VT VOICES
Vermont Voices is a series of extended interviews with some of Vermont’s greatest creatives -
as well as artists who regularly return to Vermont as a destination place for inspiration.
Hosted by Joshua Sherman, MD.
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Treat Williams
Treat Williams, a 4-time Golden Globe® Award nominee and Emmy® Award nominee, is an actor, singer, and aviator who calls Manchester, Vermont “home.” Over the course of his prolific and multi-faceted career, Williams has starred as the lead in Grease on Broadway, as well as television series such as Everwood, Chicago Fire, Blue Bloods, and Chesapeake Shores.
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Laura Walker
Walker is the President of Bennington College, the former CEO and President of New York Public Radio (NYPR), and the former Vice President of Development at Sesame Workshop. A visionary leader, Walker oversaw NYPR’s transformation from two small radio stations to the nation’s largest nonprofit radio station group. Walker was named by Crain’s as one of New York City’s 50 Most Powerful Women in 2009 and 2017.
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David Wasco &
Sandy Reynolds-Wasco
David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco are an Academy Award® Winning husband-and-wife duo. Their masterfully-crafted production designs can be seen in the films of such celebrated directors as Quentin Tarantino, Aaron Sorkin, David Mamet, Wes Anderson, and Damien Chazelle. David Wasco spent his adolescent years in Bennington, VT – and that time in Vermont had a formative impact on his life journey.
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Molly Gray
Molly Gray, Vermont’s newly-appointed Lieutenant Governor, was raised on a farm in rural Vermont. Molly says that coming back to her old stomping grounds at Stratton during her campaign for Lieutenant Governor was “like a walk down memory lane.
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susanna gellert
Susanna Gellert is the Executive Artistic Director at Weston Playhouse. This interview was part of the “VT Voices: Southern Vermont’s Leading Ladies” feature in Manchester Life 2020.
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Joe Miles
Third-generation family business owner of RK Miles, Joe Miles, is a native Vermonter. He recently sat down to highlight how community connection and consistency have been the key to sustained growth and prosperity.
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Larry Mestel
Larry Mestel is an entrepreneur, a music business executive, and the founder and CEO of Primary Wave Music, an incredibly successful independent music publishing, production, and artist management company. Primary Wave’s vast music publishing catalog features over 700 Top Ten hits and over 300 chart-topping #1 records. Highlights include best-selling singles by legendary artists like Prince, Stevie Nicks, Sun Records, James Brown, Bob Marley, Whitney Houston, and many more.
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Brian Warwick
Brian Warwick is a GRAMMY® Winning audio engineer and music professor at Northern Vermont University (NVU) – Lyndon. We had the privilege to sit down with Brian at Old Mill Road Recording Studio and speak with him about the lessons that he learned from working in the music business.
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Peggie Telscher & Betsy Bleakie
Peggie Telscher is President of the Board of the Manchester Music Festival and Betsy Bleakie is the Festival Manager of Manchester Music Festival. This interview was part of the “VT Voices: Southern Vermont’s Leading Ladies” feature in Manchester Life 2020.
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dina janis
Dina Janis is the Artistic Director of Dorset Theatre Festival. This interview was part of the “VT Voices: Southern Vermont’s Leading Ladies” feature in Manchester Life 2020.
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Anne corso
Anne Corso is the Executive Director of the Southern Vermont Arts Center. This interview was part of the “VT Voices: Southern Vermont’s Leading Ladies” feature in Manchester Life 2020.
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Ben Cadwallader
Ben Cadwallader has been the executive director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra since 2015. His goal with the VSO is to have it be a leader in bringing a reputation for world-class music closer to the heart of Vermont’s identity.
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Dwight + Nicole
Dwight Ritcher and Nicole Nelson are American indie soul at its best. They share a love of classic blues, rock, American standards - and each other. Based in Vermont, they recently sat down to share their story prior to their upcoming album release in Spring 2020.
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nicole fosse
Dancer, Vermonter, and Emmy-nominated producer, Nicole Fosse sat with Joshua Sherman to discuss her accomplishments, life, and growing up with famous parents.
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Listen now - Part 1 / Part 2
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BENJAMIN LERNER
Benjamin Lerner, the great grandson of Irving Berlin (composer of such standards as God Bless America and White Christmas), is a classically trained pianist, with a passion for rap and hip-hop. Benjamin is currently working on his debut album, featuring his all-original piano-raps, which focus on his journey through opiate addiction and sobriety.
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IAIN PIRIE
Iain Pirie has guided the careers of some of the most important names in music, first with RCA Records UK; then for 17 years at 19 Entertainment (ultimately as executive vice president); and most recently as founder of Tritone. After initial work for Spice Girls and Pop Idol, he subsequently managed the audition process and the entire music part of the American Idol franchise from Seasons 1 through 13, overseeing the creative of the most successful artists to have launched their careers from the show, including Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Fantasia, and Adam Lambert.
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Archer Mayor
Vermont author Archer Mayor stopped by the studio for an in-depth interview on his life and career. Listen to Mayor discussing his new novel Bomber’s Moon on Old Mill Road’s SoundCloud. Check out a preview of Bomber’s Moon in the summer issue of Stratton Magazine, available now.
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BENJAMIN J. ARRINDELL
Benjamin J. Arrindell is a GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer who has lent his signature sound to such diverse talents as Aretha Franklin, Janet Jackson, Busta Rhymes, The Village People, Mary J. Blige, En Vogue, Kool & the Gang, The Temptations, Gerald Levert, and Yolanda Adams, among others. He is the in house engineer at Old Mill Road Recording in East Arlington, Vermont.
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Theresa Rebeck
Vermont-based playwright Theresa Rebeck has had four shows on Broadway. TV and Film stars ranging from Katie Holmes to Alan Rickman have championed her work. She has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and named by Newsweek as one of their "150 Fearless Women in the World." A regular presence at Dorset Theatre Festival (DTF) this summer, Rebeck directs her new play, Dig, at DTF. She sat down recently with Producer/Publisher Joshua Sherman to discuss her work, her influences, her life in Vermont, her newest play, and how to fix a Broadway show from a gurney.
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Adam Guettel
Adam Guettel is the two-time TONY® Award-winning composer and lyricist of The Light in the Piazza, which also garnered him a GRAMMY® Award nomination. He wrote the music and lyrics for Floyd Collins, which won the 1996 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical and the Obie Award for Best Music. The grandson of Richard Rodgers and the son of Mary Rodgers, Adam is a third- generation Broadway composer.
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John Gray
John Gray is an EMMY® Award-winning journalist, writer, and news anchor for WXXA Fox 23 and WTEN ABC 10 in Albany. His new debut novel, Manchester Christmas, is available for sale online and at bookstores nationwide.