Why I‘ll Never Make It
Episodes
Friday Oct 30, 2020
FINAL FIVE: Meredith Aleigha Wells
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Meredith and I continue our conversation from the previous episode as she answers the Final Five questions. She shares her national tour ambitions and her love of interior design as well as what she learned from Ali Stroker.
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Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Meredith Aleigha Wells - Actor/Singer Who Is Dysfunctioning Just Fine in Her Wheelchair
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
Wednesday Oct 28, 2020
In honor of Dysautonomia Awareness Month, Meredith Aleigha Wells joins the podcast to share her struggles and challenges onstage and in life all from the vantage point of a wheelchair. After becoming disabled at the age of 19, Meredith performed in a college workshop production of the new musical Donny Johns, making UMass Amherst history as the first actor who uses a wheelchair to perform in a Mainstage production.
Meredith graduated with a Bachelor's Degree with Individualized Concentration in Musical Theatre. Immediately after graduation, Meredith moved to Cleveland, Ohio to dance with Dancing Wheels, a physically integrated touring repertory company.
In this episode, she opens up about the hard-fought lessons she has been through and how much more there is learn, both in herself and for others.
Topics discussed in this episode: - Mayo Clinic Physician Philip Fischer, MD - 10 Facts about POTS - Dancing Wheels Company founder Mary Verdi-Fletcher - What does the 30th anniversary of the ADA mean to youth with disabilities? - Youth Today - Able-Bodied Actors Play 95% of Disabled Characters - Variety - Ali Stroker's Tony Award acceptance speech
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Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Charlotte Canning, PhD - The History of Pandemics and Theater Closings
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
Wednesday Oct 21, 2020
British historian and philosopher R.G. Collingwood said, "History is for human self knowledge, the only clue to what men can do is what man has done. So with an ongoing pandemic and theaters shut down for the foreseeable future, what can history teach us about dealing with such hardships and what to expect going forward? That’s what we’ll be exploring in this episode with Professor Charlotte Canning, Ph.D, a theatre and performance historian at the University of Texas at Austin.
Topics discussed in this epiosde:Actor's Equity First Strike - American Theatre Katherine Anne Porter’s Pale Horse, Pale Rider Shakespeare and the Plague - The New Yorker "Finding Hope in Theatre That Hasn’t Happened Yet: How to Survive a Global Pandemic" - Sight Lines Is Merchant of Venice Anti-Semitic? - Smithsonian Magazine Our Students Are Depending on Us - The Atlantic
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Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Historias Hispanas en Español - Bianca Marroquín, Luis Salgado, Jaime Lozano y Mas
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Thursday Oct 15, 2020
Bienvenidos y gracias por acompañarnos en esta edición especial de Why I’ll Never Make It!
En esta segunda parte de mi serie sobre historias hispanas, escucharán a mis invitados anteriores compartir sus propias historias y experiencias en español.
Roberto Araujo - 1:06
Bianca Marroquín - 5:57
Luis Salgado - 11:50
Jaime Lozano - 16:59
Alina Alcántara - 24:43
Tadeo Martinez - 28:39
Cecy Trevino - 30:52
Sin embargo, hay una mujer en este episodio que no ha aparecido anteriormente, Cecy Treviño. De hecho, la conocerás más adelante en esta temporada, pero quería aprovechar esta oportunidad para presentarla.
En este episodio no habrán entrevistas, sólo historias hispanas vividas y contadas por los propios protagonistas.
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Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Hispanic Stories in English - Matt Zambrano and Dan Domingues
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
Wednesday Oct 14, 2020
This is part one in a series of former Hispanic guests coming back to share their stories in their own words. The second part - la segunda parte - comes out tomorrow and will be en espanol.
My original idea was to bring back all Hispanic guests for a single Spanish episode. And I ignorantly assumed they would all want to share stories in that language. But Matt Zambrano and Dan Domingues expressed their hesitation at speaking fluently off the cuff about their experiences. While they speak the language, Spanish is not their first language.
In the past year there’s been another clear example of this from one of the Democratic Presidential candidates, Julián Castro. He's talked about his own relationship with the Spanish language.
Matt Zambrano was the very first guest on the podcast and he and i did MAN OF LA MANCHA together in Orlando. Dan Domingues is a NY actor who took part in my Spotlight episode on Only Make Believe, a nonprofit that brings interactive theater into children’s hospitals and cafe facilities. They both share insights about the work they do as well as very personal feelings about their own ethnicity and heritage.
In this episode as well as the Spanish one, there are no back and forth questions from me. In fact, I’ve done very little editing to these recordings, just cleaning up sound quality as much as possible and structuring these episodes together. But in general, I’m simply stepping back to let previous guests tell their own story, and say what THEY want to say.
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Friday Oct 09, 2020
FINAL FIVE: Tadeo Martinez, DFW Theater Critics Outstanding Actor
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Friday Oct 09, 2020
Welcome back to more conversation with Tadeo Martinez as he answers the Final Five. Tadeo shares two of his favorites pieces of advice and his dream to be on YouTube. He also talks about his award-winning performance in Noises Off in Dallas, Texas.
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Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Hispanic Heritage Month - Tadeo Martinez, BFA in Theater from SMU
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
Wednesday Oct 07, 2020
When it comes to the guests on this podcast most of them are fairly well established. This allows me to the Google them, find pictures and stories about them, and get to know their body of work. But for Tadeo Martinez, there wasn’t much to go on. I found a couple of show reviews and his website.
Now, this is no slight on Tadeo. I didn’t have much either coming out of college. But what I did find certainly gave me enough cause to bring him on the podcast, especially when I read of his desire to bring more Latino and Hispanic representation to theater. So in today’s episode you and I are going to get to know this extraordinarily talented young man, who graduated from college just one year ago.
Just like last week's guest Bianca Marroquín, Tadeo grew up in Monterrey, Mexico learning both English and Spanish. So while he did have an smoother transition then some coming to America to go to college, that didn’t mean language and communication was easy for him. And it was once he found the secret to address this barrier that his performances and opportunities really opened up.
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Friday Oct 02, 2020
FINAL FIVE: Bianca Marroquín, who played Chita Rivera in FOSSE
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Well, I hope you listened to our previous conversation because Bianca is back to answer the Final Five questions. She shares her disappointment in not getting to play Evita but also her joy to portray Chita Rivera in the hit TV show Fosse. She also goes deeper into her love of family and being a stepmom.
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