Steffi DiDomenicantonio: Actress, singer

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Steffi DiDomenicantonio is currently performing in the Toronto production of “Come From Away.”

At the age of 29 she’s achieved great things and I know her career is just beginning.

Although Steffi rose to national prominence as a finalist in the 2006 season of “Canadian Idol,” she’s been a musical theatre performer for most of her life.

In our conversation, Steffi explains the secret to her success and how a vision board helped her focus on a dream gig performing in the first Broadway national tour of “Spring Awakening.”

She has a great story about her “Come From Away” audition.

We also talk about her television work on “Crawford” with Mike Clattenburg, best known as a creator, writer and director of the comedy series “Trailer Park Boys.”

SHOW NOTES
Follow Steffi on Social Media
Instagram: @SteffiD5
Twitter: @SteffiD3
YouTube: YouTube.com/SteffiD5
Vimeo: Vimeo.com/SteffiD
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/steffi-didomenicantonio

Watch Crawford season 1: http://www.cbc.ca/crawford/

Come From Away
Royal Alexandra Theatre
260 King Street West, Toronto
Toronto
Click for details and tickets
1-800-461-3333

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Murray Foster: musician, songwriter

Murray is best known for his work as bassist in the Canadian bands Moxy Früvous and Great Big Sea. In 2014, he directed the Independent Film, “The Cocksure Lads Movie” which is now being developed into a musical “Chelsea Sunrise” with the Canadian Music Theatre Project at Sheridan College.

You’ll hear how he wrote the songs for the play and why he never received the investment he was offered when he appeared on the TV show “Dragon’s Den.”

SHOW NOTES
Murray’s Website: http://www.murrayfoster.ca/
Chelsea Sunrise at the Canadian Music Theatre Project at Sheridan College.
Murray on Twitter
Murray on Facebook

“The Secret Life of The American Musical” on Amazon.

Chris Boyce Executive Producer at Pacific Content

Chris Boyce is the Co-Founder and Executive Producer at Pacific Content. They produce podcasts for big brands including Shopify’s “TGIM” and Slack’s the “Slack Variety Pack,” which Fast Company described as “‘This American Life,’ meets ‘The Office,’ meets ‘Monty Python.’

Their podcast “Hackable,” produced for McAfee, recently won the Digiday “Best Branded Podcast” award.

I spoke with Chris at Podcamp Toronto, in 2016.

Chris’ background includes his term as Executive Director, Radio/Audio, and Director of Program Development for CBC Radio, where he supervised the development of programming including “Q,” “Under the Influence,” “The Debaters,” and “Spark.”

In our podcast, Chris discusses the value of understanding “what is the story I’m trying to tell” before you begin recording.

He also stresses the importance of eliciting emotions and drama from your guests, rather than facts.

We play a podcast clip demonstrating how to create the audio illusion of recording on location when you are actually recording from your office.

Chris also provides useful tips and information for freelance producers.

Show Notes
Pacific Content
Zencaster
Hackable podcast
Slack TGIM podcast

If you enjoyed this interview, you might also like my podcast with Jesse Brown publisher and host of the podcast CanadaLand. You’ll learn behind-the-scenes lessons on how Jesse balances his advertisers and the $100,000 he receives from his listeners via Patreon. Click for the episode.

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