Interviews Archives • First Online with Fran

April 17, 2020

Coping with Covid-19: Just Get Messy!

An interview with children’s author Rita Meade The impact of reading out loud books to kids is transformative in so many different ways. Children respond differently to the “messy message”…

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April 10, 2019

It’s All A Game: an interview with Erin Cronican, Executive Artistic Director, The Seeing Place Theater

The take away for audiences who come to see The Maids is to “make people stop and think about how they treat people, particularly people who are in service; that…

February 19, 2018

Baayork Lee: Bring It ON!

League of Professional Theatre Women’s Oral History series Monday, February 12th at The Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. Honoring…

December 19, 2017

Review: That’s How Angels Arranged by Lillian Isabella

That's How Angels Arranged: Inspired by Jonas Mekas The Godfather of Avant-Garde Cinema That’s How Angels Arranged was inspired by the community of people who inhabit the East Village.…

September 13, 2017

There’s No Place Like Art!

First Online With Fran's First Podcast There's No Place Like Art... National Arts in Education Week is a way to recognize this impact and share the message with friends, family,…

August 22, 2017

A Conversation with …Marcina Zaccaria, Playwright/Director VILLAGE, MY HOME

Being a playwright, a critic, and a theater director has given me the opportunity to work with such smart, creative people, who every day search for deeper meaning. The world…

July 13, 2017

Extraordinary Women Telling an Extraordinary Story: SHADOWS ROUND THE MOON

"This is a story of incredible love and extraordinary loss. The play is a chance to introduce an amazing woman to the world since Mary Shelley has not received the…

May 9, 2017

Leveraging Theatre for Social Good

Before it was fashionable to be an advocate or activist, my acquaintance Jessie Fahay invited me to join her very new theatre group. She had a vision to pair advocacy…

August 19, 2016

Continuing the Conversation with. . . Marisa Vitali: Part II

Marisa Vitali returns home to Northport, LI to show the premier screening of her movie, GRACE at the John W. Engeman Theater. To raise awareness of the plight of recovering…

October 26, 2015

Georgia Stitt: Her Need to Tell. . . through Music

Her love of literature coupled with a flair for creating her own melodies as a child pianist coalesced into becoming the career choice for composer/lyricist Georgia Stitt. “I have always…

September 1, 2015

An interview with…Cheryl Navo, Playwright LIE OF OMISSION, World Premiere Play

“As a female playwright I believe strongly that I need to concentrate on writing good, strong roles for women. For each play I write, I've made a personal commitment to…

June 4, 2015

On the Red Carpet at SOHO International Film Festival

First Online With Fran got to ask the official participants and attendees of the 2015 SOHO International Film Festival how the arts play a vital role in our society. Listen…

June 2, 2015

Connecting Communities: as easy as ABC

The Alphabet Series at Metropolitan Playhouse Lillian Rodriguez as Jonas Mekas Jason C. Brown as Jeanise Aviles Tammy McNeill as Jimmy Webb Inspired…

June 2, 2015

Connecting Communities: as easy as ABC

The Alphabet Series at Metropolitan Playhouse Lillian Rodriguez as Jonas Mekas Jason C. Brown as Jeanise Aviles Tammy McNeill as Jimmy Webb Inspired…

May 13, 2015

Continuing the Conversation with. . . Marisa Vitali, actor/screenwriter/producer

SOHO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WINNER In 2013, Marisa Vitali, Alysia Reiner and I sat down to talk about GRACE, the movie: its message, its momentum and its moving evolutionary progress. …

April 21, 2015

Here Come The Tempest Ladies!

Interview with Stella Berg & Katherine Elliot By Frances McGarry In 2008, six Syracuse University Acting students imagined a novel approach to presenting Shakespeare. Inspired by a semester abroad program…

January 2, 2014

Educate ~ Enlighten ~ Entertain: Echoes of the Past

Stage Struck: from Kemble to Kate A First Online With Fran Interview with Mari Lyn Henry

July 3, 2013

Marisa Vitali: Life Imitating Art: This is NOT an Act

“It’s been a long road . . . but there is actually a moment when you choose to say, ‘THIS is what I’m going to be doing with the rest…