In the Balance Podcast
1) Find Your Form: Meg Pokrass on Her Journey to Flash Fiction
Susan reconnects with award winning flash fiction writer and friend Meg Pokrass. Meg discusses her journey from acting to poet to flash fiction writer, how a rare illness changed her life and informed...Show More
2) Questioning the Unanswerable: The Darkly Comic, Complex World of Playwright Gina Gionfriddo
“I like to live in that space of not really knowing the answers. People have different motives simultaneously and exactly what the right thing to do isn’t 100% clear.” Award winning playwright Gina Gi...Show More
3) Let’s Talk Psychiatry! with Dr. Dan Mierlak
“If you examine your thinking process, you may come to the same conclusion; that thoughts happen to us, we don’t necessarily control them.” Psychiatrist Dr Dan Mierlak returns to In the Balance to dis...Show More
4) Riding the Bookends of Life: From Life Force to Loss with Poet Alexis Rhone Fancher
“For many people, they feel I give them permission to tell their truth.” Poet, photographer, and artist Alexis Rhone Fancher returns to In the Balance to discuss her unapologetic and exquisitely done ...Show More
Riding the Bookends of Life: From Life Force to Loss with Poet Alexis Rhone Fancher
26:18 | Oct 10th, 2021
5) Broadway Producer Dani Davis on Empowering Young Women for Tomorrow’s World
“If you mentor women, you can take care of a whole society.” Tony-nominated broadway producer, director, and entrepreneur Dani Davis talks with Susan about her commitment to mentoring and growing the ...Show More
Broadway Producer Dani Davis on Empowering Young Women for Tomorrow’s World
33:18 | Aug 31st, 2021
6) Resonating in the Room: Collaboration in Theatre and Life with Anne Bogart
“The theatre’s job at its heart is to ask the question “How can we get along? How can we get along better?” So every play that was ever written that is of any worth is about that question.” This weeks...Show More
Resonating in the Room: Collaboration in Theatre and Life with Anne Bogart
54:14 | Aug 15th, 2021
7) Helping Our Kids Through Covid with Dr. Erica Lee
“What the research shows about uncertainty is that, the more we fight it, which is sort of our natural instinct, the more we can often end up feeling hopeless or avoid situations that make us feel unc...Show More
8) Our Collective Resilience: Transitioning During Covid with Dr. Robert Neimeyer
In this episode Dr. Robert A. Neimeyer returns to In the Balance for a conversation about the state of the world as we continue navigating our way through a global pandemic, how this collective trauma...Show More
Our Collective Resilience: Transitioning During Covid with Dr. Robert Neimeyer
47:36 | May 30th, 2021
9) Artists on the Cape Series #7: The Play’s the Thing, with Love from Nina Schuessler
“When people of all ages create together, the potential is boundless.” In this final episode of our Artists on the Cape Series, Susan talks with actor, director and artistic director of the Cape Cod T...Show More
10) Artists on the Cape Series #6: Playing the Leading Role in Our Own Lives with Jeff Zinn
“In a very real way, all of us are actors. Every one of you is playing the leading role in the story of your own life. It’s a heroic narrative and you’re the protagonist. All of us, even in our quiete...Show More