Agatha Christie's Most Prolific Stage Actor? Interview with Lee Samuel Tanng
All About Agatha Christie
Catherine Brobeck & Kemper Donovan
4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Actor Lee Samuel Tanng has appeared in TEN (!!) regional productions of plays based on Agatha Christie novels over the last eleven years. He sat down with me to discuss the joys of regional theater, the particular challenges (and advantages) of pulling off a murder mystery in real time, and of course, to rank his ten experiences from least to most favorite. This conversation was a blast.
You can see a collage of all Sam's roles on the podcast's Twitter/X account here, and on Instagram here.
Check out the Long Beach Playhouse here, which is where Sam has appeared in all these wonderful productions over the years. Long live regional theater!
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Click here for more information on upcoming book tour events for my debut mystery novel, The Busy Body.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All About Agatha, the podcast dedicated to reading and ranking every single mystery novel written by the Queen of Crime Dame Agatha Christie. I am |
| 0:14.7 | Kemper Donovan and I have a really fascinating interview for you today. I am |
| 0:20.2 | speaking with actor Lee Samuel Tang, who has appeared in 10, count him 10 Agatha |
| 0:29.9 | Christie plays over the past 11 years. We'll get into exactly how and why this |
| 0:36.4 | happened in the interview but please know that I have a really lovely collage |
| 0:41.0 | of all 10 of Sam's appearances that I posted on social media. |
| 0:46.9 | So you can visit the podcast Twitter slash X account at all about the dame and you can also see that up on Instagram at all about Agatha. |
| 0:56.6 | I also just want to note up top that I will be appearing in Santa Barbara at Chaucer's |
| 1:01.7 | books this coming Tuesday the 20th of February |
| 1:05.1 | with my good friend the extremely talented writer Iris Yamashita. I don't talk |
| 1:10.6 | about this very often on the podcast but before I was a writer I was actually a manager for screenwriters and Iris was one of my clients |
| 1:19.8 | She was in fact nominated for an Academy Award for writing Letters from Iwo Jima. |
| 1:25.2 | A beautiful movie I'm sure many of you saw. |
| 1:27.2 | I highly recommend it in case you haven't. |
| 1:29.3 | Iris has a new thriller out called Village in the Dark. It's a sequel of sorts or at least a second book in a series |
| 1:35.8 | featuring the same characters from her thriller novel that came out last year, City Under One Roof. |
| 1:41.1 | I have read both of them. I absolutely loved them and I will be |
| 1:43.7 | talking with Iris about her book and she will be talking with me about the busy |
| 1:47.5 | body on Tuesday the 20th of February at 6 p.m. at Chaucer's books in Santa Barbara. So any Californians who can |
| 1:57.2 | make it I really hope to see you there click on the link to my website in the |
| 2:00.8 | show notes for more details. |
| 2:02.6 | I also just have to mention the book is still a USA Today bestseller three weeks in a row now. |
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