ABOUT THE PODCAST
SKAMnanigans: The Theatre SKAM Podcast, brings you into the whimsical and wacky world of theatre! Join us to hear about all things theatre in Victoria BC, the Traditional Territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən people. Listen to behind-the-scenes exclusives, lively roundtable discussions, amusing insights into the Theatre SKAM universe, and on-location interviews at SKAM events.
Whether you’re a seasoned theatre aficionado or just dipping your toes into the world of drama, join us on SKAMnanigans for a rollercoaster ride of entertainment, enlightenment, and endless fun. Let the SKAMnanigans begin!
Episodes of SKAMnanigans: The Theatre SKAM Podcast will vary in subject matter. There will be:
- Interviews and roundtable discussions: Learn more about SKAM artists and the local theatre ecology.
- Behind The Scenes: Exclusive insight into the who, what, and why of SKAM projects.
- Live and In-Person: On-location interviews and discussions at SKAM events.
- Creative: Exciting new radio plays, audio dramas, and sound-based experiences.
You can listen to the podcast on Amazon Music, Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or down below.
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S2E17 – SKAMpede Festival – Interview with Jennifer McLeish-Lewis
On this episode, Branden sits down with Jennifer McLeish-Lewis to talk about her SKAMpede show: Art Market.
Each year the return of summer means one thing: SKAMpede is just around the corner. A mainstay in the busy Victoria festival calendar, 2025 marks the 17th straight year for Victoria’s Premiere Outdoor Performing Arts Festival! This year, our smorgasbord of entertainment offers ten shows spread across our Central and Selkirk tours.
SKAMpede runs July 11-13, 2025 on the Galloping Goose. Visit SKAMpede to book your tickets and learn more!
S2E16 – SKAMpede Festival – Interview with Nathan Corpus
On this episode, Branden sits down with Nathan Corpus of iuvenis Productions to talk about their SKAMpede show: Spin The Bottle, by Ciarán Volke.
Each year the return of summer means one thing: SKAMpede is just around the corner. A mainstay in the busy Victoria festival calendar, 2025 marks the 17th straight year for Victoria’s Premiere Outdoor Performing Arts Festival! This year, our smorgasbord of entertainment offers ten shows spread across our Central and Selkirk tours.
SKAMpede runs July 11-13, 2025 on the Galloping Goose. Visit SKAMpede to book your tickets and learn more!
S2E15 – SKAMpede Festival – Interview with Annalyn Kind
On this episode, Branden sits down with Annalyn Kind to talk about their SKAMpede show: A lovely family picnic.
Each year the return of summer means one thing: SKAMpede is just around the corner. A mainstay in the busy Victoria festival calendar, 2025 marks the 17th straight year for Victoria’s Premiere Outdoor Performing Arts Festival! This year, our smorgasbord of entertainment offers ten shows spread across our Central and Selkirk tours.
SKAMpede runs July 11-13, 2025 on the Galloping Goose. Visit SKAMpede to book your tickets and learn more!
S2E14 – SKAMpede Festival – Interview with Isaac Rufus
On this episode, Branden sits down with Isaac Rufus Rosen-Purcell to talk about his SKAMpede show: Fashioned Sound Body.
Each year the return of summer means one thing: SKAMpede is just around the corner. A mainstay in the busy Victoria festival calendar, 2025 marks the 17th straight year for Victoria’s Premiere Outdoor Performing Arts Festival! This year, our smorgasbord of entertainment offers ten shows spread across our Central and Selkirk tours.
SKAMpede runs July 11-13, 2025 on the Galloping Goose. Visit SKAMpede to book your tickets and learn more!
S2E13 – SKAMpede Festival – Interview with Jenn Goodwin
On this episode, Branden sits down with Jenn Goodwin to talk about her SKAMpede show: If I Should Stumble.
Each year the return of summer means one thing: SKAMpede is just around the corner. A mainstay in the busy Victoria festival calendar, 2025 marks the 17th straight year for Victoria’s Premiere Outdoor Performing Arts Festival! This year, our smorgasbord of entertainment offers ten shows spread across our Central and Selkirk tours.
SKAMpede runs July 11-13, 2025 on the Galloping Goose. Visit SKAMpede to book your tickets and learn more!
S2E12 – SKAMpede Festival – Interview with Alexandra Dodd
On this episode, Branden sits down with Alexandra Dodd to talk about her SKAMpede show: And Thus the Wind Takes It.
Each year the return of summer means one thing: SKAMpede is just around the corner. A mainstay in the busy Victoria festival calendar, 2025 marks the 17th straight year for Victoria’s Premiere Outdoor Performing Arts Festival! This year, our smorgasbord of entertainment offers ten shows spread across our Central and Selkirk tours.
SKAMpede runs July 11-13, 2025 on the Galloping Goose. Visit SKAMpede to book your tickets and learn more!
S2E11 – SKAMpede Festival – Interview with Helen Burger and D’Arcy Briggs
On this episode, Branden sits down with Helen Burger and D’Arcy Briggs, also known as Burger & Briggs, to talk about their SKAMpede show: The Two Body Problem.
Each year the return of summer means one thing: SKAMpede is just around the corner. A mainstay in the busy Victoria festival calendar, 2025 marks the 17th straight year for Victoria’s Premiere Outdoor Performing Arts Festival! This year, our smorgasbord of entertainment offers ten shows spread across our Central and Selkirk tours.
SKAMpede runs July 11-13, 2025 on the Galloping Goose. Visit SKAMpede to book your tickets and learn more!
S2E10 – SKAMpede Festival – Interview with Lore Espinoza
On this episode, Branden sits down with Lore Espinoza, also know as Plastik Chaskilla, to talk about her SKAMpede show: Uno, dos, trees.
Each year the return of summer means one thing: SKAMpede is just around the corner. A mainstay in the busy Victoria festival calendar, 2025 marks the 17th straight year for Victoria’s Premiere Outdoor Performing Arts Festival! This year, our smorgasbord of entertainment offers ten shows spread across our Central and Selkirk tours.
SKAMpede runs July 11-13, 2025 on the Galloping Goose. Visit SKAMpede to book your tickets and learn more!
S2E9 – Introducing: The Strange Hour – Interview with ira cooper of Spec Theatre
Introducing The Strange Hour: A Brunch Variety Show. This week, ira cooper of Spec Theatre joins Branden to chat about this exciting new collaboration between Theatre SKAM, Spec Theatre, and Keith Sonic.
The Strange Hour brings together performances and presenters from across the genres: from drag, dance, stand-up, bug experts, culinary masters… Anything and all things are possible at The Strange Hour.
The Strange Hour takes place the fourth Sunday of every month at the SKAM Satellite Studio, doors @ 10 AM, show @ 11 AM. Visit The Strange Hour to learn more!
S2E8 – Victoria One Act Play Festival – Interview with Between Words Theatre
This week, Branden chats with Kurt Archer (Festival Director and Board President), Taylor Guidotti (Festival Technical Producer), and Meera Matthew (Board Member) from Between Words Theatre, the organizers of the Victoria One Act Play Festival.
The Victoria One Act Play Festival runs June 3 through 7 at the Belfry Theatre. Visit betweenwords.ca to learn more.
S2E7 – Victoria One Act Play Festival – Interview with Elijah Bell
This week, Branden chats with Heliopsis Theatre Co.’s Elijah Bell about his show, Spare Parts: A Robot Musical, which takes the stage at the Victoria One Act Play Festival June 6, 2025.
The Victoria One Act Play Festival runs June 3 through 7 at the Belfry Theatre. Visit Between Words to learn more.
S2E6 – Victoria One Act Play Festival – Interview with Misty Cozac
This week, Branden chats with Misty Cozac (Kizuna Theatre) about her show, Genki Bear: Memoirs of a Granddaughter, which takes the stage at the Victoria One Act Play Festival June 5, 2025.
The Victoria One Act Play Festival runs June 3 through 7 at the Belfry Theatre. Visit Between Words to learn more.
S2E5 – Victoria One Act Play Festival – Interview with Matthew (Mia) Gordon & Molly Jamin
This week, Branden chats with Pithy Productions’ Matthew (Mia) Gordon and Molly Jamin about the show Joany, which takes the stage at the Victoria One Act Play Festival June 4, 2025.
The Victoria One Act Play Festival runs June 3 through 7 at the Belfry Theatre. Visit Between Words to learn more.
S2E4 – Victoria One Act Play Festival –Interview with Angelo Rosso
This week, Branden chats with Angelo Rosso about his show, MID PLAY, which takes the stage at the Victoria One Act Play Festival this June.
The Victoria One Act Play Festival runs June 3 through 7 at the Belfry Theatre. Visit betweenwords.ca to learn more.
S2E3 – Interview with the Periluna Collective – Hey There, Mr. Moon
This week, Branden chats with Naomi Duska about Hey There, Mr. Moon, a nine-episode speculative fiction/light sci-fi podcast produced by the Periluna Collective —a group chock-full of past SKAM artists and employees— which was recorded in the SKAM podcast studio.
S2E2 – Introducing: Eco Hour! Interview with The Sustainable Fox
This week, Sadie Fox of The Sustainable Fox joins Branden and Logan to chat about this exciting new collaboration! Eco Hour takes place from 6-7 PM the last Wednesday of every month at Studio 846.
Join our new Eco-Sustainability mailing list here.
S2E1 – Interview with Theatre Inconnu
Join us in conversation with Clayton Jevne, Artistic Director of Theatre Inconnu, Victoria’s longest surviving alternative theatre company, and Diana Budiachenko, Director of Queen Maeve by Judith Thompson, running February 19 – March 8, 2025.
S1E15 – SKAM Satellite Series – Interviews with SNAFU & iuvenis Productions
In this week’s episode, Logan takes over the mic to get you interviews with SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles and iuvenis Productions as they prepare to take the stage in the SKAM Satellite Series!
S1E14 – Live Interview With Atomic Vaudeville
In this week’s episode, Branden visits Atomic Vaudeville live at a rehearsal for their upcoming cabaret CRONE-O-PHOBIA.
S1E12 – Interviews with Indie Producers – Thomas Moore and Kevin Eastman
Join us as we sit down with two independent producers presenting work this September.
Thomas Moore of timetheft Theatre discusses their production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame.
Kevin Eastman discusses Field Research, a double-bill one-act play event.
S1E11 – Victoria Fringe Festival – Recap
Join Logan and Branden for a casual conversation about the 2024 Victoria Fringe Festival. Plus, excerpts from our interviews with Dave Morris, Ciarán Volke and Islay McKechnie of Cowboy, Sarah Ivanco and Erik Karklins of The Lighter Touch Art Collective, and Tor Lukasik-Foss of Hamilton 7.
S1E10 – Victoria Fringe Festival – Artist Interviews Pt. 2
Join us in conversation with the artists behind four of the shows on offer at the 2024 Victoria Fringe Festival.
Ciarán Volke and Islay McKechnie of Cowboy, ciarán and islay make coffee
• Starts at 1:27
Maddy Hooson-Kirstein and Kaylee Cavanagh of Alectoria Productions, Nothing Crazy’s Gonna Happen
• Starts at 15:57
Laura Nerenberg of Zaria Productions, Jewish-ish
• Starts at 32:27
Laura Nerenberg
El Newell and Morgan Christopher of timetheft theatre, Our Lady, Star of the Sea
• Starts at 49:08
S1E9 – Victoria Fringe Festival – Artist Interviews Pt. 1
Join us in conversation with the artists behind three of the shows on offer at the 2024 Victoria Fringe Festival.
Sarah Ivanco and Erik Karklins of The Lighter Touch Art Collective, When Fern Flowers Bloom
• Starts at 1:13
The Lighter Touch
Dave Morris, 52 Stories
• Starts at 12:54
Dave Morris
Tor Lukasik-Foss of Hamilton 7, New Wave Your Behaviour
• Starts at 31:28
Tor Lukasik-Foss
S1E8 – SKAMpede Festival – Interview with The Sustainable Fox
Join us in conversation with Sadie Fox of The Sustainable Fox. Hear about Sadie’s approach to sustainable living and the ways The Sustainable Fox has helped SKAM reduce our waste at SKAMpede for the past 6 years.
S1E6 – SKAMpede Festival – Interview with Tamarack Neurodivergent Theatre
Join us in conversation with Nancy Curry and Iris Gray from Tamarack Neurodivergent Theatre. Learn more about the company and hear about their upcoming SKAMpede show, Defending the Planet.
S1E5 – SKAMpede Festival – Interview with SNAFU & Cowboy
Join us in conversation with SNAFU Society of Unexpected Spectacles’ Kathleen Greenfield, Jeni Luther, Lauren Ball, and Islay McKechnie (who’s also part of Cowboy). Hear about the upcoming SKAMpede shows The Great Triscuit Heist and Fast Bus, plus, gain valuable insight into how you can start creating site-responsive theatre.
S1E4 – Victoria One Act Play Festival –
Interview with Annie Konstantinov & Nicholas Guerreiro
Join us in conversation with Annie Konstantinov and Nicholas Guerreiro, Co-Creators and Performers of Consider the Dongfish, presented by Bragi Theatre at the Victoria One Act Play Festival. Learn more about Bragi Theatre, the play Consider the Dongfish, and what it’s like to be an artist in Victoria.
S1E3 – Victoria One Act Play Festival –
Interview with Molly Jamin & Erin Bess
Join us in conversation with Molly Jamin (playwright) and Erin Bess (actor) from the play Scruples, presented by timetheft theatre at the Victoria One Act Play Festival. Learn more about the play Scruples and what it’s like to be an artist in the festival.
S1E2 – Victoria One Act Play Festival – Interview with Kurt Archer
Join us in conversation with Kurt Archer, founder of Between Words Theatre and Producer of the Victoria One Act Play Festival. Hear what‘s in store for the second annual festival celebrating exciting new work in our community.