Any Other Anythings?

Episode Overview:This episode contains Molly’s final thoughts about this season of Any Other Anythings and what has transpired in Grey Box Collective's past. How do you bring closure to something? Thank you for listening to this season of Any Other Anythings. Take care of yourself and each other.

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: You may be asking, what the heck are stairway thoughts? Well, stairway thoughts are those things that you remember as soon as the call ends, or as soon as you walk out the door. In this episode Molly goes into her stairway thoughts she’s had upon recording season 4 of Any Other Anythings. 

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: In previous episodes Molly has reviewed the past seasons of Grey Box Collective. After this time of reminiscing she is ready to divulge her plans for the future. This plan includes workshops, performances, partnerships and of course living in the grey messy areas of life. 

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: This episode is about season 8, which is still ongoing at the time of this recording. GBC has transitioned into being a project based company and has been performing Understanding Otherness. One of the main focuses of this season has been the education branch of GBC and our Patreon. GBC’s Play in the Grey Series has been releasing workshops and materials as a part of our Patreon. 

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: At Grey Box Collective season seven is referred to Murphy’s law of a season, because everything that could go wrong did. It was an overwhelming and busy season for GBC. Molly shares some writing she had done when thinking about how individuals show up within the company.

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: Season six came with a reboot of old partnerships and of live performances. GBC had digital and in-person creative teams resulting in a hybrid performance of PAUSE… . This season was about being launched into a place that was not expected. 

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: Season five of Grey Box Collective spanned fall 2020 to spring 2021, and we all know what happened in 2020. This season had fully transitioned into being online and postcard performances were the new norm. Molly discusses the impact that this season had on her and the company, and she touches on creativity that originates in survival mode. 

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: Molly goes into detail about how the pandemic impacted Grey Box Collective. Many events had to be canceled, but this was also an opportunity to experiment. This time of uncertainty brought about postcard performances, the online store (which was shut down in summer of 2023) and this podcast. 

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: This is the season where Grey Box Collective started to hit their stride. The educational branch of Grey Box Collective starts to take shape this season. New works were being created for the Wild Card Series. Molly also discusses her experience through the lens of a founder. 

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: Episode Overview: 2017 to 2018 was a time of partnerships and restaging the work that inspired Grey Box Collective. Language and rituals were starting to develop - such as, care-to-shares, need-to-knows and trauma-informed creative practices. These are now staples in GBC and are an essential part of the company.

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: The first official season of Grey Box Collective and the story of doing more with less. This season GBC performed Understanding Otherness, Out of Hiding, Social/(anti) social, and Fool me Once…Fool me Twice… Molly also gives insight into hustle culture and its effect on a company and the people within it. 

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: In this episode Molly goes into Grey Box Collective before it was Grey Box Collective. What started as a thesis project has turned into a company that is now in its eighth season. Molly will dive into the details of what inspired the company and what her process was becoming a clunky entrepreneur. 

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: A brief episode that acts as a bridge from season 3 to season 4. Molly shares some of the intention, motivation, and inspiration behind Any Other Anythings season 4.

Special Note about Season 4 of Any Other Anythings: This season features GBC Founder and Creative Producer Molly W. Schenck as she archives the journey of GBC from 2016 to present day. We highly recommend listening to this season of Any Other Anythings in chronological order …unless you want a more non-linear experience in which case, feel free to hop around. 

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective is an arts organization that produces projects on social emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. GBC’s work is interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic. We work primarily at the intersection of performing arts, visual arts, educational psychology, somatics (body and mind connection), and feminist theory. We aim to explore brand new forms of expression and make choices to rebel against the “norms”. Our work prioritizes investigating broad ideas (ex. hate, othering, shame, mental health and sexual violence) and typically steps away from traditional plot lines or characters. Since forming, we have been in residency and performed with nue[BOX], the Phoenix Center for the Arts, the Boulder Fringe Festival, and the Network of Ensemble Theatre’s annual conference. We have partnered with the Artist’s Box, Z-Room, The Movement Project, The Phoenix Hostel and Cultural Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Prison Law Office, the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, and Take Back the Night Phoenix, and La Frontera (EMPACT)'s Trauma Healing Services Division. For more information, check out the links below.

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Episode Overview: Hannah Bridgeo, a collective of GBC, interviews GBC’s director, Molly Schenk. In this episode, Hannah & Molly dive into Molly’s origin story as a creative and discuss moments of connection. Tune in to this episode to hear Molly’s vision behind this season and seasons to come.

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Episode Overview: Rayshawn Watkins interviews fellow GBC collective Hannah Bridgeo. Rayshawn and Hannah dive into Hannah’s origin story and reminisce on their shared time together in college. This heartfelt podcast episode will give you the warm and fuzzies as members realize the depth of their friendship. 

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Hannah Bridgeo is a dance educator, artist, musician and a grown-up theater kid. Currently, Bridgeo works as a dance and theater teacher at a high school in northern Phoenix. Bridgeo started dancing at 4 years old and performed her first drama monologue in kindergarten. She also started learning reading and performing various instruments around that same time. Bridgeo graduated from Grand Canyon University in 2021 with a degree in Dance Education. She is passionate about teaching in public schools because she believes everyone should have access to learn, create and produce art. This is Bridgeo’s second season with Grey Box Collective and she looks forward to many more. Instagram: @hannahmb57 

Rayshawn is currently working in the valley as a full time teacher at Heritage Academy Gateway. In his free time he performs with multiple groups in the valley such as Grey Box Collective, Automatic Response, and DDT to name a few! He plans on to keep sharing his love for dance to the scholars and people he runs into! Instagram: @jaquay.w

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective (GBC) devises interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic work about social and emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC finds innovative ways of exploring, challenging, and igniting difficult conversations. This is achieved by living in the messy grey areas of life and tackling socially relevant topics such as hate, shame, sexual violence, depression, and anxiety. GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. Since then, GBC has produced over 20 new works, created by nearly 100 artists, and partnered with a dozen local organizations. GBC has presented work at the Boulder Fringe Festival, the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ annual conference, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and at the Phoenix Center of the Arts while in residency with nue[BOX].  In response to the pandemic, GBC expanded its digital offerings by hosting virtual workshops on Trauma-Informed Creative Practices, opening an online store with devising tools, and launching a podcast. For more information, sign up for GBC’s newsletter, check out GBC’s website, and follow GBC on social media.

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In this episode, Fox and Lizbett nerd out over noise, explore spectrums of queer transness, and discuss what it is to be present and be known in and through art!

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Fox Williams [fæ/she] is a queer, nonbinary performer and sound artist living in Phoenix, AZ. Fæ doesn't have any accolades, just a day job that allows fær to play in fær spare time. She wants you to know she is beloved by her girlfriends, her partner Liza, and their three cats: Castor, Pollux, and Dash. faeinthewae - twitter, ig, soundcloud

Lizbett is an artist, educator, and facilitator with a background in intersectional intergenerational feminism and theatre. Dr. Benge works with young, system-involved people, facilitating arts-based social-emotional learning projects and experiential political education. She loves being part of creative processes and learning with people. In October 2022 she initiated the first phase of her decade long community-based sci-fi circus mystery dinner theatre experience. Her upcoming projects include producing queer feminist burlesque + wrestling + performance art & dance experiences around the Phoenix valley, launching Starstuff a global pop-up arts festival, and building her creative consulting and arts firm, Skeleton Key Creativity.  

Episode Overview: In this episode, chasity and lizbett share stories about delve into being different, and commiserate with one another by way of horror, sci-fi, and burlesque. 

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Chasity Flores is a professional Dancer/Choreographer, an Arizona State University Alumni. She received her BFA in Dance and has been a part of many works at Arizona State University and throughout her community of Arizona. Since she and her twin sister, Destiny Flores (aka Ave Marcello of The Sintrics;local Arizona Rock Band)were young girls they would sing in beauty pageants together and at many event as well as performing songs in ASL (American Sign Language).She has been performing since she could walk, she started out a beauty pageant baby, young philanthropist for the cool hand club foundation, competitive cheer and was featured on ESPN with her pop-warner cheer-team, the boilermakers, Fiesta bowl runner up for Best soloist 2014, and 10 years of teaching experience from learning centers , group homes,studios, internships, and her true passion for dance. She is a trauma informed artist and facilitator. She choreographed a duet called Fallen Robin that was showcased in the spring 2016 undergraduate show at ASU as well as a Solo titled Shhh...eets and the bed along with it presented in the spring showcase of 2016.She has danced in works by artists around the valley with artists such as Jenny Gerena, Ricardo Alvarez,and Molly Schenck.

IG: Florwerkberserk 

Lizbett is an artist, educator, and facilitator with a background in intersectional intergenerational feminism and theatre. Dr. Benge works with young, system-involved people, facilitating arts-based social-emotional learning projects and experiential political education. She loves being part of creative processes and learning with people. In October 2022 she initiated the first phase of her decade long community-based sci-fi circus mystery dinner theatre experience. Her upcoming projects include producing queer feminist burlesque + wrestling + performance art & dance experiences around the Phoenix valley, launching Starstuff a global pop-up arts festival, and building her creative consulting and arts firm, Skeleton Key Creativity.  

Episode Overview: Haley Interviews Chasity, delving into the layered origin story that created Chasity’s movement quality. Chasity talks about dance as redemption, and exploring movement with GBC as a healing process.

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Chasity Flores is a professional Dancer/Choreographer, an Arizona State University Alumni. She recieved her BFA in Dance and has been a part of many works at Arizona State University and throughout her community of Arizona. Since she and her twin sister, Destiny Flores (aka Ave Marcello of The Sintrics;local Arizona Rock Band)were young girls they would sing in beauty pageants together and at many event as well as performing songs in ASL (American Sign Language).She has been performing since she could walk, she started out a beauty pageant baby, young philanthropist for the cool hand club foundation, competitive cheer and was featured on ESPN with her pop-warner cheer-team, the boilermakers, Fiesta bowl runner up for Best soloist 2014, and 10 years of teaching experience from learning centers , group homes,studios, interships, and her true passion for dance. She is a trauma informed artist and facilitator. She choreographed a duet called Fallen Robin that was showcased in the spring 2016 undergraduate show at ASU as well as a Solo titled Shhh...eets and the bed along with it presented in the spring showcase of 2016.She has danced in works by artists around the valleywith artists such as Jenny Gerena, Ricardo Alvarez,and Molly Schenck.

IG: FlorWerkBerserk 

Haley Nielsen is the costume designer for Understanding Otherness. She has an undergraduate degree in art from ASU and a Masters in Design from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her focus areas are folk costume, natural dye and the dialogue between body and culture.

Producing Company Bio: Grey Box Collective (GBC) devises interdisciplinary, experimental, and post-dramatic work about social and emotional wellbeing (i.e. we make weird art about tough stuff). GBC finds innovative ways of exploring, challenging, and igniting difficult conversations. This is achieved by living in the messy grey areas of life and tackling socially relevant topics such as hate, shame, sexual violence, depression, and anxiety. GBC was founded in 2016 by Molly W. Schenck. Since then, GBC has produced over 20 new works, created by nearly 100 artists, and partnered with a dozen local organizations. GBC has presented work at the Boulder Fringe Festival, the Network of Ensemble Theaters’ annual conference, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and at the Phoenix Center of the Arts while in residency with nue[BOX].  In response to the pandemic, GBC expanded it’s digital offerings by hosting virtual workshops on Trauma-Informed Creative Practices, opening an online store with devising tools, and launching a podcast. For more information, sign up for GBC’s newsletter, check out GBC’s website, and follow GBC on social media.

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Episode Overview: Adam interviews Haley, reminiscing on past creative collaborations and the compulsion to create that pushes her to work in the arts a decade later.

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Haley Nielsen is the costume designer for Understanding Otherness. She has an undergraduate degree in art from ASU and a Masters in Design from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her focus areas are folk costume, natural dye and the dialogue between body and culture.

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In this episode, Delia and Adam use the idea of “otherness” to identify experiences as children of immigrants, discuss creativity as healing as opposed to creativity as part of a job, and wind in and out of talking about colonization ending up at the best taco toppings.

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In this episode, Delia shares their origin story as a child both of artists and of the Chesapeake Bay as a jumping off point to discussions on place, creative processes of the digital and in-person devising process. Delia and Molly also discuss how this work exists in the in-between. 

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Episode Overview: In this episode, Molly sets listeners up for what they can expect this season. She talks about how creatives will be switching things up between hosting and interviewing. And she introduces listeners to the three part structure each episode will follow.

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Episode Overview: In this episode, Micah and Molly wrap up the season and talk about how season 2 recordings went and Molly shares more about her personal journey, GBC’s vision and how the podcast fits into it.

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Micah’s bio/links/etc. A US-born transplant and newly ecstatic resident of Ottawa, Micah Jondel DeShazer (micahjondel.com), over the last 15 years (between New York, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago and Madison) has developed into an accomplished actor, director, musician, artistic leader and educator. He had quickly immersed himself in the Ottawa theater community, acting in several local works, musical directing at Orpheus Theatre (Memphis), and directing independent works (Puzzles, Ottawa Fringe Festival 2022.), while staying plugged into his roots in Phoenix through his continued work with GBC. Always seeking the unexpected and drawn to passionate artists, Micah is honored to have been an ever growing list of so many. Notable projects include: The Tempest (Torchlight Theater - Company of Fools), Matilda (CTM), Passing Strange (iTheatre Collaborative) & Native Son (ariZoni, Best Actor).

Episode Overview: In this episode Adam and Micah discuss what are the limits of arts, should/does art come at the expense of the artists? What types of creative spaces do artists engage in? Are they all safe? Is art made in “not great spaces” any less or better, and childlike wonder as adult artists & freely going against the grain.

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Episode Overview: This episode really kicks off season two as Molly interviews our host for season 2: Micah. In this episode, Micah and Molly discuss the creative process throughout the pandemic, the 2017 version of Understanding Otherness, what it means to be a full time artist, and allowing ourselves to be poured into.

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A US-born transplant and newly ecstatic resident of Ottawa, Micah Jondel DeShazer (micahjondel.com), over the last 15 years (between New York, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Chicago and Madison) has developed into an accomplished actor, director, musician, artistic leader and educator. He had quickly immersed himself in the Ottawa theater community, acting in several local works, musical directing at Orpheus Theatre (Memphis), and directing independent works (Puzzles, Ottawa Fringe Festival 2022.), while staying plugged into his roots in Phoenix through his continued work with GBC. Always seeking the unexpected and drawn to passionate artists, Micah is honored to have been an ever growing list of so many. Notable projects include: The Tempest (Torchlight Theater - Company of Fools), Matilda (CTM), Passing Strange (iTheatre Collaborative) & Native Son (ariZoni, Best Actor).

Episode Overview: This episode is a bridge from season 1 to season 2.  In this wicked quick episode Molly shares what you can expect in season 2 of Any Other Anythings..