Rebecca Naomi Jones (Episode 103)

Theater People

Patrick Hinds and Mike Jensen

Tony Awards, Nyc, Musicals, Actors, Creative, Arts, Plays, Writers, Broadway, Theater, Society & Culture, Interview, Comedy, Producers, Performing Arts

4.8 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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YOU GUYS!!! I've been pursuing this interview with Rebecca for YEARS! I'm totally obsessed. I first fell in love with this incredible woman in 2008 when I saw her in the Broadway production of "Passing Strange"--a show she'd been with since the 2007 production at The Public Theater. I fell even deeper in love with her when I saw her in 2010's "American Idiot," and, of course, I loved her in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." And now she's making her play Broadway debut--yes, that's a thing--in the ...

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0:00.0	Today's episode of the Theater People podcast is brought to you by Stage Door Manor.
0:04.5	Stage Door Manor is now accepting applications for their summer acting programs.
0:08.6	You can find more information and application forms at stagedoor manor.com.
0:13.6	Welcome to the Theater People podcast. I'm your host, Patrick Hines.
0:17.2	Church now.
0:26.9	So come. Kinds. You guys, I am so, so, so excited today to get to share our interview with the incredible,
0:34.5	the one and only Rebecca Naomi Jones.
0:37.1	I am obsessed with this woman. I first fell in love
0:41.1	with her in 2008 when I saw her star in the Broadway production of Passing Strange, a show she'd
0:46.4	been with since its original production at Berkeley Rep in 2008. I felt even more deeply in love
0:51.7	with her in 2010 when I saw her as what's her name,
0:54.9	an American idiot.
0:56.2	I also loved her in murder ballad and Hedwig.
0:59.1	And you guys, right now, she's making her Broadway play debut, as in not the musical,
1:05.1	in the fantastic significant other, opposite Gideon Glick, Lindsay Mendez, and Sass Goldberg.
1:10.5	If you haven't yet seen Significant Other, run, do not walk to the booth. other opposite Gideon Glick, Lindsay Mendez, and Sass Goldberg.
1:13.6	If you haven't yet seen significant other, run.
1:16.2	Do not walk to the booth theater and get your ticket.
1:19.7	We did this interview at the booth theater in Becca's dressing room.
1:21.2	Yes, I call her Becca.
1:25.0	So, you know, be prepared for the usual theatrical background noises.
1:27.5	I loved talking to her, you guys.
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