abbey Victoria, Pollyanna, ‘Round Duffy Square, and Illusion), and his one-acts have been presented in over 100 play festivals around the country. Donald's play “Joey” is the last of our 2024 Missing Home series.DonaldLoftus.com / New Play Exchange Facebook / Playwright's

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36:16

#184: Play reading - Melting the Ice - JB Alexander

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2024/11/01

JB Alexander is a playwright, an actor, and sometimes he directs. This month we present his exceptional play “Melting the Ice,” a face-off between an ICE officer and a lawyer who won't take no for an answer. This is the third in our 2024 "Missing Home” series.#jbalexander #playwriting #theatre #ice #detention #separatedfamily #refugees #immigration

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24:29

#183: Play reading - "Where Do We Go?" / Raymond Alvin

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2024/10/15

Danny's on the run and hiding out from a guy who should never have been crossed. Good thing he's got his best friend Charlie with him. Featuring Sean Kimber as Danny and George Sapio as Charlie. Plus, we have a very down-to-Earth talk with the playwright, Raymond Alvin. Come join us! Raymond's Facebook page

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29:24

#180: Play Reading - "Silver Linings" by Alicia Ana...

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2024/08/01

#180! "Silver Linings" is the next play in our 2024 "Missing Home" series. Alicia Ana Hernandez-Roulet is the playwright and we have a marvelous conversation with her about the play, her work, the importance of family, and (of course) chicharrones! Alicia's NPX page

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45:08

#178: Natives of the Apocalypse

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2024/06/01

Isaiah St. Cyr, Enoch Chapman, and Montana Miller are three of the members of the Native American theatre company Natives of the Apocalypse. In the summer of 2023, this Santa Fe troupe produced an indigenized version of Lyle Kessler's "Orphans." Being one of the very few Native American theatre groups in the U.S., NOTA now embarks on a five-year plan to not only bring theatre to native Americans but enable more indigenous folks to embrace theatre as a way of preserving their heritages through

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38:13

#177: Lily Janiak

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2024/05/01

Lily is a theatre critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. I came across an article she wrote back in October of 2023 entitled “What responsibility do critics bear when a theater company closes?” I was struck that anyone, let alone a theatre critic, would voice that out loud. But it's a legitimate question, especially after Covid-19 ravaged the theatre scene worldwide.

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36:40

#176: Marci J. Duncan & Kerry Sandell - "Dissonance"

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast ·

2024/04/01

Florida-based playwrights/actors/producers of the challenging hit play, "Dissonance," which begs the question, "Can a Black woman and a White woman--who have been friends for 20 years--have an honest, open conversation about race?" #theatre,#race,#friendship,#privilege,#dissonance, #equality, #blacklivesmatter, #racism, #whitefragility, #thisisamerica, #systemicracism, #blm, #america, #socialjustice

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