This JRS Happy Hour Conversation was recorded on December 15th, 2020 with guests John Rosenfeld, Brittney Rentschler, Erin Rye, and Ryan Garcia. Join us as we chat about saying goodbye to this difficult, crazy year and turn our eyes toward 2021. This conversation was an absolute joy. Happy Holidays! Sign up for the JRS & Actor Salon 48 Virtual Film Festival. Click here for details and registration: https://bit.ly/3avKBUf Please RATE & REVIEW the show on iTunes and Spotify! Follow Industr...
Dec 17, 2020•1 hr 21 min
Lindsay Chambers is back! Brian and Lindsay share their TOP 5 WATCHES DURING QUARANTINE and the results are fun and surprising! Then... are movie theaters dead? What's going to be nominated for Oscar's this year and does anyone care? Please RATE & REVIEW the show on iTunes and Spotify! Follow Industry Town on Social Media: Instagram: @IndustryTownPodcast Twitter: @IndustryTownPod Facebook: @IndustryTownPodcast Email: IndustryTownPodcast@gmail.com Presenting Sponsor John Rosenfeld Studios and...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 10 min
This JRS Happy Hour Conversation was recorded over Zoom on 11/10/20. It was our first episode after the 2020 election. ADAM RAY joined John and I all the way from Australia where he is shooting the new comedy series YOUNG ROCK for NBC. His story about how a candle that smells like Gwyneth Paltrow's crotch led to a friendship with The Rock is one of the best things I've heard all year. Enjoy! Join the JRS Happy Hour Conversations facebook group to sign up for our next happy hour. For more informa...
Dec 02, 2020•1 hr 24 min
**EPISODE FIXED** Filmmakers Graham Sibley and Jeffrey Scott Collins stop by to talk about their new independent romantic comedy POOR GREG DROWNING, available for free November 12th on Amazon Prime. We get into how the made their film and its 5 year journey from short film to web series to festival winning feature, with fun stories and advice for aspiring filmmakers. Please RATE & REVIEW Industry Town on iTunes and Spotify! POOR GREG DROWNING is available on Amazon Prime. Mark Duplass' SXSW ...
Nov 11, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Brian is thrilled to welcome good friend and Headshot Truck Founder BRIAN CONFER to the pod for an enlightening conversation on entrepreneurship, business, and creativity. Brian was a fantastic guest. HIs business savvy and personal story are fantastic for actors who want to learn more about taking control of their lives and business. He also vulnerably talks about his decision to pause his professional acting career to seek stability in the business world. His story of the ups and downs with Th...
Oct 26, 2020•1 hr 21 min
**TWO-PART EPISODE!** We got a big one to wrap up our look into #Voiceover. First up, Brian welcomes longtime friend and award-winning voiceover artist REBECCA DAVIS. Rebecca is known for her versatility; commercials, animation, video games, promo, even movie trailers. She talks about how she took her theater training and brought it to a new medium, created a career that prolifically spans all VO genres, and her advice on how to start your own VO career. At 1:07:15, we change gears and chat with...
Oct 18, 2020•2 hr 2 min
TOM LAWLESS is the President of VOX, Inc, one of the top voiceover agencies in Los Angeles. He's also an active agent, mine in fact! Tom was nice enough to stop by the podcast to share his POV on all things voiceover. Everything you could want to know from finding representation to his thoughts on auditions, equipment, classes, and technique, and more get hit in this quick one-hour interview. Please RATE & REVIEW Industry Town on iTunes and Spotify! For more on VOX: Instagram: @VOX_INC_USA w...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Let's talk about getting started in voiceover. There's almost too much information out there, the equipment factor is daunting, and where to begin feels difficult to pin down. This week I welcome to great actors to share their early experiences navigating this new part of their careers. 3:36 - MARC FAJARDO (The Outsider, The Hate U Give) started looking into VO at the start of Covid-19. He went down the research rabbit hole and is here to share what he learned. 27:15 - RYAN GARCIA (Community, Ro...
Sep 08, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Wildly talented voiceover and on-camera actress KRIZIA BAJOS (The Casagrandes, NCIS: Los Angeles) is on the podcast talking all things voiceover. Krizia does it all in VO - major commercials, animated movies and television, not to mention working prolifically in video games we all know and love like The Sims and The Last Of Us. We talk craft, career, equipment, demo reels, and Krizia's new business Voiceover. Camp where she teaches VO workshops, workout groups, and offers private coaching. Check...
Aug 24, 2020•1 hr 20 min
Today’s guest is one of the stars of the audiobook world, EDOARDO BALLERINI. He is a two-time winner of the Audiobook Publishers Association Best Male Narrator Audie Award. He has recorded nearly 300 titles including best sellers from James Patterson and David Baldacci, classics from Tolstoy, Dante, Kafka, and Whitman, and even the newest recording of The Hebrew Bible. New York Times Magazine did a profile on Edoardo in May with the headline, "The Voice Of God." Edoardo is also a celebrated on-c...
Aug 10, 2020•1 hr 12 min
The amazing TEDDY SEARS (The Politician, The Flash) is on the podcast this week. Teddy is a phenomenal actor who has done it all - soaps, superhero shows, prestige cable, you name it. We dive into all of it and revisit one of my favorite segments: bad audition stories! Teddy and his wife also had Covid and talked about their experience with that horrific illness. We spend the first bit of time talking about current events including Covid, Black Lives Matter, and the responsibility of using the p...
Jun 16, 2020•1 hr 50 min
Friend and actor DAWAN OWENS (6 Balloons, If Loving You Is Wrong, The Farm) is on the podcast today. I wanted him to share his experience of the past week - on the murder of George Floyd, the protests, #BlackoutTuesday, and how to be an affective and empathetic ally. We also talked about his experience in the entertainment industry and what I can learn as a coach, actor, and friend. Donate to Black Lives Matter: https://bit.ly/2MvhUsY Support 8CantWait: 8cantwait.org Youtube Video on Redlining: ...
Jun 04, 2020•1 hr 6 min
JRS Happy Hour Conversations! May 12th: DDO Theatrical Agent ANTHONY BOYER. After a career as a music director and conductor, Anthony transitioned to the representation world in 2007, working his way up through the ranks until November 2013, when he started the west coast theatrical division of DDO Artists Agency. In that capacity, Anthony works with a tightly-woven team of theatrical agents in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles to create opportunities for their clients in television, film, and ...
May 29, 2020•2 hr 30 min
Showrunner Josh Corbin (REPRISAL, STARTUP) joins Brian to share what it's like and lessons learned from getting to make the show he'd been dreaming about for years. Along the way we talk about classic noir, Josh's favorite b-movies, and what it's like to showrun from across the country. All episodes of REPRISAL are streaming now on HULU! Please RATE & REVIEW Industry Town on iTunes and Spotify! DONATE to Feed the Front Lines LA through World Health Kitchen at https://donate.wck.org SUBSCRIBE...
May 25, 2020•1 hr 41 min
Brian welcomes actor and filmmaker LYNN CHEN to talk about her debut feature I WILL MAKE YOU MINE which she wrote, produced, directed and stars in. We talk about her road to getting behind the camera, why impostor syndrome never goes away, cultivating magic on set, and so much more. I WILL MAKE YOU MINE will be available on cable and digital streaming beginning May 26th, 2020. Pre-order the film TODAY and receive a personalized movie postcard from Lynn. For details visit: https://iwillmakeyoumin...
May 11, 2020•1 hr 5 min
TWO PART EPISODE! First up, LEAH MCKENDRICK (Summer Loving, M.F.A.) is back to talk about how to "Write The Damn Screenplay," It was an awesome conversation with one of the smartest and most charismatic people, done originally over Instagram Live. Then, about an hour in, you can hear our first JRS Happy Hour Conversation where John Rosenfeld and I interview the amazing Casting Director AMÉY RENE (Everything Sucks!, Captain Fantastic) about the ups and downs of life in quarantine before getting h...
May 05, 2020•2 hr 10 min
Actress and Career Coach JENNA DOOLITTLE (American Horror Story, Rattlesnake) is the mastermind behind the incredibly helpful ACTORS RISE NEWSLETTER. She was kind of enough to stop by to talk all about the newsletter as well as life and career for actors during quarantine. She's brings a shocking amount of warmth, clarity, and structure to these strange times and I hope this episode can provide the same for everyone listening. Sign up for the ACTORS RISE Newsletter here: bit.ly/actorquarantine J...
Apr 27, 2020•1 hr 14 min
Brian welcomes friend and actor Samara Weaving (READY OR NOT, HOLLYWOOD, BILL AND TED FACE THE MUSIC) to talk about her work, growing up on screen in Australia, how she's getting through quarantine, and her process shooting Ready Or Not. DONATE to Feed the Front Lines LA through World Health Kitchen at https://donate.wck.org HOLLYWOOD premieres on Netflix May 1st, and you can rent READY OR NOT on Amazon Prime and Apple Movies. Please RATE & REVIEW Industry Town on iTunes and Spotify! SUBSCRI...
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 38 min
Pete Goldfinger (JIGSAW, SPIRAL, PIRANHA 3D) is today's guest on Industry Town. He's a wonderful human and a fantastically talented screenwriter and coach. We talk about using quarantine to start a creative writing habit and his picks for which movies to watch to best learn about screenwriting, before taking a walk down IMDB memory lane, going over all of his major credits and the stories that come up along the way. Pete's Quarantine Film Festival for Learning Screenwriting: Nebraska - Alexander...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Carrie Wiita is a marriage and family therapist trainee (supervised by Kathie Adams, LMFT #41403) and the cohost of the Very Bad Therapy podcast. She also is an actress with 10+ years in the industry before focusing on her therapy practice. Carrie is here to talk with me about self-care during these strange, troubling times. Please note, this was our first Zoom podcast and the quality is not as good as usual right now, but we are working on it and hope to have something even better for next week...
Mar 25, 2020•42 min
Since we're all stuck at home, let's talk to someone who's makes profitable content from his home. TRAVIS DESLAURIER (911: Lonestar, Ultimate Tag) is an actor, model, entrepreneur, and social media influencer with over 3 million followers across all platforms. He was kind enough to share his expertise of current social media landscape and how he makes content from his apartment that pays the bills. This was a FANTASTIC conversation with some practical application to these bizarre quarantined tim...
Mar 19, 2020•1 hr 13 min
Writer and script consultant KYLE ANDREWS stops by to talk about writing, specifically about actors who have discovered they need to write and create content for themselves. Kyle's private script consulting practice specializes in helping actor, develop their ideas while learning the ropes on story, structure, and style. We talk about all that good stuff, favorite screenplays, writing competition, and how he manages the impossible... liking Boston and LA sports teams at the same time. Please RAT...
Mar 10, 2020•55 min
**BUSINESS POD ALERT** Business Manager STEVEN SHAPIRO stops by to celebrate the 30th episode of INDUSTRY TOWN. Steven is a Founder and Partner at Summit Business Management. He was kind enough to have me over to his office to chat about Actor Taxes (14:40), LLC's and Corporations (18:40), Unemployment Insurance (40:00) and much more around the world of actors and money. Please subscribe and write us a review on Spotify or iTunes! We want your FEEDBACK. Email us at: IndustryTownPodcast@gmail.com...
Mar 03, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Brian welcomes actress and friend Britt Rentschler (INSTANT FAMILY, LODGE 49, SIX) to the podcast to talk about her recent experience at the Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of her film UNCLE FRANK. We talk about what it's really like to have a film at the festival and how you make the most of that experience. We also talk about self-tapes, working out of state, and the importance of finding joy in your life and work. Please subscribe and write us a review on Spotify or iTunes! We want yo...
Feb 24, 2020•1 hr 6 min
JOHNNY O'CALLAGHAN is a therapist, actor, writer, teacher, healer, and meditation specialist with a degree in computer science and a masters in psychology. He began meditating over 20 years ago and uses this practice to help actors and other artists with mindfulness, presence, getting through creative blockages, and achieving a healthy emotional relationship with ourselves and our careers. He is quite simply the best. For More On Johnny O'Callaghan: Email: TheHealingBar@gmail.com Instagram: @Joh...
Feb 17, 2020•1 hr 19 min
Tammy Lynn is a Senior Publicist and Founder of Spotlight PR Company (SpotlightPRcompany.com), a boutique firm that offers affordable and effective a-la-carte publicity services for Actors, Filmmakers and Creators. She works with Artists at every level in their career, from small indie projects to recognizable studio & network titles. Tammy has taught PR classes, written articles and participated in panels for numerous organizations, including SAG Foundation, ScriptMag, Mark It Indie and she...
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr 8 min
Lindsay Chambers is back to preview next week's Oscar's. First we look at the awards given out already, including the absurd Golden Globes (8:20), the Screen Actors Guild Awards (23:30), and how the Oscar race is shaping up (23:30), before ending with some predictions and Uncut Gems style gambling advice. Don't forget to participate in the first INDUSTRY TOWN OSCAR CONTEST. It's free to play - just submit an oscar ballot to IndustryTownPodcast@gmail.com - and you could win prizes from JRS, The H...
Feb 03, 2020•1 hr 4 min
Announcing the 1st INDUSTRY TOWN OSCAR CONTEST! It's real simple - fill out an oscar ballot with who you think is going to win, email it to IndustryTownPodcast@gmail.com and *hopefully win some awesome prizes. It's FREE to play! Only one ballot per person and tie breakers will be decided by the earliest ballot submission. Print your ballot here: https://bit.ly/30XtqEf
Feb 01, 2020•2 min
Casting Director Michael Testa (COLD CASE, MAKE IT OR BREAK IT, GLASS JAW) comes on the show to talk all things casting. He shares his thoughts on self-tape auditions, social media, how actors should keep up relationships with casting, and so much more, including why The Shining is his favorite movie of all time. Aslo, we are starting our PODCAST OSCAR CONTEST! Send in a completed Oscar Ballot to IndustryTownPodcast@gmail.com before the Oscars start on February 9th, and the best ballots will win...
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 21 min
AMANDA IDOKO is one of Hollywood's most sought after young screenwriters. Her first feature film BREAKING NEWS IN YUBA COUNTY starring Allison Janney and produced by Jake Gyllenhaal is coming out in 2020 and her plate is full with PLASTIC MAN for DC and a musical update of RIP VAN WINKLE starring Cynthia Erivo and Josh Gad. This is Amanda's first podcast and it was so fun talking to her about her journey (which includes stops as a client in my acting class at John Rosenfeld Studios). We talk abo...
Jan 21, 2020•1 hr 6 min
