Monica Bushman
Producer, LAist Studios
(she/her)
I'm one of the producers on the LAist Studios podcast How To LA.
Before joining the How To LA team, I worked on other LAist Studios podcasts including The Academy Museum Podcast, Retake and Hollywood the Sequel. I got my start at LAist on the broadcast side, as a producer on Take Two, The Frame, and our local broadcasts of Morning Edition and All Things Considered.
Prior to coming to LAist, I worked on NPR shows like Talk of the Nation and Morning Edition.
When I moved back to Southern California after living away for several years, I had to overcome my fear of driving on the freeway (think Dionne in "Clueless"). I've mostly mastered the driving part, but am still working on the ability to give out directions like "The Californians" on SNL.
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If you looked toward the skies around noon today, you may have seen an encouraging message. -
Author/filmmaker Tananarive Due teaches a class on black horror at UCLA (which Jordan Peele famously crashed). We asked her if the new movie "Ma" passed the test. -
Michael Abels has been composing music since he was a kid, but he didn't score a film until he was in his 50s, when Jordan Peele hired him for "Get Out." -
Before their cult hit Hulu series, "PEN15" co-creators Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle spoofed reality TV in web series called "Project Reality." -
Sounds of subway cars, clothing steamers, snakes, and lions built the soundscape for the Neil Armstrong biopic. -
Watching both the Netflix and Hulu documentaries will give you the clearest picture of the Fyre fiasco, but they both come with caveats. -
Only 4 percent of the cinematographers working on the highest-grossing movies were women last year, and that number hasn't improved in 20 years. -
"First Man" is about the failures and sacrifices behind one of the world's most famous success stories. -
"Life Cycle," Ai Weiwei's new work on display now at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, was shipped out of China just days before Chinese authorities razed Ai's studio without warning. -
Sarah Jones' futuristic show at the L.A. LGBT Center wants to start an empowering conversation about sexuality and sex work.
Stories by Monica Bushman
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