Green Room On Air with Ray Renati

Michael Grant and the Zombie Apocalypse (replay)

Today we discuss Ray's addiction to chocolate-covered berries, our current pandemic, and most importantly, we have a special interview with the UK-based musician, Michael Grant.
 
Michael Grant's Web Site: https://www.michaelgrantmusician.com/
Michael A. Grant is a freelance musician, proficient on clarinets, bassoon, saxophones and flute. He is currently based in Manchester but available for work throughout the universe.
Michael is an experienced performer in a variety of genres, including orchestral music, big band swing, and traditional jazz. He is also in high demand as a reed player for musical theatre productions, on account of his strong sight-reading ability and expertise across multiple instruments.
Furthermore, he is a very capable arranger and orchestrator, as well as a keen composer.
Michael Grant's new Musical: https://www.michaelgrantmusician.com/inrta/
It’s Not Really the Apocalypse’ tells the story of four friends, who wake one day after the mother of all hangovers to discover they are the only humans left on the planet. Over the course of 14 songs they must adapt to their new lifestyle, whilst also overcoming a much greater challenge: learning to live with each other.
This dark subject matter is juxtaposed with a catchy, ragtime-influenced score that is sure to have you tapping your feet and singing along. Armageddon never sounded so good.
If Only Your Legs Were on Your Head: https://youtu.be/jM5zlL17TSw
The Jelly Roll Jazz Band: http://www.thejellyrolljazzband.co.uk/
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"TV Channeling Podcast" Hosts -Tachi and Kevin

Today my guests are Tachi Egwu and Kevin Williams of the TV Channeling Podcast.
I've known Tachi and Kevin for about five or six years. When it comes to television and film, they really know their stuff.
Find TV Channeling at www.tvchanneling.com
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Benzo Journey Update - Meg MacKay and Carly Ozard - What the World Needs Now is Love - A Benefit Concert

First, we have a stream of consciousness exploration discussing benzodiazepine dependence, Karen's enforcing masking in the open air, CBTi and insomnia,  and Ray's mom calling him by his middle name.
Our Guests: Carly Ozard and Meg MacKay
The Richmond / Ermet Aid Foundation presents…What The World Needs Now is Love: A Valentine Concert Celebrating Broadway 
- A Benefit for: REAF’s Small Emergency Grants Program to support    members of the theater community impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. 
WHEN: SAT. FEBRUARY 13, 2021, 7:00 pm  
WHERE:  LIVE STREAMED ON YOUTUBE LIVE
WHO:  Including in Alphabetical Order (scheduled to appear)… SUSAN ANTON, PETULA CLARK, BARBARA COOK, SPENCER DAY, MELINDA DOOLITTLE, CATHY GARRICK, SHARON GLESS, LESLIE JORDAN, STEVE KNILL, KIMBERLEY LOCKE, LA TOYA LONDON, CONSTANTINE MAROULIS, MEG MACKAY, CARLY OZARD, JAKE SIMPSON, RENE TAYLOR & JOSEPH BOLONIA, BRUCE VILANCH and TEAL WICKS
Tickets:  $25    (performance link only)   $50 & $100  (includes special Valentine messages posted online and other perks)
For tickets or additional info, visit our website: https://www.reaf-sf.org  
Phone:  415-273-1620
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/233161325104847
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Meg Mackay has been a local Diva in the San Francisco cabaret and musical theater scene for more than 20 years and is the winner of 7 Drama-Logue/Dean Goodman and 7 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards for her work in Torch Song Trilogy (1st Nat’l. Tour), Hello Dolly! (Mt. Play), Roberta and Grass Harp (42nd St. Moon), A Karen Carpenter Christmas (The Marsh), And What Give Up Showbiz? (Mason St. Theater), The World Goes Round, She Loves Me and Putting It Together (TheatreWorks), Enter the Guardsman (San Jose Rep) and The Subject was Roses (PASCo). Her favorite role was ‘Momma Rose’ in TheatreWorks fabulous production of Gypsy. She has recorded two critically-acclaimed CDs, So Many People and Legally Blonde. Meg and her husband, pianist, Billy Philadelphia perform in concert in many Bay Area theaters and on the road around the country.
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Carly Ozard is an electronic music vocalist and songwriter. Recently signed to Sobel Nation Records distributed by Warner Bros, Carly’s new tracks and remixes will be available on all major streaming platforms in October, 2019.
A citizen of the world, Carly travels, and writes songs based on her experiences. From Burning Man to Bali, her songs inform her listeners that transcendence and acceptance worldwide is the message. EDM, Punjabi Mantras, and LGBTQ Anthems are just the beginning of her trek into solo artistry. Carly looks forward to showcasing her collaborations with her Production Team at Sobel, with DJ Spin Sista, Pollo Del Mar, Leo Frappier and more.
She is a beloved MTA Busker with Music Under New York.
 
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Love in the Time of Covid - 6 Short Plays - 2 Nights

"Love in the Time of Covid" is six short new plays written by Neva Hutchinson, Bridgette Dutta Portman, and Richard Talavera, produced by the St. Peter's Players, Redwood City.
Player favorites Susan Mitchell, John McGill, Alejandro Mejia, Alec Braun and Roseannie Garraud will be appearing, along with Ruth Anne Lambert, Julie Lanesy and Paul Costello.
Reserve your Zoom Seats: https://cutt.ly/LoveAndCovid
---Neva Hutchinson has acted in New York, Maine and the Bay Area in over 60 theater productions. She's worked with Francis Ford Coppola, Lee Sankowich, Kevin Malony and Libby Appel. In film, she's worked with Jon Voight and Will Smith. She's trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and with Richard Seyd and Wynn Handman. She recently appeared at the Phoenix Theater in San Francisco in "By The Waters of Babylon" by Robert Schenkkan. Presently, she's appearing in the lead role in "Raptured: the Disappearance and Discovery of Aimee Semple McPherson". Also, she can currently be seen as a dry cleaner in a Buster Posey Toyota commercial.
---Bridgette Dutta Portman is a playwright, teacher, and aspiring novelist in the San Francisco Bay Area. More than two dozen of her plays have been produced locally, nationally, and internationally. She is past president of the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, was 2018 resident playwright at Custom Made Theatre Co., and is currently a member of Same Boat Theater Collective, the Pear Writers' Guild and the Dramatists' Guild. She has been a finalist for the Bay Area Playwrights' Festival, the Theatre Bay Area TITAN award, the PlayPenn Conference, the Kentucky Women’s Theatre Conference Prize for Women Writers, the New Dramatists playwrights' residency, and more. She holds a PhD in political science (UC Irvine, 2011) and an MFA in creative writing (Spalding University, 2018). She lives in Fremont, CA with her husband, their 6-year-old son, their baby daughter, and their very sweet dog Snickers.
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The Siege of the Capitol Building

1)This week we witnessed one of the most shocking and dangerous acts of domestic terrorism seen in the United States in recent times. Perhaps it was only overshadowed by the Oklahoma City Bombing back in 1995. Hear the names of  all 147 Republican legislators who voted to overturn the election results. Here's the list of legislators: https://cutt.ly/Cjvx1F7
2) Must Watch TV: "Schitt's Creek" on Netflix, "The Bureau" on Vudu.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Michael Gene Sullivan - San Francisco Mime Troupe

The Tony Award-Winning SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE debuts a NEW Activist Adaptation of the Dickens Classic as a Radio Play
A RED CAROL
An Activist Adaptation of the Dickens Classic
Written and Directed by Michael Gene Sullivan
A 21st. Century SFMT spin on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Online Fri. Dec. 11, 2020 - Jan. 17, 2021 -  FREE (suggested $20 donation)
https://www.sfmt.org/
 
Michael Gene Sullivan (Writer, Director,Actor, SFMT Collective) is an award-winning actor, director, and playwright based in SF. As an actor Michael has worked with the American Conservatory Theatre, the Denver Center Theater Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Theatreworks, CA Shakespeare Theatre, SF Playhouse, SF and the African American Shakespeare Companies, and the Aurora, the Marin, the Magic, the Lorraine Hansberry Theater, and has been a principle actor for the SF Mime Troupe for over 30 years. Michael’s directing credits include work with SF Shakespeare Festival, TheatreFirst, the African American Shakespeare Company, Street Of Dreams Theatre Company, and over a dozen shows with SFMT. Michael was also director of the all-woman, all-clown Circus Finelli. From 1992 -1999 Michael was a Contributing Writer for the despite-its-name-never-silent, Tony and OBIE Award-winning SF Mime Troupe before being named SFMT’s Resident Playwright 2000 to present. Michael is also a Resident Playwright for the Playwrights Foundation, and in 2017 was playwriting resident at the Djerassi Arts Center. Mr. Sullivan's political dramas, musicals, and satires include Walls (Ningun Humano Es Ilegal!), Treasure Island, For The Greater Good, Freedomland, Red Carol, Too Big To Fail, Did Anyone Ever Tell You-You Look Like Huey P. Newton?, Mr. Smith Goes to Obscuristan (with Josh Kornbluth), Godfellas, Too Big to Fail, Possibilidad or The Death of the Worker, the all-woman farce Recipe, and his one person show, Did Anyone Ever Tell You -- You Look Like Huey P. Newton? Mr. Sullivan's plays have been performed at the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the International Festival of Verbal Art (Berlin), The Hong Kong Arts Festival, and in Greece, Spain, Columbia, Argentina, New Zealand, Ukraine, England, Scotland, The Netherlands, Australia, Canada, Mexico, as well as in theaters throughout the USA. 1984, his critically-acclaimed stage adaptation of George Orwell's dystopic novel of the oppressive present/future, had its world premiere in 2006 at the Actors' Gang, directed by Academy Award-winning actor Tim Robbins. After several extended runs in LA, 1984 has gone on to several national and international productions, has been translated into six languages, and published in two. Michael is also a Collective Member and Board Member of the SF Mime Troupe. 
www.michaelgenesullivan.com

Aidan Park - Actor, Comedian, Author

My guest today is Aidan Park. Aidan is a nationally recognized stand-up comedian headliner, working actor, published author, certified life coach, public speaker, certified master level practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), and creator of the wellness brand, The Art of Being Yay! Aidan is known for having survived seemingly insurmountable challenges in his personal life. Yet, through it all, he reached notable success. He overcame being an undocumented immigrant living in poverty, an HIV diagnosis when he was a teen, a widow later in life, and mental health issues. 
In his new book, The Art of Being Yay!, comedian and happiness expert Aidan Park provides tools for authentic joy and empowerment sharing scandalous juicy stories from his past that "out drama" a Lifetime TV movie with tales of infidelity, death, scandal, heartache, love, friendships and betrayals!
 
In The Art of Being Yay! discover:
-The science of happiness and how to use them to your advantage-How to manage destructive negative emotions-How to create new thought patterns for lasting mental and behavioral change-Practical tools for empowering yourself for the life that you want-How an undocumented immigrant in poverty that was once a Craigslist "erotic services provider" became a happiness expert people pay lots of money to get advice from!
https://www.aidanpark.com/
Amazon link - https://amzn.to/38z1jRF
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Wallis and Windsor - A New Musical Bound for Broadway

WALLIS and WINDSOR is a brand new musical that is certain to entertain! This Broadway-bound musical, WALLIS and WINDSOR, takes us back in history to the abdication of the British throne!Set in 1930’s London, WALLIS and WINDSOR is the extraordinary true story of two Kings. Brothers. One who gives up the throne for the woman he loves. The other who must take his brother’s place in history by embracing the throne and with the support of his majestic wife, become one of Britain’s most beloved Kings!The creative team is made up of accomplished veterans stage and screen and consists of Jonnie Bross, Jennifer Bross, Christopher Caliendo, Jonathan Bross, and Eric Bross.
Web site: https://wallisandwindsor.comPLEASE Consider contributing to the Kickstarter Campaign of this great new Show!WALIS AND WINDSOR - Kickstarter:  https://cutt.ly/wallisandwindsor
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The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Today I talk about life in the crazy world of COVID 19 and Donald Trump and I discuss the new independent film, "The Last Black Man in San Francisco".
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Gary Stanford Jr. discusses San Francisco Theatre and Black Lives Matter

Gary Stanford Jr. is a San Francisco Bay Area veteran actor and director. Ray and Gary reminisce about San Francisco theatre, they discuss the current social atmosphere, white supremacy, the Black Lives Matter movement, and other current social and political topics. 
Planet Bay Area Podcast with Gary Stanford Jr.: https://www.facebook.com/PlanetBayArea
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