BORN READY LIVE – EP 26 – Winning the Humility Award w/ Stuart Bousel & Jamie DeWolf

This week we’re back LIVE (recorded) from PianoFight’s Main Stage in San Francisco with two Bay Area Theater Heavyweights, Stuart Bousel and Jamie DeWolf, weighing in on the State of the Theatrical Union. We get a glimpse into the lives of two of the busiest creators in the Bay Area indy scene and find out […]

BORN READY EP 25 – Pay the Motherfuckers with Money w/ Kevin O’Shae

And we’re back! After a break for the holidays and opening the space, local comedian Kevin O’Shea joins Rob and Ray for Born Ready, recorded for the first time in front of a LIVE audience at PianoFight. The guys tell the story of PianoFight’s fabled porn-soul theater seats, set the rules for a drinking game with the […]

BORN READY EP 24 – The Bar is as Old as the Golden Gate Bridge

Welcome to episode 24! This week, in honor of announcing the opening of PianoFight’s new venue on Dec. 19, Ray and Duncan stage a coup and take over the show to interview Rob about everything that went in to building SF’s Next Landmark Entertainment Venue. We respond to Daniel Faigin again, and talk about how to […]

BORN READY EP 23 – The Meat of Our Displeasure with Oprah w/ Revolva

Welcome to episode 23! Our guest this week is Revolva, writer, comedian, and hoola hooper who recently took on Oprah Winfrey on her decision to book local talent at her recent “The Life You Want” tour without offering to pay those performers. Before we get into “the meat of our displeasure,” we respond to two […]

BORN READY EP 22 – Theater Cover Troupes w/ Peter Nachtrieb and Lisa Steindler of Z Space

Welcome to episode 22! Our guests this week are Lisa Steindler and Peter Nachtrieb, the artistic director and playwright in residence, respectively, at Z Space. This week we’re talking to Lisa and Peter about The Totalitarians, Peter’s world premiere dark comedy running now at Z Space. The Totalitarians is a rolling world premiere, part of […]

BORN READY EP 21 – Performance Enhancing Drugs w/ Theater MadCap

Welcome to episode 21! Our guests are Robin Fontaine and Gabriel Montoya, the director and co-star of Theater MadCap‘s production of Sam Shepard’s True West, running through Nov. 30 at Inner Mission. Theater MadCap, started by Eric and Annie Reid this year, was formed with the goal of producing, “Deliberately diverse theater,” to address the […]

BORN READY EP 9 – Please Enlighten Us All w/ Duncan Wold

Welcome to the NINTH installment of BORN READY! This episode we dive into music and what theater can learn from it with our VERY SPECIAL guest (and producer) Duncan Wold! What starts as a pretty esoteric conversation on “What is Art?” Turns into a concrete discussion how the insights and adaptations of the music industry […]