Episodes

  • Hangin' with Warner Bailey (Producer, Creator)
    May 21 2025

    Welcome to The Hollywood Hang! A podcast about the highs, lows, and hell nos of this crazy industry. Hosted by Nicolas Curcio & Kristen Tepper. Music by Stevia Sphere.


    Warner Bailey is the creator of Assistants Vs. Agents (AvA), a meme page-turned-media company he founded while an assistant at WME in 2018. AvA has secured partnerships with major brands and studios, including Amazon MGM Studios, Netflix, Paramount+, Amazon Prime Video, Warner Bros., Meta, Nike, SZA, and RCA Records. Bailey also writes The AvA Connection, a weekly newsletter that shares industry insights, open jobs, and the stories of entertainment executives. He is currently developing IP across multiple mediums under the AvA umbrella.

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    41 mins
  • Hangin' with Colby Day (Filmmaker, Playwright)
    May 13 2025

    Welcome to The Hollywood Hang! A podcast about the highs, lows, and hell nos of this crazy industry. Hosted by Nicolas Curcio & Kristen Tepper. Music by Stevia Sphere.


    Colby Day is a filmmaker and playwright. Recently named one of MovieMaker Magazine’s “25 Screenwriters to Watch,” Colby wrote the screenplay for the Netflix film, SPACEMAN directed by Johan Renck (Chernobyl), starring Adam Sandler, as well as the upcoming Searchlight Pictures film IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, directed by Andrew Stanton. Colby was also a writer on the upcoming season of Apple TV's FOR ALL MANKIND. He writes the weekly newsletter Hollyweird, about living and working in Hollywood, which is a totally normal place.

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    57 mins
  • Hangin' with Adam Faze (Producer)
    May 6 2025

    Welcome to The Hollywood Hang! A podcast about the highs, lows, and hell nos of this crazy industry. Hosted by Nicolas Curcio & Kristen Tepper. Music by Stevia Sphere.


    Adam Faze is the co-founder and CEO of Gymnasium, the studio behind viral short-form series like Boy Room and Keep the Meter Running. In just two years, the six-person team has generated nearly a billion views across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.


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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Hangin' with The Pierce Brothers (Writer/Director/Producers)
    Apr 29 2025

    Welcome to The Hollywood Hang! A podcast about the highs, lows, and hell nos of this crazy industry. Hosted by Nicolas Curcio & Kristen Tepper. Music by Stevia Sphere.


    The Pierce Brothers’ horror film THE WRETCHED opened in drive-in theaters on May 1st 2020 by IFC Midnight and was the #1 movie in the US for six consecutive weekends, making it the first film to hold that record since the release of AVATAR in 2009. At a time when thousands of theaters were shut down, major news outlets churned out headlines that credited Brett & Drew’s film as “forever redefining how we measure box office success” (Forbes) and “leading the drive-in resurge” (Variety). The film is now available to stream on Netflix where it is currently ranked in the Top 10 Most Watched Films in the U.S and continues to release internationally.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Hangin' with Meredith Dawson (Writer/Director)
    Apr 22 2025

    Welcome to The Hollywood Hang! A podcast about the highs, lows, and hell nos of this crazy industry. Hosted by Nicolas Curcio & Kristen Tepper. Music by Stevia Sphere.


    Dawson got her break as a writer on two Mindy Kaling series, Champions and Four Weddings and a Funeral. She most recently was a Co-EP on Everybody Still Hates Chris, the reimagined animated version of the Chris Rock live action series for Comedy Central. On the feature side, Dawson is attached to direct her romantic comedy, When Carrie Met Michael and Other People with Paul Feig producing. She is currently adapting Stacey Abrams novel "Rules of Engagement" with Stacey and Kerry Washington producing for Universal.




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    44 mins
  • Hangin' with Reagan Yorke (Creator, Filmmaker)
    Apr 14 2025

    Welcome to The Hollywood Hang! A podcast about the highs, lows, and hell nos of this crazy industry. Hosted by Nicolas Curcio & Kristen Tepper. Music by Stevia Sphere.Reagan is a director / content creator who translates major studio film productions to social media through behind the scenes footage and personal interviews. Reagan and her co-director, Jillian Smith, also run a production company together called S&Q film where they both direct and bring online audiences along every step in a project green-light format.


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    54 mins
  • Hangin' with Helena Hawkes (Writer, Director, Producer)
    Apr 8 2025

    Welcome to The Hollywood Hang! A podcast about the highs, lows, and hell nos of this crazy industry. Hosted by Nicolas Curcio & Kristen Tepper. Music by Stevia Sphere.

    New Mexico native and multi-hyphenate, Helena Hawkes is a jack of all trades. Through her keen understanding of writing, directing, poetry and painting, she entrenches her readers in tonally rich worlds typically centered around the macabre. It’s no surprise that her talent has attracted the attention of some of Hollywood’s horror greats; Jason Blum - who has taken her under his tutelage on the producing front - and Leigh Whannell - who she has the honor of calling her writing and directing mentor.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Let's Hang!
    Mar 30 2025

    Welcome to The Hollywood Hang! A podcast about the highs, lows, and hell nos of this crazy industry. Hosted by Nicolas Curcio & Kristen Tepper. Music by Stevia Sphere.

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    26 mins