The Breakfast Dish
Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!
Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning.
27/02/2023
Check out this interview with David Oulton chatting with our Co-Hosts Griffin Cork and Karen Johnson-Diamond on OUTtv about the podcast and a whole myriad of topics.
Face To Face With David - Season 4 Episode 10: Alaska & Griffin Cork | OUTtv Featuring drag superstar Alaska
24/11/2022
Jobs (Alberta): Supervisors - Theatre Alberta / Artstrek
Theatre Alberta's Artstrek 2023 program is seeking applications for supervisors.
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So, Karen and Griffin successfully tricked Fabienne Colas and made her feel like she was safe in her living room. What did she reveal?! Find out on 🍳🎙
Alberta Podcast Network | Buzzsprout | Calgary Black Film Festival - CBFF
04/11/2022
Our little show got featured on Amazon Music underneath the 'Hidden Gems' and 'Inspiring Indies' sections! A big breakfast hug to the team at Buzzsprout for making this happen. | Alberta Podcast Network
31/10/2022
We know it's been a while since we've released a new episode, but we keep hearing from new folks who joined the TBD Train a little later! Happy Halloween to all of our Breakfasteers!
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Karen and Griffin surprise Jason Mehmel from Sage Theatre with a new segment on The Breakfast Dish about exposing hypnotists. Is it a new segment? Yes. Will it come up again? We hope so.
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Karen and Griffin have gotten really bold with their competency in dream analysis and diagnosis; but the two of them, along with Tenaj Williams, get to the bottom of something really haunting that could affect the whole planet.
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27/06/2022
Our friends over at CoHost asked Griffin about The Breakfast Dish and The Die As Cast, and he shared some of his podcasting tips that he's learned over the last two years! Read it here: http://ow.ly/Y1zs50JIvmr
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25/06/2022
6000?! We can barely count that high. Thanks for listening to our goofy interview show, Breakfasteers!
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Who's more polite? Griffin? Or Mary-Ellen Perley from the Alberta Drama Festival Association (ADFA)? I think it's pretty easy to tell in this snippet from Episode #67!
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Monty Haughian from Grande Prairie Live Theatre regales Karen in his first theatre experience involving punk rock housewives and day-old corn flakes. A quick snippet from Episode #66!
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31/05/2022
For the finale of Season 3, Karen and Griffin are joined by the quick-witted Alex Sarian. Previously working at the prestigious Lincoln Center in New York, Alex has been the CEO of Arts Commons since 2019 and comes on the show to chat about Calgary, burps, and building a vision for one of Canada's largest artistic hubs.
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#75 - Alex Sarian - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dai...
25/05/2022
This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor, director, and educator Luc Tellier. Luc is the is the Director of Education and Outreach at the Citadel Theatre, but he's mostly here to chat about Theatre Alberta's Summer Drama Camp for Teens: ARTSTREK! After a year away and a year online, they are back IRL with Qui Nguyen's She Kills Monsters the play of study.
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#74 - Luc Tellier - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dai...
21/05/2022
We are quickly coming to a close on the 3rd Season of - Thanks for listening everybody, and thanks for telling us about your dreams and dishing about your breakkie.
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19/05/2022
This week, Karen and Griffin were invited to record an episode live at the 2022 Calgary Expo! So, who better to chat with than filmmaker, author, and Expo Expert; Spencer Estabrooks. Spencer sits down with our hosts to chat about One Hit Die, Sharkasaurus, love comics, and BIKEPOCALYPSE.
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#73 - Spencer Estabrooks (Live at the Calgary Expo!) - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dai...
11/05/2022
On this week's episode, Karen and Griffin chat with Dai Matsuzaka and Arlene Orchard, a Grade 12 drama student/drama teacher combo at the Foundations for the Future Charter Academy. Dai just finished starring in, directing, choreographing and designing a one act play for his high school and he tells us just how that is humanly possible. Arlene, besides being a teacher and a choir director and a professional musician, is also on the steering committee for the Alberta High School Drama Festival.
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#72 - Arlene Orchard and Dai Matsuzaka - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dai...
06/05/2022
This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Col Cseke and Mike Keir from Inside Out Theatre. Col is the Artistic Director of Inside Out, and will be directing Karen and Mike in an online improv show later this month. They chat about their neighborhoods, their history with improv, lying to bus drivers, and telling time through wrestling.
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#71 - Col Cseke & Mike Keir - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dai...
28/04/2022
Huge shout-out to the Calgary Expo and the Alberta Podcast Network for bringing us out to record a live episode with Spencer Estabrooks! Our One Hit Die/Sharkasaurus chat coming soon!
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26/04/2022
This week, Karen and Griffin chat with "The Queen of Festivals", Fabienne Colas. Winner of the 2019 Canada's Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award, Fabienne is an award-winning actress, filmmaker, speaker, and business owner who works tirelessly and passionately to support and promote diversity off and on screen around the globe. We're focusing on the Calgary Black Film Festival - CBFF, one of twelve (12!) festivals Fabienne founded.
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#70 - Fabienne Colas - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, film, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dai...
24/04/2022
This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Jason Mehmel; the Artistic Director of Sage Theatre and long time D&D buddy of Griffin's. The trio chat about Sage's upcoming production of 'Cantata', the difference between TED and TEDxyyc, and their theories on debunking hypnotists.
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#69 - Jason Mehmel - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and...
A scary snowstorm at Rosebud Theatre, as told by Alix Cowman. An empathetic act of kindness? Or a threat? Only you can decide.
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14/04/2022
Breakfasteers, this is a no-joke milestone. We are on our way to wrapping up Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish, and we love you very much. That's all, thank you. - Karen & Griffin
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No episode this week, but here's a little snippet from Episode 64 where Gabriel Covarrubias educated Karen and Griffin on the Spanish Muppet Babies and René The Frog.
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07/04/2022
This week, Karen and Griffin chat with actor, singer, dancer, and playwright; Tenaj Williams! They chat about his past and upcoming shows at Vertigo Theatre, the wall of spikes, and his recurring role on CTV's Jann!
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#68 - Tenaj Williams - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and...
30/03/2022
This week, Karen and Griffin chat with Mary-Ellen Perley - the President of the Alberta Drama Festival Association (ADFA) (the minds behind the One Act Festivals)! Mary-Ellen comes on the show to chat about the upcoming regional and provincial festivals, Mark Rylance, and mothers in their natural state of snitching.
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#67 - Mary-Ellen Perley - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and...
22/03/2022
This week, Karen (bravely, without Griffin) is joined by Monty Haughian from Grande Prairie Live Theatre. Monty took some time to chat about theatre in GP and why he 'comes alive' for Theatre.
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#66 - Monty Haughian - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and...
18/03/2022
This week, Karen and Griffin Cork are joined by actor, musician and honey lover Alix Cowman. Alix is a co-creator and company member of 'Alberta Kitchen Party' - playing now at Alberta Theatre Projects. She'll rap, she'll reminisce, she'll warm your heart, AND she wrote and performs our podcast jingle!
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#65 - Alixandra Cowman - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and...
On our episode with Crystal McGrath, Karen revealed some haunting facts about her diet and some reasons to pity her doctor 🧁🥛
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10/03/2022
Thanks for listening and sharing your breakfast with us for almost two years. Keep on going, Breakfasteers! - Love, Karen & Griffin
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08/03/2022
This week, Karen and Griffin are joined by actor and lovely human, Gabriel Covarrubias! He and Karen have been working together on the Citadel Theatre's production of 'Peter Pan Goes Wrong' - and she realized we had to have him on the show!
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#64 - Gabriel Covarrubias - The Breakfast Dish Welcome to Season 3 of The Breakfast Dish! Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning for get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind today's dance, music, visual art, and theatre. This podcast is dairy and...
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