Call Time with Katie Birenboim

Katie checks in with playwright (The Hairy Dutchman, Spuyten Duyvil, Notes on My Mother's Decline, This Is My Office -- Drama Desk nomination), former fellow with Ensemble Studio Theatre, Dramatists' Guild, Berkeley Rep, and New Dramatists, and founder of Andy Bragen Theatre Projects, Andy Bragen.

Katie checks in with New York City Ballet principal dancer, star of On the Town on Broadway, and author of The Ballerina Mindset, Megan Fairchild.

Katie checks in with professor of executive leadership, gender theory, and conflict management, with research published in periodicals like The Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, The Women in Management Review, and The Journal of International Business Disciplines, as well as Katie's current NYU Stern professor, Dr. Kellye Jones.

Katie checks in with star of stage (Selling Kabul and The Profane at Playwrights Horizons, Three Women at 59E59, and most recently Prayer for the French Republic at Manhattan Theatre Club) and screen (Arranged, Daredevil, Inside Amy Schumer, Life and Beth), Francis Benhamou.

In this special episode, Katie gets into the nitty gritty of auditioning in New York City -- the highs, the lows, the union, the studios, etc., all helped by actor (Fiorello!, Criminal Minds), dancer (Newsies, West Side Story, A Chorus Line), and friend, Drew Carr.

Katie checks in with dancer, actor, model, and star of Netflix's Tiny Pretty Things, Barton Cowperthwaite.

Katie checks in with Vanity Fair Staff Writer, comedian, and actor, Chris Murphy.

Celebrating one year of Call Time (!!), Katie checks in with actor (Mary Page Marlowe, These Paper Bullets!, Dance Dance Revolution, The Skin of Our Teeth, and currently: The Minutes on Broadway), Ariana Venturi.

Katie checks in with stage manager Ryan Gohsman, whose credits include Here Lies Love, The Death of the Last Black Man, The Light Years, and Mary Jane, and who is currently the production stage manager for Little Shop of Horrors at The Westside Theater (featuring Christian Borle, Tammy Blanchard, and Conrad Ricamora).

Katie checks in with Broadway actor, singer, dancer (Hairspray, Wicked, Hello Dolly!, Anything Goes, Chaplin), and QVC host, Hayley Podschun.

Katie checks in with playwright (The Power of Punctuation, The Day the Butcher Shop Closed, Party Hop Off-Broadway; upcoming: All Nighter), Natalie Margolin.

Katie checks in with actor (Lysistrata Jones and Spring Awakening on Broadway, Marvel's Iron Fist and The Bold and The Beautiful), composer/writer (A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet), producer (What the Constitution Means to Me and How I Learned to Drive - upcoming- on Broadway), and co-creator, director, and star of Indoor Boys, Alex Wyse.

Katie checks in with production designer, stage manager, curator, and producer, Maimouna Camara, who started off her professional career at Towne Street Theatre, LA's "premier African American theatre company," and now studies in the performing arts administration graduate program at NYU.

Katie checks in with, according to the Arts and Business Council, the nation's "foremost expert" in audience development, founder of Walker Communications Group, Senior Community Engagement Advisor for the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, multi-cultural marketer and group sales liaison for over 22 Broadway shows (including Once on This Island, The Lion King, Aladdin, Smokey Joe's Cafe, and Ragti...

Katie checks in with Broadway dancer, singer, and actor (Ambrose Kemper in Hello Dolly!, Kiss Me, Kate, An American in Paris, Holiday Inn), Will Burton.

Katie checks in with two-time Tony nominee (Sharon McLonergan in Finian's Rainbow and Irene Molloy in Hello Dolly!), and star of such Broadway and Off-Broadway shows as Thoroughly Modern Millie, Big Fish, Giant, John & Jen, and Superhero, Kate Baldwin.

In this special episode, Katie attempts to honor the late, great Stephen Sondheim by discussing his work, and what it's meant to her personally, with Comparative Literature PhD candidate, Evan Strouss.

Katie checks in with star of stage (Fiorello!, Grease, The Boston Pops with Kristen Chenoweth), screen (The Purge: Election Year, Selah and the Spades, Woe Is Mary, Puddysticks), co-founder of the Sappho Project, and digital marketer, Christy Coco.

Katie checks in with marketing consultant (clients include IBM, Kodak, Pfizer, McCann Erickson, Time, and more) -- and her current professor at NYU Stern (director of the Stern Fashion and Luxury Lab, former executive director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Faculty of the Year, Stern/Citibank Teacher of the year)! -- Jeffrey Carr.

Katie checks in with star of Mean Girls (Cady) on Broadway, Les Miserables (Fantine) on Broadway, and Girls5Eva on Peacock, Erika Henningsen.

Katie checks in with actor (New York Classical Theatre, the Keen Company, Shakespeare on the Sound, Netflix's The Politician, and CBS's The Equalizer) and theatre educator (teaching fellow at Juilliard and Director of Education at the Keen Company), Jasminn Johnson.

Katie checks in with three-time Tony winner, seven-time Tony nominee, celebrated director (All My Sons, Carousel, Hairspray, The Coast of Utopia, The Full Monty, Henry IV, Catch Me If You Can, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Imaginary Friends, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and more), former Artistic Director of the Old Globe in San Diego (1981-2007), and giant of the American theatre, Jack O'Brien.

Katie checks in with actor and singer, Sam Gravitte (Almost Famous, Wicked National Tour), currently starring as Fiyero in Wicked on Broadway.

Katie checks in with star of stage (Shrek The Musical, The Low Road) and screen (Younger, Happy Days, Phoebe in Wonderland, Generation, The Good Wife), Tessa Albertson.