{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Off Off Pod - Episode 027 - Ann Talman and Kel Haney","description":"My friend Ann Talman has been developing her solo show, Woody's Order! for a few years (well, arguably her whole life) about her relationship with her family and in particular her brother, Woody.\r\nWoody's Order! will be performed on Monday, September 29th at 9 pm in the 5th Annual United Solo Theatre Festival on Theatre Row.  Click here for more details.\r\nI was very pleased and excited to interview Ann and her director, Kel Haney, in New York.\r\nTopics covered in the interview:\r\n\r\nHello Ann and Kel -- how they met -- Ensemble Studio Theater (1:51)\r\nMatt Hoverman Workshop -- How to Create Your Own Solo Show (4:20)\r\nWorking on new work, solo work (7:07)\r\nThe development and evolution of the sola show (8:55)\r\nWhat's the show Woody's Order! about? (13:47)\r\nHow Kel got the theater bug (26:10)\r\nA director who likes to read! (30:54)\r\nHow Ann got the theater bug, imaginary friends (33:36)\r\nTrying to give Woody a normal life -- frustrations, sex (43:00)\r\nDoing Little Foxes on Broadway with Elizabeth Taylor, audition story (48:12)\r\nKel meets Woody (51:02)\r\nAl Pacino meets Woody (55:24)\r\n\r\n \r\nLess than a week after moving to Austin, I headed to New York to doggy-sit for my friends, Margo and Bill.  So I captured this interview with Ann and Kel while in NYC.","author_name":"Off Off Pod with Stephen Bittrich","author_url":"http:\/\/offoffpod.libsyn.com","html":"