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Quitting Is Not an Option with Orrin Evans

Orrin Evans

Over the last two episodes, we’ve heard from Todd Evans and Rachel Marianno, a brother and sister who grew up in an unusually artistic home and both became artists themselves. This week, their younger brother Orrin Evans joins me to round out the family and talk about his experience as the much younger child was […]

Seeing Possibilities with Rachel Marianno

Rachel Marianno

When your father is a playwright and your mother is a lyric soprano, you’re unavoidably exposed to a creative outlook on life. This week is the second in a series of three episodes where we’ll hear from three siblings from an incredibly artistic family, all of whom are artists themselves. This week, I talk to […]

Don’t Give Up on Yourself with Todd Evans

Todd Evans

When your father is a playwright and your mother is a lyric soprano, you’re unavoidably exposed to a creative outlook on life. This week begins a series of three episodes where we’ll be hearing from three siblings from an incredibly artistic family, all of whom are artists themselves. We start with Todd Evans, the eldest […]

Becoming the Eighth Doctor with Paul McGann, Part 2

Paul McGann

This week—this month!—I have the honor and pleasure of talking with actor Paul McGann. He started his career in the West End, moving to TV with the BBC’s Monocled Mutineer, and to film with the cult classic Withnail and I. His credits also include Horatio Hornblower, Luther, and the Dickens adaptation Our Mutual Friend, and […]

Becoming the Eighth Doctor with Paul McGann, Part 1

Paul McGann

This week—this month!—I have the honor and pleasure of talking with actor Paul McGann. He started his career in the West End, moving to TV with the BBC’s Monocled Mutineer, and to film with the cult classic Withnail and I. His credits also include Horatio Hornblower, Luther, and the Dickens adaptation Our Mutual Friend, and […]

Inspiration and Originality with Cindy Lynn Speer

Cindy Lynn Speer

Novelist Cindy Lynn Speer is one of my dearest writing friends. We met online years ago, and instantly bonded over our love of language and writing. We’ve never sat down and actually had a face-to-face conversation about writing, though—until now. Cindy Lynn is the author of five novels and a short story collection. We talk […]

Navigating Your Inner Wilderness with Darcy Wade

Darcy Wade

Darcy Wade is an expressive arts therapist who knows what it’s like to be derailed from her creative dream. As you’ll hear, one simple incident in high school destroyed her artistic identity, leaving her adrift through college. A chance interaction brought her back to herself and got her on the expressive arts path. If you’ve […]

Running Away to Join the Circus with Ryan Ward

Ryan Ward

I couldn’t resist this title for this episode, because it’s true: Ryan Ward really did run away to join the circus. While that might sound silly, Ryan is wise beyond his years, having survived a deeply toxic relationship (which he discusses here), and reinvented himself, from changing his name to moving clear across the country […]

The Power of Creative Constraints with Zoha Abbas

Zoha Abbas

Zoha Abbas started her career as an advertising copywriter, and she’s here today to tell us how she got there, what it was like working for an ad agency (including the ups and downs of working with clients), and how she decided to take what she’d learned and help mere mortals figure out the best […]

You Never Know Until You Try with Alex Rudy

Alex Rudy started out drawing, and recording his own comic book audios, before taking a video production workshop in high school that led him to acting. While he took a few so-called detours along the way, everything he was curious about has factored into his creative life in one way or another, from being a […]