About this episode

Janine Marley interviews Andrew and Zahra Faiz about their creative work on 'Kathryn: A Life Almosting'.

Hello Everyone! Welcome to Episode 15 of Season 2 of A View from the Box - The Podcast. I'm so excited to have the father/daughter creative team behind "Kathryn: A Life Almosting" on the podcast today! Andrew Faiz (Book, Lyrics, Producer) has worked in television and radio, at newspapers and magazines, in documentary film and once was a hotel manager. He has been a public speaker, a lecturer, and a lay minister. Also a janitor and a short order cook. He is an award-winning poet, photographer, journalist, humourist, editor and columnist. Andrew has done a lot of different things for decades. He once had a theatre company. That’s when he first met Kathryn Albertson, in 1989. In between being a journalist, editor and news producer, Andrew wrote and directed the National Film Board documentary, Flemingdon Park: A Global Village. He did a profile of Kathryn Albertson for CBC Radio, which he then turned into a theatre script. Kathryn: As Herself, At Last. It played in Toronto and Winnipeg. Aromas, another one-woman play appeared on Toronto stages a decade ago. Zahra Faiz is an award-winning musician who has been making and writing music as long as she can remember. In high…

People in this episode

Host: Janine Marley

Guests: Andrew Faiz, Zahra Faiz

Topics covered

• theatre
• music
• creative collaboration
• interviews
• performing arts

Keywords

• Andrew Faiz
• Zahra Faiz
• theatre
• music
• Kathryn: A Life Almosting
• interview
• performing arts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: National Film Board, CBC Radio, Royal Conservatory, McGill Student Improv

Books & works: Kathryn: A Life Almosting, Flemingdon Park: A Global Village, Kathryn: As Herself, At Last, Aromas

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