Episode 92: SWC 07: Rachel Bonds & Sean McIntyre

March 10, 2020

The second summer of conversations recorded at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference continues with playwright Rachel Bonds, who tells James about finding her voice in a one-act, using jealousy as a job coach, being on the writing treadmill, and recognizing the struggles of those close to us. Plus, actor and Performing Prose co-founder Sean McIntyre.     

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Rachel Bonds  

Rachel and James discuss: 

Olivier Sultan (agent) 

St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School 

Lisa D’Amour 

Barack Obama 

James Agee 

George Saunders 

Jennifer Egan 

Kevin Wilson 

Sean McIntyre

Sean and James discuss: 

THE SOPRANOS 

Drew Barrymore 

Middlebury College 

Steve Yarbrough 

Jim Shepard 

ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare 

THE SIMPSONS 

LES MISERABLES music by Claude-Monet Schonberg

“Master of the House” 

Emily Nemens 

Tim O’Brien 

SEINFELD 

BREAKING BAD 

THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA by Edward Albee 

Dan O’Brien 

Marilyn Nelson 

SLINGS AND ARROWS 

Keanu Reeves 

The Stratford Festival 

Performing Prose 

Emily Shain 

Anne Ray Sewanee Writers’ Conference