Through his new podcast series called The Honest Actors' Podcast at inanything.com, London-based, Belfast-born artist-actor Jonathan Harden has found a way to share with the world the stories of actors, and those stories run run the gamut.  From finding success to dealing with dead end auditions. From figuring out what to do between gigs to dealing with the feelings that come up when the gigs don't come. Jonathan's podcasts are not the usual candy-coated interviews we experience with actors.

I had seen the movie version of The Wiz years ago, but this live telecast came at exactly the right time for me. Producers had no way of knowing what would be happening in the world when they chose to present this play to a television audience, but they delivered a much needed shot of hope to this viewer and I imagine countless others.

I'm also always impressed by her fearlessness as an actor. When I watch her work, I never feel like she's holding anything back, yet it never feels pushed either.

When I was a graduate student at UMASS-Amherst, I had a dramaturgy professor named Harley Erdman. He had arrived at UMASS the year before I started, so he was also relatively new to the department when I started in September 1995.

Harley became an important part of my graduate school experience, and I'm happy to say that he continues to be an artistic and academic mentor for me.

Kaz originated one of the most important sentiments of my career that I use on every project I work on now. I was really nervous about doing the show. I was playing eight people, I hadn't acted in a long time, and it was the first time I was really touring with something as a co-writer and performer. Whenever I started to feel overwhelmed with anxiety, Kaz simply reminded me that it was "just another skit in the skit house."