The Quidditas Factor

Russ Camarda has been a professional director/actor/acting coach/cinematographer and editor for the past two decades. In FILM Russ has produced, 6 independent feature films, Directed 2, Starred in and edited 5 of them. “Send No Flowers” co-starring in it as well with Sean Young and Tony LoBianco. The film recently secured distribution with Multicom Entertainment Group.  “The Night Never Sleeps” co...

Oksana Tarasova-Kessous received her professional studies degree at The Manhattan School of Music under the guidance of the soloist of The Metropolitan Opera House, harpist Susan Jolles. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) and Master of Music from The Moscow Conservatory under the guidance of Professor Vera Dulova, principal harpist of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater. Oksana has performed as a...

Writer / Director Elias Plagianos' film and television projects have won Best Director, Best Feature Film, Best Short Film, Best TV Pilot, and Best Actor awards for his cast at over 75 International Film Festivals including 10 of MovieMaker Magazines list of Top 25 and Top 50 Festivals. In addition to his creative work behind the camera, he is a partner at the new media startup venture "...

Fran Capo is a 9-time world record holder who inspires creativity and change around the world, through her humor, motivation and wild adventures. She has been featured on over 6000 Radio, TV and Internet shows.  She accomplishes all her world records using her "Seven World Record Mindsets", that she spoke about during her Tedx talk entitled, "A world Record mindset." She broke...

Taimak plays the lead role in Berry Gordy's cult classic, The Last Dragon  in which he played Leroy Green, a Bruce Lee inspired martial artist in search of "The Glow," was his first major break in acting. The film was a financial success and grossed more than $25 million at the box office. Since The Last Dragon , Taimak has appeared in a number of TV roles and over a dozen plays. Ta...

Robert Kugler is the award-winning author of the Avery & Angela series, the Aloha Kugs series, and AN ALMOST TOLERABLE PERSON. He retired from education in order to focus on both writing and parenting. A graduate of The College of Wooster and Seton Hall University, Robert is an avid Philadelphia sports fan, enjoys mixology, and does the occasional sprint triathlon. (slowly) He currently lives...

Sarah has been surrounded by music throughout her entire life, but it wasn't until she started street performing on the streets of Los Angeles, CA in 2016 that she decided to pursue her career as a singer/songwriter. She has since released an EP, two singles, & a music video which is played in rotation at Universal City Walk, LA; has established residencies with several venues, been endor...

Kimberly Graham has been the Associate Casting Director for Judy Henderson Casting since 2003. She casts for film, television, commercials and theater. Kimberly Graham is known for her work on Homeland, Avatar and Before Midnight.  Support the show

Pamela Lewis is an American singer-songwriter and actor Lewis has released a couple solo studio albums. She is currently a part of the band Code Bleu a band the has provided its clients with first class music and entertainment. This exceptionally talented, well-rehearsed bands and ensembles reproduces the musical styles from every era. They include today’s current hits, Classic Rock-n-Roll, Rap, R...

Rachael Sage is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, poet, and visual artist  She is the founder of indie label MPress Records. Sage has released fourteen solo studio albums. Her performances combine music with between-song banter. Sage was named one of the Top 100 Independent Artists of the Past 15 Years by Performing Songwriter magazine.  She joins host Michael...

Pamela Jorgensen is an extremely versatile singer-actor. Age range: 30-50. Vocal range: E3-C6. She is very affable, is always willing to take risks and prides herself on her consummate professionalism. Musical theatre, comedy/drama, cabaret, voice over. After years of drudging through a sea of vocational diversity, Pam is finally living the life she has always dreamed of since she was 5 years old!...

Ramfis Myrthil is an award-winning independent filmmaker, producer and avid story-teller from New York City. His tremendous success as an indie filmmaker has won him several awards including Star’s 40 under 40 list. His extensive experience has earned him speaking invitations at the most prestigious film festivals and film schools, including the Cannes Film Festival and SXSW, New York University a...

Bryan Norton has an M.F.A. degree in Film Production from New York University's Tisch School of The Arts Graduate Film Program, and a B.A. in Cinema Studies from Sarah Lawrence College. He wrote and directed the award winning horror film Penny Dreadful with a generous grant from Warner Bros, starring Friday the 13th's Betsy Palmer and has won over one hundred film festival awards worldwi...

Marc Jacobson has significant experience in the entertainment and Internet industries. He currently advises many clients on the business and intellectual property issues faced by entertainment businesses in the digital age. This includes matters relating to the creation, development and exploitation of intellectual property rights in internet-based content as well as film, television, video, music...

James Mount is an actor and voiceover artist who is best known for his role as Agent Thoms, part of the core recurring cast of Season 6 of Showtime’s ‘Homeland’. His Guest Star appearances include character turns on Fox’s ‘Gotham’, NBC’s ‘The Blacklist’, HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ as well as supporting roles in films, most recently the indie-thriller “What We Found”. As a voice actor, James recently played...

Abigail Hawk is best known for playing  detective Abigail Baker in the hit television show Blue Bloods  She also appeared in, Body of Proof as well as in the  holiday TV movie, A Christmas in Vermont . Hawk also had a starring role in Domenica Cameron Scorsese's directorial debut, Almost Paris for which she won the "Best Actress" award at the 2017 Golden Door Film Festival. She has...

Spat Oktan is well known for his work on the sci-fi/comic book convention circuit, and in his roles as costume, prop-maker, and practical special effects man on low-budget films such as Bad Kids Go to Hell and its sequel, as well as videos and TV shows in the New York and Atlanta area, where he now resides.  Oktan has made costumes and props for video games, movies, and major companies to use to p...

Donna McKenna, CSA is an award winning, international casting director, producer and educator. She has cast numerous independent films, TV show, episodic radio shows, pilots and web-series during her more than 20 years in the business. These projects have received theatrical distribution and can be seen on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Apple as well as Direct TV and other streaming platforms. Producers an...

Laila Samuels is an artist and songwriter from Oslo, Norway. She was the lead singer of The Tuesdays, and has since 1998 written more than 300 songs for other artists, taken part in Melodi Grand Prix as a solo artist and done collaborations with other artists, such as Ravi, Vinni and the Vagabonds, Curse and We Kings  and songwriter Jonas Shandel launched the duo Shandel & Samuels in 2019. Sup...

Grammy-nominated Seth Glier is a singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. NPR describes his voice as “otherworldly” while praising him as “an engaging performer and storyteller.” His critically acclaimed, emotionally dense catalog of work often draws upon traditional roots music, experimental instrumentation, and moody atmospheres that result in soulfully intelligent stories that ca...

Sitting in the back of his middle school classroom, a young Steven Cogle would recollect his favorite childhood super heroes and remix them into his own hip hop versions through his sketches. Cogle's route was by no means direct and straightforward however. Throughout the years, Steven Cogle worked a wide range of occupations before finally settling on his lifelong calling. One of these occup...

Julie Schubert is a New York based, Emmy-Award winning Casting Director. She has casted numerous projects including the hit Netflix shows House of Cards and Daredevil. Other casting credits include Confessions of a Shopaholic, Footloose, Devil Wears Prada, and The Departed. Schubert, comes from a very special casting legacy - she was trained by Juliet Taylor and Ellen Lewis, proteges of the famed...

After twenty five years in the music business as a singer, songwriter, bassist, guitarist and front man of the band Crystal Eyes, Sal Sirchia began his acting career in 2001. Sirchia first television role was on HBO's Oz as a featured extra and regular during seasons 4, 5 and 6. Sal also appeared on the  VH-1 Showa "Feedback" and "Newlyweds and Rock and Roll" Sal has also...

Michael J. Arbouet talks with Stacey Prussman.  Prussman landed her first starring role in the  Off-Broadway show Grandma Sylvia's Funeral as Dori Grossman in the mid-to-late 1990s. In 2000, she appeared in the award-winning Greg Scarnici  film Glam-Trash. She also had roles in Everything's Jake and The Girl in the Park.  Aside from her performing career, Prussman is a national keynote s...

Michael J. Arbouet talks with Michelle Amor who  co-wrote PLAYIN’ FOR LOVE, directed by and starring Robert Townsend (FIVE HEARTBEATS, HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE) and Jenifer Lewis (BLACK-ISH), wrote OF BOYS & MEN starring Academy® Award-nominated actress Angela Bassett (BLACK PANTHER) and Robert Townsend, and co-produced and co-wrote the documentary film TUPAC SHAKUR: BEFORE I WAKE. In November 2019 s...