Mixtape Hope
An interactive Podcast. Luis and Andrea interview musicians, songwriters, music producers, festival hosts and an array of others in the music industry to gain insight into their perspective of music as a HEALING entity. They "breakdown" lyrics and the meaning and emotion of certain songs. They are authentic in sharing how music transformed moments in in their lives as parents, siblings, as a married couple and even (especially) as physicians. They ask the "why" as well as the "how" as they step into a journey of music's healing powers!
Mixtape Hope
A Body of Water by Kelley Girod
KELLEY GIROD A native of Louisiana, Girod has lived in NYC since 2005 where she completed her Masters in playwriting at Columbia University. Since graduating she has established herself in NYC as a playwright and producer. Girod is currently Director of New Work at the world famous Apollo theater. In addition Kelley continues to serve as Executive Director of OBIE award winning The Fire This Time Festival, a platform for early career Black playwrights, which she founded in 2009. Girod is also an award-winning playwright whose work has been developed/presented at Atlantic Theater Company, Sheen Center for Thought and Culture, Stanford’s TAPS Program, The Fire This Time Festival, Harlem 9, Primary Stages, Sundance, Planet Connections Theater Festival, Parity Productions, The Apollo and more. In 2023, she was named the recipient of New York Innovative Theater’s prestigious Ellen Steward Award. She was also a 2020 nominee of the prestigious Paul Robeson Award. In addition, Girod is Editor of The Fire This Time Festival’s first anthology of plays published with Bloomsbury UK/Methuen Drama titled “25 Plays from The Fire This Time Festival, A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Rebirth and Black Theater.”
ANDREW BLOCK (Director) An award-winning NYC-based director, proud native of New Orleans, and frequent collaborator with fellow Louisiana-grown artist, playwright Kelley Nicole Girod (Body of Water, This Stretch of Montpelier). He is the recipient of the Ovation and L.A.Drama Critics Circle awards for Best Director & Production for the world premiere of John Pollono’s Small Engine Repair. Sselected credits include: Adam Szymkowicz’ Clown Bar 2 (SparkPlug Productions) Mark Jason Williams’ Straight Faced Lies and The Other Day (Theatre at 14th St Y); John Pollonos's Lost and Found (FringeNYC Encore, Lucille Lortel Theatre); Sondheim's Company (Gallery Players); David Caudle’s Downward Facing Debbie (World premiere, Project Y); Why Bother? (Best Director, Planet Connections Festivity); Adam Rapp’s Bingo With the Indians (GLAAD award nomination for Outstanding Theatre); Illuminati (Best Director, Network OAF); Bedroom Farce (FAPC); Reach (Ivy Theatre); Avenue Q (Manhattan College); Inherit the Wind (Manhattan College); Rumors (AADA); The Shape of Things (Adelphi University); Recovery (FringeNYC); Andrew also serves as TDF's liaison and representative to NYC's vibrant Off and Off-Off Broadway community.
SCOTT FETTERMAN is a multimedia designer, video producer, technician, and performer; he currently holds the position of Lead Audiovisual Technician at BAM Fisher in Brooklyn, NY and is a proud member of IATSE Local 4. A product of NYC’s downtown experimental scene, Scott cut his teeth working with Temporary Distortion from 2011-2017 in several capacities; most notably as Video Designer, Assistant Installation Designer, and Musician for the 6-hour-long installation-based performance My Voice Has An Echo In It, which toured within the US and France. Other key collaborations include Oscar-nominated filmmaker Josh Fox (The Truth Has Changed, Staying Home, and The Edge of Nature), One Year Lease Theater Company (Pool No Water and Skin Tight), and director Andrew Block (too many to list)