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TUNE IN
                              Doug Besterman ’86                Siena Facciolo ’19
                              SCHMIGADOON                       THE PROCESS
                              This three-time Tony Award®-winner   How do we build a life full of creativity? What
                              has done it all: musician, composer,   inspires us? Siena Facciolo's podcast, The
                              producer, arranger, and orchestrator for   Process, offers offers honest conversations
                              film, television, and theater. He earned   between artists that reveal the strength,
                              a GRAMMY Award nomination for     challenges, purpose, vulnerability, and joy
                              Schmigadoon. This original production   of living a creative life. Her guests include
                              parodies 1940s musicals and features a   musicians, authors, dancers, and artists.
                              backpacking couple who get trapped in a
                              magical town.
                                                                Listen on theprocess.buzzsprout.com

                              Watch on Apple TV
                                                                Beth Greenwood ’22
                                                                A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
                              Chloe Corcoran ’04                Beth Greenwood—the first woman player in
                              BEING TRANS                       Yellowjackets baseball history and the first
                              Chloe Corcoran—an LGBTQ activist,   American woman catcher in NCAA baseball
                              PhD student, and higher education   history—appears in this new series, which
                              professional—is one of four Los Angeles-  is based on the 1992 movie by the same
                              based transgender people featured   name. Greenwood, who plays an opposing
                              in the first season of this audio reality   player without any lines, laughs when she
                              podcast. Through each person’s story,   says, “It looks more legit with me doing
                              listeners can gain understanding and build   baseball scenes than the actors.”
                              empathy around what it’s really like to be
        Need a fun show       transgender.                      Watch on Amazon Prime
        to watch? Looking
        for a compelling      Listen on Lemonada
        podcast? Find         lemonadamedia.com/show/being      Tom Mayer ’13
        some of our                                             BLIND DUET
        alumni in the                                           In each episode of this podcast, two
        spotlight as          Jane Dubin ’78, ’79 (MS)          artists get two weeks to record two
                              HOUSES ON THE MOON
                                                                minutes of music. The twist: The musicians
        well as behind        Jane Dubin is a Broadway producer and   have no idea who their partner will be.
        the scenes.           board chair of Houses on the Moon, a   Co-hosts Tom Mayer and Benjamin
                              theater company that also produces a   Kahn bring a combined 30 years of
                              storytelling podcast dedicated to amplifying   music experience to facilitate important
                              unheard voices. The first season spotlights   discussions on creativity, the music industry,
                              lives affected by gun violence, families with   and connectivity—with the occasional
                              incarcerated loved ones, undocumented   Rochester alumnus as a guest.
                              youth, and people in the LGBTQ community.
                                                                Listen on Apple podcasts
                              Listen on the Broadway podcast network
                                                                Joel McNeely ’84E (MM)
                                                                THE ORVILLE
                                                                Joel McNeely is an Emmy® Award-winning
                                                                composer and conductor with more than
                                                                100 motion picture and television credits.
                                                                He has worked with such filmmakers
                                                                as James Cameron, John Lasseter, Seth
                                                                MacFarlane, and George Lucas. McNeely is
                                                                currently at work scoring the science fiction
                                                                television drama series, The Orville.


                                                                Watch on Hulu


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