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Get tickets to Crystal's play OPEN at Echo Theatre (June 6-25, 2025) directed by Mikaela Baker! Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!   You can also sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage! Get Flex Tickets to Echo's 2025 Season--FAMILY: The Bonds that Break Us and Make Us. Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Mentioned in this episode: New School Parsons School of Design  University of Hartford Art School Edward Allan Baker Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST) Estenfanía Fadul (Co-Artistic Director of EST) on Echo Offstage! John Belluso Christopher Shinn Lucy Thurber Daniel Talbott Francine Volpe Mary & Max (film) Mary & Max: The Musical Geek! by Crystal Skillman Bobby Cronin Adam Elliot Memoir of a Snail (film) Fred Van Lente Jared Mezzocchi Christopher Gattelli What If...? (Marvel)  Caryl Churchill King Kirby (Podcast) King Kirby, American Chronicle Theatre Co. (July 4-12 ‘25) - Brenn Rapp Steven Ratazzi Marymount Manhattan College TDF Young Playwrights Summer Program Moonlighting (TV Show) SIX (Muscial) Paula Vogel Liz W. Garcia Rattlestick Theater William Jackson Harper New Harmony Project  Megan Hill Jessie Hill Morgan Janness  The Tank NYC Meghan Finn Lisa McNulty WP (Rebecca Martínez & Nidia Medina) on EOS! Museum of Broadway Rachel Wax Lily Ali-Oschatz  Kimberly Belflower John Proctor is the Villain Sadie Sink Issa Rae Constance Macy Phoenix Theater Synchronicity Theater (Atlanta) Angels Theatre Company (Nebraska) ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!   You can also sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage! Get Flex Tickets to Echo's 2025 Season--FAMILY: The Bonds that Break Us and Make Us. Listen to Echo Offstage's interview with Lisa's wife and fellow playwright, Madeleine George! Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Mentioned in this episode: Sada Thompson  Lowry Marshall Split Britches Paula Vogel Peggy Shaw Deb Margolin Lois Weaver Split Britches Archive (NYU) Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison WOW Cafe The Five Lesbian Brothers Moe Angelos The Secretaries Jeanine Tesori Fun Home Alison Bechdel Caroline, or Change Sam Gold Emma Horowitz Bailey Williams Carmelita Tropicana Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Barrie Kosky  Yentl the Yeshiva Boy The States Project ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!   You can also sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage! Get Flex Tickets to Echo's 2025 Season--FAMILY: The Bonds that Break Us and Make Us. Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Maura Sheffler on TACA's website. Mentioned in this episode: Manhattan School of Music Southern Methodist University (SMU) Chee-Yun Dr. Zannie Voss TRG Arts Rick Lester Dallas Symphony Orchestra Dallas Theater Center Public Works Dallas City of Dallas Office of Arts & Culture Sarah Cotton Nelson Gabrielle Kurlander   ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!   You can also sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage! Get Flex Tickets to Echo's 2025 Season--FAMILY: The Bonds that Break Us and Make Us. Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Roberta Emerson on her website. Mentioned in this episode: The Niceties by Eleanor Burgess A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry Madea by Euripides Treemonisha (Opera Orlando) by Scott Joplin Orlando Shakes University of Central Florida The Arts Bridge Charity National New Play Network Central Florida Entertainment Advocacy Patricia McGregor Hana S. Sharif Nataki Garrett ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!   You can also sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage! Get Flex Tickets to Echo's 2025 Season--FAMILY: The Bonds that Break Us and Make Us. Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Joanna on the Sammons Arts Center website. Mentioned in this episode: Sammons Arts Center  Dallas Area Cultural Advocacy Coalition Dallas Office of Arts & Culture Your Brain on Art by Ivy Ross and Susan Magsamen Bruce Wood Dance Dallas Black Dance Texas Ballet Theater Avant Chamber Ballet Kitchen Dog Theater Dallas Theater Center SoulRep Theater Cara Mía Theatre ArtSpace Projects Corgan Architecture Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra African American Museum of Dallas Margie Johnson Reese   ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage. See Echo's whole 26th Season with a Subscription! Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas X (Twitter): @echodallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Robyn on the Dallas Children's Theater website. Mentioned in this episode: Paul Baker Texas Trilogy by Preston Jones Theatre of Nations On Golden Pond Oldest Living Graduate Summer in Smoke Irene Corey  Ed Herrmann Carole Cooke Charles Laughton Burgess Meredith Ann M. Williams Steven Kellogg Treasure Island Reimagined! Tomás and the Library Lady The Secret Life of Girls BJ Cleveland Andi Boi Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Baker Idea Institute  Vicki Meek ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage. See Echo's whole 26th Season with a Subscription! Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas X (Twitter): @echodallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Hilary on her Instagram! Mentioned in this episode: The O’Neill Romulus Linney  Marsha Norman National New Play Network (NNPN) NNPN Rolling World Premiere (RWP) The Ghosts of Lote Bravo Queen of Basel Miami New Drama Michel Hausmann Alley Theater The Americans (FX) The Dropout (Hulu) Lileana Blain-Cruz Will Davis Eboni Booth Christy Hall ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage. See Echo's whole 26th Season with a Subscription! Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas X (Twitter): @echodallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Johannah and the National Women's Theatre Festival on their website! Mentioned in the episode: Playwrights Horizons Judson Jones Marlene Pennison Kitty Leech Sharifa Yasmin Dance Nation by Clare Barron Caridad Svich on Echo Offstage! Albermarle by Caridad Svich Lauren Gunderson on Echo Offstage! Audrey Cefaly Mathilde Dratwa Raleigh Arts Learning Community for Universal Access Natural Shocks (Echo 2023) Momversations Project Parent Artist Advocacy League (PAAL) Seed Art Share Christine Toy Johnson  Asian American Performers Arts Coalition (AAPAC) Vivienne Benesch Playmakers Repertory Company  Renee Wimberly Lauren Kennedy Brady Theatre Raleigh      ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage. See Echo's whole 26th Season with a Subscription! Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas X (Twitter): @echodallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Becca Blackwell on their website! Mentioned in the episode: Jennifer Miller Circus Amok! Tina Satter Is This a Room Erin Markey A Ride On The Irish Cream Untitled Feminist Show Young Jean Lee The Shipment Bianca Leigh Madeleine George on Echo Offstage!  Hurricane Diane Reality Winner Case Emily Davis They, Themself, and Schmerm Back to She The Body Never Lies Max Bernstein Soho Rep Project Number One Amanda Villalobos Amanda Duarte The Duplex Wild Project Sarah Benson Miss PepperMint Charlotte Brathwaite Cornerstone Theater Company Jess Barbagallo   ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage. See Echo's whole 26th Season with a Subscription! Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas X (Twitter): @echodallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Since the time of recording, Nidia has been promoted to Producing Director at INTAR  and Rebecca directed the Public Theater's Mobile Unit production of The Comedy of Errors (featured on PBS’  Great Performances) which will be returning to parks around NYC this summer. Rebecca is also the Cohort Collaborations Director for the One Nation/One Project .  Keep up with WP's work on their website. Find Rebecca's work at her website and Nidia's work at INTAR's website. Mentioned in the episode: Sojourn Theatre Emory University Theater WP Labs Milagro Theater Public Theater Lisa McNulty Sally Cade Holmes Pipeline Festival '24  (4/4-5/4/24) viBe Theater Experience Theater for a New Audience Tamilla Woodard Laurie Woolery Awoye Timpo Classix ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage. See Echo's whole 26th Season with a Subscription! Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: facebook.com/echotheatredallas X (Twitter): @echodallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Guinea on SoulRep's FB, Insta, X, and website! And listen to SoulRep's other co-founders, Tonya Holloway and Anyika McMillan-Herod, on Echo Offstage. Mentioned in the episode: Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing & Visual Arts Howard University Dallas Children's Theater The Snowy Day, dir. Guinea Bennett-Price William Jackson Harper Travisville Zanzi Star Dianne Tucker Erin Malone Turner   ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage. Come see Lauren's award-winning plays at Echo: Natural Shocks (5/5-5/13) I and You (5/19-6/3) Or see Echo's whole 25th Season with a Subscription! Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: https://www.facebook.com/echotheatredallas Twitter: @echodallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Lauren on her website, Insta, and Twitter! Mentioned in the episode: Tina Howe Lynn Nottage (on Echo Offstage!) Sarah Ruhl Paula Vogel María Irene Fornés Lorraine Hansberry Ada Lovelace Margot Meclon Kait Kerrigan & Bree Lowdermilk Joriah Kwame Ari Afsar Marin Theatre Company Peter Pan & Wendy The Time Traveler's Wife (Musical) The Book of Will The Half-Life of Marie Currie (Audible) The Catastrophist Nathan Wolfe Revolutionary Women: A Lauren Gunderson Play Collection Enough! Plays to End Gun Violence David Henry Hwang Antoinette Nwandu Jackie Sibblies Drury Dominique Morisseau Young Jean Lee Julia Cho Dani Gurira ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine Whiteman Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg Editor & Audio Engineer: Jonathan Villalobos Graphics & Social Media Manager: Lauren Floyd Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage. Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: https://www.facebook.com/echotheatredallas Twitter: @echodallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Lynn on her website! Mentioned in the episode: George Houston Bass Rites & Reasons Theatre Paula Vogel Intimate Apparel (play) Intimate Apparel (opera) Ruined (Echo's Production, 2017)  Sweat Las Meninas The Secret Life of Bees (musical) Opera Theatre of St. Louis Ricky Ian Gordon Clyde's MJ: The Musical (Broadway) We See You White American Theatre Black Theatre United The Lilly Awards Lorraine Hansberry Initiative  ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine Whiteman Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg Editor & Audio Engineer: Jonathan Villalobos Graphics & Social Media Manager: Lauren Floyd Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage. Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: https://www.facebook.com/echotheatredallas Twitter: @echodallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Liz on her Facebook, Insta, and Twitter! Mentioned in the episode: Akin Babatunde Tyrees Allen Dianne Tucker Lysistrata Jones Vagina Monologues Playwright/Activist V (formerly Eve Ensler) Terry D. Loftis Phyllis Cicero The Black Academy of Arts & Letters Balcony Club Dallas Denise Lee (on Echo Offstage) 1776 Revival Trials of Sam Houston Fruit Trilogy by V Theater Under the Stars (Houston) Phylicia Rashad Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine Whiteman Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg Editor & Audio Engineer: Jonathan Villalobos Graphics & Social Media Manager: Lauren Floyd Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal!  Or you can sponsor an episode (or a season) of Echo Offstage. Find out more about Echo Theatre!  FB: https://www.facebook.com/echotheatredallas Twitter: @echodallas Insta: @echotheatredallas Keep up with Jaynie on the New Georges website (below) and on their Insta and Twitter! Mentioned in the episode: University of Oklahoma Theater Dallas Theater Center Brooklyn College - Performance Art Management Pam Myers-Morgan Brooklyn Academy of Music Princess Grace Foundation New Dramatists Nick Schwartz-Hall Alliance of Resident Theatres/NewYork New Georges BB Brecht ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine Whiteman Producer & Podcast Manager: Eric Berg Editor & Audio Engineer: Jonathan Villalobos Graphics & Social Media Manager: Lauren Floyd Executive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic Director Theme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance ----------------------------------- Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights. Host: Catherine WhitemanProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Isaac YoungGraphics & Social Media Manager: Hadley ShipleyExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing & Artistic DirectorTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance