Theatre Geeks Podcast
Great podcast about the Community Theatre, the 3 host are enjoyable to listen to.
About the Geeks
Theatre Geeks is podcast of lively conversation about community theatre, theatre in general and the performing arts, with John Shoup, Dave Dufour and Marcia Fulmer.
Marcia Fulmer
Entertainment Journalist, Theatre Mom
Marcia Fulmer is a New Jersey native, transplanted to Northern Indiana where she was the entertainment editor at The Elkhart Truth newspaper for many years. She is a highly knowledgeable theatre buff, an accomplished actress and director. She currently publishes her blog, Marcia Marcia Marcia, where she continues her regular review and comment on local and regional performing arts. Her daughter, Deirdre Lovejoy, is a professional actress who works in New York and Los Angeles.
John Jay Shoup
Artistic/Technical Director for Elkhart Civic Theatre
John is a life-time resident of the Mid-west, having grown up in Goshen, Indiana. He graduated in 1985 from Goshen College with a BA in Communication, emphasizing in Theatre, minoring in English and with his Secondary Education Teaching Certificate. Beginning as a volunteer with local community theatres, John expanded to performing with the professional companies at the Indianapolis Shakespeare Festival (Indianapolis, IN), Enchanted Hills Playhouse (Syracuse, IN), Wagon Wheel Theatre (Warsaw, IN) and The Round Barn Theatre (Nappanee, IN).
His volunteer work with Elkhart Civic Theatre in Bristol, IN began in 1984. John built on his strengths, directing, acting, stage management as well as designing scenery, costumes, and properties; eventually becoming the Technical Director in 1999, and Artistic/Technical Director in 2004. John has won numerous awards at State and Regional theatre festivals for his scenic and acting work.
Dave DufourWeb Developer, Advertising/Communications Consultant, Dufour Creative Services
Dave is an advertising and marketing consultant and web developer with a lifelong love of the theatre. In addition to consulting, he is Executive Director of Elkhart Civic Theatre at the Bristol Opera House. He began performing summers at Culver Summer Schools, Culver, Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University’s Journalism School, and has a Master’s Degree in advertising from Syracuse University.
Like John and Marcia, he has been an active part of Elkhart Civic Theatre for many years, serving in many capacities. He has won several awards for both acting and directing. Professionally, he has been an advertising, PR and marketing executive, as well as a motivational presenter and head of his own company, Act II Associates, from 1989 to 1996.
Chris Heyes is a skeptically-minded researcher of the unexplained. He received his degrees in Religious Studies and Anthropology from Appalachian State University, where he studied the ways myth and culture influence human perception in places throughout the world. His interests today also include media and, of course, how popular interest in subjects like UFOs, ghosts, and other strange phenomena often color people’s ideas about nature and reality. In addition to the study of the unexplained, Chris also enjoys photography, writing & reading short story fiction, and body art.
Caleb Hanks is a writer and musician who is passionate about the technological achievements that await us in the coming decades. Self described as “one of those battery’s half full kinda guys,” Caleb boasts a keen interest in technology, science, and especially the concept of an intelligence explosion in humanity’s future, leading to a sort of “event horizon” which science fiction writer and mathematician Vernor Vinge was first to refer to as “Singluarlity.” Caleb’s art and music have been featured in a variety of publications, websites, and other mediums, and his rock group, The Nova Echo, has featured futuristic themes and innovative concepts within the framework of driving, electronically-oriented rock music. After releasing their debut full-length album in October of 2009, and the five song “Voyager” EP in August of 2010, the band reentered the studio in the Spring of 2012 to craft another full-length offering expanding on the core characteristics the band portrays: hope, positivity, and the feelings of love, longing and companionship that a lonely space traveler might feel between the insurmountable distances within deep space. The band toured several times between 2009 and 2012, and now Caleb focuses most of his energies on art, layout, and design, as well as blogging about futurism, technological singularity, and artificial intelligence for The Gralien Report and Intrepid Magazine. Finally, Caleb’s original compositions are featured as theme music on the weekly Gralien Report Podcast, as well as on programs like Open Minds TV’s Spacing Out! with Jason McClelland and Maureen Elsberry. He can be reached via email 