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The MAKE IT Podcast: A Conversation with Dycee Wildman

Dycee Wildman

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ A Nashville native, Dycee Wildman is a director and writer with a love of the unusual and spooky. She is interested in art that embraces the absurd as well as exploring darkness. Growing up in the south she developed … Read More

The MAKE IT Podcast: A Conversation with Shannan E. Johnson

Shannan E. Johnson

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Shannan E. Johnson, The Professional Pen, is a writer who doesn’t write. Wait what? Yep, a writer who doesn’t write. You’ll get it; keep reading. After receiving her MFA in Film (Screenwriting, TV Writing, Playwriting, Creative Writing… whew, that’s … Read More

The MAKE IT Podcast: A Conversation with Stefanie Black

Stefanie Black

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Stefanie is originally from Allentown, PA and is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Playwrights Horizons Theater School, an alumna of The Williamstown Theater Festival and American Conservatory Theater (ACT). She is a founding member and … Read More

MAKE IT Episode 23: A Conversation with Drew Maynard

Drew Maynard

Drew Maynard is a Nashville-based filmmaker who has written, directed, produced, and edited a number of short films, including 2017 SXSW Film Festival selection “The Saurus” and Nashville Film Festival award-winning “Usetocould”.⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ In addition to making short films, he … Read More

Amanda Bermudez

AMANDA J. BERMUDEZ is an award-winning writer and filmmaker. Her past works include The Face of the Earth (winner of the Diverse Voices Award, 2018), Hunt (HBMG Foundation Selection, 2017), and an adaptation of W.H. Auden’s The Sea and the … Read More

Chad McClarnon

Chad McClarnon

Chad is a writer, director, producer, and cinematographer known for Daddy’s Little Girl (2015), Bear With Me (2014), and Still Sophie (2016).  Chad started his professional career as a still photographer when he was only fourteen years old.  Chad founded … Read More

Aaron Munoz

AARON MUÑOZ is an actor, writer, producer, arts educator, cigar smoker, facial hair enthusiast, and proud husband & father. As an actor, he can be seen in STRANGER THINGS, THE WALKING DEAD, CADILLAC RECORDS, CBGB, THE SAURUS, SEARCHING FOR FORTUNE, … Read More

Chris Blake

Chris Blake is an award-winning screenwriter and director based in Nashville, Tennessee. His films have screened in theaters all over the world, and his highly anticipated debut feature (Thriller/Horror All Light Will End) premiered at the Horrorhound Film Festival in … Read More

Brandon Hirsch

Actor. Producer. Writer. Artist. Entrepreneur. Grateful. Brandon Hirsch is an actor and producer known for Atlanta (2016), The Baxters (2018), and Boulevard (2014). He has 40+ credits as an actor including a turn in the feature film Wild Man (a … Read More

Motke Dapp

Motke Dapp is an award-winning filmmaker (director, writer, producer, editor, and sometimes actor, but only sometimes.) He is co-owner of Paper Ghost Pictures, which he runs with his business partner and producer, Ryan Hartsock. He is often hired as an … Read More