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Shoshana Bean’s (IG:@shobean)(TW:@shoshanabean)(shoshanabean.com)    three independent solo albums have all topped the iTunes R&B and Blues charts in the US and UK, with her fourth and most recent project, SPECTRUM, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Jazz charts. She has sold out solo concerts around the globe, lent her voice to countless films and television shows, amassed millions of views on YouTube, and performed alongside Ariana Grande, David Foster, Postmodern Jukebox, Brian McKnight, and Michael Jackson. Shoshana is a veteran of the Broadway stage having made her debut in the original cast of Hairspray, starring as the very first replacement for Elphaba in Wicked and most recently as Jenna in Waitress. She won a IRNE Award for her performance as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl and earned a Jeff Award nomination for her portrayal of CeeCee Bloom in the pre-Broadway musical production of Beaches.

Shoshana Bean’s (IG:@shobean)(TW:@shoshanabean)(shoshanabean.com)    three independent solo albums have all topped the iTunes R&B and Blues charts in the US and UK, with her fourth and most recent project, SPECTRUM, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Jazz charts. She has sold out solo concerts around the globe, lent her voice to countless films and television shows, amassed millions of views on YouTube, and performed alongside Ariana Grande, David Foster, Postmodern Jukebox, Brian McKnight, and Michael Jackson. Shoshana is a veteran of the Broadway stage having made her debut in the original cast of Hairspray, starring as the very first replacement for Elphaba in Wicked and most recently as Jenna in Waitress. She won a IRNE Award for her performance as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl and earned a Jeff Award nomination for her portrayal of CeeCee Bloom in the pre-Broadway musical production of Beaches.

Clayton Howe " (IG:@inclaynation)(LI:@clayton-howe)This is a different episode. I wanted to share with you what my life has looked like for the last couple months along with lessons I've learned along the way. I'm keeping it a single part episode this week and SHORT because why say more than what could be said in less words. This has been a different time and I feel some of the journey that I've been on others' can learn from! So I hope you enjoy this episode and keep on keepin' on! 

JOE MANTELLO most recently received Emmy and Critics’ Choice Television Award nominations for his performance in HBO’s The Normal Heart (dir. Ryan Murphy). This two-time Tony Award-winning director’s credits include: The Last Ship, Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last, The Other Place, Dogfight, Other Desert Cities, The Pride, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, November, The Receptionist, The Ritz, Blackbird, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination), Laugh Whore, Assassins (Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living, The Vagina Monologues, Bash, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination), Proposals, The Mineola Twins, and Corpus Christi. Acting credits: The Normal Heart (Tony nomination), Angels in America (Tony nomination), and The Baltimore Waltz. He has received Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie, and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels a

JOE MANTELLO most recently received Emmy and Critics’ Choice Television Award nominations for his performance in HBO’s The Normal Heart (dir. Ryan Murphy). This two-time Tony Award-winning director’s credits include: The Last Ship, Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last, The Other Place, Dogfight, Other Desert Cities, The Pride, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, November, The Receptionist, The Ritz, Blackbird, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination), Laugh Whore, Assassins (Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living, The Vagina Monologues, Bash, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination), Proposals, The Mineola Twins, and Corpus Christi. Acting credits: The Normal Heart (Tony nomination), Angels in America (Tony nomination), and The Baltimore Waltz. He has received Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie, and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels a

Sunny Vachher (IG:@isunny)(TW:@sunnyvachher)(LI:@sunnyvachher) "My ultimate goal is to continue to live as an agent of change in all humanly perspectives. I am an innovative thinker bringing creative vision to life from wonder to wonderful: the big picture." "I am a creative human being with an artistic and proactive approach to producing quality projects with perfection, strong intentions, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution. Creativity, elegance, and forward thinking are of the utmost priority in my life. I believe in and practice building genuine relationships personally and professionally through the act of positive human interaction which also serves as a means of deep self-motivation." "To this day, I have worked in multiple small and large engaging environments in the greater Los Angeles city. And, I have truly given my creative best in various industries from education, pharmaceuticals, retail, wholesale, sports, real estate, banking and financial to entertainment industrie

Sunny Vachher (IG:@isunny)(TW:@sunnyvachher)(LI:@sunnyvachher) "My ultimate goal is to continue to live as an agent of change in all humanly perspectives. I am an innovative thinker bringing creative vision to life from wonder to wonderful: the big picture." "I am a creative human being with an artistic and proactive approach to producing quality projects with perfection, strong intentions, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution. Creativity, elegance, and forward thinking are of the utmost priority in my life. I believe in and practice building genuine relationships personally and professionally through the act of positive human interaction which also serves as a means of deep self-motivation." "To this day, I have worked in multiple small and large engaging environments in the greater Los Angeles city. And, I have truly given my creative best in various industries from education, pharmaceuticals, retail, wholesale, sports, real estate, banking and financial to entertainment industrie

Happy Easter! Thank you for listening to the show. I'm excited to continue to bring you all of the best content Entertainmentx has to offer with exciting and new guests as we enter the 200's. Keep On Keepin' On! 

MATT LENZ (mattlenzdirector.com) is a New York based freelance theater director who has worked all over the world with many of the industry's biggest and brightest talents.  Matt was the Associate Director to Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien on the original production of Hairspray on Broadway, National Tours, Las Vegas, the UK, Toronto and in Cologne, Germany.  Matt was also the Associate Director for Catch Me If You Can on Broadway and directed the 2012-13 first national tour. He directed acclaimed Hairspray productions at The Paper Mill Playhouse, the St. Louis MUNY as well as 3 national tours and a ground-breaking production in Johannesburg, South Africa.     Other credits include: the Off-Broadway hit comedy The Irish Curse at Soho Rep, Idaho! for New York Musical Theatre Festival (winner “Best Director” and “Best Show of Fest” Awards 2008) and at the Forestburgh Playhouse, Susie Mosher’s The Great Daisy Theory Off-Broadway, Fingers and Toes at NYMF, The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken: WICKED's 5th Annive

MATT LENZ (mattlenzdirector.com) is a New York based freelance theater director who has worked all over the world with many of the industry's biggest and brightest talents.  Matt was the Associate Director to Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien on the original production of Hairspray on Broadway, National Tours, Las Vegas, the UK, Toronto and in Cologne, Germany.  Matt was also the Associate Director for Catch Me If You Can on Broadway and directed the 2012-13 first national tour. He directed acclaimed Hairspray productions at The Paper Mill Playhouse, the St. Louis MUNY as well as 3 national tours and a ground-breaking production in Johannesburg, South Africa.     Other credits include: the Off-Broadway hit comedy The Irish Curse at Soho Rep, Idaho! for New York Musical Theatre Festival (winner “Best Director” and “Best Show of Fest” Awards 2008) and at the Forestburgh Playhouse, Susie Mosher’s The Great Daisy Theory Off-Broadway, Fingers and Toes at NYMF, The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken: WICKED's 5th Annive

Jina Panebianco (caliwoodpictures.com)(LI:@jinapanebianco) is an award-winning film & television producer experienced in development, budgeting, raising funds, and physical production. She is at home on set, handling the day to day logistics and the fine details to get to the big picture and always does so, with a wicked sense of humor and strong work ethic. In addition to A Nice Girl Like You, starring Lucy Hale, her current projects include the co-production bio-pic Lansky, starring Oscar-nominee Harvey Keitel (The Irishman, Reservoir Dogs) and Sam Worthington (Avatar); Shriver, starring Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water, Knives Out), Zach Braff and Kate Hudson; the road trip movie Ashes to Asheville, written by Charlie & Chris Frazier. Past projects include: The Matchmaker’s Playbook; the thriller Havenhurst; Jessica Darling’s IT List, based on the NY Times best selling book series; and A Cinderella Christmas. She is also a co-founder of PassionFlix, an OTT Digital Platform for romance novels, wi

Jina Panebianco (caliwoodpictures.com)(LI:@jinapanebianco) is an award-winning film & television producer experienced in development, budgeting, raising funds, and physical production. She is at home on set, handling the day to day logistics and the fine details to get to the big picture and always does so, with a wicked sense of humor and strong work ethic. In addition to A Nice Girl Like You, starring Lucy Hale, her current projects include the co-production bio-pic Lansky, starring Oscar-nominee Harvey Keitel (The Irishman, Reservoir Dogs) and Sam Worthington (Avatar); Shriver, starring Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water, Knives Out), Zach Braff and Kate Hudson; the road trip movie Ashes to Asheville, written by Charlie & Chris Frazier. Past projects include: The Matchmaker’s Playbook; the thriller Havenhurst; Jessica Darling’s IT List, based on the NY Times best selling book series; and A Cinderella Christmas. She is also a co-founder of PassionFlix, an OTT Digital Platform for romance novels, wi

Townsend (LI:@townsendteague)(TW:@townsendteague)(teaguetheatrical.com)On Apple podcasts (Townsend's First Appearance )(Townsend's Second Appearance)is a respected voice in company formation, organizational development and the emerging relationship between Broadway, technology and conglomerate-owned media companies. His theatrical career spans two decades, during which he has collaborated with many of the world's leading producers and creatives, and held senior positions on Broadway, touring and international productions, including titles presented in Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. As a theatrical General Manager, he has provided expertise budgeting, negotiating and overseeing operations for productions of An American In Paris, Annie, 42nd Street, Ghost, Bring It On, West Side Story and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Prior to this, he was Company Manager for tours of Catch Me If You Can, Cats, the 25th Anniversary of Les Misérables, and Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein and The Producers. Broad

Townsend (LI:@townsendteague)(TW:@townsendteague)(teaguetheatrical.com) On Apple podcasts (Townsend's First Appearance )(Townsend's Second Appearance) is a respected voice in company formation, organizational development and the emerging relationship between Broadway, technology and conglomerate-owned media companies. His theatrical career spans two decades, during which he has collaborated with many of the world's leading producers and creatives, and held senior positions on Broadway, touring and international productions, including titles presented in Canada, China, Indonesia, Japan and Singapore. As a theatrical General Manager, he has provided expertise budgeting, negotiating and overseeing operations for productions of An American In Paris, Annie, 42nd Street, Ghost, Bring It On, West Side Story and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Prior to this, he was Company Manager for tours of Catch Me If You Can, Cats, the 25th Anniversary of Les Misérables, and Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein and The Producers. Bro

Musician, playwright, and performer John Epperson, (lypsinka.com)(IG:@lypsinka)(TW:@lypsinka) who is better known as his lip-synching female alter-ego Lypsinka, was born April 24, 1955, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. In 1978, after training in classical piano from a young age and attending Belhaven University (at that time Belhaven College) in Jackson, Epperson moved to New York City, where he took a job playing piano for the American Ballet Theatre and began performing in drag. Epperson’s character Lypsinka is a renowned drag artist who lip-syncs to the songs and dialogue of iconic screen sirens and to more obscure audio clips (such as a makeup application recording from the 1950s). Epperson has been praised for the pastiches of dialogue he creates, as Lypsinka’s shows bring new meaning to the lines she ventriloquizes through juxtaposition and gender reversal. One critic estimated that thousands of audio pieces are culled together for each Lypsinka show, calling them “expressionistic and hallucinatory one-act a

Musician, playwright, and performer John Epperson, (lypsinka.com)(IG:@lypsinka)(TW:@lypsinka) who is better known as his lip-synching female alter-ego Lypsinka, was born April 24, 1955, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi. In 1978, after training in classical piano from a young age and attending Belhaven University (at that time Belhaven College) in Jackson, Epperson moved to New York City, where he took a job playing piano for the American Ballet Theatre and began performing in drag. Epperson’s character Lypsinka is a renowned drag artist who lip-syncs to the songs and dialogue of iconic screen sirens and to more obscure audio clips (such as a makeup application recording from the 1950s). Epperson has been praised for the pastiches of dialogue he creates, as Lypsinka’s shows bring new meaning to the lines she ventriloquizes through juxtaposition and gender reversal. One critic estimated that thousands of audio pieces are culled together for each Lypsinka show, calling them “expressionistic and hallucinatory one-act a

Pam MacKinnon (TW:@pammackinnon) is a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award winner and she is no stranger to the Bay Area, having directed Victor Lodato’s 3F, 4F at Magic Theatre in 2005 and Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2015. MacKinnon grew up in Toronto, Canada as well as just outside Buffalo, New York. She majored in economics and political science at the University of Toronto and UC San Diego, and briefly pursued a Ph.D. in political science, before turning to her other passion: theater. Since then, MacKinnon has become one of American theater’s most beloved directors, a supporter of new American playwrights, and a leading interpreter of playwright Edward Albee’s work. She is an alumna of the Drama League, Women’s Project Theater, and Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Labs. She is also Executive Board President of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SDC). MacKinnon has directed multiple plays on Broadway, including Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring

Pam MacKinnon (TW:@pammackinnon) is a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award winner and she is no stranger to the Bay Area, having directed Victor Lodato’s 3F, 4F at Magic Theatre in 2005 and Amélie, A New Musical at Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 2015. MacKinnon grew up in Toronto, Canada as well as just outside Buffalo, New York. She majored in economics and political science at the University of Toronto and UC San Diego, and briefly pursued a Ph.D. in political science, before turning to her other passion: theater. Since then, MacKinnon has become one of American theater’s most beloved directors, a supporter of new American playwrights, and a leading interpreter of playwright Edward Albee’s work. She is an alumna of the Drama League, Women’s Project Theater, and Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Labs. She is also Executive Board President of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SDC). MacKinnon has directed multiple plays on Broadway, including Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, starring

RYAN SCOTT OLIVER (ryanscottoliver.com) (IG:@ryanscottoliver)(TW:@ryanscottoliver) was called “the future of Broadway… a major new voice in musical theatre” (Entertainment Weekly) and is “shaking up musical theater with his dark, twisted and genius work … [Oliver] could very well be musical theater’s answer to an auteur filmmaker or a gothic novelist” (Huffington Post).He wrote the book, music and lyrics for Jasper in Deadland (book by Tony Award-nominee Hunter Foster) which was first Off-Broadway in a spring 2014 run, and then presented at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre in May 2015;as well as Darling; Havana! (with director Warren Carlyle); Otherbody, a brief musical allegory; and Mrs. Sharp (read at Playwrights Horizons July 2009 starring Jane Krakowski, dir. by Michael Greif); and more. Both Jasper in Deadland and 35mm: A Musical Exhibition are licensed worldwide by Samuel French, and have cast recordings on the Ghostlight/Sh-k-boom label. Oliver is a Jonathan Larson Grant Recipient, Richard Rodgers Award W

RYAN SCOTT OLIVER (ryanscottoliver.com) (IG:@ryanscottoliver)(TW:@ryanscottoliver) was called “the future of Broadway… a major new voice in musical theatre” (Entertainment Weekly) and is “shaking up musical theater with his dark, twisted and genius work … [Oliver] could very well be musical theater’s answer to an auteur filmmaker or a gothic novelist” (Huffington Post).He wrote the book, music and lyrics for Jasper in Deadland (book by Tony Award-nominee Hunter Foster) which was first Off-Broadway in a spring 2014 run, and then presented at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre in May 2015;as well as Darling; Havana! (with director Warren Carlyle); Otherbody, a brief musical allegory; and Mrs. Sharp (read at Playwrights Horizons July 2009 starring Jane Krakowski, dir. by Michael Greif); and more. Both Jasper in Deadland and 35mm: A Musical Exhibition are licensed worldwide by Samuel French, and have cast recordings on the Ghostlight/Sh-k-boom label. Oliver is a Jonathan Larson Grant Recipient, Richard Rodgers Award W