Actor’s Express Launches New Podcast Series THEATRE PEOPLE

Actor's Express has announced the launch of THEATRE PEOPLE, a new weekly podcast series exploring the artists and stories shaping Atlanta theatre.

Hosted by Sarah Velasco and produced by Actor’s Express, the podcast will feature conversations with artists whose work has influenced Atlanta’s stages and creative communities across multiple generations.

According to the company, THEATRE PEOPLE aims to highlight both the history and ongoing evolution of Atlanta theatre through interviews with performers, directors, playwrights, designers, educators, and arts administrators.

“Theatre People is a show that dives into the beating heart of the Atlanta theatre community,” the company said in a statement. “Each week, we sit down with the artists who have shaped the work we see on this city's stages and the conversations that echo far beyond them.”

The series also examines the role theatre plays within Atlanta’s broader cultural identity and community life.

ABOUT SEASON 1

Season 1 of THEATRE PEOPLE will run for six months and feature interviews with artists from across the Atlanta theatre scene.

Guests will include:

• Pearl Cleage — playwright and activist, NAACP Image Award winner, member of the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and Atlanta’s first Poet Laureate
• Tom Key — director, actor, and two-time Dramalogue Award winner
• Steve Yockey — playwright, producer, and screenwriter behind the Emmy Award-winning television series The Flight Attendant
• Rachel May — co-founder and Producing Artistic Director of Synchronicity Theatre
• Kelundra Smith — arts and culture journalist, editor, critic, and playwright
• Jon Carr — Artistic Director of Dad's Garage Theatre Company and former Executive Producer of The Second City
• Michelle Pokopac — actor, producer, and co-founder of East by Southeast
• Eric J. Little — actor, director, and Professor of Theatre at Clark Atlanta University
• Candy McLellan — actor, director, and the 2025/2026 Kenny Leon Directing Fellow at Alliance Theatre
• Mary Lynn Owen — actor, director, playwright, and Instructor of Theater Studies at Emory University
• L. Nyrobi Moss — Costume Designer whose work spans theatre, film, television, and print media

Additional guests will be announced throughout the season.

THEATRE PEOPLE premiered May 5, 2026 and will release new episodes every Tuesday.

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