{"podcast":{"title":"Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine","slug":"little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599","podcast_index_feed_id":218599,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ALM3701330109","website_url":"http://www.LittleKnownFactsPodcast.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/eed12a4a-c61c-11e6-808f-07b60c989991/image/IMG_6644.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Hosted by actress Ilana Levine","episode_count":527,"summary":"With her unique style of hosting, Ilana Levine gives her listeners up close and personal access to today's biggest stars from Broadway, Film and Television. Her intimate and revealing conversations with Tony Award, Academy Award, Grammy Award and Emmy Award winners gives listeners the feeling they are part of a conversation between old friends. Guests include Julianne Moore, Matthew Broderick, Isabelle Huppert, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ben Platt, Uma Thurman, Matt Bomer, Aasif Mandvi, Octavia Spencer, Edie Falco, Allison Janney, Beanie Feldstein, John Slattery, Judith Light, Molly Ringwald, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Chenoweth, Anthony Rapp, Jason Alexander, Tony Shalhoub, Griffin Dunne, Kaskade, Laura Linney and many more. New episodes are released on Mondays.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 509 - Dane Laffrey","slug":"episode-509-dane-laffrey","published_at":"2026-05-25T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599/episode-509-dane-laffrey","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL3008611007.mp3?updated=1779637883","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL3008611007.mp3?updated=1779637883","summary":"Dane Laffrey is a Tony Award-winning designer, creative and producer based in New York City. He studied at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art and resided in Sydney from 2002 - 2006. On Broadway he’s designed the set for The Lost Boys (Palace) Maybe Happy Ending (Belasco) which won the 2025 Tony Award for Best Musical and for which Dane won Tony, Drama Desk Awards and Henry Hewes Awards, Parade (Jacobs) which won the 2023 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical; set and costumes for Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (Nederlander), which he co-conceived with director Michael Arden and for which he is nominated for Hewes and Tony Awards; the 2018 Tony-winning revival of Lynn Ahren's and Stephen Flaherty's Once On This Island (Circle in the Square) for which he received Henry Hewes, Drama Desk and Tony Award nominations; set and costumes for the acclaimed Deaf West revival of Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s Spring Awakening (Brooks Atkinson); set for the Broadway premiere of Sam Shepard’s Fool For Love (Friedman). In New York, around the US, and internationally Dane has designed world premiere plays and musicals by writers including Todd Almond, Will Aronson and Hue Park, Nell Benjamin, Rachel Bonds, Nilo Cruz, Lindsey Ferrentino, David Greenspan, Noah Haidle, Lucas Hnath, Sam Hunter, Sarah Jones, Tom Kitt, Michael John LaChiusa, Dan LeFranc, Matthew Lopez, Craig Lucas, Charles L. Mee, Alan Menken, Kim Rosenstock, Martin Sherman, Jenny Schwartz, Stephen Schwartz and Jen Silverman. Dane’s work in New York has been seen at theatres including Roundabout Theatre Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theatre, The Public Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Atlantic Theatre Company, Transport Group, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, B.A.M. Harvey, Vineyard Theatre, Th…","meta_description":"Dane Laffrey is a Tony Award-winning designer, creative and producer based in New York City. He studied at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2192,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599/episodes/episode-509-dane-laffrey/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599/episode-509-dane-laffrey.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}