cultivate., with jessica taghap

Welcome to cultivate., with Jessica Taghap – a new podcast exploring different art forms and their creative processes through interviews with some of the most exciting artists working today. From an unexpected message on LinkedIn to witnessing an equally unexpected night at the theater—first-time theatre-maker Colleen Murphy keeps on surprising us all with her debut play, I Wore What When , a solo...

Welcome to cultivate., with Jessica Taghap – a new podcast exploring different art forms and their creative processes through interviews with some of the most exciting artists working today. From an unexpected message on LinkedIn to witnessing an equally unexpected night at the theater—first-time theatre-maker Colleen Murphy keeps on surprising us all with her debut play, I Wore What When , a solo...

Welcome to cultivate., with Jessica Taghap – a new podcast exploring different art forms and their creative processes through interviews with some of the most exciting artists working today. I first encounted the collective work of Robert Lyons and Daniel Irizarry when I reviewed their hit absurdist musical, ‘My Onliness’, for Off Off Online back in 2022. It was one of the most unique theatrical e...

Welcome to a special episode of cultivate., with Jessica Taghap – a new podcast exploring different art forms and their creative processes through interviews with some of the most exciting artists working today. In a special bonus episode of cultivate. (recorded just before the heady combination of Jess’ birthday and the Christmas holiday), we’re letting loose and going a little casual here at cul...

Welcome to cultivate., with Jessica Taghap – a new podcast exploring different art forms and their creative processes through interviews with some of the most exciting artists working today. In the second of my two-part chat with Mafe, I catch up with the artist shortly after attending the first of four performances of The Postpoetic Machine . We get into more detail about her guest performers (wh...

Welcome to cultivate., with Jessica Taghap – a new podcast exploring different art forms and their creative processes through interviews with some of the most exciting artists working today. This week’s episode has me sitting down over Zoom with TheaterLab’s interdisciplinary artist-in-residence, Maria “Mafe” Izaguirre, on the first of two conversations. Born in Venezuela, Mafe eventually settled...

Welcome to cultivate., with Jessica Taghap – a new podcast exploring different art forms and their creative processes through interviews with some of the most exciting artists working today. I first met Holly Kaplan during this past summer’s Asian-American International Film Festival (#AAIFF47), and she was kind enough to set some time aside to chat with me about her short film, Sunflower Girl for...

Welcome to cultivate., with Jessica Taghap – a new podcast exploring different art forms and their creative processes through interviews with some of the most exciting artists working today. For our inaugural episode, I chatted with director (or direk , for all my fellow Filipinos out there) Johmar Damiles and his colleagues, producer Anna Velario and co-writer, editor, and creative producer Juliu...