The Zoom Green Room

To finish series one of The Zoom Green Room, I welcome the insanely talented actor Alexander Plouffe. Alex gives the full tea on challenging high school teachers, training and highlights of his work here in Toronto. If you enjoyed series one, please keep your subscription and The Zoom Green room will return!

This week I chat with arts administrator, cultural manager, and creator of Culture Fancier arts blog Glodeane Brown in The Zoom Green Room!  We talk about the creation of the blog and what it means to advocate for the arts, and the push to make art accessible to all. Listen on #iTunespodcasts, #spotifypodcasts or anywhere you get your podcasts, and don’t forget to follow @culturefancier

Toronto actor Tennille Read joins me in The Zoom Green Room. She has numerous television and movie credits, including a recurring role on Season 3 of Workn’ Moms (CBC) and Atom Egoyan’s Guest of Honour (2019). We discuss the challenges of a career in performing, and the advantages of coming to film/theatre school with a mature perspective. Don’t miss it. Listen on #iTunespodcasts, #spotifypodcasts or anywhere you get your podcasts!

Joining me this week in The Zoom Green Room is the dazzling soprano Jennifer Carter. Beyond the opera, Jennifer is also a business owner and entrepreneur. We talk about sharing the joy of singing, along with the highs and lows of the world of opera and what steps might be taken to improve it for the future. Out on Wednesday April 14 - remember to listen and #subscribe!

This week, The Zoom Green Room is graced with the presence of actor, designer and Enfant terrible Ryan Anning! We talk about performance highlights and transitioning from one artistic discipline to another.  Don’t forget to listen and #subscribe.

This week, Sara Taylor a.k.a. Chibi, front-woman of The Birthday Massacre and author of the novel Boring Girls stops by The Zoom Green Room. We talk growing up in Galt and being a high school misfit to playing for crowds of 10,000 people and having a novel published. Be sure to catch chat with the fascinating (and funny) Sara/Chibi.

This week writer and arts worker Michael Cursio joins me in The Zoom Green Room. We talk arts work, writing stories and novels vs. scripts and screenplays, and possible futures. No matter how grim our fears about what may lie directly ahead for us in the arts world, Michael makes everything go down like a delightful glass of bubbly!

Tune in this week to hear Anne talk to behind-the-scenes theatre, TV and film veteran Melanie Mooney. Talk fluctuates between the challenges of working 12-18 hour days on-set to our favourite reality television shows. At the end of the day, it becomes clear that people who work in the performing arts are all connected, no matter their position on the ladder. Also, toe-rings are always a mistake.

This week, we’re in The Zoom Green Room with multiple-award winning dancer and choreographer Robert Stephen. From The National Ballet of Canada to Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Robert has infused all his roles with a wonderfully singular style. Awards include the Rolex Dancers First Award, Clifford E. Lee Award and Erik Bruhn Competition Audience Choice Award for best new choreography. On top of that, he’s just awesome to talk to, and his episode is a treat for dancers and fans alike!

L.A.-based performer Jeffrey Wylie joins Anne this week in The Zoom Green Room. We discuss the hustle of creating and producing a one-man (or one-woman) show. Jeffrey continues to expand upon a successful arts career, looking toward his "third act”, and talks about using the power of comedy to change people’s view of the world. W86953NPYB3AMDtUmlvI

Stage manager, program coordinator, consummate professional - and my own theatre ride-or-die Ansley Newland steps into The Zoom Green Room to spill serious t on shared performances and and the experience of managing massive events. Since Ansley's here, Diet Coke is on the house so crack a can and pull up a chair.

The Zoom Green Room opens today, with guest Jason Chellew. Patron Manager, Events, TV production - this guy is the Energizer Bunny of arts work. We discuss the electric energy of live theatre events, learning on your feet, and the infamous Poo Wall. Extra big thanks to Andrea Little for The Zoom Green Room logo, and Ken Chamberland for our groovy theme tune. You can follow Jason on instagram at @jasonchellewAnd follow The Zoom Green Room at @thezoomgreenroom

Anne Meighan hosts a brand new podcast called The Zoom Green Room, where artists and arts workers of all disciplines explore the past, present and future of their trade. We go dark, we go light and we spill all kinds of tea. Luckily all the furniture in this green room is germy velvet plush and there are plenty of seats. So pour a drink and pull up a chair -- hell, you can even smoke because this Green Room is on Zoom. Starting February 17, 2021.