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Celebrated director Mandie Fletcher&#8216;s new film, Patrick, a canine comedy starring Beattie Edmondson and Ed Skrein, is in select theaters and on VOD from February 14 through Screen Media. Most recently, she directed Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley in Absolutely Fabulous – The Movie, and her previous films are Deadly Advice, Born Kicking and Shalom Joan Collins. Mandie is the winner of two ACE awards as Best Comedy Director for Blackadder and The Fainthearted Feminist. She also directed the BAFTA-nominated series Only Fools and Horses, Hamish Macbeth and Blackadder II. She was named Director of the Year 2011 by Women in TV and Film and her other television work includes Miranda and Absolutely Fabulous. She is currently attached as writer-director on Pants on Fire, a romantic comedy for Irregular Features Ltd, and as director on Torrential Sunshine for Gilliesworks/Piccadilly Pictures.

Mandie Fletcher

Film

All I Really Wanted To Do Was Direct

Stephen Cone&nbsp;is a Chicago-based filmmaker whose films include&nbsp;Princess Cyd&nbsp;(BFI London Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest) and&nbsp;Henry Gamble&rsquo;s Birthday Party&nbsp;(BAMcinemaFest, Maryland Film Festival), both of which are currently streaming on Netflix, as well as the Outfest-winning,&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;Critics Pick&nbsp;The Wise Kids, which can be found streaming on Hulu. Other films include&nbsp;Black Box&nbsp;(Devolver Digital),&nbsp;This Afternoon&nbsp;and&nbsp;In Memoriam&nbsp;(Vimeo).&nbsp;Stephen&nbsp;teaches in the Department of Radio / Television / Film at Northwestern University.

Stephen Cone

Underrated/Overlooked: Stephen Cone on Blockers

Raphael Bob-Waksberg is a comedian and writer best known for being the creator of the acclaimed animated show&nbsp;BoJack Horseman, starring Will Arnett,&nbsp;Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie Paul F. Tompkins and Aaron Paul. The Netflix show, is currently in its fifth season, with a sixth season in the works. Bob-Waksberg is an alumnus of Bard College, where he was a member of the comedy troupe Olde English with longtime friend and&nbsp;Adam Ruins Everything creator, Adam Conover.

Raphael Bob-Waksberg

Adam Conover is the creator, writer and host of truTV’s hit series Adam Ruins Everything, an educational comedy that dispels common misconceptions and encourages the audience to think critically about the world around them. The show airs on Tuesday nights at 10/9 C on TruTV.

Adam Conover

Podcast

Raphael Bob-Waksberg (BoJack Horseman) Talks with Adam Conover for the Talkhouse Podcast

I am Gaby Dunn. I am a TV writer and actress living in Los Angeles. I’ve sold shows to MTV, FX, FOX, and YouTube Red. I appeared on the second season of Take My Wife, a sitcom you can watch on Starz. (I was kind of a bad guy!) I currently write on Netflix’s Big Mouth. I have a podcast called <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bad-with-money-with-gaby-dunn/id1144712710" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bad With Money</a>, which was named one of the top 10 podcasts of 2016 by the New York Times. The show’s third season comes out in April 2018. The book version of Bad With Money will be published by Simon and Schuster in Jan 2019. My comedy partner Allison Raskin and I produce the YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/justbetweenusshow" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Just Between Us</a>, which has more than 750,000 subscribers. Our novel<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/125012932X/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> I Hate Everyone But You</a> was a New York Times Best Seller. (Wow! Cool! Awesome!)
(Photo by Doug Frerichs)

Gaby Dunn

In Comedy, Saying Nothing Is No Longer an Option

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

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

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>

Talkhouse Podcast

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.

comedy