Shin Cho is the head of K-pop and J-pop and marketing director for Asia/Korea at Warner Music Group. He is an experienced marketing expert with a demonstrated history of working in the music industry in International, Asian, K-pop, and J-pop. Shin is skilled in management, marketing, international marketing, marketing strategy, and digital marketing. He is also a strong marketing professional with a Bachelor’s degree focused in Information Technology from Rutgers University.

Join Michelle Miller with Shin Cho as they chat about working his way up the music industry as an intern. Shin is Warner Music Asia’s head of K-pop and J-pop. He shares his marketing strategy of making Western artists, bands and groups collaborate with their Eastern counterparts. He also discussed the growing and post-pandemic market and the return of tours.

Here’s a breakdown of what to expect in this episode:

•  Shin’s journey into the entertainment industry

•  Promotion of international artists in the Korean market, and vice-versa

•  Importance of storytelling and brand-creating as an artist

•  How collaborations between Western and Eastern artists are made, including the story behind Way Back Home’ from Korean DJ/artist SHAUN with UK artist Conor Maynard and EDM giant Sam Feldt.

•  Lessons from projects in Shin’s career that did not turn out as expected

•  How Shin works with others on creating collaborations and strategizing for a new year

•  How Tik Tok is seen differently in Korea than NY still (when it comes to music)

•  And so much more!

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You can find Shin Cho on . . .

Rolling Stone Feature: https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/features/warner-music-asias-head-of-k-pop-shin-cho-future-25-1079707/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shin-cho-110395169/

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Jason Ensler is an Executive Producer and Director of some of your favorite TV shows. After graduating USC with an MFA in Cinema/Television production, Jason directed PSAs for a friend's marketing company and his alma mater, Brandeis University. That led to being part of a creative team at NBC 2000, promoting campaigns for NBC shows like The West Wing, Scrubs, Frasier, The Olympics and The NBA. Eventually, he started directing and producing shows such as The West Wing, The Newsroom, Scrubs, Gossip Girl, Franklin & Bash, The Passage, The Exorcist, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Red Band Society, and most recently, Love, Victor on HULU (to name a few).

In this episode, we talk about:

- Do actors need a social media presence?

- Do followers matter?

- When do directors and producers look at social media? For what sort of roles?

- What does he like to see? What does he not like to see?

- How can you curate your social media to get the roles you want?

Resources:

Website

Wikipedia

IMDB

Twitter: @Jason_Ensler Instagram: @jensler43

Recommendation: If you like this episode, check out Episode 1.16 for his full interview

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Julie Tucker is a two time Emmy winning Casting Director (7 times nominated). Tucker/Meyerson Casting recently worked on projects including Queen Latifah’s "The Equalizer," the final "Dexter," Chapter, "The Expanse," "The Hot Zone, Anthrax," and the Jennifer Lopez feature film, "Marry Me." Past television credits include: "Damages" (Emmy and Artios Award), "Six Feet Under" (Emmy and CSA Artios Award for NY Casting), "Rescue Me" (CSA Artios Award), "Hunters," "The Affair," "Nurse Jackie," "Sneaky Pete," "White Collar," "The Following," Fringe," "The Big C," "The Americans," "In Treatment," "Lincoln Rhyme," "The Baker and the Beauty," "Tell Me A Story," "Sleepy Hollow," "Limitless," "Black Box," "Those Who Kill," "The Michael J. Fox Show," "Sirens," "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll," "Allegiance," "Canterbury’s Law," "Love Monkey," "The Book of Daniel" and the first three seasons of "Law and Order: SVU." 

In addition to television and film, she has been on staff and cast for The Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theater Club, and The Williamstown Theater Festival. Before casting, Julie directed Off-Broadway and assisted directors Terrence Malick and Martin Charnin.

In this episode, we talk about:

•  What actors should be doing right now to best prepare them for going back to in person auditions

•  First roles in Entertainment including actor, assistant stage manager at La Mama, internship at The Public, casting assistant, and agent assistant.

•  What she would give up her Emmy for

•  Forming Tucker/Meyerson with Ross Meyerson and why they compliment together

•  What self tape tips she recommends to actors that would help for future in-person auditions

•  How self tapes help her see 65% more actors and if she watches the whole self tape

•  Lightening round on shows she’s worked on including Six Feet Under, The Following, Nurse Jackie, etc.

•  Incredible tips for what to do when you’re nervous (and more about her upcoming book)

•  How you can still book work with nervous energy and a red face

Resources:

Audrey Helps Actors

Sponsors:

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We Audition - Promo Code MICHELLE25 for 25% off monthly or annual plans

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Everyone tells you to create your own work, but what actually works?

In this bonus episode, I discuss three ways my Mentors have created their own work.

Mentors include:

- Actor/Director Tony Goldwyn (Scandal, King Richard, The Hot Zone: Anthrax, Tarzan)

- Film/TV Director Rosemary Rodriguez (The Walking Dead, The Good Wife, Law & Order: SVU)

- Director/Actor Ben Giroux (Henry Danger, Hart of Dixie, Big Nate, Danger Force)

PLUS inspiring words from Director Jason Ensler (Love, Victor; The Exorcist, The Passage)

Host:

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Rosemary Rodriguez is a film and television director. In 2001, she wrote, produced and directed a feature film called Acts of Worship, about a young woman struggling with drug addiction. The film was nominated for, and won, numerous independent film awards and screened at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival. In 2015, she directed the film Silver Skies starring George Hamilton. In 2004, she started directed Television on the show Third Watch. Her TV credits are numerous and include Law & Order, Rescue Me, Castle, White Collar, Blue Bloods, The Good Wife, Elementary, Jessica Jones, Sneaky Pete, The Tick, and more.

In this episode, we talk about:

•  Her “late start” directing and saving money from her corporate job to fund her first film Acts of Worship

•  How Acts of Worship is semi-autobiographical and how living on the streets fueled her in her path

•  Her advice for any actor or creative

•  Why she was overwhelmed at Sundance and how she started directing TV

•  How she beats herself over “wasted time”

•  Are directors part of the casting decisions in TV and how long she normally has to prepare for a given project

•  How it took 20 years for her to direct a film she hasn’t personally financed

•  Her definition of success and why it made me tear up

•  How and why being a director informs what she chooses to read

Guest:

Wikipedia IMDB 

Twitter: @rosemarydirects

Instagram: @rosemarydirects

Host:

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You read that right... I read the Trades so you don't have to.⁠

📰 I chose the top 5 stories this week to share with you from the major trades.⁠

⏲️ Ever wish you had more time (or desire) to read what's going on in Entertainment?⁠

ℹ️ Want to feel informed on the biggest things going on right now?⁠

🧐 Don't know which trades to scan through?⁠

Or simply, you don't feel like it.⁠

🎙️Check out this quick bonus episode where I share the top stories from this week in 5 minutes or less.⁠

This week:⁠

- Filming in Space⁠

- Britney⁠ Spears update

- Is Production increasing or decreasing in Hollywood?⁠

+ more.⁠

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MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ is a writer, producer, and director who has won numerous awards for his work in television and film. Born in Philadelphia, he attended Brandeis University, then moved to Los Angeles in 1975, where he attended the American Film Institute. One of his classmates was Edward Zwick, and there the two created what is currently the longest-surviving creative partnership in Hollywood: The Bedford Falls Company, named for the town in Frank Capra’s It’s A Wonderful Life. In the ensuing decades they created such TV series as thirtysomething, My So-Called Life, and Once and Again; and Herskovitz variously produced and/or wrote many films with Zwick, including Legends of the Fall, Traffic, The Last Samurai, and Blood Diamond. Herskovitz also directed Jack the Bear and the cult-favorite Dangerous Beauty.

In 2007, Herskovitz created the groundbreaking online series and social network quarterlife, which at the time was the internet’s most successful scripted series, and the first online series to transition to network television.

A longtime environmentalist, Herskovitz has served on the board of several organizations dedicated to fighting climate change.

He is a past president of the Producers Guild of America.

In this episode, we talk about:

•  The Last Samurai and working with Tom Cruise

• His first role in the Entertainment industry and his first job while still at film school.

• If AFI (American Film Institute) prepared him for the industry and what he took from it

• The transition from writer to Showrunner and the birth of the hit show thirtysomething

•  Working with his partner Edward Zwick and their initial different strengths and weaknesses.

•  How he and Ed work together now; who directs and who writes.

•  Working on some of his biggest projects

•  Tips for aspiring actors

About the Guest:

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Question: What do each of the following Casting Directors have in common? Besides being a guest on Mentors on the Mic.

Answer: They all loved giving tips to Actors regarding Self Tapes.

Self Tapes are the new normal. For non-Actors out there, these are how actors submit auditions now that we're not going in person. For this mini bonus episode, we are going over these Casting Directors's top Self Tape tips.

Featuring Casting Directors:

Kim Graham - Season 1 Episode 12 (Homeland)

Jenny Ravitz - Season 2 Episode 6 (Chicago Fire, Chicago Med, Chicago PD)

Julie Schubert - Season 2 Episode 2 (House of Cards, Jessica Jones, For Life, Manifest)

Julie Tucker - upcoming guest (Nurse Jackie, White Collar, The Equalizer, The Affair)

***Correction - The second clip is from Julie Schubert, not Kim Graham

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Amy Koppelman is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, A Mouthful of Air and I Smile Back. Her recent directorial debut for A Mouthful of Air stars Amanda Seyfreid, Finn Wittrock, Jennifer Carpenter and Paul Giamatti.

She received her undergraduate degree from University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. Koppelman and her screenwriting partner adapted I Smile Back for the screen. The film, starring Sarah Silverman, premiered at the 2015 Sundance, Toronto and Deauville Film Festivals. Her other book is called Hesitation Wounds.

Shownotes

•  Tips for dealing with REJECTION; what Amy does to push through the consistent rejection of being a writer and director

•  What she thought of the other writers in her MFA program at Columbia and how much they disliked her

•  How she got her first agent for A Mouthful of Air after being rejected from “all of the agents in NY”

•  How she got her novel I Smile Back to Sarah Silverman and made that into a movie on a low budget, before premiering at Sundance

•  How difficult it was to get financing for A Mouthful of Air, despite having Amanda Seyfried at meetings

•  How she went from being asked by Amanda Seyfried not to direct A Mouthful of Air to getting her blessing

•  Why you have to be indefatigable to pursue a career as an artist

•  How you get to the next place in your career as an artist

Amy Koppelman

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Trailer for A Mouthful of Air

Review from Time Magazine

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Tony Goldwyn is an American actor, producer, and director, known for playing the role of President Fitzgerald Grant III in the ABC drama “Scandal.” He has acted in films, such as “Ghost,” “The Last Samurai,” “The Last House on the Left,” “The Mechanic,” “Divergent,” “The Divergent Series: Insurgent,” and “The Belko Experiment.” Recently, he was seen in the movie, “Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House.” In addition, he has directed a few episodes of hit TV series like “Dexter,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Six Degrees,” “Damages,” “Justified,” “Hawthorne,” and “Scandal.” Goldwyn is also known for his political activism and has been a supporter of Hillary Clinton. To support Clinton’s Presidential campaign, he even directed an ad which featured other celebrities like Kerry Washington, Shonda Rhimes, Viola Davis, and Ellen Pompeo. Goldwyn is also a spokesman for the Americares Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides emergency medical aid in the USA and around the world.

In this episode, we talk about:

• T ony’s start in theater and his transition to film and television

•  Why actors must have a creative network of their own to gain traction, given the competition

•  Scoring his breakout role in Ghost and the opportunities (and lack of opportunities) that he gained after

•  How he approached his transition into directing that he recommends for every new director 

•  The three criteria in determining any project he takes on

•  What the experience was like getting cast for “Scandal” and working with Kerry Washington, Shonda Rhimes, and many others: Available on youtube

•  How Tony went about his role for the 2021 film, “King Richard,” and for the National Geographic limited series, “Hot Zone: Anthrax”

•  His definition of success

About the Guest:

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Goldwyn

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001282/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/tonygoldwyn

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonygoldwyn/

Host:

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