Make Your Show: The Creators Make Your Show Podcast

Greg Stuhr has been acting for decades, having found success on Broadway in plays and musicals, alike. Once he finally listened to an inner desire to write, he found a new arm of his career in the entertainment business. Soon, he had completed a screenplay that set his creative trajectory into a new space. Making his feature film "The American Side" illustrated all that he didn't know while offering the chance to overcome each challenge, therefore providing him with a new set of marketable skills. Still nourishing himself with frequent appearances on stage, Greg is a firm believer in maintaining his creativity while keeping many projects in the works.

Keith Powell became a familiar face on television playing Toofer on "30 Rock" but his first objective in the entertainment business was to become a theatre director. Following the NBC's hit finale, Keith self-produced the indie series "Keith Broke His Leg", which garnered much praise and many Indie Series Awards, including Best Comedy Series. In an effort to avoid being pigeon-holed and with an ambition to be an artist, Keith jumped into the daunting task of creating, writing, starring and directing his show, perhaps coming full circle and establishing himself as a director and, finally, the artist he always wanted to be.​

Tony Award winning actor Joanna Gleason has been entertaining viewers with her stage, film and television work for decades. When she decided to create more balance with her work and her life, she took on what she came to think of as her "miracle" - "The Grotto", a feature film that she wrote and directed. The journey her film took from inspiration to production is as inspiring as Joanna herself. Outside of her work, she heeds the mantra of her father, delights in spending time with family and reminds us that forks in the road can lead us to an unexpected journey.

In the first episode of season two of "Make Your Show: The Creators", we sat down with actor/writer/producer Sebastian LaCause. Sebastian got his start in the business as a Broadway dancer. Wanting to expand his opportunities and flex other creative muscles, he created the wildly popular indie series "Hustling", which found a huge audience for its three seasons and won him numerous Indie Series Awards. These days, Sebastian is still making film but his intentions have changed, as has his approach to storytelling.

Make Your Show: Story Evolution is a series focused on how to potentially develop existing stage works into on-screen stories. In our second episode, writer Holli Harm's short play "Make John Patrick Shanley Go Home" is read by actors Ilana Gabrielle, Kim Reed and Abigail Gampel, followed by a discussion with Make Your Show's Jason Cicci and John Cramer.

Make Your Show: Story Evolution is a series focused on how to potentially develop existing stage works into on-screen stories. In our first episode, writer Jennifer Peterman's monologue "Babe" is read by veteran TV and film actor Tony Head, followed by a discussion with Make Your Show's Jason Cicci and John Cramer.