#200! Rachel Feeny-Williams

#202: Alexandra Meda

Alexandra Meda is a nationally recognized cultural strategist, artistic director, and transformation architect working at the intersection of ensemble-based praxis, systemic change, and collective restoration. With a foundation in devised theater, stage direction, and an expansive practice that spans strategy, facilitation, and immersive experience design, she guides institutions through moments of reckoning, realignment, and radical reimagining.

#201: Dr. Kate Busselle

Kate Busselle is the founder of Heartland Intimacy Design & Training, an intimacy training company which offers academic, accessible, and affordable intimacy training entirely online. She is also Assistant Professor of Movement and Stage Combat at the University of Oklahoma. It's a it like making stage intimacy and illustrating combat safe for all performers? Let's find out! Kate's Website [http://www.katebusselle.com] / Heartland Intimacy [http://www.heartlandintimacydesign.com] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/kbusselle]  Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/drdangerouswoman/] / Instagram - Heartland Intimacy [https://www.instagram.com/heartlandintimacydesign/]

#200! Rachel Feeny-Williams

We welcome back a longtime friend and colleague and one of the hardest working theatre professionals, Rachel Feeny-Williams. Rachel's a playwright of no mean ability and a startling fecundity, the mastermind behind one of the first mid-covid zoom theatre gatherings, the Literary and Discourse Society, and now single-handedly produces Theatrical Shenanigans, a podcast that produces short audio plays and panel discussions which is now in its millionth year with how many episodes...? RFW Website [https://www.rfwscripts.co.uk/] / Theatrical Shenanigans [https://theatricalshenanigans.podbean.com] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/rachelfw] Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/theatricalshenanigans] / YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxfhR1CHdRXnNaYS_XEJOEg] / New Play Exchange [https://newplayexchange.org/users/60206/rachel-feeny-williams]

#199: Creative Pathways

Eve Kerrigan and Ana Bess Moyer Bell are part of a team comprised of artists, social workers, language translators, and organizers from Creative Pathways, a program that teaches English as a second language to refugees and newly arrived Americans using theatre. They employ the tools of nonfiction and documentary theatre specifically to help English learners develop their voices literally and figuratively. Genesis Center [https://www.gencenter.org/] / Eve's website [https://www.evekerrigan.com/] / Ana - LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ana-bess-moyer-bell-mhc-a-rdt-bct-715269b1]  Eve - Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/evemkerrigan/]

#198: John Minigan

Ep. 198, February 2026. John Minigan is an award-winning playwright and a former high school teacher whose work Breaking the Shakespeare Code was recently presented by Gather by the Ghostlight at the Aiken Community Theatre in Aiken, South Carolina, and Le Chat Noir in Augusta, Georgia. One of his other works, Out of the Scorpions Nest will have just received a reading at The Barley Sheaf Players Annual Benefit Show: The Refinery in Lionville PA. www.johnminigan.com [http://www.johnminigan.com] / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/john.minigan.3] / Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/johnminigan/] / Bluesky [http://johnminigan.bsky.social] New Play Exchange [https://newplayexchange.org/users/1247/john-minigan]