Getting Out of the Way with Matthew Arkin

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Getting Out of the Way with Matthew Arkin
Today we welcome Broadway, film and TV actor Matthew Arkin. Matthew is also an author, acting teacher, writing coach, and co-host of the podcast The Arkin Brothers Talk about Movies. Recently, he has added booze entrepreneur to the many hats he wears, and we'll hear about that today as well!
Our conversation includes:
- Matthew's background and his new project, the grain-based spirit business, Batch 22
- A story about walking out on stage and doing absolutely nothing
- The lesson and gift of his story: not controlling the experience
- The only way to make it happen is to stay out of the way and let it happen
- Matthew's book The Country of the Blind, and a script about...lava babies!
- Learn about his booze entrepreneurship, Batch 22 and creativity with cocktails
- The Batch 22 Road Trip: 16 cities in two weeks = a lot of craft cocktail drinking
- Connect with Matthew at the links below
Guest Bio: Matthew Arkin is an actor, author, and educator. Among his extensive television credits are Get Shorty, Hawaii Five-0, Bull, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Aquarius, and Law and Order. Film credits include indies Margot at the Wedding, Second Best, Raising Flagg, The Curse, and Bittersweet Place, as well as Death to Smoochy, Liar, Liar, North, and An Unmarried Woman. His Broadway credits include Neil Simon’s The Sunshine Boys, with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall, Mr. Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and Manhattan Theater Club’s Losing Louie. Other New York credits include originating the role of Gabe in Donald Margulies’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Dinner with Friends (Drama Desk nomination), Moonlight and Magnolias at MTC, Rounding Third and War in Paramus. Among his regional theater credits are The Sisters Rosenswieg, The Siegel, All the Way, The Whale, The Prince of Atlantis, and Our Mother’s Brief Affair, all at South Coast Rep, Surf Report at La Jolla Playhouse, and The Scene at Hartford Stage Company. He teaches acting in Los Angeles, and is Director of the Acting Intensive Program at South Coast Repertory and an adjunct professor at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University. He is also the author of the suspense novel In the Country of the Blind.
Matthew's website: https://www.matthewarkin.com/
Matthew Arkin Studio: http://matthewarkinstudio.com/
Drink Batch 22: DrinkBatch22.com
The Arkin Brothers Talk about Movies Podcast: https://apple.co/3wluNw2
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