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Shoshana Bean: Part 2 ”Acceptance is Love”

Shoshana Bean’s (IG:@shobean)(TW:@shoshanabean)(shoshanabean.com)    three independent solo albums have all topped the iTunes R&B and Blues charts in the US and UK, with her fourth and most recent project, SPECTRUM, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Jazz charts. She has sold out solo concerts around the globe, lent her voice to countless films and television shows, amassed millions of views on YouTube, and performed alongside Ariana Grande, David Foster, Postmodern Jukebox, Brian McKnight, and Michael Jackson. Shoshana is a veteran of the Broadway stage having made her debut in the original cast of Hairspray, starring as the very first replacement for Elphaba in Wicked and most recently as Jenna in Waitress. She won a IRNE Award for her performance as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl and earned a Jeff Award nomination for her portrayal of CeeCee Bloom in the pre-Broadway musical production of Beaches.

Shoshana Bean: Part 1 ”More, Better, Different”

Shoshana Bean’s (IG:@shobean)(TW:@shoshanabean)(shoshanabean.com)    three independent solo albums have all topped the iTunes R&B and Blues charts in the US and UK, with her fourth and most recent project, SPECTRUM, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Jazz charts. She has sold out solo concerts around the globe, lent her voice to countless films and television shows, amassed millions of views on YouTube, and performed alongside Ariana Grande, David Foster, Postmodern Jukebox, Brian McKnight, and Michael Jackson. Shoshana is a veteran of the Broadway stage having made her debut in the original cast of Hairspray, starring as the very first replacement for Elphaba in Wicked and most recently as Jenna in Waitress. She won a IRNE Award for her performance as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl and earned a Jeff Award nomination for her portrayal of CeeCee Bloom in the pre-Broadway musical production of Beaches.

Clayton Howe ”Keep On Keepin’ On”

Clayton Howe (IG:@inclaynation)(LI:@clayton-howe)This is a different episode. I wanted to share with you what my life has looked like for the last couple months along with lessons I've learned along the way. I'm keeping it a single part episode this week and SHORT because why say more than what could be said in less words. This has been a different time and I feel some of the journey that I've been on others' can learn from! So I hope you enjoy this episode and keep on keepin' on! 

Joe Mantello Part 2 ”Look Up”

JOE MANTELLO most recently received Emmy and Critics’ Choice Television Award nominations for his performance in HBO’s The Normal Heart (dir. Ryan Murphy). This two-time Tony Award-winning director’s credits include: The Last Ship, Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last, The Other Place, Dogfight, Other Desert Cities, The Pride, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, November, The Receptionist, The Ritz, Blackbird, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination), Laugh Whore, Assassins (Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living, The Vagina Monologues, Bash, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination), Proposals, The Mineola Twins, and Corpus Christi. Acting credits: The Normal Heart (Tony nomination), Angels in America (Tony nomination), and The Baltimore Waltz. He has received Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie, and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at Roundabout Theatre Company.
 
 

Joe Mantello Part 1 ”The Decision to Direct”

JOE MANTELLO most recently received Emmy and Critics’ Choice Television Award nominations for his performance in HBO’s The Normal Heart (dir. Ryan Murphy). This two-time Tony Award-winning director’s credits include: The Last Ship, Casa Valentina, I’ll Eat You Last, The Other Place, Dogfight, Other Desert Cities, The Pride, Pal Joey, 9 to 5, November, The Receptionist, The Ritz, Blackbird, Three Days of Rain, The Odd Couple, Glengarry Glen Ross (Tony nomination), Laugh Whore, Assassins (Tony Award), Wicked, Take Me Out (Tony Award), Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, A Man of No Importance, Design for Living, The Vagina Monologues, Bash, Love! Valour! Compassion! (Tony nomination), Proposals, The Mineola Twins, and Corpus Christi. Acting credits: The Normal Heart (Tony nomination), Angels in America (Tony nomination), and The Baltimore Waltz. He has received Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, Clarence Derwent, Obie, and Joe A. Callaway awards. He is a member of Naked Angels and an associate artist at Roundabout Theatre Company.
 
 

Sunny Vachher Part 2: ”Ted Talks and The Great Artist”

Sunny Vachher (IG:@isunny)(TW:@sunnyvachher)(LI:@sunnyvachher) "My ultimate goal is to continue to live as an agent of change in all humanly perspectives. I am an innovative thinker bringing creative vision to life from wonder to wonderful: the big picture.""I am a creative human being with an artistic and proactive approach to producing quality projects with perfection, strong intentions, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution. Creativity, elegance, and forward thinking are of the utmost priority in my life. I believe in and practice building genuine relationships personally and professionally through the act of positive human interaction which also serves as a means of deep self-motivation.""To this day, I have worked in multiple small and large engaging environments in the greater Los Angeles city. And, I have truly given my creative best in various industries from education, pharmaceuticals, retail, wholesale, sports, real estate, banking and financial to entertainment industries acting in a different challenging role each time while on the road to achieve personal and professional success.""I have initiated and managed Enterprise wide technology driven digital projects focused on interactive change management utilizing creativity and the project management methodology to produce cost effective solutions in Multimillions annually for the organization as well as produced cross-functional interactive sites and resources for internal use. And thereby leading and driving creative technology projects from inception to completion bringing an idea and concept to life digitally."

Sunny Vachher Part 1: ”Early Inspirations through Hollywood”

Sunny Vachher (IG:@isunny)(TW:@sunnyvachher)(LI:@sunnyvachher) "My ultimate goal is to continue to live as an agent of change in all humanly perspectives. I am an innovative thinker bringing creative vision to life from wonder to wonderful: the big picture.""I am a creative human being with an artistic and proactive approach to producing quality projects with perfection, strong intentions, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution. Creativity, elegance, and forward thinking are of the utmost priority in my life. I believe in and practice building genuine relationships personally and professionally through the act of positive human interaction which also serves as a means of deep self-motivation.""To this day, I have worked in multiple small and large engaging environments in the greater Los Angeles city. And, I have truly given my creative best in various industries from education, pharmaceuticals, retail, wholesale, sports, real estate, banking and financial to entertainment industries acting in a different challenging role each time while on the road to achieve personal and professional success.""I have initiated and managed Enterprise wide technology driven digital projects focused on interactive change management utilizing creativity and the project management methodology to produce cost effective solutions in Multimillions annually for the organization as well as produced cross-functional interactive sites and resources for internal use. And thereby leading and driving creative technology projects from inception to completion bringing an idea and concept to life digitally."

Happy Easter from your host Clayton Howe

Happy Easter! Thank you for listening to the show. I'm excited to continue to bring you all of the best content Entertainmentx has to offer with exciting and new guests as we enter the 200's. Keep On Keepin' On! 

Matt Lenz Part 2: ”Take the High Road”

MATT LENZ (mattlenzdirector.com) is a New York based freelance theater director who has
worked all over the world with many of the industry's biggest and brightest
talents.  Matt was the Associate Director to Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien on the
original production of Hairspray on Broadway, National Tours, Las Vegas, the UK, Toronto and in Cologne, Germany.  Matt was also the Associate Director for Catch Me If You Can on Broadway and directed the 2012-13 first national tour. He directed acclaimed Hairspray productions at The Paper Mill Playhouse, the St. Louis MUNY as well as 3 national tours and a ground-breaking production in Johannesburg, South Africa.  
 
Other credits include: the Off-Broadway hit comedy The Irish Curse at Soho Rep, Idaho! for New York Musical Theatre Festival (winner “Best Director” and “Best Show of Fest” Awards 2008) and at the Forestburgh Playhouse, Susie Mosher’s The Great Daisy Theory Off-Broadway, Fingers and Toes at NYMF, The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken: WICKED's 5th Anniversary at the Gershwin Theater, Saint Heaven, a world premiere musical at The Stamford Center for the Arts, The Irish Curse for the NY International Fringe Festival, [title of show] at the George Street Playhouse, Les Miserables, God of Carnage, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Dirty Blond at Zach Theatre in Austin, South Pacific at Casa Manana and North Carolina Theater, The Full Monty at NCT, Disney's Beauty and the Beast at The MUNY in St Louis, The North Carolina Theater and Michigan Opera Theater, Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida at The MUNY and at Gateway Playhouse, the world premiere of Martin Casella’s Scituate at the Stamford Center for the Arts, Confidentially Cole at the Tiffany Theatre in LA, Twelfth Night, Hair, The Ten Percent Revue, The Who's Tommy and the Off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ball’s The Amazing Adventures of Tense Guy.
 
Matt is the Associate Director for The Velocity of Autumn on Broadway and Carnegie Hall's star-studded Guys and Dolls concert.  He was the Resident Director for Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and National Tours. Also for Disney Theatrical, he was Associate Director on Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida in its World Premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.  Matt directed the current Off-Broadway revival of Pageant: The Musical and is developing several Broadway musicals including Chasing Rainbows and Dust and Shadow. He regularly teaches master classes and workshops in NYC and around the country at universities and for performing arts organizations. He received the 2010 Kevin Kline Award for Best Director, is a teaching artist for the Broadway Dreams Foundation and a Member of SDC.

Matt Lenz Part 1: ”Life Path, Broadway & Direction”

MATT LENZ (mattlenzdirector.com) is a New York based freelance theater director who has
worked all over the world with many of the industry's biggest and brightest
talents.  Matt was the Associate Director to Tony Award-winner Jack O’Brien on the
original production of Hairspray on Broadway, National Tours, Las Vegas, the UK, Toronto and in Cologne, Germany.  Matt was also the Associate Director for Catch Me If You Can on Broadway and directed the 2012-13 first national tour. He directed acclaimed Hairspray productions at The Paper Mill Playhouse, the St. Louis MUNY as well as 3 national tours and a ground-breaking production in Johannesburg, South Africa.  
 
Other credits include: the Off-Broadway hit comedy The Irish Curse at Soho Rep, Idaho! for New York Musical Theatre Festival (winner “Best Director” and “Best Show of Fest” Awards 2008) and at the Forestburgh Playhouse, Susie Mosher’s The Great Daisy Theory Off-Broadway, Fingers and Toes at NYMF, The Yellow Brick Road Not Taken: WICKED's 5th Anniversary at the Gershwin Theater, Saint Heaven, a world premiere musical at The Stamford Center for the Arts, The Irish Curse for the NY International Fringe Festival, [title of show] at the George Street Playhouse, Les Miserables, God of Carnage, Love! Valour! Compassion!, and Dirty Blond at Zach Theatre in Austin, South Pacific at Casa Manana and North Carolina Theater, The Full Monty at NCT, Disney's Beauty and the Beast at The MUNY in St Louis, The North Carolina Theater and Michigan Opera Theater, Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida at The MUNY and at Gateway Playhouse, the world premiere of Martin Casella’s Scituate at the Stamford Center for the Arts, Confidentially Cole at the Tiffany Theatre in LA, Twelfth Night, Hair, The Ten Percent Revue, The Who's Tommy and the Off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ball’s The Amazing Adventures of Tense Guy.
 
Matt is the Associate Director for The Velocity of Autumn on Broadway and Carnegie Hall's star-studded Guys and Dolls concert.  He was the Resident Director for Disney's Beauty and the Beast on Broadway and National Tours. Also for Disney Theatrical, he was Associate Director on Elton John & Tim Rice's Aida in its World Premiere at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta.  Matt directed the current Off-Broadway revival of Pageant: The Musical and is developing several Broadway musicals including Chasing Rainbows and Dust and Shadow. He regularly teaches master classes and workshops in NYC and around the country at universities and for performing arts organizations. He received the 2010 Kevin Kline Award for Best Director, is a teaching artist for the Broadway Dreams Foundation and a Member of SDC.