First Online with Fran

12/13/2025

Here in NYC! Excited to see OEDIPUS!!!!

12/13/2025

Proud SAG member and New Yorker!

Today New York made history, becoming the first state to require companies disclose when they use AI-generated actors in advertisements.

New York wouldn’t be New York without its film and TV industry. Responsible AI policies like this protect the actors who keep it running.

10/31/2025

Please join Women's Media Group for this amazing event with Karine Jean Pierre.

Join WMG at Red Rooster Harlem for a powerful luncheon with Karine Jean-Pierre, former White House Press Secretary and author of Independent. This special event continues our tradition of bringing together extraordinary women whose ideas challenge and inspire. Sign up today: https://www.womensmediagroup.org/event-6406290

10/27/2025

Lina AbiRafeh is a prominent women’s rights activist, author, and speaker, dedicated to eradicating inequality for women. With three decades of experience, she has worked in over 20 countries to create real-life solutions to the global challenges women and girls face. Lina is also the Founder and Chief Changemaker of Better4Women, her advisory firm delivering practical and innovative solutions for gender equality.

Join Dr. Frances McGarry on FIRST ONLINE WITH FRAN as she speaks with Lina AbiRafeh: Women's Rights in Dark Times.

10/12/2025

Hey, Pam UB you're mentioned in today's Newday!! Keaton filmed on LU, visited Book R***e.

08/25/2025

What if theater wasn’t just entertainment… but a force for real change?

Meet Anne Hamburger, visionary Executive Artistic Director & Founder of En Garde Arts, whose work transforms entire cities into stages, amplifies unheard voices, and brings communities together through immersive, site-specific theater.

From tackling freedom of speech to creating intimate productions in NYC apartments, Anne’s artistry proves that theater can break boundaries and build human connection when the world needs it most.

👉 Discover her story and her latest project Last Call: a play with cocktails on First Online with Fran:
🔗 https://lnkd.in/edCHH_pa

✨ If you believe art has the power to transform, this one’s for you.
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08/19/2025

Discover the power of extraordinary stories with First Online with Fran — the podcast that celebrates ordinary people doing remarkable things in the arts. Hosted by Dr. Frances McGarry, a dynamic actress, author, and educator with a PhD from NYU, each episode dives deep into inspiring journeys that transform culture and spark change.

From captivating conversations with creatives across the globe to authentic insights that uplift and empower, podcast is your go-to source for art, passion, and purpose. Whether you’re an artist, educator, or art lover — First Online with Fran connects you to stories that heal, inspire, and ignite your own creative spark.

💬 Have a creative story, experience, or idea you’d love to share or discuss? We want to hear from you! Connect with us, and let’s keep the conversation going.

✨ Tune in now at firstonlinewithfran.com and follow us on all social media platforms for the latest episodes and updates.

First Online with Fran is an award-winning podcast hosted by Dr. Frances McGarry, featuring ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the arts. Over 100 episodes and counting.

08/19/2025

En Garde Arts presents, from the artist-led collective The Pack and Obie Award-winning playwright Hansol Jung (Wolf Play) comes Last Call: a play with cocktails, an intimate, immersive, site-specific performance staged in real New York apartments performed by the knockout rotating cast of Chris Bannow, Esco Jouléy, Dorcas Leung, Brian Quijada, Nicole Villamil, Mitch Winter. Co-directed by Jung and Dustin Wills, with dramaturgy and mixology by Lexy Leuszler.

Performed for an audience of just 20-40 guests at a time, Last Call unfolds behind a bar and among the crowd, where mixers are stirred, memories are shaken, and a story begins to pour. Hosts and guests blur together in a swirl of love, grief, survival, and the fictions we swallow to feel alive.

Equal parts ghost story, house party, and theatrical séance, this bold new piece invites audiences into a world not unlike our own: post-crisis, mid-recovery, and craving connection.

Tickets here: https://ci.ovationtix.com/34637/production/1244068
Here is the link to the podcast to accompany the recent production: https://firstonlinewithfran.com/2025/04/04/anne-hamburger-site-specific-theater/

08/13/2025

And here's Anne Hamburger podcast for a listen to the extraordinary work that's happening at En Garde Arts.

Join Dr. Frances McGarry on FIRST ONLINE WITH FRAN as she speaks with Anne Hamburger: Site-Specific Theater.

08/13/2025

Here's an update on Anne Hamburger's En Garde Arts' next production. Hope you can make it. Got my ticket for Opening Night September 25th at 7PM.

En Garde Arts presents, from the artist-led collective The Pack and Obie Award-winning playwright Hansol Jung (Wolf Play) comes Last Call: a play with cocktails, an intimate, immersive, site-specific performance staged in real New York apartments performed by the knockout rotating cast of Chris Bannow, Esco Jouléy, Dorcas Leung, Brian Quijada, Nicole Villamil, Mitch Winter. Co-directed by Jung and Dustin Wills, with dramaturgy and mixology by Lexy Leuszler.

Performed for an audience of just 20-40 guests at a time, Last Call unfolds behind a bar and among the crowd, where mixers are stirred, memories are shaken, and a story begins to pour. Hosts and guests blur together in a swirl of love, grief, survival, and the fictions we swallow to feel alive.

Equal parts ghost story, house party, and theatrical séance, this bold new piece invites audiences into a world not unlike our own: post-crisis, mid-recovery, and craving connection.

Tickets here:

07/12/2025

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