Mark Taper Forum
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Sep 11, 2026
Randy OglesbyGUEST
I did a lot of professional theater as well after that.
Randy OglesbyGUEST
I worked at the Mark Taper Forum, which is a big theater downtown in San Francisco.
Randy OglesbyGUEST
I did seven shows down there.
Randy OglesbyGUEST
One of the shows that I did there led to my first film job.
Jesse Tyler FergusonHOST
...
Jesse Tyler FergusonHOST
the Taper, Mark Taper here in LA.
Jesse Tyler FergusonHOST
And we're like, "We really wanna say hi to you." Afterwards, we went backstage.
Jesse Tyler FergusonHOST
You were so friendly.
Roger DeakinsHOST
Oh, funny
Robin SwicordGUEST
... and then Lynn Redgrave was doing a one-woman show that she had written, which was at the Mark Taper.
James DeakinsHOST
Mm-hmm.
Robin SwicordGUEST
And we, I sent her a love note backstage and said, "Please come.
John Frank LevyGUEST
This young man, you know, I knew that he was Brad Davis's son.
John Frank LevyGUEST
And it happened that I had worked on a play at the Mark Taper Forum in the early 1980s.
John Frank LevyGUEST
Stephen Berkhoff, the enfant terrible British actor, director, writer, did an adaptation of Kafka's Metamorphosis and Brad Davis played the lead.
John Frank LevyGUEST
And he was unbelievable.
Telly LeungGUEST
And so because he had that long relationship with them, he called up some of his friends and said, hey, I have three Asian students that I'm directing right now at Carnegie Mellon University.
Telly LeungGUEST
They're going to graduate This coming spring, they have no agents, but I know that most of you are working on this upcoming revival of Flower Drum Song, which will feature an all Asian cast, which had a wonderful run at the Mark Taper Forum with a brand new book by David Henry Huang, with a wonderful sort of concept and direction and choreography by Bobby Longbottom.
Telly LeungGUEST
He said, I'm going to vouch for these kids.
Telly LeungGUEST
I think my students should audition for you.
Mark SearbyHOST
Something struck a chord with Pacino about the play because he first appeared in it in 1996.
Mark SearbyHOST
He then went on to perform it at the Circle in the Square Theatre in New York, followed by taking it to the Mark Taper Forum in LA in 1999.
Mark SearbyHOST
He was the director on all of those productions.
Mark SearbyHOST
It's the 1996 production that I'm gonna speak about on here because I've pulled in the costume director for that production, Candice Donnelly.
Charles Floyd JohnsonGUEST
And we'd use ...
Charles Floyd JohnsonGUEST
We'd have, like, 700 or 800 people at a time at the Mark Taper Forum.
Diona ReasonoverHOST
Yeah.
Charles Floyd JohnsonGUEST
And we'd keep pressure on, on studios and networks.
Dawn ChangGUEST
Um, it was, f- in my perception, it was never an issue.
Dawn ChangGUEST
Um, I was working at Center Theatre Group at the Taper and the Ahmanson a lot, uh, both IA houses.
Dawn ChangGUEST
And on the first day on the job, uh, one of the house heads said, "Hey, just be yourself.
Dawn ChangGUEST
You know, relax.
Constance ZimmerHOST
She directed and produced her first short film, launched a production company, Bowen & Sons, and...
Constance ZimmerHOST
With a first look deal at Universal Television, continues to rack up more fun characters with Hysteria on Peacock, expanded her range with horror comedy, Totally Killer, reprised her role in Happy Gilmore 2, made her stage debut in Fake It Until You Make It, which is the story of my life, at the Mark Taper Forum, and has an NBC comedy taste in development through her production company.
Constance ZimmerHOST
If we're lucky, hopefully she'll also talk to us about her new small business venture for tweens and teen boys.
Constance ZimmerHOST
She is a jewel of a human.
Chris FeilHOST
Um, but she's, like, clearly in...
Chris FeilHOST
Sh- that can't be, like, Mark Taper Forum or something.
Chris FeilHOST
'Cause, like, yes, there is good theater in Los Angeles.
Chris FeilHOST
Uh, uh, Angels in America, Mark Taper.
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