Moonstone Connections – Podcast
Producing Artistic Director, Sharon Hunter, interviews local and national Arts leaders in this new podcast.
Ep. 8 – Featuring Kevin Connors
Kevin Connors has been a professional musical theatre composer and director for more than 40 years. He is a ten-time Connecticut Critics’ Circle Best Director nominee/winner, the recipient of the Tom Killen Award for Outstanding Contribution to Connecticut Professional Theatre, and served on the faculties of The Hartt School of Music/University of Hartford, Sacred Heart University, the University of Bridgeport and Musical Theatre Works in NYC…
Ep. 7 – Featuring Teresa Eyring
Teresa Eyring (she/her/hers), executive director/CEO, joined TCG in 2007. Teresa Eyring has served as executive director of TCG since 2007. Under her leadership, TCG has invested in building greater equity, diversity, and inclusion in the American theatre field and promotes a vision for “a better world for theatre, and a better world because of theatre.” Prior to joining TCG, Eyring spent more than 20 years…
Ep. 6 – Featuring Scott C. Sickles
SCOTT C. SICKLES is an LGBTQ/biracial Korean American writer whose plays have been performed in New York City, across the U.S., and internationally in Canada, Australia, the UK, Hungary, Singapore, Indonesia, and Lebanon. Recently, he published Playing on the Periphery: Monologues and Scenes for Queer Kids (Amazon)…
Ep. 5 – Featuring Matthew R. Kerns, artist, educator, and community leader
Matthew is an artist, educator, and community leader. His artistic body of work is multi-disciplinary and some of his favorite projects are: A Christmas Carol, an eight-minute solo-performance; Read, Sing; Resist, Melania Trump; The Talking Cure Speaks; Gay Fantasia, a late-night immersive event; CHICKEN, a solo-performance journey of life, liberty, and the pursuit of healthiness in the shadow of HIV…
Ep. 4 – Featuring Amelia Acosta Powell, Associate Artistic Director, Repertory Theatre St. Louis.
Acosta Powell most recently served as line producer at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, a Tony Award-winning organization that stands as one of the preeminent destinations for American regional theatre. Before that, she worked as the casting director and artistic associate at Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Georgetown University…
Ep. 3 – Featuring Tom Ridgely, Artistic Director, Shakespeare Festival St. Louis
Tom Ridgely has led the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival since 2018. A Drama Desk-nominated director, he has developed or presented work at the Public Theater, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Society, Red Bull and more. He’s worked with Tony nominees Sting, Sherie Rene Scott, Laura Osnes…
Ep. 2 – Featuring Judith Cullen – Executive Director of the Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation
Our guest on Episode 2 is Judith Cullen, Executive Director of the Fox Performing Arts Charitable Foundation. Originally from St. Charles, MO, she began her career as a dancer and performed at Powell Hall, the MUNY, Keil Opera House, JCA, Edison Theatre, STL Civic Ballet, St. Charles Civic Ballet, and on Corky the Clown’s Show before she was 10.
Ep. 1 – Featuring Eddie Coffield
Host Sharon Hunter interviews Eddie Coffield about his experiences in theatre and St. Louis!
Sharon Hunter
Producing Artistic Director
Sharon Hunter has worked as a professional actor, singer, director, and producer for several years. Originally from St. Louis, Sharon has performed in plays and musicals regionally and in New York City. She spent 10 years working off-Broadway, while acting in and directing many shows. Sharon sings a wide variety of musical genres at different venues in St. Louis. She originally performed her one-woman cabaret show in NYC at the Metropolitan Room, Don’t Tell Mama and the Triad and in St. Louis at The Monocle. Sharon released her debut CD, Play Me, in 2014. Sharon is now the artistic director and producer of Moonstone Theatre Company. The debut production, The House of Blue Leaves by John Guare, will open at the Wool Theatre at the JCC on July 16th, 2020.