Catya McMullen's guest appearances

Catya McMullen

Art Works Podcast

What's That From?

John Adams

John Flynn

Kevin Young

Nicholson Baker

Jake Gyllenhaal

Tracy K. Smith

Danielle Evans

Lynn Nottage

Josh Ritter

Michael Berry

Sebastian Junger

Mo Rocca

Jacob Lawrence

Rhiannon Giddens

Ron Capps

OwlTail

Special Guest Catya McMullen (aka MC Chihuahua Fancy)- Y, The Last Man, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, Locked Up Bitches, Georgia Mertching Is Dead, We Pray to Elephants. Baby’s Day Out, Baby Geniuses, Labyrinth, baby urning, 1800 collect, Geico, Wehadababyitsaboy, Wales, The Wicker Man, sexual publicist, theater heart break, “they’re gonna suck your dick then throw you in the garbage,” believing that things will work out, relentlessness, working on our terms, career and creativity intertwined, untwined, twined, desert witch advice, healers, ashrams and synagogues, fixing the thing that hurts doesn’t necessarily heal it, looking for the other issues/pains/blockages in life can bring rewards elsewhere, Andy Daly, Gallagher, high school parties, Mephiskapheles, punk rock hip hop sad girls with guitars adolescence, Carnegie Melon, college selection, Phish karaoke, Marie’s Crisis, community choir, What is the story that’s the most obvious one to tell- and that has the thing that we may be afraid to say, use humor to access vulnerability, “can she do it again?” the delusion that the time will come when we fail, it’s just television, balancing ambition and not taking things too seriously, doing the best we can, Defending Your Life. Support the show

Special Guest Catya McMullen (aka MC Chihuahua Fancy)- Y, The Last Man, Everything’s Gonna Be Okay, Locked Up Bitches, Georgia Mertching Is Dead, We Pray to Elephants. Baby’s Day Out, Baby Geniuses, Labyrinth, baby urning, 1800 collect, Geico, Wehadababyitsaboy, Wales, The Wicker Man, sexual publicist, theater heart break, “they’re gonna suck your dick then throw you in the garbage,” believing that things will work out, relentlessness, working on our terms, career and creativity intertwined, untwined, twined, desert witch advice, healers, ashrams and synagogues, fixing the thing that hurts doesn’t necessarily heal it, looking for the other issues/pains/blockages in life can bring rewards elsewhere, Andy Daly, Gallagher, high school parties, Mephiskapheles, punk rock hip hop sad girls with guitars adolescence, Carnegie Melon, college selection, Phish karaoke, Marie’s Crisis, community choir, What is the story that’s the most obvious one to tell- and that has the thing that we may be afraid to say, use humor to access vulnerability, “can she do it again?” the delusion that the time will come when we fail, it’s just television, balancing ambition and not taking things too seriously, doing the best we can, Defending Your Life. <a href="https://www.patreon.com/whatsthatfrom" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>

Season Three Returns! "Embroidered Life Lessons" with Catya McMullen

Jenna Worsham

What do a playwright and a director do when the theaters are closed, a pandemic is raging, and they want to be useful? Well, if they’re playwright Catya McMullen and director Jenna Worsham, they bring playwrights, actors, and directors together virtually to create The Homebound Project, an online series of short original plays that each actor performs on-camera in isolation. The Homebound Project has been a success in every sense of the word. McMullen and Worsham have gathered some extraordinary talent—playwrights like C.A. Johnson, Michael R. Jackson, Migdalia Cruz and Sarah Ruhl have contributed new work and actors including Daveed Diggs, Diane Lane, Blair Underwood, Phillipa Soo, and Cherry Jones have brought that work to life online. The Homebound Project is currently presenting its fourth digital series (July 15-19) with its fifth and final edition scheduled to stream August 5–9. That amounts to more than 50 new plays written, directed, and performed in the past few months with everyone donating their services to support a great cause. (More on that in the podcast.) Join us as McMullen and Worsham talk about creating The Homebound Project, finding and matching actors with playwrights, directing theater virtually, how the pandemic has affected the theater sector, and the promise the art of theater holds in times like this when story-telling is essential.

What do a playwright and a director do when the theaters are closed, a pandemic is raging, and they want to be useful? Well, if they’re playwright Catya McMullen and director Jenna Worsham, they bring playwrights, actors, and directors together virtually to create <a href="https://www.homeboundtheater.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Homebound Project</a>, an online series of short original plays that each actor performs on-camera in isolation. The Homebound Project has been a success in every sense of the word. McMullen and Worsham have gathered some extraordinary talent—playwrights like C.A. Johnson, Michael R. Jackson, Migdalia Cruz and Sarah Ruhl have contributed new work and actors including Daveed Diggs, Diane Lane, Blair Underwood, Phillipa Soo, and Cherry Jones have brought that work to life online. The Homebound Project is currently presenting its fourth digital series (July 15-19) with its fifth and final edition scheduled to stream August 5–9. That amounts to more than 50 new plays written, directed, and performed in the past few months with everyone donating their services to support a great cause. (More on that in the podcast.) Join us as McMullen and Worsham talk about creating The Homebound Project, finding and matching actors with playwrights, directing theater virtually, how the pandemic has affected the theater sector, and the promise the art of theater holds in times like this when story-telling is essential.

Director Jenna Worsham and Playwright Catya McMullen