ASK ME ANYTHING

WHAT IT WAS

AN HOUR WITH SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE IT

Ask Me Anything was a live interview series streamed on StreamYard to the BTGM Facebook page and Instagram Live, with members sending questions through the private BTGM group. Each session followed one format: meet the guest, walk through the standards of their field, share resources, then open the floor so members could ask anything.

Founding Managing Director Caila Carter chaired the series, and BTGM moderators Meka King and Danielle McGill hosted episodes on air. Guests explained the traditional path into their work and how their own path left it, and named the things they wish someone had told them first.

WHO IT SERVED

MEMBERS LOOKING FOR A WAY IN

The series was built for BTGM's member community of Black and Brown women in theatre, in the United States and abroad. It reached members who could not travel to a class or pay for a coach, and members curious about a job they had never seen a Black woman hold.

At the first session, five members won free 15-minute coaching sessions with the guests.

HOW IT RAN

THE SESSIONS

• Episode 1. Meet BTGM. Mandi Jo John, Meka King, Heather Ensley and Starleisha Michelle Gingrich on what BTGM is and what was coming next.
• October 14, 2020. Self-tapes. Clare Lopez and Jordan Woods-Robinson of Book From Tape, broadcast from their studio.
• November 11. Stage management. Beverly Jenkins, hosted by Daphnee McMaster.
• March 17, 2021. Dance and choreography. Bethany Bryant, hosted by Meka King and Danielle McGill.
• March 31, 2021. Intimacy direction. "How Does It Feel?" with Ann James.
• April 14, 2021. Playwriting. "The Art of Storytelling" with Kimberly Dixon-Mays.
• April 28, 2021. Directing. Roberta Emerson.
• May 12, 2021. Broadway. "They Say the Neon Lights Are Bright" with Jerusha Cavazos, Gabrielle Elisabeth and Amber Iman.