Emmy Award-winning Casting Director Judy Blye Wilson will join me in The Locher Room. Judy is a renowned casting director who has worked in daytime television for over 25 years. Judy began her career casting on ABC’s Ryan’s Hope in 1981. She remained there until 1987 before moving over to One Life to Live. Felicia Mini Behr hired Judy to join All My Children in 1991 where she remained until the soap’s end in 2011. She finished cleaning out her office on All My Children in the morning and by that...
Jun 30, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Come meet actor and comedian Laura High joins me in The Locher Room to tell us what it’s like to headline one of NYC’s top comedy clubs and her mission to spread awareness on the Infertility industry. Laura herself is a sperm donor baby and has found three donor-conceived siblings. She uses her social media to advocate for donor-conceived people's rights in a humorous way. Laura received her B.A. in Theatre Performance from Nazareth College. She has had lead roles on TV shows, and national comme...
Jun 30, 2023•59 min
Actress Arischa Conner will join me in The Locher Room to discuss her two latest roles: ‘Players’ available to stream in full on Paramount+ and ‘Mike’ which premiered in late August on Hulu. Arischa made her original streaming acting debut last year with two critically-acclaimed shows premiering in the same month. In mid-October 2021, she started with Hulu’s ‘Dopesick,’ the Emmy-nominated and highly decorated limited series about the opioid pandemic. Toward the end of the month, she starred in t...
Jun 23, 2023•56 min
Tony Award-winner and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2022, Michael R. Jackson will join me in The Locher Room. Michael Will be here to talk about his Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway show, A Strange Loop as well as his love of daytime television and Guiding Light. One of Michael’s favorite daytime actresses, Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne Lewis) will join Michael for this interview. Both Kim & I saw A Strange Loop and were blown away by this raw and beautiful piece of...
Jun 23, 2023•1 hr 10 min
A Disney Legend and the original voice of Ariel in the Disney Classic The Little Mermaid, Jodi Benson, will join me live in The Locher Room on Thursday, September 1st at 3 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. PST. Jodi will be here to discuss her new memoir, Part of My World, which will be released on September 13th. Beyond her best-known work as the voice of Ariel in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jodi Benson also gave voice to Barbie in Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 2 and 3, and delighted Disney fans with a cameo in E...
Jun 16, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Don’t miss the one and only Robert Newman in The Locher Room. Robert will be here to discuss his run playing Ashland Locke on the number one daytime drama, The Young and the Restless, and his most recent role on stage in Rock of Ages at The Barn Theater. Robert played the beloved Joshua Lewis on and off the canvas at Guiding Light for 28 years. Since Guiding Light, he has appeared on stage, in primetime and on film in several high-profile roles including The Amazing Spider Man 2, Homeland, Inven...
Jun 16, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Please join actors Paul Witten and Gregory Zarian in The Locher Room. The two men will be here to discuss their roles playing husbands in the new Netflix romantic comedy That’s Amor. Gregory Zarian is an award-winning actor, model, and host. He can most recently be seen in a recurring role on the third season of the hit HBO series “Westworld” and in the feature film, "86 Melrose Avenue,” now on VOD. In May 2020, Zarian was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category “Outstanding Performan...
Jun 09, 2023•49 min
Please join British actress Amrita Acharia in The Locher Room. PST. Amrita will be here to tell us about her starring role in Starz’s The Serpent Queen, a period drama based on the book Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda. The show premieres on September 11th, 2022. Amrita is perhaps best known for her role as Irri, Daenerys Targaryen’s handmaiden, in Game of Thrones opposite Emilia Clarke as well as playing Holly Fox on Neil Cross’s The Sister for ITV opposite Bert...
Jun 09, 2023•58 min
Actress Toby Poser will join me live in The Locher Room on Wednesday, August 24th at 3 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. PST. Toby will be here to talk about her artistic collaboration with her husband and two daughters working together on Wonder Wheel Productions. Wonder Wheel epitomizes a can-do attitude toward independent filmmaking: as cast and crew, they write, act, and shoot; they produce, direct, edit and score it all. Guiding Light fans will remember Toby for her role as the wicked “Malibu Madam,” Aman...
Jun 02, 2023•56 min
Actor David A. Gregory will join me in The Locher Room. David will be here to tell us about his recent role guest starring opposite Neil Patrick Harris in the new Netflix comedy, Uncoupled. David is perhaps best known for his role as Robert Ford on the daytime sudser One Life to Live. David has also had recurring roles on “The Good Fight”, “Insatiable”, “Constantine”, and “Deception.” In addition to these, he has also appeared on “Instinct”, “Shades of Blue”, “Bull”, “The Night Shift”, “Elementa...
Jun 02, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Ariana Muenker will be my guest in The Locher Room. Ariana will be here to look back at her roles in daytime and fill us in on what she is doing today. Daytime fans will remember Ariana for her roles Christie Rogers and Christine Valere on Guiding Light, Annie Stewart and Melinda Gray Spencer on As the World Turns, Marianne Rudolph on Another World, Amanda Kirkland on Ryan’s Hope and Kimberly Brady on Days of Our Lives. Don’t miss the chance to catch up with Ariana in The Locher Room. Original A...
May 26, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Come meet one of The Young and the Restless’s newest cast members, Kelsey Wang in The Locher Room.Kelsey joined the cast in March of this year as Allie Nguyen, the granddaughter of Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman). Kelsey was born in Beijing, China. She lived in Beijing and Singapore before moving to the United States at the age of seven. She is a graduate of Duke University and attended the Yale School of Drama’s YSD Summer Conservatory. Her theater credits include the role of Liuli in the U.S. Prem...
May 26, 2023•1 hr 2 min
The late Jacklyn Zeman sat down with me in The Locher Room for a one-on-one interview. Join us as we look back on her 45 years as Bobbie Spencer on General Hospital. In addition to General Hospital, daytime fans know Jackie from her role as Lana McClain on One Life to Live, Sofia Madison on The Bay and Mo on Misguided. Jackie was born in Englewood, New Jersey and grew up in Bergenfield not far from where I grew up. Jackie began training for the classic ballet at age 5 and was accepted into the N...
May 19, 2023•1 hr 9 min
Actor Frank Grillo and I sat down for an interview in The Locher Room to discuss his latest project Paradise Highway currently in theaters now. He is best known for playing Crossbones in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. His incredible body of work spans decades and highlights include WARRIOR, DISCONNECT, END OF WATCH, THE GREY, INTERSECTION, EDGE OF DARKNESS, ZERO DARK. His television work includes the lead role in Kingdom, and recurring roles in Battery Park, For the People, The Shield, Prison Br...
May 19, 2023•31 min
Please join us for a special tribute to actor, singer-lyricist, and producer John Gabriel in The Locher Room. John joined the cast of Ryan’s Hope as neurosurgeon Dr. Seneca Beaulac in 1975 and earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for that role in 1980. John and his wife, actress Sandy Gabriel (All My Children) were married in 1968 and would have celebrated their 53rd anniversary on June 23. John passed away on June 11, 2021. Joining us to look back at John’s career are Ryan Hope’s cast mates Michael...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Meet veteran character actor and Hollywood’s go-to bad guy, Jasper Cole, in The Locher Room. Jasper will be here to tell us about his return as "Cory Black" on BET's hit series, "The Family Business" – when Season 4 premieres on Thursday, July 28 on the cable network. This Summer, Jasper stars alongside Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the season's most highly anticipated thriller, FALL (Lionsgate) directed by Scott Mann and opening in theaters nationwide on August 12. Jasper will also co-star opposite so...
May 12, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Emmy Award-winning actress Kristen Alderson will join me in The Locher Room to look back at her time playing Starr Manning on One Life to Live, and for playing Starr and originating the role of Kiki Jerome on General Hospital. She was most recently seen as Abigail in the campy serialized drama Mélange presented by LOGO TV. In addition to her roles in daytime, Kristen has enjoyed a career on stage in Broadway’s Annie, Off-Broadway’s The Marvelous Wonderettes playing opposite real-life boyfriend T...
May 05, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Please join Emmy-winner Beth Maitland in The Locher Room to celebrate the 40th anniversary of her debut as Traci Abbott on CBS’s The Young and the Restless. Beth made her debut in 1982 and in 1985 she was awarded a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She received a second nomination for her work in 2019. Beth recently appeared in the film, Number Two. She appeared in an Emmy-nominated episode of Criminal Minds, and she portrayed the deaf school principal both signi...
May 05, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Actor John James will sit down for an interview in The Locher Room. John is best known to television audiences for playing the dashing Jeff Colby in the Aaron Spelling hit prime-time soap Dynasty and its spin-off series, The Colbys. John’s career began with his role Tom Bergman on Search for Tomorrow in the 1970’s. In addition to his role on Search, John appeared as Jeff Martin on All My Children and Dr. Rick Decker on As the World Turns. Don’t miss the chance to catch up with John James. Origin...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Please join Laura Bell Bundy, Jennifer Herrera and Emily Bonistall Postel live The Locher Room as we have a conversation about the most pressing issues facing women in 2022 and beyond. These women prioritize education, empowering women and work towards cultural and social change. Together they are using their voices to awaken the masses to the extreme inequalities and issues in our society, including equal pay, breaking the glass ceiling, the silencing of women, unrealistic beauty standards, obs...
Apr 28, 2023•1 hr 22 min
Artist, Author and Actor Leigh J. McCloskey will join me in The Locher Room to look back at his acting career that spans four decades. Leigh is known to daytime audiences for his roles on Santa Barbara (Ethan Asher), General Hospital (Damian Smith), The Young and the Restless (Dr. Kurt Costner) and One Life to Live (Drake Faraday). In addition to his daytime TV roles, he starred in three primetime series, the hit show Dallas where he played Mitch Cooper for two seasons and returned to the show a...
Apr 21, 2023•1 hr 5 min
Come celebrate the 70th television anniversary of Guiding Light on Thursday, June 30th with a former Guiding Light head writer, a NY Times best-selling author, the co-Executive Producer of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and a former Guiding Light publicist you may know – me. Please join Jill Lorie Hurst, Danielle Paige, Brett Staneart and me as we look back at what prompted us to start watching Guiding Light and how lucky we all were to end up working for one of our favorite daytime dramas...
Apr 21, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Come celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ABC daytime drama Port Charles in The Locher Room. Joining us to help celebrate are creator and Executive Producer Wendy Riche, Executive Producer Julie Hanan Carruthers, cast members Ise formerly known as Kiko Ellsworth (Jamal Woods), Jon Lindstrom (Dr. Kevin Collins), Julie Pinson (Dr. Eve Lambert) and Marie Wilson (Karen Wexler). Port Charles was a spin-off of ABC’s General Hospital and made its television debut on June 1, 1997. The show ran for six ...
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 2 min
Award-winning head writer Ron Carlivati will join me in The Locher Room. Ron will be here to look back at his career in daytime television leading the writing teams for One Life to Live, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives and Beyond Salem. In addition, Ron will tell us about his most recent Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing Team for a Drama Series for Days of Our Lives. Tune-in to catch up with this talented and prolific writer. Original Airdate: 6/22/2022
Apr 14, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Please join actor E.J. Bonilla in The Locher Room. E.J. will go head-to-head with John Lithgow in the upcoming FX series The Old Man premiering June 16th and he will be here to tell us all about this new role. E.J. began his career at 16 years old and got his big break when he joined the cast of Guiding Light playing Rafe Rivera. The role earned him a Daytime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Younger Actor. Since then, E.J. has built an impressive resume. His first full length feature, the 2009 Su...
Apr 07, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Please join Emmy nominee Mishael Morgan in The Locher Room. Mishael returned to the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless in September 2019 as Amanda Sinclair and received her first nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress. Mishael previously played the role of fan favorite Hilary Curtis from May 2013 to July 2018. She received two consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role. Mishael impressed producers at her first audition and landed a r...
Apr 07, 2023•58 min
Please join Emmy Award-winning director and producer Gregori J. Martin in The Locher Room. Gregori is a 2x Emmy Award-winning director, 5x Emmy Award-winning producer, 4x Emmy-nominated writer, and the founder, CEO, and chairman of LANY Entertainment. Gregori is best known to daytime audiences as the creator, director, and showrunner of the digital drama series The Bay, seen on multiple streaming services such as Amazon Prime, Popstar! TV, Tubi, TenPlay Australia and now Peacock and more. The Ba...
Mar 31, 2023•54 min
Daytime Emmy Award winners and this year’s nominees for Outstanding Lead Performance, Cynthia Watros and Laura Wright will join me in The Locher Room. These two incredible talents will be here to look back at their time first meeting and working on Guiding Light and tell us what it has been like going toe to toe on ABC’s General Hospital. Join us for a fun hour in The Locher Room. Original Airdate: 6/8/2022
Mar 31, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Come meet photographer Lindsay Morris along with two kids (now adults) from Camp I Am as we come together to celebrate Pride month in The Locher Room. Lindsay Morris, like all mom’s, took photos of her son at summer camp. At the time in 2007 she had no idea that those images would be the beginning of a more than decade-long photo project that would chronicle LGBTQ and gender-fluid children coming into their own. Those kids—including Morris’s son, Milo—were among the first to attend Camp I Am in ...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 10 min
Emmy Award-winning actor Greg Rikaart will join me in The Locher Room. Greg joined the cast of the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless in 2003 where he has played the oft misguided, yet lovable Kevin Fisher ever since. In 2005, Greg won the Daytime Emmy for his work and has been a multiple Emmy nominee in years since. In addition to his role on Y&R, Greg has a Daytime Emmy-nominated stint on Days of Our Lives as “Leo Stark” making appearances on both Days of Our Lives and the Peacoc...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 4 min
