Host Luisa Lyons chats with Jim Augustine and Oren Michaels, the founders of The League of Live Stream Theater (LOLST).

Discover how The League of Live Stream Theater came into existence, its purpose, the challenges of filming non-profit theatre, the process of filming, the challenges of archiving, LOLST’s Revenue Generating Grant Program and the upcoming stream of Jocelyn Bioh’s Broadway play Jaja’s African Hair Braiding.

Jim Augustine is a media and tech entrepreneur. Formerly COO of Zuckerberg Media, he most recently co-founded ZM subsidiaries Sue's Tech Kitchen, the Zuckerberg Institute, Broadway Beta Ventures, and Assemble Stream Inc. As Co-Founder & Managing Director of Broadway Beta Ventures, he facilitated investments in Hadestown (Best New Musical), Lin Manuel Miranda's Freestyle Love Supreme (Special Tony Award), The Inheritance (Best New Play), Magic Mike Live, and more. As Co-Founder & COO of Assemble Stream, Jim worked with Second Stage to produce the first-ever simulcast run of a Broadway show (Lynn Nottage’s Clyde’s).
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Oren Michaels is an entrepreneur, investor, board member, and advisor to technology startups in the US and internationally. As CEO, he co-founded Mashery in 2006, taking an idea on a napkin and $100k in seed funding through multiple venture and strategic funding rounds and acquisition by Intel. In the theater world, Oren is the former executive director and CEO of The Groundlings and serves on the board of Second Stage. He is co-producer of the upcoming Broadway musical Lempicka.

SHOW LINKS
​The League of Live Stream Theater (ticket purchases made through this link will provide a small revenue to Filmed Live Musicals at no extra cost to you)

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​In this special crossover episode, host Luisa Lyons chats with Ebony Vines and Pamela Shandrow of the Theatre Geeks Anonymous podcast.

Join us as we nerd out about musical theatre, and take a look at three short-running Broadway musicals that were all filmed live: At the Drop of a Hat (1962) starring British comedy duo Flanders and Swann; Show Girl (1961) starring Carol Channing, and Allegiance (2017) starring George Takei, Telly Leung, and Lea Salonga.

Guest bios
Ebony Vines is a writer, director, producer and the co-host of Theatre Geeks Anonymous. Ebony’s love of musical theatre was passed down from her late Mother who loved to watch musical movies with her daughter while grading her students' homework. After a long conversation with her friend Pamela about growing up a theater geek, obsessively listening to cast recordings and also loving true crime, they created the podcast Theatre Geeks Anonymous. 

Her producing and directing credits include the Typecast Benefit Concert at The Duplex in which she raised money for two not-for-profits that are making massive social changes.  In 2019 she produced The Women's Cycle at The Cell Theater, which was a showcase for female identifying artists who told stories that aren’t often highlighted in the mainstream. She has been featured in blogs and publications for her theatrical work and is a 2020 graduate of the CTI fourteen-week commercial theatrical producing program. Ebony is a founding member of the Think Tank for Theatrical Innovation which is a "collaborative community of theater professionals who provide innovative strategies to promote inclusion, equity, diversity, and access in the creation and business of theater."  

At a very young age, Pamela Shandrow knew she wanted to be an actress. It was at 10 years old, when she watched the PBS version of Into The Woods with Bernadette Peters, that she decided her future would be in musical theatre! Since then she’s performed in numerable regional shows, but is most proud of her work in the Broadway National Tours of Phantom of the Opera, and Wicked, as ensemble/Carlotta US and ensemble/Madame Morrible US respectively.

Her life has taken an eclectic shift as she is now working as a dog groomer, but her passion and love for musical theatre and Broadway has never waned. In fact, it has only gotten stronger! And now, she and her equally passionate friend Ebony, get to share that love with all of you on their podcast Theatre Geeks Anonymous.

Show Links

• Theatre Geeks Anonymous
• At the Drop of a Hat
• Show Girl
• Allegiance

The Filmed Live Musicals podcast is also available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and on YouTube. Listen elsewhere? Find the show on your favorite podcast app here.

Like what you hear? Rate and review us on Apple or Spotify! 

Let's get social! Find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. 

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Filmed Live Musicals is created by Luisa Lyons, an Australian actor, writer, and musician. Luisa holds a Masters in Music Theatre from London's Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and now lives, works, and plays in New York. Learn more at www.luisalyons.com and follow on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.