• Beyond the Lights: A Conversation with Theater Professionals

  • By: Mary Beth Smith
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Beyond the Lights: A Conversation with Theater Professionals

By: Mary Beth Smith
  • Summary

  • Welcome to Beyond the Lights: A Conversation with Theater Professionals. Theater is a community event and it takes a village to operate. From actors to designers to company managers to teaching artists to data nerds and dramaturgs and everything in between. So join me weekly to learn more about each person's journey and the "hustle" we call theater as we go Beyond the Lights.
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Episodes
  • 54. TOM ONTIVEROS - Lighting and Projection Designer
    Nov 29 2021

    On today's show, I speak with Tom Ontiveros, a lighting and projection designer as well as a professor and chair of the theater department at the University of La Verne. Tom has such an interesting and unexpected from starting college as a biology major, to working at the Museum of Natural History in LA, to finding himself as an emergency professor for one semester in Pennsylvania and falling in love with teaching. While I could keep going about Tom's journey, I feel it's better to let the rest of it unwind on its own in this conversation.

    For a full transcript of this episode visit beyondthelightspodcast.com.

    Mentioned in this Episode
    [00:04:18] Siti Company
    [00:07:03] Museum of Natural History
    [00:09:47] Intersection for the Arts
    [00:10:08] Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
    [00:10:31] Campo Santo
    [00:11:12] The Culture Project
    [00:11:24] The Exonerated
    [00:40:18] University of La Verne
    [00:47:14] Norco 80

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    51 mins
  • 53. ANDREA GRODY - Broadway Music Director
    Nov 15 2021

    Andrea Grody is a music director and music supervisor, primarily working in new musicals. Now, if you've been listening for a while you know that one of my specialties and loves is new plays, so it was such a pleasure to discuss what that looks like from a musical director's perspective. Andrea has been on two of the bigger Broadway shows over the last few years, The Band's Visit and Tootsie—two pretty different shows. She walks me through a little of what those processes looked like and the different challenges they each presented.

    For a full transcript of this episode visit beyondthelightspodcast.com.

    Mentioned in this Episode
    [00:04:33] The Civilians
    [00:05:53] The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
    [00:05:57] Music Directing at Penn State
    [00:13:40] The Band’s Visit
    [00:17:36] MTI
    [00:25:09] Tootsie
    [00:40:43] Maestra
    [00:49:02] Suffs

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    58 mins
  • 52. CATE BROOMHEAD - Broadway Wig Swing
    Nov 1 2021

    On today's show, I speak with Cate Broomhead, a wig swing on Broadway. With Halloween being yesterday it's only appropriate to release an episode with a person who does a job that we've all benefitted from at some point in our lives. I'd venture to guess MOST of us have worn a wig at least once, and many of us much more frequently than that. Cate walks me through how she got into theater and wig making in the first place, what really goes into creating and maintaining a wig, and what a day in the life of a swing in the hair department on Broadway looks like right now.

    For a full transcript of this episode visit beyondthelightspodcast.com.

    Mentioned in this Episode
    [00:03:39] Walnut Street Theater
    [00:04:10] Glimmerglass Opera Company
    [00:09:45] Gretchen Evans - Wig Maker
    [00:09:45] JJ Janas - Wig Maker/Designer
    [00:26:48] Pacific College of Health

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    52 mins

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