Artistic directors and season selection committees should consider these 7 factors when determining their upcoming season programming.Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!Visit the podcast website that includes a full transcript.New episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

Breaking the Fourth Wall

7 Factors to Consider When Selecting a Theatrical Season

Consider these 7 steps when entering the rehearsal and production process to support and advocate for greater diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice.Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!Visit the podcast website that includes a full transcript.New episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

7 Steps to Advocating for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Rehearsal and Production

Ashlee and Tim discuss actionable steps that program heads and faculty can immediately implement into their curriculum and teaching practices in order to affect the much needed positive change moving forward.Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!Visit the podcast website that includes a full transcript.New episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

Actionable Steps to Affect Immediate Positive Change within Collegiate Theatre Programs

Are theatre programs adequately preparing students to meet the demands of the professional arena of theatre after graduation?Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!Visit the podcast website that includes a full transcript.New episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

Preparing Students for the Transition into the Professional Arena

Does working on Broadway and New York City serve as the  sole definition of success in the theatre industry?Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!Visit the podcast website that includes a full transcript.New episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

Does Broadway Define Success

How to avoid burnout in an industry built on more work and less pay. Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!Visit the podcast website that includes a full transcript.New episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

Five Tips to Avoid Creative Burnout

How are self tape submissions evolving and creating equitable opportunities in musical theatre. Tim and Ashlee also discuss how self promotion is linked to your process and ways you can maximum your online presence.Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!Read the blog post of this episode that includes additional photos, videos and resources.Visit the podcast website that includes a full transcript.New episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

Navigating the New World of Virtual Auditions

How we can begin to honor and acknowledge the benefits of creating a career in musical theatre that includes multiple steams of income, passion and value.  Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!podcast websiteNew episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

Cultivating a Multi-faceted Career

It&apos;s time to reframe the narrative that surrounds cruise ship and theme park entertainment. Ashlee and Tim Espinosa talk about their experience meeting on a cruise ship as performers, how it enabled them to explore the world and multitudes of cultures, work with multi million dollar sets and costume, and why theme park are a valuable means of income within the entrainment industry.Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!podcast websiteNew episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

Shifting the Stigma of Cruise Ship and Theme Park Entertainment

Korrie Yamaoka, host of the podcast Studying the Song, joins us as we talk about changing the way we train singers, creating healthy boundaries, and audition thoughts from her perspective as a vocal coach and music director.Korrie Yamaoka is a musical theatre vocal coach and music director in San Diego, CA.  A specialist in musical theatre repertoire and contemporary pop/rock performance styles, Korrie explores the intersection of rock music and musical theatre and has been a guest lecturer at Musical Theatre Educator’s Alliance (MTEA) and Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) as well as a guest teaching artist at universities across the United States.  Korrie is also the host of Studying the Song, a podcast for musical theatre actors about audition preparation and vocal styling.  She helps singers create a powerful audition book that showcases their artistry and helps them achieve their artistic goals.Selected music direction credits include White Christmas (Gateway Playhouse, NY), Phantom (Gateway Playhouse), Beth Malone: So Far (New York and San Diego), Everybody’s Talkin’ (San Diego Repertory Theatre), Violet (San Diego Repertory Theatre), Cabaret (AMDA College and Conservatory, LA). M.F.A in Musical Theatre, San Diego State University; B.A. in Music, San Diego State University.Studying the Song is a podcast for musical theatre actors who want to take their vocal artistry to the next level by going deep into the music of musical theatre.   I’ll help you figure out WHAT to sing and HOW to sing it so that you SHINE in your audition, one-woman-show, or leading role.  Specifically, we’ll be dissecting the songs, character and vocal archetypes, musical genres, and vocals styles of Broadway so that you can:1)create a powerful audition book that showcases your artistry and actually gets you work2)feel totally at home reading the musical score of a show3)define your unique artistic voice4)and craft a performing career you love!Follow Korrie on Instagram and learn more on her website.Breaking the Fourth Wall podcast website.New episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

"Reframing the Singer's Toolkit" with Korrie Yamaoka

The history of American acting methodologies and ways that we can eliminate trauma when teaching acting fundamentals.Reflecting on American Acting Training in 2021What is the history of teaching acting in musical theatre?How has it affected actors negatively?What can we do to better train actors without using trauma?Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!Read the blog post of this episode that includes additional photos, videos and resources.Visit the podcast website that includes a full transcript.New episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

"The Absence of Trauma in Acting Training"

In this episode of Breaking the Fourth Wall, Ashlee (she/her) and Tim (he/him) interview Leo Yu-Ning Chang about his thoughts on the current state of musical theatre.Visit the podcast website.Leo Yu-Ning Chang is a bilingual performer and educator born and raised in Taiwan, where he co-founded an award-winning A Cappella Band-Guess What. Upon earning his M.F.A. degree in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University, Leo took the faithful leap. He moved to NYC and soon made his Off-Broadway debut in Revelation: The Musical. Leo is currently on faculty at Marymount Manhattan College and serving as a teaching artist at New York City Center. His selected credits include Bubble Boy, Farewell My Concubine (Reading), Mr. Holland’s Opus (Reading), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Company, The Full Monty, and Enchanted April. Follow Leo on Instagram, Facebook and his website.New episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

"Representation Matters" with Leo Yu-Ning Chang

In this episode of Breaking the Fourth Wall, Ashlee (she/her) and Tim (he/him) discuss the challenges associated with the role of the stage director.Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!podcast websiteNew episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

"The Directorial Process"

In this episode of Breaking the Fourth Wall, Ashlee and Tim interview JoJo Siu and Sarah Timm about their thoughts on the current state of musical theatre through the lens of a costume designer. We also talk about their successful podcast The Costume Plot.Join us on Clubhouse for our weekly podcast encore event with JoJo and Sarah on Thursday at 4pm PT.JoJo Siu graduated from UCIrvine with her M.F.A. in Costume Design. She hails from Philadelphia, and has been working as a designer for film, opera, theatre and dance both nationally and internationally for over 10 years. She has worked with the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Santa Fe Opera, South Coast Repertory, Fullerton College, Chapman University, Backhaus Dance, OC Shakespeare Festival, Sierra Madre Playhouse, and Singapore Repertory Theatre, among many others. She is a huge advocate for Asian diversity within theatre, and loves when diversity and design can come together on the stage to represent storytelling. She loves theatre and film that is inspired by  folklore and magic--a storytelling tradition that is inherent to her own Chinese heritage and history. She’s participated in the (CAATA) Consortium of Asian American Theatres and Artists, is a member of USITT, and has designed for several world premieres, including The Trial of Dedan Kimathi, The Madres, and W.A.S.P. Her repertoire includes Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It, Othello, and Twelfth Night, Importance of Being Earnest, Toys in the Attic, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Evita, Spring Awakening, Eurydice, Waiting for Godot, Never the Sinner, and Blood Wedding. Sarah Timm is a costume designer and cutter/draper working in professional theatre in Orange County. She works primarily at South Coast Repertory and Fullerton College, and has twice competed in the Her Universe Fashion Show at San Diego Comic Con.Follow Jojo on and Sarah&apos;s podcast entitled The Costume Plot on Instagram and their Podcast  website.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

"The Voice of Costume" with JoJo Siu & Sarah Timm

In this episode of Breaking the Fourth Wall, Ashlee (she/her) and Tim (he/him) discuss the problematic nature of, what is considered to be, the Golden Age of musical theatre.Reflecting on the term “Golden Age” in 2021What is the Golden Age?Why have we put so much emphasis on it?What are the problematic concepts with these musicals?How do we approach these musicals now?Plus, as always, your favorite weekly puzzler is included!Join us on Clubhouse this week on Thursday, April 1 at 5pm PT for a post show conversation.Click here to join the eventpodcast websiteNew episodes every Monday morning.Websites:AshleeEspinosa.comTimEspinosa.comInstagram:@ashleelynnespinosa@timespinosaofficialYoutube:Ashlee EspinosaTim EspinosaTwitter:@AshleeLEspinosaEmail us at: team@AshleeEspinosa.com

"The Not So Golden Age"

Today’s theatre must strive for greater diversity, representation and inclusion. Every Monday, join Ashlee and Tim Espinosa, accomplished musical theatre teaching artists, as they engage in stimulating conversations on the current state of musical theatre and how they are advocating for positive change. Whether you are a musical theatre performer, actor, educator, student or patron who either wants to stay current with musical theatre news, expand your knowledge of the history of musical theatre, or gain insight on the changing landscape of today’s musical theatre, this podcast is for you.

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