The Locher Room

Come celebrate the 70th television anniversary of Guiding Light on Thursday, June 30th with a former Guiding Light head writer, a NY Times best-selling author, the co-Executive Producer of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and a former Guiding Light publicist you may know – me.

Please join Jill Lorie Hurst, Danielle Paige, Brett Staneart and me as we look back at what prompted us to start watching Guiding Light and how lucky we all were to end up working for one of our favorite daytime dramas.

Bring your favorite Guiding Light memories and questions to help us celebrate this 70th anniversary.

Original Airdate: 6/30/2022

Come celebrate the 25th anniversary of the ABC daytime drama Port Charles in The Locher Room.

Joining us to help celebrate are creator and Executive Producer Wendy Riche, Executive Producer Julie Hanan Carruthers, cast members Ise formerly known as Kiko Ellsworth (Jamal Woods), Jon Lindstrom (Dr. Kevin Collins), Julie Pinson (Dr. Eve Lambert) and Marie Wilson (Karen Wexler).

Port Charles was a spin-off of ABC’s General Hospital and made its television debut on June 1, 1997. The show ran for six years until October 3, 2003.

Don’t miss the chance to look back on Port Charles.

Award-winning head writer Ron Carlivati will join me in The Locher Room. Ron will be here to look back at his career in daytime television leading the writing teams for One Life to Live, General Hospital, Days of Our Lives and Beyond Salem. In addition, Ron will tell us about his most recent Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing Team for a Drama Series for Days of Our Lives.

Tune-in to catch up with this talented and prolific writer.

Original Airdate: 6/22/2022

Please join actor E.J. Bonilla in The Locher Room. E.J. will go head-to-head with John Lithgow in the upcoming FX series The Old Man premiering June 16th and he will be here to tell us all about this new role.

E.J. began his career at 16 years old and got his big break when he joined the cast of Guiding Light playing Rafe Rivera. The role earned him a Daytime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Younger Actor.

Since then, E.J. has built an impressive resume. His first full length feature, the 2009 Sundance Film Festival favorite Don’t Let Me Drown, was nominated for the Grand Jury Award at Sundance and won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2009 San Francisco International Film Festival. Continuing his momentum, E.J. starred in the coming-of-age drama Mamitas, which earned him an Imagen Award Nomination for Best Actor. E.J. received an additional Imagen Award Nomination for his performance as "Dexter," a former high school basketball player whose best days were behind him, in Joshua Sanchez's directorial debut, Four. He also starred in the romantic tale Musical Chairs directed by Susan Seidelman.

More recently he was the series lead on the critically acclaimed series THE LONG ROAD HOME (for which EJ won an Imagen Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series). He has also appeared as a series regular on UNFORGETTABLE where he originated the role of wisecracking Detective Denny Padilla. His recurring guest lead TV credits include: “Colony”, “Bull” “Insecure” “Younger” and “Revenge”. Other guest appearances: “Madam Secretary”, “Bored to Death,” “Cold Case,” “The Big C,” “Blue Bloods,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” and “Shameless”

Don’t miss the chance to catch up with my pal E.J. in The Locher Room.

Please join Emmy nominee Mishael Morgan in The Locher Room. Mishael returned to the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless in September 2019 as Amanda Sinclair and received her first nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress.

Mishael previously played the role of fan favorite Hilary Curtis from May 2013 to July 2018. She received two consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role.

Mishael impressed producers at her first audition and landed a role in the music video for Trey Songz, “Wonder Woman.” Soon after, she scored her first series regular roles as Tracy Dupont-Roymont in YTV’s Family Biz. She has landed roles in The Best Year, Republic of Doyle, and CW’s Beauty & the Beast and Supernatural. Her feature film roles include Beat the World, Casino Jack, Total Recall and Swearnet. She recently filmed starring roles in the television movies Hometown Holiday and A Widow’s Nightmare.

I hope you’ll tune-in to catch up with Mishael in The Locher Room.

Please join Emmy Award-winning director and producer Gregori J. Martin in The Locher Room.

Gregori is a 2x Emmy Award-winning director, 5x Emmy Award-winning producer, 4x Emmy-nominated writer, and the founder, CEO, and chairman of LANY Entertainment.

Gregori is best known to daytime audiences as the creator, director, and showrunner of the digital drama series The Bay, seen on multiple streaming services such as Amazon Prime, Popstar! TV, Tubi, TenPlay Australia and now Peacock and more. The Bay has won 23 Emmy Awards and has been nominated 56 times. The Bay and has just completed production on their seventh and eighth season.

In addition to The Bay, Greogri has also been Emmy nominated for his work on the POP-TV situation family comedy This Just In, where he served as a director, writer, and co-executive producer for two seasons. A 10-part spin-off of The Bay, called yA, a young adult limited drama series he co-wrote and co-directed, is currently in post-production with a release date for later this year.

In addition to yA and The Bay, under LANY Entertainment, Martin recently wrapped on a new horror romance by an acclaimed writer, as well as a feature motion picture holiday drama, The Magic, starring Emmy Award winning Actor Kristos Andrews, and Latin sensation Alejandra Espinoza.

Don’t miss the chance to hear from this director, producer and writer.

Original Airdate: 6/15/2022

Daytime Emmy Award winners and this year’s nominees for Outstanding Lead Performance, Cynthia Watros and Laura Wright will join me in The Locher Room. These two incredible talents will be here to look back at their time first meeting and working on Guiding Light and tell us what it has been like going toe to toe on ABC’s General Hospital.

Join us for a fun hour in The Locher Room.

Original Airdate: 6/8/2022

Come meet photographer Lindsay Morris along with two kids (now adults) from Camp I Am as we come together to celebrate Pride month in The Locher Room.

Lindsay Morris, like all mom’s, took photos of her son at summer camp. At the time in 2007 she had no idea that those images would be the beginning of a more than decade-long photo project that would chronicle LGBTQ and gender-fluid children coming into their own.

Those kids—including Morris’s son, Milo—were among the first to attend Camp I Am in rural Wisconsin created for LGBTQ and gender-fluid young people. At the time the camp was created, it was perhaps the only camp in the nation for gender fluid or gender expansive children who, regardless of their gender identity, don’t want to be confined in their clothing and play by society’s prescribed boundaries.

Joining Lindsay today are Elias Matso and his mom Karen along with Zachary Davis and his mom Lori. Elias, now 20, attended Camp I Am for four years, starting at age 5. At camp, Elias could dress any way he liked without judgement and today he lives in New York City, where he studies fashion at Parsons School of Design. Elias is a self-proclaimed vintage fashion fanatic. Check out his Instagram to see his fabulous looks and creations.

Zachary, now 22, grew up in a Mormon family in Utah. His faith, which everyone knew, considers “homosexual behavior” a transgression. Zach realized he was different in first grade and hid his gender fluidity until he was in ninth grade, when he befriended some non-Mormon theater kids who accepted him for who he is. He came out as gay. Zach’s mother had to go outside her faith to find support and educate herself which led her and Zach to Camp I Am when he was eight years old. Zach's parents, who have always supported him, oppose Mormon ideas about homosexuality and gender roles, and they volunteer at Pride parades.

Please join us on to hear how these moms came together to bring their sons to Camp I Am where the boys were allowed to be themselves, feel safe and most importantly dress in whatever made them comfortable.

Original Airdate: 6/2/2022

Emmy Award-winning actor Greg Rikaart will join me in The Locher Room.

Greg joined the cast of the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless in 2003 where he has played the oft misguided, yet lovable Kevin Fisher ever since. In 2005, Greg won the Daytime Emmy for his work and has been a multiple Emmy nominee in years since. In addition to his role on Y&R, Greg has a Daytime Emmy-nominated stint on Days of Our Lives as “Leo Stark” making appearances on both Days of Our Lives and the Peacock limited series, Beyond Salem.

In addition to his work in daytime, he has had a recurring role on Dawson’s Creek as well as Major Crimes and appeared on other series including Modern Family, Bones and The Closer.

Greg is very proud to be a recipient of the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award for his advocacy work and has hosted fundraisers for GLSEN (Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network) helping to ensure that any LGBTQ adolescent has a safe space in school free of bullying.

Join Greg and I as we look back at his career, fatherhood and so much more.

Original Airdate: 6/1/2022

Singer and songwriter Trey Pearson will join me for a sit-down interview in The Locher Room. Trey, an independent artist, will be here to discuss his new music and album, Somebody You Knew due out July 1.

With his band Everyday Sunday Sunday, Trey has sold hundreds of thousands of records, and amassed millions of streams. He has scored 5#1 U.S. singles and 20 Top 10 hits. His song, “Wake Up! Wake Up!” earned the title of most-played Christian rock song of the year, and “Best Night of Our Lives,” broke into the coveted Billboard 200 chart. Trey has toured performing his music in all 50 states and 20 countries.

In 2016, Trey, the founder, and owner of Everyday Sunday came out of the closet to make national news. His announcement started a national conversation with his television appearance on ABC’s The View. Trey has been covered by The New York Times, Billboard Magazine, CNN and more, as his story became the #1 trending topic worldwide on Facebook.

Trey was nominated for 2017 GLAAD Award for his appearance on The View. Trey performed at Pride Festivals all around the country with Kesha and Betty Who. He released his debut solo solo single, “Silver Horizon,” and premiered the music video on Teen Vogue. Billboard Magazine did a feature on Trey for his debut solo album and premiered the title track, “Love is Love.”

Trey released, Can’t Go Back,” the first single off his new album on April 22 and the second sing Piedmont Park was released on May 3.

Original Airdate: 5/25/2022