This is the final episode of The Compass Podcast! Creator, host, and actor Leah Walsh is interviewed by artist Kim Miller. Leah shares about her experiences with the dark side, the seven year evolution of The Compass, what she's looking forward to about making room for new creative projects. The extensive archives of episodes will continue to be available on The Broadway Podcast Network, on iTunes or anywhere you listen to podcasts. Please follow and review and share with your friends! Learn mor...
May 06, 2022•44 min
Vocalist, violinist, mariachi, entrepreneur, and educator Susie Garcia shares her experiences with the dark side, leading the all female, Los Angeles based mariachi ensemble Las Colibri, growing as a leader, parenting as an artist, and balancing high expectations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 22, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 185
Interdisciplinary Artist, Actor/Creator, and Educator Catherine Mueller shares her experiences with the dark side, her love of clown, her journey founding The MAMAs / Mother Artists Making Art and The PAMAS / Pregnant Artists Making Art (www.motherartistsmakingart.com) in 2020 to foreground the value and visibility of Mother+Artists. She also established The Institute for Collaboration and Play (www.ifcap.org) in 2014 as an action-think tank for performers and humans interested in play-based cre...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 184
Multi-hyphenate artist Jessica Blank shares her experiences building a creative life, embracing creative problem solving, restaging the documentary theatre piece Coal Country after having to close at the beginning of the pandemic, parenting as an artist, and collaboration. Get tickets for Coal Country, running till April 17, 2022 at the Cherry Lane Theater at www.coalcountrymusical.com and check out Jessica's work at www.jessicacblank.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...
Mar 22, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 183
Actor and writer Nikki Massoud shares her experiences with the dark side, how community is changing in the pandemic, time, and delving into playwriting, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 11, 2022•56 min•Ep. 182
Actor, teacher, and comedian Julia Ogilvie shares her experiences with the dark side, winding up in her home state of Hawaii during the pandemic and the artistic community there, and finding ways to give yourself the green light as an artist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 25, 2022•48 min•Ep. 181
Actor Daniel Morgan Shelley shares his experiences with the dark side, building structure in your life, auditioning, and going through the pandemic as an introvert. Check out what Daniel is up to: www.danielmorganshelley.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 11, 2022•45 min•Ep. 180
Actor Geoffrey Allen Murphy shares his experiences with the dark side, auditioning, finding balance, and understudying on Broadway during the pandemic (in To Kill a Mockingbird). Check out what he's up to at http://www.geoffreyallenmurphy.com/ The Compass Podcast is back after a hiatus, looking forward to sharing 8 bi-weekly episodes in the new season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 28, 2022•56 min
Update from host Leah Walsh gives an update on her plans for the podcast, moving to a season format with new episodes being published starting in January, 2022. The pandemic has been hard on all of us, take care of yourself. Talk to you soon, in the mean time take a listen to all the wonderful artists whose stories are chronicled in The Compass archives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 15, 2021•4 min
Playwright and actor Amy Berryman shares her experiences with the dark side, pivoting to focus on playwriting, building a community and a process, her play being produced in London during the pandemic, day jobs, and trust. http://www.amy-berryman.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 20, 2021•50 min•Ep. 178
Natalie Suzanne is a teacher, craftsperson, naturalist, and musician. She shares her experiences with the dark side, building a creative life in a variety of communities and environments, recording her first album as a singer songwriter, and balancing art and commerce. Check out her recent venture Folkways School at www.folkwaysschool.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 06, 2021•56 min•Ep. 177
Violinist and composer Michelle Ross shares her experiences with the dark side, finding a love of improvisation, expanding your definition of yourself as an artist, and performing Bach all over New York City. www.michellerossviolin.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jul 23, 2021•52 min•Ep. 176
Actor and creator Damian Jermaine Thompson shares his experiences with the dark side, community, virtual teaching, overcoming adversity, joining the Actors Equity Association Council in hopes of fighting for our community of artists, Check out his short film BLACK? on youtube now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 21, 2021•57 min•Ep. 175
Writer, producer, and director Priscila García-Jacquier shares her experiences with the dark side, finding her voice as a writer, using her own immigration story to speak out for others, finding your power in the industry, and embracing extreme honesty. Check out her blog here: https://priscilaelenagj.com and her production company here: http://roundroomimage.org (Originally released on November 3, 2017) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 07, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 97
Actor, writer and teacher Brittany Vicars shares her experiences over the past year with her diagnosis with a rare form of cancer, treatment, and processing and sharing this experience through her writing. We also discuss isolation and community, filmmaking, and artistic drive. Check out her work at https://www.brittvicars.art/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 23, 2021•56 min•Ep. 174
Sarah Kenny is a long time theater educator with a focus towards accessibility/disability inclusion, and is currently working on her Masters in Disability Studies at CUNY School of Professional Studies. She shares her experiences with the dark side, how her own disability has clarified her view on where she wants her work to focus, being an artist parent, the power of the arts in kids' lives, and growing inclusion in the arts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 09, 2021•57 min•Ep. 173
Actor, director and Executive Artistic Director of The Seeing Place Theater shares her experiences with the dark side, continuing to run a theater company and produce work virtually during the pandemic, day jobs, the importance of sharing knowledge and skills with other artists, and finding healing and comfort in creating while living with cancer. Check out what she's working on at: http://www.erincronican.com/ https://www.seeingplacetheater.com/index.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Mar 26, 2021•47 min•Ep. 172
(Re-release, originally published 11/16/17) Actor Chalia La Tour shares her experiences with the dark side, her activist work for equity within the arts/entertainment industry and education, transitioning to New York City after grad school, and making change in a community with your work. Check out what she's up to here: www.chalialatour.com This is Episode 99 of The Compass Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mar 14, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 99
Actor and dancer Jude Sandy shares his perspective on taking care of yourself in a business that tries to define you, going where the work you want to do is possible, how his art is shaped by his experiences growing up in Trinidad and Tobago as a young gay man, and where he goes in New York City to escape the dark side. Originally released 11/13/2015 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Feb 27, 2021•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 12
Playwright Lily Houghton shares her experiences with the dark side, building a creative life, establishing herself as a professional playwright on her own terms after growing up in the NYC Off-Broadway community, writing and pitching for television, believing in your voice, and grieving the death of her father. https://www.lilyhoughton.com https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/theater/james-houghton-signature-theater.html https://www.instagram.com/theatrewithouttheater/?hl=en Learn more about your ...
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 171
Actor, activist and labor organizer Jeffrey Omura shares his experiences building a creative life, his current campaign for New York City Council (District 6, Upper West Side), the importance of art advocacy such as Be an #ArtsHero, auditioning, and building community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 29, 2021•59 min•Ep. 170
Director, actor, and teacher Vivienne Benesch is the Producing Artistic Director of Playmakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, NC. She shares her experiences with the dark side, collaboration, the countless contingency plans of running a theater through a time of crises, embracing being a multi-hyphenate, and her upcoming Broadway directing debut, which is currently paused due to the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jan 15, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 169
Actor Chris Myers shares his experiences with the dark side, growing up as an artist in NYC, collaboration, developing the study group series "Anti-Capitalism for Artists" (current title) which gives artists a place to engage with a radical class education, and moving to Los Angeles. Chris also works as a writer, director, producer, and teaching artist, see what he's up to at http://www.chrismyersinc.com Happy New Year, good-bye 2020! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...
Dec 28, 2020•54 min•Ep. 168
Theatrical maker and teacher Emily Ritger shares her experiences with the dark side, creating community, deciding to go to grad school and invest in herself as an artist, and starting the artist cooperative The Midwives that fosters artists and their work through interlocking circles of support. She is based in Chicago and you can check out her work at www.emilyritger.com and www.themidwives.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 167
Host Leah Walsh reads from The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times by Pema Chodron Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 17, 2020•5 min
Actor Christina Rouner shares her experiences with the dark side, resisting the comparison game, becoming a parent, auditioning, starting her own business, and gratitude. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 30, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 166
Actor Nija Okoro shares her experiences with the dark side, the power of rituals in daily life, establishing herself in Los Angeles after growing up in NYC, falling in love with independent film, and lessons learned from her recent national tour of August Wilson's Jitney, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 165
Actor and coach Carolyn Michelle Smith shares her experiences with the dark side, making the move from NYC to LA, constantly learning and pivoting, community, and the embracing the self-tape audition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Oct 02, 2020•53 min•Ep. 164
Host Leah Walsh reads an excerpt from Untamed by Glennon Doyle, check back soon for a new full episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 18, 2020•10 min
Writer and actor Han Tang shares her experiences with the dark side, diving in to playwriting and screenwriting when she encountered the lack of opportunities for asian actors after graduating from Juilliard, teaching artist work, storytelling in China and Los Angeles, community, and self-producing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sep 04, 2020•53 min•Ep. 163
