Stories from The Top
Stories from the Top is a podcast featuring people you know and people you should know. Artists, educators, and entrepreneurs linked to Southeast Michigan share stories about how they connect with others, cultivate inspiration, map out processes, or rise from failure. Each episode explores an individual at the top of their game chatting with a friend or colleague on a video call which will become the audio podcast.
Episodes
9 episodes
Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone
In this episode, we hear from Abigail Browde & Michael Silverstone, otherwise known as the theater company 600 HIGHWAYMEN, about their newest piece, A Thousand Ways, which A2SF and The University of Michigan Museum of Art are co-presenting....
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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23:04
Lawrence "Larry" La Fountain-Stokes
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is a professor of Spanish, American Culture, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan who’s main research interests are queer/LGBT Hispanic Caribbean studies, U.S. Latinx American literary, cultur...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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24:14
Heena Patel
In this episode, Heena Patel, CEO of MELA Arts Connect, talks about her upbringing in Toronto, Canada, how she transitioned from being a sanitation engineer into a tabla player and performing arts entrepreneur, and where she is now as a cultura...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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22:48
Asa Wember and Michael Rau
In this episode, we hear from the co-creators of “Temping” by the theater collective Wolf 359. The show, a theater for one production that takes people through a unique experience with no actors—puts audience members in the role of a temp, fill...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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20:57
David Zinn
In this episode Ann Arbor artist and Top of the Park regular David Zinn, reflects on his work and his imaginary friends. Thanks to the temptations of a box of sidewalk chalk on an unusually sunny day, David is known all over the world for the a...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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26:26
Mike Farah with Michael Kosta
In this episode, Mike Farah, Chief Executive Officer of Funny or Die, a premiere comedy company with award-winning content and an audience of more than 40 million people. Farah has produced shows such a...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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30:28
Swaroop Bhojani with Adam Hess
Swaroop Bhojani is the owner of the restaurant Hut-Kay Fusion and former University of Michigan Cancer Researcher. Swaroop is a Ph.D. graduate from the Indian Institute of Science and was a Max Delbrueck Fellow. He continued his post-doc...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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29:44
Joan Belgrave with Linda Yohn
Joan Belgrave has been a great success since she was a child, and has seven recorded albums, including tributes to Billie Holiday and Ray Charles. She’s worked with some of America’s leading jazz singers and musicians like Regina Carter ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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30:06