The Longest Day Fundraiser – 4th and Final Round Interview Announcements

We’re almost there! And we have a full schedule. We’ve got four people, but it’s going into three slots.

First up is Sean Cawelti, the artistic director at Rogue Artists Ensemble here in Los Angeles. Cawelti is also a puppet and mask designer, and has been a puppeteer since he was four.

The theatre is currently doing staged readings of an immersive, interactive theatre experience that’s in development for a full production next year. Titled Schlitzie: Alive and Inside the Decaying Sideshow, it’s about one of history’s most iconic and misunderstood sideshow performers.

We’ll talk about Rogue Artists, the current production, and what it’s like to be a theatre person in the land known as Hollywood.

 

Next is Jake Broderi, a playwright, actor, and musician also based in Los Angeles.

He recently wrote the play UnRavelled in Conversation: Creativity, Love & Dementia, which premiered on zoom during the pandemic and for which he’s trying to get a full production going now. The zoom reading just received five LA Drama Critics Circle nominations.

We’ll talk about playwrighting, the inspiration for this play, and more.

 

 

Finally, as I mentioned, the reason I’m doing this is because a good friend of mine, marsha morgan, died from complications from the disease. She was the theatre teacher at Park when I went there. Ann Schultis and Donna Bachmann were both marsha’s co-workers and friends at Park, and ended up being her Power of Attorney at the end.

I’ll be talking to them both at once, both about their own careers and about their time with marsha.

Ann was the librarian at Park. She was there for almost 30 years, and also volunteered with the faculty Senate and Federation. She’s worked with University of Texas San Antonio and UT El Paso, and is currently part of the Zoom book club in El Paso. We’ll talk about what it takes to be a librarian and how the profession has changed.

Donna was the art teacher at Park when I attended. She was there for 27 years, and founded the campus’ Campanella Gallery. She has written a bibliography on historic women artists, exhibits her art, and has been a clinic escort at Planned Parenthood. We’ll talk art, feminism, and the intersection of the two.

A reminder I’ll be streaming this live on YouTube, and each interview will be edited for my regular podcast. You can see all the information about it, including how to donate and tune in, on this page of my website. Stay tuned and stay geeky!