We have a brand new Reel Women’s Network creator spotlight for you AND it’s also a firecracker department CORE TEAM MEMBER! Our guest on the show this week is Muslim actor, filmmaker, educator and advocate, FARAH MERANI!

Some of her TV and film credits include: Shadowhunters, Nikita, Lost Girl, Covert Affairs, Private Eyes and the upcoming feature film, Eat Wheaties!, featuring Tony Hale from Veep and Arrested Development!

Our guest on the show this week is Toronto-based singer and actor GEORGIA GRANT! Now, since graduating from Sheridan college in 1995 Georgia has made her home on the stage, both in musicals or straight plays. Some of her favourite roles to date include Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Grace Farrell in Annie, Dionne in Hair, Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Lady of the Lake in Spamalot.

Our guest on the show this week is actor, filmmaker, musician and executive producer, Kelly McCormack! Currently, Kelly is gearing up to shoot the Amazon Studios TV re-imagining of the 1992 classic A League of Their Own starring alongside Abbi Jacobson, D’Arcy Carden and Chanté Adams. You’ve seen Kelly onscreen in Ginny & Georgia, Letterkenny, Killjoys, A Simple Favor, Carter, The Expanse, and more. Kelly’s latest film, Sugar Daddy - which is breathtakingly gorgeous - was written and produced by Kell

Our guest on the show this week is queer artist, actor, AND registered nurse Chloe Van Landschoot! When @chlovls isn’t dancing or story telling, you can find her working as a nurse in downtown Toronto. Her onscreen credits include the critically acclaimed Canadian feature Jackie Boy and the biopic Chris Watts: Confessions of a Killer. Now she stars in the feature film, Lune.

Lune is making its Canadian Premiere at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival on June 4th!

Our guest on the show this week is producer, performer, creator, activist, SEDINA FIATI! Sedina is proudly Black, queer, and deeply invested in artistic work that explores the intersection between art and activism. They’re currently the Artist-Activist in Residence at Nightwood Theatre, one of founding collective members of the Black Pledge, and former co chair of ACTRA Toronto’s Diversity Committee! Sedina is the creator of the web series Last Dance and producer/star of Super Zee!

This month’s RWN spotlight is on Swiss-Trinidadian actor and filmmaker, MAREM HASSLER! Marem is the co-owner and co-founder of Viscus Film, an award winning avant garde boutique Film company. Her mother is a sculptor, her father a filmmaker, and she began a career in music as a lyricist, songwriter and recording artist. She’s produced albums, film scores, commercial jingles, as well as works as active director, writer, and camera AC in LA!

Our guest on the podcast today is casting director WENDY O’BRIEN. She’s won a Peabody, three Artios awards and was nominated for an Emmy! She’s casted Sons of Anarchy, Mayans MC, You’re The Worst, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Prison Break, The Runaways, A.P. Bio (with firecracker Mary Sohn), Stumptown (with firecracker Camryn Manheim), Dave, American Vandal, Mr Mayor… and MORE! She also casted Bad Trip and The Way Back. Wendy’s also a mother, a rower, a quarantine gardener and an absolut

Our guest on the show this week is Producer Sara Stockmann! Sara is the founder of Sonntag Pictures and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Science! Sara has produced OVER 25 international feature documentary films. She’s received accolades from all over the world, at Cannes, Tribeca, Amsterdam, at the EMMYS AND THIS YEAR’S OSCARS! Sara’s films spark debates in society, internationally. She’s also a mother, a twin, and an absolute firecracker.

Our guest on the pod this week is multi award winning Disabled writer, performer, and producer, OPHIRA CALOF! Ophira’s work weaves together music, comedy, and storytelling, centring disability and chronic illness experiences. Ophira’s journey is so unique and she is whip smart as well as hilarious. A Second-City-er, a trained opera singer, curator, workshop facilitator, consultant, and keynote speaker, Ophira is BUSY!

Our fifth spotlight is on actor, producer, director, writer, voice over artists, TINA HUANG. She’s been onscreen in Rizzoli & Isles, Days of Our Lives, Grey’s Anatomy, Shameless, The Office, Criminal Minds, and SO much more! She is a founding member of Ammo, the Ammunition Theatre Company in Los Angeles, a member of the IAMA Theatre Company and Co-Founder of 1 to 1 Productions. 1 to 1’s mission is to champion women of color in front of and behind the camera.