Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
Each week in Creative Confidential, Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. judekampfner.com https://twitter.com/JudithKampfner1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/judithkampfner/ https://www.instagram.com/judithkampfner/
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Creative Rewind: David Goren - Independent Radio Producer and Audio Archivist
10/13/2022
Creative Rewind: David Goren - Independent Radio Producer and Audio Archivist
This week's guest is David Goren, an independent radio producer and audio archivist based in NY whose company is called Handsewn Radio. His programs for the BBC and NPR have showcased outlaws of the airwaves. He focuses on the people and sounds of community radio: from shortwave to pirate radio stations operating from church basements, bodegas and bedrooms. He has created a Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map and he’s now in partnership with the sound preservation program of the Library of Congress. He began his career as a radio engineer primarily recording jazz from Lincoln Center. It wasn’t easy becoming an investigative producer interviewing people about their illicit radio show! Facebook: Twitter: @shortwaveology Soundcloud: Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE:- Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 28 : Peter Cunningham - Illuminating Images
10/06/2022
Episode 28 : Peter Cunningham - Illuminating Images
Peter Cunningham tells stories with his photos. He pairs images and so abstract photos are in relationship with each other and we wonder what’s about to happen. He was an assistant to the great Henry Cartier Bresson in 1975 when Bresson was making a photo documentary about New Jersey. He went onto shoot stars like Madonna and Springsteen and Broadway actors. As his career unfolded he became more interested in watching how light illuminates images so that they become abstracted. He became a Zen follower and his photography was informed by new ways of seeing. Link https://www.petercunninghamphotography.com Peter’s influences are: LESTER TATE Baptist fisherman on Grand Manan Island- DAVID MCALLESTER - professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University, a specialist in the plains Indian singing. Before I picked up a camera, I learned from David how to be a “participant-observer”. JANIS IAN: singer and songwriter. I dropped out of college to go on the road with Janis. From her I learned what it means to be an artist. ADGER COWANS, photographer and first teacher - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. Bruce is one of many performing artists from the NY theater and musical stages that taught me the power of presence. HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON who I assisted for a month in 1975, we made a portrait of The State iof New Jersey BERNIE GLASSMAN - Zen teacher from Coney Island, we traveled together for 35 years. From Bernie I learned the value of entering any situation without preconception and then bearing witness to what was arising - with or without a camera. or Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 27: The Look of Food, with Lisa Homa
09/29/2022
Episode 27: The Look of Food, with Lisa Homa
Lisa Homa is a Philly-based food stylist and recipe developer. She shares some of the tricks of her trade. How to make fake ice cream, how to raise the vegetables in a soup and how to make a turkey look golden in just the right places although it’s had to be undercooked for the shoot. She talks about her journey from graphics and publishing pre-press to culinary school allowed her to combine a love of photography and the visual arts with a passion for food. Her food styling career has taken her as far as Korea, Cyprus and Italy. She relishes collaborating on cookbooks such as The New York Times bestseller Antoni in the Kitchen by Antoni Porowski. Her clients have ranged from Absolut and Hennessy to KitchenAid, Knorr and Bon Appetit. Influences Delores Custer - Lisa’s mentor. Paul Grimes - initially knew as a chef and then excellent food stylist. He did a lot for Gourmet Magazine in it’s heyday. Juan Sanchez Cotan – Spanish Baroque painter 1560 - 1627 . lisahoma.com Radio Feature Jude made with Lisa for Studio 360 on PRI: Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 26: Omar Roman de Jesus - A Queer LatinX Choreographer and company director
09/22/2022
Episode 26: Omar Roman de Jesus - A Queer LatinX Choreographer and company director
Omar Román De Jesús is a Queer LatinX choreographer and company director who creates rhythmic narratives through contemporary dance forms, improvisation, and dance theater techniques. He began formal dance training in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. He won the Championship Cup and Gold Medal at the National Dance Competition in Puerto Rico. He’s since danced with Parsons Dance, Ballet Hispánico and Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company. He was one of the winning choreographers for the Joffrey Academy of Dance's 8th annual Winning Works Choreographic Competition, and the first person commissioned to create an original work on Jacob Jonas The Company. Omar has created works for The Ailey School and David Parsons Dance. Links to Omar Website: Instagram: @bocatuya____ Facebook: Omar Roman De Jesus https://bacnyc.org/performances/performance/omar-roman-de-jesus Influences The choreographer Omar cites: Omar talks about how Salvador Dali influences the dream imagery he uses in his dances Music Influences Héctor Lavoe La Lupe Frankie Ruiz Rubén Blades Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 25: Yasen Peyankov - Working with Chekhov, Malkovich and Tea Leoni
09/15/2022
Episode 25: Yasen Peyankov - Working with Chekhov, Malkovich and Tea Leoni
Yasen Peyankov who trained at Bulgaria’s elite theater school, left Sofia immediately after the Berlin Wall came down and went to Chicago to act, direct and form his own theatre group. In 2002 he became an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and has acted, directed and translated plays for them ever since. His translation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull performed in the round was his most recent production for the 2021 – 2022 season. He’s also a professor of drama at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Measured, wry, thoughtful and modest, Yasen has retained his cultural identity and also become a very American artist. LINKS https://activepitch.com/yasenpeyankov Yasen’s Influences:- Prof. Krikor Azaryan - my professor and mentor at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Bulgaria, extraordinary man and theater director. I am who I am as an artist because of him John Malkovich - the most enigmatic actor/director I have ever worked with Daniel Day Lewis - hands down the best actor of all times, complete chameleon, fiercely intelligent, he simply disappears in the roles Charlie Chaplin - the best film artist ever, brilliant in everything - writing, acting, directing, composing Anton Chekhov - the best playwright of all times, his plays are an ocean, every time I start swimming in them, I never see the horizon Books: For Whom the Bell Tolls and Farewell to the Arms - Earnest Hemingway Music: The Beatles, Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here is sublime and always makes me cry), Queen (Freddie Mercury is a genius!) Art: Love the impressionists: Van Gogh, Gaugin. Also love Chagall. His story telling and theatricality is something that inspires me as a director. Productions: The productions of the Maly Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia under the direction of Lev Dodin Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Creative Rewind: Antonia Beamish - Audio book narrator, globe-trotting actor, with an awesome array of accents
09/08/2022
Creative Rewind: Antonia Beamish - Audio book narrator, globe-trotting actor, with an awesome array of accents
British actor Antonia Beamish has recorded at least 8 pages on the Audible website. She reads fiction and nonfiction titles and enjoys the vitality of horror stories even though she doesn’t read them for pleasure. She talks about how to keep the characters and their accents separate as she makes her way through the hours of recording a book. She believes acting with the full body as a narrator is vital to bring voices to life. She’s lived and worked in America and recalls the uncertainty of making career plans on short term visas. She explains that the life of a book narrator is incredibly lonely and she asks Jude for advice about how to do more radio drama in the UK. Antonia’s influences and inspirations are: Hanya Yanagihara (‘A Little Life’), Raymond Carver Tenessee Williams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Kathryn Hunter Miranda July Bryony Kimmings Roisin Murphy Anne Karpf Sangeeta Mahajan Maxi Jazz Frances McDormand The Entire Levy Family - especially Anne Margaret! otherwise known as Moira! Angela Carter Rachel Cusk Fanny Herrero Camille Contin Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 24: Marta Renzi - The Ineffability of Dance
09/02/2022
Episode 24: Marta Renzi - The Ineffability of Dance
Marta Renzi is a dancer, choreographer and film maker. She’s based in Nyack, New York. As a young dancer she was picked by choreographer Twyla Tharp to dance in the movie of Hair. Her films have been shown in 38 countries and over 300 festivals. They are often site specific, joyful, about community and have a strong sense of social narrative and relationships rather than plot. They are beautiful, accessible, and evocative. She likes to work with vocal music. Marta’s blogspot, Filmography page, which has trailers Composers/ music for some of Marta’s dance films: Inna Barmash Emily Holden Amelia Robinson Dave Bass Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 23: Chris Brookes - Finding the silence in the middle of the sound
08/25/2022
Episode 23: Chris Brookes - Finding the silence in the middle of the sound
Canadian audio artist, journalist and actor, Chris Brookes lives in St John’s, Newfoundland near Battery Hill, where Marconi set up his receiving tower in the first transatlantic wireless experiment. Brookes began his career running a theatre company creating documentary style productions that influenced government legislation. He then worked as a current affairs producer for the weekly 3 hour show ‘CBC Sunday Morning’. He says he always considered himself an artist rather than an employee of a broadcasting company. As an independent audio producer, he’s attended the European Features Conference regularly and found inspiring peers and mentors in sound auteurs from France, Germany and Scandinavia. https://www.batteryradio.com/ Literary influences: John Berger: Into Their Labours trilogy Michael Ondaatje: Coming Through Slaughter James Agee & Walker Evans: Now Let Us Praise Famous Men Audio features: Kaye Mortley: Springtime it Brings on the Shearing Peter Leonhard Braun: Bells in Europe ARTE & Radio Grenouille: (An, Mehdi Ahoudig): Who Killed Lolita? Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger, Ewan MacColl: The Radio Ballads Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 22: Victoria Bond - A conductor writing operas about powerful women
08/18/2022
Episode 22: Victoria Bond - A conductor writing operas about powerful women
Growing up she was a pianist and a singer, and in her twenties, Victoria Bond become the first woman to receive a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the Juilliard School. Since then she’s served as music director and conductor for major orchestras. Composition is her first love she explains, but it’s taken time to carve out the space to devote herself to it. She’s composed music in nearly every genre: symphonic works, chamber music, keyboard, operas and other vocal music, and music for dance. Many of the subjects of her operas are powerful women - most recently she wrote a work for narrator and orchestra inspired by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She reveals how she was catcalled when she first stood on the podium and how trailblazing women conductors don't seem to be regarded as role models. Links Music Credits: Frescos and Ash: Street Musicians Chicago Pro Musica “Instruments of Revelation” - Naxos 8.559864 Instruments of Revelation: The High Priestess Chicago Pro Musica “Instruments of Revelation” - Naxos 8.559864 Mrs. President: I’m Told I’m a Citizen Valerie Bernhardt, soprano Alaska Opera, Victoria Bond conducting From a 2012 production Molly ManyBloom: Flowers Carol Meyer, soprano Renee Jolles and Shem Guibbory, violins; Ronald Carbone, viola; Maxine Neuman, cello “Yes” - Albany Troy 578 Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 21: Eric Maisel - Coaching the Real World Artist
08/11/2022
Episode 21: Eric Maisel - Coaching the Real World Artist
Dr. Eric Maisel is a retired licensed family therapist who founded the profession of creativity coaching. He actively maintains a thriving creativity coaching practice. He’s written more than 50 books of fiction and non fiction. He talks to Jude about how the artist with a life purpose has to exist in the context of the real world. He offers advice and opinion on some of the issues that have come up from Jude’s chat with guests in previous episodes on how to be successfully and happily fulfilled creatives. Links Recent publications: Why Smart Teens Hurt The Great Book of Journaling Redesign Your Mind Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Creative Rewind: Gene Pritsker - Rule Breaking Eclectic Music: shaking things up in a signature style
08/04/2022
Creative Rewind: Gene Pritsker - Rule Breaking Eclectic Music: shaking things up in a signature style
Classically trained composer, guitarist, rapper Gene Pritsker has had over 600 of his compositions performed. His debuts his work via his presenting organization Composers Concordance that showcases short new pieces from composers of any style. To take part in one of Gene’s shows he has to find your music eclectic and original and be confident that the performers understand what you need with short rehearsal time and that you’ve done your homework. Pritsker’s band Sound Liberation tours Europe and he has lucrative work in Europe such as orchestrating award-winning TV series like Babylon Berlin where he colors the sounds of the instruments. What else? He's a crowd pleasing, relaxed, droll MC. He believes above all that sound should be liberated. Jude’s task in this episode is to discover whether there is a Gene Pritsker style and how to define him. Links: Influences:The Rite of Spring (1913) Brown Shoes Don't Make It The First Walpurgis Night Op.60 : 'Round Midnight Judas Priest Arrested Development Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Creative Rewind: Nathan Yungerberg - Changing how you describe your work can bring new life to your career
07/28/2022
Creative Rewind: Nathan Yungerberg - Changing how you describe your work can bring new life to your career
This week's guest is Nathan Yungerberg. For more than 14 years he called himself a playwright. He had many residencies writing for prestigious theater companies like the Black Theater of Harlem and the Cherry Lane Theater. However, he describes the experience of writing for the American theater as traumatic because there are so few opportunities for new plays to be produced. But the day he decided to call himself a Storyteller, everything changed! He moved into different genres. He’s now writing episodes for a podcast epic drama based on Greek myths and aimed at young teenagers. He’s also a writer on Sesame Street. He admits that his plays were the springboard for this satisfying new work so it’s part of a long process. https://www.nathanyungerberg.com Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 20: Judith Sloan - Performer, writer, oral historian, lyricist, and community activist
07/21/2022
Episode 20: Judith Sloan - Performer, writer, oral historian, lyricist, and community activist
Judith Sloan tells stories about her community where 167 languages are spoken. In 2003 she and her husband Warren Lehrer published Crossing the BLVD a kaleidoscopic view of refugees and new immigrants living in the borough of Queens New York. Since then, Judith has explored new multimedia forms combining fiction and documentary to enable teenagers and women from war torn countries to chronicle their stories. She’s received grants from the Queens Council on the Arts, the NY Council on the Arts Grant and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She and Warren have an artist driven nonprofit organization called Earsay dedicated to workshops, youth programs and cultural dialogue. Links Song Credits Dance Teacher: Malika Kalontarova from Crossing the BLVD audio CD- Recorded and produced by Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer. If Money Were a Skirt- music and lyrics by Judith Sloan, singer Meah Pace, Music Production Josh Valleau Listen to Me: developed out of the EarSay workshops with Judith Sloan, Emily Wexler, written by Cheryle Chong and Judith Sloan and sung and arranged by the group. Produced by Judith Sloan (there are two versions use whichever you want.) What's Your Status: written and performed by Judith Sloan, music by Taylor Rivelli, Frank London Judith’s Inspirations In 2005 I saw this by the French director: Ariane Mnouchkine In 2020 right before Covid outbreak I was lucky enough to see Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown Heather Cox Richardson – American Historian I usually am more inspired by the visceral feeling in a live theater event but I read this book several years ago and had the same respect for the story and the writing. Jennifer Clement's Prayers for the Stolen Anything by Colson Whitehead. Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 19: Peregrine Andrews - Sound at the BBC and Beyond
07/14/2022
Episode 19: Peregrine Andrews - Sound at the BBC and Beyond
Peregrine Andrews (also known as Pez) spent 6 years in BBC Radio working as an engineer and studio manager before going freelance in 1996 and subsequently setting up his company Moving Air. He was in at the beginning of independent production and his contracts were with the BBC, other independents and also corporations. He has won multiple awards for the radio and TV shows and films that he’s mixed and sound designed. He’s also a producer in his own right and he explains why he is very picky about the ideas that he takes on to produce himself. It’s partly fear and partly that it’s so difficult and partly that he’s tremendously in demand and has very loyal clients. Links Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 18: Jack Klaff - South Africa, Star Wars, Science, and Shakespeare
07/07/2022
Episode 18: Jack Klaff - South Africa, Star Wars, Science, and Shakespeare
Playful Polymath Jack Klaff is an actor – academic, writer- lecturer, classical and character actor – and solo show creator/performer. Still very much in touch with his South African roots, he’s written and performed in over twenty plays about his homeland and says there are many more stories to tell ‘about violence, pain and injustice. He can’t escape the fame he’s garnered appearing as John D Branon in Stars Wars early in his career. His agent had balked about his doing a role that didn't seem worthy of him - no one had an inkling of what would happen. Klaff says George Lucas was totally confident and in control, soft-spoken and decisive. Jack didn’t get much pay but admits that going to Star Wars conventions since is lucrative. He dishes some dirt about the traditions of the Royal Shakespeare Company which he says ‘was like the South African army’ but did learn a raw forceful style of speaking the Bard and is grateful for that. He’s passionate about popularizing science and as a professor, he’s given talks and chaired many debates about intriguing scientific concepts. In short, Klaff if one of a kind. http://www.jackklaff.com/ Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 17: Sarah Elmaleh - Advocating for more complex characters and career protection for voice actors in videogames
06/30/2022
Episode 17: Sarah Elmaleh - Advocating for more complex characters and career protection for voice actors in videogames
Sarah Elmaleh is comfortable and happy portraying roles that reflect the various facets of her identity. As a director and voice actor for videogames, Sarah believes in a collaborative process where actors contribute to tone, structure, writing and content. A keen player growing up, she’s still passionate about the growth possibilities and cross fertilization of games but she doesn’t necessarily want to play all the games that she’s had a role in or that she’s directed. Her characters run the gamut of villains, monsters, heroines and creatures. Text is only part of what she has to vocalize. Often, it’s a range of action noises and screams and she’s adamant that there are union protections so an actor doesn’t suffer vocal damage. In an industry where half the players are female, Sarah works to encourage more women writers and producers and characters that reflect wider racial diversity and gender orientation. and . Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 16: Mike Iveson - Prioritizing Talents After Covid
06/23/2022
Episode 16: Mike Iveson - Prioritizing Talents After Covid
Actor and pianist Mike Iveson has been an ensemble member of the innovative Elevator Repair Service (ERS) theater ensemble since 2006. He’s written music for them and then wrote and produced two musicals of his own. He says other performers spent the two years when stages were dark during Covid, honing their skills learning new ones and expanding their range. Instead he found that he was scaling back. As he talks to Jude it becomes clear that he had been wearing too many hats: composer, lyricist, playwright, conductor, pianist, director, producer and actor. Right now, he wants to put on the brakes. What will he focus on? Links - Instagram @iveson_comma_mike Influences: TV show Atlanta right now (not to even mention the writing and the direction). Bill Nighy is also a favorite actor. Also Reed Birney. Also Quincy Tyler Bernstine. I have read a great deal of Muriel Sparks books. Those are just the greatest. Most of her short stories I have read more times than I can count. I also really love The Group by Mary McCarthy. I have seen the Sidney Lumet "Murder on the Orient Express" literally dozens of times. It's kind of the reason you see that icon of Albert Finney as Poirot as my avatar in Gmail. Am a big fan of L'Avventura by Antonioni too. Not Antonioni generally though. Weirdly dry. I love the plays of Jackie Sibblies Drury very much. She can do no wrong in my eyes. There's too much music to take note of. I like one of the recent Kendrick Lamar singles, I like plenty of his songs, also Destroyer and New Pornographers which are very Gen X of me, and I have had one of those Olivia Rodrigo songs in my head for days ("Good For You"). Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 15: Allegra Rosenberg - Creatively using Social Media to help artists and fans and find magical opportunities
06/16/2022
Episode 15: Allegra Rosenberg - Creatively using Social Media to help artists and fans and find magical opportunities
At 17, Allegra Rosenberg was hired to work on promoting Doctor Who. Now at 26 she produces a podcast on trends in Tumblr, strategizes digital media for artists, manages bands, and sings songs for Fandom groups. She’s also researching how fans and enthusiasts in the nineteenth exchanged messages and shared information and posted their letters. Links https://twitter.com/llegrarosenberg Allegra's Influences: Dr. Oliver Sacks Francis Spufford Archive Of Our Own/The Organization For Transformative Works Umberto Eco Taskmaster The Museum of Jurassic Technology Fashion Brand Company The Terror (Season 1) Vulfpeck Tumblr Harajuku, Tokyo James Tiptree, Jr. Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 14: Hansel Tan - Evangelizing for South East Asian theater and for more complex Asian characters
06/09/2022
Episode 14: Hansel Tan - Evangelizing for South East Asian theater and for more complex Asian characters
In this week’s episode, Jude chats with actor and singer Hansel Tan. A native of Singapore, Hansel’s acted in the US for sixteen years and his roles have taken him across the country from Broadway to summer stock. He’s had to do his share of appearances in The King and I and Miss Saigon productions, but talks about his conviction that it’s his responsibility to give authenticity to these roles. He’s performed in new plays at The Flea Theater and the Public Theater and returns to Singapore to perform in new work at W!LD RICE Theatre Company. He champions the work of Asian playwrights, choreographers and musicians. Links: Hanstangram on IG https://www.hanseltan.com/ Inspirations Jen Waldman (Jen Waldman Studios) She hosts a podcast with Peter Shepherd called which I adore Playwright/Poet Alfian Sa'at Musicologist Bruce Hollsinger Intisar Abioto - Dancer/Choreographer/Artist Rob Ouyang Rusli - Asian American Composer and Artist Timothy Huang -- Musical Theatre Composer & Lyricist Dave Arnold -- Bartender, Mixologist, and Cocktail Wizard R Murray Schaefer - Canadian Composer, Writer, Ecologist Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 12: Robin Hirsch - Keeping an experimental performance space in Greenwich Village humming for 4 decades
05/26/2022
Episode 12: Robin Hirsch - Keeping an experimental performance space in Greenwich Village humming for 4 decades
Author, actor, and raconteur Robin Hirsch ran the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York’s Greenwich Village for 41 years until he was forced to close it in 2019 due to rising rent. The restaurant was renowned for its basement nightclub where singer/songwriters, jazz bands, poets and comics played on a tiny stage. Shows were short so that different groups perform each night. Robin who’s a writer and actor, has performed several shows about his life and the prejudice he felt being a German Jew in post war London. In New York he found endless outlets for creative expression. He established a stable of talent at his café where people incubated new work and the famous rubbed shoulders with the aspiring. Career advice? Robin says he’s always stumbled into opportunities and grasped them but nothing was planned. He’s an introvert who has had to learn to be an unflappable MC, host and artistic director. He says his British education has helped him make it all seem effortless when in fact he’s always been shy. Links Robin as author:LAST DANCE AT THE THE HOTEL KEMPINSKI"one of the best books ever written on the long arm of the Holocaust" Jewish Book News As poet:FEG: Stupid Poems for Intelligent Children"searingly smart and challenging" (New York Times)As author/performer Photos of the café: ABOUT CREATIVE CONFIDENTIAL Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 10: Anne Sebba - Writing Biographies of Controversial Women
05/12/2022
Episode 10: Anne Sebba - Writing Biographies of Controversial Women
This week's guest is Anne Sebba who lives in London. She spends on average five years researching and writing her biographies of controversial women. They include Mother Teresa, Wallis Simpson and her most recent, Ethel Rosenberg. Her aim is to discover what these women were like behind the scenes and under the radar. Her books are nuanced portraits and she doesn’t take sides but admits to not liking all aspects of her subjects. Links: https://annesebba.com/ Anne’s inspirations: Biographers: Claire Tomalin for ‘The Invisible Woman’ (Nelly Ternan the mistress of Charles Dickens) and ‘Mrs Jordan’s Profession’ - (actress Dora Jordan who had ten children with George the Third’s son William. Tomalin discovering women behind the scenes. Ben Macintyre for his hugely readable spy stories. Lesley Blanch ‘Wilder Shores of Love’. Four nineteenth century women who leave Europe for Arabia. Reporters: Martha Gellhorn and Marie Colvin. (Film about her life with Rosamund Pike as Marie Colvin: A Private War). Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 9: Moti Margolin - Actor, Videographer, WWE Wresting Commentator in Russian
05/05/2022
Episode 9: Moti Margolin - Actor, Videographer, WWE Wresting Commentator in Russian
Commentator for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) (Russian programming) - that’s been a long standing gig for New York actor Moti Margolin. He’s often cast as Eastern European villains, the most infamous being Dmitri Rascalov in Grand Theft Auto IV. His parents came from Russia, he was born in Israel but grew up in America. Moti is named after his grandfather Mordechai who was a lead actor in a theatre company in Belarus. Acting he says, is his career but videography pays the bills. However, all his work is intricately connected – so much so that his days are scheduled into blocks of activity but they all help him become a better actor. He’s also recently been singing, song writing and writing film scripts. Moti’s links: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0802999/characters/nm2463380 Moti’s influences: - Henri Cartier-Bresson (The Decisive Moment) - Paul Thomas Anderson (just about all of his movies) - Joan Didion (The Year of Magical Thinking) - Nina Simone (just about everything) - James Baldwin (The Fire Next Time) - Hal Ashbey (Harold and Maude) - McCabe & Mrs. Miller (film) Each week in creative confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities, and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. Reach out to Jude:- Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show producer and editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 8: Anita Sullivan, playwright & multi tech e learning creator and landscape gardener
04/28/2022
Episode 8: Anita Sullivan, playwright & multi tech e learning creator and landscape gardener
Anita Sullivan has written more than sixty plays for audio and stage. She lives in the picturesque village of Lancing on the West Sussex coast. Like many of the entrepreneurial artists on this show, she includes other highly developed skills in her portfolio. She balances playwriting with two other careers: a digital storyteller and interactive designer for corporate e- learning and – a very British passion - a landscape gardening company that she’s established. That’s a lot of different hats and administrative issue to juggle and she discusses how the work is linked and complementary. Thank you to BBC Radio 4 drama. and actors Lorraine Ashbourne (Angel at My Table) Madeline Potter and Nathan Nolan (We Need to Talk About Kevin) Here’s where to find Anita's work: Website: Linked-In: Heart of Darkness Kevin Ring Here are some links to work she likes: Binaural location recording. Almost Tangible ‘Macbeth’ Factual podcast. The Coming Storm or 13 Minutes to the Moon Drama podcast ‘Girl in Space’ Site specific events. Punchdrunk ‘Faust’ or Frantic Assembly ‘Dirty Wonderland’ Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 7: Patrick Grant - Exploring Music as Ritual and Spectacle
04/21/2022
Episode 7: Patrick Grant - Exploring Music as Ritual and Spectacle
. Composer and guitarist Patrick Grant believes that the roots of all music are in spectacle. He’s worked with avant garde theater directors such as Robert Wilson and the activist Living Theater created by Judith Malina and Julian Beck. He’s fascinated by the chants and percussive sounds of the gamelan orchestras of Bali and the Kecak monkey dances which he’s studied on frequent visits to Indonesia. He’s interested in the physics of sound and what he calls ‘strange’ music. Originally from Detroit, he grew up with motoric industrial rhythms and tuned in to the CBC and BBC because Detroit has an affinity to Canada. Today his apartment looks out on the East River in NYC and he’s a professor at New York University, but he still travels widely to play and study the traditions of other cultures. Patrick is inspired by Guitar Craft Dr. Julius Sumner Miller Ubu Web Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE: - Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 6: Matthew Burns - Games Developer, Writer and Composer
04/14/2022
Episode 6: Matthew Burns - Games Developer, Writer and Composer
Jude interviews Matthew Seiji Burns from Seattle. He’s a games developer, writer and composer. His narrative game Eliza is about an A.I counseling program, the people who use it, and the people who make it. It’s a naturalistic game that Matthew also calls a visual novel and it attracts people who don’t normally play games. Eliza was produced by Zachtronics games studio in 2019. Matthew’s also worked for some big giant games companies. In Eliza his protagonist has suffered burn out in the high tech industry. There’s some autobiographical content in that. Matthew discussed his ideals for games that change society for the better. Here are some current titles and projects that are inspiring Matthew right now: Norco, an adventure game set in rural Louisiana in the shadow of a huge refinery, made by people from the area - The work of Everest Pipkin, who makes digital and tabletop games and digital art that engages with a variety of topics including ecology, information, and systems - Glow Up Games, Brass Lion Entertainment, and Outerloop Games - minority-led indie game studios centering on characters and stories that haven't been traditionally included in mainstream games - - - Each week in creative confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities, and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. Reach out to Jude:- Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show producer and editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 4: Robin Siegerman - Voice Actor, Audiobook Narrator and Producer
03/31/2022
Episode 4: Robin Siegerman - Voice Actor, Audiobook Narrator and Producer
This is Robin's second career, after 25 years of being an interior designer focusing on award winning kitchens with her own design studio. In her new life she’s recently established an audio book publishing company which specializes in out of print books. She's also developing a project to train authors to record their own books. Facebook: Twitter: Linked In: Robin and Jude met at a workshop where Jude was - and is a lecturer. At the NATF, National Audio Theater Festivals. https://www.natf.org/ Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE:- Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 2: Afi Scruggs - Journalist, Author, Teacher, Blues Songwriter, Bass Player
03/17/2022
Episode 2: Afi Scruggs - Journalist, Author, Teacher, Blues Songwriter, Bass Player
This week's guest is Afi Scruggs from Cleveland, Ohio. She’s juggled two careers as an author and journalist and a Blues songwriter and bass player who also teaches music. She also has a PhD in Slavic linguistics. You can find Afi at: Bandcamp: Instagram: Website: Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE:- Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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Episode 1: Benjamin Louis Brody, Composer and Musician
03/09/2022
Episode 1: Benjamin Louis Brody, Composer and Musician
Jude talks to Benjamin Louis Brody, a freelance musician in Brooklyn, NY, who trained at the Manhattan School of Music. He’s a versatile musician who’s played French horn and Guitar in a Hip Hop brass band and composes music that he likes to describe as "Sonic DNA." He is currently moving to L. A. to continue scoring music for films. Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers. A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests. REACH OUT TO JUDE:- Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald.
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