The Next Canon Podcast

That's How We Create Empathy... By Listening

Today Danielle and I talk about the importance of empathy and cheering each other on. We believe that supporting each other and growing together is really a key to success in the entertainment industry! Danielle Beckmann is a bicoastal multi-hyphenate creative based in Los Angeles. In 2017 Danielle co-founded the production company Brooklyn Quarter where she most recently produced and starred in their 2021 Tribeca Film Festival official selection short film, Liza Anonymous. Danielle also loves leading actors and creatives into their full potential and power through her coaching company The Spirited Storyteller. Connect with Danielle @deebeck on IG or visit her site daniellebeckmann.com [http://daniellebeckmann.com/]   If you would like to support the Next Canon Podcast please Email dani@danirei.com [dani@danirei.com] with the subject line "Support Next Canon" and we can discuss avenues for support! IF YOU ARE AN ACTOR WHO WANTS TO BOOK YOUR DREAM ROLE:  I am an Audition Coach focused on helping artists achieve their personal goals. To learn more about my curated audition training and support and to learn how you can OWN YOUR AUDITION Please visit danirei.com/services  My Social Media: FB www.facebook.com/danireidirecting [http://www.facebook.com/danireidirecting] IG www.instagram.com/dani_marie_rei/ [http://www.instagram.com/dani_marie_rei/] IG https://www.instagram.com/next_canon_pod/ [https://www.instagram.com/next_canon_pod/] YT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRHoR5JcyIyZ6SQ2G1YdSA [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRHoR5JcyIyZ6SQ2G1YdSA] Website: www.danirei.com [http://www.danirei.com/]

Let's All Get Better at Trying New Things!

Today Cessa and I talk about stepping out of our comfort zones to make sure we can see amazing new work. We discuss the risks involved in walking into a theatre no knowing what to expect! This is us encouraging you to take the risk!! Francesca Betancourt aka Cessa is an actor, intimacy director, facilitator, and producer originally from the Southwest but is now based on the East coast. She has worked as an artist & theatre/dance teacher in Ireland, India, the Philippines, New York, Washington, Wisconsin, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Florida. She holds two BAs from Western Washington University in Theatre Arts and Sociology, and has trained in Applied Theatre at City University of New York. Her work is based in trauma informed social/emotional arts practice, equity, compassion, access, autonomy, and physical storytelling. Folks can find her and her blog at francescabetancourt.com [http://francescabetancourt.com/] or on instagram at @betandalsocourt She has a storytelling show that's currently a budding podcast called she is FIERCE: stories from the female and genderqueer perspective [https://www.sheisfiercestories.org/]   If you would like to support the Next Canon Podcast please Email dani@danirei.com [dani@danirei.com] with the subject line "Support Next Canon" and we can discuss avenues for support! IF YOU ARE AN ACTOR WHO WANTS TO BOOK YOUR DREAM ROLE:  I am an Audition Coach focused on helping artists achieve their personal goals. To learn more about my curated audition training and support and to learn how you can OWN YOUR AUDITION Please visit danirei.com/services  My Social Media: FB www.facebook.com/danireidirecting [http://www.facebook.com/danireidirecting] IG www.instagram.com/dani_marie_rei/ [http://www.instagram.com/dani_marie_rei/] IG https://www.instagram.com/next_canon_pod/ [https://www.instagram.com/next_canon_pod/] YT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRHoR5JcyIyZ6SQ2G1YdSA [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRHoR5JcyIyZ6SQ2G1YdSA] Website: www.danirei.com [http://www.danirei.com/]

Why So Much Shakespeare? Let's Mix It Up A Little!

Today Kylie and I talk about our burlesque experiences and how we come alive on stage! We also discuss ways to update our dear old Shakespeare and build the Next Canon! Catch Kylie as Moonlit Marie SOON on a burlesque stage near you! Kylie is a queer (pansexual, demisexual) visual artist and performer, typically performing burlesque and circus arts.  They write short stories and are in the process of starting an online watercolor landscape class through the Sol Acting School out of Albuquerque, New Mexico for their new media department. They were a ticketer and usher for the Seattle Theater Groups for about two years, getting high exposure to theater through work. Kylie graduated from Cornish College of the Arts in 2019 with a BFA in Graphic Design with a focus on illustration. During their senior year, Kylie took Cherry Manhattan’s Neo-burlesque class and began to explore burlesque that way. They have been a stagehand and worn various hats for several burlesque shows over the past three years.  https://www.instagram.com/kylinarench14/ [https://www.instagram.com/kylinarench14/] Mysterious influences from Victorian, gothic, and the fantastic become Moonlit Marie on the stage. This mystical tease offers subtle slyness and organic flow that will take you to your knees. Fiercely fluid, and always flexible, you’ll always hope Moonlit Marie will reveal just one more layer - and wonder who might show up next. With acts reminiscent of vaudeville, saucy sweet stripteases, to high elf fan dances and aerial silk flows, Moonlit Marie is flexible, unpredictable and adventitious. https://www.instagram.com/moonlitmarie14/ [https://www.instagram.com/moonlitmarie14/] If you would like to support the Next Canon Podcast please Email dani@danirei.com [dani@danirei.com] with the subject line "Support Next Canon" and we can discuss avenues for support! IF YOU ARE AN ACTOR WHO WANTS TO BOOK YOUR DREAM ROLE:  I am an Audition Coach focused on helping artists achieve their personal goals. To learn more about my curated audition training and support and to learn how you can OWN YOUR AUDITION Please visit danirei.com/services  My Social Media: FB www.facebook.com/danireidirecting [http://www.facebook.com/danireidirecting] IG www.instagram.com/dani_marie_rei/ [http://www.instagram.com/dani_marie_rei/] IG https://www.instagram.com/next_canon_pod/ [https://www.instagram.com/next_canon_pod/] YT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRHoR5JcyIyZ6SQ2G1YdSA [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRHoR5JcyIyZ6SQ2G1YdSA] Website: www.danirei.com [http://www.danirei.com/]

I Don't Like That Show. I DON'T LIKE YOU HAROLD HIGGINS!

Today Wilysha and I talk about how New Work totally changed our views as artists. We also talk A LOT about movies and TV in today's episode so if you like Rom-coms, Comedy or Eddie Murphy you will enjoy today's episode!   Wilysha Nicole Walton is a writer, actor, singer, and dancer living in Seattle, Washington. She has trained in various forms of performance such as musical theatre, improv, Shakespeare, clown, and urban dance and has written 2 full-length plays and a number of monologues, short stories, 10 minute and 1 act plays, poems, and group generative work. Since graduating from Cornish College of the Arts in 2019, Wilysha has had the fortune of working with theatre companies such as Book-It Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and Freehold Theatre and participating in local festivals like 14/48: The World's Quickest Theatre Festival, where she has been both an actor and writer.  Though she participates in many forms of theatre, playwriting holds a special place in Wilysha's heart. Since she was young she's always had a larger-than-life imagination and loved to dream of worlds that were vastly different from reality. Couple that with her love for her own culture and others, amplifying Black and non-Black POC voices, and comedy, you get plays that are a whole lot of fun!   Wilysha: https://www.instagram.com/thee_real_alien/ [https://www.instagram.com/thee_real_alien/] Legacy Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/welcomematradio/ [https://www.instagram.com/welcomematradio/] If you would like to support the Next Canon Podcast please Email dani@danirei.com [dani@danirei.com] with the subject line "Support Next Canon" and we can discuss avenues for support! IF YOU ARE AN ACTOR WHO WANTS TO BOOK YOUR DREAM ROLE:  I am an Audition Coach focused on helping artists achieve their personal goals. To learn more about my curated audition training and support and to learn how you can OWN YOUR AUDITION Please visit danirei.com/services  My Social Media: FB www.facebook.com/danireidirecting [http://www.facebook.com/danireidirecting] IG www.instagram.com/dani_marie_rei/ [http://www.instagram.com/dani_marie_rei/] IG www.instagram.com/next_canon_pod/ [http://www.instagram.com/dani_marie_rei/] YT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRHoR5JcyIyZ6SQ2G1YdSA [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRHoR5JcyIyZ6SQ2G1YdSA] Website: www.danirei.com [http://www.danirei.com/]

Wooooo B*tch It's a PLAY!

Today Nicolas and I talk about planning the most RADICAL production of ANNIE! and it’s barely radical at all! We talk about some of Nicholas’s favorite hella Black hella Queer Plays and Musicals that NEED to join the Canon. We have a grand old time convincing the masses to watch the Zoom Theatre if you’re not planning on showing up when those in-person doors finally OPEN! So if you want to know what Play got us so riled up in the title, make sure you listen in!   Nicholas Japaul Bernard is not a fan of writing bios but has begun the process of accepting they are a necessary part of his profession. A Seattle-based Theatre Artists and Writer, with a slick mouth, Nicholas dares to give the girls what needs to be given, one show at a time. Buy and Stream Jessie Ware's "What's Your Pleasure?" where ever you consume music.  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/njapaulbernard/ [https://www.instagram.com/njapaulbernard/]   If you would like to support the Next Canon Podcast please Email dani@danirei.com [dani@danirei.com] with the subject line "Support Next Canon" and we can discuss avenues for support! IF YOU ARE AN ACTOR WHO WANTS TO BOOK YOUR DREAM ROLE:  I am an Audition Coach focused on helping artists achieve their personal goals. To learn more about my curated audition training and support and to learn how you can OWN YOUR AUDITION Please visit danirei.com/services  My Social Media: FB www.facebook.com/danireidirecting [http://www.facebook.com/danireidirecting] IG www.instagram.com/dani_marie_rei/ [http://www.instagram.com/dani_marie_rei/] YT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRHoR5JcyIyZ6SQ2G1YdSA [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeRHoR5JcyIyZ6SQ2G1YdSA] Website: www.danirei.com [http://www.danirei.com/]