New Trier Performing Arts Stories Podcast
1) Actor Neil Burghard
In this final episode of Season 2 (delayed again due to my recent surgery ... apologies, and THANK YOU for all of your encouragement and support!), you'll meet my special, "mystery guest", an actor wh...Show More
2) TV and Film Actress Rusty Schwimmer (Part 2)
In this "better late than never" edition of New Trier Performing Arts Stories, TV and film actress Rusty Schwimmer and I talk about why she eventually returned to Chicago while still maintaining a suc...Show More
3) TV and Film Actress Rusty Schwimmer
In this episode, Rusty talks about her rocky start in the industry (including a near death experience at a Superbowl celebration), how a chance lunch serving The Fonz changed her career, our mutual ob...Show More
4) Dancer, and New Trier Dance Teacher Laura Deutsch
Laura Deutsch's life was transformed by, and then later dedicated to the dance division at New Trier. In this episode, she talks about how dance changed her life, and how she eventually ended up back ...Show More
5) TV and Film Actor Jim True-Frost (Part 2 of 2)
In part 2 of my interview with stage, film and TV star Jim True-Frost, Jim and I continue our conversation about the challenges of being a working actor. We also talk about some of his favorite experi...Show More
6) TV and Film Actor Jim True-Frost (Part 1 of 2)
In part 1 of my interview with stage, film and TV star Jim True-Frost, we talk about how his experiences in music, dance and theater helped prepare him for his career as a professional actor, and then...Show More
7) SPECIAL EVENT! Christmas 2023 with Suzanne Adams! (Part 2 of 2)
In part 2 of my interview with Suzanne, we talk more about casting and play selection, but we do that while talking about one of my very favorite parts of the Performing Arts Department, The Forensics...Show More
8) SPECIAL EVENT! Christmas 2023 with Suzanne Adams! (Part 1 of 2)
When the legendary Suzanne Adams would hand out scene assignments, her students called those days "Christmas", so it's only fitting that, once again, she is our guest at this special time of year. In ...Show More
9) Actress and Oscar Nominee Virginia Madsen (Part 2 of 2)
In part 2 of my very special interview with Oscar nominee Virginia Madsen, which is again being presented without commercial interruption, Virginia and I discuss the various stages of her career in TV...Show More
10) Actress and Oscar Nominee Virginia Madsen (Part 1 of 2)
In Part 1 of my very special interview with Oscar Nominee Virginia Madsen, Virginia talks openly and candidly about her time at New Trier. We also talk about some of her favorite performing arts memor...Show More