Conversations with Ross

Tweet Joan Ryan is an actress and singer who was named 2013 top female cabaret performer of the year by Broadway World. She answered some questions about her life and career. Q: What initially attracted you to acting & singing in the first place?  Joan Ryan A: I have known that this was my calling from the time I was four years old. I am the youngest of four, and everything else  was taken....

Tweet Eric Nelsen is an actor currently starring on All My Children. He answered some of my questions about his life and career. Q: What initially attracted you to acting in the first place? A: Initially, it was dancing. I was a competition dancer at a young age (I couldn’t get enough of tap). Eventually some friends at my dance studio said I should try out the acting classes…I did and lov...

Tweet Sainty Nelsen is an actress who just finished filming the pilot Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll. She joined me to answer some questions about her life and career. Q: What initially attracted you to acting in the first place? Sainty Nelsen A: I would ALWAYS put on “major productions” around the house, so at the age of 3 my mom took me to see a professional show at Casa Manana Playhouse in...

Tweet Bo Keister is an actor currently starring in Killing  Kennedy, and House of Good and Evil.  He was kind enough to answer some of my questions about his life and career. Bo, tell me what initially attracted you to acting in the first place? I’m absolutely a product of the 80’s, and I honestly put all the blame on my parents. It’s 100% their fault. They just insisted on taking me to s...

Tweet Joseph & Peter Saroufim are the writers & filmmakers behind D-TEC. They both were kind enough to answers some of my questions about D-TEC and their careers. Q: Tell me what initially attracted you to writing and filmmaking in the first place. Stephen Interrante, Joseph Saroufim, Peter Saroufim A: As brothers, we shared a similarly unique childhood. We grew up in a house full of class...

Tweet Kenny Doughty is an actor currently starring in the West End production of The Full Monty. He was kind enough to answer some of my questions about his life and career.   Kenny, tell me what attracted you to acting in the first place? KD: I was 11 years old and was asked to take part in a school play called “Children Of The Dark”. It was a local drama about a mining disaster in the V...

Tweet Ron Newcomb is the director of Rise of the Fellowship. Ron was kind enough to answer some of my questions about his career and film. –          Tell me what initially attracted you to directing in the first place. My first love was acting, so the performance is what compels to draw the story out as seen through the eyes of the actors. And in the directing seat is where I can b...

Tweet Tamas Harangi is the writer and director of the legal thriller The Advocate. Tamas was kind enough to answer some of my questions about his career and film. — Tell me what initially attracted you to writing & directing in the first place. TH: I heard it said that we tell stories as a way of making sense of the chaos of the world around us. When you write, you get to create a world ...

Tweet Last week I attended the 8th Annual New York Television Festival. Development Day is is where the festival truly shines. The first panel I attended was Light-Sound-Shoot. This panel featured a group of relatively unknown independent filmmakers talking about how to make low budget projects, and it was great. The panelists went into great detail about how to light a set, shoot in the dark, wha...

Tweet Last week I attended the 8th Annual New York Television Festival. This panel featured Shannon Woodward (Raising Hope), Dakota Johnson (Ben & Kate), Lucy Punch (Ben & Kate), Hannah Simone (New Girl), Liz Meriwether (creator of New Girl), and was moderated by Entertainment Weekly’s Jessica Shaw. Meriwether was the focus of a lot of the conversation. She talked about her early writing...