Hatched

Hatched is a Mondo Bizarro podcast where we talk with people who make things. Based in New Orleans, Louisiana, we chat with creative makers of all kinds - theater, dance, visual art, traditional arts, culinary, community & more. You'll hear interviews with people who spend their time bringing ideas to life. For more information visit www.mondobizarro.org.

Hatched #35 - Monique Verdin 10/29/2024

Hatched #35 - Monique Verdin Monique Verdin is a transdisciplinary artist and storyteller who documents the complex relationship between environment, culture, and climate in southeast Louisiana. For more info about us and to donate to the show visit Our theme music is by . Here are some links you may want to check out as you listen to the show: /episode/index/show/hatched/id/33670612

Hatched #34 - Kelly Bond 07/22/2024

Hatched #34 - Kelly Bond is a New Orleans based director, choreographer, performer and teacher. Her and her creative partner, Ellery Burton, recently premiered their latest dance experiment, Fuzzy Bulldozer, at as part of our . They'll be doing it again in Philadelphia and New Orleans later this year so follow Kelly on social media to get your tickets as soon as they are available. For more info about us and to donate to the show visit Our theme music is by . Here are some links you may want to check out as you listen to the show: /episode/index/show/hatched/id/32249142

Hatched #33 - Steve Bailey 06/27/2024

Hatched #33 - Steve Bailey is a theater artist, teacher, and arts administrator. He was the co-founder and producing director of in San Antonio, TX and has worked internationally with production companies from Peru to Slovakia. We got to talk to him on one of his last days as the Director of Operations for the . Here are some additional links you may find interesting while you listen to this episode: For more info about us and to donate to the show visit Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/31917147

Hatched #32 - ashley sparks 04/10/2024

Hatched #32 - ashley sparks is a theater maker, engagement strategist, collaboration coach, and facilitator, as well as a long-time friend and collaborator with Mondo Bizarro. You can learn more about her from the links below as well as find some info related to subjects brought up on the show. (facilitation & consulting business) (collaboration with ) For more info about us and to donate to the show visit Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/30735763

Hatched #31 - Hali Dardar 04/03/2024

Hatched #31 - Hali Dardar is a New Media enthusiast, interaction designer and a member of the United Houma Nation. Her work supports process development, community-based design, language revitalization, indigenous media, and memory documentation. Some links Hali mentions during the podcast are: For more info about us and to donate to the show visit Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/30662598

Hatched #30 - Madeleine Grace Kelly 03/08/2024

Hatched #30 - Madeleine Grace Kelly is a visual artist and educator living in New Orleans. She is receiving her MFA from UNO this spring and you can witness her master’s thesis exhibition entitled at the UNO Gallery (2429 St. Claude St) from March 9th to April 7th. From the official blurb about her show: Her paintings, etchings, and installation explore encounters with mystery in the natural world, especially through the flora, fauna, light, and water of the swamps around the Atchafalaya Basin. Her practice explores kinship, reverence, and awe as an antidote to estrangement from the spirit of the land. The work invites viewers to engage with the memory that the water carries of our interconnectedness. You can view her work on her and on . For more info about us and to donate to the show visit Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/30294483

Hatched #29 - Katya Chizayeva 02/25/2024

Hatched #29 - Katya Chizayeva is a New Orleans-based Ukrainian American artist, community activist, and acupuncturist. She is currently working on a show with based on her recent experiences in Ukraine called Top 5 Survival Moves, which gives us "a glimpse of Chizayeva’s ongoing work with Ukrainian soldiers coming back from the front lines, and examine(s) the complex identities that Chizhayeva holds; as a Ukrainian, a Jewish person, a New Orleanian, and a fierce opponent of Russian imperialism." Tickets are available via the . You can find more information about the New Orleans based Ukrainian NGO Katya mentions . For more info about us visit Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/30100893

Hatched #28 - Nicole Marquez 02/17/2024

Hatched #28 - Nicole Marquez is a dancer, advocate and a survivor of brain and spinal injuries. Approximately 15 years ago she relocated to New York with the aspiration of pursuing a career in dance on Broadway. Her dreams were momentarily deferred following an accident where she fell six stories from the roof of her apartment building. She will be performing her latest work about this incident called The Mask of Joy on February 23 and 24 at Catapult as part of our Mondo Bizarro Presents series. In this episode Nicole will mention a few people and organizations you may be interested in including her friend and co-author/choreographer and a very unique New Orleans gym called . We hope you enjoy the show. For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit . Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/29993468

Hatched #27 - Lizz Freeman Kelly 01/22/2024

Hatched #27 - Lizz Freeman Kelly LIzz Freeman Kelly is the Executive Director of , a creative reuse shop and community sewing studio. ricRACK'S main focus is "keeping textiles out of the landfill and teaching all of New Orleans how to sew." Our theme music is by . For more information about Mondo Bizarro and to donate visit . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/29603118

Hatched #26 - Becca Chapman 12/09/2023

Hatched #26 - Becca Chapman Becca Chapmans is a Chalmation, a performer, an educator, a lover of community, and curious human being. She, along with Alex Smith, co-founded a healthcare clowning nonprofit, , that brings imagination and wonder to pediatric and adult hospitals in the Greater New Orleans area. Our theme music is by . For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/29002198

Hatched #25 - Simone Immanuel 11/17/2023

Hatched #25 - Simone Immanuel Simone Immanuel is a New Orleans born actor, writer, singer and dancer. We recently presented a work-in-progress showing of her one woman show On My Way: My Ancestors Wildest Dreams at our studio, , as part of our Simone says that the hope of her work is to show that God is with us all. Her goal is to use her unique experiences to show why represntation is one of the most important goals of art in this generation. Our theme music is by . For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/28689883

Hatched #24 - Synamin Vixen 09/21/2023

Hatched #24 - Synamin Vixen is a dancer, actor, poet, teacher, sex doula, herbalist, and so much more. She is bringing her latest performance called to our studio, , this weekend (September 22, 23, 24). Seating is limited so . Our theme music is by . For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/28104770

Hatched #23 - Dee Dee Green 03/19/2022

Hatched #23 - Dee Dee Green Dee Dee Green is the Area Program Director for New Orleans program. She is also a member of the New Orleans coalition . Our theme music is by . COINTELSHOW runs 23-25 March. For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit . If you would like to support Hatched and other projects of ours, you can make a tax deductible donation today by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/22498073

Hatched #22 - Renard Bridgewater 12/07/2021

Hatched #22 - Renard Bridgewater Renard Bridgewater is a New Orleans based musician (performing under the moniker Slangston Hughes), organizer and cultural advocate who works as the Community Engagement Coordinator for the . He is also a member of the New Orleans coalition . Our theme music is by . For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/21412844

MB BONUS AUDIO: Floating Adaptations in Search of Invisible Rivers 03/18/2021

MB BONUS AUDIO: Floating Adaptations in Search of Invisible Rivers This audio is an exploration of some of the waterways you will soon visit as part of Floating Adaptations in Search of Invisible Rivers is conceived by Monique Verdin, Jeff Becker and Mondo Bizarro. It is a search for the hidden histories of the land and water surrounding the 40 Arpent Wetlands Observatory, as well as an investigation about how we can learn to live with fluctuation, to live with uncertainty, to live in symbiosis with our increasingly watery world. Music by Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes. Visit and sign up for our newsletter for updates. /episode/index/show/hatched/id/18380492

Hatched #21 - Amelia Acosta Powell 09/11/2020

Hatched #21 - Amelia Acosta Powell is the Associate Artistic Director of the . Previously she has worked as the casting director and artistic associate at in Washington, D.C. and as line producer at Our theme music is by . For more information about Mondo Bizarro visit . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/15976979

Hatched #20 - Jamil Jude 02/05/2020

Hatched #20 - Jamil Jude is a director, producer, playwright, and dramaturg. He is currently the Artistic Director at in Atlanta, Georgia as well as the Co-Founder of Self-identifying as an "Artist Plus", Jamil feels most at home bringing socially relevant art to the community. Visit for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/13024295

Hatched - Imani Jacqueline Brown 01/02/2020

Hatched - Imani Jacqueline Brown Imani Jacqueline Brown is a New Orleans native, artist, activist, researcher, and writer. Her work attempts to expose the layers of oppression, injustice, resistance, and refusal that make up the aggregate of our society's foundation stones. Imani received her Master of Arts in Research Architecture at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a co-founder of , a collective of artists, activists, and architects working to demystify and democratize development in post-Katrina New Orleans. Visit for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/12595685

Hatched - Larry Bogad 12/18/2019

Hatched - Larry Bogad is an author, performance artist/activist, professor at , Director of the Center for Tactical Performance, and co-founder of the Clown Army. His most recent performance, A FAIR FIGHT is a personal piece about his family history of bootlegging and klan-fighting in New York City and upstate New York. Mondo Bizarro is also collaborating with Larry on a new version of his long-running performance, . Visit for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/12453497

Hatched - Raymond Bobgan & the Cleveland CORE Ensemble 12/09/2019

Hatched - Raymond Bobgan & the Cleveland CORE Ensemble This episode our guests are Raymond Bobgan and the Cleveland Core Ensemble. We sat down with Raymond, Faye and Darius when they were in town presenting Red Ash Mosaic at Catapult. The Cleveland CORE Ensemble is currently creating a play - Masks of Flight - that will have its world premiere in the Spring as part of 2019/2020 season. Visit for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/12266420

Hatched - Kesha McKey 12/03/2019

Hatched - Kesha McKey Kesha McKey is a New Orleans based choreographer, the artistic director of and the chair of the She recently received ’s National Dance Project award for her latest work Raw Fruit and an invitation to the Visit for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/12265175

Hatched - Bob Martin 11/26/2019

Hatched - Bob Martin Today’s guest is Bob Martin. Bob works primarily as a community theater artist and cultural organizer, producer and educator to support people and communities in transformative change. Bob and his company Clear Creek Creative recently received NEFA’s National Theater Project ward for the development and touring of Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man. /episode/index/show/hatched/id/12184592

Hatched - Daniel Alexander Jones 11/18/2019

Hatched - Daniel Alexander Jones Daniel Alexander Jones is an American performance artist, playwright, director, essayist and educator. His performance alter-ego, Jomama Jones, has been at the center of several of his works, including Black Light, a critically acclaimed performance piece commissioned by Joe's Pub's New York Voices program. Daniel is currently working on a book about his mentors called Waves. Visit for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/12085334

Hatched - Sage Crump 11/18/2019

Hatched - Sage Crump Sage is a creative producer and cultural strategist, who recently became the Chief Architect of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute. Based in New Orleans but working nationally, Sage’s work amplifies the intentions of her collaborators to create new strategies that intersect art, culture, community organizing and movement building to dismantle systems of oppression. Her company, Complex Movements recently received the United States Artist Award. /episode/index/show/hatched/id/12085253

Hatched - Season 2 Announcements 11/18/2019

Hatched - Season 2 Announcements Hatched Season 2 is here! This is just a couple of brief announcements telling you what's been happening with Mondo Bizarro and what you can expect in season 2. Visit for more information and to donate. Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/12084845

Hatched - Tiffany Vega 08/30/2017

Hatched - Tiffany Vega Tiffany Vega is a Creative Producer, Arts Administrator, and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Facilitator. She is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA program in Theater Management & Producing and was the General Manager of the Hip Hop Theater Festival in New York City. She currently runs La Vega Management and is the Production/Tour Manager for Junebug Productions. Our theme music is by . Our sponsor is . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/5689318

Hatched - Bonnie Gabel & indee mitchell 08/02/2017

Hatched - Bonnie Gabel & indee mitchell Bonnie Gabel & indee mitchell are theater makers, community organizers and cultural historians. They are company members of . Most recently the co-directed Alleged Lesbian Activities. Our theme music is by . Our sponsor is . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/5559796

Hatched - Blaise Pezold 07/20/2017

Hatched - Blaise Pezold is an environmental specialist with the Department of Agriculture and Forestry. He designs, implements and studies plant restoration and coastal renewal projects in Louisiana. Our sponsor is . Our theme music is by . /episode/index/show/hatched/id/5557072

Hatched - Michael Cerveris 06/13/2017

Hatched - Michael Cerveris Michael Cerveris is a Tony Award winning actor, musician and New Orleans Super Fan. In addition to his many leading roles on Broadway, you may know him from his film and television work on such hits as Fringe or HBO’s Treme. Today’s interview is hosted by Dan Pruksarnukul. /episode/index/show/hatched/id/5443437

Hatched - Khari Allen Lee 05/17/2017

Hatched - Khari Allen Lee is the band leader for the New Creative Collective and one New Orleans' most sought after saxophone players. Our theme music is by This episode is sponsored by /episode/index/show/hatched/id/5363044

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