Ep. 7 Talking Books with Sam Pinkleton
The Stacks
Traci Thomas
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
This week on the show we are talking all things books with Tony nominated choreographer, Sam Pinkleton, best known for his work on the Broadway show, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. Sam and Traci discuss using books as an entry point to new worlds, the mythology of the present, and a handful of their favorite true crime books.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi all and welcome back to the stacks. My name is Tracy Thomas and I am your host here. I'm so excited to have you |
| 0:15.1 | guys back this week. I have a really awesome episode with Tony nominated choreographer |
| 0:19.1 | Sam Pinkleton. This week I'm joined by Broadway Tony-nominated choreographer Sam Pinkleton. |
| 0:27.0 | He's most well known for his work on Tasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, which was on Broadway about a year ago. |
| 0:35.0 | He's here in LA working on a brand new production called Soft Power which we |
| 0:38.6 | discuss in detail which is at the Amund San in Los Angeles. |
| 0:43.0 | Sam and I also talk about how books work as a source of creativity and also how reading and research |
| 0:48.7 | helps to inspire Sam's creative process. |
| 0:52.1 | We also talk about the power of really well done |
| 0:54.8 | true crime which we both are huge fans of so we geek out a little bit over that. |
| 0:58.8 | As always we will be sure to put all of the books we talk about all the articles and TV shows and pop culture references in the show notes so you don't have to worry about writing everything down. They're there for you in the show notes and also on our website which is |
| 1:13.1 | W. W. the Stacks Podcast.com. Okay so let's talk I'm so excited for you all to |
| 1:18.8 | hear my conversation with Sam Pinkleton. Hi everybody and welcome back to the stacks. |
| 1:27.0 | I am here today with my guest Sam Pinkleton. |
| 1:30.0 | Sam is a choreographer and director and just generally amazing New York City |
| 1:36.1 | theater person and I'm so excited because he's in town choreographing a show |
| 1:39.9 | at the Amundsen called Soft Power but that's all I can say and Sam why don't you just say |
| 1:45.6 | hi and introduce yourself. |
| 1:47.1 | Hi Tracy, thanks for having me. |
| 1:49.2 | I'm so excited. |
| 1:52.1 | Go ahead. Talk about yourself. Oh God talk about myself. Yeah, I'm I work in the |
| 1:57.4 | theater mostly. Which is obviously what brings you to LA. Right. I love to come to LA to make as much theater as possible because this city really big on theater. |
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