The Quidditas Factor

Michael J. Arbouet talks with singer, songwriter and producer Mark Islam. Born in New Castle, DE, Mark had one early aspiration: to leave his state. After moving to Boston University to study literature, Islam performed and honed his craft at various coffeehouses in the Boston area. After completing a master's degree in English, he moved to Los Angeles, the city where most of his favorite mus...

Michael J. Arbouet talks with Diane Franklin. Diane is an iconic 80s American film actress, known for her dark curly hair, and dialects. Beginning her acting career at the age of ten, Diane started with modeling, theater, commercials, and soap opera work. She then won the lead role of the dream girl, Karen, in cult classic THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN (1982) and soon after played the daughter, Patrici...

Craig Bierko got his break in 1990 when he was cast opposite Valerie Bertinelli and Matthew Perry in the CBS sitcom Sydney,  however, the production lasted just 13 episodes. He went on to make steady appearances in various television shows including Amen, The Powers That Be, Wings and Ally McBeal. Bierko may be best known for his role as Timothy in the 1996 action film The Long Kiss Goodnight. ] H...

As a respected artist, entrepreneur, and marketing professional, Asia Lee dedicates her creative, communication and people skills to providing outstanding work and commitment of the highest level to the communities, organizations and individuals she serves. She focuses much of her efforts in support of a wide array of local, regional and national charitable projects. Regularly scheduled exhibition...

Blake Robbins is an award winning actor, writer and director. In 2012, after years in front of the camera, Blake stepped behind it to write, direct, produce and act in his feature film debut The Sublime and Beautiful, which world premiered at the 20th annual Slamdance Film Festival in 2014. Support the show

Gorgeous petite brunette Tina Krause was born on July 29, 1970 in Queens, New York. Krause graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City with a degree in Graphic Design and 3D illustration. Tina worked as an artist and graphic designer prior to embarking on an acting career after being discovered at the Chiller Theatre horror convention in New Jersey in 1994. Besides acting primarily i...

Actor and filmmaker, Joseph Zaso was born on November 20, 1970 in Queens, New York. A performer of both the stage and screen, Zaso formed his own film production company, Cinema Image Productions in 1986. Since then he has primarily produced and acted in films of the suspense/thriller genre. Mr. Zaso is the author of 5 cookbooks: The Café Himbo Cookbook, Café Himbo: Cookbook II, Café Himbo's...

Stephanie Czajkowski was born in Wisconsin to a family with a hard to pronounce last name (Check-house-key just FYI) , Stephanie realized she wanted to be an actor the moment she saw her first episode of The Brady Bunch, and insisted her mom write the TV station to ask how that might be possible. That lead Stephanie to pursue a career in the Arts. After high school, she attended NYU where she rece...

Yancy Victoria Butler is an  actress and producer. She is known for her roles as Natasha Binder in the 1993 film Hard Target, Jess Crossman in Drop Zone, and Detective Sara Pezzini on the TNT supernatural drama series Witchblade.  Yancy is the daughter of Leslie Vega, a theatre company manager, and Joe Butler, the drummer and vocalist for the 1960s rock group The Lovin' Spoonful. Butler'...

Dailyn Rodriguez is a TV writer and producer. She is currently the Showrunner on USA's Queen of The South, she was Co-Executive Producer on the 3rd season of Queen of the South and also on NBC's The Night Shift. Born in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City to Cuban parents. She attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts where she graduated with a BFA in...

Keith Powell is an actor, writer, director, and web series creator, known for his role as James "Toofer" Spurlock on 30 Rock, Connecting... and for and starring in the web series Keith Broke His Leg, for which he won several Indie Series Awards in 2016. Jill Knox is an actress, known for Connecting... , Keith Broke His  and Train Baby. She is also an accomplished artist. Her works are an...

Earnest Lee Hudson has appeared in dozens of film and television roles throughout his career, but is perhaps best known for his roles as Winston Zeddrmore  in the Ghostbusters film series, Sergeant Darryl Albrecht in The Crow and Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz.  Hudson has also acted in the films Leviathan, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Congo, Miss Congeniality and The Ron Clark Story.  Erine...

Vanessa Price was born and raised in Kentucky, Vanessa first caught the wine bug working in a small winery down south. She followed her passion for wine and moved to New York City in 2007, starting as a sommelier on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. From there she moved on to wine education, PR and events for wine-focused client services, consulting for private wine collectors and wine lists in NY...

Jonathan Scinto is Food Artist, TV Host, Content Creator and Entrepreneur from Long Island, N.Y. While, most toddlers were watching Sesame Street; Jonathan was watching cooking shows. He’s influenced by Julia Child, Emeril Lagasse, Gordon Ramsay and Iron Chef Showdown Japan. Jonathan is the creator and host of the hit Prime Video TV series, “Family Kitchen Revival” now in the process of a major di...

Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Cruel Beautiful World, Is This Tomorrow, Pictures of You, Girls In Trouble, Coming Back To Me, Living Other Lives, Into Thin Air, Family, Jealousies, Lifelines, Meeting Rozzy Halfway. Various titles were optioned for film, translated into different languages, and condensed in magazines.  Her novel, Is This Tomorrow is a New...

Lee Edward Colston II is a Philly native, former prison guard turned actor, playwright, director, acting and writing coach, and author. His play Solitary was winner of the 2008 Philadelphia Theater Workshop. His play Roost won the 2010 Life Media Award in the Philadelphia Urban Theater Festival and the 2013 Hidden River Arts Award for Best New Play.  Colston is also a writer for the television sho...

Satomi Hofmann is a Broadway, television, film, & commercial actress, a voice over artist, singer, musician, composer, arranger, music director, and host on the I❤️Geek Podcast. She produces music videos for herself as well as various charities, including Broadway Hearts and the recent Broadway, non-partisan Make a Plan to Vote campaign. Satomi is a proud cast member of Broadway’s The Phantom...

Hilliard Guess is a fun, ex-80s Mod/Punk with a knack for writing underdog/redemption stories in the bio, horror, gritty, or murder-death-kill world. His knowledge of the craft and instinct for unique, flawed characters have won him attention or awards at Sundance, Nicholls Fellowship, Scriptapalooza, Screenplay Festival, The Page Awards and AOF, to list a few. Hilliard serves on the following WGA...

Lauren B Martin  is an actor, voice artist, writer and director.  Best known for her portrayal of a young woman surviving breast cancer, Camille Bennet on As the World Turns. She also has had the good fortune of being cast on Another World, All My Children, Cosby, Law and Order, Unforgettable, and Blacklist. Passionate about making a difference and using whatever notoriety she had garnered, Lauren...

Kevin Arbouet is a writer, director, producer and film executive whose career has been about expanding the idea of what diversity in filmmaking really means.  With surprising influences that range from Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols to Bong Joon Ho, he is not only a rising African-American writer/director with a penchant for classic storytelling, but one who is defying stereotyped expectations. Arbo...

Nestor Serrano began his acting career in off-Broadway plays in the late 1970s. He often portrays authority figures on both sides of the law. His first film was the 1986 Tom Hanks comedy The Money Pit. Serrano has also appeared in supporting roles in films such as Lethal Weapon 2, Bad Boys, The Negotiator, The Insider and The Day After Tomorrow.  Nestor has an extensive television résumé, with app...

Directing brothers Elliot Weaver (32) and Zander Weaver (29), produce both factual television and narrative dramatic content. Since 2010 the Weaver brothers have produced over nine hours of factual programming for broadcasters including Discovery , PBS , Canal+ and UKTV and have just completed production on the self-produced feature film, COSMOS The brothers plan to continue producing documentarie...

Gianni Vito Russo is an actor, producer, entrepreneur and singer. He is best known for his role as Carlo Rizzi  in the 1972 film The Godfather. Gianni was born in Manhattan, raised in Little Italy. Russo went on to act in more than 46 movies, including Goodnight, My Love, Lepke, Laserblast, Chances Are, The Freshman, Side Out, Another You, The Freshman, Super Mario Bros., Any Given Sunday, Seabisc...

Nick Wilkinson is an Executive, Strategist,  Advisor,  Entrepreneur and Author.  Nick has enjoyed success across a wide spectrum of the IT software and services industry: a proven CEO in private equity and founder owned companies and extensive, global multi-functional leadership experience in a publicly traded corporation.  He is a chair and board member for the Junior Achievement of Delaware as w...

Shelly Bhushan captures the attention of her listeners with a sultry, atmospheric voice and effervescent stage presence. She’s cool, with a frankness and roughness of a fiercely independent woman, quick with a self-deprecating joke, full of anecdotes to warm up her audience – by all appearances, normal like you and me. It’s when she opens her mouth to sing that you fall back into your seat, with t...