This week she speaks with the actors Jessica St. Clair and June Diane Raphael, who co-host The Deep Dive , a podcast that explores their friendship and adult womanhood.
June Diane Raphael , 41, an actor, comedian, and screenwriter who currently co-stars on Grace and Frankie , co-founded The Jane Club co-working space, and co-hosts The Deep Dive podcast.
Jessica St. Clair , 44, an actor and writer who co-created and co-starred on Playing House, currently appears on Avenue 5 , and co-hosts The Deep Dive podcast. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Julie Beck: Tell me about how you met and your first impressions of each other. I could see that you and Casey were best girlfriends—that spoke to me. I became obsessed with you two. You think that you stalked me, but I really laid the groundwork to stalk you. June Diane Raphael: At that time very few women were performing improv.
The form to me always felt very male. But a couple of women at UCB were unbelievable improvisers and lovely, supportive people and Jessica was one of them. Casey and I considered her one of the elder statesmen of the theater. I had been here longer than you guys. I had to clean the bathroom to get my stage time and you two just rolled in from NYU and took the stage.
