Life & career coach Brian Patacca (Founder Actor Salon) stops by Studio 309 and discusses many of his actor pro tips, the pivot out of performing, and more!

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- Box says what have you done for your career today?
- Drinking and routines and coaching.
- Planting seeds and schedules.
- Working with new actors and pet peeves.
- Growing up in Cleveland and being an outgoing performer.
- Attending Northwestern for acting and moving to NYC.
- Working at a marketing agency and getting a lot of commercial work.
- Starting Actor's Salon, moving to Los Angeles and connecting with John Rosenfeld.

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Writer Michael Price (The Simpsons, F is for Family) stops by Studio 309 and discusses consuming a lot of television as a kid, all the various odd jobs he has had, and more!

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- Box says leave positive feedback.
- Drinking and routines.
- Growing up in New Jersey and consuming a ton television.
- Doing some community theatre and attending Montclair State University.
- Discovering improv at First Amendment, going to grad school at Tulane and briefly working as a teacher.
- Doing copywriting for a law firm, auditioning for commercials and booking a few small things.
- Pivoting into writing by doing specs, driving a taxi and landing a job on The Newz.
- Going through different rooms before ended up in The Simpsons and starting F is For Family.
- The lifestyle working for Netflix and firing the agent for the WGA.

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Writer Lauren Morelli (Tales of the City, Orange Is the New Black) stops by Studio 309 and discusses being neighbors with Box, having an overall deal with Netflix, and more!

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- Box says leave positive feedback.
- Drinking and routines and motivation and knitting.
- Growing up in Pittsburgh and performing in musicals, despite not being able to sing.
- Being all in on dance, getting a BFA at Marymount Manhattan College and a back injury.
- Working as a personal assistant and being unsure what to do.
- Moving to LA For a boy and taking a short fiction UCLA writing class.
- Writing and more writing and getting a manager, Orange being the first staffing meeting.
- Learning how to work in a writer's room and coming home everyday crying.

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Actor Lance Barber (Young Sheldon, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) stops by Studio 309 and discusses growing up in a city of cereal, the feeling of landing a Chuck Lorre show, and more!

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- Box rants basketball players always pointing there way on out of bounds.
- Drinking and rituals and hobbies.
- Growing up in Battle Creek, Michigan and being an introverted kid.
- Attending Kellogg's Community College and performing in summer stock / murder mystery plays.
- Moving to Chicago for theatre and diving head first into sketch / improv.
- Taking a class w/ Del Close and getting offered Second City gig just before coming to LA.
- Doing a two-man musical show and testing for pilots right away.
- The lean times, sleeping on the roof, learning via auditions and not going out for commercials.

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Actor Mary Faber (Kidding, Parks and Recreation) stops by Studio 309 and discusses finding improv in college, struggling with the idea of working as an actor, and more!

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- Box rants no heat cycle on the dryer.
- Drinking and rituals.
- Growing up in Norfolk VA and having a bunch of opportunities to perform in high school.
- Attending Brandeis University getting a BA and minoring in gender studies.
- Discovering, falling for improv and moving to NYC just before 9/11.
- Touring the country in a van, struggling with being an actor and getting a job as an agent's assistant.
- Getting a classic style agent and using a network to finally got on Broadway.
- Learning to puppet for Avenue Q and how to keep that schedule not feel mundane.
- Branching out into television and changing agents.
- Moving to Los Angeles and starting to do voiceover.

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