{"id":2697,"date":"2020-02-24T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T17:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play4keeps.org\/?p=2697"},"modified":"2020-07-26T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T17:15:38","slug":"play4keeps-podcast-living-their-best-lives-a-conversation-with-r-eric-thomas-and-haygen-brice-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/play4keeps-podcast-living-their-best-lives-a-conversation-with-r-eric-thomas-and-haygen-brice-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Play4Keeps Podcast | Living Their Best Lives: A Conversation with R. Eric Thomas and Haygen-Brice Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2419\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2697-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/play4keeps\/content.blubrry.com\/play4keeps\/anpf2_24_2020_EricHaygen_mixdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/play4keeps\/content.blubrry.com\/play4keeps\/anpf2_24_2020_EricHaygen_mixdown.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/play4keeps\/content.blubrry.com\/play4keeps\/anpf2_24_2020_EricHaygen_mixdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast (free): <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/play4keeps\/content.blubrry.com\/play4keeps\/anpf2_24_2020_EricHaygen_mixdown.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/?powerpress_pinw=2697-free');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/feed\/free\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4028\" src=\"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Episode-016-Eric-and-Haygen-Brice-v2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Episode-016-Eric-and-Haygen-Brice-v2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Episode-016-Eric-and-Haygen-Brice-v2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Episode-016-Eric-and-Haygen-Brice-v2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Episode-016-Eric-and-Haygen-Brice-v2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Episode-016-Eric-and-Haygen-Brice-v2-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Episode-016-Eric-and-Haygen-Brice-v2-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Episode-016-Eric-and-Haygen-Brice-v2-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Episode-016-Eric-and-Haygen-Brice-v2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/ashlandnewplays.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Episode-016-Eric-and-Haygen-Brice-v2.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>You\u2019ll be laughing from the word <em>hello<\/em> with these two: from ill-fitting corduroy pants during fashion week to stipends spent on Buffalo Wild Wings, take a journey with R. Eric Thomas and Haygen-Brice Walker. They discuss their experiences at Nashville Rep\u2019s Ingram New Works Project, which is directed by ANPF 2018 winner Nate Eppler, as well as how they see their work. They cover everything<em>,<\/em> including comfort zones as writers, sex and queer experience on stage, the special vibes and challenges of self-producing fringe shows, teaching yourself to write screenplays, and more\u2014including sending earnest, heartfelt texts to J.Lo.<\/p>\n<p>R. Eric Thomas is an award-winning playwright and humor writer. He is the recipient of a 2017-2018 National New Play Network commission for the play\u00a0NIGHTBIRD\u00a0and the 2018 Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award.\u00a0We recorded his new play MRS. HARRISON on the ANPF Play4Keeps Podcast. He is also\u00a0a\u00a0 senior staff writer at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/author\/16483\/r-eric-thomas\/\">Elle.com<\/a>,\u00a0where\u00a0he\u00a0writes the daily humor column\u00a0\u201cEric Reads the News.\u201d He is\u00a0the long-running\u00a0host\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/themoth.org\/\">The Moth <\/a>in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., and his newly released memoir\u00a0<em>Here\u00a0For\u00a0It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America\u00a0<\/em>is out now.\u00a0Lin-Manuel Miranda\u00a0said of Eric: \u201cPop culture-obsessed, Sedaris-level laugh-out-loud funny . . . [R. Eric Thomas] is one of my favorite writers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Haygen-Brice Walker is a Puerto Rican-American playwright-creative producer, born and raised in the American South and currently dividing his time between Philadelphia and Minneapolis, where he is the 2018-2019 Jerome Many Voices Fellow at The Playwrights&#8217; Center. His work is a kaleidoscopic clash of caffeine, history, pornography, violence, pop-culture, myth, and magic.\u00a0Haygen-Brice is the co-founder of ON THE ROCKS, which Broad Street Review hailed as \u201cthe most explosive fringe company in years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ANPF Play4Keeps Podcast is produced in beautiful Ashland, Oregon. Learn more about us at ashlandnewplays.org and play4keeps.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ll be laughing from the word hello with these two: from ill-fitting corduroy pants during fashion week to stipends spent on Buffalo Wild Wings, take a journey with R. 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