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Typecast: Boston's New Play Podcast

Typecast: Boston's New Play Podcast

by Darren Evans

Arts Performing Arts

Season 4

S4E2 - Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens & Brandon Zang

MFA Playwriting candidates Isabelle Fereshteh Sanatdar Stevens & Brandon Zang join host Darren Evans to discuss their plays "The Fig Tree and The Phoenix and The Desire to be Reborn" and "The Recursion of a Moth." The plays are being presented in a rep festival at Boston Playwrights' Theatre in February-March 2025. This episode's sponsor: The DeStalker.

Season 4 - Episode 1: Maggie Kearnan & Tina Esper

MFA Playwriting candidates Maggie Kearnan & Tina Esper join host Darren Evans to discuss their upcoming plays "How to NOT Save the World with Mr. Bezos" and "Soft Star." The plays will be presented in a rep festival at Boston Playwrights' Theatre in November 2024. This episode's sponsor: MËTJÜS.

Season 3

Episode 11: Thirst

Join host Darren Evans with playwright Ronán Noone and Lyric Stage Company of Boston's Courtney O'Connor, as we discuss "Thirst," Ronán's play this is being produced at the Lyric under Courtney's direction. We touch on the immigrant experience, Eugene O'Neill, writing, producing and selling new plays, and indulge in a competitive trivia (drinking) game.

Episode 10: The Interrobangers

We are joined by writer M Sloth Levine and Director Josh Glenn-Kayden, the masterminds behind Company One Theatre's premiere of "The Interrobangers," a queer coming of age mystery that riffs on a certain classic Saturday morning cartoon staple.

Season 2

Episode 9: Bridget Kathleen O'Leary and Karen Perlow

In this episode, director Bridget Kathleen O'Leary and designer Karen Perlow talk about the design process for new plays and compete head to head in a game of made of up definitions.

Episode 8: MFA Class of '25

Darren sits down to talk with the new cohort of playwrights in the MFA Playwriting Program at BU: Tina Esper, Maggie Kearnan, Isabelle Sanatdar Stevens and Brandon Zang.

Episode 7: Megan Sandberg-Zakian and Nathan Davis

In the launch of our second season, we introduce you to new BPT Artistic Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian and new head of the BU Playwriting Program Nathan Alan Davis as they discuss collaboration, education, and food (lots of food).

Season 1

Episode 6: Cayenne Douglass and the "Beasts" Team

This episode features a core part of the creative team behind the final production of BPT's 2021-22 Season of New Plays: Beasts. Playwright Cayenne Douglass, director Kelly Galvin, and actors Clara Francesca and Caroline Calkins join to discuss what is going on under the surface and what is exploding all over the stage in this wild new play. Plus we get around to some shenanigans with a new game for our guests.

Episode 5: Caity-Shea Violette, Blair Cadden, and Anastasia Olowin - Rx Machina

Darren Evans, Caity-Shea Violette, Blair Cadden, and Anastasia Olowin discuss Violette's new play, Rx Machina, at Boston Playwrights' Theatre.

Episode 4: Melinda Lopez, Maurice Emmanuel Parent, and Megan Sandberg-Zakian - Mr. Parent

Darren Evans, Melinda Lopez, Maurice Emmanuel Parent and Megan Sandberg-Zakian discuss their new one-person play, Mr. Parent, at the Lyric Stage Company.

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