My Story to Tell – ARTS. WORK. LIFE. by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals – Season 3, Episode 5

ARTS. WORK. LIFE. is an award-winning podcast about what it’s really like to work in the performing arts, featuring bold, untold stories from artists and arts workers. The podcast is produced by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals with the support of the Wallace Foundation. Listen on your favorite podcast app.

Finding your voice is hard, but summoning the courage to use it can change your life and the lives of those around you.

Whether it’s helping others recover, how advocating for yourself becomes advocating for those like you, or re-claiming a harmful narrative, episode five brings three powerful stories from arts workers who use their stories to help others heal, grow, and learn.

Intro: “Harnessing Healing” with Payton Rhyan, a theater administrator and full time masters student in Performing Arts Administration at New York University.

Act One: “Leaps and Bounds” with Tristan Grannum, the Director of Community Engagement and Rehearsal Director for Brooklyn Ballet in Brooklyn, New York.

Act Two: “Strings Attached” with Sheila Gaskins, a teaching artist and puppeteer from Baltimore, Maryland.

 


The Association of Performing Arts Professionals
The Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) is the national service, advocacy, and membership organization for the live performing arts field, dedicated to developing and supporting a robust performing arts presenting, booking and touring industry and the professionals who work within it. Learn more at apap365.org.

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The Association of Performing Arts Professionals

The Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) is the national service, advocacy, and membership organization for the live performing arts field, dedicated to developing and supporting a robust performing arts presenting, booking and touring industry and the professionals who work within it. Learn more at apap365.org.