HELLO FREAK FRIENDS & LOVE BLASTERS!
Psyched, per usual, to bring you the newest episode of Freak Flag, episode 6 with the brilliant and magical Angela Harvey. We got cozy and recorded this episode in my friend Natalie’s living room in Santa Monica on her super squashy couch in March 2022. We had blankets and pillows draping everything to try and minimize sound reflection (sound nerd warning! ha!), and let me warn you now—we cackled quite a LOT.
{Love Blasters—we have a very FULL update coming for you next week, but I wanted to get this out first! More music updates & such coming asap!}
okay, back to the POD.
Below Angela’s bio is a bulleted list of some of the topics, and per usual, it runs the GAMUT.
I hope you enjoy this episode! I LOVE YOU! MAKE YOUR ART! (if you wish)
Angela Harvey is an award-winning television writer, independent filmmaker and activist. She began her writing career on the MTV breakout hit Teen Wolf, after which she went on to serve as a writer/ producer on Salvation, a sci-fi show for CBS Television and Station 19, one of the latest offerings from Shondaland/ABC. She’s currently a Co-Executive Producer on FX’s American Horror Story and developing new shows in partnership with 20th Television and Bad Robot. As an independent filmmaker, Angela has directed three short narratives including Prom, which premiered at the 2020 Austin Film Festival, and she has written An Unlikely Friendship, a script about race and female friendship that will be her feature directorial debut. Along with her work in entertainment, Angela is a long-time volunteer policy advocate with global anti-poverty agency CARE, and is proud to serve on the Board of Directors for CARE’s political advocacy arm CARE Action. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Writer’s Guild of America’s PAC and as co-chair of the Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity (TTIE), a consortium of TV writers dedicated to expanding the voice and reach of underrepresented peoples in the entertainment industry.
As always, here’s a list of the various things we chatted about—some in episode order (THANKS KYLE*!), and some not (courtesy of Kath):
Angela’s journey to becoming the award-winning TV writer she is, writers’ rooms, and the amazing mentor who had a huge part in launching her career
risks to take (& not to take) when moving forward in your career, including Angela’s story of taking a “definitely not recommended” risk anyhow (& it worked!)
Angela’s perspective on horror in TV/film—you get to hear her BLOW Kath’s mind with her brilliant take on this. (full disclosure: kath does NOT watch horror bc it’s too scary for her)
doing things you hate to create space for things you love
the evangelical response to Rob Bell, and how his book Love Wins literally CHANGED Angela’s life
hypocrisy in the “acceptance” of reformed theology and evangelical Christianity
how we can all be better stewards of faith by accepting that everyone’s path is different
plus: pleasure, religious history, wtf is “genre” writing, and generally a fair amount of two broads CACKLING about the good life
get in Angela’s world!
*Kyle: WE HAVE A PODCAST EDITOR/MIXER NOW, and his name is Kyle and he is amazzzzzing. He also edited & mixed the audiobook Kath recently produced. He is a brilliant musician and audio expert. Hire him for your next scoring/ guitar/ mixing/ mastering/ editing project if you want to be SUPPORTED MIRACULOUSLY BY A FUCKING GENIUS.
ALSO! FREAK FLAG {THE CLASS} IS NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS! Our summer ‘22 course starts June 15 and goes through Aug 10. Go here if you wanna know more! Breathwork, community, artistic archetypes, and Kath telling it like it is about the creative life—it’s gonna be a potent yet cozy cauldron of creative fire to support YOU and YOUR CREATIVITY. CAN YOU SAY FUN???!!!!!
write your own destiny with angela harvey | freak flag episode 6