Our guest on episode 13 is playwright, actor and director Ben Fisher! Ben was on break from the MFA Playwriting program at UCSD and just closed his new play Campo Maldito at the SF Fringe. The show also played the NY Fringe earlier in the summer and sna

This week we're back with Mission CTRL's Devin McNulty! We had Devin on during the "Get to know PianoFight" episode and the chat about YouTube, digital content, how it's created and consumed was so interesting we wanted to go a bit further. In this inter

Welcome to our eleventh episode! This week we record from the annual PianoFight retreat to Tahoe and interview PianoFight company members Jess Mele, Cooper Carlson, Kate Jones and Devin McNulty. Topics range from talking about the SF Improv Fest and SF F

Welcome to Born Ready episode 10! This week we sit down with Jamie Wright and Sam Shaw, producers of the San Francisco Improv Festival and the makers of the upcoming documentary on San Francisco's legendary comedy group The Committee. This week we're drin

Welcome to the NINTH installment of BORN READY! This episode we dive into music and what theater can learn from it with our VERY SPECIAL guest (and producer) Duncan Wold! What starts as a pretty esoteric conversation on "What is Art?" Turns into a concre

Welcome to the eighth episode of BORN READY, our Shakespeare Battle Royal featuring Shakespearean director and general expert Steve Boyle. Inspired by Ira Glass' tweet that "Shakespeare sucks." And the (inevitable) subsequent freakout that happened onlin

Hello and welcome to episode 7 of BORN READY. Today we talk to Brad Erickson, the executive director of Theater Bay Area (TBA). Topics include theater pet peeves, TBA's "Bridge the Gap" fundraiser, the TBA awards, the soon to be arts complex at 950 Mark

  It's BORN READY Episode 6 straight to your ear balls! Our guest, Jamie DeWolf, talks working heel and going pillar to post with his own audience, and wonders aloud how people can get so angry at a dude with a mic. In our newly minted segment, News

We made 5 episodes! I didn't know if we'd get there, or if anyone would give a shit, but we did and people do! This show we're stoked to welcome the new co-creative director of Killing My Lobster, Allison Page. We talk KML's most recent kick-ass produc

Welcome to BORN READY Episode 4! In which, Rob continues to dig his own grave in Part 2 of our interview with Z Space Artistic Director Lisa Steindler. Listen to Part 1 w/ Lisa here. In this episode we talk #TheaterPetPeeves like playwrights refusing to