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Staged readings for your ears! Lauren and Jackson, two LA-based actors, read short plays and screenplays by new writers and interview them. They also talk about their theatre, film, and tv viewings from each week and provide their critiques and recommendations. Submit scripts to tglsubmit@gmail.com!
Episodes
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
Welcome one and all to the very first episode of The Green Light Podcast! We do staged readings for your ears with a little bit of banter sprinkled in before and after. Our very first script is No Homo Zombro, written by Ellie Baker. Ellie is a junior at UNC Chapel Hill, a dear friend, and a great interviewee. In this episode, we talk to Ellie about her early start as a writer, using comedy as a tool in action lines, and why Jackson never became a WWE wrestler.
DETOURS: The Good Place (Netflix, Hulu), Crashing (Netflix), Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro (Netflix)
Ellie Baker contact info: elliebb@live.unc.edu
Writing and music submissions: tglsubmit@gmail.com
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@tgl_pod
Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry
Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c
Jacob Wishnek: @jacobwishnek
*Quick note: We recorded this one a few weeks ago, so it may not be completely up to date, but it sure is a heck of a lot of fun.*
Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
For episode two, we’re reading Bay of Legion, a short comedic play by our friend and housemate Blake Benson about that moderately obscure Bible story where Jesus drives a demon out of a boy and into a bunch of pigs. Blake moved out to LA after graduating from UNC Chapel Hill and he hopes to be a writer for children’s animation. We talk to him about the writer's process, his opinion on auteurs, and the world of online dating.
Detours: Tiger King (Netflix), Onward (Disney+), The Art of Asking (Amanda Palmer), Funny Face (Amazon/Youtube)
Blake Benson contact info: blakebenson97@gmail.com
Writing and music submissions: tglsubmit@gmail.com
Follow The Green Light on Twitter and Instagram!
@tgl_pod
Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry
Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c
Jacob Wishnek: @jacobwishnek
Friday May 22, 2020
Friday May 22, 2020
This week, we read a super heartwarming screenplay with a comedic kick by Brennan Colucci: Dear Julius Caesar, I Like My Coffee. A young woman named Emily writes letters to famous figures whom she knows better than we think. Brennan is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, and he talks about his former experience as a DJ for a student station and his un-baguette-able profile picture trend.
Detours: Barry (HBO), Too Hot to Handle (Netflix), 102 Dalmatians (Disney+)
Writing and music submissions: tglsubmit@gmail.com
Follow The Green Light on Twitter and Instagram!
@tgl_pod
Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry
Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c
Jacob Wishnek: @jacobwishnek
Friday May 29, 2020
Friday May 29, 2020
This week’s play is a fresh take on what the afterlife might look like by Andy Rassler, Lauren’s high school theatre teacher! Two people, newly deceased, find themselves in the Shirley Gates Heavenly Thrift Shop where they must come to terms with their own deaths and buy some second-hand angel wings. Andy talks about worldbuilding, how COVID has changed teaching, and Shakespeare (her basset hound).
Detours: Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (YouTube/Amazon); People, Places & Things (Duncan Macmillan); Kiss a Squid (Andy Rassler)
Contact Andy Rassler: andrea.rassler@cabarrus.k12.nc.us
Writing and music submissions: tglsubmit@gmail.com
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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry
Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
This week, our story is about two flight attendants trying to find fulfillment in their cyclical lives as told by Matthew Keith. Matthew talks about acting while writing, college during COVID, and why Marianne can’t just do a line of coke. We also state our support for Black Lives Matter and would like to list some resources below where you can find great work by Black content creators.
Detours: Thirteenth (Netflix), Cheer (Netflix), Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix- the series, NOT the movie), Princess Mononoke (HBO Max)
Contact Matthew Keith: mhkeith@live.unc.edu
Writing and music submissions: tglsubmit@gmail.com
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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry
Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c
Fifty Greatest Movies by Black Directors
Justice in June - A google doc started by Autumn Gupta and Bryanna Wallace for the purpose of providing a starting place for those trying to become better allies
Link to Resources that include a list of places to donate all across the United States, in addition to other resources for protestors, mutual aid funds etc.
Friday Jun 12, 2020
Friday Jun 12, 2020
This week, Ellie Baker is back on the pod with a very different script! Living History is a play about two time traveling journalists tasked with capturing famous battles with modern photography and the ethical struggle surrounding performative activism. Ellie updates us on her life since we last spoke (episode 1) and gives us her take on how photo quality affects our perception of history.
Detours: The Mandalorian (Disney +), The Dog Island (Wii), Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich (Netflix), Dune (Frank Herbert)
Contact Ellie Baker: elliebb@live.unc.edu
Writing and music submissions: tglsubmit@gmail.com
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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry
Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c
Friday Jun 19, 2020
Friday Jun 19, 2020
This week, we’re reading a slightly futuristic, slightly sci-fi screenplay about a robot maid learning to be human by Michael Sparks. Michael talked to us about juggling ALL the roles on a film set, his Blade Runner theories, and so much about anime that we’re giving his schpiel a separate bonus episode, coming soon!
Detours: The King of Staten Island (Amazon); Avatar: The Last Airbender (Netflix-- the series, not the live action film!); Spirited Away (HBO Max-- one of the many anime films mentioned by Michael in the full version of the interview)
Contact Michael Sparks: harrisonsparksm@gmail.com
Writing and music submissions: tglsubmit@gmail.com
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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry
Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Monday Jun 22, 2020
Welcome to our first BONUS episode! Our episode 7 writer, Michael Sparks, dropped so much anime knowledge in his interview that it needed its own mini episode. Get over those Monday blues and tune in now!
Contact Michael Sparks: harrisonsparksm@gmail.com
Writing and music submissions: tglsubmit@gmail.com
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Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry
Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c
Friday Jun 26, 2020
Friday Jun 26, 2020
This week, we have a show full of WOMEN between our script, our writer, and our detours. We’re reading “I Love You, Too,” a short screenplay by Samantha Hines, our first writer whom we don’t technically know! Yay! “I Love You, Too” is about a girl named Allison who is on a road trip to… not where her mom thinks she’s going. Samantha reveals that she prefers writing dramas and is… Team Jacob?!
Detours: Primal (HBO Max); Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (Angela Davis); Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Hulu); Avatar: The Last Airbender AGAIN (Netflix)
Contact Samantha Hines: samanthaclayhines@gmail.com
Writing and music submissions: tglsubmit@gmail.com
Follow The Green Light on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook!
Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry
Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c
Friday Jul 03, 2020
Friday Jul 03, 2020
This week, we’re reading our first excerpt from a longer work: The New Couch by Ryan DeAngelis. A couple moves into a new apartment together in New York and deals with the anxieties of taking this next huge relationship step while healing each other. Ryan talks about theatre after COVID, their “medium agnostic” style, and the Lucky Charms eating method they and Lauren share.
Detours: A Sitch in Time (Disney+, Kim Possible season 2, episodes “Past,” “Present,” and “Future”); The Umbrella Academy (Netflix), Irresistible (Amazon)
Contact Ryan DeAngelis: rdeaart@gmail.com
Writing and music submissions: tglsubmit@gmail.com
Follow The Green Light on Twitter and Instagram, and like us on Facebook!
Lauren Hunkele: @hunkeleberry
Jackson Campbell: @j_woodward_c