FINAL FIVE: Katerina Papacostas, Chess on Broadway

About this episode

Katerina Papacostas returns to discuss her audition experiences and answer the Final Five Questions.

In the previous episode, you heard stories from Katerina Papacostas, where we got into her theater experiences as a 19-year-old as well as her current show, Chess, and filling in for the lead role of Florence Vassy. But there’s more to uncover! And she’s back to answer the Final Five Questions, but first we have an audition story, when Kat was in final callbacks for a Broadway show. And this of course leads us into one my favorite subjects, self-tapes.went in for the role of Nicola in Kinky Boots. -- Why I’ll Never Make It is an independent production of WINMI Media and Patrick Oliver Jones. To support the ongoing efforts of this podcast please ⁠subscribe⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠donate⁠⁠. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Patrick Oliver Jones

Guest: Katerina Papacostas

Topics covered

• theater
• Broadway
• audition stories
• self-tapes
• performing arts

Keywords

• Katerina Papacostas
• Chess
• Broadway
• audition
• self-tapes
• Kinky Boots

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Chess, Kinky Boots

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