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Logan Marshall-Green
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Today, we’re sitting down with powerhouse actor Logan Marshall-Green, who has spent decades carving out an extraordinary career from the stage to the screen. His story begins with famously turning down a role in Terminator 3 in order to finish his MFA. In this episode, Logan takes us through his raw and honest journey, from battling intense imposter syndrome on the set of Ridley Scott’s Prometheus to eventually finding his camera “sea legs” and learning to trust himself on screen. We dive into what it was like to get into an unscripted, physical scrap with Richard Gere in Brooklyn’s Finest, direct the legendary Ethan Hawke in Adopt a Highway, share the screen with Al Pacino in Killing Castro, and step onto the epic scale of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Plus, Logan shares his invaluable “walkaway” audition philosophy: a mindset that teaches artists how to let go, trust the work they’ve done, and keep moving forward.

These are the unforgettable stories that landed Logan Marshall-Green right here.

About Logan Marshall-Green:

LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN is an emerging writer-director as well as an established actor in both features and television. His writing and directing debut, ADOPT A HIGHWAY, starred Ethan Hawke and premiered at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival.

Currently, Logan stars alongside Luke Grimes in the American neo-Western series MARSHALS, a spin-off sequel to the hit show YELLOWSTONE. The show premiered on March 1, 2026 and by the finale on May 21, 2026, MARSHALS was the most watched broadcast series of the 2025-2026 season. The series has been renewed for season 2 and is currently in production.

This year, Logan can be seen alongside Al Pacino and Diego Boneta in KILLING CASTRO, which premiered at the Tribeca Festival on June 9, 2026. He can also be seen in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of THE ODYSSEY, starring Tom Holland and Matt Damon. Later this year, Logan will star in the upcoming Lionsgate film BOIUNA: LEGEND OF THE AMAZON.

Logan most recently starred in the 2022 Bad Robot/Netflix film LOU and can also be seen in the 2021 Netflix film INTRUSION.

Other feature credits include UPGRADE, SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING, SNOWDEN, SAND CASTLE, MADAME BOVARY, THE INVITATION, PROMETHEUS, AS I LAY DYING, and DEVIL.

In television, Logan most recently can be seen in the Netflix series THE DEFEATED opposite Taylor Kitsch. He can also be seen in Ava DuVernay’s WHEN THEY SEE US. Other credits include DAMNATION and QUARRY. His other television work includes roles on DARK BLUE, TRAVELER, 24, LAW & ORDER: SVU, and THE O.C.

In theater, Logan appeared in Neil LaBute’s MISS JULIE and previously appeared in Adam Rapp’s HALLWAY TRILOGY: NURSING, for which he was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He earned a Drama League nomination for his work as “Edmund” in KING LEAR and for PIG FARM. He also earned Lucille Lortel Award nominations for his performances in DOG SEES GOD and Neil LaBute’s THE DISTANCE FROM HERE.

Credits:

  • The Odyssey
  • Marshals
  • Killing Castro
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming
  • And Just Like That…
  • Big Sky
  • When They See Us
  • Devil
  • The Sound and the Fury
  • Prometheus
  • The Invitation
  • The O.C.
  • 24

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Sarah Yarkin
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Sarah Yarkin is an actress, writer, and producer known for her grounded, nuanced performances across film and television. With sharp humor and emotional depth, she has built a career that bridges studio projects and the indie film world.

Yarkin stars as Rhonda Rosen in the Paramount+ breakout series School Spirits, opposite Peyton List and Milo Manheim. The mystery drama follows a teen girl trapped as a ghost in her high school while investigating her own death. As Rhonda—a sardonic, emotionally guarded spirit from the 1960s—Yarkin delivers a standout performance marked by wit, vulnerability, and resilience. Season 3 premieres January 2026.

In film, Yarkin starred as Melody in Netflix and Legendary’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Additional credits include Not Okay (Searchlight/Hulu) opposite Zoey Deutch and Dylan O’Brien, and Universal/Blumhouse’s Happy Death Day 2U. Her television work includes Platonic (Apple TV+), Motherland: Fort Salem (Freeform), Single Parents (ABC), and appearances on Transparent, The Middle, and The Good Place, showcasing her range across comedy, drama, and genre.

Expanding her work behind the camera, Yarkin produced and stars in the upcoming short VISITORS, a sci-fi thriller directed by Minnie Schedeen and serving as a proof of concept for a feature in development. She also leads the independent psychological thriller The Silence Game, currently on the festival circuit.

Credits:

  • Texas Chainshaw Massacre
  • School Spirits
  • Platonic
  • Happy Death Day 2U
  • Not Okay
  • Motherland: Fort Salem
  • Single Parents
  • American Horror Story
  • The Good Place
  • Transparent
  • The Middle

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Dewayne Perkins
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Dewayne Perkins is an Emmy-nominated writer, actor, producer, and comedian.  He can next be seen starring in the highly anticipated Seth Rogen comedy series “The Studio,” premiering on AppleTV+ this March 26, 2025, which comes on the heels of his most recent on-screen appearance opposite Keke Palmer and SZA in Sony’s feature film, “One of Them Days.”  Fans may recognize Dewayne from his critically acclaimed, feature Lionsgate film, “The Blackening,” a horror-comedy which he co-wrote alongside Tracy Oliver, and with a sequel currently in development.  Additionally, Dewayne is currently writing and executive producing an original film adaptation of Hasbro’s “Clue” for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures with Jason Bateman and Ryan Reynolds set to star.  Named by Variety in 2020 as a “Comic to Watch,” Dewayne’s comedy writing credits are extensive, including work on “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Saved by the Bell,” and “The Amber Ruffin Show,” the latter of which earned him an Emmy nomination.  He has also written for the WGA Awards, The Webby Awards, and the 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner, where one of his jokes was featured in The New Yorker’s “Best Jokes of 2018.”  As an actor, Dewayne has had recurring roles on Netflix’s “The Upshaws” and Peacock’s “Saved by the Bell,” with additional appearances on IFC’s “Sherman’s Showcase” and MTV’s “Wild ‘N Out.”

CREDITS:

  • The Studio
  • Clue
  • The Blackening
  • The Blackening Sequel
  • The Upshaws
  • Sausage Party: Foodtopia
  • Brooklyn Nine-Nine
  • Saved by the Bell
  • One of Them Days
  • The Amber Ruffin Show

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Sharon Lawrence (Featured Image)

Sharon Lawrence
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Sharon Lawrence recently had a series regular role in the Paramount + series JOE PICKETT based on the best seller of the same name. Previously she starred opposite Kirsten Dunst in the Showtime series ON BECOMING A GOD IN CENTRAL FLORIDA, and as an elusive librarian in HOME BEFORE DARK for Apple TV. Many recurring roles include REBEL with Katy Sagal and Andy Garcia, a serial killer in CBS’s CRIMINAL MINDS, Fiona’s acerbic boss on Showtime’s SHAMELESS, Sam Elliott’s love interest in THE RANCH, and in the critically acclaimed series QUEEN SUGAR produced by Ava DuVernay.

Sharon continues to be recognized from her multiple Emmy nominated and SAG Award-winning portrayal of ADA Sylvia Costas Sipowitz in the groundbreaking NYPD BLUE and as Izzy’s tender but ditzy Mom on GREY’S ANATOMY (for which she earned her 4th EMMY nod). Her 5th EMMY nomination came in 2021 as Lead Actress in a digital series -THE GAZE www.thegazeseries.com

Film work includes THE LOST HUSBAND with Leslie Bibb and Josh Duhamel, OF MIND AND MUSIC with Anjeannue Ellis and and the indie hit MIDDLE OF NOWHERE directed by Ava DuVernay.

An accomplished stage actress, and 2012 Lunt-Fontane Ten Chimneys Fellow, Sharon appeared in the West Coast premiere of A KID LIKE JAKE directed by Jennifer Chambers. LA theatre credits includes her acclaimed performance in THE MYSTERY OF LOVE AND SEX at the Mark Taper Forum, playing twenty different women in the LOVE, NOEL cabaret at The Wallis, at the Pasadena Playhouse she starred in Noel Coward’s final play, A SONG AT TWILIGHT and as Vivian Leigh in ORSON’S SHADOW for which she was nominated for an Ovation Award, and won the LA Drama Critics Circle Award. She was part of a rotating cast in Nora & Delia Ephron’s LOVE, LOSS & WHAT I WORE, and starred opposite Cherry Jones in TONGUE OF A BIRD at the Public Theatre. Sharon created the role of Maureen in the premiere of Theresa Rebeck’s POOR BEHAVIOR at the Mark Taper Forum and her last Broadway appearance.

CREDITS:
  • Grey’s Anatomy
  • On Becoming A God In Central Florida
  • Joe Pickett
  • NYPD Blue
  • Dynasty
  • Shameless
  • Criminal Minds
  • Rebel
  • The Ranch
  • Walker
  • The Last Tycoon
  • Queen Sugar
  • One Tree Hill
  • Cheers

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Rob Morgan
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Rob Morgan, a perennial festival darling, is well known for his scene-stealing work in the Oscar-nominated Mudbound, A24’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Warner Bros’s Just Mercy. He was nominated for best male lead at the Spirit Awards and awarded a Special Jury Award for his lead turn in Bull, which made its premiere at Cannes. He was named one of the 25 greatest actors of the century by The New York Times. He can also be seen in HBO’s Winning Time — the show is the second project Morgan has collaborated with Adam McKay, the first being Don’t Look Up. Next up, Rob will be seen opposite Mathew McCaugheny in The Rivals of Amziah King and can be seen in the Peacock series TEACUP.

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Devin Kawaoka
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Devin Kawaoka can be seen as Charlie on “Shrinking,” the Apple TV comedy series with Jason Segel and Harrison Ford. Charlie is the boyfriend of Brian played by Michael Urie and season two is airing now – episodes will air through Christmas Day. He has also been recurring on NBC’s hit series “Chicago Med” portraying first year surgical resident Dr. Kai Tanaka-Reed the past few seasons and that is airing now as well.

Previously Devin has appeared on multiple television shows including “Lucifier,” Marvel’s “The Runaways,” and “Criminal Minds.” In 2022 he starred in Jeremy O. Harris’ award winning “Slave Play” at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. The show received 12 Tony nominations becoming the most nominated non-musical play ever.

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RE-RELEASE: Merle Dandridge
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GREENLEAF Made Oprah Find the Star

Merle was born in Okinawa, Japan to a mother of Korean and Japanese descent and an African-American father serving in the U.S Force. Growing up in Nebraska,but not into football, Merle didn’t know where she fit. A friend encouraged Merle to choose drama as a study because she was told it was “easy”. Little did Merle know that the drama department would be the community she had been longing for and that expression would give her the platform to explore social conditions and and the emotions that must be exposed to understand and accept each other. Merle graduated college and had a wild inclination that New York was where she needed to be to fulfill her purpose. With $107 in her pock, a packed Uhaul and an ailing kitten, she drove to New York and landed in the sea of many hopeful artist. Merle was still figuring out what was cool and learning everything on the fly. At the time a non-equity actor, she heard that everyone in town was going to audition for “Jesus Christ Superstar”, so she decided to learn a song and stand in line at 4am to hopefully be given the opportunity to audition. At 1pm the casting director not only called her in to the room, but gave her the space and the light to shine. Even though most things came to Merle very easily, she was still doing what she considers “on the job” training and chasing after an idea or feeling of what it is to be an actress. After a job replaced her, a blessing in disguise, Merle accredits her acting coach Warner Loughlin for giving her the strength and confidence to approach every role with ease and unwavering sense of responsibility to the intention and message of the role. After working three jobs to support her theater career, Merle Dandridge landed herself in the company of Oprah and now holds the honor of portraying Grace on OWN’s hit show, GREENLEAF. This woman’s 25 year journey is nothing short of resilient, spiritual, and guided.

Merle Dandridge currently can be seen critically acclaimed show “Greenleaf” on OWN network and will be on Broadway for the rest of 2017 in the play “Once on this Island”.

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“You’re never walled in for no reason, you are walled in to deflect you to where you are suppose to go.” CLICK TO TWEET

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Merle was born in Okinawa, Japan to a mother of Korean and Japanese descent and an African-American father serving in the U.S Force. Growing up in Nebraska,but not into football, Merle didn’t know where she fit. A friend encouraged Merle to choose drama as a study because she was told it was “easy”. Little did Merle know that the drama department would be the community she had been longing for and that expression would give her the platform to explore social conditions and and the emotions that must be exposed to understand and accept each other. Merle graduated college and had a wild inclination that New York was where she needed to be to fulfill her purpose. With $107 in her pock, a packed Uhaul and an ailing kitten, she drove to New York and landed in the sea of many hopeful artist. Merle was still figuring out what was cool and learning everything on the fly. At the time a non-equity actor, she heard that everyone in town was going to audition for “Jesus Christ Superstar”, so she decided to learn a song and stand in line at 4am to hopefully be given the opportunity to audition. At 1pm the casting director not only called her in to the room, but gave her the space and the light to shine. Even though most things came to Merle very easily, she was still doing what she considers “on the job” training and chasing after an idea or feeling of what it is to be an actress. After a job replaced her, a blessing in disguise, Merle accredits her acting coach Warner Loughlin for giving her the strength and confidence to approach every role with ease and unwavering sense of responsibility to the intention and message of the role. After working three jobs to support her theater career, Merle Dandridge landed herself in the company of Oprah and now holds the honor of portraying Grace on OWN’s hit show, GREENLEAF. This woman’s 25 year journey is nothing short of resilient, spiritual, and guided.

Merle Dandridge currently can be seen critically acclaimed show “Greenleaf” on OWN network and will be on Broadway for the rest of 2017 in the play “Once on this Island”.

Listen in to the unforgettable stories that Merle Dandridge right HERE.

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“I wanted to do theater that didn’t let people look away from the ugly.  I wanted to do stuff that shined a light on a social condition or just made you look at the things you didn’t want to look at.  Examine it, feel it, and create understanding.  Because if we have understanding of something that we don’t know about then we can cross that divide.”
“The flow is happening.”
“You know if it’s for you or not for you.”
“You’re never walled in for no reason, you are walled in to deflect you to where you are suppose to go.” CLICK TO TWEET
“Beyond this job, I can have confidence in the steps of my journey.  Even if they are uncomfortable, because they are going to change and grow me for what I am suppose to be doing.”
“In retrospect, authenticity is always the thing.  Just being yourself, bringing what you know are your gifts as a human being.  The journey is to elucidate your authenticity.”
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