Welcome to the about page for Children of All Ages. It will provide instructive and useful information ‘about’ this podcast and it’s hosts Sheridan Stevens and Michael Liebhauser.
This is Sheridan
He has augmented his photo to make him self easier to locate.
This is Michael
He is pictured at the pinnacle of human joy.
Children of All Ages is a podcast about finding the things to love in Children’s Television, regardless of quality or suggested age range. Every other Saturday Michael and Sheridan pick a new kid’s TV product and dissect everything there is to love about it. Join them as they endeavor to find the joy in the jarring, the beauty in the bewildering, and the dazzling in the dismal.
Or learn more about the hosts
or scrolling down.
further…
just past the blue void.
promise.
mind the gap.
it gets bluer.
see?
so much bluer now.
Here they are!
Michael and Sheridan met when they were in middle school and have been making things together ever since.
While they both trained to be actors in their early years, their paths diverged around college as Sheridan took a greater interest in writing and composing.
Here is a photo of Sheridan looking like the kind of person who is about to take a greater interest in writing and composing.
There it is. That’s the good stuff. Looking all handsome, thinking about the vast mathematical complexities of music theory, or the finely woven cyclical nature of narrative that has shaped all of human history…
……or maybe just a good sandwich
Michael kept on studying to be an actor, and eventually even graduated from a college with a degree that said he was allowed to be one.
But it wasn’t long until the siren song of Sheridan’s writing habit, began to draw Michael in.
Here’s an image of Michael looking like someone who’s about to be drawn into something.
That’s the way young man. Lateral though it may be, a career move is a career move.
I bet he would just love us to tell you what book that was. Don’t worry, we wont.
And so it was.
Michael moved to New York and the two of them started writing together.
They wrote…
and wrote….
And took several nicely staged photos of themselves doing so…
Some of which didn’t make much sense.
Or presented an utterly false sense of organizational skill.
I mean…
Just look at that desk…
No clutter?
None?
do they think we’re idiots?
They did also get some writing done.
They wrote songs for musical theater as well as some folksier things that can be found here.
And when they weren’t posing or writing they did other things.
Sheridan went to the BMI Lehman Engel Program as a composer.
a program so prestigious, that Michael was rejected from it…
three separate times.
To help process that sadness Michael continued working with Sheridan, while also continuing to foster his career as an actor.
He has a website that’s all about that work
You can find it by clicking on this photo of him when he was 12
Grim stuff.
Hang in there little buddy, puberty comes for all of us.
When Michael isn’t making demands of his time, Sheridan uses his composing skills to write for a number of cabarets and small projects in and around New York City, even earning himself a mention in the New York Times .
They both also work as educators: Sheridan in music through Trinity Church and his own private piano and voice students, and Michael as a Shakespeare and Stage Combat teacher.
The long story short is this.
These are two friends and longtime collaborators that have come together with singular purpose. To shine light on something they both love: children’s television, and all of it’s glorious foibles, flaws, and failures.
So join them wont you?
I mean… just look at these goobers.
They need this.