THE BIGGER PICTURE with Timothy Spangler

AARON HENDRY (ABC's "Marvel's InHumans") is our featured guest this Sunday night! AARON is an actor, writer, swordsman, horseman, choreographer and father. He was born in Indiana, moved at a young age to Alaska, then arrived in Los Angeles as a teen to attend UCLA. He has been a performer and story teller of all varieties. He can be seen on television in "Marvel's InHumans," "Walt Disney's "Bizaardvark," MTV's "Teen Wolf," heard as the voice of a supernatural menace on "Sleepyhollow," and many other wonderful programs. He has been with the "Lysistrata Unbound" project since its inception at the Getty Villa classical theater lab in 2013. He is thrilled to see this inspired play come to fruition here in Southern California. Aaron is a member of Not Man Apart - Physical Theater Ensemble, the Theatricum Botanicum classical company, and a former member of DIAVOLO Dance Theatre. Also dropping by the show this Sunday night is RACHEL MCCORD, model, entrepreneur, and TV personality. "Master of branding" (Daily Mail) and "Hollywood 'IT' girl" (Mogul Magazine), RACHEL is "One of the hottest models in the world right now" according to Daily Star. In 2017, she released her sassy self-help and how-to on social media: "Slay the Fame Game." Featured in outlets like Vogue, Forbes, and Glamour, she is an investor/judge on "Elevator Pitch" and the star/producer of "Slay with Rachel McCord" on Focus TV. RACHEL is a renowned speaker on social media, branding, and female entrepreneurship at UCLA, USC, LMU, FIDM, and StyleCon. Labeled the "influencer of influencers", she founded The McCord List network of influential women in media, to connect them with brands and events to succeed as entrepreneurs. From trailer parks to red carpets, she inspires millions of women that "no matter where you grow up, you are born to slay."

DAVID DESANTOS (CBS's "SEAL Team") is our featured guest this Sunday night! DAVID is a native of Southern California, having grown up in a post production family. His father was a film editor, his grandfather was a chemist at the film lab CFI, and his grandmother, before becoming one of Hollywood's most famous film librarians, was an editor on TV's first western, "Gunsmoke." David currently recurs on CBS's "SEAL Team" and co-stars in the upcoming feature "Windows On The World" starring Ryan Guzman and Edward James Olmos. Other TV/film credits include "Castle," "Red Road," "CSI," "Famous In Love," "When the Game Stands Tall," and "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip." He is a member of Antaeus Theatre Company in Glendale and spent numerous years as a company member of the Tony Award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He currently stars in William Shakespeare's "Coriolanus," a tragedy based on the life of legendary Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus, at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum. An allegory for today's tumultuous times, Shakespeare's searing tragedy is a cautionary tale of political manipulation and revenge. Rome, a city where the one-percenters rule, is led by a populist general who has nothing but contempt for the common people and is unable to reconcile his disdain for the citizens with his love of country. Also dropping by the show Sunday night is SEAN STONE, actor and filmmaker. SEAN has grown up in the film-world, having acted since childhood in his father Oliver Stone's films, including "The Doors," "JFK," "Natural Born Killers," "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" and "Savages," before making his directing debut with the documentary-style psychological horror "Greystone Park." SEAN majored in American History, studying at Oxford and Princeton University, graduating from Princeton in 2006 after completing his thesis on the New World Order, which he converted into a book in 2016, available from all major booksellers. He has appeared on international television, including The O'Reilly Factor, Piers Morgan Tonight, Follow the Money on Fox Business News, Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano, CNN, RT, and Press TV. SEAN is currently the co-host of the RT news show "Watching the Hawks," which airs internationally. He also hosts the interview show "Buzzsaw" for Gaia. Stone's shows investigate the real world's 'X-Files', taking an unflinching look at the esoteric and hidden agendas behind world politics, popular culture and news events. Most recently SEAN wrote, produced and starred in the martial arts comedy "Fury of the Fist and the Golden Fleece," with Danny Trejo, Michael Dudikoff, Don 'The Dragon' Wilson, Bill Goldberg, Tommy Davidson, Richard Grieco, released by Comedy Dynamics. Synopsis and trailer can be seen at http://www.furyofthefistmovie.com.

THOMAS BIRD (producer of award-winning doc "Dear America, Letters Home from Vietnam") is our featured guest this Sunday night! THOMAS is a Vietnam War veteran who served with B Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regime, 1st Cavalry Division in 1965-66. He was awarded the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with palm, and all Vietnam Service Medals. On his return to the United States, THOMAS resumed college and his football career, but soon found that his post-war persona responded better to the arts. He studied theater - acting, writing and directing - and ultimately felt that his greater role in life was to give arts experience to other Vietnam Veterans. He created VETCo, the Vietnam Veteran's Ensemble Theatre Company, and, as the company's artistic director, presented 26 plays off and off-off Broadway, including the highly acclaimed "Tracers" at the Public Theatre, for which the company won a Drama Desk Award for "giving voice to the trauma of Vietnam." THOMAS is perhaps best known for his work co-producing the Peabody, Ace and Emmy Award-winning documentary "Dear America, Letters Home from Vietnam." At HBO, hedeveloped a number of film scripts, as well as created further programs to give Vietnam Veterans a voice in society mand to help less fortunate veterans deal with life after war. His newest play, an autobiographical one man show, "Bearing Witness," premiered at the Global Peace Film Festival in Orlando, Florida on September 21st, 2016, the United Nations' acclaimed "International Day of Peace." They play is currently having its West Coast premiere at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. Also dropping by this Sunday night is ANTHONY PEDONE, independent filmmaker. ANTHONY was born in Texas but spent the formational years of his life on a ranch in Clayton, New Mexico. At 16 he moved back to Texas and played in multiple musical projects while studying music at Texas State University. In 2015, ANTHONY produced "The Strongest Man", written and directed by Kenny Riches, the film had its world premiere at Sundance and was released theatrically and on VOD by Film Buff in North America and Sundance Global internationally. He recently directed his first narrative feature, "An American in Texas." Produced by ANTHONY, "An American in Texas" is a semi-autobiographical account of he and co-writer, Stephen Floyd's time growing up in small town Victoria, Texas.

STEFANIE BLACK, NBC's "This Is Us" and Netflix's "Disjointed," is our featured guest this Sunday night! Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, Stefanie is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, an alumna of The Williamstown Theater Festival and American Conservatory Theater. In addition to "This Is Us" (NBC) and playing opposite Kathy Bates' on the new NETFLIX comedy, "Disjointed," STEFANIE he has recurred on such shows as "Scandal" (ABC), "Making History" (FOX), "House of Lies" (SHOWTIME) and "How I Meet Your Mother" (CBS); as well as appeared on "Casual" (HULU), "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC), "Bones" (FOX), "Mike and Molly" (CBS), "Private Practice" (ABC), "Rizzoli and Isles" (TNT), and many others. STEFANIE is co-artistic director of the IAMA Theatre Company, where this week is opening the world premiere of the play "Cult of Love," at the Atwater Village Theatre. In "Cult of Love," the Dahl family has gathered to celebrate Christmas in their rural Connecticut home. Raised as strict Christians and overachievers, the four adult children (along with their partners) have grown into varying degrees of belief and success. Their initially joyful reunion quickly reveals an American family riddled with competition, xenophobia and mental illness. Also dropping by the show this Sunday night is DANNA SCHAEFER, writer-actress. DANNA grew up in New York and Los Angeles, and her daughter Rebecca was born in Eugene, Oregon in 1967, and, when Rebecca was 14, the family moved to Portland. At age 16, Rebecca struck out on her own for New York, where she soon landed acting jobs, starting with a role on a soap and ultimately a role on the sitcom "My Sister Sam" alongside Pam Dawber, which took her to Los Angeles. DANNA brings her uniquely Hollywood story - an intimate, harrowing, often funny and ultimately joyful story of loss, memory and hardwon wisdom - to the Hollywood Fringe Festival. On July 18, 1989, the blooming Hollywood career of her daughter Rebecca was cut tragically short when she was murdered on her front step by an obsessed fan. The one-woman show "You In Midair" is DANNA's spell-binding story.

PHELIM MCALEER, veteran investigative journalist and filmmaker, is our featured guest this Sunday night! He is the author of "Gosnell - The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer," published by Regnery. His "Gosnell" movie was the most successful movie project ever on Indiegogo. It raised $2.3 million in just 45 days. "Gosnell" is a ripped from the headlines story about a respected doctor who ran a medical clinic in an impoverished Philadelphia neighborhood. But behind the doors of his clinic the smiling, avuncular Kermit Gosnell was also America's most prolific serial killer. PHELIM caused a storm when his play "Ferguson," about the police shooting of Michael Brown,was staged in Los Angeles. Although the play was based entirely on verbatim transcripts of eyewitness testimony to the Grand Jury actors objected to the script and nine of the 13 cast walked out before opening night. They were upset that the eyewitness testimony did not match their idea of how the shooting actually happened. Alternative newspaper LA Weekly said "Ferguson" was "divisive, but riveting" and "an incendiary night of theatre". Now, his new play "The $18-Billion Prize" - about the shocking and at times farcical tale of how an environmental lawsuit turned into the world's biggest fraud - has its world premiere of May 19 at the Phoenix Theatre in San Francisco, where performances continue through June 3. A "verbatim theater production," the play is based on a true story and the trial and deposition transcripts from the court case "Donziger v.Chevron Corp." The claim: the Amazonian rain forest has been polluted by evil oil giant Chevron. But all is not what it seems. Stories of sex-obsessed Hollywood celebrities let loose in the jungle and the private diaries of the lead attorney submitted into evidence are just some of the plot twists in this wild and crazy tale. Also dropping by the show this Sunday night is MAUREEN HUSKEY, playwright. Her work has been presented in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Vienna, Austria, Vancouver, and Los Angeles. She has received a Princess Grace Award, a Bessie Award, and NAACP OVATION nominations for her directing work. She's been awarded by the Creative Capital Foundation and Voice & Vision’s ENVISION award for women theater artists (NYC), among others. MAUREEN co-founded Red Dive, a vanguard company in the site-specific and immersive theater movement in NYC which she directed until 2006. She holds a Diploma in Dramatic Playwriting with Merit from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England as a Rotary Scholar and an MFA in Theater Direction from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

FRENCH STEWART, from NBC's "3rd Rock from the Sun," is our featured guest this Sunday night! A fan of silent films, FRENCH is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with a B.F.A. in Theatre Arts. Best known for his work on the classic TV series "3rd Rock From The Sun," FRENCH has also appeared on "Seinfeld," "The Larry Sanders Show," "Just Shoot Me," "The Drew Carey Show," "News Radio," "NCIS," "Trial and Error," "Community," "Psych," "Bones," "The Closer," "Castle," "Pushing Daisies," "Private Practice," "Roseanne," and in recurring roles on "The Middle" and Chuck Lorre's hit comedy "Mom." In "Forever Bound," a play with a May 11 opening at Atwater Village Theatre, where performances continue through June 16, FRENCH takes on the role of a rare book dealer desperately trying to avoid bankruptcy. The play is an homage to David Mamet's "American Buffalo" as well as to George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion." Also dropping by the show Sunday night is TESSA ESPINOZA, Disney actress! In spite of her youth, TESSA is already an accomplished actress and performer who has been recognized as a Best Child Actress in several award programs. She began acting at age three and has over 35 credits in film, television and theater. She will soon be starring in a new Disney pilot that is currently filming, which has been picked up by the network. She has been recognized for her guest starring roles on Disney's "Bizaardvark" and on Nickelodeon's "The Thundermans." Tessa is active in the SAG-AFTRA Looking Ahead Leadership Program and has spoken to student groups such as Global Glow about the challenges and perks of being a child actor. In her 'spare' time she trains in dance and advanced tumbling, singing, piano, flute and American Sign Language. She is also a world traveler who has already been to Argentina, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Mexico, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Africa (Zambia Zimbabwe, South Africa) and the Caribbean (Neevis).

VICTORIA PLATT, from CW's "Star-Crossed" and NBC's "Marlon," is our featured guest this Sunday night! VICTORIA is an actress, singer and producer, born to a West Indian mother and Polish father in Queens, New York. Her film credits include the upcoming "The Gleaner," a film with Angus MacFadyen directed by Harry Lennix; the sci-fi apocalyptic film "Eruption;" "Winchell" (as Josephine Baker); "Jonah Hex;" "The Baytown Disco;" and she gender-bended as the chief justice in the film adaptation of "Henry IV," entitled "H4," which she co-produced. Other TV credits include "Major Crimes," "Bones," "The Mentalist," "Criminal Minds," "The Gates" and "Castle," as well as contract roles on both "All My Children" and "Guiding Light." She will also be appearing soon in CW's "Lucifer. " VICTORIA is currently starring in a visceral, groundbreaking stage adaption of Richard Wright's racially charged novel, "Native Son," for Antaeus Theatre Company. The play centers on Bigger Thomas, suffocating in rat-infested poverty on Chicago's South Side during the 1930s. When a job as the family chauffeur brings him into the white world of wealthy Mrs. Dalton, her freethinking daughter, Mary and Mary's Communist boyfriend, Jan, circumstances spiral out of control. Also dropping by the show Sunday night is BRANDEN GARRET, physicist-actor. Born in Sempeter pri Gorici, Slovenia, BRANDEN studied electrical engineering and physics and achieved a Master's degree in physics. After few years of working in the field of science, education and electronics he started to study acting technique of Lee Strasberg. His first professional experience in filming were commercials followed with roles an extra in films. Auditions brought him new roles. He was cast in various Slovenian indie films such as "The Last Man: Mangata," directed by Predrag Radulović and "Suplje Price: Zdej te je, a zdej te ni," directed by Samir Bajrić and produced by Slowlywood. In spring 2014 he was invited to play a supporting role in the film "We Will Be World Champions" directed by Darko Bajić. In spring 2015 BRANDEN was cast for the trilogy "Winnetou," to star alongiside Wotan Wilke Möhring, Nik Xhelilaj and Lazua Larios as a Polish worker who moves to the Wild West. BRANDEN relocated to Los Angeles and soon signed with an agent in Beverly Hills. Currently, he is filming "Mesopatamia" with Ron Ely and is in production of the feature film "Portman," with more opportunities every day.

GEOFFREY AREND, from CBS's "Madam Secretary," is our featured guest this Sunday night! A native New Yorker, GEOFFREY is a graduate of New York City's LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts. He is a series regular and directs for the hit CBS drama, "Madam Secretary" opposite Téa Leoni. He was also a series regular on ABC's drama "Body of Proof" for three seasons along with the TNT drama, "Trust Me." Geoffrey has appeared in numerous other roles on television, beginning with the iconic animated series "Daria," along with Judd Apatow's "Undeclared." GEOFFREY got his start in a breakout role in the cult-stoner-comedy "Super Troopers." Notable features include a lead role in M. Night Shyamalan's "Devil" for Universal, "500 Days of Summer" opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, "Save The Date" which premiered at Sundance with Allison Brie, "Garden State" and "The Ringer." Animated work includes "Angry Birds" for Columbia Pictures and lead voices in MTV's "Chicks On A Bench" and "Backspace" for the Cartoon Network. GEOFFREY is currently starring in LA Theatre Works' production of Ayad Akhtar's controversial Pulitzer Prize and Obie Award-winning drama, "Disgraced." Amir Kapoor is a brilliant, successful Pakistani-American attorney who has turned his back on his childhood faith in order to thrive in America. On the surface, he has it all: a beautiful wife, a swanky apartment and a lucrative career. But the charmed life he so artfully constructed is put in jeopardy when a dinner party turns tumultuous and the guests' ideals of culture, marriage, career and family collide. Also dropping by the show Sunday night is GAVIN MAGNUS, actor and YouTube sensation! GAVIN is now a series regular in the web series "Reckless Juliets," where he plays the role of Parker Bennett. He has created and produces his own YouTube series "Magnutizers," which has over 7,420,700 views and 28,300 subscribers. He has also been working on the DreamWorks TV series "When Sports Collide" and you can also see him on the series "Minor Renovations" on HGTV playing alongside Eric Stromer. He is a gymnast in his spare time, practicing flips and training 2 -3 hours a day. He also helps his mom rescue animals, mostly Weimaraners.

JON CHAFFIN, from OWN's "The Haves and the Have Nots," is our featured guest this Sunday night! A native of Stone Mountain Georgia, JON is a prolific and gifted actor. In addition to Tyler Perry's "The Haves and the Have Nots," one of the most popular series on the Oprah Winfry Network, JON has numerous film and television including "Snowfall," "Hawaii Five-O," "Stitchers," "Army Wives," "House of Payne," "The Red Road," "Blindspotting," "96 Minutes" and "Altered." JON was recently seen in the critically acclaimed production of King Hedley II at the Matrix Theatre, which received a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle nomination for Best Ensemble. He is currently starring in a visceral, groundbreaking stage adaption of Richard Wright's racially charged novel, "Native Son," for Antaeus Theatre Company. JON plays Bigger Thomas, suffocating in rat-infested poverty on Chicago's South Side during the 1930s. When a job as the family chauffeur brings him into the white world of wealthy Mrs. Dalton, her freethinking daughter, Mary and Mary's Communist boyfriend, Jan, circumstances spiral out of control. Also dropping by the show Sunday night is POL ATTEU, host of "Gown and Out in Beverly Hills," available on Amazon Prime. POL has over 25 years of knowledge and experience in the modeling and acting and fashion industry. He has been interviewed on "Entertainment Tonight," "Extra," "E News Daily," "The Insider," "Access Hollywood," "Showbiz Tonight," "Greta Van Susteren," and "Larry King Live." He has made guest appearances on the following shows: "New Money" (E! Television), "Living with the Enemy" (Lifetime TV), "Interior Therapy with Jeff Lewis" (Bravo), "Beverly Hills Pawn" (Reelz), "That Sex Show" (Logo), "Race to the Scene" (Reelz), "The True Hollywood Story: Anna Nicole Smith," "Hollywood Hillbillies" (Reelz) and "Raising Fame" (TLC). He currently produces, directs and stars in "Gown and Out in Beverly Hills" which is available on Amazon Prime and coming to a major network shortly!

NIOUSHA NOOR, from HBO's "Here and Now," is our featured guest this Sunday night! NIOUSHA currently plays the mysterious character "Donya" on HBO'S new critically acclaimed series from Alan Ball, "Here and Now." This prolific series explores the challenges of a multicultural family starring Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins - the family appears to be a model for society until one of the sons begins having strange visions, threatening the stability of the group. NIOUSHA's character Donya is impacted by the 11:11 phenomenon which is seen by numerologists as an auspicious and synchronistic sign. As more unexpected events unfold, the family is faced with challenges that can't be explained by mere chance or coincidence "Here and Now," which premiered on HBO February 11th, locates itself in the multi-racial America we live in, with an intentional and purposeful voice from a diverse writing staff and cast. The show has had a profound impact in 2018 especially with recent social and political events. NIOUSHA is an engaging actress, dancer, singer, and producer, and uses her multiple talents to inspire positivity in whatever she is a part of. She is in the midst of producing a second video for her show #PERSIANIZE. In 2017 she released the first, a hilarious music video where she takes over a Hip-Hop dance class as an Iranian teacher and dancer. Also joining us on the show this Sunday night is EMIN EMINZADA, Azerbaijani singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Baku, EMIN has performed in various singing and drama classes as a child. At the age of thirteen, his music career has shined because he performed with famous Italian singer Robertino Loreti on "Jamaica" and "O sole mio" and has participated in classic and pop master-classes in Italy. At first he sang Italian-Neopalitan songs, but those who have heard EMIN know that he has a vocal range for popular songs. He has won several international song contests in different countries to date in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Kazakhstan, as well as Baku-Azerbaijan. His first single in English "Bubble Dreams" aroused great interest across Europe with the song played on popular radio stations such as BBC1, Jango, iHeart Radio and others.

JOHN GETZ, from Amazon Prime's "Bosch" and "Transparent," is our featured guest this week! JOHN has appeared in numerous feature films including "Blood Simple," "The Fly," "Zodiac," "Nanking," "Social Network," "Trumbo" and "Certain Women." His recent TV appearances have included "Bosch," "Timeless," "Transparent," "Ghosted," "Grace and Frankie," "Better Call Saul" and "Homeland." He has been seen in New York in Broadway productions of "M. Butterfly" and "They're Playing Our Song," at the New York Shakespeare Festival in "Macbeth" and "Measure for Measure," and at the American Place Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. Currently, JOHN is starring in Echo Theater Company and Circle X Theatre Company's joint production of "An Undivided Heart" by Yusuf Toropov, directed by Chris Fields and running March 16 through April 22 at Atwater Village Theatre. Set in 1992 Massachusetts against the backdrop of the Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal and a toxic drinking water scandal, "An Undivided Heart" is part thriller and part spiritual mystery. A series of otherworldly visions and an unlikely encounter with a Zen priest propel Father Mike Cleary into a collision course with his Archdiocese, while Lynne Callahan, a young widow, struggles to make sense of her life in a town whose water has been polluted with deadly chemicals. The two confront a universal problem: How do victims of suffering caused by others find a way to go on?. Also dropping by the show this Sunday night is SAVANNAH LILES, star of science fiction psychological thriller film, "Prodigy"! SAVANNAH dominates the screen with her brilliant performance as she takes on the starring role as "Ellie", a dangerous young sociopathic genius with supernatural powers, matches wits with an unconventional psychologist where they engage in a mind-bending psychological chess match, as the girl's fate hangs in the balance. "Prodigy" premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival in March of 2017, which kicked off a nine festival run last year. The film took home Best Narrative Feature honors at the Santa Cruz Film Festival, was a finalist for several other awards and received an overwhelmingly positive response at screenings around the country. It capped of the run with a closing night screening at the Other Worlds Austin Festival in December. She has also appeared on FX's "American Horror Story" and Nickelodeon's "Henry Danger."

JULIAN SANDS, best known for films "A Room with a View," "Warlock" and "Boxing Helena," is our featured guest this Sunday! JULIAN was born in Otley, West Riding of Yorkshire and trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. He has starred in some of the most memorable films of the last thirty years, including "A Room with a View," "The Killing Fields," "Boxing Helena," "Impromptu," "Leaving Las Vegas," "Oceans 13" and "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." His high-profile television credits include "24," "Smallville," "Dexter" and "Gotham." He has also just wrapped "The Medici" for Netflix and "Walk Like a Panther" - a ton of fun, blood, sweat, and spandex movie about a wrestling team! He is currently starring in LA Theatre Works world premiere of "Daniel Deronda," an adaptation, of George Eliot's 1876 novel exploring the place of Judaism in British Victorian society. Daniel Deronda is an intelligent, handsome young man who has been raised by his guardian, Sir Hugo Mallinger, but knows nothing of his true origins. Deronda's search to find his identity leads him into the world of 19th-century Zionism and the Jewish mystical tradition known as Kabbalah, a discovery that will alter the course of his life. Also joining us on the show this Sunday night is OLIVIA OOMS, a young, emerging country singer. OLIVIA, 15, is from Huntington Beach, and has been seen performing her blend of pop-country in many places such as Coastal Country Jam opening for Lady Antebellum and Old Dominion, the Troubador in London, the Hard Rock Café in LA, Surf City Nights, The Gaslamp, The Queen Mary, the OC Fair and in front of over 4000 military families at the Snowball Express in Dallas, Texas. Her first EP, "Thoughts of You," was recently recorded in Nashville and is scheduled to be released in the spring.

PATRICIA RAVEN, from Discovery Channel's "Married with Secrets," is our featured guest this Sunday! PATRICIA scored her first big role in 2007 as a young Mary Hatchet in the horror flick "Blood Night." Born on June 8th, 1995 in Philadelphia, she attended the Baldwin School, a girls-only college preparatory private school for 9 years before moving to LA. While living on the East Coast, she made the transition from auditioning in her hometown, to tackling the tough acting world of New York. She has appeared on the hit show "Glee" and recently starred in the featured length documentary "Queen Mary of Scots: From Beginning to End." Also joining us on the show this Sunday night is FRANK FORD, author of "Happy Accidents: The Transformative Power of 'Yes, And' at Work and in Life." FRANK has had a successful career in the entertainment industry for the last 25 years and is one of the founding members of Four Day Weekend, a comedy institution in Texas. He has also studied at the renowned Second City Conservatory in Chicago and taught advanced improvisation classes at the Four Day Weekend Training Center, 4U. As a professional actor, FRANK has appeared in numerous commercial spots, television shows and films. In addition, he has received critical-acclaim for his original sketch comedy revues, comedy album, short films and various acting roles. He also published his first book entitled, "Happy Accidents: The Transformative Power of 'Yes, And' at Work and in Life," which teaches people how use the philosophy of improvisation, in a positive way, to enrich their lives and businesses.

ALLISYN ASHLEY ARM, from NBC's new sitcom "A.P. Bio," is our featured guest this Sunday! ALLISYN is an American actress known for her main role as Zora Lancaster on "Sonny with a Chance" and in Disney Channel's sketch comedy series "So Random!" She is currently filming a new NBC show produced by Seth Meyers, titled "A.P. Bio" in the role of Heather. She is also a prolific artist and had her first gallery showing at 15 years old. She enjoys roller derby and studies trapeze with her younger sister Josie. Along with her boyfriend, fellow Disney Channel star Dylan Riley Snyder, ALLISYN became scuba certified and enjoys scuba trips to Catalina. As a supporter of PETA, she has been a vegetarian since she was 11 years old as a part of a vegetarian family. ALLISYN has created and developed a YouTube personality named Astrid Clover and is assisted by Dylan Riley Snyder as Boom Guy, Joey Luthman as Beckett, Autumn Wendel as Autumn and Jacey Tomlinson as Jacey. She has been writing, directing, producing and starring in the series since 2014. A new episode airs every Friday like clockwork. The web series also features Josie Arm as Astrid's sister Bliss Clover. Also joining us on the show this Sunday is punk rock legend MIKE SPENT! With over three decades of songwriting, recording and live performances, MIKE is most known for his band the Spent Idols. The Spent Idols have reformed in 2018. His songs can be found on iTunes, Spotify, and most other leading digital outlets. He was born in San Diego County and started his first band, Spent Idol, in 1978. By the 1990s his career blossomed in the independent music scene with his revised band, the Spent Idols. Fast forward to 2016 when MIKE hooked up with Loren Molinare, guitar player for the Dogs, Michael DeBarres, Little Caesar, and Gilt Lily; Canadian rocker Richard Duguay, best known for his band Personality Crisis and for his work with Guns and Roses, also bass player for Duff McKagan band; the Dogs drummer Tony Matteucci on drums and back up vocals; and DNile, former Spent Idols and Dead Blonde Girlfriend bass player. The Spent Idols will be playing in San Diego on St.Patricks Day @ Til-Two Club with the iconic band Channel 3.

DUSTYN GULLEDGE, from HBO's "Silicon Valley," is our featured guest this week! DUSTYN is an Austin, TX native, and just as weird as the city. He originated the role of "Dino Tortorrici" in Norah Ephron's Broadway production of ""Lucky Guy" opposite Tom Hanks, as well as created the recurring role of 'Evan' in the first three seasons of HBO's Emmy winning TV show, "Silicon Valley." Other credits include "Person of Interest" (CBS) and "Forever" (ABC). He is thrilled to be given the opportunity to reconnect with his theater roots playing "the best friend" in trip's West Coast premiere of "4Play: Sex In A Series," a delightful romcom that blurs the lines between art and life, between gay and straight, while referencing everything from quantum physics to the Infield Fly Rule, William Shakespeare and Cole Porter. Performances will take place in The Actor's Company flexible "Other Space," where the theater seats will be removed and replaced with cocktail tables to create a heightened experience. Also dropping by the show Sunday night is BRAD SHERWOOD, from ABC's and CW's "Whose Line is it Anyway?" BRAD continues to headline across the country on his sold-out national tour "Scared Scriptless." He is one of the quickest comedic minds on the scene - we all remember his witty performances and brilliant moments on "Whose Line is it Anyway?" He brought improv out into the mainstream and continues to be an inspiration and role model for young improvisers. He has been living and working in Las Vegas with his wife Seana. He loves cooking, travelling, and of course dancing, singing, and creating new projects - including his brand-new Instagram account.