Exclusive Podcast: LITTLE KNOWN FACTS with Ilana Levine and Tony Nominee Robert Horn!
By: Little Known Facts w/ Ilana Levine Jun. 03, 2019
BroadwayWorld has teamed up with Broadway actress Ilana Levine, who makes her entrance onto the podcast stage with her critically acclaimed show Little Known Facts. Ilana's unique brand of celebrity interview, "Podcast Vérité," is unfiltered, raw, honest and uniquely funny. Her twitter account @ilanalevine was named one of the " 100 Twitter accounts to follow in 2018.
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In this episode, Ilana chats with 2019 Tony nominee Robert Horn! A New York native, Robert Horn studied Theater at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and New York's Circle in the Square theater school. Soon after, he left for Los Angeles to pursue a writing career in film and television that has spanned has over 30 years. His first break came as a writer/producer on the iconic television series 'Designing Women', followed by the groundbreaking Fox series 'Living Single', and the irreverent CBS comedy 'High Society'.
Mr. Horn was then signed to an overall production deal with Warner Brothers Studios,
where he developed, wrote, and Executive Produced dozens of network pilots and/or
series. He then signed a multi-year script deal at Sony Studios, followed by an overall
pilot deal at ABC Studios. He, along with television veteran Bob Boyett, wrote and
created the FX series Partners, one of the few 10/90 deals made in the early 2000's. He
has written projects for many numerous broadcast, cable, and platform networks,
including as the musical pilot Car Wash with Will Packer, The Jenni Rivera show for
latin susperstar Jenni Rivera, the pilot Sunnyland for TBS starring Jennifer Hudson, Left
of Center developed with TV veteran Gail Berman, and Taxi 22 at HBO, starring James
Gandolfini.
Mr. Horn also wrote musical movie's such as 'Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure', the next
of the High School Musical series, followed by the hugely popular 'Teen Beach Movie'
franchise for Disney.
Along with his television credits, Mr. Horn has written such diverse projects as 'Wildlife'
for Walt Disney Feature Animation, the Charlie Sheen feature film 'Good Advice', 'The
RuPaul Christmas Special' for the BBC, and 'Revenge', a digital musical series co-
written with Jason Robert Brown for Sony's digital Crackle network, and contributed
Bette Midler's world tour Divine Intervention.
Theatrically, Mr. Horn has written the books for 'Dame Edna, Back With A Vengeance'
which opened at Broadway's Music Box theater in 2004, 'Lone Star Love', the Red Clay
Rambler musical which premiered at the 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle, the Jason Robert Brown musical '13', which previewed at the Goodspeed Opera House in Goodspeed, Conn, and opened at the Jacobs Theater in New York. the musical 'Moonshine, that Hee Haw Musical', wirth Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, which opened at the Dallas Theater Center, and the Broadway musical Tootsie, collaborating with David Yazbek.
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