#193 - Nik Walker
02/16/24 • 75 min
Broadway and Tv actor and writer, Nik Walker joins us to Take A Bow for his work in the entertainment industry. Nik is a true student of the art and takes you through his philosophies and ideologies of how to approach text as an actor. Hear all about:
- Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
- What excites him most as an actor
- Why are stakes important
- How can being an actor, a writer, and a director all at the same time impact your work
- How taxing a role can be and how to take care of yourself
- Hamilton
- Hardest part of performing HAMILTON
- Spamalot
- Sharing a stage with your best friends (Alex Brightman, Christopher Fitzgerald, Ethan Slater, Leslie Kritzer, James Monroe Iglehart, etc.)
- How Motown influenced Broadway
- + So much more!
Curtain up, Nik Walker
Connect with Nik Walker on Instagram: @nikkywalks
Bio: Nik Walker is a Boston native, theme park nerd and proud NYU Tisch alum (Adler, Classical and Stonestreet)- who’s been earning a living in the industry for a decade and counting. He’s been seen on Broadway as Aaron Burr in Hamilton, Otis Williams in Ain’t Too Proud, and as Sir Galahad in the revival of Spamalot; on screen in Blue Bloods, Law and Order SVU, and in the upcoming AppleTV+ film The Instigators, alongside his hometown hero Matt Damon. Cleaners, the animated series that he created and writes with partner Alex Brightman, is in development at Warner Bros. Animation, and his musical, Whiskeyland, is being developed with veteran producers Hunter Arnold and Tina Cocumelli at TBD Theatricals. He is the co-host of the arts/activism show The Chaos Twins, and his movie podcast, Little Justice, is streaming where ever podcasts are imbibed. In the free time between all of this, Nik can either be found writing plays at a coffee shop, teaching incredible NYU students, or annoying his talented wife, Sarah Joyce.
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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Broadway and Tv actor and writer, Nik Walker joins us to Take A Bow for his work in the entertainment industry. Nik is a true student of the art and takes you through his philosophies and ideologies of how to approach text as an actor. Hear all about:
- Journey to becoming a performer/storyteller
- What excites him most as an actor
- Why are stakes important
- How can being an actor, a writer, and a director all at the same time impact your work
- How taxing a role can be and how to take care of yourself
- Hamilton
- Hardest part of performing HAMILTON
- Spamalot
- Sharing a stage with your best friends (Alex Brightman, Christopher Fitzgerald, Ethan Slater, Leslie Kritzer, James Monroe Iglehart, etc.)
- How Motown influenced Broadway
- + So much more!
Curtain up, Nik Walker
Connect with Nik Walker on Instagram: @nikkywalks
Bio: Nik Walker is a Boston native, theme park nerd and proud NYU Tisch alum (Adler, Classical and Stonestreet)- who’s been earning a living in the industry for a decade and counting. He’s been seen on Broadway as Aaron Burr in Hamilton, Otis Williams in Ain’t Too Proud, and as Sir Galahad in the revival of Spamalot; on screen in Blue Bloods, Law and Order SVU, and in the upcoming AppleTV+ film The Instigators, alongside his hometown hero Matt Damon. Cleaners, the animated series that he created and writes with partner Alex Brightman, is in development at Warner Bros. Animation, and his musical, Whiskeyland, is being developed with veteran producers Hunter Arnold and Tina Cocumelli at TBD Theatricals. He is the co-host of the arts/activism show The Chaos Twins, and his movie podcast, Little Justice, is streaming where ever podcasts are imbibed. In the free time between all of this, Nik can either be found writing plays at a coffee shop, teaching incredible NYU students, or annoying his talented wife, Sarah Joyce.
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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#192 - Mahi Alam + Sydney Lucas
Mahi Alam is a rising star of the screen who you may know him from Disney +’s American Born Chinese and the new hit movie musical Mean Girls where he plays your favorite character, KEVIN G. Mahi has also appeared in many of your other favorite tv shows such as New Amsterdam, Strangers, and Hungry. Mahi also has an incredible singing voice that he showcases on Tiktok/Instragram. Maybe we'll see him on Broadway one day?
- Journey to the big screen
- Performing Arts School training
- Growing up together
- On Set stories
- American Born Chinese
- Mean Girls Movie
- Improvising for Tina Fey
- Studying music at NYU
- + So much more!
Curtain up, Mahi Alam
Connect with Mahi Alam on Instagram: @mahialam03
Connect with Sydney Lucas on Instagram: @sydneylucasnyc
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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#194 - Jordan Fisher, Lola Tung, and Ani DiFranco
The new STARS of Hadestown come to Take A Bow chatting all things HADESTOWN! This episode features the different perspectives of performers in different stage of their career with different relationships with the show. Hear all about how the show began with Ani, to Lola making her debut in this GIANT show fresh off of a hit tv show, to Jordan Fisher cherishing the moment in his life he gets to tell this story.
Ani Di Franco
- How HADESTOWN was made
- Hadestown as a concept album
- Why she decided to make her Broadway debut
- Finding the balance of Persephone
Lola Tung
- The Summer I Turned Pretty
- On set vs on Broadway
- Surprising people by showcasing her singing talents
- Learning from Jordan Fisher and previous Eurydice such as Solea Pfeiffer and Eva Noblezada
Jordan Fisher
- Becoming a Broadway Veteran
- What he has learned from playing Orpheus
- How he approaches a role
- THE GASP
- How he relates to all of the characters he's played on Broadway
- Fan-girling over the MUSIC
+ So much more from each of them!
Curtain up on Jordan Fisher, Lola Tung, and Ani DiFranco!
Connect with Jordan Fisher on Instagram: @jordanfisher
Connect with Lola Tung on Instagram: @lola.tung
Connect with Ani DiFranco on Instagram: @anidifranco
Connect with Take A Bow on social: @takeabowpodcast
Connect with host, Eli Tokash on social: @tokash_eli
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