Gurus Team
Creator, Writer, Narrator, Host
Jeff Zinn
Jeff Zinn is best known as the longtime Artistic Director of Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT) where he produced almost 200 productions, many of which he directed. As an actor he made his Equity debut as “Danny” in David Mamet's Sexual Perversity In Chicago at the Cherry Lane Theatre, and appeared on Broadway with Derek Jacobi in The Suicide. He has narrated many audiobooks including A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn. His book, The Existential Actor: Life and Death, Onstage and Off (Smith and Kraus Publishing) was published in 2015.
Producers
Dwight St. Book Club
DWIGHT STREET BOOK CLUB is a television and podcast production company based in the Atwater Village neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA. With AMC Studios, DSBC is developing several television projects including INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE, CHAMPAGNE SUPERNOVAS and others. Past television credits include PERRY MASON for HBO. On the podcast side, DSBC independently produces ASK RONNA with Ronna (& Bryan), a comedy advice podcast that between its Free and Patreon feeds has recorded 120+ episodes in 18 months. Guests have included Conan O’Brien, Dan Savage, Clarissa Ward, Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney among many others.
Music, editing and mixing
J Hagenbuckle
J Hagenbuckle is writer, director and producer for Cape Noir Radio Theater which broadcasts bi-monthly on WOMR in Provincetown. He emerges remarkably unscathed from a 30 plus year career as a freelance sound designer/composer for theater that began with a Jeff Zinn directed David Rabe play called "Goose & Tom Tom" in 1988 at W.H.A.T. in Wellfleet, Cape Cod. This crazy train has taken him On and Off Broadway, to London, many Boston and Regional theaters including 13 seasons at The Berkshire Theater Festival, 11 seasons at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, 10 years at Hartford TheaterWorks. Along the way he was the first sound designer to receive Boston’s Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Designer, he’s an NEA/TCG Design Fellow and earned an MFA in Theater Arts from Brandeis.
Creative Consultant
Brendan Hughes
Brendan Patrick Hughes spent his early childhood on a commune near Boston that was started by the inventor of rubber gloves. There, he would routinely nap in the sun on the stomach of a lazy bull named Stanley. He is now a film director and producer, podcast creator, professor and performance artist working in Los Angeles and New York. He has directed one feature film, several short films, about a hundred plays, one opera, the second season of a fiction podcast, a couple of documentaries, undergrads at Harvard, Yale, Pace, and Occidental, and even some Apple employees in an 'authenticity on camera' workshop. He is a graduate of Yale School of Drama's directing program.