Ep. 371 - James Urbaniak "Primary Trust"

Ep. 371 - James Urbaniak "Primary Trust"

Actor James Urbaniak has a career that has spanned theater, film, television, and voice acting for more than three decades. Audiences may know him from films like American Splendor and Oppenheimer, television series including Review and Difficult People, and countless stage productions throughout his career. He's currently appearing in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Primary Trust written by Eboni Booth at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, a moving and deeply human work that explores friendship, loneliness, and the courage it takes to embrace change.

Ep. 370 - Tom Broecker "Saturday Night Live"

7-time Emmy winning costume designer and producer Tom Broecker has been with Saturday Night Live for over 30 years. Over the course of his remarkable career, Tom has helped create the visual identity of countless iconic sketches, characters, celebrity impressions, and live television moments that have become part of comedy history and television history. Most recently, Tom and his team have been behind the costumes for Season 51 of SNL, helping bring to life everything from political satire and pop culture parodies to the wildly inventive original characters that make the show unique. His other credits outside of SNL include In Treatment, The Big C, 30 Rock, House of Cards, Mean Girls, and The Comeback.

Ep. 369 - Susie Mancini "The 'Burbs"

Emmy-nominated production designer Susie Mancini discusses her work on her latest project, the Peacock seris THE 'BURBS, an adaptation of the 1989 film where old secrets resurface when a newly married couple relocate to the suburban neighborhood of the husband's youth. Her past credits include The Little Hours, Ingrid Goes West, Dollface, Space Force, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Dicks: The Musical, and The Paper.

Ep. 368 - Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum "Big Mistakes"

Grammy-winning composer Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum is a Juilliard-trained composer whose work spans film, television, animation, and the concert hall. Nora has built an incredibly diverse career scoring projects including Marvel’s What If...?, Don’t Look Deeper, Prisoner’s Daughter, and Stockholm, Pennsylvania. She’s also collaborated extensively with composer Laura Karpman on acclaimed projects for HBO, Marvel, and Sundance-premiering documentaries. Beyond her composing work, she serves as an advisor at the Sundance Institute and mentors emerging artists through YoungArts. Today, we’re discussing her work on the new Netflix series Big Mistakes which is about two directionless siblings Nicky and Morgan who get blackmailed into the world of organized crime.

Ep. 367 - John Paesano "The Boroughs"

John Paesano is a BAFTA-winning and Emmy- & Grammy-nominated composer whose work spans some of the biggest franchises in film, television, and gaming. His credits include Marvel's Daredevil and The Defenders, Amazon's Invincible, the Maze Runner films, the Planet of the Apes franchise, and PlayStation's acclaimed Spider-Man trilogy, for which he earned a BAFTA Award and a Grammy nomination. He also composed music for Disney's Avengers Campus and most recently created the score for Netflix's new mystery-adventure series The Boroughs from creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews and executive producers the Duffer Brothers. On this episode, we discuss crafting the musical world of The Boroughs, his love of classic orchestral storytelling, and why he approached this score as if it were being written in 1988.