David Dastmalchian
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 22 Jun
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I think every school should have a program like that.
It was for the entire school district, but it was just a place where we got to learn about animals and appreciation for animals and ecology in a way that was so hands-on.
And I wish every school district in America had that.
Here we go, it's categories time.
Oh boy.
I'm nervous.
Oh, you got to do it now.
My most memorable experience with an animal actor was on stage.
Interestingly, I trained in Chicago at the theater school DePaul University.
I was very grateful to be a part of some really incredible productions, but one of the most incredible productions
It was a part of the professor, my time, Peter Hobart.
He had acquired the rights to produce an unproduced play that had been written by Clifford Odets, who was one of the founding members of the group theater and was just a core American dramatist of the 20th century and like a major socialist who was a big part of like
philosophical drama and what was going on, especially mid-century and earlier in America.
And he had written this play that was originally titled I Got the Blues.
Well, when Harold Klerman and the other members of the group theater read this play, they were so
Devastatedly depressed by it that there's no way we could put this on stage and brought on, you know in Broadway Like this is even though we do dark.
We can't go this dark So he went and reworked the play and it became a very successful and famous play called Awaken sing now the dog in the play I play a one-legged mobster who's in love with the daughter of the family he's a veteran of the First World War and
And his name is Mo Axelrod.
And he talks in all kinds of wonderful... The language of this is so beautiful.
But the dog's name was named after the lead character of the play.
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