I Survived Theatre School

We talk to Amie Farrell!

Show Notes

Intro: Gina and Jen talk about what it means to be home, zero ICU bed availability in Los Angeles, clarifying the aim of this podcast, what it means to survive, surviving one's desire to be famous, and fame adjacency.
Let Me Run This By You: Hope in a Jar, putting too much stock in beauty products, wtf is a serum?, Noxzema, multi-level marketing schemes, the Kylie Jenner go fund me campaign (in which Gina was relieved to later learn it was not the conspiracy she thought it was), laying down your life at Water Tower Place, the activism of K-Pop Stans, tweens playing dress-up on IG video chat, finding unity and feeling seen via selfie filters, drinking Kleenex, and Veterinarian's Day.
Interview: We talk to Amie Farrell about Into the Woods, The Journey of the Fifth Horse, Joe Slowik, Snow White and Rose Red, Foy Flying,  Kansas City children's theatre, Interlochen, singing Maybe from Annie, rugby warmups, being a healthy person as an actor, the implicit wish for actors to be "dark and twisty", getting people to cry in voice class, David Fincher, Mank, acting technique, a stellar scene from Superman II,  storytelling, and Variant Artists.
We didn't talk Puss in Boots, , The Trojan Women, or the rest of Amie's EXTENSIVE credits!

What is I Survived Theatre School?

We went to theatre school. We survived it, but we didn't understand it. 20 years later, we're talking to our guests about their experience of going for this highly specialized type of college at the tender age of 18. Did it all go as planned? Are we still pursuing acting? Did we get cut from the program? Did we... become famous yet?