Touché Podcast

Tuck yourselves in because acclaimed writer and performer (all around multi hyphenated hunny) RYAN HADDAD is serving RADICAL ACCESS! We chat about his journey from Ohio to New York's downtown scene and beyond and his new off Broadway play "Dark Disabled Stories" premiering at The Public this month. Do not miss this autobiographical play as a series of unforgiving vignettes about the strangers he encounters while navigating a world not built for his walker and cerebral palsy. Get your tickets at publictheater.org February 28-March 26th. We adore you Ryan!!!

365 days times 2 and Touché is back! Wow, well, Covid really put us in our chairs, and a lot has gone down since: Some TV shows, a professorship, a new pet, thoughts of actually getting a pet, a film, and a book deal. We chat about what "the middle" is and if that's changed? Doesn't it always?

We'd love to hear your thoughts, questions and comments - SEND EM IN!

Missed ya a ton!

PS Jenn realizes how subpar her audio is - she recorded while underwater and vows never to do that again.

Spring has sprung and Jeff and Jenn are feeling a little something as well. Reuniting, celebrating upcoming work, deleting apps, scamming McDonalds...a little something for everyone ;)

We miss you and accepting applications for what you need.

Touche.

MEDITATE, JOURNAL, EXERCISE...why does this look so easy on paper?

Still feeling stuff? It's not a question. Touche. 

Jenn and Jeff are feeling all sorts of stuff that they so generously share on this weeks episode of Touche. Bonus: A little sprinkle of "Pajama Game" because we see you musical people!

Well here we are. Here. We. Are. We have a lot of thoughts and feelings right now so we give you our voices and sometimes giggles if that can be of any comfort. We love you a ton. Stay inside. Touche.

Downtown superstar Neal Medlyn (aka Champagne Jerry) joins Jeff and Jenn this week to talk about his journey from being a jr college dropout to a successful performance artist. This EPISODE ya'll!!!!

Jenn and Jeff want you to know what they loved in 2019! FUN, doncha think?

We do it every year, and this one is no exception. Jenn and Jeff are talking roses and thorns of 2019, goals for 2020, and we even talk about how our goals from last year ended up this year - we did kinda good!!!

Guest Host and former guest Harry Bouvy sits down with Jeff and actor Jay Russell who has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, TV and Film and lays down a depressing truth - there aren't really any breakthroughs. You just gotta keep going. 

Lulu Lloyd has been on Broadway (School of Rock), toured with major productions (Waitress, Bat Out of Hell) and worked with the likes of Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, but there was still something missing for her life, and she realized she can change it. So she did!

You have seen Mike Doyle in a LOT of things. Seriously. Look at his IMDB page. Go ahead. We will wait. That's a lot of work, right? Law and Order: SVU, The Jersey Boys movie, Rabbit Hole, Sex and the City, Oz, even Gayby with Jenn! But what Mike shares with Jeff and Jenn is that even a career with a ton of credits is still a marathon and not a sprint to a finish line. Plus, the descriptions of the characters he has played are worth a download, trust!

Proud Equity member Pam Goldberg (Phillip Taratula) joins us to discuss life as an actor who has seen and done it all yet still never became a household name. We talk what it’s like to ride the waves of a career and also meal prep. Pam also has a show at Ars Nova on December 9th 2019! Though we do believe she will outlive us all, don't miss this opportunity to see her in person. Thank you for your time Pam.

Rats in DC? I mean...Touche! This week Jeff and Jenn (and let's be real, Beverly too) chat about musical theatre audition prep, shooting a juicy role in a pilot and ALL the feelings that go along with it, and physical pains as one ages cuz, ouch!

Scott Lowell joins Jenn and Jeff on the Lower East Side to talk about TV stardom and theatre roots, not to mention booking twelve commercials in one year - WHICH WE CAN AGREE IS NOT REAL EVEN IF IT IS TRUE! A great discussion about how the struggle is never really over. 

Casting director Andrew Femenella joins Jenn and Jeff in upstate Manhattan. We talk about how Andrew is looking at casting in a new way, how there is still a ladder you have to climb on that side of the table, and his secret (or maybe not so secret?) love of musical theatre. An exciting episode where we get to see what life is like on the other side! 

That title rhymes if you have a Texas accent. Can you believe it? They were gone so long, but they're back after summers and early Autumns full of all sorts of stuff. Jenn and Jeff are back in Inwood to start a sort of second season as it were. They talk about where they have been and how they are feeling. And fret not! we have more episodes in the can coming your way in the next few weeks! Touche'!

You know how British sitcoms do a one off episode? It's always in December and they call it the Christmas special? Well Touche' is doing that! Jenn is back from making her movie and Jeff hasn't left to do Bright Colors in DC, so they are together and talking for one special episode! A bonus! Also, there is the weirdest audio thing in the world and I left it in cause its hilarious. See if you can hear it and if you can't you didn't listen. 

Ya'll, Jeff got a little job for a week and Jenn is taking on a MONSTER project. They are so busy they can't even be in the same room with each other! And so it means, it's time for a little touche' hiatus. They explain what that is about in this last new episode (for a while?). Much love from touche land!

Jeff and Jenn get to do reading together on a beautiful Sunday afternoon and take you on their literal travels. Jenn is on her motor bike and it's a windy day so maybe have your finger on your volume - pro tip :)

Cody Lindquist is an actor, a UCB regular and one half of the hosts of the podcast, "Two Beers In". She joins us at the peril of her own safety from Jeff's wild cat. She tells us about doing bad theatre, getting out of Boerum Hill alive and how rules can be comforting. It's a good listen!

A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING everyone....come get your LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING!!!

Jeff and Jenn both got an internet only commercial audition in Long Island City, so they took the podcast on the road to let you in on the glamorous lifestyle of NYC audition lyfe! Then they take you to Inwood, Jenn's new neighborhood, and Jeff let's you in on all of the weirdo shizz that is filling his head like Transcendental Meditation, Deep Work, and Human Design! 

SEX! YOUR STAR METER ON IMDB! Now that we have your attention...this week Jeff and Jenn get into some saucy talk, some reflections on said saucy talk and of course your star meter and what it actually "means".

Singer, Songwriter, Singer/Songwriter, Therapist, Actor and DEAR friend Jim Andralis joins us today to chat coming to New York, coming out, making your own art, making a living....and how aaaalllll of the above are just so complicated. This ep is ALL about the closet and "the fear of admitting who you are and what you like". A very talented and smart pal we have in Jim. Enjoy him because we always do ;) 

Is Jenn easy? Is Jeff easy? Let's talk branding! Jeff shares a great poop story and we chat what the hell to attempt to do when shit hits the fan...is this the poop episode? It's the poop episode.

Actress, cabaret gurl and our fave lady to run into at auditions joins us in Jeff's living room this week. We chat ENERGY and VIBRANCY and JOY and feeling vulnerable about having Energy and Vibrancy and Joy. Nadia -"Liking the life of a cool, NYC artist!" We're heeeerrrrre 4 it!