a podcast
gulp
listen to people talk about how COVID-19 upended their lives,
for the good, for the bad,
for... ever
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The Magic Theater: #SayTheirNames
Friday, June 5th should have been Breonna Taylor’s 27th birthday. Breonna was an EMT and an emergency room technician. She was also a daughter, granddaughter, sister, and a niece. In honor of Breonna and the hundreds of thousands of Black bodies that have been terrorized by white supremacy since the genesis of this country, Magic has put together a special edition of our podcast during which we will #SayTheirNames.
We invite you to hear, to see, and to pay tribute to the person behind each of those names. We have left room for you to say their names in a call and response fashion, or to write down unfamiliar names so you might learn more about them. We owe a debt of gratitude to Kimberlé Crenshaw, The African American Policy Forum, and The Black Lives Matter network for this movement. Playwright Aleshea Harris also offers some meaningful rituals here: What To Send Up On Your Own.
Let this move you, but work diligently to transform your emotions into tangible action. As artists, we are nothing if not catalysts for change.
We want to thank Magic Theater family members Steven Anthony Jones, Leigh Rondon-Davis, Rod Gnapp, Safiya Fredericks, Sarah Nina Hayon, Adrian Roberts, Rinabeth Apostol, and Sara Huddleston for their generous contributions to this podcast.
About Us
collecting an oral history of life during "the new normal"
collecting an oral history of life during "the new normal"
collecting an oral history of life during "the new normal"
gulp features candid, heartfelt interviews with a diverse range of people and scope of experiences.
from an ER doctor in one of the hardest hit hospitals in NYC, to an Australian diagnosed with COVID-19 navigating the American healthcare system, to a public defender advocating for prisoners to be released from Rikers Island.
we want to shar
gulp features candid, heartfelt interviews with a diverse range of people and scope of experiences.
from an ER doctor in one of the hardest hit hospitals in NYC, to an Australian diagnosed with COVID-19 navigating the American healthcare system, to a public defender advocating for prisoners to be released from Rikers Island.
we want to share with you all the wins. all the losses. all the struggle. all the ease. all the grief. all the joy.
we want to hear them all.
all the stories.
tell us your story.
maureen sebastian creator / producer / host
collecting an oral history of life during "the new normal"
collecting an oral history of life during "the new normal"
maureen sebastian is best known for playing lawyers or scientists or the ambiguously ethnic race of the future on television. her penchant for storytelling began early, when, as a toddler, she would sit in front of a mirror for hours, creating characters and telling stories for the children’s show on which she was the host. that little de
maureen sebastian is best known for playing lawyers or scientists or the ambiguously ethnic race of the future on television. her penchant for storytelling began early, when, as a toddler, she would sit in front of a mirror for hours, creating characters and telling stories for the children’s show on which she was the host. that little desire grew into a passion for understanding the human experience through acting, writing, and producing stories about people who don’t feel their stories are worthy to have a voice. she is a member of the ma-yi theatre company's writer's lab, the largest resident company of asian american playwrights in the country. http://www.maureensebastian.com/
risa sarachan creator / producer / host
collecting an oral history of life during "the new normal"
risa sarachan creator / producer / host
risa sarachan began her career as an actor but pivoted when she realized she enjoyed asking questions far more than answering them. plus, she loves eating carbs, and that doesn't always bode well with on-camera work. she has been interviewing people for as long as she can remember and is always searching within her work for strange, revea
risa sarachan began her career as an actor but pivoted when she realized she enjoyed asking questions far more than answering them. plus, she loves eating carbs, and that doesn't always bode well with on-camera work. she has been interviewing people for as long as she can remember and is always searching within her work for strange, revealing, and revelatory moments. she lives for those. her show, 'inconvenient interviews with risa', was picked up by zooey deschanel's hellogiggles website, and now she interviews artists for forbes. https://www.risasarachan.com/