Episodes

Welcome to Inwood Art Works On Air. On this Artist Spotlight episode, we chat with actor and filmmaker, Manny Pérez Born in the Dominican Republic and based uptown in Washington Heights, Manny Pérez is a Dominican American actor that has gained international recognition for his contributions to film and television. He gained significant attention for his performance in the film "Washington Heights" (2002), which he cowrote and produced. His portrayal in this independent film earned him critical...

Welcome to a special concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air featuring Raun Ruffin’s Uptown Motown Throwdown in Vol 1 of the two-part concert podcast. Get up and dance or sit back and enjoy a live concert of Motown classic hits! The concert was recorded live on November 1, 2025 at Good Shepherd Auditorium.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air featuring Raun Ruffin’s Uptown Motown Throwdown in Vol 2 of the two-part concert podcast. Get up and dance or sit back and enjoy a live concert of Motown classic hits! The concert was recorded live on November 1, 2025 at Good Shepherd Auditorium.

On this special On Air episode, we are taking a moment to proudly share with you that Inwood Art Works is celebrating its 10th Anniversary Season. IAW founder, Aaron Simms speaks about the origins of the company and the evolution of our film, stage, music and visual arts programming. Plus, he looks forward and shares what is to come next for the company with the announcement of an "anniversary gift to Inwood and Uptown NYC" in honor of our 10th year! Tune in and find out!

Welcome to Inwood Art Works On Air podcast! On this episode we feature local interdisciplinary artists, Jamie and Emily Erekson. Both established independent artists in their own right. Together, Jamie and Emily lead SÆBØ Arts - an intermedia arts organization creating and producing genre-bending new work. For more information visit SÆBØ ARTS

Welcome to Inwood Art Works On Air podcast! On this episode we feature theater maker and artist enabler, Lauren Britt-Elmore. Dr. Lauren Britt-Elmore has the good fortune to have spent her entire career working in and with the theater. Finding her home in theater as an actor, she eventually found her place as a self-described “artist enabler.” She has cultivated that role for more than 20 years as a leader and coalition builder - crafting policy, implementing strategic plans, and leading progra...

Welcome to a special outdoor concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air podcast! This Live N’ Local episode features Constanza performing live as our pre-show entertainment as part of our Cine al Fresco program co-presented with the Hispanic Society Museum and Library on September 11, 2025. Constanza is a multi-dimensional artist from Chile based in LA. As a multi-instrumentalist musician with powerful, expressive vocals, Constanza weaves Electro Pop infused with her Latin roots and classical m...

Welcome to Inwood Art Works On Air podcast! On this episode we feature a multimedia artist, animator and filmmaker, Samuel Wright Smith. Samuel Wright Smith is a multimedia artist, animator and filmmaker based in Manhattan. Sam is interested in projects that blur imagined boundaries and explore connectedness. His animation work primarily utilizes less-common, low-tech physical media techniques, including watercolor, linocut print, collage cutouts, and oil pastel. Smith is interested in philosop...

Welcome to Inwood Art Works On Air podcast. This episode puts the spotlight on local filmmaker, Caleb Clarke. Caleb Clarke is a Manhattan-based writer, director, and editor who is drawn to themes of grace, shame, and redemption as well as the destigmatization of mental health issues. Caleb wrote the screenplays for three narrative short films produced through Times Square Church. Of those, his favorite project with TSC is Unseen (2023), a short he also directed and edited that explores faith an...

Welcome to a special outdoor concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air podcast! Zarzuela al Fresco! features singers Carla López-Speziale and Alejandro de los Santos and pianist Pablo Zinger performing live as our pre-show entertainment as part of our Cine al Fresco program co-presented with the Hispanic Society Museum and Library on September 4, 2025.

Welcome to a special outdoor concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air podcast! This Live N’ Local episode features Academia de Mariachi Nuevo Amanecer performing live as our pre-show entertainment as part of our Cine al Fresco program co-presented with the Hispanic Society Museum and Library on September 25, 2025.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air podcast featuring the String Orchestra of New York City (SONYC) performing SHATTERINGS. A program featuring acclaimed women composers of the 19th century who broke through the glass ceiling. This concert was recorded at Good Shepherd Church in Inwood NYC on March 22, 2026. Program: String Quartet in B minor - Teresa Carreño String Quartet, Op. 89 - Amy Beach. Melody in A flat major (arranged for string orchestra) – Louise Farren...

Welcome to Inwood Art Works On Air podcast! This week we speak with singer, actor, and writer Alexandra de Suze. Alexandra has hosted and performed cabaret, most recently her tribute show, Nina & Sarah & Aretha & Alex at The Green Room 42, directed for festivals, written for storytelling events, can be seen in the short films, What Do I Owe You? and Blindsight, heard on the podcasts Parenting Is A Joke, Expired, and What Happened in Skinner. She also has a satire series “Reince Preibus Tried…A...

Welcome to Inwood Art Works On Air podcast. On this Artist Spotlight episode we speak with film director, actor, and photographer, David Zayas Jr. David Zayas Jr. is a Bronx native and made his Off-Broadway directorial debut with Simpatico, at the Chain Theatre. Prior to that he directed the Jesus Hopped the A Train staged reading starring Common, John Ortiz, and David Zayas at the LABs 30th Anniversary. David also directed multiple times at the Barn Series, which included three New Works in pr...

Welcome to Inwood Art Works podcast. On this Artist Spotlight episode, we speak with local actress and singer Karen Jolicoeur. A versatile singing actress, Ms. Jolicoeur’s credits range from opera, concert and recital to musical theater and dance, and include three years as a principal artist with the Experience Vocal Dance Company. Heralded for creating “complicated, moving” characters as well as for her “warm, rich” voice, she has been known to New York audiences for her work with modern comp...

On this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast Artist Spotlight episode we interview multidisciplinary artist and performer, Clare Parme Miller. Clare is a multidisciplinary artist and performer whose work bridges theatre, improv comedy, and film. Based in New York City, Clare values spontaneity, authenticity, and play in all that she does both professionally and creatively.

On this Artist Spotlight edition of Inwood Art Works On Air podcast, we welcome local soprano, Karyn Levitt. Karyn Levitt wrote the shows Will There Still Be Singing? A Hanns Eisler Cabaret and On Hollywood and Weimar: Songs of European Composers from the Golden Age of Film and has performed them at renowned venues including the Center for Jewish History, Off-Broadway’s York Theater, Feinstein’s/54 Below, Cafe Sabarsky, Metropolitan Room, Princeton University, Brecht-Haus in Berlin and Goethe I...

On this Artist Spotlight edition of Inwood Art Works On Air podcast, we welcome local filmmaker, Andrew Kaberline. Andrew Kaberline is a writer and producer who tells stories somewhere on the venn diagram between "scary" and "heartwarming". He writes surreal horror, touching genre fare, and anxiety-driven nightmares. His short horror script Dummy won the HollyShorts Screenwriting Competition, was produced, and debuted at the historic TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. He’s also won the ScreenCra...

On this Inwood Art Works On Air podcast episode, we welcome local writer and cartoonist, Liza Donnelly. Liza Donnelly is a writer and cartoonist for The New Yorker Magazine and is a contributor to CBS News, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Donnelly’s TED talk was translated into 42 languages and viewed over 1.5 million times. The innovator of digital visual journalism called live drawing, she was the first cartoonist to be granted access on location to live draw the Academy Awa...

On this IAW On Air podcast episode we welcome local violinist, Keiko Tokunaga. Winner of the 2019 GRAMMY Award for Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance, violinist Keiko Tokunaga spends most of her days touring and performing globally as a soloist and chamber musician. Keiko has performed, toured and recorded extensively with the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet from 2005 to 2019, and has soloed with various orchestras including the Spanish National Orchestra, Orquestra Simfò...

On this Artist Spotlight episode, we visit with Grammy Award winning engineer, Michael O'Reilly. Michael is a Grammy Award winning engineer for his work recording and mixing Dianne Reeves’ A Little Moonlight (Best Jazz Vocal Album). Michael is also the mixer/engineer of 11 Grammy Award winning albums and 6 Grammy Award nominated albums, as well as 15 Platinum,19 Gold and 8 Multi-Platinum records. Simply put, most of us have heard the familiar sounds he's captured. Take for instance the Prince s...

On this On Air Artist Spotlight episode we welcome local actor, playwright, singer, and fight director, Sean Fletcher Griffin. As a child, Sean grew up in a family of Southern Pentecostal church musicians. He attended Florida State University where he double majored in Theatre and Creative Writing. He moved to New York City in 2011 where he started working with a small theatre company in Brooklyn called Phillstock, with whom he wrote, directed, and acted in several shows. As a member of UnkleD...

Welcome to a special concert edition of Inwood Art Works On Air podcast featuring the Inwood Chamber Players playing classical program featuring MOSTLY romantic works by Amy Beach, Giacomo Rossini, Claude Debussy, Max Bruch, and Gabriel Pierne arranged by Gilbert Dejean. Hence the name of the concert, Mostly Romantic! It also features local singer, Karen Jolicoeur. It was recorded live on May 3, 2026 at Good Shepherd Auditorium. Program:: Giuseppe Verdi - Prelude to Rigoletto Giacomo Rossini ...

Welcome to a special concert addition of Inwood Art Works On Air featuring the Nick Grider Trio performing at our Film Works Alfresco series and recorded live at The Hudson on June 1, 2026.