Are You Famous, Yet?

Laura and Jake discuss Laura’s new fairy workshop at the WasteShed (Saturday June 30th 3-5pm) after they catch up on some “Uncle Fun: You’re the One” premiere news and events. Laura is excited to teach 7-13 year olds about the ways of the faerie and Jake is excited to see some of the larger bags of ‘tiny fairy things’ leave the house. Does Jake look like the Maxell 'blown away' guy in chair? Laura thinks so. Here's the image: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/areyoufamousyet/maxell_guy_in_chair.jpg for the curious. Also, Laura announces her new summer job at the last possible moment in the episode. https://unclefunyouretheone.com http://www.thewasteshed.com Follow us on Twitter or Facebook Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz

First: Sorry about the sound quality on this one. Second: This the second of two episodes where the hosts talk about failures. 0:02:00 Jake's turn to pour his heart out. 0:02:15 "I was bored in school and developed NO study habits" 0:05:00 Let the begging begin. 0:06:40 Failing at relativity 0:12:15 Colleges want to take your money 0:13:38 Taking the leaving the gang beating… or not. 0:14:10 The hard lesson of learning how to manage upward 0:15:30 Dead teacher walking 0:16:10 "When things are hard it makes you try harder, but that's not always a good thing." 0:22:15 Nilsa had a completely different college experience 0:23:35 I don't like this anymore... 0:30:45 Cheap suits + Draconian Rules = Remedial Love and the rise of Hitler 0:34:15 "You must love inspirational teacher movies…" 0:37:40 Laura's most recent teaching experience: name deleted to protect the guilty 0:38:20 Over-preparing and bad vibes 0:43:00 "This is going to be an awkward phone call…" 0:45:20 "One of the evil-est people out there are mothers

We are back after a week off and Laura has just gotten off a plane from seeing the last ever "Spoutwood Fairie Festival" http://www.spoutwood.org/fairie-festival/2018-may-day-fairie-festival/ where she interviewed many and got lots of footage for her next documentary project. She also went to see a certain "Uncle Fun" in Baltimore and has a bit to say about that.  Get your tickets for the June 10th showing of "Uncle Fun: You're the One" soon because over half of the tickets are already sold: http://unclefunyouretheone.com Follow us on Twitter or Facebook Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz

We talked about social media, Chels' writing, podcast, Sell Me A Pup; and graphic novel, Dead Weight with Brooklyn-based illustrator and "Lenny Letter" contributor Danie Drankwalter.    http://chelsnotchelsea.com   https://www.machineculture.com/chels-harvey/   Sell Me A Pup podcast https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sell-me-a-pup/id1259048087?mt=2 Follow us on Twitter or Facebook Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz

Originally released Feb 24, 2014. The first of two episodes where the hosts talk about failures. 0:01:40 - Josh Force (http://forcedesignhouse.com/) is the graphic designer behind Laura's impending website. Note from the future Laura’s website is done and here: https://lauraforcescruggs.com/ Jake is very proud of the SSL/TLS certification. 0:02:15 - Laura Force: Porn star? 0:04:50 - What happened to Bryn and social media? 0:09:13 - Apparently Facebook is . Jake breaks it down courtesy of Veritasium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ZqXlHl65g 0:15:50 - The theme of this podcast is Failure. Nilsa goes first. 0:22:20 - Nilsa is a complete professional. 0:22:58 - Bryn talks about how getting laid off from Motorola was heralded by a spooky "subjectless meeting" with his boss appearing on his calendar. 0:27:20 - "Arsenic and Old Lace" may have gotten Bryn promoted. 0:30:00 - Nilsa married her college sweetheart - a division III basketball player. Oh yeah. 0:35:27 - An early mid-life crisis. 0:37:40 - It happened in

Links to tickets for world premiere screenings of "Uncle Fun:  You're The One" at Chicago Filmmakers: 2 pm showing http://chicagofilmmakers.org/screenings/2673 7 pm http://chicagofilmmakers.org/screenings/2674 Facebook event pages for Chicago Filmmakers' screenings: 2 pm https://www.facebook.com/events/210131949752110/ 7 pm https://www.facebook.com/events/212771492644835/ Website unclefunyouretheone.com Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/UncleFunYoureTheOne/ Twitter https://twitter.com/UncleFunYoureT1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/unclefunyouretheonedocumentary/ Big Fun http://bigfunbigfun.com https://bigfuntoystore.tumblr.com State Street Stuff https://www.facebook.com/State-Street-Stuff-228217517276287/ Uncle Fun was officially declared done by Laura Scruggs on Thursday March 15th, 2018. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz

Originally released Feb 17, 2014. 0:00:52 Jenn Mello founder of the first networking event Bryn attended in NY 0:01:50 "Nat Geo" and other mysterious abbreviations and acronyms 0:03:50 A mysterious text to Jake from Nilsa 0:09:20 Film Interchange and the origins of it's founder (http://www.filminterchange.org) 0:14:50 "Let's talk to filmmakers about film making…" 0:17:20 "No one stands alone at my events" 0:20:45 K. Lorrel Manning and "Happy New Year" (http://happynewyearfilm.com/) 0:34:00 A tribute to the bygone Bryn-O-Plex 0:36:20 "Bring out the gun show, Bryn…" 0:38:20 Producing Class with Indie Producer Rich Guay 0:42:10 Jenn what does Bryn need to do to become famous? 0:50:50 What did Bryn think of Dan's training comment in the last episode? 0:58:38 Alexander technique 1:01:49 Voice and speech and probation 1:06:33 Film Interchange- all set for friendly world domination 1:08:15 More love for Rich Guay 1:12:45 Phil 1:14:30 "I'm having a lot of fun not working."

00:38 - Presenting: Jon Spiegel! https://www.facebook.com/jonspiegel 02:20 - Someone wants to make a movie of Jon's life! 03:07 - Ten x 9, http://www.tenx9.com 05:39 - How Jon is famous. 10:23 - Jon's favorite gigs and other musicians he's met. 18:40 - How Jon got involved with music. 26:36 - An important story. 36:45 - Storytelling! 40:17 - Jon tells a story! 45:15 - Fairy wands and Do Not Submit http://www.donotsubmitchicago.com 57:51 - Jon the playwright. 59:33 - Jon has been working with Brigid Murphy, creator of "Millie's Orchid Show." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/media/94054265-132.html 1:01:41 - Jon's circus story. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz

Recorded at the Pride Arts Center on "The Condition of Femme” set minutes after their 3/16/2018 performance. 00:35 - Presenting: the playwright, director, producer, sound designer & several cast members of Circle Theatre's "The Condition of Femme.” www.circletheatrechicago.org 00:58 - Inspiration for show. 05:17 - Highlights of rehearsal process. 13:58 - Holding space for each other. 16:24 - Favorite parts of script or moments played. 22:33 - Jake's compliment & video montages. 26:43 - Interesting what makes people feel uncomfortable and why. 28:29 - Police officer moment in play and how men are learning from the show. 38:12 - Playwright Lauren Powell is calling people in, not out. 39:23 - Did Lauren consider writing male characters into the script? 49:41 - Rachel's story. 51:57 - We're taught to mind our own business, but need to look out for and truly see each other. 56:40 - A few of Laura and Jake's thoughts about the show. 58:30 - "The Condition of Femme" runs through April 1st. Tickets are availa

Ryan Snow hails from Stanford, California and has his B.A. in Politics and his B.M. in Jazz Studies from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music. He is a former member of Sister Sparrow and The Dirty Birds and was a professional trombonist based in Brooklyn from 2005 to 2014 and is now pursuing law. Rosina Snow is from New York, New York. She attended LaGuardia High School and Oberlin College. She is a singer and environmentalist. She is currently working on her thesis about the environment and the divine. Check out her website at: https://rosina-snow.squarespace.com/ Follow us on Twitter or Facebook Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz

Originally recorded late March 2014 02:13 - Introducing Dan and a glimpse into his history with our group  04:00 - Dan and Nilsa and The Women 07:38 - "…it started when I was 11, 12 years old…" 10:45 - Encounters with soon-to-be-famous campers 14:28 - The Notorious C.T.S. 19:25 - Dan goes method  22:04 - Going to Chicago Academy for the Arts and meeting Ronnie  33:01 - "…I can drink more than anybody else, all of a sudden people like me..."  40:44 - The Great and Terrible NYU 47:55 - Acting vs. Directing and Teaching 53:35 - Seymour 59:33 - A Warlock's Dark Magic  1:04:15 - "We want to start a theater company and we want to name it after a Bruce Springsteen song."  01:09:41 - Finding the opposite 1:12:20 - "I was so engrossed with all of this stuff that I had to pull myself out of it." 1:17:07 - Summer of 2001 1:20:42 - Fools for love 1:24:56 - A lot of chaos leads to a Wonderful Life 1:30:24 - Mystery Science Theater 3000: An Obsessive Odyssey 1:37:44 - Why aren't you auditioning? 1:43:10 - Dan Taube's advic

In this episode Jake and Laura talk about last night's showing of her Uncle Fun documentary to "The Benefactor" and "The Benefactor Jr" (see http://areyoufamousyet.libsyn.com/the-benefactors-identical-twin-episode-55) and some lessons learned. Then they discuss two recent readings of Laura's play "The Magic of Ladie M" which is MacBeth from Ladie MacBeth's point of view with lots of magic and set in an alternate modern world where politics are even crazier than now.  Finally they reflect on the amazing Chicago stand up comedy scene now that they live within walking distance of 3 open mic comedy shows. More importantly, they reveal the secrets of getting free drinks at said shows. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz

00:38 - Presenting Richard J. Miller: richardjmiller.org 01:16 - How we met Richard and his relationship to previous podcast guest, Lauren Miller. 02:01 - How Richard got into his field. 04:24 - Story of Richard attempting to mix up his own drug. 09:11 - Proliferation of various drugs from morphine. 12:51 - Origin of the name of heroin. 13:22 - Bayer and heroin. 16:58 - Part of opioid crisis. 21:36 - Can drugs be made less addictive through chemistry? 26:03 - Kratoms. 27:14 - Harry Potter. 38:02 - Is magic real through medicine? 38:54 - How Richard and Lauren met. 40:12 - Love is a drug and it's hard to get a grant to study love. 41:05 - Romanticism. 44:23 - Richard's theory about Christina Rossetti. 47:06 - Symphony Fantastique by Berlioz. 48:16 - Heroin. 53:55 - Promotion time - Richard's blog: richardjmiller.org Follow us on Twitter or Facebook Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz

amycrider.com 02:18 - "Leda." ledaplay.com 06:37 - Oedipus. 08:05 - Prophecy and fate. 10:04 - Thoughts on what it was like to self-produce "Leda." 15:29 - Lines Bek improvised! 18:06 - Would Amy self-produce again and breakdown of expenses for "Leda." 22:02 - Some of Jake and Laura's self-producing experiences. 25:47 - A funny thing that happened during "Leda." 27:14 - Amy has a reading of the opening scene of "Charlie Johnson Reads All of Proust" at the Make Ready with Dandelion Theatre Tuesday, February 13th at 7 pm at The Galway Arms in Chicago: https://www.dandeliontheatre.com/make-ready 33:49 - Amy's play, "Metadata," in Three Cat Productions' Next Draft Reading Series on Sept. 17th: http://threecatproductions.com/next-draft 38:20 - Some of Amy's thoughts about play writing. 43:02 - Amy's play, "Metadata" and the Steppenwolf. https://www.steppenwolf.org 45:13 - Baby steps/in-between you have to go through as a writer. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs.

Audio Note: Bryn used a decent microphone and recorded the episode on his computer. I used the built in MacBook Pro mic and so this is one of the few episodes where the New York side sounds much better than the Chicago recording.  Guest: Andrea Prestinario http://andreaprestinario.com/ and Twitter: @aprestinario 01:10 Introducing Andrea 03:45 Intro to Meisner 08:50 Bryn and Andrea reconnect 10:14 Jake calls-out Bryn on living with women who are not his girlfriend 14:00 Finally, we let Andrea talk 20:20 Three early survival jobs 22:32 *Name deleted to protect the guilty* 27:07 http://www.eddieshrake.com for web design 30:10 "You have to be worth it for a producer to pay more for you." 40:05 Working with a legend 45:13 A worthy derailment 49:00 Finally moving to New York… and leaving again. 51:52 "The highs are higher, but the lows are lower" 52:43 Bryn asks Andrea if saying "Yes" to everything was helpful 59:05 Nilsa's New York perspective 1:03:00 Advice to the aspiring actor 1:07:43 Bryn plugs Andrea's next b

02:30 - The story of how our guest's first name became Corson 05:00 - The movie "Ladybird" felt very familiar. 08:00 - University of Chicago's pre-orientation program and how it helped Croson transition from rural small town to a big crazy city. 10:31 - The value of seeing shows you don't like. 13:50 - Corson's plan for college and how that quickly changed during her freshman year. 18:15 - Sophomore year. 19:26 - Music directing "Urinetown" in her 3rd year. 25:04 - Having the best Halloween costumes b/c your mom is, amongst many things, a costume designer. 30:13 - Picking up the guitar after a long absence to break through some songwriter's block. 31:42 - Junior year vs senior year 34:35 - Composing the music for an adaptation of "The Great Gatsby" 36:50 - A "pipe dream thesis project" to adapt "A Wrinkle in Time" as a musical. 40:16 - First job out of college: Assistant musical director on Victory Garden's production of "Fun Home." 45:04 - Working on "Josephine the Mouse Singer" at Rhino Fest. Intro Music: "

A trip back to Nov 25, 2013 with a bit of audio magic to make it all a wee bit more listenable. Orignial notes: Until 3:15 Bryn's mic is misplaced and his voice is quiet - sorry. Robot Voice is discussed and observed. Laura Scruggs is generally a delight but also plays the piano while singing a potential theme song. (Future note: Eventually our permanent theme song) In the social medial section, Bryn discusses a tweet he almost made about a movie that has delighted him. At the time of the podcast we were not on iTunes, which we mention. We are now. Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz

Laura and Jake discuss the previous year (2017) and their hopes for 2018. Intro Music: "Are You Famous, Yet?" - Laura Scruggs. Outro Music: "AYFY 1" - Christopher Kriz

Happy New Year, loyal listeners. On this Jan 1st 2018, we take a trip back to our very first episode released Nov 17, 2013. Full disclosure: I poured myself a stiff drink before the start of the show and the start was delayed. I made the mistake of continuing to drink while waiting what turned out to be enough time to get me slurring my words and meandering in conversation. Even though I remastered the sound, it is pretty bad. We recorded this first episode using Apple FaceTime, Quicktime player, and the built in MacBook microphone on Chicago side. Bryn was in New York City receiving the call on his iPhone 4. I think he was wearing the headphones that come with an iPhone of the time. Later we would record both sides of the conversation, use decent microphones, and mix the tracks together in the edit. We discuss how there was currently no way to see "Children Without Parents," which Bryn had just finished shooting. It is now on Amazon and free with Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Children-Without-Parents-Bryn-Pa

00:45 - Presenting: Dolores Diaz, Wendy Schmidt, Lisa Scott and Laura Scruggs, playwrights of Three Cat's Holiday Radio Show. All female playwrights, actors and even stage manager. http://threecatproductions.com/201718-three-cat-season/the-holiday-radio-show 02:05 - Main concept of each short play. 09:32 - When was A Kidnapped Santa Claus written? Originally published in December of 1904. 10:44 - Favorite part of each play. 14:25 - This is done as if it was a radio show in the 40's, a live recording at a USO. 15:06 - Favorite foley and sound effects. 17:10 - Highlights and challenges of experience. 23:01 - The letters. 26:44 - Favorite parts of working with Jason and Three Cat Productions. http://threecatproductions.com 32:55 - Three Cat is devoted to the development of new artists. http://threecatproductions.com 34:05 - The cabaret! http://threecatproductions.com/upcoming-season/cabaret-on-the-lake 34:46 - Promotions! Lisa Scott's "The Inner World of Christmas Trees:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5qKk