HeyJaredACT LIKE A MOTHER
Working actors and mothers Katie MacNichol and Melanie Lora talk with fellow actor moms about balancing career, creativity and parenting.
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Kali Rocha Crafts A Sparkling Life (opens the original)
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Actor and entrepreneur Kali Rocha never envisioned herself being on a Disney show, but after a near-death medical emergency during the birth of her second child, her perspective on life and work radically shifted. Getting cast as the mom on Liv and Maddie turned out to be much more wonderful than she could have imagined. In this episode, Kali recounts her early years in NY pounding the pavement in punishing shoes, the moment the switch went off and she knew she wanted children, and the fortuitou
Dana Green Finds Her Voice (opens the original)
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Growing up in the Midwest, celebrated stage and voice actor Dana Green didn’t have a plan for how to become an actor. But as fate led her from Ohio to Iowa to Chicago to the prestigious Stratford Festival in Canada, an artistically fulfilling life began to come into view. Only one thing was missing: her real-life leading man. Known for her command of classical text and her portrayals of some of the great Shakespearean heroines, Dana’s real-life love story plays more like a Lifetime Movie: a trip
Jillian Armenante is The Stone in The Soup (opens the original)
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If she’d had her druthers, award winning actor, director, writer, producer Jillian Armenante would have gotten started early and had a bunch of kids. But dumpster diving as a theatre rat in the Seattle grunge scene of the 90’s wasn’t exactly the ideal lifestyle to start a family. However, after a fortuitous game of spin-the-bottle led her to her future wife and a legendary Seattle theatre gig made her a breakout star, suddenly she was a series regular on a prime-time show, buying a house in LA a
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