Mamas Talkin' Loud

In honor of the Tony Awards this Sunday, June 8th, please enjoy this encore release of our chat (the second one EVER!) with 2019 Tony Award Winner, Celia Keenan-Bolger, honored this year with the 2025 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award, as she opens up about her motherhood experience; how bringing Scout Finch to life eight times a week has been as fulfilling as it has been depleting, and how she naviga...

In honor of the Tony Awards this Sunday, please enjoy this encore release of our chat with nominee (for the 7th time!) Audra McDonald, currently starring as Mama Rose in GYPSY. Make sure you've listened to Part 1 and follow the Mamas on Instagram @mamastalkinloudpod for up to date info on their return. 2020: Kicking off season 2 of Mamas Talkin Loud we were honored to speak with 6 time Tony award...

In honor of the Tony Awards this Sunday, please enjoy this encore release of our chat with nominee (for the 7th time!) Audra McDonald, currently starring as Mama Rose in GYPSY. Make sure to follow up with Part 2 and follow the Mamas on Instagram @mamastalkinloudpod for up to date info on their return. 2020: Kicking off season 2 of Mamas Talkin Loud we were honored to speak with 6 time Tony award w...

We're back!! (kind of)... This special bonus episode is coming to you live from the red carpet at the opening night of Broadway's "How to Dance in Ohio". "How to Dance in Ohio" is a heartwarming musical based on a true story. It follows a group of young adults on the autism spectrum who attend a group counseling center in Columbus, Ohio. As they prepare for a spring formal dance, a major rite of p...

As she comes to the end of her 2 year reign, Queen Elsa herself, Caissie Levy, joins us to talk about what it has meant to play one of the most iconic Disney princesses while being a mother. We talk everything from her journey as the mama of a preemie, to managing a toddler meltdown via facetime while simultaneously changing into “THE dress” and preparing to sing “Let it Go”, to knowing what to as...

The last time we spoke to Elizabeth Stanley she was deep in the world of new motherhood, pumping in the bathroom at the Tony Awards and preparing to return to her Tony Nominated starring role in Jagged Little Pill. Today she joins us to discuss what it was like to job share on Broadway, the emotional whiplash that omicron brought and how she is learning to balance her career and motherhood moving...

In celebration of International Women's History Month, co-host Jessica Rush sat down in studio with her co-stars & fellow 'mamas' of TINA: THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL on Broadway. Tony Award nominee Myra Lucretia Taylor, NaTasha Yvette Williams and Katie Webber graciously joined her on a two show day to share how their own motherhood journey's and relationships with the maternal figures in their lives...

Kitt Shapiro is the daughter of icon, legend, feminist, activist and sex symbol Eartha Kitt and joins co-host Jessica Rush for a special ‘Santa Baby’ holiday episode. After meeting while Jess was on tour with Kitt's mother Eartha, they reconnect here to discuss her best selling memoir Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter’s Love Story in Black & White. Kitt shares the incredible bond she and her mother had, h...

Faith Salie is an Emmy award winning journalist, radio host, podcaster, writer, and actress, proving time and again there is nothing she can’t do. She joins Cara and Jess today amidst the run of her Off-Broadway one woman show Approval Junkie, based on her memoir of the same name, to share how it’s never too late to to find your purpose and how important it is to model that pursuit for our childre...

The last time we spoke with Elizabeth Stanley, she was anxiously awaiting the arrival of her baby girl. Continuing our Returning Reborn series, this mama joins us with her sweet babe now in her arms. From the way becoming a mother changes you forever, to pumping in the bathroom of the Tony awards, she shares where she is in her motherhood journey and how she is feeling about her forthcoming return...

In an unexpected turn of events, co-host Jessica Rush takes the hot seat, sharing her journey back to Broadway post pandemic as part of our "Returning Reborn: The Rebirth of the Broadway Mom" series. Navigating a move out of lockdown, returning to her role in TINA: The Tina Turner Musical, and negotiating 8 shows a week, on top of the new #mompreneur life she created during Covid, this conversatio...

Breaking her three year silence over her discrimination and eventual termination from her starring role in Romy and Michele: The Musical, Cortney Wolfson joins us following her bravely transparent social media post that went viral. She shares, in her own words, what it felt like to be fired for being pregnant, opening up a conversation that is desperately needed in our industry. Find more info abo...

The superhuman powers of this week’s guests are awe-inspiring. Tony award nominee De’Adre Aziza and Broadway regular Jennifer Sanchez join us to share their journeys as single mothers in show business. From hustling to get their first break with toddlers in tow, to experiencing empty nest after their sons have spread their wings, these mothers truly redefine the mom juggle... doing it all... on th...

Continuing our “Journey to Motherhood” series, star of Moulin Rouge and Tony Award winner, Karen Olivo shares with us how marrying into motherhood has been the greatest gift: how seeing herself through her children’s eyes has forced her to be kinder to herself, how listening to her gut has always guided her life in and out of the business, and how embodying the sparkling diamond every night shows...

Star of Hamilton and breast cancer survivor, Mandy Gonzalez shares her journey through a diagnosis, the decision to go public with the news, and enduring chemotherapy during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown. Even when faced with the most difficult situation, she never lost sight of the light, pushing through with the help of her family, her “core four”, and the passion that drives her to contin...

One of the very first guests on Mamas Talkin' Loud, Pearl Sun, rejoined Cara and Jess a month ago to talk about her unexpected return to Broadway. From resuming 8 shows a week after spending more time than she ever has with her son Max, to her anxiety about moving through the city as an Asian American, her emotions ran the gamut. However, she looked toward the reopening of Come From Away with more...

About a month ago, Khori Petinaud joined us again as part of our 'Returning Reborn' series, sharing her ongoing journey of discovery as a new mom, and her overwhelming anticipation of returning to work in Moulin Rouge. When Broadway shuttered, she wasn’t even pregnant and when she walked back on stage at the Al Hirschfeld theater, she had a 9 month old. She prepped for the reopening with classes a...

Seven years ago co-hosts Cara Cooper & Jessica Rush started a support group for mothers in the New York theater community, Broadway Baby Mamas, and about a month ago they invited them to join in a group “scream”. Like The NY Times did earlier this year, the Mamas wanted to provide a space where the women could just let go of everything they'd been holding onto. This episode is a raw and emotional...

Seven years ago co-hosts Cara Cooper & Jessica Rush started a support group for mothers in the New York theater community, Broadway Baby Mamas, and about a month ago they invited them to join in a group “scream”. Like The NY Times did earlier this year, the Mamas wanted to provide a space where the women could just let go of everything they'd been holding onto. This episode is a raw and emotional...

When their next guest went into labor the day they were set to record, Cara and Jess decided instead to check in with each other and with you. Join them for a true “dressing room“ chat; from back to school and back to Broadway to the mom guilt that never seems to go away, the mamas are intent on giving themselves grace one step at a time. Find more info about the podcast via BPN.fm/mamas.  Produce...

Kicking off our third season, as well as our special four-part miniseries Returning Reborn: The Rebirth of the Broadway Mom, Tony Nominee (Jagged Little Pill) Elizabeth Stanley joined us just weeks before giving birth to her baby girl to share with us her journey to having a #pandemicbaby. While motherhood was not always a path she saw in her future, she is mindfully navigating this new territory...

Just five weeks postpartum, Khori Michelle Petinaud joins us to share her amazing home birth story. She is amplifying her positive experience to affirm BIPOC women everywhere who dream of someday becoming a mother. Khori is using her voice, her experience and her platform to share and fight the devastating inequities in maternal care in this country for women of color, all while navigating becomin...

Two months into quarantine, we talked to new mothers Kara Lindsay and Jennifer Rias about what it’s like to isolate with a young baby. From finding out you’re pregnant on your first day of rehearsal to wearing a thong onstage while carrying a baby, these Broadway Baby Mamas are now traveling the path of new motherhood during a pandemic. Without work to define or distract them, Kara and Jenn are me...

Kicking off Mental Health Awareness Month, we have Carey Anderson, an actress, known for MAMMA MIA & AVENUE Q, turned psychotherapist. Knowing firsthand the intense anxiety and self doubt that are inherent parts of our industry, she created the #MindfulArtistSeries, giving people tangible tools to move through these emotions and help them break out of the ‘Trance of Unworthiness’. As we are enter...

Wrapping up our celebration of Women’s History Month, advocate and change maker extraordinaire, Rachel Spencer Hewitt, joins us this week. Through her own experiences as a mother, she immediately recognized how little caregiver support exists in our industry and she did something about it. She is the founder of PAAL - the Parent Artist Advocacy League, a community, a resource and a salvation to th...