Questions and Actor: Laurent Pitre

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Welcome to "Questions and Actor: Laurent Pitre," a podcast where curiosity meets creativity. Join Laurent Pitre, an actor with over 16 years of experience, as he delves into the minds of artists, actors, and everything in between. Through candid conversations, Laurent explores the profound questions of identity, purpose, and the unpredictable journey of a creative pursuit. Whether you're an aspiring creative or a seasoned professional, this podcast offers insights, inspiration, and a sense of community. Tune in weekly for new episodes and live Q&A sessions. Subscribe now and be part of the conversation!

  1. Apr 29

    Broghanne Jessamine: Scottish-American Actress in NYC!

    Broghanne Jessamine is a Scottish American SAG-AFTRA eligible actress, voiceover artist, and producer who works across film, television, theatre, and animation in both the US and UK. Originally from the North East of Scotland, she moved to New York City in 2012 to attend The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and has since built a career spanning NYC theatre, independent film, commercials, and international voice work. Her work can be seen on Netflix and HBO, alongside an extensive indie film résumé, with notable credits including Leviathan, Blue, Vellanus, and Prodigal. She often plays flawed women with lived in grit and emotional intelligence, frequently playing survivors, quiet authority figures, or ride or die support roles with a sharp point of view.  Follow her at: https://www.instagram.com/broghannejessamine https://msha.ke/broghannejessamine

    54 min

  2. Apr 17

    Brian Quintero: Actor & Creator from Canadian Film Centre!

    Brian Quintero is a Costa Rican-Canadian actor and filmmaker based in Toronto, known for combining steady genre work in film and television with a growing slate of self-generated projects through his company Dead Mariachi Films. A graduate of Seneca College’s Acting for Camera & Voice program, he has built a decade-plus career across independent features, shorts, theatre, commercials, and series work, with screen credits that include Beauty and the Beast (CW), Designated Survivor (ABC), The Umbrella Academy (Netflix), Billy the Kid (MGM+), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Rabbit Hole, Good Sam, and the western The Abandons for Netflix. He has also appeared in genre features such as Lifechanger and Last Resort, and earned a Best Actor in a Drama award at the Actors Awards Los Angeles for the short film Narcissistic. Parallel to his acting, Quintero has steadily expanded his footprint behind the camera as a writer, director, and producer. Through Dead Mariachi Films he wrote and directed the short Oldtimers, which won the Silver Audience Award for Best Canadian Short Film at Fantasia, plus the Youth Jury Prize and Audience Choice Award at the San Sebastián Horror & Fantasy Film Festival, while his directing portfolio also includes the backyard-wrestling comedy series The Ropes and the short Grievance. As a producer he has backed projects such as Last Resort, We Came to Wreck Everything, and the sci‑fi horror short The Fore-Men (which has surpassed 500K views on the DUST channel), and he has deepened his industry chops through programs like the CBC Actors Conservatory at the Canadian Film Centre, the Blood in the Snow Horror Development Lab, the Toronto Latin American Film Festival Filmmakers Lab, the Warner Bros. Discovery Access Canada Showrunners Bootcamp, and the Cannes Market Readiness Program. You can follow him at: https://www.instagram.com/thisisquintero

    1h 14m

  3. Mar 19

    Conor Forrest: Coming-of-Age Stories, ADHD, and Filmmaking!

    Conor Forrest is a Toronto-based director, writer, and producer whose work spans narrative shorts, feature documentary, television, and music videos. His films lean toward character-driven dramas and dramedies about coming of age and messy family dynamics, with notable shorts including Friday Night Fish, A Summer’s Day at Sherwood Park, Used Furniture, The Two of Us, and Daddy-O, as well as the series Writers Room. Used Furniture was acquired for CBC Gem’s Canadian Reflections platform, and his feature documentary Unravelling The Ravelled Mind—exploring the lived experience and stigma around ADHD—was picked up by Amazon Prime Video, extending his reach into the documentary space. Forrest’s work has screened at festivals such as Catalina Film Festival, OutSouth Queer Film Festival, Toronto Shorts International Film Festival, and Yorkton Film Festival, where he was also selected for the RBC Yorkton Film Festival Mentorship Program as one of only three filmmakers. Alongside his festival run, he continues to direct music videos and shorts while building a reputation as an emerging Canadian filmmaker focused on intimate, emotionally grounded storytelling. Follow him at: https://www.instagram.com/director_conor.forrest https://linktr.ee/Conor_Forrest

    1h 41m

  4. Mar 12

    Kurt Evans: Actor, Teacher, Creator of "Artist2Artist" Showcase!

    Kurt Evans is a Winnipeg‑born Canadian actor and director whose career spans more than 100 film and television credits, including work on “iZombie,” “The Man in the High Castle,” “The Good Doctor,” “Supernatural,” “Stargate SG‑1,” “Smallville,” and “The X‑Files,” as well as numerous Hallmark and cable movies such as “Autumn in the City,” “Christmas Town,” “A Family Christmas Gift,” and “Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made.” Based in Vancouver since the late 1990s, he has become a versatile character actor. Evans’ path began in theatre in Winnipeg, where a formative high‑school turn as Cyrano de Bergerac led to years of stage work in improvised murder‑mystery shows, Fringe productions, and lunchbox theatre before he transitioned into screen acting. A graduate of the University of Winnipeg with a Bachelor of Education, he has been an acting coach and teacher for more than two decades, teaching audition technique and on‑camera performance at Vancouver Film School while coaching actors privately. In 2019, he founded Artist2Artist, a digital actor showcase that lets emerging performers submit scenes for detailed feedback from working professionals and connect directly with major Canadian casting directors through recurring showcases in Vancouver and Toronto, which have involved thousands of actors to date. Follow him at: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0262957/ Follow and join the Artist2Artist Showcase in the links below: (this month's showcase will end at midnight on March 31st, it will be with casting directors Lisa Parasyn, Annalese Tilling & Erin Lally) https://www.instagram.com/artist2artist.actor.showcase https://artist2artist.ca/current-showcases/

    1h 8m

  5. Mar 10

    Naomi Guttman: Zany Actress Award Winner & Creative Cat Lady!

    Naomi Guttman is a Belgian-born, Toronto-based actor and multidisciplinary artist working across film, television, and theatre, known for her fluency in multiple languages and her classical stage grounding. After earning a BA in Anthropology from McGill University, she completed conservatory training at the Tom Todoroff Acting Conservatory in New York. On stage, Guttman has distinguished herself in contemporary and classical work, with credits including Hedda Gabler, Ivanov, Rotterdam, Les Belles-Soeurs, and Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Richard III, among others. She has also been awarded the 2024 Scene Slam Champion title in Canada’s Monologue Slam and placed first runner-up at Hart House/Shakes BASHd’s Classical Monologue Slam. Guttman continues to expand her presence as an on-camera performer with festival-selected short films such as Beach and French Savant, the hit series Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Lestat), and a range of independent screen projects. As an actor, writer, dancer and all around creative, Guttman strives to bring forth the healing virtues of storytelling. (Rep: Shortlist Artist Management) You can follow her at: https://www.instagram.com/naomi.guttman

    1h 4m

  6. Mar 9

    Derek Johns: Actor & "Love Sausage" on The Boys!

    Episode: https://riverside.com/shared/exported-clip/e346137df7bff8ec1fd1 Post:  https://riverside.com/shared/exported-clip/3748d18c2f730fb6cb2d Derek Johns is a Canadian actor from London, Ontario, raised in Saint-Colomban, Quebec, who trained at Dawson College’s professional theatre program in Montreal before moving into film and television. After early work in children’s theatre, he began booking screen roles around 2015, appearing in series such as The Bold Type (Freeform) and The Moodys (FOX), and later in projects including Quantico, The Umbrella Academy, Essex County, SkyMed, and TV movies like Candy Cane Christmas and Broken Trust. His breakthrough came with his recurring turn as the outrageous fan-favorite character Love Sausage on Prime Video’s hit series The Boys, which significantly raised his profile. Johns has since built a solid genre-heavy résumé, starring as Freddy Mercks in the horror-comedy feature We Are Zombies and appearing in films such as The Wolf and the Lion, The Sacrifice Game, Moonfall, Appiness, and The Voyeurs, while also cultivating a following as a Twitch streamer under the handle @DerkaJohnsTV. Also you can catch him on television in Sheriff Country, Brilliant Minds, and of course, the final season of The Boys, which airs April 8th, 2026. You can follow him at: https://www.instagram.com/realderekjohns

    1h 27m

  7. Mar 6

    Carolyn Mauricette: Fantasia Festival Programmer & Rotten-Tomatoes-Approved Critic!

    Today on "Questions and Actor", I’m thrilled to be joined by Toronto‑based Rotten Tomatoes–approved critic, film writer and programmer Carolyn Mauricette. She’s the Director of Canadian Programming at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, a longtime programmer and former development coordinator for Toronto’s Blood in the Snow Film Festival, and the founder of View From The Dark, where she dives deep into horror, sci‑fi and fantasy with a focus on race and representation. Beyond programming lineups, Carolyn has been actively building pipelines: she's the co-founder of Access Threshold a creative agency dedicated to helping PoGMI (People of the Global Majority and Intersectionality) creators navigate the film industry, she’s lectured on Afrofuturism and Black women monsters for The Black Museum, Fantasia and the Miskatonic Institute. You’ve seen her byline at Rue Morgue, Grim and Hollywood Suite, and heard her on shows like Reely Melanated and A Year in Film—in this episode, we get to tap into her experience and talk about life and career and what the festival circuit looks like from the inside. Follow her below: https://www.instagram.com/cemo25 Follow her initiative Access Threshold: https://accessthreshold.com/ Submit to Fantasia Film Festival: -Last Chance Deadline (April 25th, 2026): https://filmfreeway.com/FantasiaFilmFestival

    1h 3m

  8. Mar 4

    John Frank Levey: Emmy-Winning Casting Director & Author of "Right for the Role"!

    John Frank Levey is a four-time Emmy Award–winning casting director. He’s the architect behind the ensembles of landmark series like China Beach, ER, The West Wing, Third Watch, Southland, Shameless and Animal Kingdom, and spent decades in senior casting roles at Warner Bros. and John Wells Productions before launching his own company. Starting out as a theatre director before pivoting into casting, John has helped launch or turbo‑charge the careers of actors like George Clooney and Allison Janney, and his work has been honored with multiple Emmys, numerous Artios Awards and the Casting Society’s Hoyt Bowers Award for lifetime achievement. He’s also the author of the memoir Right for the Role and host of a podcast by the same name, where he shares the stories and lessons from a career spent in audition rooms, on sets and in the middle of some of TV’s most influential creative teams. Follow him below: -on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/john_frank_levey_ -his website: https://www.johnfranklevey.com/ -his book with autograph: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ILETjKqYMYKFCHcufbpZhP-YFBjIBllmyWiaTOfnPco/ -his book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Right-Role-Breakdowns-Breakups-Breakthroughs/dp/B0BBPY94X6 -his podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/right-for-the-role-with-john-frank-levey/id1783661409 -his headshot photographer:  https://www.heroshots.la/ https://eusebiocreative.com/

    59 min
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Welcome to "Questions and Actor: Laurent Pitre," a podcast where curiosity meets creativity. Join Laurent Pitre, an actor with over 16 years of experience, as he delves into the minds of artists, actors, and everything in between. Through candid conversations, Laurent explores the profound questions of identity, purpose, and the unpredictable journey of a creative pursuit. Whether you're an aspiring creative or a seasoned professional, this podcast offers insights, inspiration, and a sense of community. Tune in weekly for new episodes and live Q&A sessions. Subscribe now and be part of the conversation!

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  • Creator
    Laurent Pitre
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    30
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2025 Laurent Pitre