Chatting with Sherri

Chatting With Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Jennifer Irwin about her book; A Dress The Color Of The Sky!
A native new Yorker and captivating storyteller with a flair for embellishment, Jennifer Irwin currently resides in Los Angeles with two cats, one dog, and her boyfriend. After earning her BA in Cinema from Dennison University, she worked in advertising and marketing, raised three boys, and ultimately became a certified Pilates instructor. While she has written screenplays and short stories since her college days A Dress The Color Of The Sky is her first novel. The film rights were purchased before publication, and Jennifer is enjoying a book tour across the United States.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back multi-talented and wonderful Steven L Sears!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back multi-talented and wonderful Steven L Sears!
Steven is a screenwriter, producer, author and now a radio host!  His new show is called The Steven L Sears show!
 The Steven L. Sears show is the rantings, ravings and potentially interesting peek into Steven's world of TV, film, writing and topics of the day. Surprising guests from the world of Pop Genre and the Entertainment Industry as well as episodes devoted to practical knowledge of breaking into and working in Hollywood.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning writer and actress Lena Pousette!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning writer and actress Lena Pousette!
Award winning writer, Lena M Pousette specializes in high concept thrillers and dark comedies She began as an actress on stage, film and TV in shows like Silver Spoons, Night Court and Murder She Wrote!
 
Now on the other side of the lens as a writer, producer and director. For such shows as; Voyeur, recipient of seven Interactive Academy Awards, including Best Writing. and Caesar’s World of Boxing , Interactive Academy Award of Best Sports Title. A pioneer in interactive design, she was hired as Creative Director (Mass Media) and Director of Development (Philips POV and Time Warner Interactive.)

We chat with Leslee Scallon about her film festival; “Dances with Films!”

Chatting With Sherri chats with Leslee Scallon about her film festival; “Dances with Films!”
Leslee Scallon’s many successful careers on both the performing and business sides of entertainment have prepared her well for being the guiding light of “Dances with Films” which in the last 20 years has become one of the industry’s most successful independent film festivals.
 Her careers are as varied as; acting (recipient of Dramalogue’s best actress award), magician’s assistant for one of magic’s most prestigious illusion acts, children’s entertainer, producer and currently, “Dances with Films” which has introduced  such spectacular talent  as Oscar Nominated John Hawkes & Jesse Eisenberg, Ellen Pompeo (Gray’s Anatomy), Showrunners, Mark V. Olsen & Will Scheffer, among many others, to the industry. Her panel moderator skills have placed her on the stage with great entertainment minds from Mark Ordesky (Prod. Lord of the Rings) to Syrinthia Studer (EVP, Paramount Pictures.)  But perhaps the job she is most proud of is raising her amazing 13 year old daughter, Jocelyn.
Now in its 21st year, Dances With Films is an original on the festival circuit, touted by the Huffington Post as "the future of Independent Film," "An innovator and leader in positioning raw and new talented directors," - CNN and voted one of Moviemaker Magazine's Top 25 Coolest Film Festivals on the planet (and the only one in Los Angeles to make the list in the only year it was actually voted on by filmmakers across the globe), Dances With Films presents nearly 200 films each year to the LA Filmmaking and Film-going community.
 

We welcome the creator, star of the Webseries; SIDETRACKED, E.D.Brown!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes the creator, showrunner and star of the Webseries; SIDETRACKED, E.D.Brown!
E.D.Brown graduated  from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she was cast in the International percussion sensation STOMP. She toured the world with STOMP and upon returning to New York, refocused her performance career on acting. She worked with several theatre companies in New York City including The Classical Theatre of Harlem but was pulled West to Los Angeles to further her acting and writing career. E.D.Brown recently wrote, directed and produced four episodes of her first show entitled SIDETRACKED, which chronicles the journey of a group of late thirtysomethings whose lives are off course. E.D. Brown has also finished two feature films and is currently working on her third, a biopic about baseball legend Satchel Paige.
SIDETRACKED: follows the tribulations of a group of THIRTYSOMETHINGS, whose lives are NOT going to plan. We follow EVELYN, LEIGH, JESS and VANCE on an average Monday as they juggle the LA hustle of WORK, LOVE and TRAFFIC. Each episode concentrates on one character but we quickly learn how intertwined their lives are as they try to make it in an industry obsessed with the NEXT BEST and YOUNGER THING.
Season 2 will be another day in these four friends lives. A SIDETRACKED season can flash forward or backward in time, which allows for a fuller version of how friendships evolve and possibly dissolve on one particular day.
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes actor, writer and director Jordan Jacobo!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes Jordan Jacobo who is best know as an actor and director, known for Soldiers of Misfortune, Fletcher and Jenks and Jordan Hates the Writing!
 A San Diego native and lifetime film enthusiast, He began his career as a documentarian, Jordan went on to write and develop such comedic narrative series as, “Soldiers of Misfortune,” and “Fletcher and Jenks,” as well as the KPBS series “Permission to Speak Freely.” Jordan currently hosts “Jordan Hates,” an award winning web-series which humorously explores the darker aspects of the human condition, as well as “Jordan Loves” an exploration of the unseen aspects of San Diego. 
 

We welcome John Alsedek and Dana Perry-Hayes to chat about Suspense!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes John Alsedek and Dana Perry-Hayes about their show Suspense!
 
During radio’s heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, anthology programs were wildly popular. But even among classics such as ‘Inner Sanctum’, ‘Lights Out!’ and ‘The Whistler’, one series stood out: SUSPENSE. Featuring a virtual who’s-who of Hollywood royalty, SUSPENSE ran for an unprecedented 20 years and 900-plus episodes before finally going off the air on September 30th, 1962- a date that is widely considered the end of radio’s ‘Golden Age’.
 
However, that wasn’t the end of the SUSPENSE story. Fifty years later, John C. Alsedek and Dana Perry-Hayes revived the series, with all-new stories and a style reminiscent of the original without being a copy. Since its premiere on SiriusXM on September 30th, 2012, SUSPENSE has aired on over 300 radio stations worldwide, including Radio New Zealand, Wisconsin Public Radio, and Pacifica Radio flagship station KPFA.  It has also been nominated three times for the Peabody Awards, as well as for the Parsec Awards, the Young Artists Awards, and the Young Entertainer Awards.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back New York Times Best Seller Kevin J Anderson!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back New York Times Best Seller Kevin J Anderson!
It's always fun to chat with the witty and talented Kevin J. Anderson about his latest adventures in writing and publishing. 
TALES OF DUNE collects in one volume the various short stories written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, covering the history of the Dune universe.
 
TASTES LIKE CHICKEN, the fifth hilarious adventure in Kevin J. Anderson’s Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series. A flock of feral chickens terrorizes the Unnatural Quarter in Dan Shamble’s most fowl case yet.

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Chatting With Sherri welcomes Hugo Nominated editor and author Bryan Thomas Schmidt!
Bryan Thomas Schmidt is an author and Hugo-nominated editor of adult and children's speculative fiction. His debut novel, The Worker Prince received Honorable Mention on Barnes & Noble Book Club's Year's Best Science Fiction Releases. His short stories have appeared in magazines, anthologies and online and include entries in The X-Files, Predator, Joe Ledger, Monster Hunter International, and Decipher's WARS, amongst others. As book editor for Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta's WordFire Press he has edited books by such luminaries as Alan Dean Foster, Tracy Hickman, Frank Herbert, Mike Resnick, Jean Rabe and more. He was also the first editor on Andy Weir's bestseller The Martian. His anthologies as editor include Shattered Shields with co-editor Jennifer Brozek, Mission: Tomorrow, Galactic Games, Little Green Men--Attack! with Robin Wayne Bailey, and The Monster Hunter Tales with Larry Correia all for Baen, Space Battles: Full Throttle Space Tales #6, Beyond The Sun and Raygun Chronicles: Space Opera For a New Age for various small presses and Joe Ledger: Unstoppable with Jonathan Maberry for St. Martin's Press.
Original stories in Jonathan Maberry's New York Times bestselling Joe Ledger universe by Larry Correia, Mira Grant, Scott Sigler, David Farland, Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, Steve Alten, Jon McGoran, Dana Fredsti, Jennifer Campbell-Hicks, Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Bryan Thomas Schmidt, GP Charles, Keith DeCandido, James A. Moore, Aaron Rosenberg, Nicholas Steven, James Ray Tuck, Jeremy Robinson, and Maberry himself.

We welcome back Emmy Winning Producer/Writer/Author Brooks Wachtel!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back Emmy Winning Producer,Writer and Author Brooks Wachtel!
Brooks is a very talented and diverse man who won an Emmy Award for screenwriting for the animated hit series Tutenstein! Brooks is an Emmy Award-winning writer with a long resume in TV and film. Wachtel has written more than 100 produced episodes of television fiction. In addition to episodes of X-Men, he has written shows as diverse as Fox’s live-action Young Hercules (starring Ryan Gosling) and animated hits like Spider-Man, Heavy Gear, Robo-Cop, Beast Machines: Transformers and PBS’ Liberty’s Kids. For younger viewers, he penned episodes of the pre-school hits, Clifford the Big Red Dog and Rainbow Fish. Wachtel's episode, "I Did it My Way," for Tutenstein won an Emmy Award.
For The History Channel, he co-created and executive produced the hit series DogFights. Wachtel also wrote and produced other documentaries for that network, including episodes of Defending America: National Guard and The Coast Guard. Additionally, he wrote The Great Ships, Search and Rescue, The Royal Navy and Fly Past, which won the Cine Golden Eagle Award. Wachtel recently co-wrote and co-produced Silver Tsunami, an award-winning independent theatrical documentary.
Now he is an author who has created his first book; Lady Sherlock, LADY NATASHA (TASHA) DORRINGTON, an emancipated and brilliant detective in 1906 London, is drawn into a deadly mystery involving an ancient pagan curse and a diabolical plan to plunge the world into war.
He also serves on the Steering Committee of the Animation Writers Caucus of the Writers Guild of America, West; as well as teaching screenwriting at UCLA Extension. He is a performing magician member of Hollywood’s Magic Castle.