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Unconditioning: Discovering the Voice Within is an exploration of the inner authentic voice. Each week, host Whitney Ann Jenkins, joins guests in conversation about how they‘ve followed this voice throughout their lives, and the challenges and the rewards that have come from staying true to themselves in the current climate of the world. Whitney Ann Jenkins is multi-passionate creative and artist: actress of stage, film, and voice over, singer-songwriter, and playwright. She is also a certified Energy Healer and Reiki Master, Integrative Wellness Coach, Master of Psychology, and currently pursuing her PhD in Humanistic Psychology. Her research focuses specifically on the boundaries and mental wellness of performing artists alongside the intersection of creativity and sexuality. www.whitneyannjenkins.com www.wildinnerchild.com
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Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
Wednesday Jan 06, 2021
Lester Malizia is a theatre director who has worked extensively all over the world, including New York, Europe, and Russia. He was the Artistic Director for Seaside Music Theatre for 25 years and a producer for Million Dollar Quartet.
In this episode we discuss:
- Lester’s growing up and first discovering storytelling and theatre in New Castle, Pennsylvania
- Lester’s experience at a conservative college studying the Arts
- Lester’s experience in Europe and how that transformed him as an artist.
- The trials of growing up in NY, traveling as a director, and the loss of his long time partner Ned to AIDS
- Where Lester’s inspiration for directing comes from and how his voice flows
- Finding the breath of the playwright
- Passion in performing and what that means
- Our experience working together in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Lester's complex health issues and the shutting down of Seaside Music Theatre
- What it was like to teach theatre at the college where he had difficulties attending as a student
- The challenges of arts and academia
- Lester’s experience in Russia
- What Lester’s voice wants to say to the world
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