Episode 26 with Frank Gallaghar comes out on Wednesday this week. This is a fun bonus download tonight. It's a seasonal song I wrote and recorded. I hope you enjoy A Modern Holiday! Stay vigilent for the Monday podcast on Wednesday this week.
Episode 25 of Sally’s Performing Arts Lab Podcast features Teresa Fellion whose new show, rose walk green ice, at Danspace Project, 131 E. 10th Street, NY, premieres this week! December 7-9, 2017 at 8pm. Tickets are $22 in advance ($25 at the door) Teresa Fellion Just commit and get the tickets now! They’re available at danspaceproject.org , or by calling TheaterMania/OvationTix at (866) 811-4111. Teresa's new work, rose walk green ice, is the culmination of work begun with Home and Agawam that ...
Every Monday evening I talk to people about making original work for a live audience. Episode 24 features professional stage manager, Liza Vest. Liza is a long-time friend with Broadway experience and a master's degree from the Yale School of Drama. She’s also a former Tulsa Holland Hall student. Liza had so much good stuff to share that I ended up with 10 pieces of great advice. She’s humble, she’s fun, and she’s at the top of her field. One piece of advice stands out for being excellent, yet o...
I’m your host, Sally Adams. Every Monday evening I talk to people about making original work for a live audience. Leave comments. Give me a review. Or send an email to Sally@sallypal.com . Your ideas keep great conversations coming every Monday evening. Thanks so much for sharing the podcast and the blog. Don’t forget about the FREEBIES on sallypal.com/join . You can still get your 20-page FREE theatre resource. It’s a glossary of live performance support you need for your show. It’s useful, ent...
Hi Friend, I’m your host, Sally Adams, and every Monday evening, I talk to people about making original work for the stage. Subscribe to SallyPAL on iTunes, Google Play, Podbean and many other podcast platforms. Leave comments, give me a review, or send an email to Sally@sallypal.com . Your ideas keep great conversations coming every Monday evening. Thanks so much to those of you who continue to share. Thanks to Connie, Steve, Jeremy, Pat, Emile, George, Vicki, and all of you who are taking the ...
Episode 21 lands on the Interwebs the day before Halloween 2017. No tricks, but I do have a treat for you; a really great interview with the incredibly versatile and talented Jeremy Stevens. I’m Sally Adams, host of Sally’s Performing Arts Lab podcast (SallyPAL). Every Monday evening I talk to people about making original work for the stage. If you’re not a SallyPAL subscriber, find a platform (iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Podbean, etc.) and subscribe! SallyPAL will be featured on Podbean duri...
Episode 20 of Sally’s Performing Arts Lab Podcast (SallyPAL) posts during LOVE YOUR BODY week! The National Dance Education Organization and the National Honor Society for Dance Arts celebrate 2017’s Love Your Body Week October 22-28. You don’t have to be a dance student to love your body. So, whatever else you do, love your body today! Every Monday evening I talk to people about making original work for the stage. Episode 20 features dancer, choreographer, and teacher, Kerrie King from Northern...
Episode 19 features artist and teacher, Jan Butler. Jan is a former collaborator and my forever friend. Jan’s background is in 2D, and 3D art, as well as puppeteering. She works with students in stop motion animation, graphic novels, pottery, mask making AND she teaches kids all about monarch butterfly migration and supports the butterfly population in Northeastern Oklahoma. On top of all that, Jan is a member of the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus and a consummate gardener. Be sure to listen until the en...
In today’s episode, I’ll go over Part One of your Creator’s Notebook. If you want to pause the show while you go download the pdf at SallyPAL.com/join, I can wait… (waiting music). Is everybody ready? Okay. While you wait on your printer, I’ll tell you that there will be no Concise Advice from the Interview today, but we do have Words of Wisdom from George. Recently I found myself thinking more and more about the team that makes a live stage show possible. Your show could include clowning and ae...
Today’s episode features Steve Barker, beer and booze professional , and a terrific actor who originated the role of Drover in the musical, Hank the Cowdog by David Blakely (based on the books by John R. Erickson) and produced by Tulsa Repertory Musicals . Steve is currently performing in a new play by Bruce Dean Willis titled Time for Chocolate. The play opens October 6, 2017 and you can purchase your tickets to this exciting original work at www.hellertheatreco.com . The play has metaphysical ...
Today’s episode features the coolest guy on the planet, my husband, George Nelson. We talk about getting performing arts experience at the local level. We mention Hank the Cowdog, Heller Theatre, and community theatre in general. Tomorrow, I’ll add some links to the blog and these show notes if you want to dive a little deeper.
Actor-Director-Playwright Michael Wright and I explore risky venues as well as finding your creative voice. We talk about taking a chance with your writing and staging your original work to draw an audience into your world. University of Tulsa professor Michael Wright is a theatre director, actor, teacher, and playwright. Michael’s theatrical work plays with form, audience interaction, and uncommon theatrical venues. He is the author of Playwriting in Process , Playwriting Master Class , and Sen...
Today’s episode is an interview with Angie Mitchell. Angie is a teacher, a mom, and an improv comedy performer. Angie teaches and performs every week and can be heard online on Stories of The Century , an improvisational old timey sounding radio serial that takes place in The fictional Century Building. She’s created dozens of characters and performed with The Spontaniacs! for nearly 10 years. If you’re in the Tulsa area you can see The Spontaniacs! live at the pH House at 306 Phoenix. For show ...
In Episode 13 of SallyPAL, I interview Sheila Black. Sheila is a published poet and writing professor. She’s been teaching creative writing in college classrooms and writing workshops for over 20 years. She encourages students to cdevelop their voice by writing and performing their own work. If you’re in the Tulsa area you can sign up for Sheila Black’s writing intensive: Writing from the Heart. This 5-week creative writing workshop runs from 6-7:30pm every Thursday evening starting September 21...
In Episode 12 of SallyPAL I enlist my husband, George (the coolest guy on the planet), to ask questions about directing for the stage. I covers how to approach work when you are a beginning director, how to collaborate without giving away your job to enthusiastic performers and staff, and how a director can make an impact on an audience. At the end of the interview you get "Concise Advice from the Interview," and "Words of Wisdom from George." Listen to the podcast, read the blog , and sign up f...
Episode 11 is an interview with Florida choreographer and dance teacher, Nicole Perry. Nicole holds degrees in Dance and Music and is currently pursuing a PhD in Spirituality and the Arts. Nicole has choreographed for Miami Children’s Theatre, Center City Opera Theater, and was the resident choreographer with Hedgerow Theatre in Philadelphia for two seasons before becoming a full-time dance teacher in Florida. Learn more about Nicole at her website: nicoleperry.org, where you can also learn abou...
Episode 10 is an interview with Jana Hunter. Jana has written or produced The Drew Carey Show, According to Jim, Roommates, Gary Unmarried, Notes From the Underbelly, and for the last nine years, she and her husband Mitch have been executive producers for The Middle on ABC. Jana has also been a member of Groundlings Improv Troupe in Los Angeles. We talk about making it as a TV comedy writer, what she loves about The Middle, and gives some good writerly advice. Be sure to listen until the end for...
Episode 9 features playwright, actor, and advocate for casting people with disabilities, Nicole Zimmerer. Nicole has been writing and producing plays most of her young life and now studies playwriting as a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon. Nicole and I talk about her start as a playwright, the Kennedy Center performance of her one act play, "Falling with Grace", her recent full-length play, "Thicker Than Honey", and her fight to represent artists in wheelchairs. Be sure to listen until the en...
Episode 8 is an interview with actor, director, educator, and acting coach, Lisa Stefanic. If you’re a fan of Weird Al Yankovich, you may remember her as Phyllis, the Wheel of Fish contestant in his feature length movie, “UHF”. Lisa has performed in or directed more shows than could fit on a resume. She has starred in several original shows, and teams up with her husband, Vern Stefanic, to help students create new works. We talk about teaching, developing new talent, making old shows new again, ...
In Episode 7, I interview actor, director, playwright, and University of Tulsa Women’s Studies professor, Lisa Wilson. Lisa is a recipient of the prestigious Jingle Feldman Individual Artist Award for her original one-woman show, “Only Four People Know About This.” Birthing the Crone is the second in a series she has titled, “The Crone Chronicles”. We talk about her show, how women’s voices need to be heard, and the effect of aging and loss on the artistic process.
Episode 6 – Diversity on Stage with Weston Vrooman In Episode 6, recent graduate of the University of Oklahoma Peggy V. Helmerich School of Drama, Weston Vrooman and I discuss how new voices can support diversity in casting and why he knows Swahili. Be sure to listen until the end for new segments, Concise Advice from the Interview, Words of Wisdom from George, and maybe an outtake.
Episode 5 – ATC History with Bob Odle I chat with one of Tulsa's American Theatre Company founders; playwright, Bob Odle. Bob talks about what it takes to start a theatre company and shares anecdotes most people have never heard. Sally adds a new segment: Concise Advice from the Interview, as well as Wisdom from George. It's all fun this week!
Episode 4 – Producing A New Play with Emile Adams In Episode 4, I go on a road trip with my daughter, playwright Emile Adams. Emile and I discuss Emile's first stab at independently producing her work with a play she wrote called Fever Dream. We veer to lots of subjects but every detour takes us back to the work of producing an original full-length play.
Episode 3 – Student Performers with Daniel Bowers In Episode 3 High School sophomore theatre student, Daniel Bowers, and I discuss creating a role in an original play in an educational setting and how to get over your fear of auditioning. Daniel’s experience in the theatre program led to many friendships with people he might never have gotten to know. He shares some tricks to getting over audition anxiety and how to ‘own’ a role.
Episode 2 – Team Building with Will Inman & Darian Silvers In Episode 2 I discuss team building in theatre with a couple of twenty-somethings. Playwright Will Inman and Director Darian Silvers are part of a rising generation of artists looking to make their mark on the stage. Will as a playwright and actor, and Darian as a director-choreographer. Both young men see theatre evolving into an art driven by its unique interaction with a live audience.
In Episode 1 I’ll go over the layout of this show. The focus of this podcast is original work for the stage. If you are interested in producing original work for the stage, this podcast is for you. It's for folks who long to get a piece of original work in front of a live audience. If this is you, I encourage you to listen to the podcast, read the blog , and sign up for the SallyPAL community!
