Call Time with Katie Birenboim

Episode 110: Liba Vaynberg

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (Black Milk at CSC, Cancer, Cancer, Cancer at Ars Nova, Lost in Yonkers at Hartford Stage), playwright (The Matriarchs, The Gett), and TV writer (Star City on Apple TV), Liba Vaynberg.

Episode 109: Katy Murphy

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 5 Mar 2026 15:10:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor/writer/performance artist Katy Murphy about her play/performance art piece (No) Refunds, set to return to the Edinburgh Fringe this summer.

Episode 108: Rory McGregor

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:50:00 +0000

Katie checks in with director (Tender Napalm, No Good Things Dwell in the Flesh, currently: Blackout Songs; The Lehman Trilogy, Glengarry Glen Ross, Sea Wall/ A Life as associate), Rory McGregor.

Episode 107: Purva Bedi

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:45:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (American Desi, Green Card Fever, Cosmopolitan, Sully, The Assistant on screen; ER, The West Wing, Gossip Girl, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, and Billions on television; Dance Nation, An Ordinary Muslim, The Lucky Ones, Coach Coach, and Wives Off-Broadway, and so much more), Purva Bedi.

Episode 106: Brandon Bulls

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with sound designer (Well I'll Let You Go, Nina, On Set with Theda Bara, The Lucky Ones, N/A at Barrington Stage), Brandon Bulls.

Ep 105: Lia Romeo & The Lucky Ones

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:05:00 +0000

https://theaterlabnyc.com/the-lucky-ones/

Ep 104: The Team Behind A Bright Room Called Day

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 12:45:00 +0000

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-bright-room-called-day-tickets-1657820899939

Ep 103: Mario Correa

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:05:00 +0000

Katie checks in with playwright (N/A, Tail! Spin!, Commander, Santa for President), screenwriter (Dark Waters), and former Congressional aide, Mario Correa.

Ep 102: Wheeler Moon

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:35:00 +0000

Katie checks in with lighting designer Wheeler Moon (Barrington Stage, Theatre Aspen, Bucks County Playhouse, Sharon Playhouse, Forestburgh Playhouse, Theaterlab, and more).

Ep 101: Julia Lester

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 1 May 2025 12:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with Tony, Drama Desk, and Lortel nominted actor (High School Musical: the Musical: the Series, Into the Woods on Broadway, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, All Nighter), Julia Lester.

Episode 100: Aigner Mizzelle

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 13:45:00 +0000

For the hundredth episode (!!), Katie checks in with Lucille Lortel award winning actor (Chicken and Biscuits on Broadway, (pray), Nina), Aigner Mizzelle.

Episode 99: Nina Ross/Softee

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 3 Apr 2025 13:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (To Kill a Mockingbird and The Iceman Cometh on Broadway; The Hard Problem and Nina Off-Broadway; Bad Monkey on Apple TV) and pop musician (Softee), Nina Ross.

Episode 98: Jack Serio

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with director (Grangeville, Uncle Vanya, The Animal Kingdom, This Beautiful Future, Obie Award winner), Jack Serio.

Episode 97: Forrest Malloy on "Nina"

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 9 Jan 2025 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor, playwright, teacher, and the author of the upcoming Off-Broadway play, Nina, directed by Katie and produced by Katie and Francesca Carpanini. Nina runs at Theaterlab January 23-February 9.

Episode 96: Rebbekah Vega-Romero

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 2 Jan 2025 14:10:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (Maria in West Side Story at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Luisa in The Fantasticks at the Cape Playhouse, upcoming: Magnolia in Showboat at Target Margin Theater) and writer (The Question, 2024 Eugene O'Neill finalist, BMI program), Rebbekah Vega-Romero.

Episode 95: David Winitsky

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:33:06 +0000

Katie checks in with founder, and Executive Artistic Director, of the Jewish Plays Project, David Winitsky.

Episode 94: Eva Kaminsky

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 14:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor, Eva Kaminsky (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and The Lyons on Broadway; Made in Poland and a Bright New Boise Off-Broadway; Law and Order: SVU, Billions, the Gilded Age, and more).

Episode 93: Dwight Rhoden & Complexions

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 15:29:55 +0000

Katie checks in with co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Complexions Contemporary Ballet Company, as well as noted dancer and choreographer (The Joyce, the Bolshoi, The Marinsky, BAM, Cairo Opera House, Holland Dance Festival, and more), Dwight Rhoden.

Episode 92: Ella Stiller

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor, Ella Stiller (Festival of New Jewish Plays, Escape at Dannemora, Juilliard).

Episode 91: Christine Cox & BalletX

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with co-founder and Artistic and Executive Director of BalletX, Christine Cox, about the company's upcoming shows at the Joyce Theater.

Episode 90: Jack Viertel & Broadway Melody

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 13:45:00 +0000

Katie checks in with former Artistic Director of City Center Encores! and Creative Director/Senior Vice President of Jujamcyn Theaters, Jack Viertel, about his new theatre-centric novel, Broadway Melody.

Episode 89: Celia Fushille

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with Artistic Director (and former principal dancer) of Smuin Contemporary Ballet, Celia Fushille.

Episode 88: Lin King

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 14:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with writer (One Story, the Boston Review, PEN/Robert J. Dau Prize), translator (Asymptote, Columbia Journal, The Boy from Clearwater), and former employee of world-renowned visual artist, Cai Guo-Qiang, Lin King.

Episode 87: Henry Timms

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 14:05:00 +0000

Katie checks in with the CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, founder of Giving Tuesday, former Executive Director of the 92nd Street Y, and author of New Power, Henry Timms.

Episode 86: Eric Cornell

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with commercial producer, Eric Cornell (Co-Producer: Oklahoma!, To Kill a Mockingbird, What the Constitution Means to Me, Head Over Heels, Hello Dolly! First National Tour; Executive Producer: Anastasia, Rocky; Upcoming: Anne of Green Gables).

Episode 85: Michelle Veintimilla

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 6 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (The Visit on Broadway; Which Way to the Stage Off-Broadway; The Beauty and the Baker on ABC; Gotham on Fox; upcoming: Nine at the Kennedy Center), Michelle Veintimilla.

Episode 84: Jesse-Ray Leich

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 23 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with Broadway drummer (Mr. Saturday Night, KPOP; subs for MJ the Musical, & Juliet, Titanique), Jesse-Ray Leich.

Episode 83: Allison Bailey

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 9 May 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with performer Allison Bailey, known for her role as Glinda in the National Tour of Wicked (and Glinda standby on Broadway).

Episode 82: Ixchel Cuellar

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 2 May 2024 14:25:00 +0000

Katie checks in with dancer, actor, and singer (Broadway: Mean Girls, Finding Neverland; Mean Girls & Hamilton National Tours), Ixchel Cuellar.

Episode 81: Amanda Morton

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:20:00 +0000

Katie checks in with music director, music supervisor, conductor, and pianist (associate conductor/keys 2 for Gutenberg!, assistant conductor/keys 3 for The Who's Tommy, and associate music director/lyric dramaturg for KPOP on Broadway; The Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Picnic at Hanging Rock; Anne of Green Gables), Amanda Morton.

Episode 80: Eli Mayer

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor, Eli Mayer (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Barrington Stage, the MUNY, Ride the Cyclone at Arena Stage and McCarter Theatre Center, and currently Reuven in The Chosen at Cincinatti Playhouse).

Episode 79: Stefanie Londino

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 4 Apr 2024 14:25:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (My Name is Asher Lev, A Bronx Tale, Fiddler on the Roof, and Annie National Tours) and musician (West Side Waltz and the Voxies), Stefanie Londino.

Episode 78: Ellenore Scott

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:45:00 +0000

Katie checks in with choreographer (Funny Girl, Mr. Saturday Night, Grey House on Broadway; Little Shop of Horrors, Kate Hamill's Pride and Prejudice, Jeremy O'Harris' Black Exhibition, Titanique Off Broadway) and director (upcoming: The Lonely Few, with Tripp Cullman), Ellenore Scott.

Special Episode: Sunday in the Park with George at Axelrod PAC

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:22:00 +0000

Katie has a roundtable discussion with director & choreographer, Eamon Foley, and star, Talia Suskauer, of the upcoming Sunday in the Park with George at Axelrod Performing Arts Center, a production which she is co-producing.

Episode 77: Graham Phillips

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (13 on Broadway, Sunday in the Park with George at Pasadena Playhouse, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Geffen, The Good Wife, Riverdale, The Little Mermaid Live!), director, and writer (The Mediator, The Bygone, and Rumble Through the Dark), Graham Phillips.

Episode 76: Wilson Chin

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:45:00 +0000

Katie checks in with set designer (Broadway: Cost of Living, Pass Over, Next Fall; Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, the Public, Roundabout, and more; Lortel and Drama Desk nominations), Wilson Chin.

Episode 75: Molly Rose Heller

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 7 Dec 2023 15:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with director and theatre maker (associate on Sabbath's Theater, Invincible the Musical; The Apostle Peter and His Lover John Also an Apostle; Notes From the Basement; 2022 member of Directors’ Lab North; one of New York Jewish Week’s “36 to Watch" 2022), Molly Rose Heller.

Special Episode: Scene Change, With Author Alan Harrison

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with former actor and director, arts manager (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arts West), and author, Alan Harrison, on his new book, Scene Change: Why Today's Non-Profit Arts Organizations Have to Stop Producing Art and Start Producing Impact.

Episode 74: Julia Nicole Hunter

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor and singer (Annie National Tour, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Burn the Floor, Walnut Street Theatre), Julia Nicole Hunter.

Episode 73: Livvy Marcus

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 2 Nov 2023 14:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (Life After, The Griswolds' Broadway Vacation) and singer/songwriter (Morninglory music), Livvy Marcus.

Special Episode: Jesse Green on Shy: the Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 14:45:00 +0000

Katie discusses Shy: the Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers (available everywhere) with its co-author, and Chief Theatre Critic for The New York Times, Jesse Green.

Episode 72: Patti Wilcox

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with NAACP and Fred Astaire award-winning Broadway choreographer (Motown the Musical, A Night with Janis Joplin, Annie National Tour), Patti Wilcox.

Episode 71: Paul Felten

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 15:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with screenwriter and director (Francophrenia (or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is), Burn Country, and Slow Machine -- Rotterdam, Viennale, and New York Film Festivals), Paul Felten.

Episode 70: Jacob Kerzner

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with music director, pianist, orchestrator, and educator (Berkshire Theatre Group, the MUNY, Opera Memphis, the George and Ira Gershwin Critical Edition, developmental teams for Oklahoma! (2019) and Hadestown), Jacob Kerzner.

Episode 69: Edward Juvier

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 14:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (Les Miz National Tour and on Broadway, Phantom of the Opera National Tour, Stages St. Louis, Goodspeed Opera House, Tuacahn, Theatre Works Palo Alto, and more), Edward Juvier.

Episode 68: Jenn Thompson

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Fri, 7 Jul 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with former actor (Annie, The Heiress, Ah, Wilderness!, Little Darlings) and Drama Desk, Lortel, and SDC Joe A. Callaway Award nominated director (Annie National Tour, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, Hartford Stage, Pioneer Theatre Company, Mint Theatre Company), Jenn Thompson.

Special Episode: A Tribute to Sheldon Harnick

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:20:00 +0000

Katie reflects on the late, great Sheldon Harnick, the lyricist for Broadway masterpieces like Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me, Fiorello!, The Apple Tree, and more.

Episode 67: Valerie Wright

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with Broadway star (Damn Yankees, Song and Dance, Cats, Steel Pier, Annie Get Your Gun, Elf, Tuck Everlasting, Kimberly Akimbo), Valerie Wright.

Episode 66: Talia Suskauer

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 8 Jun 2023 14:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with star of Wicked on Broadway (Elphaba), Be More Chill on Broadway, and, currently, Gypsy at Goodspeed Opera House (Louise), Talia Suskauer.

Episode 65: Timothy J. McClimon

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 1 Jun 2023 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with former Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at American Express, former Executive Director of Second Stage Theater, and current Executive Director of Signature Theatre, Timothy J. McClimon.

Episode 64: Cameron Terry

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Wed, 8 Mar 2023 15:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with dancer, choreographer, and founder of Shades Dance Theater, Cameron Terry.

Episode 63: Sophie Weisskoff

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 2 Mar 2023 15:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with playwright (Great Plains Theatre Conference Selection, Edward F. Albee Fellow, Rona Jaffe Foundation Graduate Fellow, upcoming: Brainsmash at 59E59) and writer (New York Magazine, The Virginia Quarterly), Sophie Weisskoff.

Episode 62: Runako Campbell

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 15:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with dancer and performing artist (Broadway's Jagged Little Pill, Lohengrin and The Hours at the Metropolitan Opera, Vogue World for New York Fashion Week, and more), Runako Campbell.

Episode 61: Ryan Steele & Gaby Diaz

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:20:00 +0000

Katie checks in with Ryan Steele (Broadway's Newsies, Carousel, Matilda, and more) and Gaby Diaz (winner of So You Think You Can Dance season 12, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, Tick Tick Boom), both of whom recently starred in MCC's dance musical Only Gold.

Episode 60: Skylar Fox

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 9 Feb 2023 16:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with theatre maker, co-Artistic Director of Nightdrive (Thank You Sorry, The Grown-Ups), and illusions and magic associate at Harry Potter and the Cursed Child US, Skylar Fox.

Episode 59: Ryan Donovan

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with former dancer and actor (50th anniversary West Side Story national tour, Goodspeed Opera House, TUTS) and assistant professor of theatre and performance studies at Duke University, as well as the author of the forthcoming book, Broadway Bodies (available February 10), Ryan Donovan.

Episode 58: Bella Wang

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 5 Jan 2023 15:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with arts marketer (The Vineyard Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Premiere Consulting Group China), Bella Wang.

Episode 57: Alexis Kleinman

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with journalist (Deputy Editor of Impact and Innovation at the Huffington Post, Editor of Tech at Mic, Editor at the New York Times' branded content studio T Brand, Editor for Axios' in-house branded content studio, Smart Brevity Studio) and comedian, Alexis Kleinman.

Episode 56: Alexander Quetell

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 8 Dec 2022 15:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with dancer and choreographer (currently: Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz; previously: YC2, TL Collective, Springboard Dance Montreal), Alexander Quetell. Photo of Alexander by Philipp Romer.

Episode 55: Sophie Blue

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 1 Dec 2022 15:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with dancer and arts administrator (American Ballet Theatre, Jacob's Pillow, Liam Francis), Sophie Blue.

Episode 54: Cody Williams

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with former Broadway dancer (On the Town, Memphis, Cinderella, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), producer of NY1's "On Stage" program and the PBS documentary Reopening: The Broadway Revival, and current owner/producer/director of the production company, Ordinary Sunday, Cody Williams.

Episode 53: Jane Whitty

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with senior consultant at Capacity Interactive, the premier digital marketing consulting firm for culture and the arts, and her professor at NYU, Jane Whitty.

Episode 52: Peterson Townsend

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 3 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor of stage (St. Louis Rep, Barrington Stage, Arden Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, the Mint, the Metropolitan Opera) and screen (Law and Order: SVU, The Good Fight, Elementary, Gossip Girl), Peterson Townsend.

Episode 51: Lisa Gold

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with former director of public engagement at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, former public relations director for The Drawing Center, former director of development and communications for Socrates Sculpture Park, and current Executive Director of the Asian American Arts Alliance, Lisa Gold.

Episode 50: Julia Greer

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor, writer, and co-founder/co-Artistic Director of The Hearth, a theatre company dedicated to stories by, about, and for women and other under-represented genders, Julia Greer.

Episode 49: Claire Saunders

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (the Mint Theater Company, The York Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group, Barrington Stage, Goodspeed Opera House, Theatre Works Hartford, Law & Order SVU), Claire Saunders.

Episode 48: Jonathan Bank

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with Artistic Director and Producer of the Mint Theater, Jonathan Bank.

Special Episode: Horrors of the Heart

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 4 Aug 2022 14:00:00 +0000

In this special episode, Katie focuses on the development of a new, boundary and genre-pushing "photographic play," Horrors of the Heart, written and directed by her NYU classmate Hunter Carrico, and produced by Bad Behavior Lab.

Episode 47: Rob Signom

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with production manager (Signature Theatre, Aspen Opera Theater Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Gotham Chamber Opera), co-founder of Intuitive Production Management, and curator of the American Packard Museum, Rob Signom.

Episode 46: Anthony Cochrane

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:51:39 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (Royal Shakespeare Company, War Horse, Cymbeline, The Audience, and The Utopia Trilogy on Broadway) and composer (music for over 30 theatrical productions), Anthony Cochrane.

Episode 45: Laakan McHardy

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with star of stage (The Guthrie, Seattle Rep, the Humana Festival, LCT's The Wolves, currently: Chains at the Mint Theater) and screen (16 Bars, the Blacklist, FBI Most Wanted, Madam Secretary, Succession), Laakan McHardy.

Episode 44: David Auburn

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:34:22 +0000

Katie checks in with screenwriter (The Lake House), director (Side Effects at MCC, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Skin of Our Teeth, Petrified Forest at Berkshire Theatre Group), and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Skyscraper, The Columnist, Lost Lake, Proof), David Auburn.

Episode 43: Billy Cohen

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:35:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (Goodspeed Opera House, Theatre Aspen, The Band's Visit National Tour), Billy Cohen.

Episode 42: Molly Fagan

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 13:35:15 +0000

Katie checks in with actor, marketer, and arts administrator, Molly Fagan.

Episode 41: Andy Bragen

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 26 May 2022 14:01:11 +0000

Katie checks in with playwright (The Hairy Dutchman, Spuyten Duyvil, Notes on My Mother's Decline, This Is My Office -- Drama Desk nomination), former fellow with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Dramatists' Guild, Berkeley Rep, and New Dramatists, and founder of Andy Bragen Theatre Projects, Andy Bragen.

Episode 40: Megan Fairchild

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 19 May 2022 13:15:00 +0000

Katie checks in with New York City Ballet principal dancer, star of On the Town on Broadway, and author of The Ballerina Mindset, Megan Fairchild.

Episode 39: Dr. Kellye Jones

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 12 May 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with professor of executive leadership, gender theory, and conflict management, with research published in periodicals like The Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, The Women in Management Review, and The Journal of International Business Disciplines, as well as Katie's current NYU Stern professor, Dr. Kellye Jones.

Episode 38: Francis Benhamou

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with star of stage (Selling Kabul and The Profane at Playwrights Horizons, Three Women at 59E59, and most recently Prayer for the French Republic at Manhattan Theatre Club) and screen (Arranged, Daredevil, Inside Amy Schumer, Life and Beth), Francis Benhamou.

Special Episode: Auditioning in NYC (featuring Drew Carr)

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 16:00:00 +0000

In this special episode, Katie gets into the nitty gritty of auditioning in New York City -- the highs, the lows, the union, the studios, etc., all helped by actor (Fiorello!, Criminal Minds), dancer (Newsies, West Side Story, A Chorus Line), and friend, Drew Carr.

Episode 37: Barton Cowperthwaite

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 7 Apr 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with dancer, actor, model, and star of Netflix's Tiny Pretty Things, Barton Cowperthwaite.

Episode 36: Chris Murphy

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with Vanity Fair Staff Writer, comedian, and actor, Chris Murphy.

Episode 35: Ariana Venturi

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Celebrating one year of Call Time (!!), Katie checks in with actor (Mary Page Marlowe, These Paper Bullets!, Dance Dance Revolution, The Skin of Our Teeth, and currently: The Minutes on Broadway), Ariana Venturi.

Episode 34: Ryan Gohsman

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 3 Mar 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with stage manager Ryan Gohsman, whose credits include Here Lies Love, The Death of the Last Black Man, The Light Years, and Mary Jane, and who is currently the production stage manager for Little Shop of Horrors at The Westside Theater (featuring Christian Borle, Tammy Blanchard, and Conrad Ricamora).

Episode 33: Hayley Podschun

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with Broadway actor, singer, dancer (Hairspray, Wicked, Hello Dolly!, Anything Goes, Chaplin), and QVC host, Hayley Podschun.

Episode 32: Natalie Margolin

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with playwright (The Power of Punctuation, The Day the Butcher Shop Closed, Party Hop Off-Broadway; upcoming: All Nighter), Natalie Margolin.

Episode 31: Alex Wyse

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (Lysistrata Jones and Spring Awakening on Broadway, Marvel's Iron Fist and The Bold and The Beautiful), composer/writer (A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet), producer (What the Constitution Means to Me and How I Learned to Drive - upcoming- on Broadway), and co-creator, director, and star of Indoor Boys, Alex Wyse.

Episode 30: Maimouna Camara

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:09:54 +0000

Katie checks in with production designer, stage manager, curator, and producer, Maimouna Camara, who started off her professional career at Towne Street Theatre, LA's "premier African American theatre company," and now studies in the performing arts administration graduate program at NYU.

Episode 29: Donna Walker-Kuhne

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 14:45:13 +0000

Katie checks in with, according to the Arts and Business Council, the nation's "foremost expert" in audience development, founder of Walker Communications Group, Senior Community Engagement Advisor for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, multi-cultural marketer and group sales liaison for over 22 Broadway shows (including Once on This Island, The Lion King, Aladdin, Smokey Joe's Cafe, and Ragtime), founder of Impact Broadway, and the recipient of countless awards, including the 2019 League of Professional Theatre Women Rachel Crothers Leadership Award, Donna Walker-Kuhne.

Episode 28: Will Burton

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:15:12 +0000

Katie checks in with Broadway dancer, singer, and actor (Ambrose Kemper in Hello Dolly!, Kiss Me, Kate, An American in Paris, Holiday Inn), Will Burton.

Episode 27: Kate Baldwin

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 6 Jan 2022 15:18:35 +0000

Katie checks in with two-time Tony nominee (Sharon McLonergan in Finian's Rainbow and Irene Molloy in Hello Dolly!), and star of such Broadway and Off-Broadway shows as Thoroughly Modern Millie, Big Fish, Giant, John & Jen, and Superhero, Kate Baldwin.

Special Episode: A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim (featuring Evan Strouss)

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 9 Dec 2021 15:09:59 +0000

In this special episode, Katie attempts to honor the late, great Stephen Sondheim by discussing his work, and what it's meant to her personally, with Comparative Literature PhD candidate, Evan Strouss.

Episode 26: Christy Coco

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 2 Dec 2021 16:11:46 +0000

Katie checks in with star of stage (Fiorello!, Grease, The Boston Pops with Kristen Chenoweth), screen (The Purge: Election Year, Selah and the Spades, Woe Is Mary, Puddysticks), co-founder of the Sappho Project, and digital marketer, Christy Coco.

Episode 25: Jeffrey Carr

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 14:52:28 +0000

Katie checks in with marketing consultant (clients include IBM, Kodak, Pfizer, McCann Erickson, Time, and more) -- and her current professor at NYU Stern (director of the Stern Fashion and Luxury Lab, former executive director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Faculty of the Year, Stern/Citibank Teacher of the year)! -- Jeffrey Carr.

Episode 24: Erika Henningsen

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 13:30:00 +0000

Katie checks in with star of Mean Girls (Cady) on Broadway, Les Miserables (Fantine) on Broadway, and Girls5Eva on Peacock, Erika Henningsen.

Episode 23: Jasminn Johnson

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:22:33 +0000

Katie checks in with actor (New York Classical Theatre, the Keen Company, Shakespeare on the Sound, Netflix's The Politician, and CBS's The Equalizer) and theatre educator (teaching fellow at Juilliard and Director of Education at the Keen Company), Jasminn Johnson.

Episode 22: Jack O'Brien

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:18:30 +0000

Katie checks in with three-time Tony winner, seven-time Tony nominee, celebrated director (All My Sons, Carousel, Hairspray, The Coast of Utopia, The Full Monty, Henry IV, Catch Me If You Can, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Imaginary Friends, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and more), former Artistic Director of the Old Globe in San Diego (1981-2007), and giant of the American theatre, Jack O'Brien.

Episode 21: Sam Gravitte

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 7 Oct 2021 13:35:33 +0000

Katie checks in with actor and singer, Sam Gravitte (Almost Famous, Wicked National Tour), currently starring as Fiyero in Wicked on Broadway.

Episode 20: Tessa Albertson

katie.birenboim@gmail.com (Katie Birenboim) — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:15:14 +0000

Katie checks in with star of stage (Shrek The Musical, The Low Road) and screen (Younger, Happy Days, Phoebe in Wonderland, Generation, The Good Wife), Tessa Albertson.