January 27, 2019 - BARRA GRANT (actor) and VICANGELO BULLUCK (Democratic National Convention)

Summary: Joining us on the show this week is our Special Guest - actor, screenwriter, and director - Barra Grant! Barra Grant studied acting at the Drama Centre in London, where she went on to star in the BBC series Take Three Girls. She appeared in several plays at the Mark Taper Forum and was a featured actress in both comedic and dramatic television. As a screenwriter, Barra wrote Slow Dancing in the Big City and Misunderstood, which stars Gene Hackman. She wrote and also directed the features Life of the Party and Love Hurts with Carrie-Anne Moss, Janine Garafalo and Jenna Elfman. She produced the Dirty Dancing television series and wrote various daytime television shows including the Emmy award-winning The Tap Dance Kid. Her play, A Mother, A Daughter, and a Gun, starring Olympia Dukakis, has been produced in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. She wrote and directed her play Spa at the Coast Theater in Los Angeles. She is a storyteller who has told her stories throughout the city. Grant has received Director's Guild and Humanitas nominations as well as winning the Writers' Guild award. Grant's latest project, Miss America's Ugly Daughter: Bess Myerson & Me written by Grant and performed by Grant and Monica Piper, opens at the Greenway Court Theatre, Feb. 8, and runs through March 24. Also joining us on the show this week is our Special Guest - entertainment industry thought leader - Vicangelo Bulluck! Vicangelo Bullock has over 20 years experience creating content and initiatives focused on the ever-emerging multicultural audience. He was an executive producer of the 2016 Democratic National Convention, the NAACP Image Awards for ten years, and he is an executive producer on the long-running hit series The Judge Mathis Show, now in its twentieth season. He recently produced the indie feature film Windows on the World starring Edward James Olmos and Ryan Guzman. For his latest project, Vic directs the West Coast premiere of Paradise by Laura Maria Censabella, running Jan. 26 through Feb. 17 in a visiting production at the Odyssey Theatre. With Paradise, Vic is returning to his first love - the theater.