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Hello Broad-WHAT? fans, and thank you for joining us here for another amazing episode! This time we are traveling away from the lower mainland and off to the Big Apple itself with the lovely and incredibly (and I do mean incredibly) talented Blake Allen. Blake is a totally new friend to me, and I was so incredibly excited to meet and speak to him. Blake is a composer and musician operating out of New York City, though he grew up in El Paso, Texas which he candidly refers to as “the Winnipeg of the south.” He’s been in the big city for over a decade now, and might I say, he’s killing it! Blake started music very early in childhood, learning piano from his mother and quickly realizing his passion extended beyond just a hobby, and was something that he could see himself pursuing. Since being in New York, Blake has done so much cool stuff - including working with the world famous Drag Queen Tina Burner. I don’t want to say too much more, because this is an absolutely amazing interview, and you should be listening to it, not reading a recap from me! Check Blake out on his Instagram @blakeallenpresents or on his website www.blakeallen.org.

Hello Broad-WHAT? fam! Once again, I just want to say thank you all so much for your support and patience as we try to get ourselves back on a more consistent schedule. This week we are SO excited to bring you an interviee that has been a long time coming - Ben Pilger! Ben is an amazingly talented and hard working artist, a self described “maker, actor, mover,” and the curator of APTPOP - a small art gallery here in Vancouver! We have known each other for many years now, starting all the way back in theatre school at Capilano University. Since then, I have followed Ben’s work and can only say that he is an incredible artist and someone that you should all do yourself a favour and check out. You can find him on Instagram @benpilger and his gallery @aptpop. I hope that you all enjoy this week’s episode, and in case you haven’t noticed, we also have a special guest artist who has graciously agreed to step in while @emilienunez is on a much deserved vacation. Many thanks to @emmamarymckart for the amazing cartoon this week. Check her out on Instagram or at her website here: https://emmamarymckart.artstation.com/ See you next week!

Hello friends! Today is a very special episode for you that I made as a little Pride Month special. I did a bunch of research about queer people in various forms of media, and learned a lot of really interesting and exciting things about how far we've come, and how far we still have to go. I hope you enjoy this, and happy Pride to all of you!

It’s finally here! After much ado, I am incredibly happy to present the long awaited interview with the one and only Emilie Nunez (aka my sista and the artist for this very podcast). Emilie is an incredibly talented artist, having ran a VERY successful Etsy shop for the past several years. It was really fun to interview her, if a bit weird considering that I know everything about her already! That being said, she is so intelligent, kind, and loving in addition to her great talent. This one is unique, hilarious, insightful and very worth listening to in my humble opinion. Thanks for your patience as we work to get out content more regularly. For now, please enjoy this week’s podcast with Emilie!

Hello, and welcome back to Broad-WHAT? Podcast! First of all, we would like to thank you all so much for your patience as we dealt with a particularly busy time. We’re very excited to begin May with a special panel presentation featuring the lovely Sarah Mayfield, Ava Maria Safai, and Emily Matchette. These lovely folks are the writer, director, music director, composer, and producers of a brand new musical called “The Girl Next Door” which is premiering today at 2:00pm and running through to May 21st. Here is a link to their company website - Painted Fern Productions - where you can buy tickets for this awesome original show: https://www.paintedfernproductions.com/the-girl-next-door Please stay tuned for another regular episode on May 13th featuring our amazing podcast artist - Emilie Nunez!

In the month of March, Broad-WHAT? is celebrating International Woman’s Day by dedicating our month's episodes to the amazing woman creating art and making waves in the arts and entertainment industry. Today is part 2 of a two part special celebrating Broad-WHAT?’s herstory, going back and revisiting powerful and inspirational stories from our some of our past alumni and their episodes. Of course we couldn’t feature every single guest, so let us know if you’d like to see more of these episodes in the future. Part 2 features segments of past episodes from Anna Kuman, Arthi Chandra, Cathy Wilmot, Cecilly Day, Eva Tavares, Jaycie Dotin, Katrina Teitz, and Shannon Hanbury. Here is part 2 of Broad-WHAT?’s herstory.

In the month of March, Broad-WHAT? is celebrating International Woman’s Day by dedicating our month's episodes to the amazing woman creating art and making waves in the arts and entertainment industry. Today is part 1 of a two part special celebrating Broad-WHAT?’s herstory, going back and revisiting powerful and inspirational stories from our some of our past alumni and their episodes. Of course we couldn’t feature every single guest, so let us know if you’d like to see more of these episodes in the future. Part 1 features segments of past episodes from Fairlith Harvey, Laura Fukumoto, Ali Watson, Arielle Ballance, Jennifer Lynch, Marissa Lyons & Lyndsey Britten. Here is part 1 of Broad-WHAT?’s herstory.

Hello once again friends! Welcome to the last episode of February 2022! I hope that you’ve enjoyed listening to these episodes half as much as I’ve enjoyed recording them. This episode is really special and unique for our little podcast as we’re interviewing the lovely and amazing Trevor O’Rourke aka AutoHeartVan. Trevor is a local musician and high school teacher. Born in Winnipeg, Trevor grew up on Quadra Island, and came to Vancouver after graduating high school. He attended SFU upon arriving here, where he studied History and Latin Studies. Check out his music at: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2wwrL00A0joZiiQGhJWhVs Thank you for following us through to the end of this month. We’re so incredibly excited to bring more to you in March.

Evie is originally from Perth, Western Australia. She has a professional background in running large electronic music events in Australia. She originally came to BC for Shambala, and felt the draw of the small town life. So after landing in Nelson she started working for the Kootenay Music Festival and the Tiny Lights Festival as well as doing the marketing for Arts Wells in Wells, BC. She wants to serve her community, and you can really feel that passion come through in our interview. Thank you all so much for keeping up with us so far this year, and stay tuned for more amazing and exciting content coming at you for the rest of the year!

Hello Broad-WHAT? fans and welcome to our first regular episode back in 2022! It’s been a crazy beginning to the year already for everyone, so we’re especially glad to be back and providing you with more content and interviews from our ever growing and fascinating local arts scene. This episode is featuring a new friend of mine, David Underhill. David is a theatre artist currently living in Vancouver after graduating from Studio 58 in 2019. Despite being a born Vancouverite, David spent his childhood in Victoria, where he caught the theatre bug so to speak. He has been involved in the art and theatre community since he was in grade school, and that passion is still burning strong today. You may have seen pictures of David floating around Instagram (@underhilarity) which are equally likely to be selfies, screen grabs from recent film and TV work, and pictures of him busking as a living statue. Needless to say, this is an amazingly interesting episode, so as always, I hope you all enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed recording it. See you next week for another episode!

And here we go with our final part of the 365 Questions for 2022 series featuring Ranae Miller. I hope that you have all enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed recording. See you in February for a return to our regular weekly episodes.

Day 2 coming at you with 365 Questions for 2022 featuring the amazing, talented, and funny Ranae Miller. One more part to go. Enjoy!

Hello Broad-WHAT? fans, and welcome to January 2022! It’s been yet another insane year for everyone, so we wanted to start off our new year of podcasting with one of our favourite traditions: 365 Questions! This year’s special guest is Ranae Miller, a friend of the show, and someone who we hope will be heard from again very soon in her own special episode. Buckle up, because this is a three parter, so you’ll be getting an episode a day starting TODAY! Thanks as always for everyone’s constant support for our little show. Here’s to another year of making art.

Hello once again Broad-WHAT? fans, and thank you as always for listening in to this week’s episode. Apologies for being a day late on this one, but we promise that it’s worth the wait! This week is featuring a brand new friend to me: Teo Saefkow. Teo is an actor and musician who is originally from the small town of Smithers in Northern BC. Music and drama was a huge part of his childhood, from his father who is a set designer for Theatre Northwest in Prince George, to his drama teacher who always brought up guests from the lower mainland to talk to their students. As we mentioned above, Teo is also a musician and goes by the pseudonym Scalawag on BandCamp. Find his music here: https://scalawag.bandcamp.com/track/intro. You can also find him on Instagram: @teosaefkow Special thanks as always to my kitty Skimble for his contributions to the episode. Hope that your weekend is a good one! Stay dry and warm and we’ll see you all again soon.

Hello once again Broad-WHAT? fans, and thank you as always for listening in to this week’s episode. Apologies for being a day late on this one, but we promise that it’s worth the wait! This week is featuring a brand new friend to me: Teo Saefkow. Teo is an actor and musician who is originally from the small town of Smithers in Northern BC. Music and drama was a huge part of his childhood, from his father who is a set designer for Theatre Northwest in Prince George, to his drama teacher who always brought up guests from the lower mainland to talk to their students. As we mentioned above, Teo is also a musician and goes by the pseudonym Scalawag on BandCamp. Find his music here: https://scalawag.bandcamp.com/track/intro. You can also find him on Instagram: @teosaefkow Special thanks as always to my kitty Skimble for his contributions to the episode. Hope that your weekend is a good one! Stay dry and warm and we’ll see you all again soon.

Hello Broad-WHAT? fans and welcome to another episode of our little show. Can you believe that we’re already more than halfway through November? Crazy! This week’s episode is featuring an old friend of mine who is an absolutely amazing actor, artist, playwright, and so much more - Howard Dai. Howard is a Canadian-Taiwanese actor; born here in Canada and growing up in Taiwan until he was a preteen. His story of discovering the joy of theatre is the sort of thing that I want to listen to over and over again. It’s inspiring and I would personally like to see a one man show about it - get on that for me Howard! He is also a recent graduate from SFU’s acting program, and he is currently acting, writing, and interning at rice and beans theatre. Check him out on Instagram @howarddai or at his website: www.howarddai.com Thanks as always for listening to this episode! We’ll see you all again next week for another amazing guest.

Hello Broad-WHAT? fans, and thank you for your patience as we once again deal with some technical difficulties. This week’s episode is featuring the amazingly talented and kind hearted - Erin Michell! Erin is an educator, writer, director, dancer, choreographer, actor, performer, and just all around artistic septuple threat! You may remember her from our Music Education panel which was put out last month, and if you missed that one, then I’d highly recommend checking it out. Erin is originally from a small town called Saanichton on Vancouver Island, where she started dancing from the tender age of 4 years old, and is an alumni of the Canadian College of Performing Arts. Despite being nervous to start, Erin was an absolutely amazing guest and a new friend who I am very excited to get to learn more about as our relationship continues! Please leave us a review and a comment and a like. Every little bit helps to grow this little podcast to something bigger and better! See you next week for another episode!

SPOOOOOOOOKY! Happy Halloween everyone, and welcome to the third annual Broad-WHAT? Halloween special - this year featuring the amazing Maddy Suddaby and Ali Watson. It’s been a crazy couple of years, and these last couple years were pretty scary as it is. This year we just decided that we were going to have a good time and drink a bit of wine and talk about our favourite Halloween-y things! We also played some fun and stupid games and just generally had a spooky ooky good time. Thanks as always for tuning in, and we’ll see you again in November! Have a safe and excellent Halloween.

Hello Broad-WHAT? listeners and welcome to a very special episode of our show. This week we are sharing with you a very interesting and insightful panel episode featuring four working professionals in the field of musical theatre education. We discussed the challenges and tribulations that can be associated with teaching, as well as the success stories and lessons learned over the course of each guest’s career so far. Special thanks this week to Peter Abando, Erika Babins, Erin Mitchell, and Theo Budd for being my guests. I hope that you all enjoy listening to them as much as I enjoyed interviewing them. Stay tuned next week for ANOTHER special episode. It’s Halloween soon, so long time listeners can guess what that means for us here at Broad-WHAT?!

Hello again Broad-WHAT? fans, and welcome to another exciting episode of our little show on this very rainy Vancouver day. This week’s episode is featuring a multi talented girl boss by the name of Jill Raymond! Jill has been featured twice before on our show. The first was back in season 1, episode 23 which aired WAY back in September of 2017, where we spoke about her career as well as her connection to devised theatre. The second time was in September 2019 in our Broad-WHAT? Reviews Blog post on Hysteria (Direct Theatre Collective) where Jill was not only a lead actor, but also the founder and artistic director of the company. Jill was actually my first in person interview since the pandemic, which was super exciting for me. She is a British-Canadian artist who was originally born in Newcastle upon Tyne in England, to a British mother and a Canadian father. She has been in Canada for almost 8 years now, and is a producer, actor, teacher, writer, social media marketer, and director. Thanks again as always for tuning into our little show. Stay dry. Stay happy. And just remember that you’re all amazing. See you next week!