Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen

Based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but something they care about. PPT invites guests to talk about one person, one place, and one thing with particular meaning to them.

Ronald K. Brown and Arcell Cabaug will sit down with radio-host Randy Cohen on stage at The Billie Holiday Theatre and reveal their 3 treasured subjects.

Come Join Us for a live taping as the Evidence, A Dance Company spends its 40th Anniversary celebrating the partnerships that helped lay the foundation for 4 decades of creativity and purpose.

About Randy Cohen

Randy Cohen’s first professional work was writing humor pieces, essays, and stories for newspapers and magazines (The New Yorker, Harpers, the Atlantic, Young Love Comics). His first television work was writing for “Late Night With David Letterman” for which he won three Emmy awards. His fourth Emmy was for his work on Michael Moore’s “TV Nation.” He received a fifth Emmy as a result of a clerical error, and he kept it. For twelve years he wrote “The Ethicist,” a weekly column for the New York Times Magazine. He is currently the creator and host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program. Follow him on Facebook .

RONALD K. BROWN, raised in Brooklyn, NY, founded EVIDENCE, A Dance Company in 1985. He has worked with Mary Anthony Dance Theater, Jennifer Muller/The Works, as well as other choreographers and artists. Brown is Co-Artistic Director of RestorationART Youth Arts Academy Pre-Professional Training Program / Restoration Dance Youth Ensemble, and a member of Stage Directors & Choreographers Society.

ARCELL CABUAG is a first-generation Filipino-American from San Jose, CA. He moved to New York City in 1996 to attend the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, where he was introduced to Ronald K. Brown. Soon after, he joined EVIDENCE, A Dance Company as its first apprentice, became a company member one year later, and has served as its Associate Artistic Director since 2004. He currently teaches EVIDENCE repertory at numerous universities and dance programs and is thrilled to be the newly appointed Billie Holiday Theatre’s Youth Arts Academy Director of Education and BHYAADE Co-Artistic Director.