The Locher Room

Come meet actor and comedian Laura High joins me in The Locher Room to tell us what it’s like to headline one of NYC’s top comedy clubs and her mission to spread awareness on the Infertility industry.

Laura herself is a sperm donor baby and has found three donor-conceived siblings. She uses her social media to advocate for donor-conceived people's rights in a humorous way.

Laura received her B.A. in Theatre Performance from Nazareth College. She has had lead roles on TV shows, and national commercials. Laura performs stand-up comedy at venues like Broadway Comedy Club, Bananas, and headlined Carolines on Broadway. Laura has been featured on the New York Comedy Festival and won the 'Broadly Funny' Divison at the 360 Stand Up Festival. She is a rising content creator and has gone viral several times on TikTok. Laura writes, produces, and edits all her own work.

Don’t miss the chance to meet this funny comedian and rising star.

Original Airdate: 9/22/2022

Actress Arischa Conner will join me in The Locher Room to discuss her two latest roles: ‘Players’ available to stream in full on Paramount+ and ‘Mike’ which premiered in late August on Hulu.

Arischa made her original streaming acting debut last year with two critically-acclaimed shows premiering in the same month. In mid-October 2021, she started with Hulu’s ‘Dopesick,’ the Emmy-nominated and highly decorated limited series about the opioid pandemic. Toward the end of the month, she starred in the critically-acclaimed AppleTV+ sports-drama ‘Swagger,’a show loosely based on Kevin Durant’s years as a youth basketball player.

Arischa is a Black girl nerd at heart, which is one of the primary reasons she wanted to be a part of ‘Players.’ Her favorite movie genre is action, especially superhero movies. A diehard ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ fan, she hopes to one day star in the movie franchise.

As Arischa's star continues to rise, she, more than anything, wants other actors and entertainers (especially women of color) to know that their dreams can come true too. Breaking through at 50 years of age, she is also living proof that age does not define success.

Please come meet Arischa to learn more about this driven and talented actress.

Original Airdate: 9/15/2022

Tony Award-winner and one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2022, Michael R. Jackson will join me in The Locher Room.

Michael Will be here to talk about his Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway show, A Strange Loop as well as his love of daytime television and Guiding Light. One of Michael’s favorite daytime actresses, Kim Zimmer (Reva Shayne Lewis) will join Michael for this interview. Both Kim & I saw A Strange Loop and were blown away by this raw and beautiful piece of art. We encourage you all to go see it.

A Strange Loop won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Musical, the Pulitzer Prize and New York Drama Critics Circle award. The New York Times called it a “laparoscopy of the heart, soul, and loins… [a] gutsy, jubilantly anguished musical with infectious melodies". The New Yorker wrote "To watch this show is to enter, by some urgent, bawdy magic, an ecstatic and infinitely more colorful version of the famous surreal lithograph by M. C. Escher.” Awards and associations: Dramatist Guild Fellowship, Page 73’s Writers Group, New Professional Theatre Festival Award, Jonathan Larson Grant, Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, Whiting Award, Helen Merrill Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, Obie Award, Antonyo Award, Fred Ebb Award, Windham-Campbell Prize.

Don’t miss the chance to hear from this Tony-winning playwright and watch him meet one of his daytime TV favorites in The Locher Room.

Original Airdate: 9/14/2022

A Disney Legend and the original voice of Ariel in the Disney Classic The Little Mermaid, Jodi Benson, will join me live in The Locher Room on Thursday, September 1st at 3 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. PST. Jodi will be here to discuss her new memoir, Part of My World, which will be released on September 13th.

Beyond her best-known work as the voice of Ariel in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, Jodi Benson also gave voice to Barbie in Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 2 and 3, and delighted Disney fans with a cameo in Enchanted before reprising her role as Ariel in Ralph Breaks the Internet. She made her starring-role debut on Broadway performing “Disneyland” in Smile, and she earned a Tony nomination as Polly Baker in Crazy for You. In 2011, Disney bestowed upon Jodi their highest honor, naming her a Disney Legend. Jodi continues to share her gift, entertaining audiences across the country and around the world.

In Part of My World, Benson takes readers on a magical journey from a Midwestern town to the bright lights of Broadway and the recording booth where she brought to life one of the most beloved Disney princesses of all time. A treasure trove of colorful characters and unforgettable anecdotes, Part of My World reads like a real-life fairy tale as a girl with a big voice and even bigger dreams sets out on the adventure of a lifetime. Along the way, Jodi shares lessons she’s learned about faith, friendship, love, loss, taking chances, making mistakes, following God’s call, and chasing your dreams.

Thank you, Jodi Benson, for sharing your faith, love and voice with all of us in this beautiful look back at your life as one of the most famous mermaids in the world, Ariel. I could not put this book down. It helped that I was very lucky to work with Jodi on The Little Mermaid in my early 20's when I was a publicist for The Walt Disney Studios.

Don’t miss the chance to hear from Jodi herself.

Original Airdate: 9/1/2022

Don’t miss the one and only Robert Newman in The Locher Room. Robert will be here to discuss his run playing Ashland Locke on the number one daytime drama, The Young and the Restless, and his most recent role on stage in Rock of Ages at The Barn Theater.

Robert played the beloved Joshua Lewis on and off the canvas at Guiding Light for 28 years. Since Guiding Light, he has appeared on stage, in primetime and on film in several high-profile roles including The Amazing Spider Man 2, Homeland, Inventing Anna, House of Cards, Criminal Minds and Law & Order: SVU to name a small few.

Robert is enjoying his most favorite role to date as a grandfather to Leo and Rocky.

Come catch up with Robert Newman in The Locher Room.

Original Airdate: 8/31/2022

Please join actors Paul Witten and Gregory Zarian in The Locher Room. The two men will be here to discuss their roles playing husbands in the new Netflix romantic comedy That’s Amor.

Gregory Zarian is an award-winning actor, model, and host. He can most recently be seen in a recurring role on the third season of the hit HBO series “Westworld” and in the feature film, "86 Melrose Avenue,” now on VOD. In May 2020, Zarian was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category “Outstanding Performance by a supporting Actor in a Digital Drama” for his role on the Emmy-winning web series, "Venice the Series,” which he will soon begin filming the seventh season of. He has also recurred on “Days of Our Lives” and “General Hospital,” and guest starred on “Entourage,” “Criminal Minds,” “Bones,” "Castle,” “Revenge”, and “The Mentalist” among others. Gregory can currently be seen in the new “Mystery Incorporated” pilot episode, which is a live-action series based on the characters from "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?", but with a modern filter for a new generation. The pilot has garnered 2.7 million views since its premiere in April. Next, Gregory will be filming the second episode of “Mystery Incorporated” and he will costar in the horror comedy film, “Martinez, Margarita's and Murder”, due out next year. Zarian is an anti-bullying advocate and an active supporter of the organizations The Trevor Project, Free2Luv and Project Angel Food.

Paul Witten is an actor/writer/producer who can be seen in the film “The Comeback Trail” alongside Robert DeNiro, and in the series “All Rise,” “Brooklyn 99,” and “The Morning Show.” Paul created, co-wrote and stared opposite Jane Lynch in the Emmy winning comedy series, "Dropping The Soap", available on Amazon.

Don’t miss the chance to catch up with Paul and Gregory and check out That’s Amor which begins streaming on Thursday, August 25th.

Original Airdate: 8/26/2022

Please join British actress Amrita Acharia in The Locher Room. PST. Amrita will be here to tell us about her starring role in Starz’s The Serpent Queen, a period drama based on the book Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France by Leonie Frieda. The show premieres on September 11th, 2022.

Amrita is perhaps best known for her role as Irri, Daenerys Targaryen’s handmaiden, in Game of Thrones opposite Emilia Clarke as well as playing Holly Fox on Neil Cross’s The Sister for ITV opposite Bertie Cavell and Russell Tovey. She can currently be seen reprising her leading role as Dr Ruby Walker in the third season of Disney+’s The Good Karma Hospital with Neil Morrissey. Her television credits also include Fremantle’s Frikjent and PBS’s Red Dwarf. Amrita’s film credits include Missing Link with Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson, Genesis with John Hannah and The Devil’s Double with Dominic Cooper. Amrita also co-hosts the podcast series Rule Not The Exception with fellow actor Sagar Radia. The podcast is an inclusive space for interviews from creatives who have ever felt in any way different. They had a stand-out first season with guests including Russell Tovey, Himesh Patel, and more.

Come meet Amrita Acharia in The Locher Room.

Original Airdate: 8/25/2022

Actress Toby Poser will join me live in The Locher Room on Wednesday, August 24th at 3 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. PST. Toby will be here to talk about her artistic collaboration with her husband and two daughters working together on Wonder Wheel Productions. Wonder Wheel epitomizes a can-do attitude toward independent filmmaking: as cast and crew, they write, act, and shoot; they produce, direct, edit and score it all.

Guiding Light fans will remember Toby for her role as the wicked “Malibu Madam,” Amanda Spaulding. Toby’s career began in NYC theater, acting in productions Off-Broadway including Mike Leigh’s Obie-winning Ecstasy with the New Group and regionally. On TV, she has appeared in all the Law & Order series and in independent films including the iconic The Incredibly True Adventure of 2 Girls in Love.

As a voice over artist, she’s been heard on numerous national campaigns, including the Progressive Auto Insurance commercials with Flo. As the founder of Wonder Wheel Productions, Toby has made seven award-winning feature films within the drama and horror genres; writing, directing, producing, shooting, and acting alongside her husband and two daughters.

Catch up with Toby Poser in The Locher Room.

Original Airdate: 8/24/2022

Actor David A. Gregory will join me in The Locher Room. David will be here to tell us about his recent role guest starring opposite Neil Patrick Harris in the new Netflix comedy, Uncoupled.

David is perhaps best known for his role as Robert Ford on the daytime sudser One Life to Live. David has also had recurring roles on “The Good Fight”, “Insatiable”, “Constantine”, and “Deception.” In addition to these, he has also appeared on “Instinct”, “Shades of Blue”, “Bull”, “The Night Shift”, “Elementary”, “Law & Order”, & “Gossip Girl”. Other credits include How Do You Know (dir. James L. Brooks), the title role in Dirty Sexy Saint for Passionflix, and as romance novel hero “Sebastian” in a national commercial campaign for Airborne.

David won a Voice Arts Award for writing and producing the scripted podcast Powder Burns (Apple Podcasts) in which he also voices alongside Emmy winners John Wesley Shipp, Robert Vaughn, and Edward Asner. His play Hank & Jim Build a Plane, about the 40-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart, will debut in New York City later this season.

Catch up with David in The Locher Room.

Original Airdate: 8/11/2022

Ariana Muenker will be my guest in The Locher Room.

Ariana will be here to look back at her roles in daytime and fill us in on what she is doing today. Daytime fans will remember Ariana for her roles Christie Rogers and Christine Valere on Guiding Light, Annie Stewart and Melinda Gray Spencer on As the World Turns, Marianne Rudolph on Another World, Amanda Kirkland on Ryan’s Hope and Kimberly Brady on Days of Our Lives.

Don’t miss the chance to catch up with Ariana in The Locher Room.

Original Airdate: 8/10/2022