Built For The Stage Podcast

Andrew Durand / @durandrew - "Always focus on what you want to present, not what you think the people want to see." Broadway: Shucked, Ink, Head Over Heels, War Horse, Spring Awakening. West End: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Off-Broadway: The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout), Gigantic (Vineyard), Love's Labour's Lost (The Public), The Wild Bride (St. Ann's Warehouse), The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons) Television: CBS' "Madam Secretary" (Guest Star) “NCIS New Orleans” (Guest Star) NBC’s “Law and Order: Organized Crime” (Guest Star) Apple TV: “Servant” (Recurring Guest) Film: One December Night, Here Today. https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TyNia Brandon / @thetybrand - "I try so hard to have this deep trust in my intuition and in my instincts. And, I just believe wholeheartedly that I'll be exactly where I need to be and things will just work out. But, in the midst of the waiting, my training never stops." https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scott Stangland / @scottstangland on getting through the tough times within the theatre industry: "I think dreaming gets a bad wrap. There's an element of being a dreamer and hopeful... Listen, i have negative streaks in me too. There are days i think, this city is beating me up and what's the point. But, I guess ultimately it's just a matter of choosing your focus." SCOTT STANGLAND is a New York-based actor and musician. Broadway: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Pierre); Once (Eamon). Off-Broadway: Cyrano (New Group). Select TV: The Blacklist (FOX); The Deuce (HBO); Wu Tang (Hulu); New Amsterdam (NBC). Scott also plays in the band Youth in a Roman Field. IG/Twitter: @scottstangland https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clyde Voce / @clyde.voce What Clyde credits some of his consistent success in this tough industry: "Make mistakes. I make mistakes all the time. I have no problem being wrong. It's gonna happen anyway." https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tinovimbanashe Sibanda / @tino_naledi "I had to decide that there's something that I had to tell as well. Then I just put my mind to absorbing and learning. I could still learn, but I also had something to offer. I used to stand behind these giants in my eyes and copy them and try to figure out what they were doing that helped them so much. So the imposter syndrome was still definitely there when I started. I just had to decide I deserved to be there." Currently Appearing in Guys and Dolls at The Bridge theatre Other Theatre credits include: Ensemble/ Cover La Chocolat in Moulin Rouge( Piccadilly Theatre); Swing/ Dance Captain in Hairspray (London Coliseum) Dance Captain / Swing in The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe; Dance Captain / Ensemble in Jesus Christ Superstar (Barbican Centre); Ensemble in Strictly Ballroom: The Musical (Piccadilly Theatre); Ensemble in Jesus Christ Superstar (Regent's Park Open Air Theatre); Ensemble in Dick Whittington (National Theatre) Ensemble in Cinderella (Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury); Ensemble in Peter Pan (Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury) Workshop: Back to the Future: The Musical Insta : tino_naledi & Ezomgido (Creative page) https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kristina Leopold / @tinapold24 - "With basketball specifically, I was always stealing the ball. That’s what I did, so even still, my parents when I was younger, would say, “Swipe that ball,” because that would kind of ignite a different energy that would come out of me. Even if you scroll back to my text messages from my parents, as I was walking into the audition room for SIX, I have a text from my mom that says, “Swipe that ball.”" KRISTINA LEOPOLD she/her (Alternate), originally from LA, is stoked to be making her Broadway debut with the Queendom! Select credits: Festival of the Lion King (Nala and Storyteller/Rafiki, Hong Kong Disneyland), Sister Act (Deloris Van Cartier, Broadway at the Gardens), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Esmeralda, The California Theatre). Romans 13:12. @tinapold24 Book Reference: Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Beals https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ian Campayno / @icampayno - "It will happen. You just have to be committed to sticking with it. Nothing will ever really be handed to you. There are times now when I wanna just quit. They’re always gonna be moments when things seem unfair or they seem like they should’ve gone another way that is out of your control. So all you can really do is go into an audition room and be your absolute best and be your true self. And if you’re not what they’re looking for, you’re not what they’re looking for and that has absolutely nothing to do with you as a person, or as a performer.” Bio - Thrilled to be back on Broadway in Some Like It Hot! Broadway: Mary Poppins Off-Broadway: Trip of Love Tours: Something Rotten!, Chicago, Mary Poppins TV/Film: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Lovestruck: The Musical Regional: Arvada Center, NSMT, Ogunquit Playhouse, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse. BFA Shenandoah Conservatory. https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Traci Lee / @tracelaine - "I know I love to move my body and I’m much better when I move my body. I do it every day intentionally. And because of it, I know for sure my voice is better, my show is better, and more connected to anything I have to do on stage." Traci Lee is a Dallas, Texas native and pumped to be making her Broadway Debut at The Nederlander Theatre in Shucked! National Tour: Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations (First National), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (First National). Off-Broadway: safeword. TV/Radio/Voiceover: Whataburger, Indeed, Aflac. BFA Musical Theatre - SHSU. “Endless gratitude to my family, my village & my team at Avalon Artists Group.” IG: @tracelaine https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Matt Gillett / @mattdgillett is a dance captain for the production of Frozen on the West End in London! Swing / Assistant Dance Captain / Understudy Oaken and King Agnarr Place of Birth: Sussex, England. Training: Arts Educational. Theatre: Matilda (UK tour); 42nd Street (Theatre Du Chatelet); Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (UK tour); Jersey Boys (UK tour); Hairspray, Gypsy and Hello Dolly! (Curve Theatre); Top Hat (Aldwych Theatre); West Side Story (Sage Gateshead); White Christmas (UK tour / Edinburgh); Ultimate Broadway (Shanghai); Dames At Sea (Union Theatre); Sleeping Beauty (Wyvern Theatre Swindon); Broadway To West End (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). Television: BBC Proms – The Broadway Sound. Other: 2011 Olivier Awards (Theatre Royal Drury Lane). https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ross Carpenter / @rosscarpenteruk has recently finished in the West End cast of THE BOOK OF MORMON as Elder Davis and playing the title role in PETER PAN at the Opera House Manchester. Credits include: Angel in Kinky Boots the Musical in Concert (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Elder Grant in The Book Of Mormon (West End), Bobby C in Saturday Night Fever (MMP/Guernsey) & Ensemble/Cover Bertie in Mrs Henderson Presents (Toronto). https://builtforthestage.com/ - fill out the form and ask about our next fitness challenge! www.broadwaypodcastnetwork.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices