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How to Succeed In Theater (by sacrificing everything)
THEATER PEOPLE: their lives, their stories, their paths of sacrifices, failures, and successes.
Each episode features actors, choreographers, directors, producers, crew members and more who’ve found success in theater, how they got there, where they are going next, and words of advice they have for others wanting to walk in a similar path!
Hosted by Katie Coleman - broadway pianist who has sacrificed everything (friends, family, relationships, money, you know - all those things everybody wants in order to have a truly fulfilling life) for the thrill and absolute high of bringing a larger-than-life story to an adoring audience.
Episodes
21 episodes
Episode 20: How to Tour the World doing your Very Own Show with Broadway In Love
Today’s episode features the couple behind Broadway In Love, Libby Servais and Stephan Stubbins. Stephan and Libby are a married couple with a toddler who have created and self-produced an act called Broadway In Love that they are performing ar...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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How to Persevere Through Self-Tapes and Injuries with Tia Altinay
This episode features triple-threat performer and now director, Tia Altinay. Tia’s resume is fully loaded, including the national tours of Bombay Dreams, High School Musical, Mary Poppins, and Hamilton, as well as Broadway’s Mary Poppins, A Chr...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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36:48
How to Be a Hair and Makeup Supervisor with Kelly Flanagan
Today’s episode features Hair and Wig Supervisor Kelly Flanagan. Kelly is currently on tour with SIX the musical, and I had the opportunity to get a haircut from her in Salt Lake City the last time I visited the tour. Kelly’s had a rich thirty-...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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22:45
L Morgan On the Couch
This episode features one of my favorite guests to date, the incredible, Tony-nominated L Morgan Lee. L Morgan was nominated for her brilliant work in a role she originated in the Tony winning best musical A Strange Loop. Before our interview, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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49:01
How to Be a University Dance Professor with Joy Clark
Hi there! Today’s guest is actor, director, choreographer, and dance professor Joy Clark. Joy is the ultimate embodiment of her name, finding joy in her own journey as well as empowering students to find it in theirs. Currently on the dance fac...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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31:27
How to Create an Arts Company from the Ground Up
This episode features TWO guests, Leah Edwards and Dimitri Pittas, founders of Holy City Arts and Lyric Opera in Charleston, South Carolina. Originally conceiving "HALO" in 2019 as a more traditional Opera company, COVID forced them to pivot. A...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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37:13
How to Be Head of Audio for a Major National Tour
This episode features audio engineer Kevin McCoy, who most recently spent the last five years with the And Peggy company of Hamilton as their Head of Audio. Prior to that, he was on the road touring with many theatrical productions for his enti...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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36:00
How to Juggle Theater/Film/TV and Master the Side Gig with Matt Crabtree
Today’s episode features Matt Crabtree, a theater, film, and television actor who can be seen on the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Harlem, Brass Tactics, and many more. Today, we discuss starting his theater career in New York, moving to LA to pursue ...
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Episode 13
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28:58
How to Succeed as a Multi-Hyphenate Artist with Tasi Alabastro
This week’s episode features multi-hyphenate artist Tasi Alabastro. Tasi is an actor, designer, photographer, gamer, and all around creator of cool things. In this episode, we discuss how to JUST START, how to network, how to live that multi-hy...
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Episode 12
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30:06
How to Impact Community as an Artistic Director with Lisa Mallette
This week we feature the Executive Artistic Director of City Lights, Lise Mallette. Lisa is a truly inspirational, passionate and compassionate leader. In this episode we discuss her career path beginning as a performer, how to find and nurture...
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Episode 11
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39:00
How to Succeed on Tour (Part 2) with the SIX Boleyn Company
Episode 10 features many different interviewees all from the Boleyn Company of Six, the musical. The Boleyn Company is the tour that host Katie Coleman toured with as music director. The company is still touring and Katie was lucky enough to go...
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Episode 10
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28:15
How to Succeed on Tour with Katie Coleman
Today’s episode is a bit different than usual because instead of your host Katie Coleman interviewing a guest, we have George Psarras from City Lights Theater Company interviewing me! City Lights is a very special place that is near and dear to...
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Episode 9
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53:54
How to Negotiate Contracts and Ask for the Job You Want with Rachel Dart
Today’s episode features a great friend of mine, Rachel Dart - a New York director who most recently worked on the Broadway play Summer 1976. Today we discuss Rachel’s path from playwright to director, creating a safe rehearsal room and showing...
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Episode 8
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46:06
How to Be a Producer with Kevin Surace
Today’s guest is Kevin Surace - producer, investor and VP of operations at WitzEnd Productions, the company behind Some Like it Hot, A Beautiful Noise, 1660 Vine, and Diana. He is also a Si...
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Episode 7
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43:18
How to Persevere through Chaos, COVID, and Closing with Chloe Nadon-Enriquez
Today’s guest is Chloe Nadon-Enriquez, coming at us straight off of Broadway’s Bad Cinderella. I caught her while she was in New York, just before flying back to close the And Peggy tour of Hamilton, where she was a swing for a couple years jus...
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Episode 6
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41:52
How to Find Balance and Stability While Pursuing your Career in NYC with Avanthika Srinivasan
Today I am sharing with you a conversation with Avanthika Srinavasan. Avanthika was born in India, spent her childhood in Singapore, and her teenage years in New Jersey. She went on to study at Princeton and ACT, and is now here in New York pur...
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Episode 5
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21:15
How to Market Yourself and “No-Budget Budgeting” with Jim Cooney!
Today’s guest is none other than everybody’s favorite choreographer, Jim Cooney. With a resume too long to even begin, Jim is currently the associate choreographer of the My Fair Lady national tour AND he is the founder of Amplified Artists, an...
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Episode 4
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43:44
How to be a Broadway Princess and Find your Prince Charming with Ashley Chiu
Please welcome, Broadway’s Sleeping Beauty, Ashley Chiu! Ashley is one of the principle princesses in Once Upon a One More Time, currently at the Marriott Marquis here in New York. Today we chat about her journey to broadway including her very ...
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Episode 3
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51:19
How to Define Success, and the Top 3 Mistakes Artists Make when Building Their Career with Michelle Markwart Deveaux.
Michelle Markwart Deveaux is the CEO of FaithCultureKiss Voice Studios and Founder of The Speakeasy Cooperative. When she's not teaching singers, actors, podcasters, and influencers to use their voice to change the world, Michelle revels in the...
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Episode 2
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43:39
How to Go from a Tour Swing to International Associate Choreographer with Camden Gonzales!
This episode is with one of the smartest and most talented humans in our industry, Camden Gonzales. Cami and Katie met working on Hamilton in San Francisco in 2019, where they spent many hours together in the rehearsal room – Cami was a dance c...
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Episode 1
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