Surviving Hollywood

From the Academy Awards to the Superbowl, voiceover legend Randy Thomas joins us to discuss her groundbreaking career in radio, voiceover, and live announcing.   

Singer/Songwriter Lee DeWyze tells stories for the first time about his experience as the winner of American Idol 10 years ago, and how this native Midwesterner has made Hollywood his home ever since. Lee DeWyze is cast as our guest on Surviving Hollywood.

What exactly does an animated movie producer do? We find out in our sit down with Samantha Finkler, who has worked on some of the most popular animated films of our time including "Trolls" and the upcoming "Terminator: Dark Fate."

Surviving Hollywood's very own Emmy Award winning Producer, writer, and talent coach Robin Radin discusses her career from her early days at Dateline NBC to her most recent Emmy win in 2019!

From "Mike Tyson Mysteries" and "Nobodies",  actor, writer and producer Larry Dorf! He shares his career highs and lows and how it all began with an amazing group of actors at The Groundlings. 

Singer/Songwriter Shelley Rosenberg explains her transition from Australia to Hollywood and how she ended up writing the Theme song for the hit children's television show "H2O: Just add water" and many more!

Sound Designer and Sound Supervisor Mark Lanza tells about his journey that took him from computer programming to working on some of Hollywood's biggest films including "Independence Day," "Natural Born Killers," "JFK," and "The Doors" as well as some of television's hottest shows such as "Empire" and "Sneaky Pete." 

From "Charles In Charge" to "NCIS: New Orleans," Director/ Author Mary Lou Belli broke through the glass ceiling for female directors back in the 80s, and has directed some of the biggest shows on television.  She's also become a leading advocate for diversity in Hollywood.

Celebrity Hairstylist, Dean Banowetz, talks about leaving the family farm in Iowa, to follow his love of hairstyling, and how he found himself in Hollywood, doing hair for hit shows like “American Idol" and "Dancing With the Stars," as well as huge feature films like "Hunger Games.”

Starting as an intern on the set of the original "Full House,” TV producer Ron Davis has since worked in nearly every genre of television. Ron talks about his early days in television production, how he got his start, his current show for NatGeo, and why you should never give up on following your dream.