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Episode Synopsis
A great way to launch LIFE IN STAGES is with our first guest,
Mark McGrinder. Mark and I met in 1990 at the University of Waterloo – he was entering first year and I was newly arrived as the Chair of the Drama Department. Over the next four years we spent a lot of time together in class and in rehearsals.
Jump to 2002, eight years after he graduated, and Mark and I, along with three other UW alumni, met to consider a large project that could include many UW alum who were still carving out performing arts careers. A year later we produced the professional Canadian premiere of The Laramie Project. What we couldn’t have known then is that this would become the launch of Studio 180 Theatre.
Mark, a founding member 21 years ago, is now the company’s current Artistic Director. I can’t think of a better first guest for this first episode.
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Mark McGrinder. Mark and I met in 1990 at the University of Waterloo – he was entering first year and I was newly arrived as the Chair of the Drama Department. Over the next four years we spent a lot of time together in class and in rehearsals.
Jump to 2002, eight years after he graduated, and Mark and I, along with three other UW alumni, met to consider a large project that could include many UW alum who were still carving out performing arts careers. A year later we produced the professional Canadian premiere of The Laramie Project. What we couldn’t have known then is that this would become the launch of Studio 180 Theatre.
Mark, a founding member 21 years ago, is now the company’s current Artistic Director. I can’t think of a better first guest for this first episode.
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NOTE: please consider supporting the running cost of this podcast by sending an e-transfer to [email protected] or by becoming a Patron at patreon.com/lifeinstages.
And you can find us on –
Instagram – http://www.instagram.com/lifeinstagespodcast/
Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/lifeinstagespodcast/
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