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Justin Borak and Erika Kuhn realize the world is missing one thing... a podcast about good plays. That's where Play to Z comes in! Follow along as Justin and Erika...
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Justin Borak and Erika Kuhn realize the world is missing one thing... a podcast about good plays. That's where Play to Z comes in! Follow along as Justin and Erika look into plays they love in alphabetical order. Get your next great read or find the perfect monologue you need for an audition right here, on Play to Z!
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27 SEP 2024 · IT'S THE FIFTY NIFTY UNITED PLAYS! Welcome to Season 3! This time around, we are going state-by-state and looking into each one theatrically! Playwrights from the state, different theatres of all kinds, looking into college programs, and egven deep-diving into plays set in the state of the week! It's gonna be a long season (50 states with a PLAYdough every 5 episodes) so get ready some amazing episodes and content coming your way on a weekly basis starting on 10/18! See you guys in a couple weeks and let's get excited for SEASON 3!
SOME BUSINESS: If you want us to shout out something specific from your state this season, let us know through our email: playtozpodcast@gmail.com. Erika's play, https://newplayexchange.org/plays/2890446/kill-bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, https://www.playscripts.com/play/5666 and https://www.playscripts.com/play/5786, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/5ofD549kx9wfGIPzfPvFJu?si=10b325291e7843bf, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out https://www.youtube.com/@justinborak for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out https://www.justinborak.com/ and https://www.erika-kuhn.com/ for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/justinborak/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/actualerikakuhn/ and https://www.tiktok.com/@mediocrejokes for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
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13 SEP 2024 · It's the end of the summer season of 2024 and we have a very fun (and very sentimental) playdough for you! Hear the story of two raccoons in a dump in New York City. When one of them discovers the concept of time, they try to find the makers of the watch he found to ask him to stop time so they could just play in the trash forever. It's really sweet. We hope you enjoy this episode and we will see you in SEASON 3!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, https://newplayexchange.org/plays/2890446/kill-bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, https://www.playscripts.com/play/5666 and https://www.playscripts.com/play/5786, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/5ofD549kx9wfGIPzfPvFJu?si=10b325291e7843bf, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out https://www.youtube.com/@justinborak for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out https://www.justinborak.com/ and https://www.erika-kuhn.com/ for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/justinborak/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/actualerikakuhn/ and https://www.tiktok.com/@mediocrejokes for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
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30 AUG 2024 · The final episode of our Summer Season Selection Series Spectacular is here! Erika got the word SLAP and goes all in on slapstick comedy. We get appearances from silent movie stars, famous farces that you'll lose your mind at, and a new origial Borak/Kuhn co-written play about Slap Fighting Championships. It's a great one.
*No iterns were hurt in the making of this episode*
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, https://newplayexchange.org/plays/2890446/kill-bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, https://www.playscripts.com/play/5666 and https://www.playscripts.com/play/5786, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/5ofD549kx9wfGIPzfPvFJu?si=10b325291e7843bf, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out https://www.youtube.com/@justinborak for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out https://www.justinborak.com/ and https://www.erika-kuhn.com/ for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/justinborak/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/actualerikakuhn/ and https://www.tiktok.com/@mediocrejokes for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
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16 AUG 2024 · This episode of the Summer Season Selection Series we get to see see Justin nerd out about TV! Hear him find paralells in different plays, bring back an famous and beautiful production of his favorite Shakespeare play, and we even creat an adaptation of a very cool recent horror film! Enjoy!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, https://newplayexchange.org/plays/2890446/kill-bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, https://www.playscripts.com/play/5666 and https://www.playscripts.com/play/5786, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/5ofD549kx9wfGIPzfPvFJu?si=10b325291e7843bf, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out https://www.youtube.com/@justinborak for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out https://www.justinborak.com/ and https://www.erika-kuhn.com/ for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/justinborak/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/actualerikakuhn/ and https://www.tiktok.com/@mediocrejokes for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
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2 AUG 2024 · What up! It's a PLAYdough day! This week, Justin and Erika create one of their silliest plays yet! Think Cocaine Bear meets Outer Banks meets National Treasure meets West Side Story. It's a wild one and we really hope you laugh, we sure did! Enjoy!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, https://newplayexchange.org/plays/2890446/kill-bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, https://www.playscripts.com/play/5666 and https://www.playscripts.com/play/5786, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/5ofD549kx9wfGIPzfPvFJu?si=10b325291e7843bf, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out https://www.youtube.com/@justinborak for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out https://www.justinborak.com/ and https://www.erika-kuhn.com/ for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/justinborak/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/actualerikakuhn/ and https://www.tiktok.com/@mediocrejokes for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
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19 JUL 2024 · Happy summer! Here is our second episode of the Summer Season Selection Series, Constraint, choosen by Erika! Playing with the phrase "Breaking Free" Erika finds a bunch of shows that all deal with breaking the constraints the world has put on them. We get plays in rep, cool contemporary titles, and even a MUSICAL?! Enjoy the episode!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, https://newplayexchange.org/plays/2890446/kill-bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, https://www.playscripts.com/play/5666 and https://www.playscripts.com/play/5786, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/5ofD549kx9wfGIPzfPvFJu?si=10b325291e7843bf, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out https://www.youtube.com/@justinborak for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out https://www.justinborak.com/ and https://www.erika-kuhn.com/ for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/justinborak/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/actualerikakuhn/ and https://www.tiktok.com/@mediocrejokes for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
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5 JUL 2024 · Welcome to the first episode of the Summer Season Selection! This week, Justin took the lead and had the word "RESTRAINT" to build a season around. Playing with the concepts of "Loving, Longing, and Losing your People", Justin put together a season featuring classics, contemporary plays and one of his favorite musicals ever written. Enjoy!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, https://newplayexchange.org/plays/2890446/kill-bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, https://www.playscripts.com/play/5666 and https://www.playscripts.com/play/5786, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/5ofD549kx9wfGIPzfPvFJu?si=10b325291e7843bf, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out https://www.youtube.com/@justinborak for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out https://www.justinborak.com/ and https://www.erika-kuhn.com/ for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/justinborak/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/actualerikakuhn/ and https://www.tiktok.com/@mediocrejokes for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
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21 JUN 2024 · Oooooooh it's Summer! This week, Justin and Erika unveil what the summer at Play to Z will look like! Other than a few playdoughs, Justin and Erika will be doing something we like to call the Summer Season Selection (or the SSS)! We take a word off a random word generator and use that word to insoiure a theatre season that we will chat about this summer! We are going to talk about plays, musicals, and what we think goes into making a great theatre season! We can not wait for this awesome summer!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, https://newplayexchange.org/plays/2890446/kill-bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, https://www.playscripts.com/play/5666 and https://www.playscripts.com/play/5786, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/5ofD549kx9wfGIPzfPvFJu?si=10b325291e7843bf, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out https://www.youtube.com/@justinborak for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out https://www.justinborak.com/ and https://www.erika-kuhn.com/ for more cool stuff!
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/justinborak/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/actualerikakuhn/ and https://www.tiktok.com/@mediocrejokes for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
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14 JUN 2024 · ZEEKS! It's the "Z" episode! This week, Erika and Justin chat about some of their fvorite playwrights and what it felt like to walk across the stage as they graduated with their MFA in Acting from West Virginia University! Erika talks about an actor who is a secret playwright, Justin preps you for an upcoming interview he is recording, and the two of them get nostaligic as they end season 2! Enjoy the show!
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, https://newplayexchange.org/plays/2890446/kill-bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, https://www.playscripts.com/play/5666 and https://www.playscripts.com/play/5786, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/5ofD549kx9wfGIPzfPvFJu?si=10b325291e7843bf, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out https://www.youtube.com/@justinborak for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out https://www.justinborak.com/ and https://www.erika-kuhn.com/ for more cool stuff!
Links to our playwrights:
https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/multiple.asp?keysearchauthor=Zoe%20Kazan&indexm=11&start=1
https://www.playscripts.com/playwrights/bios/1057
https://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/multiple.asp?keysearchauthor=Anna+Ziegler&indexm=11&start=1
https://annabziegler.net/
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/justinborak/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/actualerikakuhn/ and https://www.tiktok.com/@mediocrejokes for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
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7 JUN 2024 · Yes! whY You ask? It's the "Y" episode! This week, Justin and Erika break down two very different but absolutley wonderful playwrights. Erika looks at one of the biggest names in the industry right now, Justin finds an underground treasure trove of femal comedic monolouges, and the two of them chat about oats. FINALLY.
SOME BUSINESS: Thank you to the two playwrights we featured in this episode! You can find some of their plays in the links below. Erika's play, https://newplayexchange.org/plays/2890446/kill-bird, can be found on her New Play Exchange and you can purchase and produce Justin's plays, https://www.playscripts.com/play/5666 and https://www.playscripts.com/play/5786, through his publisher, Playscripts. You can also check out Justin's new podcast, https://open.spotify.com/show/5ofD549kx9wfGIPzfPvFJu?si=10b325291e7843bf, which features Erika on the pilot! Finally, you can check out https://www.youtube.com/@justinborak for more longform theatre content! For any more information, check out https://www.justinborak.com/ and https://www.erika-kuhn.com/ for more cool stuff!
Links to our playwrights:
https://www.emilywalborn.com
https://newplayexchange.org/users/73668/emily-yuko-walborn
https://laurenyee.com
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/a/3825/lauren-yee
If you like the show, feel free to subscribe and give us a five star review! Also, follow us on instagram https://www.instagram.com/justinborak/?hl=en and https://www.instagram.com/actualerikakuhn/ and https://www.tiktok.com/@mediocrejokes for any news and notes on upcoming episodes and more theatre reccomendations!
Justin Borak and Erika Kuhn realize the world is missing one thing... a podcast about good plays. That's where Play to Z comes in! Follow along as Justin and Erika...
show more
Justin Borak and Erika Kuhn realize the world is missing one thing... a podcast about good plays. That's where Play to Z comes in! Follow along as Justin and Erika look into plays they love in alphabetical order. Get your next great read or find the perfect monologue you need for an audition right here, on Play to Z!
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