Hollywood Wolfpack With Kaia Alexander
117 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHollywood Wolfpack Look behind-the-scenes in the exciting careers of working pros, and find out their secrets to navigate the ever-changing landscape of the entertainment business. Join your host Kaia Alexander, writer/producer and founder of the Entertainment Business School. Find out why in this profession you need a wolfpack. Special guests include above-the-line writers, directors, showrunners, execs, actors, producers, attorneys and more.
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About Host Kaia Alexander
Kaia Alexander is the CEO/founder of the Entertainment Business League and Entertainment Business School. She was a development executive on the feature films JUST FRIENDS, PEACEFUL WARRIOR, THE GOOD NIGHT, and HACHI: A DOG'S TALE. She was mentored by comedian Garry Shandling. She's an award-winning Harper Collins novelist, for her historical novel Written in the Ashes. As an animal lover and native of Southern California, there are always surfboards on her car and fur on her sleeves. She’s proud to be the BQ in LGBTQ. You can find out more about Kaia on her IMDB and Twitter @ThisisKaia
Produced by Stuart W. Volkow P.G.A
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Episodes
Cindy Begel: Comedy Writer Insider: From Mork & Mindy to Laverne & Shirley
December 07, 2021 20:18 - 1 hourCindy Begel is a Writer-Producer who has worked on staff or freelance for over 30 classic sitcoms and some not so classic. Her background includes both multi and single camera series, animation, and was one of the writers for the hugely popular film, "The Flintstones". She's worked for Garry Marshall, Norman Lear, even Bill Cosby... Shows include: Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, Joanie Loves Chachi, The Jeffersons, Head of The Class, Alice, Married With Children, Mama's Family, T...
Lindsay Sturman: Activist, Writer - The Joy of Changing Lives
November 30, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutesLindsay Sturman is a television writer/producer who has worked on shows like Teen Wolf, Rizzoli & Isles, and NCIS: LA. She is also a housing and transportation activist, and co-hosts the podcast “Bike Talk.” She is the founder or co-founder of five parent-initiated, progressive, diverse public charter schools, including City Language Immersion Charter (a Spanish language immersion K-5 in West Adams), Larchmont Charter and The City School. She organizes and volunteers for progressive Democrats...
Monica Gleberman: Behind the Scenes with a Celebrity Publicist
November 16, 2021 13:00 - 1 hourPrime Entertainment Publicity, LLC brings together the over 10 years of Public Relations, Marketing, Advertising and Journalism experience of industry professionals for the purpose of achieving their client goals. Whether you are an actor, singer, writer, or business owner looking to take yourself or your venture from point A to point B in your career, we will tailor our services to meet your needs. Full service PR and marketing representation offered on a per-project or per month basis. Hiri...
Diane Houston: Never Give Up!
November 09, 2021 19:45 - 50 minutesBorn and raised in Washington DC, Houston left home at age 16 to work in experimental theater in New York City. Her early work and study was with such theater greats as Liz Swados, Joseph Papp, Joe Chaikin, Peter Brook, La Mama, Woody King, and Ntozake Shange. It was this diverse background that laid the foundation for her immersion into film and television. In 1996 Dianne Houston transformed a forgotten Harlem Renaissance short story into the Academy Award nominated short film Tuesday Mornin...
Debbie Liebling: MTV, South Park, PEN15 Producer - Don't Take NO for an Answer!
November 04, 2021 00:07 - 1 hourThe Entertainment Business Wisdom podcast and its hosts are providing this podcast as a public service. Reference to any specific product or entity during these interviews does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Entertainment Business League LLC or its hosts. The views expressed by guests are their own, and their appearance on the program does not imply an endorsement of them or any entity they represent. Any views or experience shared by guests and the hosts has been shar...
Nell Scovell: She Does It All: Lean In, Sabrina The Teenage Witch, The Simpsons
November 04, 2021 00:01 - 30 minutesNell Scovell was born on November 8, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA as Helen Vivian Scovell. She is a writer and producer, known for NCIS (2003), Warehouse 13 (2009) and The Muppets. (2015). The Entertainment Business Wisdom podcast and its hosts are providing this podcast as a public service. Reference to any specific product or entity during these interviews does not constitute an endorsement or recommendation by the Entertainment Business League LLC or its hosts. The views expressed b...
Will Nix: Making Impact Entertainment
November 03, 2021 23:52 - 1 hourWill Nix produced the Academy-award nominated animated film, THE PROPHET, with Salma Hayek, based on the spiritual bestseller from Kahlil Gibran.” He is Chairman/CEO, Creative Projects Group® is a Producer with extensive experience in the entertainment, media, sports, and intellectual property fields, as well as a Partner in LOHAS Advisors/Capital which focuses on Social and Environmental Impact Investing. He is a member of the Producer's Council of the PGA, a founding member of its Social Im...
Maria Giese: State of The Union on Women in the Industry
November 03, 2021 23:51 - 1 hourA graduate of Wellesley College and UCLA's Graduate School of Film & Television, Giese completed a short documentary and two short films including the Student Academy Award finalist, "A Dry Heat". She was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree in film production in 1994. She wrote and directed the British feature film, When Saturday Comes (1996), starring Sean Bean, Emily Lloyd and Pete Postlethwaite. This film, shot on location in Sheffield, England for Capitol Films, was released theatrically...
Karyn Usher: Getting Employed and Staying Employed
November 03, 2021 23:45 - 48 minutesKaryn Usher is a producer and writer, known for Prison Break (2005), Touch (2012) and The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Bones, Rogue, Delerium. With her partner Lisa Zerling they have a production company, Carpool Entertainment which produced The Rook for Stars.
Debra Pratt: Passion and Perseverance Pays Off
November 03, 2021 23:35 - 54 minutesDeborah M. Pratt is an American Director, Writer, Producer, Singer, Dancer, and Actress. After graduating from Webster University with a degree in Psychology and Theatre, she won a nationwide talent search and came to Hollywood under contract to NBC. She wrote songs and sang on multiple albums, started acting, writing and producing. After starring in multiple pilots and writing for the shows she had been reoccurring on, she co-Created, worked her way through the ranks and became Executive pro...
Tracy Grant: Best Way to Stay in the Game, is to be active in your Own Success
November 02, 2021 17:44 - 50 minutesEgo and entitlement can play large roles in your journey. They’re hard lessons to learn. It’s up to you to decide what that means, but the best way to stay prepared is to stay in the game, to be active in your own success. New York City native Tracy Grant began writing as an author with the novel Hellified and as a journalist for what were once magazines including VIBE and XXL, interviewing scores of entertainers, politicians and businesspeople. Tracy is one of the Co-Creators and Executive P...
Linda Burstyn - Work Hard And Smart - From Political Wonk to Master Storyteller
November 02, 2021 17:35 - 52 minutesLinda had several careers in her life before her current one as a Writer for television dramas. She has been a political writer, a TV news producer, a journalist, and a feminist activist. (She wrote a powerful article about female genital mutilation in America, which you can read here: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1995/10/female-circumcision-comes-to-america/306051/.) Some of her TV writing/producing credits include The Education of Max Bickford, State of Affairs, In Plain Sigh...
Rachel Feldman: Wisdom form a Veteran Hyphenate.
November 02, 2021 17:34 - 41 minutesRachel Feldman is a film and television director and writer. Late 2021, Feldman will be directing Patricia Clarkson in "Lilly," a political thriller she wrote based the life of fair pay activist Lilly Ledbetter. Feldman is a veteran director in television drama, with recent credits on "The Rookie, Blue Bloods, Criminal MInds," and the pilot and first season of "The Baxters." Her movie credits include: "Love Notes, She's No Angel, and Witchcraft III." Her pilot script "Kinks," winner of The Be...
Erica Anderson: Read The Room! Stay Versatile. Lessons from Cold Case
November 02, 2021 17:34 - 50 minutesErica L. Anderson is an accomplished TV Writer. After only 11 years in the business she's gone from procedurals to character driven shows with outstanding success. She was most recently a Co-Executive Producer on SURFACE, an upcoming Apple+ TV series produced by Reese Witherspoon. Preceding that, Erica was a Co-Executive Producer on WOMEN IN THE MOVEMENT, an upcoming ABC series produced by Will Smith, Aaron Kaplan, and Jay-Z, a Co-Executive Producer on the upcoming NETFLIX series, IN FROM THE...
Mike Medavoy: LIfe Lessons From A Storied Career
November 02, 2021 17:33 - 43 minutesSample some of the best American films over the past forty years and there's a good chance Mike Medavoy played a role in the success of many of them. From agent to studio chief to producer, he has been involved with over 300 feature films, of which 17 have been nominated and 7 have won Best Picture Oscars®, as well as numerous international film festival awards. Medavoy began his career at Universal Studios in 1964. He rose from the mail room to become a casting director. In 1965, he became ...
Juliet Landau: Persistence and Strategic Thinking Pays Off!
November 02, 2021 17:33 - 1 hourKaia talks to her friend Juliet Landau who grew up in the entertainment business, but became successful all on her own (even in spite of the narcissists that surrounded her). She's a multi-hyphenate powerhouse: actress, director, writer and marketer- and now also an educator. She opens the kimono to reveal some of things she wish she would've known earlier in her career, and how she has navigated her success, as well as writing/directing, and starring in her new, groundbreaking film A PLACE A...
Kaia Alexander and Sylvia Franklin: Introducing The Entertainment Business Wisdom Podcast: Going Beyond Knowledge and Skill
October 31, 2021 23:01 - 50 minutesThe OG Episode! Meet your co-hosts Kaia Alexander and Sylvia Franklin, who share a mighty passion for the gems of wisdom to be found in the entertainment business. As Sylvia says, "The entertainment business is a BUSINESS." It's imperative that above-the-line creatives understand how to navigate the challenging and ever-changing landscape of the industry for a life-long lucrative career. You have to know what mistakes to avoid, and also how the industry has shifted- and is continuing to shift...