Episodes

Yes But Why ep 156 Ken Schatz has the power to make you a better actor!

This week’s episode of Yes But Why Podcast features Ken Schatz, the leading independent acting coach in New York City. Through The Ken Schatz Studio, he offers private coaching, audition prep, on-set film role maintenance work, as well as onstage and on-camera master classes in New York, Los Angeles, and around the world. In their conversation, Amy and Ken talk a lot about Ken’s approach to teaching acting. Borne of…
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Yes But Why ep 155 Project Woo Woo’s Lisa Orkin helps make the radio waves more fun!

This week on Yes But Why Podcast, Amy interviews standup comic, actress and podcaster, Lisa Orkin. Lisa is a voiceover artist as well as an actress in TV and film. She talks about how when she first started performing, she wanted to be a serious actress but people kept telling her she was too funny.  When she finally focused her sights on comedic roles, she got an agent and started…
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Yes But Why ep 154 Missy Finnell loves filmmaking and she loves being a part of the process!

This week on Yes But Why Podcast, Amy interviews casting agent, Missy Finnell. Missy talks about her experience building her career at Donna Belajac Casting agency in Pittsburgh. Missy studied cinematography and producing film in school but her education didn’t teach her the business part of film. In her working life, Missy has done casting and costuming and she has learned a lot more from her real world experiences. Listen…
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Yes But Why ep 153 Roya Hamadani is empowering women to speak their truth!

This week on Yes But Why Podcast, we chat with fiction writer and standup comedian Roya Hamadani.  Roya shares with us how the end of a stifling relationship helped propel her into standup comedy in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Roya currently co-hosts Stout Laughs, a twice monthly comedy open mic at the Bethlehem Brewworks, with the hope that she can provide a welcoming stage for performers who need it as much…
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Yes But Why ep 152 Sabrina Pratt wants you to get out and do what you love!

This week’s Yes But Why episode features a wonderful conversation with Sabrina Pratt, Owner & Artistic Director of The Central Coast Comedy Theater in San Luis Obispo, CA. A self-described “nerdball” for improv, Sabrina shares lots of great stories about her life in the arts as well as some killer advice for anyone on the fence about starting their creative career. Sabrina discusses her lifelong love of the stage from beauty pageants…
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