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Amanda Cordner speaks to writer and actor Berend McKenzie about the stories behind their critically acclaimed plays, Amanda and Berend’s shared love-hate relationship with Alberta, being made to feel like an outlier in your community, how Amanda’s role on ‘Sort Of’ inspired Berend, their advice to artists with broken illusions of opportunity in the entertainment industry, and how art will always find a way to you if you have an artist’s heart.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner
Berend: instagram.com/berendmckenzie
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Executive Produced by Amanda Cordner
Produced and Directed by Clark Park Films and Monica Mustelier
Produced by Stephanie Cowan
Edited by Luana Hesse
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Amanda Cordner speaks to entrepreneur and skin therapist Allana Davis about how she overcomes lack mindset and imposter syndrome, double standards of beauty for women of colour, how some heads of departments of hair and makeup working in television don’t even know how to style Black hair, Allana’s advice to young people working in beauty spaces, how selfishness can be a revolutionary form of caring for yourself and those around you, and the way their mutual friend (and director of this show!) Monica influences both Allana and Amanda to push through their insecurities.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner
Allana: instagram.com/allanadavisstudio
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Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilms
Executive Produced by Amanda Cordner
Produced and Directed by Clark Park Films and Monica Mustelier
Produced by Stephanie Cowan
Edited by Luana Hesse
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Amanda Cordner speaks to producer Lisa Benedetto about producing before she even knew what it was, stripping to Natasha Bedingfield, how we’re all multi-hyphenates, Canadian shows getting canceled before they find their stride, how Magic City must have a trainee program, Amanda’s stressful experience at the Canadian Screen Awards, and how overnight success is not real.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner
Lisa: instagram.com/lillisab
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Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilms
Executive Produced by Amanda Cordner
Produced and Directed by Clark Park Films and Monica Mustelier
Produced by Stephanie Cowan
Edited by Luana Hesse
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Amanda Cordner speaks to actor and writer Vicki Kim about how she harnessed her anger into cathartic standup comedy, the delusion of momentum, searching for complex roles, time spent preparing for auditions, how easy it is to look silly while pole dancing, balancing unpaid work for the sake of making art, and why auditioning for Magic City sounds easier than making it in the Canadian film industry.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner
Vicki Kim: instagram.com/thevickikim
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Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilms
Executive Produced by Amanda Cordner
Produced and Directed by Clark Park Films and Monica Mustelier
Produced and Edited by Stephanie Cowan
Edited by Luana Hesse
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Amanda Cordner speaks to experienced publicist Amira de Vera about the Canadian star system, how Amira overcame insecurity in her expertise while growing her business, how to kill the mindset that your work isn’t worthy enough to promote, and if Amira thinks that Amanda’s journey to become a Magic City stripper would cause a PR crisis.Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner Amira De Vera: instagram.com/amiradeveraFollow us: linktr.ee/allroadsleadtomagiccity Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilmsExecutive Produced by Amanda CordnerProduced and Directed by Clark Park Films and Monica MustelierProduced by Stephanie CowanEdited by Stephanie Cowan and Luana Hesse
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Amanda Cordner speaks with multifaceted performing artist and actor Lisa Michelle Cornelius about the calling to be an artist, disrespectful casting processes, Queen Cardi B’s philosophy on owning who you are, the life-changing experience of being one of multiple Black women as leads, the ceiling of success for Canadian actors, and why Lisa Michelle doesn’t think Amanda’s road to the Magic City stage would ruin her acting career.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner Lisa Michelle: instagram.com/yeslisamichelleFollow us: linktr.ee/allroadsleadtomagiccity Clark Park Films: instagram.com/clarkparkfilms
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Amanda Cordner speaks with entrepreneur and expert financial advisor Jay Francis about everything from Jay’s personal experience at Magic City to what artists and creators should really be investing in, ways Amanda can bring her future wealth back into Canada, the metaphorical significance of the literal low ceilings in Toronto strip clubs, digging into the root of Amanda’s financial anxieties, the push for Canadian actors to touch ground in the U.S. to make it big, and how Michael “Magic” Barney could ever stop Amanda’s grand journey to the stage.
Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner
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Amanda Cordner talks with the innovative entrepreneur and makeup artist Nicole Guthrie to dissect her beauty empire, the differences (or lack thereof?) between acting and stripping, and how even in corporate jobs we’re all dancing for daddy.
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Amanda Cordner sits down with her ‘Sort Of’ co-star Bilal Baig to chat about the scarcity of chances for trans and racialized actors, the importance of chilling, what drives Bilal’s inner storyteller, and their experience at Magic City that revealed Amanda’s yellow brick road.
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Amanda: instagram.com/theamandacordner
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