Please join veteran Los Angeles-based entertainment reporter Michael Maloney in The Locher Room. Michael will be here to celebrate his 30th anniversary covering the daytime soaps and to discuss his current role as Senior West Coast Editor of Soap Hub. In this role, he’s on top of the latest news, casting, behind-the-scenes changes, and trends in the world of daytime drama. Michael will also fill us in on the 2nd Annual Soap Hub Awards and share when those awards will be announced. Soap fans vote...
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Meet the stars and the creator of the new darkly comic web series, The Disappointments in The Locher Room. Joining me for the hour is the writer, director and star Rich Burns along with his co-star Trevor LaPaglia. The Disappointments follows of group of close friends in their 50’s who, rocked by the suicide of one of their own, are forced to face the failures and disappointments in their own lives. Based in part on actual events, this new series looks at a pivotal issue people face as they navi...
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Nine time Emmy Award-winning soap scribe Patrick Mulcahey will join me in The Locher Room to look back at his incredible career writing for many of your favorite daytime dramas. As Patrick tells it, "I was having a fine misspent youth in 1979, writing plays and waiting tables in New Orleans, when a call came asking: Would he be interested in writing for Search For Tomorrow? Sure, I said. “What is it?” Patrick has written for Another World (briefly), Texas, Guiding Light (twice), Loving, Santa Ba...
Aug 12, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Two-time Emmy Award-winning actor Kevin Mambo visited The Locher Room to look back at his incredible career. Mambo can currently be seen on the new Netflix drama, Hit & Run. The series tells the story of a man searching for the truth behind his wife's death who becomes caught up in a dangerous web of secrets and intrigue stretching from New York to Tel Aviv. Mambo plays an NYPD detective with a wry sense of humor who has seen it all ...
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 5 min
I am thrilled to welcome daytime television legend Eileen Fulton to The Locher Room. Eileen is well known to daytime audiences for her unforgettable role as Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi on the CBS daytime drama As the World Turns for nearly 50 years. Lisa joined the cast in May 1960 and remained with the show on and off until the show went off the air on September 17, 2010. Lisa is considered to be the first soap "vixen" and was one half of the first ever supe...
Aug 05, 2022•1 hr 4 min
The funny and talented Renèe Taylor along with her director and son Gabe Bologna will join me in The Locher Room to discuss their new film Tango Shalom. Renèe co-stars, as does her late husband and Gabe's father, Joe Bologna, in Tango Shalom - a delightful movie that offers a message of inclusion and tolerance that is resonating with diverse audiences - all religions, ages and within the LGBTQ community. Renèe is known to television audiences around the world for playing Fran Fine's mother Sylvi...
Jul 29, 2022•43 min
Catch up with actress Rebecca Staab in The Locher Room. Rebecca will be here to talk about her new role in the romantic comedy Love Hard premiering on Netflix on November 5th. Rebecca continues to work non-stop and will fill us in on all the projects she's been working on. She will also reminisce about her daytime roles on Guiding Light (Jesse Matthews) and Port Charles (Elizabeth Barrington). Rebecca will also talk about her work with dog rescues. Don't miss the chance to catch up with this bea...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Emmy Award-winning writer Victor Miller will be my guest in The Locher Room. Victor introduced the world to Jason Voorhees when he wrote the original Friday the 13th film. In addition to Jason, Victor wrote for several daytime dramas including All My Children, Another World, Guiding Light and One Life to Live. Victor was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, raised in Long Island. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in English and Tula...
Jul 22, 2022•55 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Production Designers Rick Dennis and Patrick Howe will be my guests in The Locher Room to discuss their incredible work designing sets for As the World Turns and Guiding Light. Rick Dennis spent 23 years from 1986 - 2009 as Guiding Light's Production Designer earning seven Daytime Emmy Nominations for his work in Springfield. After Guiding Light went off the air, Rick has worked as an Art Director / Production Designer on a number of pri...
Jul 22, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Actress Judith McConnell will be my guest in The Locher Room. Judith was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and started dance classes at age 6. She has continued with dance for most of her life and today she takes a weekly tap and jazz class. She was accepted and attended the renowned Carnegie Mellon School of Acting. Upon leaving college, Judith went to New York City and immediately landed a commercial. Shortly thereafter, she was offered ...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Tune-in to The Locher Room for a very special episode dedicated to the international non-profit charitable organization, Twist Out Cancer. If you or anyone you know has been touched by cancer like I have, you won't want to miss this episode. Twist Out Cancer provides psychosocial support to individuals touched by cancer through creative arts programming. The organization was founded on the principle that when you share, the world opens u...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Please join me for An Author's Afternoon with new author Vincent Van Patten in The Locher Room. Vincent is a Californian native who calls Del Mar his home. He is a writer, media creator, and co-host of The Dare to Dream Podcast. Most importantly, he considers himself an inspired citizen of our ever-changing world motivated by a love for travel, history, spirituality, personal growth, and human connection. Last year, Vincent was encourage...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 4 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Please join me for An Author’s Afternoon live in The Locher Room to meet three talented writers who will be here to share their stories with all of you. Tina Andrews is an author and an actress who appeared in ROOTS and played Valerie Grant on Days of Our Lives. She received a Writers Guild Award for her Sally Hemings: An American Scandal and followed that up with a bio-pic on Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Andrews is often referenc...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Actor Michael Lowry will stop by The Locher Room to share memories from his incredible career and his daytime television roles on All My Children (Jake Martin), As the World Turns (Les Sweeney), The Bold and the Beautiful (Dr. Hillman), One Life to Live (Ross Rayburn) and Days of Our Lives (Dr. Clay Snyder). Do not miss the chance to catch up with this talented actor next Thursday in The Locher Room. Original Airdate: 10/14/2021...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Tune-in to The Locher Room for a look back at Search for Tomorrow with two actresses and good friends, Maree Cheatham (Stephanie Wyatt) and Lisa Peluso (Wendy Wilkins Carter). Maree has been a working actress for over 60+ years and is knowns to daytime audiences for her roles on Search, General Hospital and Port Charles (Charlene Simpson), Passions (Mona) and Days of Our Lives (Marie Horton). She is best known to movie audiences for role...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Please join me for a very special episode of The Locher Room featuring coming out stories about gay sons and their mothers as we celebrate National Coming Out Day. Joining me for this special episode will be Psychotherapist Rick Miller who became curious about the relationship between gay men and their mothers, a theme resonating throughout his clinical practice which led him to explore this special relationship in depth. He found that v...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Please join me for the ninth episode in the Conversations with Alan series in The Locher Room to meet Scott Richman, the Anti-Defamation League's Regional Director of the New York/New Jersey office. Scott will be here to discuss the rise of hate and antisemitism in our country and around the world. In addition, Scott will tell us about his work which includes incident response, anti-bias education, legislative initiatives, educational pr...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 7 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Please join me for An Author's Afternoon featuring public relations' snarkiest publicist and new author, Jeremy Murphy. Jeremy expertly chronicles his hatred, love, indifference, amusement, and scorn for the profession in F*ck Off, Chloe due out March of 2022. From entitled millennials to surly reporters, obnoxious clients, and cumbersome, color-coded “trackers,” Murphy takes a scalpel and glass of Châteauneuf-du-Pape to the PR industry ...
Jun 17, 2022•59 min
Please join Animal Kingdom's Jake Weary (Deran Cody in The Locher Room. Jake will be here to discuss Season Five and the upcoming season finale. Born in Montclair, New Jersey, to an award-winning actress mother (Kim Zimmer) and an actor/director father (A.C. Weary), Jake Weary started following in their successful footsteps in his early teens. After booking a number of guest roles, he took a break from acting to focus on school, including time at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts....
Jun 17, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Please join me for a very special look at Dark Shadows and Beyond The Jonathan Frid Story in The Locher Room. This is the first feature-length documentary devoted to Canadian-born actor Jonathan Frid, who became a television sensation with his portrayal of guilt-ridden vampire Barnabas Collins on Dark Shadows, the 1966 – 1971 daytime drama that remains a beloved cult classic today. Joining me to talk about Jonathan and the documentary is...
Jun 12, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Please join us for a very special look at back at the groundbreaking daytime drama Generations in The Locher Room. Joining us for this reunion are creator and Executive Producer Sally Sussman along with cast members Jonelle Allen (Doreen Jackson), George DelHoyo (Rob Donnelly), Rick Fitts (Martin Jackson), Kelly Rutherford (Sam Whitmore), Robert Torti (Lt. Kyle Masters), and Nancy Sorel (Monique McCallum). Generations premiered on NBC fr...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 29 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Come celebrate The Locher Room's 200th episode with Emmy Award-winning producer and director Christopher Goutman. Chris has spent most of his career working as a director, producer, and writer. He started his career as an actor appearing on The Doctors, Search for Tomorrow, The Edge of Night and Texas. Chris served as the Executive Producer for Another World and As the World Turns as well as directed episodes from nine different daytime ...
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Actress, author, and businesswoman joined me in The Locher Room to reminisce about her time playing Felicia Gallant on Another World, Rae Cummings on One Life to Live, Lena Kendall on Guiding Light, and her most recent role of Vivian Alamain on Days of Our Lives. Linda's One Life to Live character Rae also had a cross-over on Port Charles, All My Children and General Hospital. She has published books, hosted her own talk show Attitudes a...
Jun 03, 2022•1 hr 12 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Executive Producer, writer, director, actor and singer, Peter Marc Jacobson was my guest to talk about his incredible career working in film, TV and on stage in The Locher Room. Peter started his career in front of the camera, guest starring on memorable series such as Murphy Brown, Beverly Hills 90210, The Facts of Life, Dynasty, and Too Close for Comfort. Peter appeared on film in Spread, Movers and Shakers and GORP. After 15 years of ...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Author and actress Louise Shaffer was my guest in The Locher Room last September. Louise has been an actress since the age of 15 and is a graduate of the Yale Drama School. She has appeared on numerous daytime soaps including The Edge of Night, Search for Tomorrow and on Ryan’s Hope playing Rae Woodard, a role that earned her a Daytime Emmy Award. Louise returned to her first love of writing and began a successful second career when she found herself as an unemployed actress in her mid-forties. ...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 9 min
Actor Adrian Zmed sat down in The Locher Room. He is one of the most recognizable faces in the entertainment industry from film to television to Broadway. Audiences remember him for his starring roles as Officer Romano in the popular ABC series T.J. Hooker with William Shatner, as the host of the popular Dance Fever, for his role in the cult classic movies Grease 2 with Michelle Pfeiffer and Bachelor Party with Tom Hanks. Adrian has also starred in many Broadway shows and national tours includin...
May 20, 2022•1 hr 16 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Listen to this Another World reunion featuring cast members Les Brandt (Rafael Santierro), Lisa Brenner (Maggie Cory) and Kevin McClatchy (Nick Hudson). This talented trio joined me to share memories of their time working together in Bay City. Original Airdate: 9/2/2021
May 20, 2022•59 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Please join me in The Locher Room to meet three talented authors with three distinct stories to share. Melissa Braverman's new book Notes From A Single Gal In The City – Reflections On Dating & Mating is inspired by her popular blog, SingleGalNYC. The book offers insights about today's dating culture as well as advice geared towards singles 30+ for navigating it. Hailed by fans of her SingleGalNYC blog as New York’s real-life Carrie ...
May 13, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom Tune-in to The Locher Room for an Author's Afternoon to meet Leslie Anne Frye-Thomas. Leslie Ann is an Emmy-Award-winning writer, wife, and foster mother turned adoptive mom—with an unapologetic passion for black queer stories. Her debut novel, "Pum Pum Rock — There's No Place Like Homo" tells the story of a young Jamaican woman who, years after surviving a brutal conversion therapy attempt, returns home not just to face her demons—but t...
May 13, 2022•48 min
Subscribe to The Locher Room: https://bit.ly/TheLocherRoom The Emmy Award-winning real-life husband and wife duo Carolyn and Richard Culliton joined me in The Locher Room to look back at their incredible careers in daytime. This talented duo met when they were both students at Northwestern University. Carolyn grew up watching soaps and Richard had never seen one. Fate intervened in 1978 when a family friend offered to make some introductions to an executive Procter & Gamble Productions. The ...
May 06, 2022•1 hr 8 min
