#360: Zach Margs - Feel the fear and do it anyway

Carolina Ravassa is an actor, director, producer, writer and voice actor in animation and video games. She is best known for her roles as Polaris in Xmen 97, Sombra in Overwatch, Raze in Valorant, Queen Isabella in Marvel's What If...? and Carolina in Disney's Hamster and Gretel as well as the Imagen Award-winning sketch comedy series Hispanglosaxon, which she produced, directed and starred in. Other notable credits include roles in: Teia in Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Onyx Equinox on Crunchy Roll, Dead Island 2, GTA5, Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Avengers, Max Payne 3, Far Cry 6, Legends of Runeterra, Maya and the Three, Ridley Jones, The Loud House, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, The Casagrandes, Victor and Valentino, and more. Morgan's Mask, a film she produced and starred in, about a Gamer/Cosplayer stuck indoors during the pandemic, is currently on amazon prime video. It deals with mental health so it's having a tremendous effect on comic con goers. She has also appeared on The Affair opposite Dominic West, Mr. Robot with Bobby Cannavale and Rami Malek, and has done short films with Reggie Watts. Having trained with some of the most prestigious institutions in the world and fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and conversational Italian, Carolina tackles each role she takes on with unprecedented precision and a skill set exceeding her years. Carolina earned her B.A. in Theatre Arts from Boston College, trained at The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts and Rio de Janeiro's famed Center for Theatre of the Oppressed. We chat about the Theatre of the Oppressed, Polaris and X-men97, Hispanglosaxon + Morgan's Mask, the voice acting community, me being a professional ice cream taster, conventions, celebrating the wins, moving to LA, rejection, trying stand up as her characters + so much more! Check Carolina out on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ravassa/

Phil Medina is a comedia, Actor and Voice Artist. Born and raised in the small town of Madera, California, Phil Medina rose from lifelong class clown to nationally recognized stand-up comedian after taking a leap of faith in 2008 that quickly placed him on legendary stages including The Ice House, The Laugh Factory, and The Hollywood Improv. Since then, Phil has won multiple comedy competitions, headlined comedy clubs coast to coast, and become the national voice of Hungry Howie's Pizza commercials.

Mariyah Gerber is a former competitive figure skater and Disney on Ice performer. She's now a lifestyle, motherhood and advocacy creator with more than 5.7M followers across YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. A mom of two boys, she shares honest content about family, wellness and personal growth, and she speaks out on representation and inclusion in sports and beyond.

Jennifer Hale is an award-winning voice actor, actor, singer, and educator and advocate for performers. She founded Acting.SkillsHub.Life to open doors for working actors and newcomers alike. SkillsHub.Life is rapidly becoming one of the most trusted and respected learning platforms in the business, helping make the industry more accessible for voice actors worldwide. SkillsHub.Life recently received the NAVA Service Provider of the Year award. And then there are the credits — and there are a lot of them, one of the most in the world, she even a Guinness World Record holder for the most prolific female video game voice actor for many years. Jennifer earned the SOVAS Industry Icon Award in recognition of her outstanding contributions. Jennifer's versatility shines through in her work and The New Yorker Magazine dubbed her "A kind of Meryl Streep of the form". Jennifer received the BTVA Video Game Voice Acting Award for Best Female Vocal Performance in a Video Game for Commander Shepard in Mass Effect 3. She has also won three BTVA People's Choice Voice Acting Awards, two BTVA Television Voice Acting Awards and a NAVGTR Award, and has been nominated three separate times for Voice Actress of the Year. Jennifer is best known as Commander Shepard in the Mass Effect franchise, Bastila Shan in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Ashe in Overwatch, and Cinderella across Disney projects since 1995. She also voices Sam and Mandy in Totally Spies!, Rosalind Lutece in BioShock Infinite, Rivet in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Samus Aran in Metroid Prime, Trinity in The Matrix: Path of Neo, Gladys in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Naomi Hunter and Emma Emmerich in the Metal Gear Solid series, Avatar Kyoshi and June in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Flora in Tak and the Power of Juju, and Dory in the Finding Nemo video games. Her superhero credits are equally massive. She's voiced Ms. Keane, Sedusa and Princess Morbucks in The Powerpuff Girls; Killer Frost in Injustice: Gods Among Us and Justice League; Felicia Hardy, AKA Black Cat, in Spider-Man; Ms. Marvel in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes; and Jean Grey/Phoenix across numerous Marvel projects, including X-Men, Wolverine and the X-Men and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, as well as the Goblin Queen and Madelyn in X-Men. In the Star Wars universe, she also voices Aayla Secura in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker. And if that wasn't enough, she's also the voice — and singing voice — of Thorn from Scooby-Doo's Hex Girls. Jennifer's open dialogue about what she calls 'The Head Game' - resilience, mental health, and career longevity in this industry - coupled with her practical business perspective have made her a sought-after keynote speaker and trusted guide to many. She also gives back each month in her Patreon community 'The Haven'.

Claire Coffee is an actor, writer, director, and producer who logged her first professional theater credit at age 6 in the San Francisco Bay Area. As an actor, TV/Film highlights include starring roles on NBC's long running show Grimm, The West Wing, S.W.A.T., Law and Order, so many pilots and sitcoms, and the short film Blocks (on which she also served as a producer), which premiered at Sundance and was optioned as a series for Showtime. As a director, Claire helmed the comedy and spoken word portion of APM's radio show "Live From Here" for two seasons and produced and directed Chris Thile's full length narrative orchestral piece "Attention!", which has been performed with The Knights, the LA Phil, the National Orchestra and the Louisville Orchestra. With Chris (her husband), Claire co-created and directed the musical variety show The Energy Curfew Music Hour, available on Audible. Currently, Claire can be seen playing morally dubious DOD fixer Anna Vorpe on CBS' long running series FBI. Season 9 of FBI will be out October 5th so check it out! We chat about producing, working with her husband and the fulfilment that came from that, Grimm & the famous photo, obsession with air travel & aviation, conventions and the famous yacht, almost quitting & periods of little work, frustration, rejection, doing improv, creativity, West Wing and the role that never eventuated, fear + plenty more! Also, for the Grimm fans, I've also spoken with Sasha Roiz (Captain Sean Renard), Reggie Lee (Sergeant Drew Wu), and Jim Kouf, co-creator, executive producer and co-showrunner of the series.