Cause an Effect

At 5:30 PM on Tuesday RTA Member Jenna Mee Dosch sat down with therapist Rachel Forbes on Cause an Effect to open up the first of many conversations with AAPI members of the theater community and mental health community. After they completed our interview, we found out about the mass shooting at three massage spas in Atlanta, in which 6 out of 8 who were murdered were Asian women. Because we wanted to start these conversations with an RTA team members’ experience first, we also wanted to make sure they shared a few words here today before you listen to their episode. From Rachel and Jenna: While we are in mourning with the AAPI community, we also want to acknowledge our unique positioning within the community as transracial adoptees. Though we can empathize with experiencing microaggressions, fetishization, model minority stereotyping, and overt xenophobia, we also recognize our close proximity to white privilege and thus our disconnect from living in an Asian community with ancestral experiences of systemic racism. It is also worth noting that the transracial Asian adoptee community has consequently experienced perpetual confusion about belonging - i.e., “I’m neither fully white, nor fully Asian.” We hope that our words are heard and understood within this layered context as we grieve with the AAPI community. You can find Jenna Mee Dosch at @jennamee & Rachel Forbes at @rachelforbes.lcsw you can find our REVISED Second Edition at www.rock-the-audition.com You can find The Rock The Audition team on Insta @rocktheaudition Find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect. Produced by Dori Bernstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mary and the RTA Team here with some exciting happenings! We are thrilled to launch Rock The Audition’s #PASSSTHEMIC Podcast Season on the Broadway Podcast Network! Last season Sheri’s Podcast, Cause an Effect, introduced industry members in open conversation about their mental health and the emotional wellness of our community during the Pandemic.  THIS season we’ve got so much in store and we’re starting it off with a bang! Enjoy Part One of ‘Meet the Team’ where we discuss the completely redone, team-built Edition of our book and the current state of our industry at large. THEN, please keep your eyes peeled for team member Jenna Mee Dosch and Part Two, which will be a conversation focused on the AAPI Experience within the industry and beyond.  Follow us to keep up with all the changes happening in-house! You can find Elijah at @thisiscaldwellofficial You can find Jenna at @jennamee You can find Mary at @marynickson You can find LaDonna at @ladonnaburns You can find Mark at @markmmunoz You can find OCU_CARE at @ocu_care You can find the First Revised Second Edition at www.rock-the-audition.com You can find the Rock The Audition Team on Insta @rocktheaudition Find more info about the podcast via http://bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect Produced by Dori Bernstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I have always been marginalized, but NEVER alone in the margins. When I created a Coalition as a part of the launch of my Second Edition, it immediately asked the question: "What if we all helped each other out of the margins? What if the disability community lifted the LGBTQUIA Community, and what if they held space for the BIPOC community, and we all changed theatre together?" Please meet the pioneers of Rock The Auditions CARE Coalition. They are the wild student and faculty at Oklahoma City University's Wanda L. Bass School of Music, who are changing the theatre culture at college with me, so we can change the industry from here. You can find OCU CARE on INSTA at @OCU_CARE. You can also inquire about bringing CARE into your College or TEEN Program by contacting hello@rock-the-audition.com. You can find Sheri at www.rock-the-audition.com or on Instagram @rocktheaudition To find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect Produced by Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

MTEA is the Musical Theatre Educators' Alliance. These people are not only my siblings, but they are here to change college culture-because the teachers and facilitators of these MT programs are raising the future of Musical Theatre in the middle of a pandemic. When I interviewed them, It was just as if we were about to go back to school. Thank you for joining me: Stacy Alley from The University of Alabama, our first female PREZZIE, The WILD WILD WONDERFUL healer of the human voice Gwen Walker from Penn State University, and Tim Espinosa from Fullerton College, the head of our brand new Diversity and Inclusion program. To learn more about MTEA, visit www.musicaltheatreeducators.org and follow them on Instagram @mteducators You can find Sheri at www.rock-the-audition.com or on Instagram @rocktheaudition To find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect Produced by Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You may have heard that film-maker and friend- to- ALL Shayla Benoit was the first person in the history of the universe to survive a rare Cancer diagnosis, and FULL Treatment during the PEAK of the pandemic. She's my collaborator, my Shero, and my guest on this episode. She will surely astound you and fill you with awe and hope. You can find Shayla's work in every professional commercial I've made, but also on Insta at: @shaylabenoit and @shadytheatrics Learn more about Shayla at www.shaylabenoit.com & www.shadytheatrics.com and on Instagram @shaylabenoit You can find Sheri at www.rock-the-audition.com or on Instagram @rocktheaudition To find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect Produced by Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If we didn't have mental health issues before, we certainly have them now. But what if you grew up in a cultural environment where you weren't allowed to be emotional- much less ask for professional help? I watched Carlita Victoria stand in the MIDDLE of #blm, in the MIDDLE of the pandemic, and announce her unbelievable mental health initiative for people of color. Carlita took her OWN struggle with her emotional wellness, turned it into a healing mechanism for the community, and shared it with us. Learn more about Carlita at www.carlitavictoria.com & on Instagram @itscarlitav as well as Darkness RISING at www.darknessrisingproject.org & on Instagram @darknessrisingproject You can find Sheri at www.rock-the-audition.com or on Instagram @rocktheaudition To find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect Produced by Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Does anyone remember when Joy Dewing Casting would have me come to their Pop/Rock auditions, and teach everyone in the holding room how to communicate " "feel "to a piano player (as opposed to tempo), so you could come in and have a better audition? If you do, you'll know Joy and I have been "Auntie Allies" in the theatre community together since the dawn of time. We're here to break down what ally-ship is, what it means to the bigger picture, and the many thrilling ways to mobilize our friends in the Black community. Learn more about Joy at www.joydewingcasting.com and follow her on Twitter @jdcasting You can find Sheri at www.rock-the-audition.com or on Instagram @rocktheaudition To find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect Produced by Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The reason why I created Cause an Effect was to take the shame and stigma off the mental health issues that come along with just being a human in the world. With Buoyancy and Transparency, Virginia and I speak candidly about living with multiple mental illnesses, surviving trauma, and what it takes to be in service with it in your art. You'll be excited to know Virginias show, ""From Asylum to Asylum"" is now a BOOK! You can find Virginia Child at www.itsvirginiachild.com & www.teamtlcnyc.org or on Instagram @teamtlcnyc You can find Sheri at www.rock-the-audition.com or on Instagram @rocktheaudition To find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect Produced by Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whether you've seen her in a small cast revisical, or you don't see her at all cuz' she's quietly fighting for your rights as an Elected Official in our union! Nikka Graff Lanzarone is here to help. Completely open about her depression, Nikka came to coach me on my practice run at BPN and it was such a great interview i'm launching my podcast with her. You can find Nikka on Insta at @nikkalanz & @slightlydeadpod You can find Sheri on Insta @rocktheaudition or visit her website www.rock-the-audition.com To find more info about the podcast via bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect Produced by Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cause an Effect is a podcast hosted by Sheri Sanders where she skillfully seasons the ALWAYS hard conversations with laughter, thoughtfulness, and tons of tools for change. Sheri was inspired to create Cause an Effect to share her experience innovating Pop/Rock Musical Theatre performance techniques, with 86 musical theatre programs, over the last 10 years, while navigating a diagnosis of Complex-PTSD. Through interviews with innovators from every facet of the theater industry, live coachings, and pearls of wisdom only Sheri can imbue, Cause an Effect will offer tons of creative inspiration during an unprecedented moment in time. More about Sheri Sanders: Sheri Sanders is an actor and the creator of the rock musical revolution, Rock the Audition. She coaches performers and their teachers to master all styles of popular music in order to successfully audition for pop/rock musicals. In addition to the revised second edition of her book, “Rock the Audition” (the first musical theatre acting book with inclusive language) and her audition cuts on Musicnotes.com, Sheri is passionately bridging the gap between popular music, musical theatre,education, and advocacy. This September, Sheri is thrilled to be partnering with Broadway OnDemand to help launch their education platform. Her college coalition, CARE (Creatives for Artistic and Realistic Equity; piloted at Oklahoma City University), is being introduced and incorporated into musical theatre programs nationwide this fall. As a part of her on-going mission, she is committed to continue training artists with disabilities, Trans and Non-Binary artists, and artists who are neurodivergent Pro Bono. You can find Sheri on Insta @rocktheaudition and www.rock-the-audition.com & to learn more about this podcast, visit bpn.fm/CauseAnEffect Produced by Dori Berinstein, Alan Seales, and Brittany Bigelow. Edited by Kyle Moore. Part of the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices