Conversations From Away Creators & Guests

Aaron Michael Ray is the host of “Conversations From Away,” a podcast where we encourage a dialogue about systemic racism, police brutality, Black Lives Matter, and how that affects the Broadway industry. In each episode, we get out of our comfort zones with a panel of special guests to discuss topics that pertain to race in and outside of our industry as a means to learn and grow together.Aaron is currently a cast member in the National Tour of Come From Away. His Off-Broadway credits include: The Low Road (The Public Theater), and Spamilton. Originally from San Antonio, Texas he graduated from Berklee College of Music then received an MFA from The Boston Conservatory. (Source: Broadway Podcast Network)

Christine Toy Johnson is a Tony honored, multi award-winning writer, actor, director, filmmaker, and advocate for inclusion based in New York City.

Geoff Maus is an NYC based AEA Stage Manager & Entertainment Professional.

Shawn Pennington is the production stage manager for the North American tour of the musical Come From Away.

Dominic Barbaro is an entertainment management professional for Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre, film, and television.

Pascale Florestal joined the Conservatory in 2020 and is a director, dramaturge, educator, writer, and collaborator. She graduated from Ithaca College with a B.A. in theater studies and also trained in London and the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater. Her recent directing credits include Back the Night by Melinda Lopez at Boston College, We Are Proud to Present… by Jackie Sibblies Drury at Brandeis University, Marie & Rosetta by George Brant at Greater Boston Stage Company, Code Listen by Shaw Pong Liu at the Millenium Stage of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Shrek the Musical (Greater Boston Stage Company), and An Education in Prudence (Open Theatre Project). (Source: Boston Conservatory at Berklee)

Chamblee Ferguson is an American actor.

Jane Bunting is an American actor and choreographer.

Isaac Alderson is an American multi-instrumentalist specializing in Irish traditional music on the uilleann pipes, Irish flute, and tin whistle.

Nick is an actor, singer, and voiceover artist living in New York City. Originally from Hialeah, Florida, Nick has had the honor of performing on stages all over the United States, as well as on network television and national commercials. Nick is also a successful voice over artist, and his voiceover work can be heard all over the world.Nick is married to actress/singer Mariand Torres, and is a proud doggy dad to the cutest Chihuahua-Daschund mixed puppy in all of NYC, Lucy. (Source: nickduckart.com)

Happy McPartlin is an American actor.

Samuel Stein is a geographer and urban planner who studies and writes about the politics of planning in New York City, with an emphasis on housing, real estate, labor and gentrification.

Danielle K. Thomas is an American singer and actor.

Harter Clingman is an American singer and actor.

Julia Knitel is an American singer and actor.

Kiana June Weber is an American violinist, best known as a former member of the Irish band Gaelic Storm.

Anthony Wayne is an American actor.

Pearl Sun is an American actress.

Sharone Sayegh is a Broadway and television actress living in NYC.