#250: Cody Renard Richard // Stage Manager and Activist // Part One
The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast
Gillian Pensavalle
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Stage manager and activist Cody Renard Richard joins me to discuss his journey from Texas to New York, how he wound up as a stage manager for Hamilton and Freestyle Love Supreme, the power of a good cold email, and creating a path for yourself where there isn't one.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm stage and stages Lin Manuel Miranda, and you're listening to The Hamilcast. |
| 0:05.3 | Butts and cuts and, |
| 0:06.1 | poos and... Hello everyone welcome back to the Hamelcast. I'm Jillian. Today I am here finally with Cody |
| 0:26.4 | Renard Richard. Hi Cody how are you? Hello I'm so good I'm so happy to be here |
| 0:31.6 | finally. Welcome to the pod. Can you just let us know your pronouns before we get going? |
| 0:37.0 | My pronouns are he him his. |
| 0:39.0 | So you are a badass stage manager. Like that's just your actual title Broadway |
| 0:44.4 | off Broadway award shows events the assistant stage manager |
| 0:48.1 | Hamilton Cirque du Soleil kinky boots mowtown after musical after Musical, after Midnight, which my husband and I loved, my husband's |
| 0:56.4 | like a big Winton Mar Salas fan. |
| 0:57.8 | Oh my God, I love that. |
| 0:59.3 | And then you were the production stage manager for Freestyle Love Supreme, so I'm going to ask you a zillion questions. |
| 1:04.4 | One of them is the difference between a stage manager and a production stage manager, which I'm |
| 1:07.5 | sure you've answered 5,000 times. |
| 1:09.7 | You also worked on the 2019 Tony's, the 2019 MTV VMA's Jesus Christ |
| 1:14.4 | Superstar live, Hairspray live, the Wiz live. |
| 1:17.4 | You're the first stage manager to be featured in |
| 1:19.2 | Broadway to Watchlist in 2020. |
| 1:22.1 | If you think we're not talking about this year's out 100 |
| 1:24.6 | you are out of your mind. Congratulations. Oh my God thank you. I mean we're just |
| 1:29.2 | scratching the surface. You're also one of like the strongest voices out there fighting against systemic racism, |
| 1:35.5 | especially in theater. |
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