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Craig Robinson is a comedian and actor best known for his role as Darryl Philbin on the smash-hit sitcom The Office. A prolific actor, he has appeared in such movies as Pineapple Express, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Hot Tub Time Machine, This Is the End, Morris from America, Sausage Party and the newly released <a href="https://www.beverlylufflinnmovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn</a>, also starring Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement and Emile Hersh. On TV, he has memorably acted in such shows as Eastbound &amp; Down, The Cleveland Show, Mr. Robot and Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Craig Robinson

Aubrey Plaza is an actor, comedian and producer based in Los Angeles. She is best known for her role as April Ludgate in the beloved sitcom Parks and Recreation. Among her many film credits are Funny People, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Safety Not Guaranteed, The To Do List, Dirty Grandpa, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Ingrid Goes West and the newly released <a href="https://www.beverlylufflinnmovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn</a>, also starring Craig Robinson, Jemaine Clement and Emile Hersh. She has also acted in Life After Beth, Joshy and The Little Hours, all of which were written and directed by her partner, Jeff Baena. On TV, she currently stars in Legion, which also stars Dan Stevens and her Luff Linn co-star Jemaine Clement.

Aubrey Plaza

Podcast

Craig Robinson Talks with Aubrey Plaza for the Talkhouse Podcast

Lisa D’Apolito is a documentary and commercial director. She is the director of the Gilda Radner documentary, Love, Gilda, which was selected as the opening night film of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and is in select theaters from September 20 through Magnolia Pictures. Lisa started out as an actress in film, theater and television including a part in Goodfellas. She went on to producing and directing, making her way to SVP/EP of Production for FCB, an advertising agency and then to starting her own branded content production company 3 Faces Films. Her short narrative film, The Gynotician, starring Amber Tamblyn and David Cross, won several festival awards. Lisa was named one of Variety’s 10 Documentarians to Watch in 2018.

Lisa D’Apolito

Film

How I Learned More About Gilda Radner Than I Will Ever Know About Myself

Katy Colloton is one of the creators, executive producers, writers and actors on the TV Land show Teachers. Last year she developed TV for NBC Universal and a feature with Bluegrass Films and Scott Stuber. Katy received her B.A. in theater and psychology from Vanderbilt University. Before moving to LA, Katy performed comedy in Chicago at Second City, iO and The Annoyance Theater.
Katie O&#8217;Brien hails from Omaha, Nebraska, but is now an actress and comedienne living and working in Los Angeles. Katie has appeared in Nora Ephron&#8217;s, Love, Lost and What I Wore, Key &amp; Peele and is currently one of the creators, writers, executive producers and stars in TV Land&#8217;s hit underground comedy Teachers. Katie has also appeared on the Today Show, Comedy Central&#8217;s @midnight and Kocktails with Khloe. She is a diehard Bruce Springsteen fan and is always talking about how much she&#8217;d love to own a bakery someday despite her inability to bake.

Katy Colloton and Katie O’Brien

How Repeated Rejection Can Lead To Your Dream Job

Shannon Plumb has shot over 200 short films, which have been exhibited in museums, galleries, and on international screens. She started by shooting herself as various characters, acting out three-minute situations using humor and silence as her vehicles for storytelling. In 2013, her first feature film, Towheads, premiered at MoMA as part of New Directors / New Films; it is now streaming on the <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/towheads" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Criterion Channel</a>. You can see her short films at <a href="http://shannonplumb.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shannonplumb.com</a> and Towheads is available on Netflix and iTunes. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, director Derek Cianfrance, and their two sons.

Shannon Plumb

Cathy

A prolific film and television director and producer, Andrew Fleming is the director of films such as Hamlet 2 starring Steve Coogan and Nancy Drew with Emma Roberts. He was recently the Executive producer/director on the Netflix series Insatiable, of which he directed the pilot. Additionally, he recently directed episodes of Younger for TV Land, Lady Dynamite for Netflix, and Red Oaks for Amazon. He directed the pilots for Bad Judge at NBC, Odd Mom Out for Bravo, and Difficult People for Hulu, all of which were ordered to series. He has a long career in features, including co-writing and directing the 1988 psychological thriller Bad Dreams, the satirical political comedy Dick, starring Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams and Will Ferrell, and The Craft, a supernatural thriller about teen witchcraft, starring Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell and Rachel True. Fleming&#8217;s latest comedy feature, Ideal Home starring Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan, is out through Brainstorm Media on June 29.

Andrew Fleming

We’re Post-Homophobia, Right? Wrong.

Abbi Jacobson is a comedian, writer and actress living in New York, who is best known for co-creating and co-starring in the Comedy Central show Broad City. She has acted in the films Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, Person to Person and 6 Balloons, and is currently developing for FX the TV series Guts and Glory, based on Samantha Irby&#8217;s book of comic essays Meaty.

Abbi Jacobson

Samantha Irby is a comedian, blogger and essayist who lives in Chicago. Her first book, Meaty, was published in 2013 and has just been reissued in a new edition by Vintage, who also published her second book, 2017&#8217;s We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. She is developing Guts and Glory, an FX TV series based on Meaty, with Jessi Klein and Broad City&#8216;s Abbi Jacobson.

Samantha Irby

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>

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Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) Talks with Samantha Irby for the Talkhouse Podcast

Jeremy Frindel is the founder of <a href="http://www.substratumfilms.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Substratum Films</a>, specializing in cinematic portraiture exploring the resilience and majesty of the human spirit. In 2013 Jeremy released his first feature film, <a href="https://zeitgeistfilms.com/film/onetrackheart">One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das</a>. Distributed by Zeitgeist Films, the film screened theatrically across the US, and won the Best Documentary prize at the Maui, Dharamsala and Gold Coast Film Festivals among others. Jeremy is in post-production now on his next project, Spacefox, a feature documentary following the reinvention of Marty Friedman from lead guitarist in Megadeth to one of the most famous TV comedians in Japan. The Doctor From India, his second feature, opens June 1 at the Quad Cinema in New York City and is screening across the U.S. courtesy of Zeitgeist Films.

Jeremy Frindel

In Movies, I Tell People’s Transformation Stories. Here is My Own.

Dan Gregor&#8216;s first feature as writer-director working in film and TV. He is currently a writer on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and his past TV credits include How I Met Your Mother, The Comedians and Adult Swim&#8217;s NTSF:SD:SUV. His debut feature as writer-director, <a href="http://lionsgateathome.com/most-likely-to-murder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Most Likely to Murder</a> starring Adam Pally, Rachel Bloom and Vincent Kartheiser, is now available on VOD.

Dan Gregor

My Porno Tape Story

Paul Feig is a director, writer, producer and actor working in film and television. He is the creator of the beloved TV series Freaks and Geeks, and has directed episodes of numerous shows, including, The Office, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation and Mad Men. His recent films as director include Bridesmaids, The Heat, Spy and Ghostbusters, all of which star Melissa McCarthy. His latest feature, the thriller A Simple Favor, starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively, came out in September. He lives in Los Angeles.

Paul Feig

Alia Shawkat, actress (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0790057/" target="_blank">imdb</a>), writer (of this piece) and artist, tells us about A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night by Ana Lily Amirpour. You can see her artwork at <a href="http://www.mutantalia.com" target="_blank">mutantalia.com</a>.

Alia Shawkat

Miguel Arteta is a Puerto Rican filmmaker currently living in Los Angeles. His latest film, Beatriz at Dinner, written by regular collaborator Mike White and starring Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton and Jay Duplass, was released by Roadside Attractions earlier this summer . He won an Independent Spirit Award for his first feature, Chuck &amp; Buck (2000), written by Mike White. It premiered and found distribution at the Sundance Film Festival, as did Star Maps (1997) and The Good Girl (2002). Has also directed Youth in Revolt (2009), with Michael Cera; Cedar Rapids (2011), with Ed Helms and John C. Reilly; and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), with Steve Carell and Jennifer Garner. Arteta’s TV work includes Freaks and Geeks, The Office, Six Feet Under, Enlightened, New Girl, Nurse Jackie, The Big C, American Horror Story and Getting On. He studied film with Jeanine Basinger at the Wesleyan Film Program and has taught at the Sundance Institute’s Directors Labs and at the Middle Eastern Film Lab in Jordan. (Picture by Lacey Terrell.)

Miguel Arteta

Paul Feig (Spy) Talks with Alia Shawkat and Miguel Arteta (Duck Butter) for the Talkhouse Podcast

Jordan Firstman and Charles Rogers are the filmmakers behind the short film Men Don&#8217;t Whisper, which screened at Sundance and SXSW and is currently being expanded into a feature film. Jordan is best known for his celebrated darkly comedic works The Disgustings, Sold and most recently Call Your Father, which he is adapting into a television series. He is a writer on the TBS series Search Party, which Charles co-created and executive produces. Charles also co-wrote and co-directed the independent feature Fort Tilden, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival. You can watch Men Don&#8217;t Whisper on Vimeo <a href="https://vimeo.com/channels/shortoftheweek/259883913" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.

Jordan Firstman and Charles Rogers

The 10 Things We Learned Writing a Movie About Our Relationship

Noël Wells is a director/writer/actor living in Los Angeles, currently best known for her appearance on Master of None and her feature film Mr. Roosevelt. She likes making things and is passionately not a comedian. (Picture by Garrett Charboneau.)

Noël Wells

How American Vandal Saved Noël Wells’ Life

Jason Jones is a Canadian-American actor, writer and comedian. He is best known for being a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart between 2005 to 2015, and is the creator and star of the TBS sitcom The Detour, which he co-created with his wife, Samantha Bee; the show&#8217;s third season starts January 23. He lives in New York City.

Jason Jones

Aasif Mandvi is a British Indian comedian, writer and actor. He was a regular contributor on The Daily Show between 2007 and 2015. He acted in, wrote and co-produced the HBO comedy series The Brink, created and starred in the web series Halal in the Family, and is the author of the memoir No Land&#8217;s Man. He lives in New York City.

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