The Doorpost Podcast Project // Inspiring interviews with some of today's most successful Entrepreneurs

During a career in film and television that spans more than 20 years, Bill Hough is a Entrepreneur/CEO/Executive Producer involved with marketing, production, and distribution of corporate documentaries, commercials, and short form programs for network, cable & public television and most recently, a theatrically released feature film.

A 1991 graduate of Florida State University in Business and Economics, Hough began his career working as a mortgage broker. He has since owned a production and marketing firm and is Executive Producer of Insight Productions, which has produced multiple TV Series. He is also a partner in Digital Target Marketing, which is one of the most experienced online direct response marketing companies in the world. Bill has worked with such talent as Charlton Heston, Michael Douglas, Ben Kingsley, Martin Sheen and James Earl Jones.

His other entrepreneurial pursuits include Executive Producing a feature length Documentary film, owning race horses with his horse training father, Stan Hough, and developing several multimillion dollar homes in one of South Florida’s most exclusive neighborhoods, Royal Palm in Boca Raton.

Bill has been married to his wife, Renata, for 10 years and they have 3 boys: William, Daniel and James.

A North Carolina native, Anthony grew up with the desire to act from an early age. His college years were interrupted by some harrowing twists and turns, but Anthony graduated from East Carolina University in 1992 with a BFA in Communication Arts. In 1993, he drove west with a friend to Los Angeles where he slept on the floor of his high school friend, Keith Coulouris' apartment in Studio City, CA. Keith was instrumental in Anthony getting a bit part in, Dead Man's Revenge, a USA network movie of the week, starring Bruce Dern, Michael Ironside and Vondie Curtis-Hall.

Upon realizing the high cost of living in LA, Anthony returned to the East Coast, to study, as he had no business on a film set without formal training. He spent just shy of two years in Atlanta, taking classes and auditioning, before his then agent, Ted Borden urged him to make the big move to Manhattan to study at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. In 1995, Anthony did just that. He lived in a NYU dorm with a student he met on his flight to New York after the living situation he had arranged prior to the move fell apart upon his arrival. The front door to the apartment that he was to be staying in had been kicked in and the tenants robbed the night before. He ended up bouncing between apartments on the Upper East and West Sides of the city for a few years. Concurrent to his studies at Strasberg Anthony studied privately with acting coaches Michael Margotta and Geoffrey Horne.

While performing off-off Broadway in numerous black box theaters, Anthony met Lamya Jezek in 1997. Two years later, upon her graduation from NYU's Tisch School for Acting, the newly engaged couple moved to Los Angeles as Lamya had secured representation. They were married July 14, 2001, in North Carolina. In LA, Anthony studied with Milton Katselas at The Beverly Hills Playhouse and later took classes with Lesly Kahn in the Hollywood Hills, but found that the best training of all, was working on sets with other actors. He had the privilege of working with Academy Award Nominated actor, Edward Norton for nine years on several films as well as Academy Award Winner, Billy Bob Thornton on four films. Anthony maintains a number of relationships in NY and LA, but chose to leave the city life to return to his Southern roots to raise his family. Anthony and his family have resided on the East Coast since 2008 where he has been blessed beyond his wildest dreams by being able to work consistently in film and television as a character actor.

Some of the highlights of Anthony’s career have been working with some of Hollywood’s most celebrated actors. He has had roles on both the small and big screens. On television Anthony has made appearances on “Homeland,” opposite Damien Lewis, “Revenge,” “Nashville” and “The Red Road,” opposite Martin Henderson and Jason Momoa. Anthony can be seen in the upcoming USA drama “Complications” opposite Jason O’Mara. He has feature film roles in “The Hunger Games” opposite Jennifer Lawrence, “Iron Man 3,” “Prisoners” opposite Jake Gyllenhaal. Anthony will be seen in the upcoming films, “Cell,” opposite John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson, “Project Almanac,” and the new reboot of Marvel’s “Fantastic Four” franchise opposite Tim Blake Nelson. Anthony wrote and produced a short film entitled “Times Like Dying,” a post Civil War drama that recently World Premiered at the Cucalorus Film Festival. “Times Like Dying” is currently making the film festival rounds.

Bryan E. Miller is a creative film composer whose goal is to help maximize the emotional impact of visual media by creating powerful, evocative film scores.

Bryan studied at the Grove School of Music, and UCLA Extensions Film scoring program. Early in his career Bryan honed his craft by assisting composer Mark Waters on more than 50 episodes for Disney and orchestrated and conducted for composer Mychael Danna who has since won an Academy Award.

Bryan has composed and produced music for hundreds of projects including movies, television, commercials, documentaries, and DVD featurettes. His clients include Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox, Lionsgate, NBC Universal, CBS, ABC, A&E and The Style Network.

You’ve probably heard his compositions in American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Boston Legal, The Big Bang Theory, Next Top Model, The Shield, General Hospital, Southland, and Access Hollywood, or listened to his signature music for the Comcast Logo.

It was based on his versatility in multiple musical genres and his passion for interesting and creative challenges that Bryan was chosen to compose the score for the new feature film by New York Times best-selling author-turned-filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza - America: Imagine the World without Her. Produced by Academy Award-winner Gerald Molen (Schindler's List, Jurassic Park), America was a hit in the box office, becoming the sixth highest grossing political documentary in history.

Bryan has signed with Milan Records, which released the America soundtrack album.

Though primarily a composer of dramatic and narrative films, Miller loves the documentary genre, and frequently takes time to compose music for charities and humanitarian organizations like St. Jude Children's Hospital, World Vision, Best Friends Animal Rescue, and The Museum of Tolerance. Bryan’s view: “It’s a wonderful feeling when you can be part of a passionate team that wants to bring positive change to the world.”

Bryan E. Miller is a rising star in Hollywood who is refreshingly un-Hollywood. Originally from Albuquerque, NM, Bryan now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and 3 children. Bryan is equal parts pragmatist and idealist. He gets the job done in an efficient and ego-free way, all the while striving to create music that “stirs the soul” and “connects us to something bigger than ourselves.”

Bridget Humphrey is a Programs Manager at Google/YouTube. She works out of the YouTube Space Los Angeles office in Playa Vista, CA, where she oversees hundreds of events each year. Her events range from screenings to parties to concerts, which she hosts to bring the YouTube Community together to inspire content creators to make more videos, meet each other, collaborate. Her events in 2014 alone attracted 16,000 attendees.

In a prior career, Bridget Humphrey was a film and television Development Executive at various production companies including Scott Rudin Productions, Barry Josephson Entertainment, and more. She has worked on such films as TEAM AMERICA, SCHOOL OF ROCK, ENCHANTED, ALIENS IN THE ATTIC, and more.

She holds a B.A. degree is Psychology from Pomona College and an M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson.

Ben Queen is the Creator and Executive Producer of the half-hour comedy "A to Z" which currently airs on NBC. He previously wrote the Disney-Pixar film, "Cars 2" as well as Co-creating and Executive Producing the action drama "Drive", which aired on Fox in 2007. He was a Consulting Producer on "Century City" for CBS.

Ben has written screenplays for Universal, New Line, Warner Brothers, New Regency and Fox Searchlight.

He is the author of "The Art of Cars 2" for Chronicle Books.

Ben attended USC's School of Cinema Television. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

Al Sapienza is a true artist who has the rare ability to explore a boundless range of characters through acting dancing and singing, on both the stage and the screen.

Educated at New York University in the performing arts, Al Sapienza's acting career has spanned over 2 decades. After graduating from New York University, Al made a life changing decision to move to Los Angles to study acting and to throw himself into the world of theater, working on over 30 plays to prove to himself that he could be a great actor.

Appearing in several movies including the award winning film "Lethal Weapon 4" with Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and Joe Pesci, "They're Just my Friends” with John ‘Cha Cha' Ciarcia, “Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home", "A Month of Sundays" with Rod Steiger, "Carlito's Way: Rise to Power" with Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Burt Young, "Scriptfellas" with Paul Sorvino, "The Path to 9/11", “Saw V”, "Million Dollar Arm", “Godzilla", and "Taken 3", to name a few.

Al Sapeinza is also a familiar face on the television screen. Besides being Uncle Junior Corrado Sopranos right hand man, the mean-streaked mafia hit man, Mikey Palmice, on the HBO series, "The Sopranos", Al has also made television appearances on the Fox Network program "Prison Break" as the mafia kingpin Philly Falzone, “The Brotherhood" as the character Mayor Frank Panzerelli, "Law & Order, Criminal Intent", “Port Charles” as Mario, “Melrose Place”, and “NYPD Blue”. Most recently, "House of Cards", and "Ascension" are among his numerous television credits.

In an industry which thrives on typecasting, Sapienza is one of those rare talents who continues to challenge himself, by continuing to portray a wide variety of characters. The New York handsome native can morph from a lead in a romantic comedy to a deviant mobster into a sociopathic killer and then to a faithful sidekick.

His passion to intensify his craft has catapulted him into even more diverse roles. His body of work epitomizes him as a true artist. Sapienza currently divides his time between New York and Los Angeles.

Danny Cannon grew up in Luton, England and began his career as a theatre actor. While working with a small repertory company, he directed several short films featuring his fellow actors. Acclaimed film director Alan Parker saw Cannon's work and championed the young director (he was just 19) in BBC Showreel, an annually televised competition. After Danny took first prize, Parker persuaded him to enroll at the prestigious National Film and TV School.

In addition to The Young Americans, starring Harvey Keitel and Viggo Mortensen, Danny has also directed Judge Dredd, starring Sylvester Stallone, Phoenix, starring Ray Liotta, Anjelica Huston, and Giovanni Ribisi, and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. Cannon has also directed a number of commercials and music videos.

Film producer Jerry Bruckheimer was impressed with Danny's debut feature film, The Young Americans to the degree that when he made his foray into television and wanted to bring cinema to the small screen, he thought of Cannon.

After Danny directed the pilot for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, he stayed on as a producer and writer, going on to do pilots for both CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. In four years CSI had grown into the most successful television franchise ever and has garnered 3 Emmy and 3 Golden Globe nominations and won 3 People's Choice Awards.

More recently, Danny co-created TNT's crime drama series starring Dylan McDermott, called Dark Blue. He also directed the pilot episode for Dark Blue. In 2010, Danny joined The CW action series Nikita, as director and executive producer and in 2011, he executive produced and directed the pilot for the FOX crime/mystery Alcatraz. In 2014 Danny was appointed to direct the first episode of the series Gotham and continues to work as an executive producer.

Tedi Sarafian's early training in film came from two legendary iconoclasts in the industry: his father, award winning screenwriter/director Richard C. Sarafian (Vanishing Point) and his uncle, Academy Award winning director, Robert Altman (M*A*S*H).

Growing up on sets and trained in his youth as a production assistant, he was given a rare inside education in all aspects of filmmaking and by his late teens was working as an assistant editor. He took a hiatus from the family business to attend North Texas University where he studied film and music. While in college, Tedi wrote his first screenplay.

Imaginative, his storylines were fast-paced with smart characters and his affinity for epic action sequences quickly got the attention of major studios. His first produced credit, Tank Girl, starring Lori Petti, became an underground cult film. He then went on to write and co-produce Roadflower (aka Road Killers) for Miramax.

Some more of his writing projects include, Man Plus, for Warner Bros., Flying Tigers, for Morgan Creek; William The Magnificent, which he sold in a bidding war to Steven Spielberg; Metal Heads, which he sold in a bidding war to United Artists; The Radda Condition, which he wrote for John Calley and United Artists; Adaptive Ultimate, which he wrote for 20th Century Fox and Jody Foster.

Now, garnering seven figures per project, Tedi branched out to deliver rewrites of existing material on such major projects as the television mini- series, Dinotopia and the hit feature film, Rush Hour.

He wrote an original screenplay that attracted Arnold Schwarzenegger and director Jonathan Mostow. The resulting feature film, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, became the 3rd installment of Sony Pictures’ blockbuster franchise grossing $450 mil worldwide firmly establishing Tedi as a major screenwriter.

Working for top directors such as Ridley Scott, John Singleton, Gary Ross, Michael Bay and Sam Raimi, Tedi has several screenplays presently in development including, The 8th Voyage Of Sinbad for Sony and “Arabian Nights” based on a treatment by Sam Raimi and 20th Century Fox, Creature From The Black Lagoon.

His television projects include the half-hour sci-fi comedy, “Hoax,” for Fox Television; and a dark, twisted family drama titled, “Blood Relatives.” This project is currently set up at NBC. Tedi is also developing his original TV pilot, The Bus, with actress Charlize Theron, who is attached to produce and play a cameo roll. This project is out for funding.

Tedi sold his action/comedy pilot titled Indigo to Katie O’Connell, a project with which he is teaming up with his brother, director Deran Sarafian (House, MD). Currently, he is preparing to pitch Volt, a project that he co-created with comic icon Stan Lee (Spider-Man, Iron man).

Tedi recently completed his directorial debut, Altergeist. A psychological thriller that he also wrote, starring Kristina Anapau (Black Swan). Altergeist was filmed entirely on location in Sonoma, California at Korbel Champagne Cellars. This film is scheduled to be released in October, 2014.

Tedi’s most recent endeavor is an original screenplay titled Lilith, which he is attached to direct. Academy Award winning producer Phillip Goldfine is producing.

His latest spec screenplay, Bot, is a tent pole blockbuster science fiction/action trilogy. Mario Kassar (Terminator/Rambo) is attached to produce.

Joe Regalbuto is an American actor and director known for his role as Frank Fontana on the CBS television comedy Murphy Brown. He played a supporting role in the critically acclaimed film Missing in 1982. Also in 1982, Regalbuto played Darius, in the cult sci-fi/fantasy The Sword and the Sorcerer and he played Kalnik, an evil alien, in three episodes of Mork & Mindy. Joe also starred in the CBS series Knots Landing in the 1984-1985 and 1985-1986 season as a character called Harry Fisher who had taken possession of the Ewing twins illegally which centred on the Black Market storyline. Additionally, he starred in the 1986 TV movie Fuzz Bucket as well as the short-lived series Street Hawk. In 1988, Joe played the part of Rebecca Devereaux's boyfriend in the TV series The Golden Girls.

Kelly Carlson started acting in theater before making the step into screen performances. She first appeared in 3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) in a minor role. She got her first notable television role on the series Nip/Tuck (2003) and gained quick popularity for her character eventually becoming a regular cast member. Her feature film roles include supporting cast work in the direct-to-video sequel Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004) and the WWE-produced action film The Marine (2006) as the kidnapped wife of wrestling star John Cena. Kelly has established an obvious and noticeable collection of work in television across several series including Everwood (2002), Monk (2002), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Melrose Place (2009), CSI: Miami (2002), Castle (2009), Supernatural (2005) and Ghostfacers (2010). Outside of acting, Kelly is a member of the Smile Network, a humanitarian organization based in her home state that provides reconstructive surgeries and related health care services to impoverished children and young adults in developing countries. In 2010, in keeping with her love of horses, Kelly lobbied for a bill to prevent the inhumane transport of American horses to slaughterhouses in Mexico and Canada as well as roundups of wild horses by government authorities. Kelly also has been a model, working in company ad projects with Miller Lite, Rembrandt, and Oliver Peoples sunglasses. She has appeared in magazine publications including the August 2004 issue of Maxim and the October issue cover of Stuff. Carlson is trained in Kali. She is also a sponsor and volunteer for several organizations, including LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society and Wounded Warriors.