126 | The Art of Self-Producing with Amanda Dieli

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The Hollywood Chai

42 episodes

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Ahlan wa sahlan and welcome to the Hollywood Chai! A podcast that spills the real chai on Hollywood with interviews with artists and storytellers on their craft and their individual and independent ways of breaking into Hollywood, some heavily researched educational episodes on Hollywood-related topics & groundbreaking pioneers and your occasional pop cultural zeitgeist episodes about what’s hot in the industry both on and off screen. A production of Bougie Arabs Entertainment.

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126 | The Art of Self-Producing with Amanda Dieli

The Hollywood Chai

1 hour 22 minutes 50 seconds

3 years ago

126 | The Art of Self-Producing with Amanda Dieli

I am joined this week by a special friend of mine, the Queen herself, Amanda Dieli. Amanda is an award-winning Brooklyn-based actor, writer, and comedian. She holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California, and a Graduate Certification in Television Writing from the University of California, Los Angeles and has studied screenwriting at Columbia University. She has trained professionally with The School at Steppenwolf in Chicago, Upright Citizens Brigade, and LABryinth in NYC, and at NYU in their Florence, Italy campus. She is a veteran sketch and improve performer of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. And most notably, in 2012, she had a scene with Sigourney Weaver in a pilot. She’s a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. I’m excited to have her on today and talk about her experiences as master of all trades artist from tv writing, sketch comedy and improv, acting and, notably, how to produce your own work – from the pros and cons to the hardships and joys of it.

Fun fact: she is avid lover of Halloween novelty music. She created, wrote and produced her first short series, 18 Grand: A Personal Space Odyssey, which had its world premiere at NYC Web Fest in 2018 where it took the top prize of Best web Series, later appearing in several other festivals in 2019. You can check out the webseries at the link below. She also performed in Under the Radar in 2015 at The Orpheus Variations, a piece she also co-wrote with The Deconstructive Theatre Project. Amanda and I met at UCLA and trained professionally together in our time and oversaw the development of several spec scripts and TV pilots together. Besides being a Reference Queen, she is one of the most caring and excellent advice-giving people I have ever met and we are excited for her to spill her Hollywood Chai.

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Check out Amanda Dieli on her official website: http://www.amanda-dieli.com/

Amanda's Award-Winning Webseries can be seen here: https://www.footprint.tv/series/18-grand-206154

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