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Onstage Offstage Theatre Podcast
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Monthly podcast featuring interviews with theatre professionals of all types--from playwrights to techies to producers. If it has to do with theatre--in any part of the world--we have it covered! We also do readings of short plays. Since 2013!
Dave Osmundsen's article “Finding Autistic Theatre Artists Is a Challenge (If You Make It a Challenge)” appeared in Howlround this past February. Dave addresses how the theatre world could accommodate and better understand autistic theatre artists.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Nick Maynard is a playwright who's worked within the performing arts industry, creating and facilitating over 300 different stage shows as writer, director or producer. His play “Things You See in the Rain” is the second of our 2025 Diversity/Equity/Inclusion-themed plays.
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August 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Nick Maynard's worked within the performing arts industry for a number of years, creating over 300 different stage shows as writer, director or producer. His play “Things You See in the Rain” is the second of our 2025 Diversity/Equity/Inclusion-themed plays.
www.onstageoffstage.org
August 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
July 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Cris Eli Blak is an emerging proud Black playwright and screenwriter whose work has been performed and produced around the world.
His short play, “Impact Turn,” is the first of our 2025 DEI-themed plays.
“Impact Turn” was performed by Sylvie Yntema and Dana Hall.
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July 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Cris Eli Blak is an emerging proud Black playwright and screenwriter whose work has been performed and produced around the world.
His short play, “Impact Turn,” is the first of our 2025 Diversity/Equity/Inclusion-themed plays.
“Impact Turn” was performed by Sylvie Yntema and Dana Hall.
July 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Our guests are playwright Laura Shamas and multidisciplinary artist Harriette Feliz, who talk about Laura's play “Four Women in Red” which addresses the ongoing epidemic of violence against Native American women.
"Someone knows. Somewhere."
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June 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#191: Playwright Laura Shamas and multidisciplinary artist Harriette Feliz, talk about Laura's play “Four Women in Red”, which addresses the ongoing epidemic of violence against Native American women.
“Someone knows. Somewhere.”
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June 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
May 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A new month, a new guest! Playwright Philip Middleton WIlliams, who's been produced around the world, published in many anthologies, with seven of his plays published by @Next Stage Press.
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May 1, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Diane Quinn and Bill Fuller are the co-founders of Unseen Theatre, an audio podcast showcasing (unproduced), original plays featuring strong female protagonists.
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April 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Diane Quinn and Bill Fuller are the co-founders of Unseen Theatre, an audio podcast showcasing (unproduced), original plays featuring strong female protagonists.
www.onstageoffstage.org
April 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Svetlana Arestova is a translator and professor of translation at HSE Univ. in Moscow. We talk about translating not just words, but intent, meaning, and making the differences of two linguistic cultures meet.
#translation #playwriting #theatre
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March 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Svetlana Arestova is a literary translator and professor of translation at HSE University in Moscow, Russia. We talk about the intricacies of translating and finding ways to make the differences of two linguistic cultures meet, where the words are paramount.
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March 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
February 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Scott C. Sickles has 5 Writers Guild of America Awards for General Hospital, and numerous Emmy Award nominations. His plays have been performed in New York City, his native Pittsburgh, across the US, and internationally. Check out this exceptional interview right here:
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February 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Wishing everyone a happy, productive and safe 2025! We'll have more episodes and looking forward to meeting and talking with theatre lovers from all around the world!!
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December 31, 2024 at 2:49 PM
December 16, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Our guest for December is Donald Loftus! Fascinating conversation about writing musicals, masterminding the perfume industry, and "running the northeast." You'll have to listen to get that one!
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December 1, 2024 at 1:39 PM
One month until 2025. No flying cars, no homes in the sky. Still, it's something to dream up things like this; it shows that we envision a better future.
Theatre artists dream of better things. Come hear about it every month from the dreamers themselves. Since 2013.
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November 30, 2024 at 1:37 PM
“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.” Ernest Hemingway
But that's the fun part, isn't it? Discovering new things, better ways to create reality, that's the joy of improving.

180+ episodes of people who've done just that. Come play with us!
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November 23, 2024 at 1:13 PM
JB Alexander has written a beautiful play, “Melting the ICE,” about a lawyer trying desperately to reunite a mother and young son who were separated at the U.S./Mexico border. Can he find the humanity hiding in the system?
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#ICE #immigration #separation #jbalexander
November 20, 2024 at 2:30 PM
OSOS
Twelve years, dozens of theatre pros from around the globe telling
their stories. We cover everything there is in theatre and feel like
we haven't scratched the surface. More to come—much more!
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#theatre #drama #stage #acting #directing #playwriting
November 16, 2024 at 1:30 PM
OnstageOffstageTheatrePodcast highlights theatre pros from around the world. We talk with playwrights, actors, directors, dramaturgs, producers--you name it, we're interested! Since 2013, episodes are monthly: onstageoffstage.podbean.com
#theatre #drama #stage #acting #directing #playwriting
November 13, 2024 at 11:29 PM