Are You Famous, Yet?

Bryn W Packard and Nilsa Reyna join us from New York City, update us on their lives, and introduce us to Lauren Sowa.

Lau...

This week's episode is the audio of the Friday September 14th, 2018 Three Cat Theater's Cabaret on the Lake hosted by Rob Dorn and produced by Laura Force-Scruggs. The performers were: Judy Parker (Storyteller), Matthew Lee Amyx (Storyteller), Danii Gallegos (Comedian), Bob Lawrence (Author/Reader), and Willa Moore (Musician/Poet). Willa Moore's guitar wasn't behaving so she asked us not to record her but gave us two recorded songs...

Daniela Thome is an actor, and recently writer, who has traveled from New York city for just a few months to be a part of the play "Not For Sale" which just recently opened and is Jeff Recommended. She's acted in Fru Mary, The Surprise , The Addicts, Elvira, One Minute Play Festival, Patience, Fortitude, & Other Antidepresants, Three Sisters, Cinderella, Life Without Joey, In The Shadow, and Oh de Sea! And that's just the theater. ...

David Holcombe returns for his 3rd appearance and updates us about projects that were just a gleam in his eye when we last talked... For instance: The 3 part "Anthropology Anthology" is now finished and plans are in the works to release it as a single unit. A big part of the discussion is about "Blacksite: The Musical!" A musical that David has filmed but not finished because he needs your help to finish production. There's an Indi...

Thom Britton and Jonathan Pritchard join us to discuss "The Seance" which is best described by this quote from their recent press release:
A 'spook-house' show for the smart set; The Seance is an original stage show that recreates an authentic Victorian-era seance. We will investigate the history of the seance, tell stories of the participants and demonstrate the exact techniques used by psychics and mediums who claimed to contact ...

Classic episode from Apr 7, 2014

This week Laura brings Greg Ledger, storyteller and fellow podcaster!
Greg's Podcast: A Dear School
0:01:30 Say hello to Greg!
0:02:20 Obamacare may be working for Bryn shortly
0:02:50 Nilsa already has Obamacare… because she's more organized than Bryn
0:06:00 Recorded some radio spots for Engine Lab of Tampa with Brian McKenna at BToven Studios
0:08:00 This Greg had an incredible guest on his podca...

Pete Blatchford has been an actor for 35 years. He has performed in Chicago, New York and Edinburgh. He has acted with Yippie Fest, On the Spot, Three Cat and many other Chicago theatre companies. Pete is an ensemble member of On the Spot theatre company. He wrote the book, "Wicked, Immoral, Utterly Bad!" an illustrated history of Chicago Theatre, 1837 - 1974. For more information about his book, visit wickedchicagostage.com. Pete ...

01:12 - The Benefactor returns. Matt Shuemaker is Bryn's high school friend and our first repeat guest (back from the 6th episode)!
02:18 - Yet another person comes in from out of town and paints the town red. A discussion of Rocky - the musical ensues.
05:22 - Guess which members of our crew have never seen "Rocky"? Surely not our star and focus of the show...
09:40 - "All the Way" the LBJ bio play with Bryan Cranston
13:30 - Jake...

03:12 - When did Maureen and Daniel know they wanted to sing?
06:04 - Origin story of and what is Scapi?
10:19 - Advice on promotion, especially on social media.
10:55 - Ashley Ray: https://www.facebook.com/arayhay
13:04 - Scapi's podcast: https://scapimag.com/category/podcasts/scapi-radio/
22:38 - YouTuber Casey Neistat: https://www.youtube.com/user/caseyneistat
25:20 - What is Scapi now? https://scapimag.com/
30:15 - Natalia Rox...

This week we welcome Dr. Walter J. Packard (Bryn's Dad) to the podcast for a heart-to-heart.
Twitter: @WJPACK2
0:00:30 Bryn introduces "the big guns"
0:02:25 Nilsa's Dad…
0:03:00 Is Bryn famous, yet? No… not yet.
0:04:25 "Kinky Boots" with Dad and Broadway's survival.
0:09:00 "12 Years A Slave" worth seeing, even if you don't want to see a super-heavy movie about people being terrible in an institutionalized way.
0:12:30 Walter's f...

This episode is a recording of the July 13th, 2018 Three Cat Theater Productions' "Cabaret on the Lake" performed at the Berger Park Cultural Center, sponsored by this very podcast, and hosted by its own Laura and Jake Scruggs. Video of the event is at: https://youtu.be/dhsijBYDU9E

T'was a hot night so we had a box fan blowing on the performers which, unfortunately, was picked up extremely well by our microphone. Our audio engineer...

We interview Nilsa's childhood friend and "Sextra" from the movie "Shortbus" Janie Martinez
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2554808/
@MartinezJanie

01:44 "Can anyone truly know Janie Martinez?" No.
03:34 How Nilsa and Janie met
06:15 And almost destroyed their high school
12:30 Chicago suburbanites marvel at the well funded and versed South Texas high school drama program Janie and Nilsa come from: Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High School
15:2...

This week we welcome Shawn Wickens and Gavin Starr Kendall: founders of The Bad Theatre Fest and Bad Film Fest

Gavin Starr Kendall: @TheStarrKendall
Shawn Wickens: @shwickens

0:02:00 Our guests are the founders of "The Bad Film Fest" www.badfilmfest.com
0:02:39 Starr hails from Texas, which he has in common with Nilsa
0:03:00 Turns out Shawn has actually listened to an episode of the podcast and proves it
0:04:46 Starr Fellows a ...

02:37 - 2PM Q&A session begins
26:25 - Gentleman John Battles start paying
39:53 - Captain Ambivalent performs
52:11 - Gentleman John Battles spills some water and plays a bit more.
56:36 - 7PM Q&A session begins

Video of all this is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ALQ6knI-o3o

1000 thanks to Chicago Filmmakers for handling all the logistics of 2 shows at 50, then 60, 75, then a third show, then building risers in time for the show bef...

This episode was recorded live at the fabulous Berger Park Mansion on June 8th, 2018. Curator/Creative producer Laura Scruggs made it all happen and Jake Scruggs hosted and told some comedy jokes. If you like what you hear, the show is presented the 2nd Friday of every month except January.

Video of the event is here: https://youtu.be/WUZT5xC0EtM

Jake Scruggs - Jokes about being married to Laura
Jake grew up in Lansing, IL the son ...

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03:27 - Steve has the largest piece of Whoops fake vomit. If it were any bigger, there would be a failure in the physics of creating the product.
05:12 - The first time Steve walked into Goodies, it changed his whole life and career path.
08:55 - We discuss Ted Frankel, known as "Uncle Fun," former owner of a now-defunct store that bore his nickname.
16:13 - Steve returned to Cleveland and worked with people...

Martin Felshman is a freelance baker who has been doing stand up for the last 7 years. His proudest comedy accomplishment was when he was invited to Wizard-con 2015 in Madison Wisconsin where he got to tell jokes while wearing a very pretty dress. He is a co-producer of the Cupcake Comedy Cabaret every Thursday evening at the Gallery Cabaret, and a co-host of the machine culture podcast "Podzooky" where a bunch of comedians get rea...