Wayne Turmel: Author, comedian


For 20 years Wayne Turmel worked as a stand-up comedian touring throughout North America, headlining clubs and concerts. He appeared on the TV show “Evening at the Improv” and opened for bands such as Chicago and Hall and Oates.

In his mid-life, Wayne left stand-up comedy and began a second career in business development and training. Through his work with The Remote Leadership Institute Wayne now helps clients around the world learn to present, sell, and lead people and projects when they’re not all in the same place.

Wayne has also written novels; in the podcast, we discuss his newest work of historical fiction, Acre’s Bastard, whose central character is a half Syrian, half French child caught up in the madness of a holy war.

SHOW NOTES
Wayne is the co-founder of the Remote Leadership Institute
Wayne’s website
Wayne on Twitter @WTurmel
Wayne’s most recent book Acre’s Bastard
His new book with Kevin Eikenberry is already a best seller!: The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership
Alan Watt’s book “The 90-Day Novel.

My Interviews with Other Canadian Comedians:
Martha Chaves
David Merry
Christina Walkinshaw
John Wing
Live at the Winnipeg Comedy Festival – with Ashley Moffatt, Adam Schwartz, Dan Taylor and Meghan Riley.

Ken Davenport: Tony Award winning producer


Ken Davenport is a two-time Tony Award-winning producer. He’s also an innovative marketer.

Davenport says his parents, a doctor and a landscape designer, bestowed him with the discipline and creativity he’s leveraged to succeed on Broadway. In our conversation we go back to his early work and you’ll learn how he financed his first few shows. Equally revealing is how, despite limited resources, his marketing strategies built on the show’s success.

In his youth Davenport spent time at Radio Shack playing on computers; his passion and understanding of the digital sphere led to his unprecedented use of the internet, not just for marketing his shows, but also for the online community he’s built to inspire, and provide professional development, to emerging producers.

SHOW NOTES:
Ken Davenport’s blog and podcast – The Producer’s Perspective
Podcast with Elizabeth Furze – advertising and marketing trends in the theater
Ken’s online training program – The Producer’s Perspective PRO
Ken on Twitter
Ken on Facebook
Once on this Island

LISTEN TO MORE EPISODES

Podcast with Steffi DiDomenicantonio.
Steffi performed in the first national tours of Spring Awakening and currently appears in Come from Away in Toronto.
She shares the secret to her successful auditions for both shows.

Podcasts with other Producers
Bat Out of Hell with Randy Lennox

Nora McLellan, actress




Nora McLellan is one of Canada’s most celebrated and respected actors.

In this episode we begin by discussing her early days in Vancouver and move forward to the Shaw Festival and her recent performance in the Annie Baker play “John.”

McClellan is candid about the ups and downs of life in the theatre as well as some of the lessons she’s learned to improve her acting skills working under the direction of some of North America’s finest directors.

Currently, you can see McClellan in “Shirley Valentine,” at the Victoria Playhouse Petrolia.

Nora McLellan in Shirley Valentine.
photo: Diane O’Dell

SHOW NOTES
Follow Nora on Facebook.
Victoria Playhouse Petrolia – Shirley Valentine
Foster Festival – Renovations for Six (World premiere)