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Dear Multi-hyphenateMichael Kushner, a photographer, producer, and performer, gathers the best movers and shakers in the industry and discusses the ways to get art done - without waiting for a green light. We will share personal accounts of moments that moved us, changed us, and propelled us into being artists who have multiple proficiencies, which cross pollinate to help flourish professional capabilities. Author: Michael Kushner
Are you a combination of actor, director, producer, designer, or anything else? Congratulations, you're a multi-hyphenate! A multi-hyphenate is an artist who has multiple proficiencies that cross pollinate to help flourish professional capabilities. Dear Multi-hyphenate explores the full potential of artists in show business who have taken the paths less traveled. Are you unsure how to stay creative and garner income during the pandemic? Are you sitting on a project and you have no idea how to get started? What if others have cornered you into thinking that you are just an actor, or just a director, or just a producer? Let go of the rules and take agency of your full potential! Listen to me and my guests, the leaders of the multi-hyphenation station, as we dissect the mentality and possibilities about artistic agency."Michael is the glue that holds the Broadway community together." - Tony Award Winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal) Language: en Genres: Arts, Education, Performing Arts, Self-Improvement Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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S2; EP 9 -- Shaina Taub: Facing a Dying Nation
Episode 9
Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
“I think one of the reasons I wanted to be a multi-hyphenate and wear all the hats in SUFFS was to hopefully, if I could, inspire others to show, specially young women,that’s an avenue available to us as well… and the multi-hyphenate male artist is sort of a moniker that goes unquestioned.” On this episode of Dear Multi-Hyphenate, we have one of Broadway’s hottest writers, Shaina Taub, writer and star of SUFFS on Broadway. A true multi-hyphenate, we discuss: The responsibility of starring in a musical you wrote. Any ghostly visits from Alice Paul? Sacrifice. The creation of SUFFS. Lessons learned. Establishing boundaries. Organizational tips. Facing a dying nation and the progress we’ve made. Shaina Taub is an American actress, singer, musician, and Tony Award-winning composer.Taub composed and starred in three adaptations of Shakespeare plays for The Public Theater's Public Works program: Twelfth Night in both 2016 and 2018 and As You Like It in 2017. Taub has appeared Off-Broadway in the revival of the revue show Old Hats in 2016, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 as Princess Mary (2013), and Hadestown as a Fate (2016). She played the role of Emma Goldman in the Ragtime on Ellis Island concert and performed at Joe's Pub in Manhattan monthly during a solo residency. In 2022, her original musical Suffs, based on suffragists and their American women's suffrage movement, premiered off-Broadway at The Public Theater. Taub wrote the book, music, and lyrics, and also starred as Alice Paul. The show transferred to Broadway in April 2024 to positive reviews. Taub won Tony Awards in 2024 for Best Book and Best Score. Alongside Elton John on music, Taub penned the lyrics for the 2022 musical adaptation of the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, based on Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name. It enjoyed a limited run in Chicago in 2022, and a new production is opened in London's West End in October 2024. In November, she reprised the role of Emma Goldman in New York City Center’s Ragtime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
