Actor Brian Michael Smith and writer-producer Jalysa Conway give us the lowdown on the Zamboni Driver duty, the Escape Room Clue Master hustle, the LA Fitness Front Desk fitness plan, and the Top Secret Clearance-to-Shondaland pipeline. Along the way, they get into the strange jobs that kept the money coming, the value of choosing work that supports the art, and why sometimes the most important career advice is simply: make the damn money.
Brian Michael Smith is an actor, filmmaker and activist known for 9-1-1: Lone Star, The L Word: Generation Q, Queen Sugar and Hacks. Follow Brian on Instagram at @the_brianmichael, check out his action short film at @whoru_forgetfulspy_, and find more at thebrianmichael.com.
Writer and producer Jalysa Conway has worked on series including Grey’s Anatomy and 9-1-1: Lone Star and is now bringing her love of action, sci-fi and genre storytelling to her own independent work. Follow Jalysa on Instagram at @jalysaconway and follow her sci-fi thriller short film at @gifteddisruption. For a deep dive into how she made the film, read her Substack piece, “How I Shot a Sci-Fi Thriller in 5…”.
Brian and Jalysa are also joining forces to launch The Renegade Studio, an independent production company focused on making bold action stories with global reach — stories designed, as Jalysa puts it, to hit you “both in the face and in the heart.”
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