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This holiday episode is jam-packed with three great interviews: First is a chat our director of publishing, Kelundra Smith, recently had with Jordan E. Cooper, author and star of the play Ain’t No Mo’, at the New York gathering of the American Theatre Critics Association. They talk about his recent play at the Public Theater, Oh Happy Day!

Next is editor-in-chief Rob Weinert-Kendt’s talk with actor Briana Resa and director KJ Sanchez about The Night Shift Before Christmas, a new-ish holiday show by Isaac Gómez that’s currently running at the Alley Theatre in Houston. Then Weinert-Kendt checks in with Citlali Pizarro, who recently won ATCA’s Edward Medina Prize for Cultural Criticism for her writing in HowlRound, 3Views, and our own magazine. Bringing it all full circle, Pizarro is also a producer at the Public Theater.

Recommendations in this episode: Cooper’s Ain’t No Mo’, available from TCG Books; Mel Robbins’s book The Let Them Theory; and Alejandro Rodriguez’s new adaptation of Lorca’s classic The House of Bernarda Alba, simply titled Alba

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