Who is Don Frankel: Don Frankel is an Actor and Musician. Don grew up in Brooklyn New York. He played his first professional music gig at his own Bar Mitzvah on the Accordion. Don is a multi-instrumentalist on Keyboards, Banjo, Guitar and sing Tenor and Baritone vocals. He's been a recording artist on major labels as well as played on movie soundtracks. Also, have written songs for TV and Movies. His acting life includes the Broadway stage, tons of commercials, TV sitcoms, etc. He is first calle...
Oct 29, 2019•31 min•Season 4Ep. 69
Who is Kathy Nagler: Kathy began her career after being told again and again that her voice could make anything sound funny. With her ultra-dry delivery, she was billed as the female Ben Stein. But over the years, she has expanded her repertoire to include the not-so-funny, and the deep-breathed sexy. Kathy is an accomplished improviser and standup comedian, and has lent her unique talents to cartoons, commercials, short films, and even at a ride at Disneyland. But wherever you hear her, she’s u...
Oct 22, 2019•33 min•Season 4Ep. 68
Who is Karly Nimmo: With five iTunes hit podcasts under her belt, including Karlosophies and Rock Your Mic Right, Karly Nimmo uses her voice and wisdom to guide us back to the truth of who we are so that we can show up and speak up as our fully expressed, most rad selves. A faithful student of the human spirit, Karly can help connect to your voice and ‘find your freq’ at karlynimmo.com and in your podcast app of choice. Links to socials: https://instagram.com/karlosophies https://facebook.com/ka...
Oct 15, 2019•30 min•Season 4Ep. 67
Who is Mary Weiss: Mari Weiss is a native of Chicago where, after receiving an M.F.A. in Theatre, she worked with such companies as Steppenwolf, Court Theatre, and The Annoyance where she originated the role of Alice in the cult hit "The Real Live Brady Bunch", performing it in New York and Los Angeles where she stayed (not just for the weather).In L.A. she's worked in all areas of the business from stage to in front of the camera and behind the mic. As a Voice-Over artist, she's done hundreds o...
Oct 08, 2019•35 min•Season 4Ep. 66
Who Is Anil Desai: Anil Desai started in comedy with the sketch group The Giant Pineapple Boys, who performed at the Edinburgh festivals from 2001 to 2004. He then went on to host The Late Show Spank! On the fringe and created comedy characters Rajesh: Bollywood Lounge singer and Candice the Fluffer Girl. He is best known as an impressionist and has performed several solo shows in various international festivals to showcase his talents. He is also an actor, having appeared in Goodness Gracious M...
Oct 01, 2019•29 min•Season 4Ep. 65
Who is Jeff Michalski: JEFF MICHALSKI Improv practitioner, teacher, and actor, he is featured in over thirty films, most recently The Laundromat playing opposite Meryl Streep. He has taught all forms of improvisation for over twenty years, as well as developed his own long-form techniques. He has performed across the United States, Canada, and Ireland in theatres and nightclubs and has directed Second City companies in Chicago, Los Angeles, Kilkenny, and Toronto. Founder of the Second City ETC, ...
Sep 24, 2019•29 min•Season 4Ep. 64
Who is Terry Evans: Terry is a Pisces born in Texas, lives in California. Enjoys acting, building things, fishing from the beach and letting them go. And maybe a little humble. Terry has been a fixture in the LA theatre scene for over 25 years and a member of the premier classical Los Angeles theatre company Antaeus. You have seen him in both film and television and he also starred in the cult classic Mongrel directed by the late Robert Burns. Who is President Kennedy: Elected in 1960 as the 35t...
Sep 17, 2019•44 min•Season 4Ep. 63
Who is Karianne Flaathen: Karianne is an actor and photographer who finally landed in Los Angeles via Oslo, Seattle, New York, and London.... and is a company member of the brilliant world-class Antaeus Theatre Company in Los Angeles... where she was seen in Top Girls. Who is Amelia Earhart: Amelia Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. And the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records too, wrote best-selling books about her experiences ...
Sep 10, 2019•26 min•Season 4Ep. 62
Who is Christine Blackburn: As a producer, host and skilled interviewer, Christine Blackburn and her production company, Story Worthy Media , have produced over 540 episodes of her weekly show Story Worthy and dozens of live performances of her gameshow, Story Smash The Storytelling Gameshow! Her solo show “Surviving The Ride” has been produced and performed in Portland, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles. She is the author of the book “PIT To LAX: My Story Worthy Life” and she hosted Ready For The Wee...
Sep 03, 2019•26 min•Season 4Ep. 61
Who is Sea Glassman: Sea Glassman voices infamous fortune-teller Madame Zoltair, who has recently shattered her glass box and is heading to Davenport, Ohio for a dalliance with a man in a kayak. Glassman is an LA based improvisational character actor whose forte is historical & literary figures, ie Steinbeck’s Ma Joad, James Joyce’s Molly Bloom, & E.A. Poe’s Murderer in Telltale Heart. She is currently performing the first iteration of her solo original Rocktopus Opera, “The dEvil in the...
Aug 27, 2019•31 min•Season 3Ep. 60
Who is John Huck: Jon is a comedian and actor whose humor can best be described as honest, observational and maybe slightly self-deprecating. Jon performs all over the country and has appeared on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham & This Is Not Happening as well as Comedy From SXSW on Showtime and Gotham Comedy Live on The AXS Network. His first CD Fantasticular Hilaritation, was called “raving mad with a tinge of brilliance” by Americascomedy.com and can be found on Itunes along with his podca...
Aug 20, 2019•33 min•Season 3Ep. 59
Who is Madonna Magee: Madonna Magee is a graduate of NYU and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts NYC. She credits the Uta Hagen, as being the greatest influence on her work.. Madonna’s career began as a recurring character on the daytime Serial “Love of Life” exactly 50 years ago. For 35 years she taught acting and directed plays at the American Academy of Dramatic ArtsNYC/LA and Cal State Fullerton. From 2001- 2005 she was Director of Instruction at AADA/LA. Retiring in 2014, she returned to ...
Aug 13, 2019•32 min•Season 3Ep. 58
John Smith John Smith is a Gemini, who comes from London England. His spritiual quest started at an early age and took him around the world. One year he was sitting at the feet of his guru in India, in another year he was dancing in a night club in soho, in another year he D.j in Prague in an African disco. Recently he taught meditation at Kaiser hospital in Woodland hills. He is honored to be working with the genius known as Lisa Orkin. Byron Katie Byron Katie is an American speaker & autho...
Aug 06, 2019•33 min•Season 3Ep. 57
Who is Jane Morris: Jane Morris is the Johnny Appleseed of comedy clubs, having opened the Chicago Comedy Showcase, the Second City ETC, Upfront Comedy, the Comedy Underground and currently managing the fanaticSalon in Culver City. She's has most recently been seen in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Shameless, I Am the Night and will soon be seen opposite Meryl Streep in The Laudromat. She teaches a writing for performance workshop at the fanticSalon every Wednesday evening and performs live at the venue of...
Jul 30, 2019•35 min•Season 3Ep. 56
Who is Philip Proctor: Phil is a Leo with a Gemini rising. Actor/writer/singer/producer/VO artist member of the thrice-Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre, recognized as one of the “Thirty Greatest Acts of All Time” with a recording in the Library of Congress. He’s appeared on-and-off Broadway, on street corners in the USSR with the Yale Russian Chorus, in many local and regional theatres, on radio, and in scores of films, video games and TV shows. He’s won Theatre World, LA Weekly, LA Free Press ...
Jul 23, 2019•38 min•Season 3Ep. 55
Who is Robbie Rist: If you were to compare Robbie Rist to a renaissance man…..well……you couldn’t. The renaissance happened hundreds of years ago and how do you compare someone from that time to now? What you COULD say is that Rist is a multi-hyphenate with hands in many different art forms. He has been a successful actor in both voice-over (Teenage Mutant NinJa Turtles, Doc McStuffins, Naruto) and on camera (The Brady Bunch, Mary Tyler Moore, Sharknado). He plays five instruments, is a recording...
Jul 16, 2019•31 min•Season 3Ep. 54
Who is Jann Karam: Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and artist Jann Karam has made numerous appearances on NBC’s Tonight Show and The Late Show with David Letterman . Jann played one of Jerry’s girlfriends on Seinfeld (rated #1 by UPROXX in “A Very Important and Scientific” ranking of Jerry’s all-time on-camera inamoratas) and in addition to series regular roles, she has guest starred on countless TV sitcoms. Her award-winning Castle Rock produced short film Under the Big Muu-Muu is about her m...
Jul 09, 2019•33 min•Season 3Ep. 53
Who is Billy Merritt: Billy is a Gemini, an actor, teacher, and writer based in Los Angeles. He has been affiliated with the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre since they were founded in the ’90s in NYC. You can find Billy in all these social places: Twitter Instagram Favorite Career Highlight: Voicing “Fryman” and other characters on Steven Universe. Playing various dead presidents[Taft, T. Roosevelt] on various TV shows[Another Period, Adam Ruins Everything] What Billy learned about the Dalai La...
Jul 02, 2019•35 min•Season 3Ep. 52
Who is Sarah Coomes: Sarah is a Cancer with her moon in Virgo. Sarah Coomes grew up in space, where she ate dehydrogenated food and projected the universe’s first mind vision solution of Einstein’s gravity equivalence condition, a problem that had eluded the scientist for the whole of his working life. And Sarah is also a very accomplished, actress, writer, and comedienne. This is Sarah’s third episode of Project Woo Woo, after your finish this episode, come listen to Jane channel Harriet the Sp...
Jun 25, 2019•42 min•Season 3Ep. 51
Who is Terry Evans: Terry is a Pisces born in Texas, lives in California. Enjoys acting, building things, fishing from the beach and letting them go. And maybe a little humble. Terry has been a fixture in the LA theatre scene for over 25 years and a member of the premier classical Los Angeles theatre company Antaeus. You have seen him in both film and television and he also starred in the cult classic Mongrel directed by the late Robert Burns. Favorite Career Highlight: A compliment from someone...
Jun 18, 2019•30 min•Season 3Ep. 50
Who is Karol Kent: Karol s a Sagittarius and life long Chicagoan, Karol changed her entire life by moving to LA 3 years ago. Actress, writer, singer, dancer, barista & bartender – keep moving & keep motivated is her motto. Life is funny, so let’s laugh a lot. Karol’s Facebook Favorite Career Highlight: Zoo Plate Special – huge hit & kick ass funny show with my comedy group Friends of the Zoo. What did Karol learn from the Goddess Circe: It’s always amazing to research the personality...
Jun 11, 2019•40 min•Season 3Ep. 49
Who is Henry Phillips: You may know Henry from his recurring role as “John the server guy” on HBO’s Silicon Valley, or as the star of the movie Punching Henry, currently running on Showtime. You can check out his popular cooking show “Henry’s Kitchen” on YouTube. You can find more of Henry on his website, Henry Phillips . Twitter handle: @henlips Facebook and check Henry's Patreon And Henry has a very cool cooking youtube channel Henry's Youtube Favorite Career Highlight: Being on the Dr. Dement...
Jun 04, 2019•27 min•Season 3Ep. 48
Who is Jennifer Vally: Jennifer is an Aries and TV writer and comic from Los Angeles. Always looking to try new things. Facebook - JenniferVally Twitter - @jennifervally Instagram - @jenvally Favorite Career Highlight: Writing for a Barack Obama impersonator and angering the crowd at the Republican Convention so much he got booted from the stage. That move got my jokes published in every country in the world. What Jennifer learned about Margaret: I loved that Margaret Sanger risked her own life ...
May 28, 2019•34 min•Season 3Ep. 47
This week I have a true artist on, Marcel Marceau. We all have different reactions to mimes. I love them... sort of in secret. My 13-year self would be to cool to admit it. And obviously, my adult self had to tell you that. This episode is a little different we have a translator. And Danny Mann who brought Marcel to Project Woo Woo does the intro with me. And I also the show notes are different as well... new format. Danny is a brilliant voice actor, writer, singer, musician, he's done voices on...
May 21, 2019•33 min•Season 3Ep. 46
Who is Becky Thyre: Becky is a Gemini and an Actress, writer, mother, feminist. You’ve seen her on Transparent, Weeds, Arrested Development, Mr. Show, and Six Feet Under. Favorite Career Highlight: Creating and performing the play The Miss Vagina Pageant with Jill and Faith Soloway and Melanie Hutsell. Who is Aimee Semple McPherson: Aimee Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee or simply Sister, was a Canadian-American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famou...
May 14, 2019•33 min•Season 3Ep. 45
Who is Warner Munroe: Warner is a Virgo with a Scorpio rising. Warner has worn many hats and performed many things. And right now is simply “ I Am.”And this is where you find Warner's online Home --> Warnervo.com Favorite Career Highlight: Warner performed a play based on the last few years of Anne Frank. Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank and her family, attended a show and she spoke with her regarding her experiences. What Warner learned about Eckhart: Life is the dancer, you are the dan...
May 07, 2019•36 min•Season 3Ep. 44
Who is Ann Ryerson: Ann is a Leo with her rising in Taurus and began her professional career in improvisational theatre in her hometown of Minneapolis, at Dudley Riggs Brave New Workshop, then at The Second City in Chicago. She has performed extensively in television and movies (IMDB Ann Ryerson) and in radio commercials. Ann reads new work for playwrights on Monday nights in a group called Fierce Backbone. She's a nut for her grandchildren and for tennis. Favorite Career Highlight: Maybe workin...
Apr 30, 2019•35 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Who is Scott Rognlien: Scott is an actor and director and his work has been seen in Chicago, England, Central Oregon, and Los Angeles. With The Next Arena, Scott directed No Exit, As an actor, you've seen Scott in Band of Brothers, Community, and Full Disclosure, Band of Brothers. Favorite Career Highlight: Starting The Next Arena. Who is Kurt Vonnegut: One of my favorite writers with a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and fi...
Apr 23, 2019•34 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Who is Miriam Flynn: Miriam Flynn is an American voice actress and character actress. She is best known as Cousin Catherine in the National Lampoon's Vacation and Grandma Longneck in The Land Before Time franchises. I have known Miriam since I was a kid. Always a family friend. Miriam was instrumental in making sure I had the best Sweet Sixteen party ever. We have spent Thanksgivings together and Miriam even lived with us a short time when she and my family left Chicago for Los Angeles. Miriam a...
Apr 16, 2019•36 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Every so often to mix it up I will spotlight an expert in self-help, wellness or spirituality. And usually the one I can't enough of. This week it's Human Design. Who is Sarah Coomes: Sarah is a Cancer with her moon in Virgo. Sarah Coomes grew up in space, where she ate dehydrogenated food and projected the universe’s first mind vision solution of Einstein’s gravity equivalence condition, a problem that had eluded the scientist for the whole of his working life. And Sarah is also a very accompli...
Apr 09, 2019•33 min•Season 2Ep. 40
