HeyJaredI Care Too Much
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Poetry for Pumpkins (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThere’s this little white dog in our neighborhood, who always barks at our Halloween decorations when he’s out on his jaunty little walk. He’s so fierce, this small thing, all scruff and spark, shouting at our plastic skulls and styrofoam tombstones. It’s going to be hot this week. Hot enough for my husband to play a game of tag with the sky, closing and opening the blinds and the windows, tracking the
Returning to myself at the turning of the season (opens the original)
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Happy Solstice. Which was last week.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="567" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Mxqa!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc1c13d4c
In Defense of The Earnest (opens the original)
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NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani recently announced a new Free Broadway Ticket program, to increase access to high schoolers across the city. It was a few weeks ago now, the news has largely passed.It’s worth noting that he also made the announcement in Bangla, Spanish, and Mandarin (really). I’m not the only one who thinks this is a big deal for inclusion - it made headlines across several outlets. And it should. Mamdani himself acknowledged that in NYC - beloved theater capital of America - high sch
Together Wherever We Go, with Jen Paxton (opens the original)
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In this episode, SVP People Jen Paxton explores the parallels between team building and ensemble-oriented leadership, the power of good feedback, and how chaos in theater teaches resilience in business.Jen also shares how she returned to performing after a 10-year hiatus (and how she ended up performing with her whole family!), what keeps her coming back to the stage while continuing to hold a demanding People Leadership role, and why both worlds are really about logistics, communication, and ma
Mother Knows Best (opens the original)
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This is a 10-minute read in three parts. We start with baby steps towards dismantling intergenerational institutional misogyny, get into why the opposite of patriarchy isn’t “more patriarchy, just with women in charge,” and finish with some inspiration from the theatre. A real “Kim” sort of newsletter, it would seem. Enjoy. AndSharePart 1: The CheerleadersI could have sworn I’d
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