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Currently staring in&nbsp;Hamilton&nbsp;in the title role, Javier Mu&ntilde;oz has had the great honor to perform the role for both former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. This is Javier&rsquo;s second venture with Lin-Manuel Miranda&nbsp;as he was also part of both the off Broadway and Broadway companies of&nbsp;In The Heights&nbsp;and the first to take over the role of Usnavi after Lin-Manuel&rsquo;s departure. Other selected credits:&nbsp;The Porch&nbsp;(Ziad) at Altered Stages;&nbsp;Venice&nbsp;(Venice) at Center Theatre Group;&nbsp;Two Gentlemen of Verona (a rock opera)&nbsp;(Proteus) at Shakespeare Theatre of DC; Oregon Shakespeare Festival&rsquo;s&nbsp;Richard III&nbsp;(Dorset) and&nbsp;Into The Woods&nbsp;(The Baker).

Javier Muñoz

Since 2013, Stephanie Beatriz has charmed audiences as the feisty and witty, Detective Rosa Diaz, in the hit Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning TV show Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Stephanie is able to jump from comedy to drama with natural ease, as shown in her role as Jessica, starring alongside Brie Larson, in the critic&#8217;s favorite and SXSW award-winning indie feature, Short Term 12. She has recently wrapped as one of the leads in Heather Graham’s directorial debut, Half Magic, and joined a star-studded cast, including Jennifer Lopez, Simon Pegg, Seann William Scott and Ray Romano, as the voice of Gretie in Ice Age: Collision Course. Her latest film, The Light of the Moon, in which she plays Bonnie, a young and successful Latina architect who is sexually assaulted while walking home, is now playing in select theaters through Imagination Worldwide and Film Collaborative.

Stephanie Beatriz

Your favorite musicians, filmmakers, and other creative minds one-on-one. No moderator, no script, no typical questions. The Talkhouse Podcast offers unique insights into creative work from all genres and generations. <a href="https://pod.link/Talkhouse" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscribe now</a>, and explore more illuminating shows on the <a href="https://talkhouse.com/category/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Talkhouse Podcast Network.</a>

Talkhouse Podcast

Podcast

Javier Muñoz (Hamilton) Talks with Stephanie Beatriz (The Light of the Moon) for the Talkhouse Podcast

Natalia Leite is a writer-director-actor, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her 2015 feature film debut, Bare, starred Dianna Agron, Paz De La Huerta and Chris Zylka and was released by IFC Films and Paramount Pictures. She often deals with sexuality in her work, which has been described as having “a bracing, assertive style” (Variety), “emotional intelligence and sensitivity” (Los Angeles Times), and as “cementing the reign over highly stylized and sexually progressive dramas” (Slant). Her second feature, M.F.A., a psychological thriller centered around rape crimes in a university, stars Francesca Eastwood and was released by Dark Sky Films this fall. She also directs music videos and commercials, and is a frequent contributor to Vice Media. She created the provocative Vice show Every Woman, which has garnered over 8 million views, and co-created and starred in the series Be Here Nowish on Vimeo. Her work has been featured in The Sunday Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Vogue, among other publications.

Natalia Leite

Film

Why Women Need to Tell Rape Stories

Victoria Negri is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and actor. Her directorial debut, <a href="http://goldstar-film.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gold Star</a>, which she also wrote and stars in, world premiered at the Buffalo International Film Festival in October 2016, where it won the Audience Award, was released theatrically in fall 2017, and is currently available through Amazon Prime. Negri is currently in development on her second feature as writer-director, Ultra.

Victoria Negri

Uncovering My Real Self in My Debut Feature

Jim Hemphill is the writer and director of the award-winning film <a href="https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.facebook.com/troublewiththetruth/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEfdWVn5INQ2VaFYkDfqCAJ1hDMVw">The Trouble With the Truth</a>, which is currently streaming on <a href="https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amzn.to/2Q20O6F&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE0fujkM407hiTH5e2ZBjQK8VSaCA">Amazon Prime</a> and other platforms. He has written about movies and television for Filmmaker magazine, American Cinematographer and Film Comment, and is the author of The Art and Craft of TV Directing: Conversations with Episodic Television Directors. He also serves as a film historian at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has contributed audio commentaries to DVDs and Blu-rays for Indicator, Shout Factory, the BFI, and other home video labels. His website is <a href="http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jimhemphillfilms.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1567688259834000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHaS2u3V0GTADaZ-lbaGzXANhioeQ">www.jimhemphillfilms.com</a>.

Jim Hemphill

On That Lost Three-Hour Version Superman and the Curious Pleasures of TV Edits

Erik Nelson is the director of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmwm4VPW7RY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Cold Blue</a>, which airs on HBO on June 6, and the 2017 documentary A Gray State. He is the producer of Werner Herzog&#8217;s award-winning documentaries Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, Into the Abyss and Cave of Forgotten Dreams. His previous work as a director includes the Harlan Ellison documentary, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, which premiered at SXSW in 2008. (Photo by Galen Fletcher, courtesy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.)

Erik Nelson

Collaborating with Ghosts (and Werner Herzog)

Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak are the writer-directors of Maya Dardel, starring Lena Olin, which is on release theatrically through Samuel Goldwyn Films. A graduate of Cornell and the Iowa Writers&#8217; Workshop, Cotler is the author of a novel, Ghost at the Loom (2014), a critical monograph, Elegies for Humanism (2015), and three books of poetry, Supplice (2014), Sonnets to the Humans (2013) and House with a Dark Sky Roof (2011). A native of Poland, Zyzak moved to the U.S. In 2002, where she produced Asiel Norton&#8217;s films Redland (2009) and Orion (2015), also co-writing the latter. Her first novel, The Ballad of Barnabas Pierkiel, was published to widespread critical acclaim in 2014. In 2014, Cotler and Zyzak became a filmmaking team; their forthcoming feature, When I&#8217;m a Moth, is currently in postproduction.

Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak

Sober Sunrises, and Other Tales of Making Maya Dardel

After attending Los Angeles City College’s film school, Kevin Tent got his first break editing the film Not of This Earth for legendary B-movie producer Roger Corman. Simultaneously Tent tapped into the emerging US Independent film movement, cutting the underground hit Guncrazy, directed by Tamra Davis, and then Citizen Ruth by director Alexander Payne. Tent has cut all of Payne’s movies since, including Election, Sideways, The Descendants (for which he received an Academy Award® nomination) and most recently Downsizing. After his long and sordid career in editing, Tent makes his directorial debut with Crash Pad an Original Black List selected screenplay written by Jeremy Catalino. The comedy, starring Domnhall Gleason, Thomas Haden Church and Christina Applegate, opens theatrically on October 27 through Vertical Entertainment.

Kevin Tent

What I Learned “Co-Directing” Ultra Warrior for Roger Corman

Kelly Loudenberg is a filmmaker and artist who has been exploring the American justice system for more than a decade, most recently through The Confession Tapes, the Netflix series she created and directed. This project has grown out of her work profiling individuals, systems and the grey areas of culpability and coercion. Kelly has contributed to the Atlantic, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and National Geographic. Her work has been shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Monte Vista Projects, SXSW Film Festival, and the Guggenheim Labs. She has also been artist-in-residence at the Nevada Museum of Art, the Center for Land Use Interpretation and Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. More at <a href="http://www.kellyloudenberg.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.kellyloudenberg.com</a>.

Kelly Loudenberg

Negative Spaces: What I Left Out of The Confession Tapes, and Why

Bruce LaBruce is a filmmaker, writer, photographer and artist based in Toronto, Canada. Recently there have been retrospectives of his films at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto and at MoMA in New York City. His latest feature, The Misandrists, will be released in 2018.

Bruce LaBruce

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Foxes

Adam Baran is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker whose short films have won awards and screened at LGBT film festivals around the world. He has received special acclaim for his music video Dirty Boots and his short film Jackpot, which won Best Short at the 2013 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. He has written for MTV, VH1 and Logo, most notably the first season of the hit webseries Hunting Season. Adam is currently the co-curator of <a href="http://www.queerartfilm.com/">Queer/Art/Film</a>, a monthly screening series at the IFC Center in New York City which has been praised in the New York Times and the New Yorker. Adam has programmed films for Outfest and NewFest, and is currently at work on his first feature.

Adam Baran

Why BPM (Beats Per Minute) is the Film 2017 Needed

Camille Thoman wrote and directed the 2017 thriller Never Here, starring Mireille Enos and Sam Shepard, a genre-blend between a classic Hitchcockian suspense mystery and a harrowing journey into disintegration of self. It is in theaters and on VOD from October 20 through Vertical Entertainment. Thoman&#8217;s award-winning documentary The Longest Game, which follows a group of zestful octogenarians who&#8217;ve daily for 25 years for a game of &#8220;paddle tennis,&#8221; will premiere on PBS in Spring 2018. In 2006, Thoman directed the short film Falling Objects, starring Mireille Enos, Timothy Hutton, Melissa Leo and Kevin Rahm. Her solo performance pieces have toured the U.K. and been performed by her in London at The Young Vic and the Battersea Arts Center.