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ScamtimeSeason 4 Ep 47: Did you do something with your hair?!?! (Karen's Facebook Marketplace scams and The Great Buenos Aires Bank Heist)Welcome back to our scattered schedule of scams! We are your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond and we'll bring you the scams that our tickling our fraud fancies at the moment. This episode: Karen talks about almost falling for a Facebook Marketplace scam, and Stephanie brings us a bank heist to beat all bank heists!Bots!No Guns!Floaty-gigs!Things to help make this episode make senseWanna see a HEIST live on stage? See HEIST at Vertigo Theatre in CalgaryStephanie mentions this great p...
2023-09-181h 03ScamtimeThe Return of SCAMTIME! Season 4! Episode 46 (Geek Squad and Stephanie's spam emails)Well Stephanie and Karen went away, but scams sure didn't. We're always going to tell you about them, but probably not as frequently as before. Join us for our first episode in...forever. It's Season FOUR of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives as actor/improvisers.In this episode: Karen shares a scam that a...
2023-08-091h 02ScamtimeEpisode 43 - Season 3- Debunk Me If You Can (Frank Abagnale fools us all)It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives as actor/improvisers.WE LOVE OUR LISTENERS!Thanks to a listener named Karen (EXcellent name...) we bring you today's episode that might even be more fun/heartbreaking to listen to if you listen to Episode #8 first. You can find that here: ...
2022-12-2358 minScamtimeEpisode 41 - Season 3- Can't Find My Crockpot (PART TWO of The Bush Boys and an Intro to T. Lobsang Rampa)It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives as actor/improvisers.In this episode; Stephanie concludes the story of The Bush Boys (If you haven't listened to episode 40, you'll probably want to go back and listen to that one for Part One) and Karen teases the beginning of the T. Lobsang Rampa tale)
2022-11-1754 minScamtimeEpisode 40 - Season 3 -Bears Don't Peel Avocados! (Bush Boys PART ONE, and Heather Tallchief)It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives as actor/improvisers.In this episode; Karen looms around the story of Heather Tallchief, Loomis armored car thief, and Stephanie beats around the Bush Boys and leaves us on a cliffhanger! (TRIGGER WARNING; Eating disorders are discussed)Sex Magic(k)! Fin...
2022-10-311h 21ScamtimeEpisode 39 - Season 3 - This is How Mad I am at Hitler! (You Say Tomato, I Say Matisse) (Art stolen by Nazis and what is 'swatting'?)It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives as actor/improvisers.In this episode; Stephanie searches for lost art stolen by the Nazis in WWII, and Karen SWATS you across the face with the truth about swattingPablo Picasso! Call of Duty!Die Ver...
2022-10-241h 36Scamtime(Repaired) Episode 38 Season 3 - A Tasty Mix of Porridge (The Catfishing of Manti-Te'o and the American National Ballet )Thanks for your patience as we repaired this episode. If you downloaded it before 2022/10/04, please download this version.It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists , though at times we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives as actor/improvisers.In this episode; Karen reels in the story of how pro football player Manti Te'o was catfished, and Stephanie 'points' us towards more a...
2022-10-031h 39ScamtimeEpisode 37 - Welcome to Season 3! : Gbuhgbuhgonkers (Gucci Billionaire Master and the fake Academy Award)It's Season THREE of SCAMTIME! A podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share stories of liars, cheaters, hoodwinkers and swindlers, not to mention scoundrels, dirtbags, bamboozlers and toeheads. We are not investigative journalists though, at times, we have played the part of investigative journalists in our daily lives as actor/improvisers.This week, Karen gives and Academy Award to a fake Oscar prank, and Stephanie is head-to-toe tickled with the Gucci Billionaire Master. What I did over Summer Vacation!Antiseptic Palace!Hummus!
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The Breakfast Dish#75 - Alex SarianWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, for the finale of the third season of The Breakfast Dish Podcast, Karen and Griffin are joined by the quick-witted Alex Sarian. Previously working at the prestigious Lincoln Centre in New York, Alex has been the CEO of Arts Commons since 2019 and comes on the show to chat about Calgary, burps, and building a vision...
2022-05-3140 min
Bridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherEpisode Fawnda - age 40Welcome to Bridging the Gap Between Generations who Assume Things About Each Other, the podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond speak to people of different generations and breakdown assumptions. (We, as women in our 50s do not actually sit in bed all day knitting, not all 13 year-olds play video games and 40 year-olds don't have to know what they are doing)This week, Stephanie and Karen chat with (almost) 40 year-old Fawnda, The Alberta Podcast Network's own programmer!Self Care!Shakespeare!ALWAYS BE ARRIVING!Here are some things to help this...
2022-05-2944 minThe Breakfast Dish#74 - Luc TellierWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor, director, and educator Luc Tellier. Luc is the is the Director of Education and Outreach at the Citadel Theatre, but he's mostly here to chat about Theatre Alberta's Summer Drama Camp for Teens: ARTSTREK! After a year away and a year online, they are back IRL with Qui...
2022-05-2534 minThe Breakfast Dish#73 - Spencer Estabrooks (Live at the Calgary Expo!)Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin were invited to record an episode live at the 2022 Calgary Expo! So, who better to chat with than filmmaker, author, and Expo Expert; Spencer Estabrooks. Spencer sits down with our hosts to chat about One Hit Die, Sharkasaurus, love comics, and BIKEPOCALYPSE.SPENCER ESTABROOKS: https://www.instagram.com/spencer.easy/
2022-05-1848 minThe Breakfast Dish#72 - Arlene Orchard and Dai MatsuzakaWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Dai Matsuzaka and Arlene Orchard, a Grade 12 drama student/drama teacher combo at Foundations for the Future Charter Academy. Dai just finished starring in, directing, choreographing and designing a one act play for his high school and he tells us just how that is humanly possible. Arlene, besides being a...
2022-05-1033 minThe Breakfast Dish#71 - Col Cseke & Mike KeirWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Col Cseke and Mike Keir from Inside Out Theatre. Col is the Artistic Director of Inside Out, and will be directing Karen and Mike in an online improv show later this month. They chat about their neighborhoods, their history with improv, lying to bus drivers, and telling time through wrestling.
2022-05-0633 minThe Breakfast Dish#70 - Fabienne ColasWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with "The Queen of Festivals", Fabienne Colas. Winner of the 2019 Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, Fabienne Colas is an award-winning actress, filmmaker, speaker, and business owner who works tirelessly and passionately to support and promote diversity off and on screen around the globe. We're focusing on the Calgary Black Film F...
2022-04-2543 minThe Breakfast Dish#69 - Jason MehmelWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Jason Mehmel; the Artistic Director of Sage Theatre and long time D&D buddy of Griffin's. The trio chat about Sage's upcoming production of 'Cantata', the difference between TED and TEDx, and their theories on debunking hypnotists.JASON MEHMEL: https://www.instagram.com/jasonmehmel/CANTATA: https://sagetheatre.com...
2022-04-2448 minBridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherEpisode - THE GAME! THE GAME!Welcome to Bridging the Gap Between Generations who Assume Things About Each Other, the podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond speak to people of different generations and breakdown assumptions. (We, as women in our 50s do not actually sit in bed all day knitting, and not all 13 year-olds play video games)This week, Stephanie and Karen PLAY A GAME! OK BOOMER! (here's a link)Here are some links to help this episode make sense:Typewriter balls!The guy that got caught doing a zoom cal...
2022-04-2131 minBridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherEpisode Tulia - Age 17Welcome to Bridging the Gap Between Generations who Assume Things About Each Other, the podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond speak to people of different generations and breakdown assumptions. (We, as women in our 50s do not actually sit in bed all day knitting, and not all 13 year-olds play video games)This week, Stephanie and Karen chat with 17 year old artist and dragon lover, Tulia!Tulia has been painting for just a few years and you won't BELIEVE their talent!!See their piece PRETTY STATIC Here!High s...
2022-04-0644 minThe Breakfast Dish#68 - Tenaj WilliamsWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Tenaj Williams; Actor, Singer, Dancer, Playwright and T-Rex Fighter! Tenaj tells us about the experience of being an understudy, which is about as stressful for him as his reoccurring dream with the wall of spikes. You can catch Tenaj on Season 3 of the hit CTV sitcom "Jann"TENAJ WILLIAMS...
2022-04-0441 minThe Breakfast Dish#67 - Mary-Ellen PerleyWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Mary-Ellen Perley - the President of the Alberta Drama Festival Association (the minds behind the One Act Festivals)! Mary-Ellen comes on the show to chat about the upcoming regional and provincial festivals, Mark Rylance, and mothers in their natural state of snitching.MARY-ELLEN PERLEY: https://twitter.com/meperley...
2022-03-3039 minThe Breakfast Dish#66 - Monty HaughianWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen (bravely, without Griffin) is joined by Monty Haughian from Grande Prairie Live Theatre. Monty took some time to tell Karen all about the theatre in Grande Prairie, how not to bank on working wheels and about why he 'comes alive' for Theatre.MONTY HAUGHIAN: https://www.instagram.com/montyhaughian/GRANDE PRAIRIE LIVE...
2022-03-2138 minThe Breakfast Dish#65 - Alixandra CowmanWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor, musician and honey lover Alixandra Cowman. Alix is a co-creator and company member of 'Alberta Kitchen Party' - playing now at Alberta Theatre Projects. She'll rap, she'll reminisce, she'll really warm your heart, AND she wrote and performs our podcast jingle!ALIXANDRA COWMAN: https://www.instagram.com/a...
2022-03-1437 minThe Breakfast Dish#64 - Gabriel CovarrubiasWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor and lovely human, Gabriel Covarrubias! Gabriel originally hails from Mexico City and is now living in Vancouver. He and Karen have been working together on the Citadel Theatre's production of 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' - and she realized we had to have him on the show!GABRIEL...
2022-03-0833 minThe Breakfast Dish#63 - Crystal McGrathWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Canadian country music artist, Crystal McGrath. Crystal ( a fellow podcaster and host of Crushing Chaos) comes on the show to chat about her new single "All These Things", Live With Love, The Artists Behind The Music, and a full cup of icing.CRYSTAL MCGRATH: https://www.crystalmcgrath.ca/
2022-03-0236 minBridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherEpisode "Granny" - Age...98?Welcome to Bridging the Gap Between Generations who Assume Things About Each Other, the podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond speak to people of different generations and breakdown assumptions. (We, as women in our 50s do not actually sit in bed all day knitting, and not all 13 year-olds play video games)This week Stephanie and Karen have a short but sweet chat with Twitter personality "Granny". This ol'gal is full of piss, vinegar and opinions. Are we making tons of assumptions about the age 98? Yes. Yes we are. But there is fun to be ha...
2022-02-2620 minThe Breakfast Dish#62 - Dave SmithWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Dave Smith. If you're in the Albertan theatre community, you probably know the jack-of-all-trades Dave. He's a designer, an actor, and now an instructor at the University of Lethbridge! He chats with our Breakfast Hosts about the strike at U of L, and his favorite memories working with K + G.
2022-02-2344 minThe Breakfast Dish#61 - Louis B. HobsonWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Louis B. Hobson! Louis is an actor, director and playwright - but he is best known as a pillar in the Calgary theatre community because of his work as the theatre critic for the Calgary Herald. Karen and Griffin chat with Louis about his life, his career, and his part...
2022-02-1440 minBridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherEpisode Lentil and Ploppy (CC, age 7 and Shep, age 5)Welcome to Bridging the Gap Between Generations who Assume Things About Each Other, the podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond speak to people of different generations and breakdown assumptions. (We, as women in our 50s do not actually sit in bed all day knitting, and not all 13 year-olds play video games)This week, Stephanie and Karen chat with 7 year old CC and 5 year old Shep.Nicknames are a part of every generation. Karen used to be called Shnigglefritz as a kid and Stephanie was nicknamed Shnork , but both of them think they...
2022-02-1032 minThe Breakfast Dish#60 - Franca GualtieriWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Franca Gualtieri! When Karen met Franca, she was working with former Calgary Mayor, Naheed Nenshi. But then they became friends (maybe lovers?) and she now comes on The Breakfast Dish to chat about the Chinook Blast festival!FRANCA GUALTIERI: https://twitter.com/francaincalgaryCHINOOK BLAST: https://www...
2022-02-0939 minThe Breakfast Dish#59 - Anna CummerWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Anna Cummer - an actor, playwright and voice-over artist that is SOMEHOW related to our two hosts, but nobody is really sure how. The three of them dive into Alberta Theatre Project's production of "In Wonderland" by Anna, their messed up family tree, and everybody's knowledge about genetic coding.
2021-12-1448 minThe Breakfast Dish#58 - Mike TanWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Mike Tan; Actor, artist, photographer and one time member of the sketch comedy troupe "Bag Of Meat". Mike talks about playing Scrooge in Theatre Calgary's "A Christmas Carol", his intro to improv and photography, and being a ninja spy in a parkade thwomp.MIKE TAN: https://www.instagram...
2021-12-0644 min
Bridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherEpisode Brendan - Age 38NOTE:This is our final episode for 2021. We will be back in February with more generational assumptions after our winter break.Welcome to Bridging the Gap Between Generations who Assume Things About Each Other, the podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond speak to people of different generations and breakdown assumptions. (We, as women in our 50s do not actually sit in bed all day knitting, and not all 13 year-olds play video games)This week, Stephanie and Karen chat with our distant theatre third cousin Brendan Brown, a smart, wise human...
2021-12-0348 minThe Breakfast Dish#57 - Caleigh Crow and Cris DerksenWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Caleigh Crow and Cris Derksen about the co-production between the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and Making Treaty 7 entitled "Napi and the Rock" - They also chat about guinea pigs, french toast, and how to properly do a Citizen's Arrest.CALEIGH CROW: https://www.instagram.com/caleigh_crow/?hl=en...
2021-12-0142 minThe Breakfast Dish#56 - Jordan BoumaWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with animator, actor, grip and Jack-Of-All-Trades Jordan Bouma. Jordan is an animator with Rictus River Films in Edmonton, and the three folks talk about always choosing the birds and animator slang. Flappy Bird also comes up a little too much.JORDAN BOUMA: https://www.instagram.com/jordanbouma/RICTUS RIVER...
2021-11-2542 min
Bridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherEpisode: REMINEPISODE #1 Our favorite 70's commercialsWelcome to Bridging the Gap Between Generations who Assume Things About Each Other, the podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond speak to people of different generations and breakdown assumptions. (We, as women in our 50s do not actually sit in bed all day knitting, and not all 13 year-olds play video games)This week Karen and Stephanie jingle their way through some favorite TV commercials from their youth. The First in a series of reminiscing episodes we are calling: Reminepisodes! Bridging the Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things Ab...
2021-11-1835 minThe Breakfast Dish#55 - Sandy "Oma" MoserWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin finally convince the Great One to come onto their weird little podcast. And by the Great One, we of course mean Oma (or Sandy Moser as she's known to most governments). Sandy is Karen's mom and Griffin's grandma, and they all kind of talk about the upcoming documentary that Griffin directed about Sandy...
2021-11-1544 min
Bridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherEpisode Rick - Age 51 - A Generation Expert (It's RICK MILLER!!!!)Welcome to Bridging the Gap Between Generations who Assume Things About Each Other, the podcast where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond speak to people of different generations and breakdown assumptions. (We, as women in our 50s do not actually sit in bed all day knitting, and not all 13 year-olds play video games)This week, Stephanie and Karen are honored to host Rick Miller, the writer and performer behind BOOM YZ , on stage now at Theatre Calgary. The world premiere of Rick Miller’s electrifying BOOM YZ brings to life the people and...
2021-11-0248 minThe Breakfast Dish#54 - Rohit ChokhaniWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week Karen and Griffin are joined by the new Artistic Director at Alberta Theatre Projects, Rohit Chokhani. One of the most sought-after multicultural voices in Canada and internationally, Rohit is an established Executive, Producer and Director, with involvement in over 30 different productions, many of which featured IBPOC theatre-makers. Chokhani has also worked extensively in Digital Entertainment, with...
2021-11-0143 minThe Breakfast Dish#53 - Jamie DunsdonWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week Karen and Griffin are joined by Jamie Dunsdon. She's the Artistic Director of Verb Theatre and Calgary Young Peoples' Theatre, and she's about to open her show Bliss (the birthday party play) being presented by One Yellow Rabbit Performance TheatreJAMIE DUNSDON: https://www.instagram.com/jamiedunsdon/TICKETS TO BLISS: https://www.oyr...
2021-10-2639 minThe Breakfast Dish#52 - Stephanie WolfeWelcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!Stephanie Wolfe is an Edmonton based theatre artist who has been hanging out on stages, both main and medium for 30 years. She's a graduate of the BFA theatre program at the U of A and has been lucky enough to have performed on stages from the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Theatre Calgary, an...
2021-10-1832 minThe Breakfast Dish#51 - Emily Renner Wallace & Matt McKinney (Live from CIFF)Welcome to the premiere of Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! The mandate of TBD is changing a little bit. Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. But sometimes there will be guests that our hosts just think are just the best with nothing to promote. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet a whole whack of creative folks. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week Karen and Griffin are joined by Emily Renner Wallace & Matt McKinney, two amazing film makers showcased at...
2021-10-1239 minBridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherSPECIAL Episode: GUEST HOST Thomas - age12, interviews Griffin - age 25A note from your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond;This is a very special episode. Thomas was our guest on the very first episode of this podcast and we checked in with him a year later on our one year anniversary episode. Last episode we met his sister Sadie - 10.Now, with Stephanie opening a show at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton (The Garneau Block, running until Oct 10th, www.citadeltheatre.com) what was Karen to do without her co-host? Ask Thomas, that's what! And to make things even better, T...
2021-09-3048 minThe Breakfast Dish#50 - Doug Mertz (Foote Theatre School)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Doug Mertz, Director of Education & Outreach at the Citadel Theatre. Citadel's Foote Theatre School is the oldest and largest theatre school in Edmonton. Since 1966, they have provided year-round classes for all ages and experience levels, teaching physical, technical, and creative skills in bo...
2021-07-2639 minThe Breakfast Dish#49 - Marshall Vielle (Braving Beauty Cabaret)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week Karen and Griffin are joined by the one, the only Marshall Vielle. Marshall is an actor, director, podcaster, and drag performer from the Kainai Nation in Southern Alberta, and he's the co-curator of The Braving Beauty Cabaret presented by Arts Commons. Braving Beauty Cabaret illuminates the parallels...
2021-07-2142 minThe Breakfast Dish#48 - Kelly Reay (New West Theatre)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Kelly Reay about the collaboration of his company, New West Theatre, and the City of Lethbridge in presenting Arts in the Parks; an outdoor performance series celebrating performing arts in Lethbridge. Arts in the Parks runs weekends from July 10 to September 11 and...
2021-07-1237 minThe Breakfast Dish#47 - Cindy Ansah (Brown Cow Collective)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Cindy Ansah! Cindy is a choreographer with Brown Cow Collective's upcoming production of 'Hair' in Old, Alberta. They also get into killing buzzards, and Harry Potter fan fiction.CINDY ANSAH: https://www.instagram.com/cindy.ansah/TICKETS FOR HAIR...
2021-07-0535 minScamtimeEpisode 16 - Season 2- "I don't want tracheas in my eyeballs!" (Paolo Macchiarini and The Great Reality TV Swindle)Welcome to SCAMTIME where your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond share the scams that we find the most scammy-scammerson of all the scams.This episode, Nik Russian's Great Reality TV Swindle and Paolo Macchiarini unromantic tracheas. SCAMTIME is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network; locally grown and community supported.This episode is sponsored by Park Power and The Edmonton Community Foundation and the Well Endowed Podcast.Nik Russian Raven's Ait Island (Not the island Karen got stuck on)Paolo MacchiariniScamtime Jingle:
2021-07-051h 43The Breakfast Dish#46 - Cheryl Foggo (John Ware Reclaimed)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with the illustrious Cheryl Foggo about her kids, her favorite music, her recent Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award, and her production with the National Film Board entitled 'John Ware Reclaimed'CHERYl FOGGO: https://twitter.com/cdfoggoJOHN WARE...
2021-07-0246 minThe Breakfast Dish#45 - Karen and Griffin (One Year Anniversary Episode)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with... well, themselves! There's no guest this week as the two Breakfast Dish hosts celebrate a year of doing this show. They realized they hadn't ever really plugged their own stuff, so it's a quick and bit-filled episode of mother-son banter and self-promotion.
2021-06-2236 minThe Breakfast Dish#44 - Linette Smith and Ben Ali (Scona Theatre Co.)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with the drama teacher and student from 'Scona' High School, Linette Smith and Ben Ali! They join our hosts on the show to chat about their upcoming productions, including "Ride The Cyclone" - 'Five teens, one Jane Doe, seven fortunes or maybe seven...
2021-06-1543 minThe Breakfast Dish#43 - Linda Finstad and Jaime Rathor (Zyp Art Gallery)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with the director and curator of Zyp Art Gallery (named after Hank and Tillie Zyp) - Jaime Rathor from Calmar, AB! They also spoke with Zyp's current featured artist, Linda Finstad. During the COVID -19 pandemic lockdown, Linda was trapped indoors, struggling to...
2021-06-0837 minThe Breakfast Dish#42 - Simone Medina Polo & Ellen Chorley (NextFest)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Ellen Chorley and Simone A. Medina Polo about this year's NextFest! Nextfest is Edmonton's longest-running emerging arts festival, each year in June hundreds of young and emerging artists band together to create new works and connect to a community that keeps on...
2021-06-0143 minThe Breakfast Dish#41 - Emily Howard and Shelby Reinitz (DIY Theatre)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Griffin and Karen speak with Shelby Reinitz, founder and Artistic Director of DIY Theatre, a small but mighty local theatre company. They are also joined by Emily Howard who stars in DIY's digital performance of Trial By Faith: A Faustian Tale - written, directed and featuring original...
2021-05-2432 minThe Breakfast Dish#40 - Morris Ertman and Norma Roth (Rosebud Theatre)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week on The Breakfast Dish, Karen and Griffin are joined by Morris Ertman and Norma Roth from Rosebud Theatre about their production of "For Home and Country". Along with some of the Rosebud School of the Arts Mentorship students, Norma and Morris tell this charming story of an...
2021-05-1840 minThe Breakfast Dish#39 - Mieko Ouchi (Collider Festival)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with the TD Associate Artistic Director of Citadel Theatre and former Artistic Director of Concrete Theatre, Mieko Ouchi. The awesome team at the Citadel have cooked up the Collider Festival; a deep dive into the development and presentation of large-scale works. We chat...
2021-05-1041 minThe Breakfast Dish#38 - Trevor Rueger (Playwrights Projects)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with actor, director, dramaturg, and the Executive Director of Alberta Playwrights' Network, Trevor Rueger! APN has teamed up with Alberta Theatre Projects to present seven online workshop readings of New Canadian Plays by members of the Alberta Theatre Projects Playwrights Unit...
2021-05-0338 minThe Breakfast Dish#37 - Cameron Macgowan (Calgary Underground Film Festival)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin get into some film theory, the trials and tribulations of festival programmers, and the history of Calgary Underground Film Festival with Senior Programmer, Cameron Macgowan. We also get into Cam's first feature film, Red Letter Day.Are you making some awesome art...
2021-04-2642 minThe Breakfast Dish#36 - Elizabeth and Karen Unland (That's a Thing?! Podcast)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, mother and son Karen and Griffin speak with mother and daughter Karen and Elizabeth, hosts of the podcast That's a Thing?! - That’s a Thing?! is a sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens, and everything under 20. In each episode, Elizabeth (a te...
2021-04-1943 minThe Breakfast Dish#35 - Daniel Fong and JP Thibodeau (Storybook Theatre)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with JP Thibodeau and Daniel Fong from Storybook Theatre! JP is the Artistic Director of Storybook Theatre, and Daniel Fong is playing Prince Ronald in SBT's upcoming production of "The Paper Bag Princess: A Musical!"DANIEL FONG: https://www.instagram.com...
2021-04-1345 minThe Breakfast Dish#34 - Morgan, Sam and Michelle Crimmins (Central Memorial High School)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week we welcome Griffin's high-school drama teacher Michelle Crimmins, and students Morgan and Sam from Central Memorial High School’s Centre for the Performing and Visual Arts Theatre Arts. They are creating and recording classic Radio Theatre stories, partnering with Christian Goutsis of 6 Degrees Music and Sound. This al...
2021-03-2947 minThe Breakfast Dish#33 - Xstine Cook (Festival of Animated Objects)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin speak with Xstine Cook from CAOS (Calgary Animated Object Society). Bringing some much needed whimsy, joy, and magic to Calgary, the tenth edition of the biennial Festival of Animated Objects is happening March 19 to April 11 in a modified program of online and in person...
2021-03-2239 minThe Breakfast Dish#32 - Helen Belay and Daryl Cloran (Citadel Theatre)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin speak with Helen Belay and Darly Cloran from theCitadel Theatre. They chat about the Stuck in the House series, the Horizon Series, and Cheryl Foggo's Heaven. As Black pioneers fled the southern United States, Canadian settlements weren't just the last stop; they were heaven...
2021-03-1537 min
Bridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherEpisode Bob - NINETY FOUR!!!!Your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond spend a delightful 38 minutes with Bob, a 94-year-old martini lovin' wisecracker.We did. We asked him "what is the secret of your longevity" and his answer is so simple. You'll have to listen to the episode to learn it for yourself. This is a highlight episode for both Karen and Stephanie and we hope it is for you too!Some other gems he shares:The biggest trouble he got in as a kidMeeting his bride on a pee breakThe best part about being 94...
2021-03-1038 minThe Breakfast Dish#31 - Colin Matty (Brother Bedtime)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Colin Matty! Colin is a poet, actor, and storyteller from Edmonton. A founding member of the poetry brothel, alumni of Rapid Fire Theatre, and company member of Malachite Theatre, he works with the Writers Guild of Alberta as the director of WordsWorth...
2021-03-0843 minScamtimeEpisode 12 - Season 2 - The "Grab-Coat-Go" Polka. (Marianne Smyth and Jan Lewan)Stephanie Wolfe's kitchen renos are finished and Karen Johnson-Diamond is causing water damage in her house. Yet they STILL found time to record this episode of Scamtime.Hear all about the twists and turns of Marianne "Maire" Smyth and polka to the ponzi played by Jan LewanStephanie grew up with Polka!!! Karen doesn't know when the Irish Constitution was written! Things that will help this episode make sense;THE blog! That Johnathan Walton wrote and Bob's ex-wife foundThe Con (Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg)Whoopi Goldberg was born C...
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Bridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherMalcolm - Age 9Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond return for a second season of "Bridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each Other". On this episode, Karen and Stephanie are tickled to be speaking with 9 year old future NFL star Malcolm, aged 9What do wolves want for take out?Why would you pee in a burning building?Karaoke!Sloths!Famous people named Malcolm!Listen in!Here are some links to help this episode make sense:PONG!!The Cincinnati BengalsNFL player A...
2021-03-0346 minThe Breakfast Dish#30 - Chance Devlin (The Old Time Happy Hour)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Chance Devlin. His party band “the Distractions” has entertained at hundreds of weddings and corporate events. In 2001 his “Rowdy Pianos” show was the first to bring dueling pianos to Calgary. With pandemic lockdown he has shifted online. “The Old Time Happy Hour” is a weekly mu...
2021-03-0142 minThe Breakfast Dish#29 - Hanna Fridhed (Theatre; Just Because)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with actor, general klutz, and Artistic Director of Theatre; Just Because - Hanna Fridhed! Theatre; Just Because is a community-driven, semi-professional, independent theatre company in nistawâyâw / Fort McMurray. Their mission is to empower and develop artists through theatre productions and workshops, an...
2021-02-2337 min
Bridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherWayne - Age 37Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond return for a second season of "Bridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each Other". For this episode, Karen and Stephanie banter, giggle and goof around with a 37 year old who made it big at age 6. Wayne Jones, host of 'The Wayne Jones Show' podcast, has had life figured out since his mom first broke all the rules in Vegas. At one point he suggested your hosts might be 180 years old. Comedy!Jerks!Who's Jackson Browne!?Here are some links to help this episode make sense.
2021-02-1749 minThe Breakfast Dish#28 - Dean Bareham (Green Fools Theatre)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Dean Bareham, Artistic Director of Green Fools Theatre! Wanna join the circus? Dean Bareham, of the Green Fools, is here to show you how with The Community Circus Project. March 1st to April 1st the Green Fools will be presenting a three...
2021-02-1536 minThe Breakfast Dish#27 - Bronwyn Steinberg (Lunchbox Theatre)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Bronwyn Steinberg, the new Artistic Director of Lunchbox Theatre. Bronwyn has come on the show to talk about Lunchbox's Stage One Series. For 33 years, Lunchbox Theatre has been dedicated to the creation, development and production of new Canadian one-act plays, many...
2021-02-0945 minThe Breakfast Dish#26 - Andy Curtis (High Performance Rodeo)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Andy Curtis - a core member of One Yellow Rabbit, and an artists in the High Performance Rodeo's "35 for 35 - Who Are You Now?" event. January 11 to February 14, 2021 - Thirty-Five Artists of the Past, Present and Future of the High Performance R...
2021-02-0138 minThe Breakfast Dish#25 - Vincent Forcier (L'UniThéâtre)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Vincent Forcier, interim Artistic Director of L'UniThéâtre in Edmonton, Alberta. In collaboration with Radio-Canada, Edmonton’s francophone and francophile professional theatre company presents Le Rire, an all-French language sketch comedy show in the style of the Quebec New Year’s Eve show, Bye-By...
2020-12-2131 minBridging The Gap Between Generations Who Assume Things About Each OtherEpisode Jan - Age 68Hosts Stephanie and Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond have known Jan Randall for years, but it took until today for him to help the ladies really KNOW each other (spicy vs plain - both can't win)Jan is an incredible musician (he'll prove it in the episode) having made music for Second City, CBC radio's "The Irrelevant Show" and Stephanie's brand new single which is released in this episode!!!Jan is 14 years older than our hosts, just old enough to have babysat Karen and Stephanie. Is there a gap? If so, how much?Things...
2020-12-1743 minThe Breakfast Dish#24 - Sheldon Elter (Vertigo Theatre/Lunchbox Theatre/6 Degrees Music and Sound)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Sheldon Elter who plays George Bailey himself in the "It's A Wonderful Life" Radio Play with Vertigo Theatre, Lunchbox Theatre and 6 Degrees Music and Sound. It’s Christmas Eve and George Bailey is on the edge of ruin. With seemingly no way to sa...
2020-12-1442 minThe Breakfast Dish#23 - Michael Rolfe and Kristy Benz (Blue Jeans Theatre)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Michael Rolfe and Kristy Benz from Blue Jeans Theatre. As Calgary's newest theatre company, BJT is hitting the ground running with "Christmas Carol: A Drag Story" - This fun and snappy 60-minute virtual re-telling of Dickens' classic tale takes a modern twist on...
2020-12-0842 minThe Breakfast Dish#22 - Stafford Arima (Theatre Calgary)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by the Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary (and very kind friend), Stafford Arima. Stafford also happens to be the director of their new filmed production of A Christmas Carol. From the moment the pandemic hit and their shows were cancelled, Theatre Calgary has kept...
2020-11-3047 minThe Breakfast Dish#21 - Andrea Kotylak (The Starlite Sessions)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Andrea Kotylak, the owner and operator of The Starlite Room and The Starlite Sessions! The Starlite Sessions is a digital venue that hosts online webinars, podcasts and concerts. They work with local musicians, live venues, and hopefully the city of Edmonton, and the...
2020-11-2345 minThe Breakfast Dish#20 - Howard J. Davis aka HAUI (Mixed UP↑)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor, producer and filmmaker Howard J. Davis (aka HAUI) to chat about his latest project: Mixed UP↑ - "Mixed UP↑ feels like the future. A mixed multimedia opus about mixed identities, whether they be racial, generational, national, or gendered. An emotional history lesson that...
2020-11-1643 minThe Breakfast Dish#19 - Karen Youngberg (Jube School)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Karen Youngberg from Jube School! Jube School is a 1 day, 2 day or week-long program of personalized, interactive, arts-based learning rooted in elements of each class’ curriculum. Creative explorations in the technical, visual, and performing arts will inspire learners and educators to make personal co...
2020-11-0940 minThe Breakfast Dish#18 - Barb Mitchell, Laurie Parente and Bob Stagg (Occasional Notes)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by Barb Mitchell and Laurie Parente, who are the owners and co-founders of Occasional Notes Productions. They are also joined by Bob Stagg, who is Barb's 'little brother' and co-writer/composer. Occasional Notes Productions is a Calgary based entertainment production company that prides themselves...
2020-11-0234 minThe Breakfast Dish#17 - Tara Jackson (Musical Tokens)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, Karen and Griffin are joined by the FORCE that is Tara Jackson. Tara comes on the show to chat about Musical Tokens - an online platform created to celebrate and empower womxn of colour in the Canadian musical theatre industry. The goal is to highlight, educate, and uplift a...
2020-10-2741 minThe Breakfast Dish#16 - Madeleine Taylor-Gregg and Madeline Hunter Smith (Theatre BSMT)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode is a double bill (in more ways that one)! Karen and Griffin are joined by Madeline Hunter Smith and Madeleine Taylor-Gregg to chat about Theatre BSMT's "Bonniedale" - Bonnidale is a explorative digital horror anthology that is releasing new stories weekly, and wanted to chat about Smith's "Hello Kate"...
2020-10-1838 minThe Breakfast Dish#15 - Louise Casemore (Words in Progress)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode features the lovely Louise Casemore! Karen and Griffin bring Louise on the show to chat about Words in Progress - a fellow project funded by the Calgary Arts Development, the Rozsa Foundation and the Calgary Foundation and presented by Theatre Alberta. Words In Progress is an online event series...
2020-10-0543 minThe Breakfast Dish#14 - Val Lieske (Fire Exit Theatre/Tangible Hope)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, Karen and Griffin chat with Val Lieske! Val is the Associate Director of Theatre at Ambrose University, and she is also the Artistic Director of Fire Exit Theatre. They chat about FET's 2020/2021 Season Announcement, but along with Val's dry wit and big heart, the TBD team brought her on...
2020-09-2838 minThe Breakfast Dish#13 - Kevin Cork (The D20 Initiative)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, Karen and Griffin chat with Kevin Cork. Nepotism runs rampant as Kevin takes us deep into the minds of the players and Dungeon Masters who make up the D20 Initiative. The 'D20' normally performs live at Dicken's Pub (1000 9 Ave SW, Calgary), but for season #2, "Pages and Mages", the...
2020-09-2142 minThe Breakfast Dish#12 - Savanna Harvey (Youth Climate Lab)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!In this episode, Griffin and Karen chat with Savanna Harvey, who really does everything. She's the Festival Producer of Sage Theatre's IGNITE! Festival for Emerging Artists, the Director of Artist Services for the Calgary Fringe Festival, and a self-proclaimed smoking gun for hire. But today, the TBD team brought her on...
2020-09-1440 minScamtimeEpisode 3 - Season 1 - Scamslaughter (Scam car mechanics and the Fyre Festival)Your hosts Stephanie Wolfe and Karen Johnson-Diamond discuss scams we have known and loved. Join in!In this episode: Fyre the mechanics!Stephanie Talks about the Fyre FestivalKaren talks about the Mechanics who took advantage of her 21 year old selfAlso in this episode: Stephanie makes up Karen's new favorite word!Scamtime Jingle: Paul Morgan-Donaldhttps://paulmorgandonald.com/Scamtime Art: Stephanie WolfeFind us on Instagram @fraud.broadsemail us at @thebroadgap@gmail.comKaren didn't know...
2020-09-131h 14The Breakfast Dish#11 - Andrew G Cooper (Jupiter Theatre)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!In this episode, Griffin and Karen chat with Andrew G. Cooper about the (exp)lore series.(exp)lore is a fiction anthology podcast to be enjoyed in the community while social distancing. These site-specific stories take an imaginative dive into the past and future of Calgary’s inner city. Each ep...
2020-09-0738 minThe Breakfast Dish#10 - Trevor Schmidt & Darrin Hagen (Guys In Disguise)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, Karen and Griffin chat with Darrin Hagen and Trevor Schmidt from Guys in Disguise! GID is an independent theatre company in Edmonton, AB and is bonafide Fringe Royalty. Our hosts chat with Trevor and Darren about their history, their past projects, and DRAGULA! and You'll scream . . . with laughter. You'll g...
2020-09-0142 minThe Breakfast Dish#9 - Dave Kelly (Dave Kelly Live)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, Karen and Griffin chat with Dave Kelly! Dave is an award-winning host, writer, and interviewer who creates intelligent and deeply human moments for events and keynote conversations around the world. He is the host of Dave Kelly Live, Canada’s own talk variety show, along with Mandy Stobo, Jim Bu...
2020-08-2448 minThe Breakfast Dish#8 - Melissa Dorsey Matheson (Heritage Park)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, Karen and Griffin chat with Melissa Dorsey Matheson! Melissa is a multi-disciplinary artist currently involved in helping her partner Trevor Matheson produce Heritage Park performances. The pandemic has forced them to use a lot of creativity and ingenuity making it possible to have live-in-person outdoor theatre! That's right! It's...
2020-08-1740 minThe Breakfast Dish#7 - Alida Lowe (Youth Singers of Calgary)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, we are joined by the bright and charming Alida Lowe. Alida is the Director of Program, Production and Touring for the Youth Singers of Calgary! Karen and Griffin originally found out about YSC through their Monday Music Moments, but Alida also has some big news about their 2020-2021 programming!
2020-08-1043 minThe Breakfast Dish#6 - Andrew Macdonald-Smith (The Vigilante Book Club)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, we are joined by award-winning actor and raconteur, Andrew MacDonald-Smith! Andrew is releasing a pandemic-created podcast called The Vigilante Book Club with his pals Farren Timoteo and Kayvon Khoshkam. The series follows the lads as they read through a series of 1970’s crime novels, comedically exploring masculinity, murder, and mo...
2020-08-0335 minThe Breakfast Dish#5 - Kimmy Beach (Kimmy Beach Editing)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, we are joined by our sister and aunt, Kimmy Beach! Kimmy is offering an online, self-directed editing course for all of your writers keeping busy during these crazy days. Her work has appeared across Canada and in the UK. She has published six books and works as a professional...
2020-07-2741 minThe Breakfast Dish#4 - Jane MacFarlane (Voice Activated)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, we are joined by the wonderful Jane MacFarlane. Jane is the resident Vocal Coach at Theatre Calgary, and is a free-lance voice, text and speech coach working in Alberta. Jane is currently working on providing classes right now with Jube School, the Skipping Stone Foundation, and her own company...
2020-07-2038 min
The Breakfast Dish#3 - Adeel Sadiq (Indefinite Arts Centre)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, Karen and Griffin are joined by Adeel Sadiq and Richelle Bear Hat from the Indefinite Arts Centre! The Indefinite Arts Centre is Canada’s oldest and largest disability arts organization, providing artistic training, creation, and exhibition opportunities for people with developmental, physical, and acquired disabilities. Richelle is a Studio Fa...
2020-07-1328 min
The Breakfast Dish#2 - Haysam Kadri (Shakespeare By The Bow)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, Karen and Griffin are joined by Haysam Kadri, who is a man of many hats. He is the Artistic Producer of The Shakespeare Company, the Program Director or Theatre Calgary's Shakespeare By The Bow, and the Director of this year's online production of Romeo & Juliet. Theatre Calgary, The Shakespeare...
2020-07-0642 min
The Breakfast Dish#1 - Ryan G. Hinds (The Toronto Fringe)Welcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This episode, Karen and Griffin are joined by Ryan G. Hinds from the far distant land of Toronto to chat about Sarah/Frank, the In The Heights Nut, and Champion Panther. "Sarah/Frank" retraces the real life story of a Canadian who finds themself in the middle of the American Civil...
2020-07-0137 min
The Breakfast Dish#0 - IntroductionsWelcome to The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!As you would expect in your typical Episode 0, our hosts wanted to take a moment and introduce themselves. Join Griffin and Karen as they talk about the birth of The Breakfast Dish, the inspirational cultural phenomenon that was The Breakfast Series, and the direct calling out of John Krasinski....
2020-06-2628 min