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D.W. Moffett attending Stanford University, on a whim (and perhaps a desire to leave visions of cattle-feeders in Colorado behind him) D.W. was lured to the St. Nicholas Theater Company, where he studied with, among others, William H. Macy. Shortly thereafter, having fallen in love with the stage, he became a founding member of the Remains Theatre Company. While at Remains he starred in, directed and/or produced over 40 productions including The Tooth of Crime, Moby Dick, Waiting for Godot , Woyzeck and Speed the Plow. After a long and successful career on stage in Chicago, he went with John Malkovich to do Balm In Gilead in New York City. He then starred opposite Brad Davis in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart at the Public Theater for which he won critical acclaim. He appeared on Broadway in The Boys of Winter and The Real Thing and headlined the production of Contact at Lincoln Center in 2001. He played on-stage opposite Kevin Spacey and Jennifer Ehle in The Phialadelphia Story at the Old Vic in London. D.W.

Eric Martsolf  has been in choirs, operas, musicals, barbershop quartets and even a rock band which was proclaimed Harrisburg's best new band! The last two decades of Eric's career is nothing short of a testament to his versatility as an actor; successfully completing over 1,500 theatrical performances and 2,000+ television episodes.   These profound numbers stem from his 4-year comic portrayal of the Pharaoh in Andrew Lloyd Webber's,Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, in which he consistently drew in acclaimed reviews from the harshest of nationwide critics, calling him a "mix of Elvis and Stallone - a blend of charisma, muscular framework and a talent to be reckoned with". Eric is most widely recognized for his six-year popular portrayal of Ethan Winthrop on NBC's daytime drama, Passions, where he claimed numerous accolades from peers and fans alike. His most recent role came in 2008 when he joined the cast of NBC's daytime drama, Days of our Lives, as Brady Black.      

Stacey Jackson is a singer/songwriter and is known for her 2012 hit single “Is This Love” that broke the top 40 charts in the US on the Nielsen/BDS Radio Airplay charts ranking at #2.   Her Debut album also entitled, "Is This Love," was released in February 2013, and features her recent single 'Pointing Fingers'.     Stacey will also be working in collaboration with Pitbull later this year.  She's heading a campaign for Breast Cancer Charities of America called "Don't Give Up, Live it Up". She will release her song "Live it Up" featuring Snoop Dogg in conjunction with the charity event while continuing to work with the same team who has worked with the most successful pop musicians in the world, including One Direction, Ed Sheeran, and Girls Aloud.   Take 2 Radio chats with Stacey on April 6th at 5pm EDT.    

Branca Ferrazo is the executive producer of the new film "Petunia". She stars alongside Thora Birch, Brittany Snow, and Academy Award winner Christine Lahti.  The Brazilian born beauty who trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC, is the founder of RAW Productions; Raw Authentic Wisdom Productions, and also works as a Director, Producer, and writer. She also has an extensive professional background as an aerialist, including having trained with Cirque du Soliel's Andre Simard. Take 2 Radio chats with Branca about her career and new projects on April 3rd at 8pm eastern time. 

 iZLER is a Czech born, English raised composer and multi-instrumentalist. iZLER is currently scoring the hit ABC series Revenge, starring Madeleine Stowe, Emily Van Camp and Gabriel Mann. Mike Kelley is creator/executive producer of the show in which Phillip Noyce is a consulting producer as well as director of the pilot and second episode. For Revenge, which is very music driven, iZLER uses a live orchestra that he conducts for each episode, whilst most of the non orchestral instruments heard on the show are played by iZLER himself.  iZLER has written songs for numerous films and TV shows including Shameless, ER, My Best Friend's Girl, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, This Revolution, and Thief. His song "Superblind" appears on Robbie Williams’ multi-platinum album Reality Killed the Video Star, which was produced by Trevor Horn and based on iZLER's original production and orchestral arrangement.       In 2009, iZLER was selected for the BMI conducting fellowship under the tutelage of Lucas Richman and has

Patrika Darbo has been featured in numerous stage, film and television credits. Darbo appeared as Penny Baker on Step by Step (1991–1992). In 1994, she starred as Roseanne Barr in an NBC television movie, Roseanne and Tom: Behind the Scenes. She also starred as Miss Spencer in the 1998 made-for-tv-film Ruby Bridges. From 1998 to 2005, Darbo played Nancy Wesley on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives, a role that earned her an Emmy nomination for outstanding supporting actress in 2000. Darbo was a guest star in two Seinfeld episodes; The Revenge in 1991 and The Sniffing Accountant in 1993. Later, in 2010, she also guest starred in Showtime's Dexter as a landlady. In 2012, Darbo played Grams in Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy. Darbo has recently reprised her role as Nancy Wesley on Days of our Lives.  

R. Dana Browne first fell in love with acting in fourth grade playing a role in a school play. In high school he helped co-write an award winning one act docudrama for his High School drama team. Afterwards, he continued briefly in college and joined a theater company in Washington, DC focusing on Social issues. After a hiatus R. Dana moved to North Carolina and began a transition from stage to film and television Landing local and national commercials, film and television roles. Recently, R. Dana branched into Executive Producer on short films hitting film festivals nationally. Take 2 Radio chats with R. Dana Browne about his current project on domestic abuse and love called Glass Walls. 

The younger brother of Awkward. star Jillian Rose Reed, Robbie Tucker has made a mark on the entertainment industry in his own right. He broke into acting at the age of six when he appeared in a national commercials, and has since gone on to shoot ads for Target, Microsoft Bing, and McDonalds.  On the small screen, Tucker has showcased his talent in memorable guest spots on Criminal Minds, Flash Forward, The League, and in a recurring role as "Young Charlie Day" on the hit comedy It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Tucker has also ventured onto the big screen, where he has worked alongside Ben Stiller in Little Fockers and was nominated for an Young Artist Award for his role in Disney’s Prom. He has also been featured in the films Losing Control, and Shuffle. Tucker recently showcased his comedic talent with a guest-starring role on Season 2 of the critically-acclaimed series Awkward. Tucker will next be seen on the big screen portraying Kristin Chenoweth's son in Family Weekend, which is set to hit theaters

Jeff Powers is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music with a degree in Classical Guitar performance and have been teaching and performing in the Cleveland area for 20 years. I've been playing guitar since a very young age and have studied Rock, Classical, Blues, Jazz and Folk styles. Also, I'm a songwriter and have recorded 3 CD's of original music.   After many years of teaching in my studio, music schools and at Tri-C I decided to teach to the home. My motivation was fueled by an earlier experience when I was living and teaching in Mexico City. Since the city was so big and the traffic was beyond belief many students started asking me to come to their home.

Whether it’s simply being asked for his expert opinion or to actually work with someone on a single song, video or an entire album project – Songwriter/Producer David Mobley has just about seen it all. With over forty years under his belt in the music industry, the Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas-based Mobley has either collaborated with, given opinions and/or advice to, personally interviewed, been interviewed by – or simply hung out for the afternoon with many of the world’s top artists, actors, producers, engineers, and promoters, as well as some of the world’s A-List movers and shakers. It would probably be much easier to name the names that he hasn’t met!  Currently Mobley is writing and producing several all new song projects with some very noteworthy recording artists including Dave Evans - founder and original lead singer for AC/DC - as well as working with some of the best studio session musicians in Nashville, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Texas. On a final note, Mobley is also involved with several

 John Wesley Shipp is an American actor best known as Mitch Leery, the title character's father on the television drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2001. Played on daytime soap operas, Shipp is probably best known as Kelly Nelson on Guiding Light from February 5, 1980 to November 6, 1984 and as Douglas Cummings on As the World Turns from April 17, 1985 to June 2, 1986, which earned him his first Daytime Emmy. He also played Martin Ellis on Santa Barbara in 1987 (for which he won his second Daytime Emmy), Blanchard Lovelace on One Life to Live in 1989, and Carter Jones on All My Children in 1992. For his work on ATWT, he won a supporting actor Emmy at the 13th Daytime Emmy Awards in 1986. He played a peeper on an episode of Fantasy Island. He played the title role of Barry Allen/The Flash in CBS's The Flash in the 1990-1991[2][3] season and was Lucky on NBC's Sisters in 1994 and 1995. In 2010, Shipp got involved with the Flash again by voicing the evil character "The Reverse-Flash" in an episode of the animat

Born and raised in Massachusetts, Jay Harrington studied theater at Syracuse University before he began acting professionally on stage and screen. Jay has been in Better Off Ted as Ted Crisp, Hot in Cleveland as Alec (Valerie Bertinelli's character's boyfriend), Private Practice, Desperate Housewives, American Reunion, and more!   Harrington resides in Los Angeles and is an avid sports fan who plays in the Entertainment League, a private celebrity basketball league (formerly the NBA-E League), and skates for a local amateur ice hockey team.   Jay chats with Take 2 Radio on March 20th at 8pm EST

Peterson was born in Harlem, NY and bounced back-and-forth between Brooklyn and Los Angeles in his early years. His father was a high school mathematics teacher, and before becoming a computer technician, his mother was an actress who performed at the Colony Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Peterson enjoyed his younger days at the theater so much that he returned to perform there after high school.   For 10 years, Seth Peterson studied a variety of acting methods, appeared in local equity-waiver theater and worked part-time jobs to support himself. "I just kept plugging away," he recalls.   This practical approach landed Peterson guest-star roles in such series as "Arsenio," "Clueless," "Relativity," and "Beverly Hills, 90210" early in his career. Peterson later went on to be a series regular on NBC's "Providence" and a recurring role as "Nate" in the popular USA Network series "Burn Notice." His feature-film credits include "Godzilla," "Can't Hardly Wait," the award-winning independent film "Hate Crime,"

Zach Sale was born on a hot and sunny June 4 in 1983. Almost from birth, Zach was a showman. He put on plays with his younger brother Kyle. He read passages from books in elementary school aloud with character voices. Everyone knew from the beginning that he was going to be an entertainer. Up-and-coming actor, Zach Sale (Chuck in"The Game") who has a role in the feature film, "Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor" out wide theatrically this March.

At the age of 11, Afredo Diaz, and his family moved back to the U.S. from Puerto Rico. Alfredo was now writing short stories and drawing, which he continued to do through high school. Along the way, he added a few more art forms to his repertoire: he was a graffiti artist, a tattoo artist, and even started making posters for local musicians. It was around this time he fell into the underground society of NYC and went through a dark period in his life…until he met his present mentor one day while driving a limo and she encouraged him to keep writing. Writing turned into screenwriting, screenwriting turned into filmmaking and filmmaking turned into acting. Acting has taken over in a way he probably never would have expected. He’s studied acting with currently some of the best teachers, like Larry Moss, John Dapolito from AWG and Marketa Kimbrell from NYU Tisch. He’s been working since either as a hired actor or creating his own work and collaborating with other artists. As a playwright he's had his work up at T

AWARD  WINNERS SHOW!!   ON SUNDAY 10TH MARCH  FROM 2PM - 5PM EST / 6PM - 9PM UK  We are hosting a special Take 2 Radio Indie Music Awards Winners Show  dedicated entirely to the winners of our awards  which were voted for by the public, our listeners and their fans We hope to have all the winners live on the show for a little chat and we will play their songs. There will be a chatroom for fans to congratulate the artists and maybe even suggest questions for them (sign up for free registration as a listener at BlogTalk Radio to join in the chat - it takes just 2  minutes!) but we will not be taking calls other than from the artists for this show   Congrats to all the winners of Take 2 Radio's Indie Artist contest!   Thank you to all who voted!  The public has spoken! These are our winners  *  Rock Artist of the Year: Teazer   *  Male Solo Artist of the Year: Michael Lee  *   *  Female Solo Artist of the Year: Roxanna  *  RnB Artist of the Year: Christian Jules  *   *  Country Artist of the Year: Vicki Vann  *

Na'Vell Lee is a veteran radio host with several years of experience on "The R&N Show" as well as guest apparearances on the "DJ/QT Show" on WBVR, and "The Kensy Awards," an Internet award broadcast for fan fictions/blogs. His most recent gig was a run on the popular Blog Talk Radio show "In The Zone". In addition to his hosting career, Na'Vell is also a seasoned actor. He is currently starring on the long-running radio drama SCRIPTS & SCRUPLES. Previously, he starred on radio soap ROCKLAND COUNTY as bartender, Damien Givens, along side daytime stars Kale Browne, Kurt McKinney and Anne Sayre. His theater credits include SOUTH PACIFIC and THE MUSIC MAN. With Buzzworthy Radio he hopes to bring his passion for the arts to fans around the world!  Take 2 Radio chats with Na'Vell on March 8th about his career, radio, and soaps!   

An actor, a playwright and a poet, New York City's own Rock WILK is also a socially and politically charged vocalist and an accomplished multi-instrumentalist. He creates all of this art while riding the subways of NYC. Along with being a Nuyorican Poet's semifinalist and 2010 runoffs qualifier for The Nuyorican's national team, Rock also was recently a featured performer for Amnesty International at an event for human rights. Rock will be appearing in his first feature film, Jamesy Boy, which stars James Woods, Mary Louise Parker and Ving Rhames, which will be released in early 2013. He has worked as a studio and touring background vocalist for many years, most recently singing with the legendary Patti LaBelle and contributing vocal and horn arrangements to the Grammy Award winning Les Paul compilation album, LES PAUL AND FRIENDS. Rock's music can also be heard on such TV shows as MTV's The Real World and Making The Band, among others.  BROKE WIDE OPEN, which was presented in July of 2010 at undergroundzero,

Ryan Carnes is an American actor. He attended Duke University where he was a member of DUMB, the Duke University Marching Band. He is currently working on a collaboration with other musicians and is an accomplished drummer of 15 years. In 2003 Carnes was part of a national campaign for Nintendo which was both in print and commercial. Carnes first started acting in 2004 when he became the ninth actor to portray Lucas Jones on the ABC soap opera General Hospital from July 2004 until September 2005. After he left General Hospital, he was replaced by Ben Hogestyn. From 2004–06, he had a recurring role on Desperate Housewives as Justin, the love interest of Andrew Van de Kamp, played by Shawn Pyfrom. Carnes starred in the 2004 film Eating Out, and the 2006 movie Surf School. He also starred in the video for the song "Mistake" by Australian actress/singer Stephanie McIntosh.

 Texas Battle is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Marcus Walton on the CBS daytime drama, The Bold and the Beautiful. For the role, Battle was nominated In 2009 and 2010 for an NAACP Image Award© in the category of “Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series" for his portrayal of Marcus. He is best known for his roles in the films Coach Carter, Final Destination 3, Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, and Dragonball Evolution. Battle appeared in the remake of The Legend of Boggy Creek. He drops by to chat about his career and upcoming plans.