Creator's Cafe Jessica Payne

Creative Executive Thomas Stockwell encourages us to create weirder and more innovative worlds for emerging VR capabilities.

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Forbes Article
Current: Head of Unscripted and Specials, Meta
Former: VP, Alternative Programming and Development, Universal Television Alternative Studio/NBCUniversal

Work with Jessica: On-Camera Coaching
Create on-camera and in-person confidence by learning techniques from Hollywood Acting Coach Jessica Payne. Learn more here.

Creator's Challenge: The Floor is Reality!
Take your favorite hobby and make it into a reality show; perhaps combining it with the format of a show you love.

Bio & Intro
Thomas Stockwell is a creative executive who has helped with creating and designing experiences for unscripted, documentary, and innovative VR specials.
After his success helping launch the first series of the Voice, he rose quickly to the VP of Alternative Programming and Development at NBC/Universal. There he helped create and develop delightful programming like Jimmy Fallon's "That's My Jam" on NBC and "Baking It", which was co-hosted by Amy Poehler and Maya Rudolph.

Thomas works as the Head of Unscripted Series at Meta. There he creates innovative VR experiences, such as the Just for Laugh's Presents Surrounded comedy series, and the immersive Red Rocks concert series, where you can get to see a 180 degree view and watch the concert in a fully edited VIP Point of view from the edge of the stage. I especially loved the Doja Cat and Jack Harlow concerts!

Thomas is a dreamy creative executive who is charming and encourages us to thing bigger and then get clear.

Mentioned
Paul Telegdy
The Voice
Christina Aguilera
Sia
Rob Dyrdek
Paul Reubens
Red Table Talk with Jada Pinkett
Cardi B
Light Sail VR
Steve Harvey
Taraji Henson
Yara Shahidi
Brooklyn Beckham
Foo Fighters
Post Malone
Shaq
Cardi B
J Balvin
Jack Harlow
Doja Cat
Louis the Child
Red Rocks Live
Just for Laughs Presen
Creator's Cafe with Jessica Payne of Kika Labs

Host Jessica Payne of Kika Labs breaks down the subtle and the sublime of the creative process with inspiring artists at the Creator's Cafe.

Find out more info on the show and host Jessica Payne.
Offering digital courses, performance coaching, and more! www.kikalabs.com

Jessica's Featured Course:
If you or someone you know is on the job search, check out her digital course "Level Up Your Video Interviews."

More info and resources at | www.kikalabs.com
Watch the video podcast on YouTube | YouTube Creator's Cafe Podcast Playlist
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Transcripts and YouTube Links at | www.kikalabs.com/creators-cafe-shownotes

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Actress Suzanne Schmidt and I dive into how she aims for loving what she's doing 80% of the time.
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Suzanne on IG: @suzannejschmidt
Suzanne's Website
Suzanne on IMDB
Hey You, It's Me

Work with Jessica: On-Camera Coaching
Create on-camera and in-person confidence by learning techniques from Hollywood Acting Coach Jessica Payne.
Learn more here.

Creator's Challenge: Flip the Script
Take a recent situation that upset, baffled, or frustrated you, and write it as a comedy.
Keep the inciting incident real/grounded, but find any aspect that could be slightly humorous, and build on that.

Bio & Intro
Suzanne Schmidt is an actor, producer, writer, director, and professor, and a National Michael Chekhov Association instructor. You may recognize her face from Sons of Anarchy or Days of Our Lives as some of her TV and Film. work. You may recognize her voice from her audiobook recordings or her voice acting on the English dubbed version of many Netflix shows. Suzanne is the CEO of High Tide Films, where she writes, produces, and acts in award winning projects. Her webseries Hey You, It's Me won awards for Best Webseries, Best Comedy, and Best Webisode. She has won many Best Actress awards for her beautiful dramatic film Not Nothing. And Suzanne plays JoAnne Tenuta in the upcoming biopic It Happened: The Judy Tenuta Story, directed by Taylor Blackwell. She is currently in preproduction for her upcoming project, Unboxing. She is a creative force of nature that I am proud to call my friend!

Mentioned
Not Nothing
Unboxing
From the Heart Productions
Christie Maturo
Drama 3/4 Productions
David Fickas
Brice Beckham
Scott Freeburg
Tom Irwin
Alexander Gelman
Blues for Mister Charlie
Digital Hollywood
Bennett Guillory
Stella Adler

Creator's Cafe with Jessica Payne of Kika Labs

Host Jessica Payne of Kika Labs breaks down the subtle and the sublime of the creative process with inspiring artists at the Creator's Cafe.

Find out more info on the show and host Jessica Payne.
Offering digital courses, performance coaching, and more! www.kikalabs.com

Jessica's Featured Course:
If you or someone you know is on the job search, check out her digital course "Level Up Your Video Interviews."

More info and resources at | www.kikalabs.com
Watch the video podcast on YouTube | YouTube Creator's Cafe Podcast Playlist
Follow the Show | @creatorscafebykikalabs
Facebook Group | Creator's Cafe by Kika Labs
Transcripts and YouTube Links at | www.kikalabs.com/creators-cafe-shownotes

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Our theme music is composed and performed by Kyle deTarnowsky.
www.k...

Filmmaker Robin Nyström reveals how his art is inspired by the team he builds.

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Personal website: https://www.robinnystrom.com/
Nicolife: https://www.nicolife.net/
Tracy Buckles: https://www.tracybuckles.com/

Work with Jessica: On-Camera Coaching
Create on-camera and in-person confidence by learning techniques from Hollywood Acting Coach Jessica Payne. Learn more here.

Creator's Challenge: Creative Community
List who in your close circle has natural creative passions and talents, and see how they could complement yours and your projects

Bio & Intro
Robin Nyström is an LA-based filmmaker who was born in Stockholm and raised on a steady diet of Swedish meatballs and ABBA. As a writer, Robin loves to explore absurdist comedy and magical realism. His first independently produced web series Nicolife follows a wannabe influencer hoping to find YouTube fame at any cost. His second web series Tracy Buckles depicts a young woman who becomes the victim of a curse that prevents other people from hearing her voice. He is also the writer/director of multiple short films, including Broken, Super-Psycho-Killer-Bot from Outer Space and Judged.

Mentioned

Jennie Nyström
Jason Kaiser — Director of Photography — @diekaiser
Jersey Greene — Make-Up Artist & Special Effects Coordinator — @hey.jersey.greene
Creator's Cafe with Jessica Payne of Kika Labs

Host Jessica Payne of Kika Labs breaks down the subtle and the sublime of the creative process with inspiring artists at the Creator's Cafe.

Find out more info on the show and host Jessica Payne.
Offering digital courses, performance coaching, and more! www.kikalabs.com

Jessica's Featured Course:
If you or someone you know is on the job search, check out her digital course "Level Up Your Video Interviews."

More info and resources at | www.kikalabs.com
Watch the video podcast on YouTube | YouTube Creator's Cafe Podcast Playlist
Follow the Show | @creatorscafebykikalabs
Facebook Group | Creator's Cafe by Kika Labs
Transcripts and YouTube Links at | www.kikalabs.com/creators-cafe-shownotes

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Our theme music is composed and performed by Kyle deTarnowsky.
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25. Jess Paul: It's Not Cake
Filmmaker and actor Jess Paul and I dish on indie films and the dark side of the industry while she is wearing a croissant on her head. It makes sense.
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IG: ThisisJessPaul
Jess's Filmmaking/Acting Website: JessPaul.net
YouTube
Fake Food Etsy Shop - https://www.etsy.com/shop/JessPaulArt
IG for Art and Fake Food: @jesspaulart
Onscreen purse construction by Erika Marks

Work with Jessica: On-Camera Coaching
Create on-camera and in-person confidence by learning techniques from Hollywood Acting Coach Jessica Payne.  Learn more here.

Creator's Challenge: Go watch an indie filmmaker's film
Watch what your filmmaker friends are making and where their creative heart lies and create a connection by telling them what you liked about it. "What did you make?" Go to a film festival and get inspired!

Bio & Intro
My guest Jess Paul is an actor, filmmaker, and fake food-maker. Jess was the female lead in the Sundance Film Festival Selection, "The Immaculate Reception," a beautiful coming of age piece set in her home city of Pittsburgh. She has won multiple best actress awards, including the Margaret Anne Garza award at the Austin Revolution Film Festival for her work as the leading character in the AI themed feature film "Galatea."

Jess got her start by self-producing the YouTube comedy news show "Wrecked Radio News" which went on to her getting more than 3 million views, a YouTube Partnership, and an international fan base. She pivoted to acting and filmmaking, where she is an indie darling known for multiple award winning films that have made the circuits, including "A Funny Man", Revry.TV's "Promenade" and her current short, "Burying Baby" which is already doing well on the festival scene. Luckily for me, she has also had commercial success because she met my former guest Jeremy Urann on set and came into my world!

In addition to her acting and filmmaking career, Jess is a talented visual artist
Creator's Cafe with Jessica Payne of Kika Labs

Host Jessica Payne of Kika Labs breaks down the subtle and the sublime of the creative process with inspiring artists at the Creator's Cafe.

Find out more info on the show and host Jessica Payne.
Offering digital courses, performance coaching, and more! www.kikalabs.com

Jessica's Featured Course:
If you or someone you know is on the job search, check out her digital course "Level Up Your Video Interviews."

More info and resources at | www.kikalabs.com
Watch the video podcast on YouTube | YouTube Creator's Cafe Podcast Playlist
Follow the Show | @creatorscafebykikalabs
Facebook Group | Creator's Cafe by Kika Labs
Transcripts and YouTube Links at | www.kikalabs.com/creators-cafe-shownotes

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Our theme music is composed and performed by Kyle deTarnowsky.
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Country music singer/songwriter Brandon Stansell and I dig into the raw truths from trailblazing queer rights in country music to enjoying a more intimate present story.

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@brandonstansell
BrandonStansell.com

Work with Jessica: On-Camera Coaching
Create on-camera and in-person confidence by learning techniques from Hollywood Acting Coach Jessica Payne.  Learn more here.

Creator's Challenge: Journal Check-In
Write honestly to yourself about where you currently are in your artistic journey and give yourself space for whatever the answer is.

Bio & Intro
Brandon Stansell is a singer/songwriter. His music video for his single "Hometown" was the first LGBTQ-themed video to premiere on CMT, and went on to be named one of Rolling Stone's 10 Best Country Videos of the year. Brandon's first album "Hurt People" is a beautiful and heartbreakingly vulnerable look behind his family's response to him coming out. That album also serves as the soundtrack to the documentaary named "Three Chords and a Lie" where Brandon revisits his Southern Baptist family as he prepares for his first show in his Tennessee hometown. His sophomore album titled "This Must Be The Place" stays true to his country roots and brings in upbeat pop influences. In his most recent project you can see him star with his real life boyfriend in "That's What I Feel About You." He's one of the strongest people I've ever met, and I mean that emotionally and physically!

Mentioned
"That's What I Feel About You"
Stephen Garrett @stephen_lewis_garrett
Devin Karringten @devink_film
Kheaven Lewandowski @kheaven666
Feature in People
Trent Atkinson @trentmakesthings
Hometown

Creator's Cafe with Jessica Payne of Kika Labs

Host Jessica Payne of Kika Labs breaks down the subtle and the sublime of the creative process with inspiring artists at the Creator's Cafe.

Find out more info on the show and host Jessica Payne.
Offering digital courses, performance coaching, and more! www.kikalabs.com

Jessica's Featured Course:
If you or someone you know is on the job search, check out her digital course "Level Up Your Video Interviews."

More info and resources at | www.kikalabs.com
Watch the video podcast on YouTube | YouTube Creator's Cafe Podcast Playlist
Follow the Show | @creatorscafebykikalabs
Facebook Group | Creator's Cafe by Kika Labs
Transcripts and YouTube Links at | www.kikalabs.com/creators-cafe-shownotes

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Our theme music is composed and performed by Kyle deTarnowsky.
www.k...

Filmmaker Carolina Alvarez and I dish on finishing post on her first feature film!

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Carolina's IG: @lafemmecarolina
Femme Regard Website: femmeregard.com
Femme Regard IG: femmeregard
Sync on IG: @syncthemovie
tiktok: @femmeregardtv
Carolina's personal website: https://carolinaalvarez.co/

Work with Jessica: On-Camera Coaching
Create on-camera and in-person confidence by learning techniques from Hollywood Acting Coach Jessica Payne.  Learn more here. 
Creator's Challenge: One Location Logline
Come up with a story that can happen in one location with two characters and write the log line for it.

Bio & Intro
Carolina Alvarez is an actor, filmmaker, producer, and podcaster. She co-founded Femme Regard Productions with Tessa Markle. They started with creating short films, which were successfull and won multiple awards. She and Tessa have produced 16 seasons of the Femme Regard podcast, which gives upcoming filmmakers valuable resources while highlighting women creators. Now Carolina is in post production on her first feature film, Sync as a writer, producer, actor, and director. Her feature has been awarded with the WIF and Sundance Institute gender balanced and equity in production ReFrame Stamp award.

Carolina has also worked in post production, overseeing the mastering and localization of films for Warner Brothers and Disney. Now she is working as a creative director, developing her next projects, and preparing Sync for the festival circut! Across all of her work she champions developing filmmakers and creating opportunities for women in front of and behind the camera.

Mentioned
Tessa Markle @misstessalauren
Aaron "Wheelz" @wheelz
Sync EP Jake Arky @thejarky
Noam Kroll's
Creator's Cafe with Jessica Payne of Kika Labs

Host Jessica Payne of Kika Labs breaks down the subtle and the sublime of the creative process with inspiring artists at the Creator's Cafe.

Find out more info on the show and host Jessica Payne.
Offering digital courses, performance coaching, and more! www.kikalabs.com

Jessica's Featured Course:
If you or someone you know is on the job search, check out her digital course "Level Up Your Video Interviews."

More info and resources at | www.kikalabs.com
Watch the video podcast on YouTube | YouTube Creator's Cafe Podcast Playlist
Follow the Show | @creatorscafebykikalabs
Facebook Group | Creator's Cafe by Kika Labs
Transcripts and YouTube Links at | www.kikalabs.com/creators-cafe-shownotes

Theme Music
Our theme music is composed and performed by Kyle deTarnowsky.
www.k...