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The Unusual Creative PodcastMeet The Unusual CreativeWith guest host and friend to the podcast Rachel Park Chu, we're interviewing Niyia Mack, creator and host of The Unusual Creative Podcast. Learn more about the origin story behind the podcast and creative consultancy, Unusual Creative -- plus hear inside stories from her career as a professional creative and producer. Tune in for the final episode of Season 1!
2025-02-2127 min
The Unusual Creative PodcastBut, What Does a Producer Do? (Part III)LA-based video editor and fellow producer, Anes Hasi, joins today’s conversation to discuss the role of a producer in the film world. His latest project, “Kiss My Trash”, is expected to be released later this year. It was a pleasure learning more about Anes’ career and experience making magic happen behind the scenes on set.
2025-02-1315 min
The Unusual Creative PodcastTravel Ease"Travel is a Trillion dollar industry and it's just growing" says Mercy Reed, today's guest and Founder of Solid Five, a luxury travel business based in Atlanta. Her innate creativity and professional experience coordinating travel excursions around the world is why we wanted to get her thoughts about onboarding clients, future trends, and curating special adventures.
2025-02-0624 min
The Unusual Creative PodcastBut, What Does a Producer Do? (Part II)We're revisiting our discussion around the role and impact of a producer with Zola Dee. As a playwright, singer, actress, artist, and teacher, she knows firsthand how a producer can be pivotal to the success of a creative project.
Currently, she is the 2025–2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Theater, Performance, and Spoken Word in Minneapolis.
2025-01-3021 min
The Unusual Creative PodcastStorytelling with Street PerformanceEver been curious about how street performers make money and manage the logistics of performing for large crowds? Then this episode is for you.
Encarni Remolina joins the podcast this week to give us behind the scenes stories of her time as a street performer in Spain, and how those skills apply to her daily life as a mom and creative.
2025-01-0920 min
The Unusual Creative PodcastThe OT ExperienceOur conversation this week examines the connection between occupational therapy, web3, and storytelling. How can OTs use Ai in their client practice? Can interactive games or art be adapted to serve these communities and how should those collaborations be fostered?
Keep an eye on announcements from Saint Claire's company, Oseean Saint Care, for new products and services they have in the works.
2025-01-0217 min
The Unusual Creative PodcastImmersive Stories & HospitalityFeaturing Kasheena Roberts-Franco. This episode, we look at the intersection between hospitality and immersive entertainment to see what comes up. Kasheena is a hospitality professional based in NYC with 15 years experience in leadership, marketing, and customer relations.
2024-12-2625 min
The Unusual Creative PodcastBut, What Does a Producer Do?Featuring Kelley Williams. Join us for a candid conversation on the role of a producer, why it matters, and how they impact the creative process from the start. We share our perspective and experience working in entertainment with producers that helped us understand why this role really matters.
Kelley Williams is currently the Manager of JEDI Research at Luminate and Manager of JEDI Data at Variety Insight. Prior to this, Kelley worked at Pasadena Playhouse as an Executive Assistant, Office Manager, Teaching Artist, and in Sales and Telemarketing. Kelley also served as a Project Analyst at Coachman-Moore & Associates from 2012 to 2015...
2024-12-1922 min
The Unusual Creative PodcastWelcome to TUCPWelcome to The Unusual Creative Podcast. Tune in on Thursdays to hear our take on up and coming brands, industry trends, entrepreneurial tips, and more. A new guest each week starting 12/19.
2024-12-1901 min
Immersion Nation Podcast#32 Always a challenge but absolutely possible with Immersive Producer Niyia MackThis episode is brimming, overflowing even with tips and techniques for those who like to look behind the curtain. If you didn’t catch last week’s episode, it gives some background on our guest Niyia Mack’s experience producing and consulting on immersive experience design. This week, Niyia answers questions about creating immersive experiences when you’re not based in LA, New York, or Chicago, what she’s excited about in the changing world of immersive, and how it’s possible to make more intimate immersive productions financially viable. Whether or not you’re a creative in im...
2019-12-2031 min
Immersion Nation Podcast#31 It's ALL Co-creation with Immersive Producer, Niyia MackHow does it all come together? How does one take a multitude of moving parts; actors, and scripts, and settings, varying degrees of audience agency and assemble them into emotionally evocative experiences? If you are the creator, the producer, the director, the writer venturing into unknown territories; the prospect of working in a medium where you are intentionally giving the audience an opportunity to exert their own philistine agency on your creation… Might sound like an undisguised nightmare. But, as it turns out, there is some methodology to this and! A select few brilliant producers with...
2019-12-1433 min
#VerticalSlice Podcast#VerticalSlice S03E23 @enterdelusion's #NiyiaMack & #JackieKreterfield #HisCrimsonQueenIn which we chat with “Delusion: His Crimson Queen” producers Niyia Mack and Jackie Kreterfield. VS S03E23
2016-11-0700 min