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Scott Z. Burns is an award-winning screenwriter, producer, director and playwright. His new Audible Original podcast, <a href="https://www.audible.com/pd/What-Could-Go-Wrong-Audiobook/B0F4GSVRGS?ref=mrq_aud_WCGW_van1&amp;source_code=MRQP30DTRIAL02804102508Y5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Could Go Wrong</a>?, is out now. He is the writer, director, executive producer and creator of the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations, starring Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker, Edward Norton and Marion Cotillard. In film, Burns&#8217; writing credits include The Bourne Ultimatum as well as The Informant!, Contagion, Side Effects and The Laundromat for director Steven Soderbergh. As a director, Burns&#8217; credits include PU-239, starring Oscar Isaac and Paddy Considine, and The Report, starring Adam Driver, Annette Bening and Jon Hamm, which tells the story of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program. Burns served as a producer for the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, as well as an executive producer for An Inconvenient Sequel and Sea of Shadows. On stage, Burns&#8217; play The Library, which deals with a high school shooting, was produced at the Public Theater and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for best new American play. Burns began his career in advertising; before leaving the industry, he was part of the team that created the &#8220;Got Milk?&#8221; campaign.

Scott Z. Burns

Film

Three Great Things: Scott Z. Burns

Jeff Roda has written screenplays for DreamWorks, Universal, Paramount Pictures, New Regency and TriStar, and television pilots for HBO, CBS and Warner Bros. Additionally, he was a producer on the Sony Pictures Classics feature Love Liza, starring Academy Award-winning actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates. <a href="https://www.18topartymovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">18 to Party</a>, his directorial debut which captures one night in the life of a group of 8th graders gathered outside small-town nightclub in 1984, opens in virtual theaters in Los Angeles, New York and major cities on November 6 with a VOD release to follow on all major platforms on December 1. Roda is a local resident of Woodstock area and the film is set in Upstate New York.

Jeff Roda

How the Clash’s Mick Jones Made My Rock & Roll Dream Come True

Ryan Mahan is the bassist for Algiers. Their debut record, <a href="http://smarturl.it/TheUndersideOfPower">The Underside of Power</a>, is out now on Matador, and you can follow them on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/AlgiersMusic?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">here</a>.

Ryan Mahan

Music

Talkhouse Playlist: Dissent Punk With Algiers

Jesse D. Leach is the vocalist of Killswitch Engage, Times of Grace and The Empire Shall Fall. He has visited every continent except Antarctica. He is a lover of good music, good food, especially pizza, and good, down-to-earth people. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/EyeAgainstI">here</a> and Killswitch Engage <a href="https://twitter.com/kseofficial">here</a>.

Jesse D. Leach

Jesse Leach Shares His Favorite Lyrics, AND Drops a New Killswitch Engage Video

Talkhouse Playlist: SSHH Covers Their Favorite Covers

<div>Zachary Lipez is the singer of the band Publicist UK. He is the co-author (with Stacy Wakefield and Nick Zinner) of a number of books, most recently 131 Different Thinks (Akashic 2018). He is a freelance writer in NYC and tends bar at 124 Old Rabbit Club.</div>
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Zachary Lipez

Zachary Lipez (Freshkills, Publicist UK) Talks Rancid’s …Honor Is All We Know

The Clash