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The beautiful ragtime music in  the trailer is "The Strenuous Life" by Scott Joplin, 1902. Many thanks to  Ragnar Hellspong who has graciously allowed me to use this music for my podcast. Ragnar,  to quote him has "been playing ragtime piano in the Stockholm area for more than 50 years and piano in various traditional jazz bands for even longer than that." Check out his wonderful website is  ragsrag.com

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Our guest on this episode is C. Conrad Cady - Conrad is the quintessential Theater Geek and I just had to have him on the show to talk about his many years of doing community theater around the Bay Area. We even did two shows together. I thought it was three, but he set me straight. Anyway…

Conrad has a ton of stories - I had to cut down our chat from 2 hours to 1 and that was barely scratching the surface. Conrad has logged over 75 productions over the course of 26 years from 1993 to 2019. His roles have included from “Father” in Bunnicula at the Children’s Theatre Workshop in Pleasanton to most recently Herr Schultz in Cabaret at Chanticleers in Castro Valley as well as appearing as Vladimir Lenin on the History Channel’s “The World Wars” part 1 of ‘Trial by Fire” where he was the only non-union actor on set. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/p83XltIvat0

Check out his extensive resume online here: http://www.cadytech.com/conrad/actres.php as well as tons of photos from the shows he’s acted in  and see the extensive list of plays, musicals and many awards he’s        won in the Bay Area. He may have started “late” at 28, he made up for it in passion, focus, and pure geeky love of theater and performing.

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Thanks to Ragnar Hellspong for the use of Scott Joplin’s 1902 “A Strenuous Life”. Check out his beautiful website of ragtime music at http://ragsrag.com

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LAURIE BURKE'S BIO

Laurie Burke is a San Francisco native from a family of professional actors and musicians (think: “The Partridge Family” meets “This Is Spinal Tap”!). With an adventurous spirit and a genuine joy of all things creative, she decided to follow her family’s lead and make her passion her career. For over fifteen years, Laurie has been a professional Actress, Voice Over Artist, Host and Singer.

With an un-quenching thirst to learn her craft, Laurie has studied Dramatic Arts in London (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), Paris, Berlin, Los Angles and San Francisco (American Conservatory Theater). As a multi-creative, she has worked in most avenues of the Entertainment industry, working in front of and behind the camera in TV, Film, Theater, and Voice Over, as well as in Development, Production, and many years in Casting.

Her many TV credits include playing lawyer Alice Kaye opposite Hugh Laurie in Chance, having starring roles in Wives with Knives and I (Almost Got Away With It) numerous commercials for major companies including Blackberry, Volkswagen, Raley’s, Walmart, Metro PCS, Nokia, and Wells Fargo.  Currently, she playing Sheriff Laura Stevens in the Rosario Dawson based web series The North Pole.

Film credits include “Mr. Invincible”, “The Mendoza Line”, “Redwoods”, and “My Eleventh” and numerous award-winning Short Films including voicing the main role of “Hisayo” in Roadside Assistance. Recently she worked opposite Adam Devine in the feature film “Jexi” - providing the “on-set” (behind the scenes) voice of Jexi.

Known as the “Original Voice of Google Voice”, she has been heard on countless radio and T.V. commercials as well as animated films. Her Voice Over projects include The Emmy Awards, Channel 36(L.A.), Cisco, The Addy Awards, LinkedIn, Kaiser Permanente, 24 Hour Fitness, Symantec, First Republic Bank, Wells Fargo, TV.com, and has held contracts as the voice for all Raley’s/Nob Hill commercials and Common Sense Media.

Theater credits include the role of "Amy" in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company", "Gal" in the touring production of "Just for Laughs", and starred in countless Sold-Out performances as “Claudia Roe” in Lucy Prebble’s “Enron”.

For over eight years, Laurie has been a TV Host for Common Sense Media. She’s also their go-to for Voice Over and Award shows.

As a professional singer, Laurie has fronted many different bands of different genres as well as performed in many musicals, films, jingles, and Voice Over projects.

Links:

Laurie appears appears with Daveed Diggs in Rajeev B Prabhakar's short film: Rock Hard: The rise and Fall and Rise of Sexual Detergent

http://www.thenorthpoleshow.com


Website: http://www.laurieburke.com

YouTube: www.youtube.com/laurieburke/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laurieburkeproductions/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laurieburkeproductions

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurieburkeproductions/

Ragtime music in episode:  http://ragsrag.com

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