STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.

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Join Lisa for this "animated" conversation with Hollywood screenwriting mavens Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna.

Meg LeFauve  was nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar for the Pixar blockbuster INSIDE OUT,  she won an Annie Award for that screenplay.  Meg also wrote Pixar’s Golden Globe nominated THE GOOD DINOSAUR.  She also wrote on Marvel’s box office hit, CAPTAIN MARVEL. LeFauve is currently has a series in development for a major studio, as well as a film in production at Netflix- the animated film MY FATHER’S DRAGON. LeFauve began her film career as a producer and President of Egg Pictures, Jodie Foster's film company. During that time, LeFauve produced films which were nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and she was awarded a Peabody for the Showtime film, “The Baby Dance.”  LeFauve also produced “The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys” which won the 2003 IFP Spirit Award for Best First Feature. Raised in Warren, Ohio, LeFauve graduated from the Syracuse University Newhouse School and currently lives in Studio City, California with her husband and two sons.

Lorien McKenna has written for studios, streamers, and indie films including Hulu, NBC, and Disney. She is currently in development with ViacomCBS on animated tv show. She co-hosts the podcast The Screenwriting Life w/Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna. The show, produced by Jeffrey Graham, is dedicated to unpacking both the craft and artistic journey of pursuing a career in screenwriting.  A former Story Manager at Pixar Animation Studios, McKenna worked on UP, BRAVE, INSIDE OUT and THE GOOD DINOSAUR. She was also the Associate Producer for Paramount Animation’s WONDER PARK and the Co-EP for CURIOUS GEORGE. After getting her MFA in Playwriting, she founded Guilty Theater and taught playwriting, Shakespeare and Theater at St. Mary’s College of California.  She lives in Glendale, CA with her husband and daughter. 

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We’ve all felt FOMO. The fear or anxiety that something better or interesting is happening somewhere else, without us. The feeling is real, and utterly human. And, if we are being honest, something we’ve all felt more often than we’d care to admit. 

FOMO is the evil sibling of curiosity,  fast moving, narrowly focused, and ego centered. 

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Paula and David are brilliantly successful in their work and in their marriage.  They've been happily married for almost 30 years and between them have worked on over 50 Broadway shows, dozens of TV Shows and Films and have been  nominated for an Emmy, a Grammy & a Drama Desk Award.

Lisa  speaks with the dynamic duo about love, life, music, dance and what living in the moment means to them. 

"You can't live life making yourself be ready for only the worst outcomes, you also have to live being open to the best outcomes."

"I can't imagine either of us will ever actually retire per se...we'll just keep changing what we do!"

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As we move toward “reopening”, we now find ourselves standing at a juncture that is offering us the opportunity to create new rules of thumb for ourselves, to chart new maps and travel new pathways both neural and rural.

"We have the chance to choose old rules of thumb and return to life as we knew it or we can ask ourselves whether or not the fear of staying where we are is greater than the fear of where we might go."

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The definition of courage has been spoon fed to us since we were children. As parents, we have become avid “encouragers”, making it abundantly clear we place a very high value on confidence. So we’ve been taught to know what it looks like, that's it's measurable -that it can be seen . 

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Lisa catches up with Broadway performer Analise Scarpaci who appeared as the first guest on the podcast one year ago. Analise was set to open in Mrs. Doubtfire when Broadway shut down last March. More than one year later, the show is set to reopen on Broadway this fall!

"And one day, I looked at my guitar, and I said, Okay, let's do this thing. And I picked it up. And I have never looked back. And I'm so so happy that I did. Every time I'm stressed out. That's my thing. I write my songs."

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Have you ever shared a thought before you’ve had a chance to process it yourself? 

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Rebecca is a multi-faceted artist who most recently collaborated with The Lightning Thief’s Rob Rokicki on “Breathe” a show conceived and written during the pandemic by New York Times best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult and playwright Timothy Allen McDonald. 

In this intimate and thoughtful conversation Rebecca shares what it was like to write the show from her childhood bedroom via zoom and explores the lessons she learned along the way.

"I will always be a student of the world"
 

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"We all identify with things for different reasons. There’s no one size fits all value system. We may both choose “do” the same thing but our reasons for doing it are what makes our experience unique, what makes us feel connected to our choices." 

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 Erik channels his inner wisdom in this moving conversation about life lessons learned, creating his own narrative and living  life as a work of art.

"I love the feeling of it streaming through me when I go through all my fear, and go through all the not-enoughness and still walk to the edge of that cliff and kick my own ass off of it."

"We must be makers. We must be creators. We cannot complain about narratives that are out there if we are not making ours."

"I'm a big proponent of living your life as a work of art."

Erik Liberman is known for originating roles in several productions on Broadway and off, including The Telephone Guy in the award-winning "The Band's Visit" opposite Tony Shalhoub, Charles Revson opposite Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole in "War Paint," and Clopin, King of the Gypsies, in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." He has been the recipient of  the Helen Hayes, Ovation, Garland, and Connecticut Critics Circle Awards, and his onstage work has been reviewed as "a showcase of sheer star power." Television work includes roles in Modern Family, Martin Scorsese Vinyl, and Unforgettable and he  helped to develop, and guest starred, in the series finale of Amazon's Transparent. He has also contributed to numerous books including "Performance of the Century" and, with his father, "Wisdom From an Empty Mind" and "Luminous Life: How the Science of Light Unlocks the Art of Living." 

His master class series, Bridge to Broadway, earned him a 2020 Encore Award from The Actors Fund.

Episode recorded March 18th, 2021 

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