Dear Multi-hyphenate
Are you a combination of actor, director, producer, designer, or anything else? Congratulations, you’re a multi-hyphenate! A multi-hyphenate is an artist who has multiple proficiencies that cross pollinate to help flourish professional capabilities. Dear Multi-hyphenate explores the full potential of artists in show business who have taken the paths less traveled. Are you unsure how to stay creative and garner income during the pandemic? Are you sitting on a project and you have no idea how to get started? What if others have cornered you into thinking that you are just an actor, or just a director, or just a producer? Let go of the rules and take agency of your full potential! Listen to me and my guests, the leaders of the multi-hyphenation station, as we dissect the mentality and possibilities about artistic agency.”Michael is the glue that holds the Broadway community together.” - Tony Award Winner Alice Ripley (Next to Normal)
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Friday Aug 21, 2020
Friday Aug 21, 2020
When do you know it's time to stop what you're doing and change paths? Sometimes multi-hyphenating isn't about doing everything you've always known to be true. Sometimes it's going on a journey and learning new things. Lori Wheat went on ONE audition in NYC and shifted gears. She didn't quit the industry, but she did figure out how to best tell her stories and help those around her. Though there isn't a formula for being original, Lori did one of the scariest things an artist can do: start something new and create Her Story Branding. Connect with Michael:
@themichaelkushner
@thedressingroomproject
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Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
John Schwab is a West End performer, producer, director, and creator of the online database ‘Curtain Call’. He started his journey with computer technology in South Korea... how did he end up in the arts? And how does he use knowledge of technology to this day? All these questions are answered - including a fabulous discussion of the multi-hyphenate super power - on this episode of Dear Multi-HyphenateConnect with Michael:
@themichaelkushner
@thedressingroomproject
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Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
What is work? It looks differently for everyone. We can work all day, but at the same time not work at all. Ned Donovan is a high-tech, fast thinking actor, fight choreographer, content creator, and producer who is always on the move and constantly learning new proficiencies. But when is it appropriate to commit to a project thinking we can handle it ourselves or choose to find someone else to help us solve the puzzle? Ned beautifully speaks about the grief he experienced and the lessons he learned after losing both of his parents in a short amount of time... all while being inspired by his mother who believed that life was not just about joining communities, but making them.Connect with Michael:
@themichaelkushner
@thedressingroomproject
dressingroomproject.com
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Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Alexandra Silber is a Broadway & West End actress, two time novel writer, and educator. This episode covers a lot of bases, but most importantly the common denominator is courage. When do we start to at a hyphen to our identity? How do we even discover our hyphens? Can't we all just be like cats? Okay, that last one seemed a little random but Al makes a brilliant point that we all should be more like cats. So be a good cat and listen to this amazing episode of Dear Multi-Hyphenate!Connect with Michael:
@themichaelkushner
@thedressingroomproject
dressingroomproject.com
Produced by Alan Seales and the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
In this special how-to episode, Mean Girls’ Kate Rockwell and Empress 1908 Gin’s Tracey Eden join Dear Multi-Hyphenate in some cocktail making fun. This amazing cocktail is Karen from Mean Girls inspired and is literally... so good. Kate and Tracey both share their experiences on how their love for wine and cocktails influenced artistic freedom when not performing. L’chaim!Watch the video companion for this episode here: https://youtu.be/aR4HfXRkqpEConnect with Michael:
@themichaelkushner
@thedressingroomproject
dressingroomproject.com
Produced by Alan Seales and the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Lindsay Lavin is a talented performer and make up artist. Because of her new found love of make up and hair artistry, Lindsay has been able to spend energy on projects she wants to do, not has to do. Through her new hyphen, Lindsay has discovered her place in the industry is more clear than ever. This episode has great insight to producing your own concert, how to explore a new passion, and great tips and tricks to how to prepare for a successful headshot session.Connect with Michael:
@themichaelkushner
@thedressingroomproject
dressingroomproject.com
Produced by Alan Seales and the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Beautiful and The Book of Mormon’s Dimitri Moise is a queer, HIV+ activist, now the co-chair of Claim Our Space Now. COSN, featured in Forbes, an organization emboldening urgent action to dismantle white supremacy. Dimitri speaks about following impulses that led him to following a call to action and the tools he uses to produce his best, focused work. Connect with Michael:
@themichaelkushner
@thedressingroomproject
dressingroomproject.com
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Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Tony Winner and legend Tonya Pinkins (Jelly’s Last Jam, Play On!, and Caroline, or Change) joins Dear Multi-Hyphenate speaking on the energy and clairvoyance it takes to have a career in the arts. Tonya is an actor, writer, teacher, producer, director, podcaster, activist. Above all else, she is incredibly inspiring and full of wisdom. Connect with Michael:
@themichaelkushner
@thedressingroomproject
dressingroomproject.com
Produced by Alan Seales and the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
In this special edition of Dear Multi-Hyphenate, Michael speaks with John McGinty an actor and advocate, who happens to be deaf. We ask hard hitting questions, but the answer is we can always do better. Michael and John are joined by his interpreter Nicole Cartagena.Watch the video of this event here: https://youtu.be/QlF3UDHPSPs Connect with Michael:
@themichaelkushner
@thedressingroomproject
dressingroomproject.com
Produced by Alan Seales and the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Wednesday May 27, 2020
Wednesday May 27, 2020
Ashley Kate Adams had a total shift in gear after her Broadway show closed just a few weeks after she joined. This positive force of nature brightens any room she walks into with her sunny disposition and laser beam focus. Ashley Kate speaks about how she created her production company, releasing the need for affirmation, learning by doing, and well, marinating the chicken. Connect with Michael:
@themichaelkushner
@thedressingroomproject
dressingroomproject.com
Produced by Alan Seales and the Broadway Podcast Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices