Contributors

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Nancy Magarill

Nancy Magarill is a one-of-a-kind artist, producer, composer and performer. Ascap award winning songwriter, Abe Olman Scholarship winner and best singing waitress in New York, Nancy has several indie releases to her name. She was co-host of the infamous monthly NYC event “the Panty Party”, host of “Anglophonics”, a weekly event in Paris, as well as the creator of “Night of Independents” a bi-monthly showcase of indie artists in Paris and the monthly series, “Under the Covers” at one of NYC’s popular venues, the Living Room. Nancy was “resident composer” for NYU Tisch School of the Art’s classical studio and has created many scores for a host of dance companies. Nancy also scored the award-winning independent feature “Without” with cellist Dave Eggar and has scored for industrials and dance companies. 

https://nancymagarill.com
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Peter Michael Marino

Peter Michael Marino - NYC native who’s worked extensively as a performer, producer, director, writer, and teacher. Pete’s production company has presented comedy festivals and shows from NYC to Australia. He’s a frequent collaborator with The Kennedy Center - creating educational videos and shows about theater and opera. Since 2018, Pete has performed his acclaimed, interactive, family comedy, “Show Up, Kids!” basically everywhere. He was the writer/host of the immersive cirque MoonRise; originated the role of Joules Volter in Off-Broadway’s immersive “Pip’s Island”; provided the comic relief in the global smash STOMP; and has appeared in dozens of regional productions. His voice has been heard on hundreds of voice-overs for banks, bands & beverages.


https://www.petermmarino.com

Guests

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Adam Feldman

Adam Feldman is the Theater and Dance Editor and chief theater critic at Time Out New York, where he has been a staff writer since 2003. He has served as President of the New York Drama Critics' Circle since 2005. He has written for Canada's Globe and Mail and National Post as well as for Out, Time Out London and Broadway.com, among other publications, and was the contributing Broadway editor for the Theatre World book series. He has been a regular panelist on the public-television shows Theater Talk and Theater: All the Moving Parts; in 2024, he received the Friend of Off Broadway Award from the Off Broadway Alliance. A graduate of Harvard University, he lives in Greenwich Village. 



https://www.timeout.com/profile/adam-feldman
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Anna Venizelos

Anna came to circus from a background of both gymnastics and dance. After studying dance education at NYU she settled on pursuing her love of contortion, aerials, and acrobatics. She toured with Cirque du Soleil's production of Quidam, performing as a soloist. Other career highlights include appearing in the feature film,The Greatest Showmanand in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Cosí Fan Tutte at Lincoln Center.


Anna is also a flexibility coach, an FRC mobility specialist and a health coach. She is passionate about helping her clients live their healthiest most functionally fit lives. 

https://www.annacontortion.com/
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Carole Montgomery - comedienne, director, producer

With over 2 dozen television credits to her name, CAROLE MONTGOMERY is a respected veteran of the standup comedy scene nationwide. In addition to her numerous television appearances, Carole has headlined clubs & colleges across the USA and starred in 2 different Las Vegas production shows. In her

ten years as a LAS VEGAS STAR, it is estimated that she has been seen by over 5 million audience members. Carole created the live stand up comedy show FUNNY WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE featuring female headliners over the age of 50 in 2017. The show was such a success that it was filmed for the Showtime network. It was the network’s highest rated comedy special for 2019 and it made TV history as the first comedy special to feature 6 women over the age of 50. The following year MORE Funny Women Of A Certain Age premiered with huge viewership. EVEN MORE Funny Women Of A Certain Age premiered Thanksgiving Eve 2021. read more.

https://www.carolemontgomery.com
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Daniel Spector

Daniel Spector is a teacher, acting coach, and director.  He is Associate Arts Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he holds a joint appointment with the departments of Drama and Dramatic Writing and serves as Director of The Classical Studio, a year-long Shakespeare intensive.  He has directed and coached actors on over 50 productions of 26 of Shakespeare’s plays, as well as directing numerous other projects at NYU and elsewhere.  He is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and an alumnus of the Broadway Theatre Project.  He has served as a consultant to PBS on matters Shakespearean, led workshop for numerous arts organizations, and spoken at conferences around the world.  He recently published an article for the journal Shakespeare titled “Teaching Shakespeare’s Yes in the Era of No," which summarizes his current research interest: the intersection of acting and politics. 

https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/drama/1641228855
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Danielle Rayne

Danielle is a veteran of TV, Film, Stage and Voice-Over work. In addition to audiobook narration, she has voiced characters ranging from a 6'6" spiky alien mercenary squad-mate for Mass Effect: Andromeda to a Christmas cookie for Target. With a BFA in Classical Theatre and starring roles in viral Sci-Fi hits like Dan Trachtenberg’s Portal: No Escape, she brings a side of action hero to her storytelling. For more on Danielle Rayne, go to www.daniellerayne.com and @daniellerayneoffical on Instagram and view her currently available audiobooks on Audible.

https://www.daniellerayne.com
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Lisa Levy

Lisa Levy is a conceptual artist, performer and  (self-proclaimed) psychotherapist. Her art has been exhibited at art fairs, galleries and museums such as The New Museum, The Bronx Museum, SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, The Pulse Art Fair, The Brooklyn Academy of Music. Levy’s work has been  featured in publications such as the New York Times, The London Times, Artnet and Hyperallergic.

 

She hosts a weekly radio show: “Dr. Lisa Gives a Sh!t” where she conducts funny, emotionally revealing “psychotherapy sessions” w/creative guests. ArtVoices Books released a monograph of her “The Thoughts in My Head” text paintings this year in January.

https://www.lisalevyindustries.com/@drlisalevysp/@lisalevy_artwork


https://www.lisalevyindustries.com
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Marlo Hunter

MARLO HUNTER is a theater & film director. She made her feature film directorial debut with American Reject in 2022 (Amazon and Apple+).  She’s currently helming the Ever After musical with music by Zina Goldrich, lyrics by Marcy Heisler, and book by Kate Wetherhead, produced by Kevin McCollum (production announcement coming soon!). Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical, which she directed and choreographed Off-Broadway in 2023, was hailed a NY Times Critic's Pick and is currently on a National Tour, including a 6 week run at CTG's Kirk Douglas Theatre in LA. 


for more, please visit her website.

https://www.MarloHunter.com
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Melinda Buckley

Broadway and national tours include Crazy For You, A Chorus Line, Raggedy Ann, Sally and Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity. She has performed improv/sketch and stand up all over NYC as well as written and performed several solo shows. Her latest is the critically acclaimed MOTHER (and me).‘One Up! Solo, is a program she designed to guide other artists in crafting their own stage worthy stories. On the other side of the table, highlights include directing Broadway By The Year, with a Tony award winning cast, and choreographing Paramour, starring Len Cariou at the Old Globe. She choreographed Columbia Pictures’ Stuart Little I and II with Geena Davis and Hugh Laurie...  read more.

https://www.motherandmetheplay.com/cast-and-creative