Rachel Jackson graphically describes the tragic lifecyle of the piñata, tells us how puppetry counts as both solo and collaborative, and introduces us to her compatriot Dr. Lenny, who brings some deranged analysis to the proceedings. She also tells us ab

Alan Bryce, Artistic Director at Center Stage Theatre in Federal Way, tells us about the many advantages of passing the age of 60, the role of the artist as a "filter of the truth," and how he travelled half way across the world to research a new musical.

This week's interlude features Shakespeare Off the Page, a podcast started by The Artist Rolls' own Sean Mitchell. It presents Shakespeare's writing as it was meant to be experienced--in performance, not in a book. Off the page, indeed. Sean applies his s

We made a promise. We're taking a brief summer break here at The Artist Rolls. But we promised that you could trust us for continued podcasting goodness even during the break itself. They called us mad. They called us rash. They rang our doorbells and ra

It’s It’s summer, and we just wanted to let you know that “The Artist Rolls” will be taking a few weeks off. Well, not off off, because we're going to be playing for you some choice cuts from podcasts that we did before we teamed up to form The Ar

Writer, artist, traveller, and ukulele rocker Pam Mandel joins us for a fun chat about wrangling words for a living, insights from an astronaut about social media, and being open to the spontaneous in art and in life.

He played one of the shortest-lived Hamlets ever in The Complete Works of Williams Shakespeare (Abridged). He voted to impeach the President on 24. Now actor, playwright, and podcaster Austin Tichenor (128/384ths of the Reduced Shakespeare Company) joins

It seemed only fair: Sean interviewed Jamie, using the very same character form we inflict on our guests each week.Little did we know that we were about to become embroiled in an epic feud about the nature of the novel.  Human impulse or technologi

ElenaH: Roles

The delightful Writer-Director-Actor-Artist Pat Haines-Ainsworth uses up all our hyphens and tells us about the joys and challenges of performing for young audiences, the importance of Bejeweled in the creative life, and how taking comedy seriously makes