Rebecca McGlynn (she/they) is a transgender queer writer, actor, songwriter, and filmmaker working in film and TV production in Los Angeles. She premiered her original, award-winning one-woman show “Asexuality! The Solo Musical” in the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2022. She co-wrote and produced 2016's My Big Fat Blonde Musical, which she has since adapted into a digital series as a creator, writer, composer, cinematographer and editor. Awards include the Hollywood Fringe Festival's TOP OF THE FRINGE, BEST MUSICAL, BEST WORLD PREMIERE, ENCORE PRODUCERS' AWARD, PICK OF THE FRINGE; LA Music Critic's BEST SOLO SHOW; OUTDOOR VOICES FESTIVAL Official Selection; JOSHUA TREE SOLO FESTIVAL Desert Salon Official Selection; SOARING SOLO STARS SERIES Official Selection; Official Selection; iO West's 24hr SKETCH COMPETITION; LA 48hr Film Project's BEST DIRECTOR. Previous stage roles include: Vice Principal Douglas Panch (Spelling Bee), Trevor Graydon (Thoroughly Modern Millie), Caldwell B. Cladwell (Urinetown), Pooh-Bah (The Mikado), Mrs. Gloop (Willy Wonka), Rachel Brown (Inherit the Wind), and God (Spamalot!). Rebecca is also an Emmy-nominated photojournalist, writer and composer of the musical Norton! The Astonishingly True Story of America's Forgotten Emperor, and founder of Denison University's first non-singing a cappella group, Talkapella.

GoFundMe:  https://www.gofundme.com/f/acesolomusical

Meet Tehmina Sunny, British, Indian and American. Her charm, wit & curiosity makes her an actor’s actor, a director’s actor and a crew’s actor. She has portrayed memorable characters in Emmy award winning TV shows, Golden Globe nominated productions & Oscar winning movies. But really, Tehmina Sunny is the same little girl that once dreamed of one day acting. Not for the fame, but because as an actress she is a storyteller.

Born in London, her passion for the arts was developed at an early age. She received a scholarship for playing the violin, Viola and piano. With no previous training she was a finalist for the BBCs cross-country search for acting talent.

Sunny put her artistic dreams aside and attended the University of Leeds in England, where she studied Business Information Systems with an emphasis on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. This combined with marketing and business studies earned her a Bachelor of Science degree with honors. After graduating, she worked for Richard Branson’s Virgin corporation. But soon after a UK acting agent persuaded her to embark in the entertainment industry as an actress.

Tehmina’s career began in the Oscar winning movie ‘Children of Men’, working with award winning director Alfonso Cuaron & actors Michael Caine, Clive Owen & Julianne Moore. Continuing on to ‘Argo’ with Ben Affleck.

On the small screen, she has portrayed a retrospective of characters in Emmy award winning & Golden Globe nominated productions including, CBS’s Training Day with the late Bill Paxton, NCIS, CSI, Fox’s 24: Live Another Day & The Following with Kevin Bacon. Aaron Sorkins The Newsroom on HBO, ABC’s Mistresses & CW’s Sci-fi show Pandora. Sunny is currently recurring on NBC’s Primetime show, ‘Chicago Med’.

Go follow Tehmina on Instagram and Twitter @tehminasunny

Kevin Brown is an actor / musician who also just so happens to be married to Emmy Award Winning Casting Director for 24, Debi Manwiller.

Kevin has been a working actor since the 80’s working with Keanu Reeves in Permanent Record to working on television shows such as Wicked City, Grey’s Anatomy, The Fix and Franklin & Bash. 

Kevin opens up about his decade long struggle with alcoholism and how he battled the addiction to start his life afresh and throw himself back into acting once again. 

In this interview Kevin also talks about what it is like being married to an Emmy Award Winning Casting Director and gives us insight from an  actors as well as casting director’s perspective. 

You can follow Kevin on Twitter @Beatlekevin

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This week Lindsay interviews old class mate Alex Hafner. Hear all about Alex’s move from Europe to the States, and back to Europe again where, in the last couple of years Alex has really started to thrive as an actor. Of course there are ups and downs, scenes being cut, shows being put on hold due to Covid-19, but that is the life of an actor in general, you have to go with the flow. Find out how Alex has navigated his way so far.

You can catch Alex on Netflix’s Television show, Cable Girl’s, feature film, Submergence and The Mallorca Files on the BBC.

Follow Alex on Instagram and Twitter at both: @thealexhafner

Enjoy the episode.

This week Lindsay Lucas-Bartlett interviews former acting coach and longtime friend, Benjamin Byron Davis about his career so far. From what inspired Ben to choose a career in the arts, finding out his casting type and using it to his advantage to what flavor La Croix he is currently drinking.

And yes, you did hear that currently, I did go and see Ant Man and the Wasp just to see Agent Burleigh.

You can catch Ben in Greg McLean’s, The Belko Experiment, Peyton’s Reed, Marvel’s Ant Man and the Wasp and you can play him in Rockstar Games, Red Dead Redemption I & II as Dutch van der Linde.

You can follow Ben on Twitter @Tooda and Instagram at @BigBenDavis