Defining Talent: A Podcast
Join host Laura Dickinson-Turner and an ever-expanding lineup of guests for an ongoing series of conversations that stem from the possibly unanswerable question: “how do you define talent?” This podcast is a place to collect the stories we tell ourselves about talent, so we can explore the intersections and overlaps in people’s perspectives, as well as where and how they differ, and how those perspectives shape the way we view ourselves, each other, and the world(s) we constantly create together.
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((FANFARE OF TRUMPETS)) Today's guest on Defining Talent is the dynamo of a multi-hyphenate artist, Montgomery King. Montgomery just finished their second year of the MFA in Television, Film, and Theatre/Writing Option program at Cal State LA, and in addition to the scripts and writing projects they've been working on, they also appeared onstage in Something Rotten and Macbeth. Throughout their life, they have always been i...
Today, Laura is joined by Moses You, who is not only an alumni of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Cal State LA, he is also their Admin Support Coordinator. Moses approaches life with a quiet but eager curiosity that propels him on a journey of self-discovery, ongoing evolution, and constant sojourns into new quests, all the while doing his best to be of support and service to those around him. He and Laura dis...
Fun fact about today's guest, Frank Ramirez - Laura and Frank were both actually at the same statewide Speech and Debate competition in the spring of 2000 when Laura was a senior at Thomas Downey High School competing in Original Prose and Poetry, and Frank was a sophomore at La Mirada High School competing in Dramatic Interpretation. What are the odds that two decades later, their paths would cross at Cal State LA, where Frank...
On today's episode, Laura sits down with Staci Mitchell, a lecturer for the Pan-African Studies Department at Cal State LA who also teaches for the Cal State LA Theatre Department. Staci wears many hats in addition to professor - including (but not limited to) yoga practitioner, performer, researcher, and playwright. Just a few weeks after this podcast episode was recorded, Staci left for South Africa, where she spent a month t...
Dr. Linda Margarita Greenberg is one of the kindest, most compassionate, most loving human beings out there, and talking with her is like being surrounded by a warm hug. She is a Professor of English and the Chair of the English Department at Cal State LA whose writing and research interests include Chicana/o literature and voices, community-building, sci-fi and speculative fiction, and more. Dr. Greenberg is beloved by students an...
I'm still super honored that Owen Miller took time out of one of the busiest, most stressful fortnights of his time here at Cal State LA to sit down and record this podcast episode - not only is Owen a full-time staff member for Arts & Letters - when we recorded this he was smack dab in the middle of his final comprehensive exams for his MA in Communication Studies! He totally passed his exams and is now a proud alumnus, an...
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