Beckett’s Babies

Hello, listeners!  In today’s episode we discuss the topic of DREAMS. We share some recent dreams we’ve had, share some play ideas based on our dreams, and share our thought son why we might add dreams to our storytelling. What do they evoke? Hope you enjoy the conversation! Article Mentioned: Did Covid Change How We Dream? by Brooke Jarvis https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/magazine/pandemic-dreams.html GLISTENS Cho -  Discovery + / The Lost Kitchen Sam - ASTR Special thanks to our sponsor Play Submissions Helper! https://playsubmissionshelper.com Use coupon code BECKETTSBABIES to receive 90% off the first month! ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:  @beckettsbabies   And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode.   Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info,  visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com   Theme Music: "Live Like the  Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello listeners! On this episode of BB, we have the one and only SHERRY KRAMER on the show! Sherry Kramer is a playwright and professor who has been writing plays for 50 years and teaching playwriting for 40.  Her book about meaning making in timebound art, Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience, was published this summer by Methuen Publishing. In this episode, Sherry shares her knowledge on writing and we know you will want to save this episode to revisit for your playwriting journey! We can't wait for you to listen! Sherry Kramer’s plays have been produced here and abroad and include David’s RedHaired Death, When Something Wonderful Ends, The Wall of Water, and Three Quarter Inches of Sky. Her work is centered in the personal as political, and often speaks to the power of class and money and philanthropy: The Bay of Fundy, How Water Behaves; the power of a conservative press to distort and sway a people and a country: The Ruling Passion; the power of the beauty myth: A Thing of Beauty; and the power of anti-Semitism: Ivanhoe, MO.  Her awards include the Weissberger, a National McKnight, The Jane Chambers Award, an NEA, and a NYFA.  She taught regularly in the MFA programs of The Michener Center for Writers, UT Austin, the Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop, where she has served as head of the workshop, and currently teaches playwriting at Bennington College. She was the first national member of New Dramatists. Her book Writing for Stage and Screen: Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience was published by Bloomsbury in July, 2023.   To learn more about Sherry's work, be sure to check out her website at sherrykramer.net GLISTEN Cho - My baby is teething! Help! Sam - Haunted cornfield Sherry - Israel / Gaza conflict ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠ Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello listeners! We were so fortunate to have designer ALEX CASILLAS join us on the show! We had such an incredible time chatting with Alex about her life and experience as a designer as well as thinking about representation in the creative teams. Enjoy!!! Alex Casillas, a native of Houston, TX, is a professional scenic and lighting designer holding a dual MFA from The University of Iowa. Previously, Alex has designed scenery for The Revolutionists (Strawdog Theatre), Mas Cara (The Vortex) Sonia, Vanya, Masha and Spike, Seven Spots on the Sun, and Braided Sorrow (University of Iowa) and has created a conceptual design for December (Alley Theatre: All New Festival). Also a professional lighting designer, Alex has worked on Secret Things (1st Stage Theatre), Cabaret, The Crucible(Parallel 45), and Peter and the Starcatcher, The Addams Family and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Festival 56). A dramaturgy-focused designer specializing in new work, Alex brings special focus to script analysis and structure to assist playwrights, directors and devisers truly realize their vision. She has a passion for educating young designers and theatre artists from marginalized communities and hopes to one day see true representation both on and off the stage. Website: http://www.acdesigns.space/ Instagram: @acasdesigns  To Learn More about Design, here are Alex's Top Book recommendations! Unmasking Theatre Design by Lynne Porter The Magic of Light by Jean Rosenthal and Lael Wertenbaker Backstage Handbook by Paul Douglas Carter Technical Theatre for Non-Technical People by Drew Campbell Bonus: White Sight: Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness by Nicholas Mirzoeff GLISTEN Cho:  Monologue Joke Writing Challenge / LaughtHER Collective Sam: Film "Patrick and The Whale" Alex: Dungeons and Dragqueens EPISODE CORRECTION: Please note that in the podcast, Alex mentioned Jennifer Tipton had a book when it was equally prolific female lighting pioneer Jean Rosenthal who wrote a book.  ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠ Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠ Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Every month, we pick a play to discuss, and for this week's episode, we read "Burning Vision" by  Marie Clements. We discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. SPOILER ALERT: There are going to be some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! Glistens: Sam: River documentary Cho: in-person open mic ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Instagram @beckettsbabies! And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello listeners! This week’s guest joining us on the show is JIHYE KIM! We had such an incredible time having Jihye on the show. She is so insightful!!! We hope you enjoy her brilliant mind! Jihye is a freelance dramaturg and a deviser based in L.A and Seoul. Her interest and specialty lie in new play development, ensemble-devising, site-specific immersive works, and literary translation (Korean to English). Jihye has worked for Great Plains Theatre Common’s New Play Conference in 2022 and 2023 and Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists Playwrights Project in 2022, UCSB’s Launch Pad in 2019, DMV Q Fest 4.0 in 2021, and Clay & Water in 2022. She is a current season researcher at Doosan Art Center in Seoul. In 2021-2022, Dogs or Cats; Augmented Body, the experimental puppet show she co-developed with Chicago-based puppet artist Jaerin Son has performed in Steppenwolf and Links Hall Chicago. In addition to her dramaturgy work, she enjoys teaching devising and solo performance workshop for non-professional performers. GLISTENS: Cho - TV show 1883Sam -  My Octopus Teacher Jihye - discovering the joy of a morning run ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: ⁠www.beckettsbabies.com⁠ Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Every month, we pick a play to discuss, and for this week's episode we read "Why Marry?" by  Jesse Lynch Williams. We discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. SPOILER ALERT: There are going to be some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! Glistens: Cho: Los Angeles public library card  Sam: Best Town Buntport Theater ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Instagram @beckettsbabies! And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello, listeners! We officially started Kindergarten and we're a little nervous after taking a long break! In this episode, we share a few life updates. One of us had a baby so you better tune in to find out WHO. And we all want to know... will their baby go into the life of theater?! GLISTENS: Cho: trying out commonplace book / using Wit & Delight journal notebook Sam: Nightwalking podcast Bianca Giaever and Terry Tempest Williams ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Instagram @beckettsbabies   And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode.   Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com   Theme Music: "Live Like the  Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

THAT'S A WRAP FOR SEASON 4! Thank you all so much for tuning in every week and hear us chat about all things playwriting. We loved every single one of our guests on this season so even if they're not mentioned, we suggest you going back and give it a listen! Thank you again for another incredible season. Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season... See you next year! GLISTENS Cho - Random stuff Collier - Someone should write a play about this by Charlotte T. Martin ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:  @beckettsbabies   And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode.   Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com   Theme Music: "Live Like the  Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello, listeners!  In today’s episode we get into a discussion about all things locations! Location in plays, writing location into a play, and whether or not location informs the play. We read the following plays inspired by places we lived or currently living to help us get into the discussion. Plays we read: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992  by Anna Deavere Smith Almost, Maine by John Cariani Leaving Iowa by Tim Clue and Spike Manton GLISTENS Sam - 24 hour play festival Cho - Hocus Pocus & Hocus Pocus 2 ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:  @beckettsbabies   And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode.   Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info,  visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com   Theme Music: "Live Like the  Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Every month, we pick a play to discuss, and for this week's episode we read "Native Gardens" by Karen Zacarias. We discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. SPOILER ALERT: There are going to be some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! Glistens: Sam - chokecherries Cho - Youtube channel "Korean Englishman" ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:  @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hey listeners! We had a very busy summer! It's been awhile since we last recorded so we're checking in!  GLISTENS Sarah: Pregnant & Michigan Sam: Bear Poop ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:  @beckettsbabies   And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode.   Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info,  visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com   Theme Music: "Live Like the  Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello, listeners!  In today’s episode we get into a discussion about new play development! Sarah attended the Great Plains Theatre Conference this past year and had an incredible time! We share our thoughts about attending New Play Development and Conferences. We hope you enjoy this discussion! GLISTENS Sam: chili lime rolled tortilla chips Sarah: Cheeseburger Wrap from TJ’s ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:  @beckettsbabies   And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode.   Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info,  visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com   Theme Music: "Live Like the  Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello listeners! Get ready to LEARN something today! We're super stoked to have Dr. Kate Busselle joining us to discuss Intimacy Design and Training in Theatre. This was such an insightful discussion. We know you will learn a thing or two! Dr. Kate Busselle is Founder of Heartland Intimacy Design & Training, which offers academic, accessible, and affordable intimacy training entirely online through self-paced asynchronous modules. She is also Assistant Professor of Movement and Stage Combat at the University of Oklahoma and is an Actor Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. As a researcher, Kate is invested in not only providing the tools of staging intimacy, but providing context as to how and why theatrical intimacy, nudity, and sexual violence needs to be staged. Most recently, she served as the Conference Intimacy Consultant for the Great Plains Theatre Commons Playlab. To learn more about Dr. Kate and her work, be sure to check her out on social media! Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/heartlandintimacydesign Instagram: @heartlandintimacydesign, @drdangerouswoman Twitter: @Heartland_ID, @drkatebusselle Website: heartlandintimacydesign.com ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is STEVEN STRAFFORD! Sarah first met Steven at the Great Plains Theatre Conference where they bonded over playwriting and new plays. We're so excited to have him on the show!!! Steven Strafford is a playwright and actor, Brooklyn-born and New Jersey-raised. His acting credits include Spamalot directed by Mike Nichols, Wonderful Town directed by Mary Zimmerman. He's been on TV, in commercials, and a movie or two. As a writer, his plays include the one man show, Methtacular! along with The Match Game, Mona Quimby: Age 38, Greater Illinois, The Model Congressman, and Small Jokes About Monsters which will be published and licensed by Broadway Licensing this fall. He lives in Athens, Ohio with his husband and ludicrously adorable foster son. To learn more about Steven and his work: Website: https://stevenstrafford.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/StevenStrafford GLISTENS: Cho - Great Plains Theatre Conference Sam -  Duolingo Steven - Steven's Musical Theater students and co-teaching Musical Theater class with his husband! ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello, listeners!  In today’s episode we discuss the history of Musicals! Sam taught a class all about musicals so we figured let's see what Sam learned and bring it to Beckett's Babies! We share our general thoughts on musicals, preconceptions, misconceptions, and so much more. We hope you enjoy! GLISTENS Cho - Sarah Ruhl “Letters from Max” Sam - Meow Wolf ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:  @beckettsbabies   And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode.   Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info,  visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com   Theme Music: "Live Like the  Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Every month, we pick a play to discuss, and for this week's episode we read "David's Redhaired Death" by SHERRY KRAMER. We discuss what we noticed, what we liked, and questions that came up while reading the play. SPOILER ALERT: There are going to be some spoiler alerts! We highly recommend you read the play before listening to this episode! Glistens: Sam - Lost and Found by Kathryn Schulz Cho - 33 JESUS YEAR ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:  @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is DARCY PARKER BRUCE! Darcy is a playwright, theater activist, and coffee enthusiast. We were so excited to have Darcy on the show and had a great time chatting. We know you will enjoy this interview too! Darcy Parker Bruce is a playwright and educator from New Haven, CT, and a graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at Smith College. In the summer they join the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as part of their staff. Darcy was the recipient of a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a 2019 LAMBDA Literary Fellowship, and was granted ATHE's 2018 Judith Royer Award For Excellence in Theater for their play SOLDIER POET. They are currently working on several projects including commissions from Chester Theatre Company and Acadiana Repertory Theater, and a cycle of plays investigating the relationship between small towns, queers, and American Glory. Their play Always Plenty of Light at the Starlight All Night Diner can now be purchased through Broadway Play Publishing and their play The Place That Made You, the second play in the Piedmont Cycle, is forthcoming from the same press. To learn more about Darcy and their work, be sure to visit their New Play Exchange! https://newplayexchange.org/users/2734/darcy-parker-bruce GLISTENS: Cho - Maid by Stephanie Land Sam -  Thawing Web by Amy Hoagland Darcy -  US Coast Guard was looking into replacing people on battleships with robots ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello, listeners!  In today’s episode we discuss the topic of working with a Dramaturg! Sam also shares her experience working as one as well! We get into discussing what's helpful and what's not helpful when working with a dramaturg. Check it out! Article Mentioned: Dramaturg’s Bill of Rights: https://howlround.com/bill-rights-dramaturgs https://howlround.com/youngest-people-room https://pwcenter.org/one-one-dramaturg http://www.beehivedramaturgy.com/whatisdramaturgy GLISTENS Cho - Pachinko on AppleTV Sam - Dinosaur National Monument ____________________________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends or follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter:  @beckettsbabies   And as always, we would love to hear from you!   Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting and we might discuss it in our next episode.   Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info,  visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com   Theme Music: "Live Like the  Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is SHANNON TL KEARNS! A former fundamentalist who became the first openly transgender man ordained to the Old Catholic priesthood, Shannon TL Kearns believes in the transformative power of story. As an ordained priest, a playwright, a theologian, and a writer all of his work revolves around making meaning through story. Shannon TL Kearns was a recipient of the Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellowship in 20/21, a playwright in residence at the Inge House in 2021, a Lambda Literary Fellow for 2019, and a Finnovation Fellow for 2019/2020. Shannon’s plays include Body+Blood, in a stand of dying trees, Line of Sight, Twisted Deaths, The Resistance of My Skin, and Who Has Eyes To See. His television pilots include The Family Unit, Transformed, and Freedom, Kansas. He and his plays have been: a finalist for the Equity Library Theatre of Chicago’s Reading Series, 2019 TransLab, and American Stages 2019 New Play Festival, semi-finalist for the New Works series at Garry Marshall Theatre. He was a semi-finalist for SPACE on Ryder farm in 2020. Shannon is an ordained priest in the Old Catholic Church and a theologian. He’s the co-founder of QueerTheology.com which has reached more than a million people all over the world. He will soon be publishing his first book with Eerdman’s. To learn more about Shannon and his work, be sure to visit his website and on social media: https://www.shannontlkearns.com https://twitter.com/shannontlkearns https://www.instagram.com/shannontlkearns/ GLISTENS: Cho - The Slap heard around the world. Sam -  Aurora Fox theater production of Hurricane Diane by Madeline George  Shannon - The band "Yes You Are" and their album "Here's to the Great Unknowns". ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support

Hello listeners! This week’s guest on the show is BEN STASNY! Ben is a second-year graduate student at CU Boulder. Ben's research is centered around queer theory, eco-criticism and performance studies. How can theatre act as a space for ethical action on queer and climate justice? Ben served as the Artistic Director for the opening fall show The Climate Cabaret--an evening of short plays about the climate crisis. We partnered with Climate Change Theatre Action out of New York City to bring this project to life. Ben worked with his/bevs advisor, Dr. Beth Osnes, this summer on an interspecies arts/science partnership between humans and barn swallows. They were led by a group of courageous youth which culminated in a film and public performance titled Side by Side. Ben was a recipient of the Hazel Barnes Flat which brought bev to London, UK in November. While there, Ben led workshops on climate comedy with a local arts/science organization, Your Canal Boat CIC. Ben served as the Artistic Director for the 6th Annual New Plays Festival at CU Boulder in Spring 2021. Ben graduated with a BFA in Acting from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Ben lived and worked as a professional actor for several years in New York City. New York credits include: Off-Broadway: Harry in When Harry Met Nancy (New York New Works Festival), Voice of Mayor Humdinger in Paw Patrol (Event Box). Other credits: The Narrator in The Soldier's Tale (Boulder Philharmonic), The Genie in Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular (Disney Cruise Line), Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, Pirelli in Sweeney Todd, Henry Etches in Titanic (Arizona Broadway Theatre), Zach in A Chorus Line, Ernst Ludwig in Cabaret, Fred in A Christmas Carol (The Palace Theatre), Father in Ragtime (Interlakes Summer Theatre) Ernst Ludwig in Cabaret (Sierra Repertory Theatre), The Cat in the Hat in Seussical the Musical (Highland Summer Theatre). Touring Theatre: Punchin in A Commedia Cinderella (Sierra Repertory Theatre, Northern California), Shaggy in Scooby-Doo and the Mystery of the Pyramid, Maddie in Care Bears (Event Box in Saudi Arabia). Ben is filled with more questions than answers these days...which feels just about right for grad school. To learn more about Ben and his/bevs work, be sure to check out his/bevs instagram! https://www.instagram.com/snackfishbenji/ GLISTENS: Cho - AppleTV Show "Severance" Sam -  Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Ben - Rupaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World ________________________ Please support Beckett's Babies by reviewing, sharing an episode with your friends, or follow us on Instagram and Twitter: @beckettsbabies And as always, we would love to hear from you! Send us your questions or thoughts on playwriting, and we might discuss it in our next episode. Email: contact@beckettsbabies.com For more info, visit our website: www.beckettsbabies.com Theme Music: "Live Like the Kids" by  Samuel Johnson, Laura Robertson, Luke O'Dea (APRA) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beckettsbabies/support