Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast

Austin Tichenor

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Booking Overview

A theatre interview podcast focused on Shakespeare, comic performance, and the professional performing arts, typically featuring actors, playwrights, directors, and artistic leaders. PR agencies could credibly pitch theatre practitioners, Shakespeare specialists, festival artists, and arts-organization executives with current productions or informed perspectives; booking difficulty is low because the show favors accessible working professionals and returning guests rather than major celebrities.

Metrics

Episodes: 300

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

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Host

Austin Tichenor - Actor, writer, director, and longtime member of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, known for work in comic theatre and Shakespeare performance.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Professional actors, playwrights, directors, Shakespeare specialists, festival artists, and leaders of theatre organizations with current productions, festival work, or substantial expertise in performing arts.
Required Achievements:  
Created or performed in professional theatre productions, Presented work at major theatre festivals, Led or developed a theatre company or arts organization, Written or adapted Shakespearean or comic performance works

Recent Guest Discussions

Dee Ryan - Shakespeare Solo Performance, Improvisation, Self-production, Comedy, And The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Will Mobley - Clowning, Shakespearean Characters, Play Development, Comedy, And Performance At The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Michael Doherty - Clowning, Shakespearean Characters, Play Development, Comedy, And Performance At The Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Janice L. Blixt - Shakespeare Festival Leadership, Arts-organization Resilience, Professional Theatre, Programming, Casting, And Venue Development.

Recent Topics

Shakespeare, Theatre, Comedy, Acting, Playwriting

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast
:

Out, Darn Spot!

August 11, 2026

Tyler Anthony Smith’s Out, Darn Spot! is a hilarious hour-long fever dream that imagines Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth as the host of a 60’s daytime chat show (pictured above). Smith talks about the play's evolution and how they share the character's desire to be "unsex'd"; how Smith plays fair with Shakespeare's plot and characters; how we need to rethink how we introduce young people to Shakespeare; and how Smith's work brings Shakespearean figures into the modern world, as in their latest sho...

RSC 45th Anniversary

August 11, 2026

August 8, 2026 is the 45th anniversary of the Reduced Shakespeare Company's first performance at the Northern California Renaissance Faire in 1981, and co-artistic directors Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor discuss the RSC's legacy from their respective locations in California and Edinburgh, Scotland. Reed and Austin share the subtle nuances between being a pack-rat and an "archivist;" how it's nearly impossible (or at least too time-consuming to bother) to count the number of performances the...

Describing The Play

July 29, 2026

A ghost story...but not. A time-travel tale...but not. Describing Austin Tichenor's new play Puritans accurately and intriguingly reveals that writing the play and describing the play are two completely different skillsets. Austin talks with Daniel Mothershed, the director of Puritans's world premiere in Greeley, CO and shares the challenges of marketing a kind of play that's never been seen before; how the play “tesseracts through time” and what association that phrase conjures up; how Purit...

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