Creative License
Episodes
18 episodes
Musical Theatre Copyist, Composer and Writer Erin Reifler
Erin Reifler went to college as an accomplished trombonist with a focus on cognitive science, but quickly shifted gears, realizing her true calling was in musical theatre. After graduating and then obtaining a Masters in Musical The...
Finback Brewery CEO and Co-Founder Basil Lee
Basil Lee took quite the circuitous route to co-founding a craft brewery. He attended art school on the road to becoming an architect, working for a large firm for almost 10 years. As so often happens, Basil came to a crossroads. Does he keep p...
ReelAbilities Film Festival Co-Founder Isaac Zablocki
Isaac Zablocki has always had a passion for film - from watching movies at an early age to studying them to helping make and curate them as a professional. Throughout his career, he's wondered...what are people not seeing in the in...
New Yorker Cartoonist and Comedian Asher Perlman
Asher Perlman has spent his entire professional life in comedy - from the famed Second City in Chicago to writing for the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, but his foundation came from cartoons.His dad taught him the basics from a young a...
The Perfect Loaf's Maurizio Leo
Maurizio Leo's considered one of the country's top sourdough experts. You'd think that means he's been a professional baker his entire adult life, right? Not so much. The Albuquerque, New Mexico native grew up in his father's Italian restaurant...
Record Executive and Producer Michael Goldwasser
Michael Goldwasser has done just about everything in the music industry - from performing to production - and across all different genres. He also founded Easy Star Records in 1996, which has become a leading independent reggae label.Re...
Master Crossword Constructor Jeff Chen
Jeff Chen has published 138 crossword puzzles in the New York Times. That's already tied for 22nd all-time and he's only been doing this for 12 years.Why the late start? Jeff's background is actually in mechanical engineering and techno...
Subpar Parks' Amber Share
Amber Share had always been passionate about design, but never pursued it as a career, instead opting for a life in marketing. That wasn't enough - she never felt completely fulfilled and still had the urge to create.Then Amber began th...
Video Game Designer and CEO Sam Rosenthal
Sam Rosenthal is the founder and CEO of The Game Band, an award-winning studio that aims to inspire hearts and minds by pushing the boundaries of interactive storytelling. Their latest endeavor, Blaseball, has become a viral sensation, drawing ...
Singer and Songwriter Sammy Rae
Samantha Bowers - you might know her as Sammy Rae - learned she could sing and write music at an early age, immersing herself in the greats from years ago...masters at connecting with their audiences.With her 7-piece band, Sammy Rae and...
Chef JJ Johnson
Ever since Chef JJ Johnson graduated from the world-renowned Culinary Institute of America, he seemed destined to work in the world of fine dining and that’s exactly what he did. JJ cultivated his path from storied eateries like Tribeca Grill, Jan...
Composer and Arranger Don Hart
If you’re a fan of the band Phish (a phan), you probably know Don Hart or at least have heard the fruits of his labor. He's lead guitarist Trey Anastasio's composer and arranger and Don's transformed some of Trey and Phish's most beloved and well-...
SIX the Musical Tour Head Carpenter Adam Farber
Adam Farber has always been interested in building things, which led him to a thriving career behind the scenes in theatre. As head carpenter on the first national tour of Broadway's highly acclaimed (and soon to be Tony-nominated) musical SIX, he...
Playwright and Actor Ari Brand
Ari Brand never imagined he would one day write a play and have it performed on stage, but that's exactly what happened when he put pen to paper (so to speak) and told his father's story in Scenes from Childhood.His father Natan was a ...
92Y Film Moderator and Columbia Professor Annette Insdorf
Annette Insdorf is a renowned film historian, professor, and moderator of the Reel Pieces series at New York City's 92nd Street Y, where she talks with the biggest names in Hollywood from Meryl Streep to Andrew Garfield to Jason Reitman and beyond...
WME Sports' Zach Swartz
Zach Swartz produces multimedia content with the top athletes in the world for WME Sports, but this wasn't always his passion. Learn how Zach found his creative path and why his willingness to take advantage of every opportunity helped him stand o...
Art But Make It Sports' LJ Rader
LJ Rader started the Art But Make It Sports meme account not expecting much, but it's grown to 12.5K followers on Instagram and now almost 10K on Twitter. How does he create these viral posts? What makes them unique? Where does his inspiration com...
