Tiffany Little Canfield, casting director extraordinaire comes to the show to discuss what she looks for when seeing an actor, and why she wants more collaboration and process in the casting of a project.द्वारा Chris Grace

I've known Ron Berry since high school and the two of us have essentially never grown up. He created an arts festival that just completed it's 19th year and I've been inspired by his creative career for practically my entire life. Check out the Fusebox Festival at https://fuseboxfestival.com/ And please consider pledging to support my solo show in …

Bo Shuff is the executive director of DC Vote and a longtime friend of mine. I've admired his work ethic and passion for making the world better for years so I was thrilled to get to talk to him about overcoming setbacks and how he got into his line of work to begin with. Find out more about DC Vote at https://www.dcvotearchive.org/ and get involve…

It's a special guest-less episode with a full ramble and catchup on Chris's projects and mindset! Hope you're having a good day. "When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that …

Benji Cooksey hadn't been a cast member at ComedySportz for that long before he somehow ended up being one of the owners. Since then he has steered the theater through the rough waters of the pandemic and lockdown, and is now combining his passion for improv and entrepreneurship with his desire to travel the world. We talk about all that and his fa…

Brian Gendron is such an all-around effective competent person that I put "fitness" as a tag on this episode. He's the founder of Riot Comedy in Houston and I just got back from the Riot Comedy Festival. Find out how I did in the National Comedy Contest finals! Also we talk a lot about what makes a good host, what it's like to go from a corporate j…

Heather Pasternak is a great friend of mine and truly feels like a teammate in the world of standup comedy. She's performed on Colbert and headlines around the country. She's one of the most productive people I know and one day I hope to grow up to be just like her! As always you can email the show at podcast@chrisgrace.com, and join the community …

Amber Petty is out there teaching people how to write more, and get paid to write. Seriously! She and I have been friends for a long time and her class regularly produces success stories of people who have found a way to become professional writers. We talk about what it's like starting a small business, and how it feels to make the mental flip to …

Pushing the publishing schedule to Mondays, and why.द्वारा Chris Grace

Matt Donnelly is a magician who is both amazing and amazingly funny, but he was a comedian first. A few years ago he took the plunge to become a professional magician, and since then he's performed on Penn & Teller Fool Us and is touring with The Foolers. He also hosts the Ice Cream Social and Abracababble podcasts, both of which are huge hits and …

Laser the Boy has created music for years with his band The Doubleclicks, and in 2022 brought his incredible musical Teaching a Robot to Love to the Hollywood Fringe, where it was a smash hit. He's now released his debut solo EP, Overreacting. Check out his stuff at http://lasertheboy.com. Email the show at podcast@chrisgrace.com, and join the comm…

Harrison Greenbaum has performed on Last Comic Standing, America's Got Talent, Conan, and now... the circus? We talk about how he ended up in Cirque du Soleil's new show Mad Apple in Las Vegas, his process for generating material, his inspirations growing up, and more. As always you can email the show at podcast@chrisgrace.com and join the communit…

Stacy Horn has written an eclectic slate of books including Damnation Island, Waiting For My Cats to Die, Imperfect Harmony, and Cyberville. She is also the founder and owner of ECHO, a seminal online community founded in 1990 that is still online today (and which Chris has been a member of since 1999). Her work shows a clear passion for diving int…

Chris Turner is an improviser, freestyle rapper, stand-up comedian, and YouTube creator. He came on the show to discuss his journey from rapping in his room without even really knowing what he was doing, to being a regular at the Comedy Cellar in NYC. I was fascinated by his process for workshopping his new material and I learned about "drone" musi…

Austin film critic William Lindus joins the show to discuss his top 10 films of 2022. Search and follow him on Letterbox'd and check out the Movie Bears Podcast. You can email the show at podcast@chrisgrace.com, and if you join the community at http://club.chrisgrace.com you can enter to win a free copy of William's number one movie of the year!…

I've known Dan Heath since 7th grade; we grew up in Houston, Texas and worked on our school newspaper together. Since then, he's co-authored multiple New York Times bestselling books and his latest, "Upstream", is a great read. It's a deep dive into think about problems with foresight, in an attempt to cut them off at the pass and solve them before…

We're launching soon and I wanted to give you a preview of some of the great conversations to come, featuring clips from Dan Heath, Chris Turner, Stacy Horn, William Lindus, Laser Webber, and Harrison Greenbaum. You can email me at chrisgraceshow@gmail.com, and please like, review, rate, and tell your friends and family to subscribe!…