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017: Rick Younger - From Comedy to Broadway

The Craft & Biz of Acting

Release Date: 03/18/2019

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The Craft & Biz of Acting

It’s hard to believe but we’ve already completed our inaugural season. I hope you’ve had as much fun as I have. I’ve had some fabulous guests and gleaned a lot of great information.

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The Craft & Biz of Acting

Rebecca Damon is the executive vice president of SAG-AFTRA, and the president of the New York Local. She is a recipient of the Irish Echo Connecting America Award and SAG-AFTRA New York Local's Joseph C. Riley Award. She was a founding member of both the SAG President’s Forum for One Union and the joint Group for One Union, helping lead the effort to unite SAG and AFTRA. She is also a vice president of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, an educational, humanitarian and philanthropic nonprofit organization.

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Larry has appeared in plays in NY, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and LA, including: The Usher's Ball, Drawer Boy, Awake and Sing, School for Scandal, Otherwise Engaged, Ivanov, The Nerd, The Normal Heart, The House of Blue Leaves, Good, and Table Manners. Directing credits include: The Trouble with Doug, and Pages, both with the CAP 21 Theatre Company, as well as A Different Moon and Yellowman at Penguin Rep. Some of his noteworthy students include: Shaina Taub, Rachel Bloom, Allie Stroker and Lady Gaga.

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West Hyler was the associate director of Jersey Boys (Broadway & worldwide) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Broadway). West's writing work includes Paramour, Georama, Big Apple Circus; Legendarium and Metamorphosis, Panda!, Chandelier, A Jake and A Tom (Winner of the Hollywood Family Film Festival), and We Declare You a Terrorist (at The Public Theater). He is a New York Musical Festival award-winner, a St Louis Critics Circle award winner, a Drama League Resident Artist, and holds an MFA from U

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The Craft & Biz of Acting

Trey McIntyre is a choreographer, filmmaker, writer, and photographer. He has created works for American Ballet Theatre, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, New York City Ballet, Queensland Ballet, and Stuttgart Ballet. In 2005, he founded his own dance company, Trey McIntyre Project. He continues to choreograph worldwide and is working on two books of photography, a Patreon site as well as a documentary entitled “Gravity Hero”. Trey has received numerous awards and is a United States Artists Fellow.

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The Craft & Biz of Acting

Rick Younger is an actor, comedian, and singer. He toured with the Broadway musical RENT. Television credits include "AXS TV'S, Gotham Comedy Live" and “It's Showtime at the Apollo." You've seen him in numerous national television commercials, the Woody Allen Amazon Series, "Crisis in Six Scenes" and guest spots on HBO's "Girls," "Blue Bloods" and "Law & Order: SVU." Film credits include Ordinary World and Morning Glory. Rick's latest comedy album, "Fried Chicken and White Bread," is available on iTune

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The Craft & Biz of Acting

Ishan Edwards and Drego Moore launched the MONOLODGE in 2011 and haven’t looked back. MONOLODGE is a live theatre experience, showcasing actors performing monologues in a nightclub lounge for an audience of actors and professionals in New York City. It endeavors to be an effective partner, educational tool and change agent. At MONOLODGE the actor is at home to work on their craft and share their individual talents in a safe space; connecting with an audience free of harsh judgment and negative critique.

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Bill Timoney currently appears in “Network” on Broadway. He is known for his work on All My Children, 12 Monkeys and Mission to Mars. He's heard in hundreds of films, TV shows, and animated programs. He directs recording sessions for dubbed versions of anime, adapts scripts for foreign language films and TV shows, and provides script coverage and assessment for industry clients. He has worked as a stand-up comic and stage combat choreographer, and as the line producer for a live one-hour daily TV news

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The Craft & Biz of Acting

Alisa Murray is an actress and writer based in L.A. Recent film credits include: The Education of a Negro, I am Homicide, Living for the Sacrifice, The Substitute and Scratch. Alisa trained in NYC and performed in 10 Ways On a Gun & Nola and the NAACP Award-Winning Play, The Girls of Summer. Her Los Angeles debut was in the world premiere of The Daughters of Kush by George Corbin. She is a WGA registered screenwriter of Trapped, In the Name of the Father, and the comedic pilot, Coasting. 

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Klea Blackhurst is known for her award-winning tribute to Ethel Merman, Everything The Traffic Will Allow. She recently starred in Party Face Off-Broadway. She played the title role in Hazel at Drury Lane in Chicago, a classic second banana in The Nutty Professor in Nashville, and Dolly in Goodspeed Opera’s 50th Anniversary production of Hello, Dolly! Klea is a charter member of the Jerry Herman Legacy Concerts for the ASCAP Foundation and a distinguished Alumna of the University of Utah.

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Rick Younger is an actor, comedian, and singer originally from Baltimore, MD.

Television appearances include "AXS TV'S, Gotham Comedy Live" and “It's Showtime at the Apollo." Rick also toured nationally with the Broadway musical RENT.

You've undoubtedly seen him in numerous national television commercials, the Woody Allen Amazon Series, "Crisis in Six Scenes" and guest spots on HBO's "Girls," "Blue Bloods" and "Law & Order: SVU." 

Film credits include Ordinary World and Morning Glory. Rick's latest comedy album, "Fried Chicken and White Bread," is available on iTunes. 

You can learn more about Rick at: RickYounger.net

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