Person Place Thing is an interview show based on this idea: people are particularly engaging when they speak not directly about themselves but about something they care about. Guests talk about one person, one place, and one thing that are important to them. The result? Surprising stories from great talkers.
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 The New York Times Magazine. Currently he is the host of Person Place Thing, a public radio program.
ABOUT KATE BURTON
Kate Burton has been nominated for three Tony Awards for her work on Broadway in Hedda Gabler (directed by Nicholas Martin), The Elephant Man (with Billy Crudup) and The Constant Wife (with Lynn Redgrave), her other Broadway shows include Present Laughter (with both George C Scott and Kevin Kline), the original production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Martin McDonagh directed by Garry Hynes (and in the UK/Ireland tour) and Company (directed by Scott Ellis). Having played Prospera in The Tempest at The Old Globe in 2018, Volumnia in Coriolanus at NY’s Shakespeare in the Park in 2019 and Ghost of Christmas Past at the Ahmanson Theatre in 2021, she will next appear in Master Class in the summer of 2023 to be directed by Susan Stroman. An Emmy nominee for "Grey’s Anatomy" and "Scandal", she has most recently been seen in "Inventing Anna", "The Dropout", "Bosch Legacy" and "The First Lady" and is currently on the big screen in Breaking. Other film work includes 127 Hours, Ice Storm, Unfaithful, Where’d You go, Bernadette and Big Trouble in Little China. She is a Professor of Theatre Practice in Acting at USC and teaches and directs both contemporary and classical theater and camera classes at SDA. A graduate of Brown University and The Yale School of Drama, she received an Honorary Doctorate from Brown in 2007. She serves as a trustee at Broadway Cares/Equity Fights Aids, Williamstown Theater Festival, Brown University and is on the council of Actor’s Equity Association.