Dayna Lee (she/her) is a producer and content creator (@artsfoodfamily), and part of the team behind Tony and Olivier Award winning production company, AF Creative Media.
Dayna breaks down what it is to be a lead producer cultivating original, award-winning work in today’s world and shares the most important lessons she’s learned along the way.
AF Creative Media just opened the Olivier Award winning play Giant, starring John Lithgow, on the West End, Here There Are Blueberries Off-Broadway alongside the Tectonic Theater Project (Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play) and Becoming Eve (starring Tommy Dorfman at NYTW).
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Aiko Little: Welcome In Resilience
Aiko Little (they/them) is a writer, actor, and co-chair of the Writers Guild of America’s Native American & Indigenous Writers Committee. They recently wrote and developed Get It, a new series headed to Amazon, and worked as support staff in the writer’s room for Amazon’s Outer Range.
Learn more about how Aiko unintentionally started their career as a writer on a zoom call and advocates for what the community of Native & Indigenous voices in Hollywood need. Plus, Aiko and Emma dish about what they’re …uh…reading and writing about lately.
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Katharine Quinn: Become Your Own Leading Lady of Multitudes
Katharine Quinn (she/her) is a theater creative, strategist, consultant, and content creator. If you’re already overwhelmed by her titles, don’t worry. She isn’t. Katharine and Emma talk the Broadway Branding Problem and the ways social & digital media can open up a world of possibility for the business we call show (because, we love Broadway!).
Katharine also gets real about building a multi-faceted career and how to angle yourself in different rooms, the way age has been a gift, and what prompted her to start her own Broadway media and marketing agency, And That’s Showbiz. ATS works with shows like The Great Gatsby and Maybe Happy Ending and just launched 5 bespoke media series on YouTube for Broadway fans.
Learn more about Katharine here, and see the work And That’s Showbiz is doing here.
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francisca da silveira: Semiotics Talk & Chasing After Your Brightness Again
francisca da silveira (she/her) is up to a LOT lately. Most recently she worked in the writer’s room for Season 3 of Industry on HBO and landed on this year’s list of Women To Watch on Broadway, from the Broadway Women’s Fund.
Her current play, minor•ity, is having its world premiere at the WP Theatre in New York City and running until May 4th, 2025 (more info here).
Listen for Fran’s insights on writing vs. being a writer, and for some nerdy talk about good old semiotics. If that sounds like your jam, go ahead and press play on this episode.
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3rd Gen Project: Turn Generational Trauma Into Art & Find Your Community
Shany Dagan (she/her) and Jana Krumholtz (she/her) have something extraordinary in common: they're both third-generation descendants of Holocaust survivors, and they’re both using their artistry to create beauty out of pain to honor their grandparents’ memories.
Enter 3rd Gen Project (of which Shany is the producer & artistic director), a theatrical collective that commemorates Holocaust survivor stories through dance & live music. Shany and Jana share with Emma how their devised pieces based on their grandparents came to be, offer advice for artists & creatives who want to create work of a similar, personal nature, and talk about how instrumental finding their 3rd Gen community has been in their lives.
3rd Gen Project (which also includes fellow 3rd Gen artist John Reed) has their first collective show in NYC on August 7th, 2025, at Arts on Site. They will also be participating in Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) this month, at Sutton Place Synagogue in NYC.
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SheSources, with Emma Woodfield-Stern, celebrates the critical role women & gender-marginalized leaders play in entertainment. Each week tune in for conversations with guests who'll become your next role model in film, tv, or theatre, if they aren't already! They'll break down their career journeys, what "success" looks like for them, and share their advice and insight.
In solo episodes, hang out with Emma as she analyzes industry hot topics, researches forgotten figures from entertainment, and shares parts of her own personal journey as a multi-hyphenate creative in NYC building a career.
Cover art by Christina Staggs.
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