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Among Debra McGuire's many accomplishments as a FINE ARTIST, FASHION DESIGNER and COSTUME DESIGNER, she has been best known for her 10 year run on the hit show FRIENDS and for designing many of David Mamet's film and theatre projects including PHIL SPECTOR (starring Al Pacino and Helen Mirren), nominated for 11 Emmy's and in which she was nominated for BEST COSTUME DESIGN. Debra has also designed many of Judd Apatow and Jake Kasdan's film and Television projects. Debra designed SONIC (The Hedgehog), starring James Marsden and Jim Carrey (Paramount Studios/Sega) which premiered in February 2020 to rave reviews and box office success! She recently began designing for Jennifer Aniston for THE MORNING SHOW and the upcoming FRIENDS reunion. Passionate about the THEATRE, she began designing costumes for a dance theatre company in Paris in the early 80's. In 2007 she won the NAACP Award for Best Costume Design for ATLANTA, at the Geffen Playhouse and in 2006 she was nominated for an Ovation Award for Best Costume Design for BOSTON MARRIAGE, at the Geffen Playhouse. Summer 2016 she designed the original period musical, I ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU (written by Arlene Sarner and Jerry Leichling, Directed by Kay Cole), at the Montalban Theatre in Los Angeles, which has been nominated for several OVATION awards. Debra is primarily a fine artist with a career that began as a painter, working and teaching in her Bay Area studio. She became an instructor at Colleges and Universities in Northern California, a Jewelry and Accessories Designer in New York, Fashion Designer, Fashion Consultant, Couturier (with a store in Pacific Palisades, Ca. for 10 years) and Costume Designer. She has been speaking at Galleries and Art Colleges on the East Coast, most recently Pratt Institute, RI School of Design and Brown University: The Refinement of Process: Visual Journey of the Artist as Costume Designer. Recently back in the studio, she travels between her LA loft/studio and her Rhode Island home/studio.Her creativity is rivaled only by her ability to multitask, a skill that has been honed through many years of hard work and dedication. "An artist with passion can create anything…a world 1000 years in the past or the future, an 1800's Western, a contemporary drama or comedy, action film…anything is possible. Creating a visual story that didn't exist a moment ago is about the miraculous Designer-Director relationship…understanding the vision and making it happen. However, without my loyal and dedicated crews, none of this would be possible!"Debra McGuire Atelier61 Neck Rd.,Tiverton, RI 02878DebMcGInc@gmail.comInstagram@BydebramcguireFactory OfficeLipstick Prophets704 S. Spring St. #301Los Angeles, CA 90014WPA • Worldwide Production AgencyErin SearcyTel: 310.659.9965erin@wp-a.com IMDBDebra McGuireIndustry MembershipThe Costume Designers Guild IAATSE #892#829 (United Scenic Artists, NYC,International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees)Like to have a ASC cinematographer as a mentor?Have you thought of upgrading your cinematography game? Would you like to have an ASC Cinematographer mentor you for free? Join veteran cinematographer Suki Medencevic, A.S.C. (Disney, Pixar, FX Networks, Netflix, American Horror Story). He teaches you how to create beautiful images using three lighting techniques he has mastered on film sets over his 30+ years in the film industry. Each technique uses basic, low-cost lighting equipment so that anyone can achieve beautiful visuals no matter your projects's budget.Learn film lighting from an ASC cinematographer. If you want to take your cinematography to the next level, this free training will get you there. These videos are available for a limited time, so sign up for instant access. CLICK HERE TO REGISTERhttps://www.ifhacademy.com/a/28632/aLFBXkpNIf you liked this podcast, shoot me an e-mail at filmmakingconversations@mail.comAlso, you can check out my documentary The People of Brixton, on Kwelitv here: https://www.kweli.tv/programs/the-people-of-brixtonDamien Swaby Social Media Links:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/filmmaker_damien_swaby/Twitterhttps://twitter.com/DamienSwaby?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorWebsite http://filmmakingconversations.com/If you enjoy listening to Filmmaking Conversations with Damien Swaby, I would love a coffee. Podcasting is thirsty work https://ko-fi.com/damienswaby
In case you missed it…celebrated comedy writers and good friends Cindy Chupack and Annabelle Gurwitch discuss how they mine humor from heartbreak and humiliation, and whether it’s possible to find laughter in the time of Covid. Moderated by Arlene Sarner, award-winning writer/producer. Click Here for a Video Replay Click Here to join us September 20 @ [...]
In case you missed it, a talk with award-winning costume designer DEBRA MCGUIRE. Plus a photo fashion show of Debra’s work and audience Q & A. Click Here for Video Replay Moderated by Arlene Sarner, award-winning writer/producer. Fashion Designer and Costume Designer DEBRA MCGUIRE is best known for her 10 years on TVs FRIENDS. Scores [...]
In case you missed it, a talk with award-winning costume designer DEBRA MCGUIRE. Plus a photo fashion show of Debra’s work and audience Q & A. Click Here for Video Replay Moderated by Arlene Sarner, award-winning writer/producer. Fashion Designer and Costume Designer DEBRA MCGUIRE is best known for her 10 years on TVs FRIENDS. Scores [...]
Award winning writer/producer Arlene Sarner has written for every major movie studio including. Arlene is a talented and engaging writer who shares her story about forgiveness, personal transformation and moving on. Arlene shares her very powerful story of turning years of acrimony and hostility towards her ex husband, into a now peaceful and civil relationship and says” So don't lose hope--even the most rancorous relationships with exes can eventually shift into civility” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arlene-sarner/an-ex-passover-guest_b_852318.html?ref=tw Topics in this program include: • The Lunch with the ex and how it changed everything • Forgiveness, the power to forgive and letting go • How letting go of anger changed a family
Lisa and Maureen are back with a very special preview of our upcoming event, Jewish Women in Hollywood: Gamechangers. They sit down with Sunday's panel moderator, film and television veteran Arlene Sarner, a writer and award-winning producer, who has written for every major movie studio, including Universal, Fox, Columbia, Paramount, Disney, Warner Brothers, Tri-Star, and Orion, [...]
Lisa and Maureen are back with a very special preview of our upcoming event, Jewish Women in Hollywood: Gamechangers. They sit down with Sunday's panel moderator, film and television veteran Arlene Sarner, a writer and award-winning producer, who has written for every major movie studio, including Universal, Fox, Columbia, Paramount, Disney, Warner Brothers, Tri-Star, and Orion, [...]
Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Every Path is the Right Path (give up without giving in)" - Show #515, from 1/14/17 Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Excerpts] Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Ramu Misses You (is it just me)" - Show from 7/12/17 [Excerpts] Jeff Daniels, Guy Sanville - "Can't Sleep excerpt" - Chasing Sleep movie [Always two steps behind] GPaul - "You can organize your life around compassion and solidarity" [You don't have to wait for the rest of the world to do it] The Sedona Method - "Letting Go" Brad Fiedel - "Dream Window" - Fright Night s.t. Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Hang onto a dream (America)" - Show #469 Brad Fiedel - "Come to Me" - Fright Night s.t. Neil Diamond - "America" [Ominous loops] Ken - "You have to say no to an infinite number of things" [Don't be rushing around (choices)] Neil Diamond - "America" [Ominous loops] John Carpenter - "Being lulled to sleep by TV" - They Live Tom Anthony, composer; Al Dana, Hank Martin, Tish Rabe, Ruth Sherman, singers; Liz Moses, actor; Kathy Mendoza, executive producer - "Show excerpt, about the production of the 3-2-1 Contact theme song" - 3-2-1 Contact Season 1, Episode 1 ("Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound") (Jan. 14, 1980) [Children's Television Workshop (CTW)] Tom Anthony, composer; Al Dana, Hank Martin, Tish Rabe, Ruth Sherman, singers; Liz Moses, actor; Kathy Mendoza, executive producer - "The show is about people, ideas, and things all coming into contact" - 3-2-1 Contact Season 1, Episode 1 ("Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound") (Jan. 14, 1980) Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "Let's blow up the grid plan" - The Cruise Lemon Jelly - "Page One" St Claire - "Georgia" [Loops] Maureen O'Sullivan (actor); Francis Ford Coppola (director); Jerry Leichtling, Arlene Sarner (writers) - "Being young is just as confusing as being old" - Peggy Sue Got Married movie [Right now, you're just browsing through time. Choose the things that last.] Air Supply - "Making Love out of Nothing At All" [Loops] Elton John - "Tiny Dancer" [Loops] Wild Man Fischer - "I'm not shy anymore" John Lennon - "The dream is over" - Jam Wennder interview The Sedona Method - "Emotions" Jared Leto - "Every path is the right path" - Mr. Nobody [Excerpts] Don Henley - "Boys of Summer" [Loops] Katie Wood (Sugarlift) - "Site of Maggie Walker's grave at Evergreen Cemetery" - 60 Minute Cities: RIchmond [Field recording] Dire Straits - "On Every Street" - On Every Street [Loops] - "Programming is terrible" Belle and Sebastian - "Storytelling" [Loops] Neutral Milk Hotel - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel - "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1" - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Dan Bodah - "3 Train" - Dronecast Various - "Field recordings" - Quiet American One Minute Vacations [See original playlist for details] Def Leppard - "Promises" [Loops] Various - "Field recordings" - Quiet American One Minute Vacations [See original playlist for details] Ken - "How can we love each other without pain?" [What do you have when you are abandoned?] Bob Dylan - "Series of Dreams" [Loops] Derek and the Dominoes - "Layla" [Loops] Steve Paxton - "If thinking is too slow, is an open state of mind useful?" - Chute [Seems to be] Louise Hay - "Creating your own life" [Every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future.] Jeff Bridges (voice), Rafael Yglesias (writer), Peter Weir (director) - "Let it go. I can let it go." - Fearless movie ? - "You're going to die" [Includes Tristar logo theme] Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio - "Balance lesson for whole life" - Karate Kid David Cronenberg - "Television signals, projecting fantasies" - Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg show [Forbidden images coming to you from a distant place] David Lynch - "I get ideas" [It's a disturbing thing, because it's a trip beneath a beautiful surface to a fairly uneasy interior of a small town] Alan Watts - "Don't cling to memories" - Transcending Duality [Don't be attached, live in the moment] David Lynch - "Ideas swim from unseen" - Interview 9/13/14 [There's a lot of things swimming in every human being] Ken - "Wind down" - "Field recordings, with David Lynch and Derek and the Dominoes" [See original playlist for details] Andre Gregory - "Mysteries going on all the time" - Some Girls [Every moment, right under our noses] Charlie Kaufman - "If you've got something to say, do it, find your voice, do your stuff in the world" Martin Donovan, Hal Hartley - "My biggest fear is this" - Surviving Desire [nothing more than the building of a wall between me and life] Daft Punk - "Digital Love" [Loops] Edith Frost - "Cars and Parties" [Loops] Malcolm X - "If you're black, you were born in jail" Malcolm X - "I live like a man who has died already, I have no fear of anyone or anything whatsoever" French Films - "Juveniles" - White Orchid Fridge - "Five Combs" [Loops (with Def Leppard)] Ken - "We stumble around, we make mistakes" [Everything keeps getting easier (with Fridge)] Jon Brion - "Theme" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Loops] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Ending] Ken - "Various live monologues throughout" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Long and gentle (How many mistakes?)" - Show #443, from Oct. 25, 2012 [The last 18 minutes. Full show and playlist] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/76244
Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Every Path is the Right Path (give up without giving in)" - Show #515, from 1/14/17 Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Excerpts] Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Ramu Misses You (is it just me)" - Show from 7/12/17 [Excerpts] Jeff Daniels, Guy Sanville - "Can't Sleep excerpt" - Chasing Sleep movie [Always two steps behind] GPaul - "You can organize your life around compassion and solidarity" [You don't have to wait for the rest of the world to do it] The Sedona Method - "Letting Go" Brad Fiedel - "Dream Window" - Fright Night s.t. Ken's Last Ever Extravaganza - "Hang onto a dream (America)" - Show #469 Brad Fiedel - "Come to Me" - Fright Night s.t. Neil Diamond - "America" [Ominous loops] Ken - "You have to say no to an infinite number of things" [Don't be rushing around (choices)] Neil Diamond - "America" [Ominous loops] John Carpenter - "Being lulled to sleep by TV" - They Live Tom Anthony, composer; Al Dana, Hank Martin, Tish Rabe, Ruth Sherman, singers; Liz Moses, actor; Kathy Mendoza, executive producer - "Show excerpt, about the production of the 3-2-1 Contact theme song" - 3-2-1 Contact Season 1, Episode 1 ("Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound") (Jan. 14, 1980) [Children's Television Workshop (CTW)] Tom Anthony, composer; Al Dana, Hank Martin, Tish Rabe, Ruth Sherman, singers; Liz Moses, actor; Kathy Mendoza, executive producer - "The show is about people, ideas, and things all coming into contact" - 3-2-1 Contact Season 1, Episode 1 ("Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound") (Jan. 14, 1980) Timothy "Speed" Levitch - "Let's blow up the grid plan" - The Cruise Lemon Jelly - "Page One" St Claire - "Georgia" [Loops] Maureen O'Sullivan (actor); Francis Ford Coppola (director); Jerry Leichtling, Arlene Sarner (writers) - "Being young is just as confusing as being old" - Peggy Sue Got Married movie [Right now, you're just browsing through time. Choose the things that last.] Air Supply - "Making Love out of Nothing At All" [Loops] Elton John - "Tiny Dancer" [Loops] Wild Man Fischer - "I'm not shy anymore" John Lennon - "The dream is over" - Jam Wennder interview The Sedona Method - "Emotions" Jared Leto - "Every path is the right path" - Mr. Nobody [Excerpts] Don Henley - "Boys of Summer" [Loops] Katie Wood (Sugarlift) - "Site of Maggie Walker's grave at Evergreen Cemetery" - 60 Minute Cities: RIchmond [Field recording] Dire Straits - "On Every Street" - On Every Street [Loops] - "Programming is terrible" Belle and Sebastian - "Storytelling" [Loops] Neutral Milk Hotel - "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel - "King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1" - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Dan Bodah - "3 Train" - Dronecast Various - "Field recordings" - Quiet American One Minute Vacations [See original playlist for details] Def Leppard - "Promises" [Loops] Various - "Field recordings" - Quiet American One Minute Vacations [See original playlist for details] Ken - "How can we love each other without pain?" [What do you have when you are abandoned?] Bob Dylan - "Series of Dreams" [Loops] Derek and the Dominoes - "Layla" [Loops] Steve Paxton - "If thinking is too slow, is an open state of mind useful?" - Chute [Seems to be] Louise Hay - "Creating your own life" [Every thought we think and every word we speak is creating our future.] Jeff Bridges (voice), Rafael Yglesias (writer), Peter Weir (director) - "Let it go. I can let it go." - Fearless movie ? - "You're going to die" [Includes Tristar logo theme] Pat Morita, Ralph Macchio - "Balance lesson for whole life" - Karate Kid David Cronenberg - "Television signals, projecting fantasies" - Directors: The Films of David Cronenberg show [Forbidden images coming to you from a distant place] David Lynch - "I get ideas" [It's a disturbing thing, because it's a trip beneath a beautiful surface to a fairly uneasy interior of a small town] Alan Watts - "Don't cling to memories" - Transcending Duality [Don't be attached, live in the moment] David Lynch - "Ideas swim from unseen" - Interview 9/13/14 [There's a lot of things swimming in every human being] Ken - "Wind down" - "Field recordings, with David Lynch and Derek and the Dominoes" [See original playlist for details] Andre Gregory - "Mysteries going on all the time" - Some Girls [Every moment, right under our noses] Charlie Kaufman - "If you've got something to say, do it, find your voice, do your stuff in the world" Martin Donovan, Hal Hartley - "My biggest fear is this" - Surviving Desire [nothing more than the building of a wall between me and life] Daft Punk - "Digital Love" [Loops] Edith Frost - "Cars and Parties" [Loops] Malcolm X - "If you're black, you were born in jail" Malcolm X - "I live like a man who has died already, I have no fear of anyone or anything whatsoever" French Films - "Juveniles" - White Orchid Fridge - "Five Combs" [Loops (with Def Leppard)] Ken - "We stumble around, we make mistakes" [Everything keeps getting easier (with Fridge)] Jon Brion - "Theme" - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind [Loops] Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "We Continue to Approach" - Show #486 from 11/20/2013 [Ending] Ken - "Various live monologues throughout" Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza - "Long and gentle (How many mistakes?)" - Show #443, from Oct. 25, 2012 [The last 18 minutes. Full show and playlist] http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/76244