From Passion to Paycheck

Noah Griffith and Daniel Stewart lived in New Zealand for a year when they were the on set writer producers for the Netflix series Sweet Tooth. As a writing team they’ve worked from Staff Writers up to Co-Executive Producers on genre shows including Sweet Tooth, Swamp Thing and Stephen King’s The Mist and they did this after coming to LA from Minnesota and getting their break from a short film the...

Kara Lee Corthron rose from staff writer to Co-Executive Producer on TV series including YOU, The Flight Attendant, Kings, Servant and The Bondsman - but her creative journey began with playwriting in New York that took her from Julliard to countless theaters and artist residencies in places like Scotland, Ireland, Berkeley and Iceland where the experience got her just as close with her words as i...

Will Pascoe is a TV showrunner and writer/producer whose television work stretches from LA back to his hometown of Toronto, Canada with credits including Absentia, Orphan Black, The Finder, Da Vinci’s Demons, Law & Order: Organized Crime and Shut Eye. He launched his career from Toronto by producing a documentary on Noam Chomsky and followed that documentary with another one called Lost Heroes abo...

Raelle Tucker came to LA from Ibiza, Spain with no film school education at the age of 17. After years of focus on the craft and the business, and stints as an exotic dancer, she rose from a fledgling screenwriter who got her first break on the Ben Affleck and Matt Damon HBO series Project Greenlight, to work on True Blood, The Returned and Jessica Jones. Now a seasoned executive producer with mul...

DJ Kara has been crushing sets at locations across the United States from the Super Bowl to Orlando Resorts, Seattle, Maui and of course, Vegas, for over a decade. She arrived in LA from Indiana with her target set on the music industry and jumped into the DJ world despite her fears of live performance and speaking on the mic. And it is this exact effort to progress despite fear that launched her...

Multi-Hyphenate Producer, Director, Writer, Actor (and Translator) Jason Gurvitz has produced films in locations as varied as Columbia, Spain, Ethiopia and the Mojave Desert in over 100-degree heat. His exploits also include producing documentary shorts that helped to fund The Black Lion, the largest hospital in all of East Africa that serves 80 million people - and to expose the underbelly of hum...

You might best recognize Adam from his role as Gary Green on the series LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, but he has over 80 credits in film and television including a role on a Russian prison drama that launched his career.

Originally from Atlanta, GA, Christina started her creative career at a fashion house in NYC before making her way in the film, television and commercial industry in Los Angeles, on projects as varied as WESTWORLD, LINCOLN LAWYER and THE GREY MAN.

While Paul and Eric do have separate achievements, they hit the public consciousness with their Oscar-nominated screenplay for THE FIGHTER, and their streak since then has not stopped. Now, after penning scripts for films from THE FINEST HOURS, THE OUTPOST and MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE, to name a few, the gifted duo have multiple upcoming feature projects including some where Paul is also...

"From Passion to Paycheck" highlights creative professionals who make a living off of the crafts they love. From film and television to music and every creative profession you can imagine, these entrepreneurial artists are doing amazing work every day in fields that a lot of people might consider impossible. We hope you enjoy hearing their stories as much as we do. And maybe, just maybe,...