Play to Z
Justin Borak and Erika Kuhn realize the world is missing one thing... a podcast about good plays. That's where Play to Z comes in! Follow along as Justin and Erika look into plays they love in alphabetical order. Get your next great read or find the perfect monologue you need for an audition right here, on Play to Z!
Episodes
February 14, 2025 • 3 mins
Hey guys! Some sad news, Erika and Justin are taking a short hiatus from the show. Projects are catching up with them, living in New York is ALOT, and they both need to get their bearings before hoping back into their research and work they put into each episode. Thank you SO much for listening through all these epsidoes and hopefully we won't be gone too long! In the meantime, give us a follow at our insatgrams below and we will k...
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February 7, 2025 • 66 mins
In this week's episode, Erika looks into the theatre scene in Idaho! Some great colleges, awesome oppurtunities for new playwrights, and a playwright who has become the voice of the state. Get ready to learn all about the potato state!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and...
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January 31, 2025 • 71 mins
What's up everyone! This week, Justin and Erika look into Hawaii's theatre scene! Awesome regional theatre, University of Hawaii research and a deep dive on the man who has been the voice of Hawaii playwriting for years and the woman who is taking the baton.
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found on he...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found on he...
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January 24, 2025 • 71 mins
Let's head to Georgia for this week's epsiode! Erika tells us about the state with maybe the most oppurtunity for playwrights we have come across. Erika tells us about all of the playwrights from Georgia, the upcoming season at Emory featuring one of our favorite people, and the millions of broadway shows that have come out of the Alliance Theatre. If you're a theatre person in GA, congrats... you win.
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to th...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to th...
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January 17, 2025 • 78 mins
Happy New Year, let's talk about theatre in Flordia! This week, Justin and Erika are welcomed back to NYC by a recording session about al;l of the different theatres, colleges, and playwriting oppurtunities in Flordia! They chat about Terrance McNally's Legacy, the wonderful MFA programs in the state, and the fact that Flordia has a STATE PLAY?! Crazy! Also, they chat about their favorite shows of 2024! Enjoy the show!
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January 10, 2025 • 29 mins
Happy New Year! Here is a playdough not at all because we are out of town or anything so RELAX! Basically, what if there was a classic 90s romcom movie but like a witch was in it...PRETTY CRAZY! Also, we start back out on normal episodes next week (with Flordia)!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found ...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found ...
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December 27, 2024 • 52 mins
Happy holidays! Here is a holiday playdough that we hope you enjoy! Also, Justin added jingle bells to the edit so YOU ARE WELCOME.
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, Community Garden and Cabin Chronicles, through his publis...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, Kill The Bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, Community Garden and Cabin Chronicles, through his publis...
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December 20, 2024 • 70 mins
Let's stay on the east coast becuase this week Erika is talking about Delaware! Besides giving us a history lesson on Punkin Chunkin and getting a quick appearance from the Korak Interns, we get to talk about some wonderful niche theatre programs. Delaware Theatre Center's Young Playwrights Festival, Wilmington Drama Leauge and Aubrey Plaza's start, and some wonderufl dinner theatres! Join us this week to chat about a wonderful and...
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December 13, 2024 • 69 mins
Welcome to Connecticut! This week Justin gets to focus on some of the greatest theatre places for new work in the country, who knew Connecticut went so hard on new work?! The Eugene O'Neil Theatre Center, Yale Rep, and Goodspeed are brought up and discussed and Erika spends most of the peiosde plotting her evil Two Truths and a Lie streak! Enjoy the episode!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode...
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December 6, 2024 • 76 mins
Let's hike in the mountains and smoke a bunch cause we are going to COLORADO! That's right, Erika breaks down all of the coolest playwrights and theatres based, from, or working in Colorado and there are some shocking names! Learn about one of the coolest New Play festivals in the country and find out what playwright is refered to as "A Denver Boy at Heart". Enjoy the epsiode!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featu...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featu...
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November 29, 2024 • 113 mins
WEE-WOO! WEE-WOO! IT'S THE 100TH EPISODE! JUSTIN ACCEPTS A NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, ERIKA WALKS ON THE MOON, AND THEY BOTH MAKE THEIR BROADWAY DEBUTS AS TIMONE AND PUMBAA IN THE LION KING (to which critics responded with, "why"). But really, thank you for all of the support over the years and in return, we made an episode where we did 100 play doughs. HAVE A FUN TWO HOURS!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in thi...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in thi...
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November 22, 2024 • 41 mins
Guess what, it's our first PLAYdough of the season! What happens when scene kids try to save a local Lochness monster? We don't know BUT we try to figure it out on today's episode! Listen in as we make up a play about alt kids in high school, cryptids hiding in the local lake, and moshing!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, K...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, K...
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November 15, 2024 • 78 mins
We are heading to the west coast to talk about sunny California! Justin takes us on a journey through the famous theatres that reside there, the wonderful plays that are set there and the playwrights that have been from there! We talk about oppurtunities, free theatre, and Justin and Erika argue a bit more about the CRITICAL RULES of Two truths and a Lie!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! Y...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! Y...
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November 8, 2024 • 73 mins
It's the end of A's and Erika is taking on ARKANSAS! Fun fact: Arkansas has an AWESOME theatre scene! Hear Erika chat about one of the hottest playwrights in the world and how his most recent Broadway show took place in Arkansas, one of the best up-n-coming playwrights is FROM Arkansas and one of the best regional theatres in the country is IN Arkansas! All around, one of the coolest states we have researched so far!
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November 1, 2024 • 69 mins
Take a drive in the desert becuase we are spening this week with Justin in Arizona! Join us as we talk about site-specific Shakespeare, the playwrights that run the Univeristy of Arizona, and very cool contemporary theatre at Arizona Theatre Company and The Phoenix Theatre Company. Put on your sunglasses cause it's about to get HOT!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of the...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of the...
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October 25, 2024 • 61 mins
Take a drive through Canada or make a really long jump from Washington State, cause we are heading to Alaska! Listen in as Erika takes on a history-filled and theatre-flowing journey through the industry in Alaska. Learn about the awesome theatres here in Alaska and the wild playwright mentors they have, and get excited to hear Justin absolutey SLAM EK in two truths and a lie!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featu...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featu...
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October 18, 2024 • 57 mins
Allright, it's the first episode of Season 3! Alabama! Join us as Justin deep dives into the history of Alabama theatre. Learn about one of the oldest collegiate theatre troupes, one of the best shakespeare festivals in the country, and some wonderful new Alabamian playwrights with STACKED new play exchanges!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links be...
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links be...
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September 27, 2024 • 15 mins
IT'S THE FIFTY NIFTY UNITED PLAYS! Welcome to Season 3! This time around, we are going state-by-state and looking into each one theatrically! Playwrights from the state, different theatres of all kinds, looking into college programs, and egven deep-diving into plays set in the state of the week! It's gonna be a long season (50 states with a PLAYdough every 5 episodes) so get ready some amazing episodes and content coming your way o...
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September 13, 2024 • 21 mins
It's the end of the summer season of 2024 and we have a very fun (and very sentimental) playdough for you! Hear the story of two raccoons in a dump in New York City. When one of them discovers the concept of time, they try to find the makers of the watch he found to ask him to stop time so they could just play in the trash forever. It's really sweet. We hope you enjoy this episode and we will see you in SEASON 3!
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August 30, 2024 • 35 mins
The final episode of our Summer Season Selection Series Spectacular is here! Erika got the word SLAP and goes all in on slapstick comedy. We get appearances from silent movie stars, famous farces that you'll lose your mind at, and a new origial Borak/Kuhn co-written play about Slap Fighting Championships. It's a great one.
*No iterns were hurt in the making of this episode*
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*No iterns were hurt in the making of this episode*
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