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Crystal (Woolard) Johnson is a graphic designer based in Long Beach, California. She specializes in telling stories through images - from marketing collateral to invitations to logos to video. Currently the head graphic designer at South Coast Repertory (since 2007), she has a BFA in Graphic Design from Eastern Michigan University and studied abroad for a semester at the London College of Communications. She works with playwrights, the marketing department and Artistic Director to bring key art for plays to life for the run of the campaign. Some clients include: Cal State Fullerton; The Corner Sketch Comedy; Detroit Dance Collective; Diablo Sound; Josh Casey, comedy juggler; Kala Entertainment: fire hooping; Peter Sparling Dance Co.; UC Irvine; University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, Synamoon games, Artists at Play, She Bakes A Lot, Comedian Ahmed Ahmed, Williamston Theatre, MicePace Mazes.   You can view her work at sincerelycrystal.com, and follow her on instagram @sincerelycrystalj

Paul S. Flores, poet, playwright and spoken word artist joins Chuck on the podcast to discuss his play, PLACAS, and it's themes of gang culture, transformation, and repentance. Paul S. Flores is a published poet, performance artist, playwright, and well known spoken word artist. He was raised in Chula Vista, CA and spent much of his youth in Tijuana, Mexico. Flores’ PEN Award winning novel ALONG THE BORDER LIES reflects this experience. Flores work explores the intersection of urban culture, Hip-Hop and transnational identity. His spoken word poem “Brown Dreams” from Def Poetry on HBO has been viewed on YouTube 100,000 times, and continues to inform and influence young people all over the United States. After playing professional baseball for the Chicago Cubs, Paul received his degree from University of California, San Diego and then moved to San Francisco in 1995 to complete the MFA Creative Writing Program at San Francisco State University. In 1996, he co-founded the Latino poetry performance group Los Delicados with Norman Zelaya and Darren de Leon and recorded a CD titled WORD DESCARGA (Calaca Press, 2000). Flores’ performance projects have taken him from HBO's Def Poetry to Cuba, Mexico and El Salvador. Flores was named The San Francisco Weekly's 2011 Best Politically Active Hip-Hop Performance Artist for his solo show YOU'RE GONNA CRY, directed by Brian Freeman which documents the demographic shift of The Mission District after the "dot-com" boom. Flores’ play REPRESENTA! features Cuban rapper Julio Cardenas, directed by Danny Hoch, and originally produced by La Peña Cultural Center and the San Francisco International Arts Festival at the Hip-Hop Theater Festival in 2007 and later toured to 17 cities. His newest play PLACAS: The Most Dangerous Tattoo (2012) was directed by Michael John Garcés, and starred Ric Salinas of Culture Clash. PLACAS premiered at the Lorraine Hansberry Theater in Union Square, San Francisco as a co-production of SFIAF and Central American Resource Center, and later toured to The Los Angeles Theater Center, and Off Broadway at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York City. Flores has received the National Performance Network Creation Fund, NEA Theater grant, San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant, CCI Investing in Artists Grant, and National Associatio

Matthew Arkin has over 40 years experience on stage, film, and television. He is Director of the Acting Intensive Program at South Coast Repertory, and has taught at the world renowned HB Studio in New York, where he studied with Uta Hagen and Austin Pendleton. He most recently received acclaim for his portrayal of the 600 pound Charlie in SCR’s West Coast Premiere of Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale.    Matthew Arkin’s Broadway credits include Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, Mr. Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and Manhattan Theater Club’s Losing Louie. Other New York credits include originating the role of Gabe in Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize winning Dinner with Friends(Drama Desk nomination, Drama League Honoree), Manhattan Theatre Club’s Moonlight and Magnolias, and Richard Dresser’s Rounding Third. Regional Theater includes Our Mother’s Brief Affair at South Coast Rep., Surf Report at La Jolla Playhouse, The Scene at Hartford Stage Company, Around the World in 80 Days at the Cape Playhouse, Rounding Third at Chicago’s Northlight Theatre, Talley’s Folly at The Bay Street Theatre, Guys and Dolls at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theater, and  Sight Unseen at The George Street Playhouse. Film credits include indies Margot at the Wedding, Second Best, Raising Flagg, The Curse, and Bittersweet Place, as well as Death to Smoochy, Liar, Liar, North, An Unmarried Woman, and Chu Chu and the Philly Flash. Matthew appeared in recurring roles as Dr. Thompkins on the hit FX drama Rescue Me and as Legal Aid Attorney Paul Bernard on A&E’s 100 Centre Street. Other television credits include the PBS pilotCopshop, Medium, Third Watch, Hack, The Education of Max Bickford, Ed, Law and Order, Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Law and Order: SVU, Kojak, and All My Children. Visit Matthew online at www.matthewarkin.com!

Sara Guerrero is rad. When I asked her if she'd do my podcast she immediately said yes and, then invited me into her home and fed me coffee and cookies! She is one of the good ones: doing great work for all the right reasons. Please join me as I talk with Sara about Breath of Fire, her influences, and her aspirations. Ring in '16 with Ep 16! Sara Guerrero is the founding ​artistic ​director of the award​-winning, Santa Ana-based Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble (breathoffire.org) where she was named "Best [Artistic] Director" by OC Weekly. ​Guerrero is a versatile actor, writer, producer, director, teacher and theatre arts advocate. She has been a guest artist, faculty member, lecturer and panelist to many schools, universities, conservatories, organizations, programs focused on creating theatre with, by and for underserved communities. Currently she is the resident guest director for UC Irvine's Brown Bag Theater Co where she lectures and directs graduate and undergrad students on and through selected works that are reflective of the Latin@ experience on campus and in Orange County. Currently she is co-producing PLACAS  by Paul S. Flores  (barrio slang for body tattoos) a bilingual tale of fathers and sons, transformation and redemption due out this February 2016 for the youth and families of the Santa Ana Community. She is a long standing faculty member of South Coast Repertory Conservatory (SCR), a founding member of Latina performance group, Slip of the Tongue and an active member of The Latino Theater Alliance​, working to update the Latina/o narrative in American theatre. Additionally, she has served as the community engagement director ​for SCR’s Dialogue/Diálogos Project (two year community theatre​-making project) and was producing associate to the project’s production, El Largo Camino de Hoy / The Long Road Today by José Cruz González. She has been the associate artistic director for Teatro Indigena, arts project coordinator of the Orange County Arts Council, ​resident playwright and theatre arts faculty member for Upward Bound of Cal State University​, Long Beach, ​resident playwright for the Education Outreach Program for Los Angeles County, teaching artist to Community Arts Partnership's (CAP) Plaza de La Raza Theater Program and to

CCP Episode 15 is truly unique amongst all other Curtain Call Podcast episodes: this one is truly a simple conversation amongst friends. Here at CCP, we always strive to present more of a conversation, and less of a traditional interview. In this particular sense, Episode 15 is very successful. Gone are the traditional question and answer interview tropes; instead the conversation abounds with laughter, and pathos, and human warmth and interaction. "Carmen and I have known Rose and Richard for many years going back," says CCP founder and co-host Chuck Clay. "But we haven't been in constant contact with them in all of that time except for social media outlets like Facebook. This podcast, more than any other, really places the listener as "a fly on the wall" for an honest conversation between four friends and professionals as they catch up on each other's work and lives." We are very proud of this simple concversation among friends and we hope that it brings you light and warmth! Roselaine Fox Hamilton is a Production Assistant on the Fox hit series Bones, and Richard has been working the Halloween season at The Queen Mary's Dark Harbor in Long Beach, CA. They are also most excellent people. You should get to know them. 

For Episode 14 Chuck is joined by actor Rob Nagle for a conversation about influences, tackling auditions, and acting for stage versus screen. Rob was a fantastic guest and this conversation is probably one of the most organic ones we've recorded for this podcast. He is so effortlessly open and humorous and warm; it was a true pleasure to talk theatre with such a talented and dedicated professional. Give it a listen. We think you'll dig it. Rob was raised in Eugene, Oregon… then in DeKalb, Illinois… and then in Williamsburg, Virginia... he is a self-professed “faculty brat." He graduated from Northwestern University in 1992 with a double-major in theatre and philosophy. But please don’t ask him any questions about Kierkegaard.    Television credits include: Grey's Anatomy, CSI, I Didn't Do It, Criminal Minds, Mistresses, Touch, Castle, Major Crimes, NCIS, Harry's Law, Mad Men, Meet My Mom, Lincoln Heights, Eli Stone, The Middleman, Cold Case, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Without a Trace, Everwood, The Guardian,Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Dawson's Creek.   Film credits include:  Fishing Naked, Boost, New Year's Eve, Life As We Know It, The Soloist, Inside, Fun with Dick and Jane, Cellular, American Wedding, How High, and A.P.E. #9.   Theatre credits include: Of Good Stock, Rest, Taking Steps (South Coast Repertory); Appoggiatura, The 39 Steps (Denver Center Theatre Company); Completeness(Firefly Theater & Films / VS. Theatre Company; Abbamemnon, A Midsummer Saturday Night's Fever Dream, Two Gentlemen of Chicago, Fleetwood Macbeth, For The Birds (Troubadour Theater Company); The Liar, Macbeth, Peace In Our Time (Antaeus Company); Coyote on a Fence (Arena Stage at Theatre of Arts); I Love To Eat (Portland Center Stage); The Bellflower Sessions (Whitefire Theatre); Play Dates(Green Beetle Productions, first at Elephant Theatre, then remounted at

For Lucky Episode 13, Chuck and Carmen had the great good fortune (indeed) to share a conversation with Stu Krieger (Land Before Time, Monkey Trouble) about being in a writer’s room with Steven Spielberg, the crush he’s had on Hayley Mills since childhood, and why he feels writing for Disney was “inevitable”. Stu shares a wealth of knowledge and inspiration about living and working the creative life, how to avoid the pitfalls of Hollywood, and how “being present” is the most important lesson of all. Stu Krieger is a Professor of screen and television writing in the UCR Department of Theatre, Film & Digital Production. He co-wrote the Emmy award winning mini-series A Year in the Life and been nominated for Humanitas Prize for the Disney Channel original movie, Going to the Mat. Among his more than 25 produced credits, Stu wrote the animated classic The Land Before Time for producers Steven Spielberg & George Lucas and ten original movies for the Disney Channel, including Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century and its two sequels, Tru Confessions, Smart House, Phantom of the Megaplex, and Cow Belles. He has been a story editor and writer on Spielberg’s Amazing Stories and the supervising producer on the ABC Television series Jack’s Place. He served as the head writer and story editor of the animated preschool series Toot & Puddle on Nickelodeon in 2008-2009. Stu also teaches the Producing the Screenplay course at the Peter Stark MFA Producing Program at USC. His first full-length play, Chasing Smoke, debuted in a staged reading at Garry Marshall’s Falcon Theatre in Burbank in July 2014.   Visit Stu’s IMDB page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0471217/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

For this episode we turn the tables on CCP Host and Associate Director of Ticket Services, Chuck Clay, as his wife and frequent co-host Carmen Gomez asks the questions and puts Chuck on the Hot Seat! Listen now to find out what makes Chuck tick!   CHUCK CLAY (creator and host) is a theater ticketing professional, a writer, actor, director and full-time stage enthusiast from the dusty plains of West Texas. He is the Founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare by the Bay and Crossbones Theatre Company in Panama City, Florida. For several years he was Director of Theatre at Bay Center for the Arts, where he ran a vital and thriving drama club and Thespian troupe, and was adjunct acting faculty at Gulf Coast State College. He was thrilled to be associated with both Shakespeare Theatre and Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. He is a prize-winning playwright (Drifting, Snap Judgments), a poet, and a failed novelist. A jack of many trades and absolute master of none, he has worked professionally as an actor, director, educator, stage carpenter, run crew, electrician/technician, house management, ticketing, and briefly as a costume shop assistant. he found himself suddenly a West Coast transplant with a lengthy commute. He grew quickly dissatisfied with the lack of free theatrical audio content and the idea for a podcast was born. He is now an avid podcaster and has several more podcasts in development. He is currently the Associate Director of Ticket Services at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA. Though the magical transformative powers of the interwebs he is now an ordained minister of Dudeism, the fastest growing internet religion, and is available to officiate at weddings!

Chuck and Carmen sit down for an in-depth conversation with Stephanie Draude, Front of House Manager at South Coast Repertory, about the perils of house managing, being an advocate for the patrons, the joys of musical theatre, and the importance of early arts education and outreach. Stephanie is a ball of energy and enthusiasm. She is a passionate and multifaceted performer. She is a dynamo. We can't wait for you to meet her! Stephanie Draude is a long time lover, participant and patron of the theatre. She has performed in numerous productions throughout California as well as working behind the scenes with some of Orange County’s premiere theatre companies. She currently works as the Front of House Manager at South Coast Repertory. When she is not busy helping patrons, Stephanie enjoys working with Pacific Symphony’s Class Act program where she travels to elementary schools to conducts Interactive Musical Experiences with students. In her spare time, she enjoys creating one of a kind theatre pieces with her friends, where the audience not only watches, but directly participates the action. Favorite credits include [title of show] (Susan), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Christine), Seussical (Gertrude), The Redneck Wedding, RENT, The Full Monty and Dreamgirls.She is a proud graduate of UC Irvine with her BA in Drama and Honors in Musical Theatre. Help Curtain Call Podcast make some much-needed improvements for Season 2. Visit: http://igg.me/at/curtaincallpodcastseason2/x

Episode 10 is a Twofer! Catherine Gray and Will Bigham are married creatives, who together formed their own production company, Shamrock Motion Pictures. For this hour-long conversation about all things theatre and film, Cat and Will are joined by Chuck and Carmen, and conversation topics range from getting your first post-graduate job, to being married and raising children in the business. This free-wheeling conversation touches on acting, directing, producing, arts education, where and how love fits into the equation, and how film-making is similiar to selling used cars. Catherine Gray is a creative executive at Shamrock Motion Pictures and has worked as a producer, writer and actor in Hollywood for the last ten years. She produces content for many clients including Pickleball Channel, Real Life Church and Hyland’s Homeopathic. She has produced numerous short films including GLASS EYE and LUCKY PENNY, which garnered national attention, and the award-winning DVD series EMPOWERING PILATES FOR TEENS. Also know for her stage work, Catherine has been a professional actress and playwright for over 20 years. Her years of experience in all aspects of entertainment give her a unique diversity and perspective. She is a powerhouse with a vision, creating products that are both professional and distinctive. Will Bigham has been working and living in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters for the past ten years. In 2007, Will competed in the DreamWorks Television and Mark Burnett Productions reality competition "On the Lot." From the initial 12,000 entrants, Will was selected to be one of 50 directors competing for the top prize, and by the end of the summer, Will was the last man standing. An MFA grad from Florida State University, he is now developing several projects through his production company, Shamrock Motion Pictures and recently directed the award winning short film series “Seasons” and the feature length film, “The A-List.”

  Bart DeLorenzo is the founding artistic director of the Evidence Room theater in Los Angeles where he has directed many local and world premieres including plays by David Greenspan, Naomi Wallace, Martin Crimp, Philip K. Dick, Gordon Dahlquist, Kelly Stuart, David Edgar, Edward Bond, and his own adaptation of Charles Dickens. His recent work with the company includes Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play, Sharr White's Annapurna (revived Off-Broadway with The New Group),Chekhov's Ivanov, Len Jenkin's Margo Veil, and Adam Bock's The Receptionist, all produced with the Odyssey Theater. Recent LA productions include the world premieres of Steven Drukman’s Death of the Author and Donald Margulies’s Coney Island Christmas at the Geffen Playhouse; Carla Ching’s Fast Company, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Doctor Cerberus, and Donald Margulies’s Shipwrecked! An Entertainment at South Coast Repertory; Justin Tanner’s Day Drinkers at the Odyssey and the constantly revived Voice Lessons which originated at the Zephy

Miles Anderson is an internationally acclaimed actor of film, television, theatre and radio. Born in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Miles has been acting for many years, moving from the UK to the US in 2008. In the US, he has appeared in television including Criminal Minds, film including Bollywood star, Kamal Hassan's Vishwaroopam (release date 2012), and three highly successful theatre seasons at the Old Globe San Diego in their Shakespeare Festivals of 2010, 2011 and 2013 under the directorship of Adrian Noble. For his performance as King George in The Madness of George III in 2010, he was awarded the Craig Noel San Diego Critics' Circle Award for Best Actor in a Lead. His 2011 performance as Salieri in  Amadeus garnered critical superlatives and his Prospero in The Tempest 

For Episode 7 Chuck sits down with South Coast Repertory Literary Associate Kristina Leach to talk about what it is that a literary associate does, the inner workings of a busy theatrical literary department, and what it means to be "struck by lightning". Along the way the conversation touches on playwriting, finding inspiration, and getting back "in the room". From her first assignment of picking up Richard Greenberg from LAX to the adult playwriting class she currently teaches at SCR's Adult Conseratory, Kristina has a deep passion for the work and a ton of brilliant insights into the creative process that make this a must-listen for theatre professionals and amateurs everywhere! Kristina Leach is a Literary Associate at South Coast Repertory. A native Orange Countian, Kristina is an alum of both Orange Coast College and Cal State Fullerton. She’s been involved with theatre...a long time (that’s all she’ll say). She is a mom, a writer and teaching artist. Her plays have been produced throughout the US and in the UK. She currently lives in Orange County with her husband Eric, their son Isaac and a grumpy pooch named Murray. If you live in or around Southern California and would like to stretch your playwriting muscles, why not take an introductory playwriting class with the fabulous Kristina Leach? Visit the link below for more information: http://www.scr.org/classes/adult-classes/discovering-your-voice-introduction-to-playwriting

Lita Lopez has been addicted to performing since age 5 and fueled that addiction as much as possible on the community theater stages of her hometown and high school. She received a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Performance with an Associated Study in Writing & Literature from the esteemed University of Evansville, one of the most selective and decorated theatre programs in the country.  She can be seen performing improv most Saturday nights at L.A. Connection Comedy Theatre in Studio City as well as the last Fridays of the month at iO West in Hollywood. She has appeared in films such as U.K. release, Abducted, (nominated for the U.K.'s National Film Awards Best Independent Feature) on tv on AMC, TLC and the Food Network and in commercials (most recently a national 5 Hour Energy spot)  She is also an award-winning screenwriter. You can check out her web series, Bertie & Margie at www.YouTube.com/BertieandMargie and her blog, "Shut Up & Act!" at www.LitaLopez.wordpress.com.

Oanh Nguyen has been serving as Chance Theater’s founding artistic director since 1999. Oanh is a recipient of TCG’s New Generations Grant and the TCG Nathan Cummings Young Leaders of Color Fellowship. He was awarded the Outstanding Artist Award by Arts Orange County, profiled in OC Weekly’s 2014 People Issue, inducted into Anaheim High School’s Hall of Fame and recently was the commencement speaker to the 2014 graduation class of Chapman University College of Performing Arts. Oanh served as producing associate at South Coast Repertory for three years where we spearheaded Studio SCR: the alternative theatre presenting series. He also served on the advisory board of the Anaheim High School Performing Arts Conservatory, the board of Network of Ensemble Theatres, LA’s 99-seat Transitional Committee, multiple SDC committees and grant panels for the National Endowment of the Arts and Theatre Communications Group. Oanh is a proud member of SDC and SAG-AFTRA. His directing credits include productions at Chance Theater, East West Players, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and South Coast Repertory, and served as the Associate Director for the international tour of David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish (Berkeley Repertory, South Coast Repertory, Hong Kong Arts Festival). His selected film credits include Two Brothers directed by Jean-Jacques Annaude, Rush Hour 3 directed by Brett Ratner, and Lonely Boy directed by Dale Fabrigar (Best First Feature Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Louisiana International Film Festival and Audience Award Winner at the 2013 BolderLife Festival).   .......   Chance Theater proudly announces its 2015 Theatrical Season featuring Award Winning Works and Six Exciting Premieres   Chance Theater is thrilled to announce its 17th anniversary season, the second in its new home at 5522 E. La Palma Ave. in Anaheim, a space already on the road toward expansion. Chance subscribers and audiences will enjoy an enticing line-up that includes a musical adventu

  In which our host sits down with actor Larry Bates to discuss tya vs. adult theatre, the heartbreak of Chicago football, and the pleasures of the comic book movie.   Larry Bates is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University. Larry has been seen in a number of productions at The Tony award winning South Coast Repertory. Notable credits there include: the world premiere of Mr. Marmalade, Death of a Salesman, Fences, TopDog/Underdog, Motherfucker with the Hat, and Jitney for which he won a NAACP Theatre Award as well as the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor. In addition to South Coast, he has been seen in productions and workshops at the Cincinatti Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, The Geffen, The Bootleg Theatre, San Diego Repertory, and The Antaeus Company.    His appearances on stages and on both the big and small screen have given him the privilege of working with a number of talented entertainment professionals. The list includes Caleb Deschanel, Charlie Robinson, Chi McBride, Cloris Leachman, Craig T. Nelson,  Cybil Shepherd, David Boreanaz, Della Reese, Dennis Franz, Elliott Gould, Emily Deschanel, Fred Willard, Glynn Turman, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristin Bell, Lainie Kazan, Linda Gray, Mark Paul-Gosselaar, Nicky Katt, Oliver Platt, Peter Berg, Robert Reford, Rob Morrow, Roger Guenveur Smith, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Spike Lee.   In addition to acting, Larry is currently co-executive producing an original dating show which he co-created with his creative partners. More about Larry at larrybates.me

This is the tale of Aaron Bush. Self-proclaimed trouble maker, Aaron has been wreaking havoc in the theater community as a "professional" for the past 16 years.  What started as an extra curricular activity in high school quickly turned in to a career.  He managed to turn skipping classes to build scenery and completely avoiding homework to attend rehearsals, apprentice at the local community theater, and work at a local television station into his reason for existence.  He started his first professional contract the day after he turned 18. Long hours, terrible pay (pennies an hour), and two days off in 8 weeks somehow drove this madman to pursue more of this questionable work and drive the point home that this is what he was destined to do for the rest of his life.  Back in the old days of fax machines, dial-up Internet, carrier pigeons, and smoke signals, he wrenched interviews out of potential employers like how a car dealer sells minivans to Mormons.  Job offers were abundant and he could pick and choose as he pleased.  Ultimately he chose to go work for a place in Utah that put on performances of Shakespeare every summer... A festival of sorts... A Utah Shakespearean festival (that's catchy.  someone should use that.)  it was here where he met the most unfortunate of all women who foolishly fell head over heels for his childish jokes, total lack of professionalism, and complete disregard for self preservation and ultimately chose to stick with him in good times and bad, in sickness and in health, until death do they part.  Yup.  He totally suckered her into making the worst decision of her life.  Not marriage.  That shit's awesome.  Marrying him was the bad decision.  She regrets it every day (probably).  After a couple more years, a few penniless treks back and forth across country, and blazing trail of shame and adventure, he dragged her kicking and screaming to Las Vegas (like ya do).  They managed to sho

Curtain Call Podcast wishes everyone out there a safe and joyous All Hallow's Eve! Celebrate the holiday with a classic poem of terror, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, read and performed by CCP host Chuck Clay.

Chuck sits down with Carmen Gomez, production manager for the UC Riverside Department of Theatre, Film, and Digital Production to talk about the joy of schedules, the hell of budgets, and the eventual downfall of humankind at the hands of our internet overlord. Carmen Gomez recieved her BFA in Design from TCU (Go Frogs!) in 1999 and her MFA in design from Texas Tech University in 2002.  After completing her formal education, Carmen worked as a professional scenic painter before accepting a faculty design position at Gulf Coast Community College in Panama City, Florida.  There she enjoyed five years of teaching as well as starting and running a not-for-profit Shakespeare company with her beloved husband (her words!). After that she joined the Theatre and Dance Department at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Over those four years, Carmen enjoyed working with a number of organizations including The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.  Examples of Carmen's work can be found at http://carmenfgomez.wix.com/carmenfgomez "Episode 2 was always an important one for me, almost as much as 1. While episode 1 introduces the show, I always felt somehow that episode 2 should introduce me. What better way to introduce myself than to interview my infinitely better half. If you haven't listened to the podcast yet, episode 2 on October 1 is a pretty good place to start!" --CCP host Chuck Clay

This week Chuck sits down with acclaimed actor and star of stage and screen, Arye Gross to discuss his theatrical career, his rece...nt performance in "Stupid F*cking Bird", and the finer points of acting like an alien. Arye Gross attended the University of California at Irvine and went on to study acting at the Conservatory at South Coast Repertory. He then became a member of the South Coast Repertory resident company for three years. This was followed by a year with El Teatro Campesino under the direction of Luis Valdez. Gross has appeared in a number of stage productions with a variety of companies in the Los Angeles area, including LATC, Pasedena Playhouse, Odyssey Theater Ensemble, MET Theater and Stages Theatre Company. In 2000, he became managing artistic director of Stages. Gross's best known television role was on the ABC series Ellen as Adam Green, for the program's first three seasons. Arye has made numerous guest appearances on a wide variety of television series, such as Diff'rent Strokes, Knight Rider, Six Feet Under, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. He currently has a recurring role as Dr. Sidney Perlmutter on ABC's Castle. He recently appeared in Aaron Posner's "Stupid F*cking Bird" at the Boston Court Theatre.