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This week's guest is Cady McClain!
Cady McClain is a history making three-time Emmy© Award winning actress. She is the first
woman to have won three Emmys© for three different characters on three different television
shows: All My Children (Best Juvenile, 1991), As the World Turns (Best Supporting, 2004), and
Days of Our Lives (Best Guest Performer, 2021). Her feature directorial debut, Seeing is Believing: Women Direct (featuring Lesli
Linka Glatter, Sarah Gavron, and Naima Ramos Chapman, among others) won Best
Documentary Pro Action at the Artemis Women in Action Film Festival, the Audience Award at
the SOHO Film Festival, a Jury Prize at the Newport Beach Film Festival, and Best
Documentary at the Ridgewood Guild International Film Festival. The film is now distributed
on PBS and the educational online platform, Kanopy. She was honored to be awarded the
International Matrix Award for her work related to supporting the female voice in film and
television by the Association of Women in Communications. An Ambassador for Kids in
the Spotlight (a foster youth filmmaking program) she is also the Artistic Director for Axial
Theatre in Westchester, NY. She teaches acting at Michael Howard Studios in NYC.
Cady opens up a bit about her journey and what it has looked like to follow her dreams–sharing about the recent loss of her best friend Rhonda. Cady gives us a beautiful conversation that is sure to inspire us all.
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