This is the final podcast episode for 2019! Hooray! This short solo episode is to tell you that I’m not quitting, I’m just taking a break to celebrate the holidays (including my birthday!) and then prepare for 2020. This episode is a celebration, a year in review, a pre-view of what’s to come in 2020, …
094: I’m not quitting! The final episode of 2019 Read More »
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. ~Socrates Greetings, Soapboxers! When was the last time you stared into space? Not the thousand-yard stare that comes with your inner circuitry being overloaded, but rather a time when you made the choice to simply be. No electronic devices, just you and your breath and whatever enters your …
Adventures in downtime (Mara Thomas, ASBX blog post 025) Read More »
Earlier this week, Artist Soapbox hit a major milestone. After a little over 2 years, we have achieved 10,000 downloads. This feels monumental for a local indie podcast and has truly exceeded my expectations. I hope you’ll celebrate with me. Thank you for listening. Thank you to the patrons, guests, and supporters who have made …
Grateful for this preview in INDYWeek today! Join us this Sunday, Nov. 24 and again on December 8. Details below. “Tamara Kissane, the playwright and Artist Soapbox podcast host, is well-acquainted with the constraints that film and live theater place around the works their artists can make. But if those mediums make it cost-prohibitive to …
Upcoming event: Join us for Public Works on November 24! Read More »
Perspectives and voices of four of the voice actors from our first audio drama MASTER BUILDER (released in July 2019.) You’ll hear short 3-5 minute segments musing on the differences between stage acting and audio acting, what the cast hopes people will experience as audio drama listeners, their favorite moments in the Master Builder audio …
093: The cast of MASTER BUILDER speaks! More thoughts on audio drama from the actors… Read More »
“Communities seeking healthcare and environmental justice always have the best answers for how to transform their own conditions.” The second of two episodes with Dr. Marie Garlock discussing the role of performance and storytelling in health and environmental justice movements. In this episode we discuss the Lillies Project, an environmental justice project in Stokes County, …
Marie Garlock, PhD, leads health, performance, collaborative research, and community-building initiatives that span the U.S. South and Global South. She is the director of It Is In You projects, based in Durham, NC. It Is In You partners with people and organizations drawn together by the power of stories to promote health justice including clinicians, …
Greetings, Soapboxers! It’s an exciting day over here in ASBX-land! Tonight, the Soapbox Audio Collective Writers’ Room will assemble for our first meeting. For the next several months, we will be working on developing a full season of Tamara Kissane’s serial audio drama JESUS PANCAKE. I can’t wait to be in the room! [For reference: …
Dale Wolf is a writer, mime, performer, teacher, and veteran of the NC arts community. In this episode with good humor, good stories, and great vulnerability, Dale touches on physicality, baseball, identity, politics & performance, creating new work, being an independent artist, and making art in Durham since the 1970s. BIO Dale Wolf moved to …
“If a dog bites a man, who cares, but if a man bites a dog…that’s news!” This episode features Ed Hunt and Jeff Storer, the co-founders of Manbites Dog Theater, a professional company founded in 1987, dedicated to world and regional premieres of contemporary work. Ed and Jeff discuss the past, present and the future …
