Thesis on Joan is a podcast dedicated to amplifying voices from the LGBTQ+ community in the New York performing arts scene and examining the industry from a queer perspective! Join fanqueers and theatre professionals Harrow (they/them) and Meghan (she/her) as they sit down with groundbreaking theatre folx, from Brooklyn cabaret performers to people backstage and on Broadway. For many queers, theatre has been an escape, this podcast looks to have open conversations on where we’ve come from and where we’re headed as a community, while queering the canon along the way. Part of the Broadway Podcast Network.
https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/podcast/thesis-on-joan/
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 2 days 3 hours 51 minutes
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episode 1: Please Do Cast L Morgan Lee
The incomparable L Morgan Lee is our first guest of Season Two! Join Harrow and Meghan as they talk to L Morgan about making space in developing projects,
episode 2: No Rules with Jose Solís
Critic and cheerleader, Jose Solís chats it out with hosts Harrow and Meghan this week!
episode 3: Shut Up & Listen with Maybe Burke
Maybe Burke has been all over your TV this pandemic! In our third episode of the season, Meghan and Harrow sit down with the award-winning actor, writer and human rights advocate!
episode 4: Living Joyously with Melissa Li & Kit Yan
In Thesis on Joan’s first duo interview, musical theatre writing team Melissa Li (she/her) and Kit Yan (they/she/he) check in with hosts about the recent rise in anti-Asian violence, how they’ve grown as creative partners over a decade, and what our responsibility is to our elders even when they’re part of the problem.
episode 5: The Genre Fluid Dionne McClain-Freeney
The multi-talented Dionne McClain-Freeney is a musical theatre septuple threat - pianist, composer, lyricist, choral and musical director, arranger, singer and teaching artist...
episode 6: Queer Queue with Drew Gregory
This week, hosts chat with filmmaker, theatremaker, and writer Drew Gregory! Drew shares about the short she made in quarantine, “The First Time”, reminisces about directing immersive theatre immediately after coming out, and giving young people the trans representation in media she did not have...
episode 7: Criminal Queerness with National Queer Theater
Celebrate Pride with National Queer Theater’s Criminal Queerness Festival! Hosts are joined by director, playwright, actor, teaching artist and National Queer Theater (NQT) Artistic Director Adam Odsess-Rubin and playwright, dramaturg and Co-Producer of the Criminal Queerness Festival Adam A. El-Sayigh...
episode 8: Reimagining the world with Javier Rivera DeBruin
Wrap up Pride month with playwright and impact producer, Javier Rivera DeBruin, and hosts Meghan and Harrow! Javi discusses how queerness, magical realism/fantasy/scifi in theatre allows a unique opportunity for anything to happen, the dynamics of family in their writing and in the theatre community, and why theatre is the Grey Gardens of the arts...
episode 9: Ryan J. Haddad is Still Single
We’re back with the hilarious and insightful actor and playwright Ryan J. Haddad to kick-off the second half of Season Two!
episode 10: Mixing It Up with Twi McCallum
Hosts Meghan & Harrow chat with Twi McCallum (she/they/he), the first women of color sound designer of a Broadway show!
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