Ep 14 | Mean Elephants

The marvelous Vana O'Brien breaks the Golden Rule and wishes her biggest problem was getting upstaged! But even claws, sharp knives, blood, and a near death experience don't rattle this veteran actress who manages to take it all in stride.

If you only listen to one The Actor's Nightmare Podcast this is it!! While appearing in Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, Portland Actor James Dixon is interrupted mid-performance by an impassioned cast member who shuts the show down with a staged protest that renounces the play's excessively racist language and themes. The audio recorded by the protestors themselves is played in its entirety.

The lovely and surprisingly candid Kathleen Worley discusses her one woman show about Virginia Wolfe, her time at ACT, and a production of A Streetcar Named Desire where Stanley wasn't quite sure what to do once he got there...

Marilyn Stacey gets naked on stage in a production of The Robber Bridegroom. But when it's time to put it all back on and make her next entrance...well, let's just say someone got a little bit more than they bargained for. 

Lions, Tigers and Democrats, Oh My! Actress Elizabeth Huffman started her show business career in the circus - and nearly ended it there when a runaway elephant tries to take out a circus tent full of liberals. No shortage of irony in this episode - or laughs!

Louanne is honored to have Portland's Pulitzer Prize nominated columnist Margie Boule on the show to discuss her life as a writer and actress and, of course, the stories just don't stop!

Andrea grew up in the theatre so she thought she had seen everything. But that was until she found herself on stage with someone who had a very different idea of what the "meth" in method acting really meant.  

In the theatre, there is dropping a line, there is forgetting your lines, and then there is GOING UP! Veteran actor Gavin Hoffman demonstrates the latter in excruciating detail.

Veteran Actress Sharonlee McLean recounts the best and BIGGEST moments of her life in the theatre. 

Season 2 gets off with a bang when Louanne has on veteran actor David Meyers who regales her with multiple nightmares that include blood, drugs, and an unintended fourth wall break that propels him on a long slide into the audience abyss.