Friday Apr 17, 2020
ESSENTIAL-NONESSENTIAL: PART 42 - Andrew Lorhenz: The Horrors of Movies
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Jay Michaels talks to indie artists about indie arts: Stage, Page & Screen.
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Friday Apr 17, 2020
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Emerging genre filmmaker, Jared Masters, answered my question about what kind of horror movie we're currently in with "none ... this is REAL" We then got literal and philosophical.
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
André Vauthey gave up a career as a doctor at Hôpital Cantonal de Fribourgin in Switzerland to come to America to be an actor. Crazy, right?
He was gaining great success as an actor. Enough so that he was building his own repertory company.
Then this happened,
Now he put his acting career on hold and went back home to help his family and community.
Hero, right?
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
I was honored to speak with renowned author and fellow "newspaper man" Chip Deffaa. We spoke of the pandemic ... the 1918 one. Chip gave me incredible insight into how they differ, how they're similar, and how we should learn from the community then about being a community now.
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
Thursday Apr 16, 2020
We all are on our perennial "day-off" but I spoke with Laurie Rae Waugh on one of her few. Working for the court system, Laurie is considered essential, thus, she puts on her mask and goes to work. Is she brave? Definitely. Is she used to it? Definitely. The award-winning director/producer began her career managing one of the first AIDS benefits ... ever.
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Writer/reviewer and all around Broadway theatre authority, Robert Viagas was unabashed in his confidence that when the time comes Broadway will burst back like an 11 O'Clock Number. A fellow judge at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, we got all futuristic about precautions.
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
I spoke with Nicholas Thomas, one of the triumvirate that brings us the amazing art from spit&vigor, about times here in NYC and in his native New Zealand. Normally, one might be encouraged when someone says "we're alike."
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Ziporen Hazum, a former Israeli soldier, now film producer, talks about how she will soldier on during this next "war."
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
Film, TV, and stage actress, Stephanie Satie, has achieved a sold measure of notoriety from her one-person shows. One, in which she portrays children of the Holocaust hit home to her now. One must appreciate it all ... all the time.
Jay Michaels & JMC: Channel i
Jay Michaels Communications/Channel i – creating visibility for independent theater, film, music, and literature has been the battle-cry of this boutique promotion and production firm for more than 20 years. Through a diverse internal multi-media platform, this communications organization is able to supply guarenteed coverage to hundreds of emerging artists and their productions while growing its external network of promotional sites and groups. JMC’s non-profit arm – Genesis Repertory Ensemble, Inc. –continues to serve as a production company/consultation/umbrella for arts & education organizations throughout the tristate area, and has been since 1997. Jay Michaels, himself, is recognized as a prominent independent producer/director of stage and screen. he bgan his career as part of the original Off-Off Broadway movement and was present at Lincoln Center’s tribute to Caffe Cino, the original Theatre Genesis, and the movement itself, in 1984. Today, he teaches communications and media culture at various universities and is author of several books and publications on the topic.