Your Creative Journey
Paul Carganilla and Kevin Gregg talk about the challenges and steps you can take to help you create your art. Whether you want to act, write, dance, draw, make music or make a movie, Paul and Kevin will talk about their experiences as working creatives to help you get one step closer to making your creative dream a reality.
Your Creative Journey
John Crane - Head Writer and Executive Producer from MADtv
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Paul Carganilla and Kevin Gregg
Kevin and Paul have a conversation with writer and actor John Crane.
John Crane has an extensive creative career as a Groundlings Main Company Member, Head Writer, and Executive Producer on MADtv, writer for animated shows like Johnny Bravo, CatDog, Rocket Power, and Jimmy Neutron. He was also an actor on Roundhouse on Nickelodeon and the green screen stand-in for Bugs Bunny in Space Jam with Michael Jordan
Highlights from this episode include:
- The lessons of working in a high-pressure comedy writing environment
- Being present in the moment with writing and improv and realizing that failing won't kill you. It just makes you better at your craft
- "Real writers, write. They pick up their sword and go to battle every day."
- John talks about how he's helping students with writing at cranesketch.com
Books mentioned on the show
Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too! by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis