{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"City Speaks Episode 5: Spencer Whale and Ava Weidensall of the EQT Young Playwrights Festival","description":"This week's CitySpeaks podcast highlights the EQT Young Playwrights Festival (https:\/\/citytheatrecompany.org\/play\/eqt-young-playwrights-festival\/), a program staging professional productions of six winning, one-act plays chosen from nearly 400 Young Playwrights Contest submissions written by middle and high school students.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Today's podcast features interviews with&amp;nbsp;Ava Weidensall, a a freshman at Baldwin High School who enjoys writing poetry, painting, and participating in the Baldwin High School German Club; and&amp;nbsp;Spencer Whale, a Pittsburgh native and graduate of Cornell University, who acts as Director for the Young Playwrights Festival. &amp;nbsp; Today's podcast is hosted, as always, by Clare Drobot, City Theatre's Director of New Play Development. It is produced by&amp;nbsp;Nikki Battestilli, City Theatre's Marketing Director. It is engineered by Tim Mulhern of Postindustrial Media.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Keep track of new episodes of CitySpeaks here:&amp;nbsp;https:\/\/postindustrial.com\/cityspeaks\/ ","author_name":"Pittsburgh City Theatre's City Speaks Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/citytheatrecompany.libsyn.com\/website","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/11688434\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/ffc40e\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/55260692"}