I sit down with Ryan Duncan-Ayala, Executive Director of RDA Producing, Annika Perez Krikorian, and Abe Johnson, the playwright of ‘and we will eat your grief.’ We discuss writing plays about middle school, how we each got into theatre, the election, the sad lyrics of pop stars that we only vaguely remember, end up talking The Sound of Music, the 2005 International Sensation the film The Pacifier starring Vin Diesel, and Keith learns that Andre 3000 is in OutKast. Highlights :
3:50 Annika talking about how most songs in middle school were inappropriate/ Hey Ya dark lyrics
4:50 Keith forgetting that Outcast is called Outcast not Hey Ya
5:20 cut the cameras dead ass
9:17 Abe flower child moment
11:30 Only first act of Into the Woods IS NOT INTO THE WOODS RYAN
13:40 Ryan’s BIPOC centered dating show!!
14:30 Love that looks like the world we live in
16:20 Anika’s departure was staged and Keith goes NO.
19:00 Anika loved the guillotine! Don’t treat children like they are dumb!
21:38 RIP Big Ups to Ghandi
23:33 Abe “Saw a chorus line. Very scarring but very formative”
26:30 Abe said he wouldn’t waste his time on a show if he couldn’t be the lead
30:30 Jesse McCartney was “that kid”
32:45 Abe singing Eidelweiss
36:20 Bring back good book musicals 2021
42:20 Ted Cruz in the crucible
45:30 Jon Osoff total thirst trap
46:50 GEORGIA KIDS VOTE
59:20 Abe’s emergency vomit
1:00:00 She parked that MF van
1:06:00 Circle Jerk
1:09:00 “I will respect theater more when it respects more people”
