Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine

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Episode 316 - Debut Novel Panel - Live From Bryant Park Sep 19, 2022

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Ilana hosted a live event at Bryant Park in New York City in the summer of 2022 with five authors who just published their debut novels.

Liz Alterman, The Perfect Neighbor

David Santos Donaldson, Greenland

Francesca Giacco, Six Days In Rome

Anne Heltzel, Just Like Mother

Matt James, First Impressions: Off Screen Conversations With a Bachelor on Race, Family, and Forgiveness

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Episode 315 - Jeffrey Richman Sep 12, 2022

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Jeffrey Richman is the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of the Netflix series “Uncoupled.” Prior to that, he was an Executive Producer of “Modern Family” for ten seasons, earning five Emmy Awards (including one for Outstanding Script), three Writers Guild Awards, three Producers Guild Awards, and a Golden Globe for Best Comedy. He has served as Executive or Co-Executive Producer on “Wings”, “Frasier” (another Emmy Award for Best Comedy), “Stark Raving Mad”, “Charlie Lawrence” (Creator), “Jake in Progress”, “Stacked”, “Rules of Engagement”, “Desperate Housewives” and “Back to You.” He also received an Emmy nomination for writing the 82nd Annual Academy Awards with hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.

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Episode 314 - Marsha Mason Sep 05, 2022

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Marsha Mason has received four Academy Award nominations for her roles in the films The Goodbye Girl, Cinderella Liberty, Only When I Laugh and Chapter Two. She has been the recipient of two Golden Globe Awards for her film roles and an Emmy Award nomination for her role on “Frasier.” Her other TV credits include “The Middle,” “The Good Wife,” “Madam Secretary,” and “Grace & Frankie.” Broadway roles include Impressionism with Jeremy Irons, Steel Magnolias, The Night of the Iguana, The Good Doctor, King Richard III, and Cactus Flower. Off-Broadway she co-starred in the world premiere of Terrence McNally’s Fire and Air at Classic Stage and Little Gem at the Irish Repertory Theatre (Outer Critics Circle Award winner for Outstanding Actress in a Play). Regionally she has starred in All’s Well That Ends Well at Shakespeare in Washington, DC, A Doll’s House at ACT in San Francisco, Arms and the Man at Old Globe Theatre in San Diego and Watch on the Rhine at Arena Stage in Washington, DC.

As a director, Marsha, has helmed productions of Neil Simon’s Chapter Two and Steel Magnolias at the Bucks County Playhouse, Chapter Two and the first female An Act of God with Paige Davis at the Arizona Theatre Company, Juno Swans for Second Stage in New York City and the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’s Talisman Roses starring Amanda Plummer at the Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown, Mass. Marsha was Associate Director with Jack O’Brien for the Roundabout Theater’s production of All My Sons on Broadway. She received a Daytime Emmy® Award for Direction of “Little Miss Perfect”.

In 2020, she directed Walter Bobbie and Brooke Shields in The Man Who Came to Dinner for Bucks County Playhouse, starred with Brian Cox in Dear Liar for Bucks County, and opposite Richard Dreyfus in The Letters of Noel Coward for Bay Street Theater.

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Episode 313 - "Truly Inspiring“ - A panel with the authors of four “truly inspiring” books written by the following "truly inspiring“ authors: Zain Asher, Karen Hopkins, Katherine Gregorio and Tim McLoughlin Aug 29, 2022

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Live in Bryant Par - a panel with the authors of truly inspiring people written by the following “truly inspiring“ authors - Zain Asher, Karen Hopkins, Katherine Gregorio and Tim McLoughlin

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Episode 312 - Patrick Page Aug 22, 2022

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Patrick Page received a Tony Award nomination and a Grammy Award for his work in Hadestown

on Broadway after starring as Hades in the off-Broadway, Citadel Theatre and National Theatre

productions. Other Broadway: The Inquisitor in Saint Joan, Valentina in Casa Valentina, Buckley

in Time to Kill, Adult Men in Spring Awakening, DeGuiche in Cyrano de Bergerac, Green Goblin

in Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons, Decius Brutus in Julius

Caesar, Scar in The Lion King, The Grinch in Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Lumiere

in Beauty and the Beast, and Mackie in The Kentucky Cycle. Other New York: Cymbeline

in Cymbeline (New York Shakespeare Festival/Delacort), Max in The Sound of Music (Carnegie

Hall). Regional: Page recently created the roles of Dom Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre

Dame at La Jolla Playhouse and Papermill Playhouse, and Captain Dragutin Dimitrijevic in Rajiiv

Joseph’s Archduke at the Mark Taper Forum. He is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe in San

Diego (Cyrano, Malvolio), and the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, D.C.

(Coriolanus, Prospero, Macbeth, Iago, Claudius). Film: Upcoming Spirited for Apple+, In The

Heights, Estella Scrooge, The Sixth Reel. Television: Richard Clay on The Gilded Age for HBO;

recurring on Elementary, Madam Secretary, Flesh and Bone and guest starring roles on Evil, NCIS:

New Orleans, The Good Wife, The Blacklist, Chicago P.D., and Law and Order: S.V.U.

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Episode 311 - LIVE from Bryant Park - Favorite "Beach Reads" Authors Aug 15, 2022

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Today’s episode features authors Jenny Mollen ( City Of Likes), Grant Ginder (Let’s Not Do That Again), Annabel Monaghan (Nora Goes Off Script) and Meredith Schorr ( As Seen On TV.)

The Reading Room in Bryant Park with a storied history in the park, the Reading Room provides the use of books, newspapers, and magazines in the park during warm weather months. You'll also find a robust schedule of literary events, including Books on Broadway, Authors, BookClub, Poetry, StoryTime, and much more!

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Episode 310 - Jared Grimes Aug 08, 2022

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Tony-Nominated JARED GRIMES is a true quadruple threat having starred on Broadway and Film/TV as an actor, singer, dancer and choreographer. He has danced alongside Wynton Marsalis, Gregory Hines, Ben Vereen, Jerry Lewis, Fayard Nicholas and also performed for Barack Obama and Ted Kennedy at the Kennedy Center. Grimes has toured with Musical legend, Mariah Carey, under the choreography of Marty Kudelka, and danced for artists such as Common, Salt-n-Pepa, Envogue, Busta Rhymes and the Roots.

Jared made his choreography debut in Cirque Du Soleil's, Banana Shpeel off-Broadway, choreographed commercials for Chilis and also assisted choreography with Kristin Denehy for Macy's popular Kids Bop commercial.

In the world of acting, Jared is known for his recurring role of “Adrian” on NBC’s hit show Manifest. He performed the lead role of “Jackson” in the Annapurna feature film SWING KIDS and Sammy Davis Jr.’s “Birth of the Blues” on Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook for PBS. Other film credits include Paramount's, "The Marc Pease Experience", starring Ben Stiller, New Line Cinema's "Little Manhattan" and Elevation Filmwork's' "First Born," starring Elizabeth Shue.

In 2014, he won the prestigious Astaire Award for Outstanding Male Performer in the Broadway show After Midnight. Jared plays the role of “Eddie Ryan” in the Broadway revival of Funny Girl.

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Episode 309 - Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer Aug 01, 2022

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Based on the novel by New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult and her daughter Samantha Van Leer, Between the Lines is an empowering and enchanting new musical for anyone who has ever sought to find their place in the world. An outsider in a new town and a new school, Delilah seeks comfort in the pages of her favorite book, where she feels heard and understood. But as the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur in both extraordinary and astonishing ways, Delilah has to confront whether she alone has the power to rewrite her own story.

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Episode 308 - Alex Edelman Jul 25, 2022

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Alex Edelman is a comedian and writer whose Orthodox Jewish upbringing has informed critically and commercially acclaimed work for the stage and screen. He is known both for his solo shows - three, all award-winning, sell-out hits in London’s West End and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - and for his TV writing. At the start of the pandemic, he served as the head writer and executive producer of Saturday Night Seder, a star studded 70-minute special, posted on YouTube, that has so far raised $3.5 million for the CDC Foundation (COVID-19) Emergency Response Fund

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Episode 307 - Tom Moore and Ken Waissman Jul 18, 2022

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Tom Moore directed the original Broadway production, eight national tours, and two London productions of Grease in the West End. He also directed Broadway’s Pulitzer Prize–winning ’night Mother, the subsequent film, and other Broadway productions, receiving two Tony nominations. Moore directed many years of film and television, earning three Emmy nominations along the way. His most recent project was the documentary on the Flying Trapeze, The Flight Fantastic.

Ken Waissman discovered Grease at the Kingston Mines Theatre in Chicago, where it was running on weekends in the summer of 1971. Ken and his then partner Maxine Fox produced the original Broadway production, plus eight national tours and two London productions in the West End. Ken is a Tony Award– winning producer whose iconic hits, in addition to Grease, include Agnes of God and Torch Song Trilogy. He is one of only two producers in the history of Broadway to have a musical run over three thousand performances and a play run over one thousand performances.

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