Great American Roadtrip! Kickstarter for Season 3 of LGBT Series 'EastSiders' Underway

The great American road trip is about to get a lot gayer. EastSiders, the Indie Series Award-winning LGBT series from writer/director/actor Kit Williamson, has announced that their third season will follow the show’s central characters Thom (Van Hansis, five-time Daytime Emmy nominee for his work on As The World Turns and EastSiders) and Cal (Kit Williamson, Mad Men) as they hit the highway from New York City to Los Angeles. Will this be the trip of their lives, or the end of the road?

The producers have launched a Kickstarter campaign to complete the new season. The journey home to Silver Lake was shot on-location in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada and (of course) California over 35 days last fall. Now the production is seeking funding for additional shoot days, and post-production costs. The campaign is set to run until June 6th, by which time they must have raised their minimum goal of $60,000 or they will not receive any of the funds. The first two seasons of the series were also financed through crowdfunding, with two successful campaigns raising over $178,000.

Previous cast members Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat), Brianna Brown (Dynasty, Devious Maids, General Hospital), Stephen Guarino (Happy Endings), Willam Beli (RuPaul's Drag Race) Traci Lords (Crybaby), Matthew McKelligon (You're Killing Me), Jonathan Lisecki (Gayby) and John Halbach are all set to return. Additional cast members will be announced during the Kickstarter campaign.

Kit Williamson & John Halbach to Host Indie Series Awards

Multi-hyphenate artists and filmmakers Kit Williamson and John Halbach will host the 8th Annual Indie Series Awards ceremony on Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at 8:00 PM PT.

"We are so excited to be hosting the ISAs," said Williamson and Halbach. "It's a great event for content creators to come together and celebrate their work over the last year and we are honored to welcome everyone to a very special night."

The ISAs celebrate the best in independently produced scripted entertainment created for the Web. In total, 48 series from around the world are nominated in 29 categories.

John Halbach and Kit Williamson are actors, internet entrepreneurs and husbands, best known as the producers and stars of the Emmy-nominated LGBT web series EastSiders. The series is now available on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and Fullscreen, and distributed on DVD and VOD by Wolfe Video. John and Kit both began their careers acting on Broadway before turning their sights to the web, and are now documenting their adventures as newlyweds with an ongoing travel series for Out Magazine.

Kit Williamson played the role of Ed Gifford on the final two seasons of Mad Men and can currently be seen alongside Chris Hardwick in a national campaign for Comcast Xfinity. In addition to writing, directing and starring in EastSiders, Kit has sold pilots to CBS and Super Deluxe. He is also a travel writer and gay rights activist who has written for The Advocate, Out Magazine, Out Traveler, The Huffington Post Queer Voices, The Fight Magazine, Indiewire and The Jackson Free Press. He is also the co-founder of Brooklyn Web Fest and Content Creator Conference, now in its third year.

John Halbach is an actor, producer and social media expert with an advertising agency background, whose clients have included: Fun Home, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Disney on Ice, Disney Live, Marvel Universe Live, Rituals Skincare, Chef Chris Santos, The Empire Hotel, Fusion TV and The History Channel.

John and Kit are the co-owners of Go Team Entertainment, a production company and digital strategy agency whose clients include HarperColins, MGM Resorts, Key West Tourism, Out Magazine/Here Media, AHF, Freixenet, Audi, Parke and Ronen and numerous Broadway shows and digital series.

The couple resides in Silver Lake with their cat Albee, and you can follow them at @kitwilliamson and @johnhalbach. Al doesn’t have his own Instagram, but he is heavily featured on his dad’s accounts, much to his annoyance.

Since 2009, the Indie Series Award has honored the most creative and progressive talent in independent web series.

The 8th Annual Indie Series Awards will be held on Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at The Colony Theatre in Burbank at 8 p.m. PT/11 p.m. ET.

To find out more about the Indie Series Awards, visit indieseriesawards.com.

Nominees Melissa Archer, Tristan Rogers, Melissa Claire Egan & Carolyn Hennesy Added as Presenters for 7th Annual Indie Series Awards

Former One Life to Live and Days of our Lives star Melissa Archer is
nominated for her work on Viral.

The Indie Series Awards announced today the second slate of presenters for the upcoming 7th Annual ISAs ceremony, hosted by Jen Lilley and Eric Martsolf.

The presenters, including ISA winners and nominees, are:

Melissa Archer (Viral)
Daniel Betances (BLACK)
Jillian Clare (Acting Dead)
Claire Downs (These People)
Melissa Claire Egan (Misguided)
Mary Beth Evans (The Bay)
Jeremy Glazer (These People)
Ryan Gowland (F'd)
Carolyn Hennesy (These People)
Zac Hug (These People)
Sebastian La Cause (He's With Me, Life's a Drag)
Erika Robel (Fully Engaged)
Tristan Rogers (The Bay)
Marc Sinoway (Hunting Season)
Kit Williamson (EastSiders)
Colleen Zenk (Thurston)

These presenters join the previously announced group which includes Kristos Andrews (The Southside, The Bay), Ben Baur (Hunting Season, These People), Tia Dae (Anacostia), Crista Flanagan (Club 5150), Kathleen Gati (Winterthorne), Jill Knox (Keith Broke His Leg), Martha Madison (Winterthorne), Keith Powell (Keith Broke His Leg, These People), Darcie Siciliano (He's With Me), Karrueche Tran (The Bay), Kevin Spirtas (Winterthorne) and Ian Verdun (Life's a Drag).

See all the nominees here.

The 7th Annual Indie Series Awards will be held at the historic El Portal Theatre on Wednesday, April 6 at 8 p.m. PT.

'The Good Wife' Sneak Peek: Kit Williamson Guest Stars as Kip O'Neill

Kit Williamson guest stars as Kip O'Neill.

Alicia and Lucca defend a website accused of racial profiling in this week's episode of The Good Wife, airing Sunday, November 29 at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. If the network's NFL game runs over, the start time may be later.

In the episode, titled "Discovery," Alicia and Lucca join forces with Louis Canning (Michael J. Fox) to defend the website against an accusation of racial profiling. Also, Eli and Ruth worry about the nature of Alicia's relationship with Jason and how it could impact Peter's presidential campaign.

EastSiders and Mad Men actor Kit Williamson guest stars as Kip O'Neill.

Watch a Good Wife sneak peek below:

NEWS: Jonathan Jackson, Josie Bissett, Tom Payne, Jacob Young, Kit Williamson, 'Empire'

Empire Season 2 premiered September 23 on FOX.

Empire and black-ish Show Why Diversity Needs to Be Deep, Not Just Broad
It's valuable to have deep minority representation within individual shows, as necessarily happens on family comedies and dramas. Series like black-ish and Empire can pass a sort of racial version of the Bechdel Test, the feminist-criticism measure of whether a story has two female characters who talk to each other about something besides a man: having minority characters talk about race in a way that’s not always in relation to white people.

Is Empire the Most Important Show on TV
Empire did things to ratings and audiences that network shows aren’t supposed to be able to do anymore. And now it has to do it all again.

Writes Willa Paskin: "This moment, obviously, unfolds expressly within the context of Ferguson, Eric Garner, police brutality, a racist penitentiary system, and the Black Lives Matter movement, and it works on two levels. Empire is a chronicle of the Lyons clan, a black family in America who, necessarily, is engaged with these subjects. But Empire is also a cultural object, one whose enormous success pierced television’s largely white status quo."

Can FOX's Empire Continue to Rise in Season 2 After Becoming a Midseason Sensation?
Empire's ratings started high and climbed all season. In live-plus-seven numbers, its finale averaged 23.1 million total viewers and an astounding 9.3 rating among adults ages 18 to 49, making it the highest-rated freshman finale since Grey's Anatomy in 2005.

The network hopes to bring back all those viewers who watched last season, along with those who have watched the show on VOD and other platforms since its March season finale (episodes were viewed 500,000 times a week this summer), while also drawing in new audiences. "I think it is a matter of don't mess it up," said Joe Earley, COO, Fox Television Group, of the challenge facing the network.

The Bold and the Beautiful's Jacob Young expecting third child with wife, Christen
Young (Rick) and his wife, Christen, will be welcoming their third child in February 2016. The new addition will join brother Luke, 7, and Molly, 2.

Kit Williamson opens up...about Cal opening up his relationship in Season 2 of EastSiders
"The second season is an exploration of the role sex plays in relationships, so this time around, everyone gets a lot of action!"

Jim Henson "would have been thrilled to see The Muppets getting so much attention"
“Playing with the idea that the puppets are real celebrities, in a sense, Bill Prady’s whole show is taking that idea — they are real, they live in our world, they are celebrities, they have their own lives — and taking that to its natural extensions,” Jim's daughter, Lisa Henson notes, giving her stamp of approval.

Coronation Street live: as it happened
Writes Michael Hogan of The Telegraph: "I imagine the feeling at Corrie HQ, Granada TV and ITV Towers will mainly be one of relief that the live episode went off without a hitch. The performances were wooden at times and some of the segues between scenes stilted, especially from the less experienced actors, but the cast's stronger members compensated ably and the whole episode was well-choreographed. The scenes in the Rover's Return worked particularly well - then again, they're used to spending most of their lives in there. Not easy to produce and shoot crowd scenes, though, so credit to the cast and crew for that."

Nashville's Jonathan Jackson to perform at Tunnel To Towers annual run, walk
On September 27, Jonathan Jackson and his band Enation will perform for the runners and walkers at the After-Event-Celebration concert.This event will pay tribute to the late firefighter Stephen Siller. The run and walk follows in his heroic footsteps from the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, which is now known as the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, to the World Trade Center.

Tom Payne joins The Walking Dead
Luck alum Tom Payne will play the comic book character known as Jesus, aka Paul Monroe.

Melrose Place alum Josie Bissett to star in Lifetime’s Pregnant At 17
Bissett will play a veterinarian who discovers her husband impregnated a 17-year-old girl.

Susan Sarandon exits Epix's Graves
Sarandon will no longer play the first lady opposite President Nick Nolte due to "artistic differences.”

Jason Katims’ Hulu drama changes its name from The Way to The Path amid legal pressure
The religious cult drama starring Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan and Hugh Dancy had a title that too closely resembled real-life ministry The Way International.

'EastSiders' Is Back And The Relationships Are More Complicated Than Ever

EastSiders stars Van Hansis as Thom and Kit Williamson as Cal.

Indie Series Award-winning drama EastSiders is back! Season 1 ended on a bleak note for Cal (Mad Men's Kit Williamson) and Thom (As the World Turns' Van Hansis) with Cal moving out of their apartment when it seemed like they couldn't get past each other's infidelity. Season 2 begins with Cal and Thom waking up in bed with another guy, a threeway that Cal barely remembers. With their trust issues still unresolved and new boundaries being explored, will their relationship be able to survive?

The series, which was created by Williamson, also stars Fresh Off the Boat's Constance Wu, Matthew McKelligon, John Halbach and features guest appearances from Sean Maher, Stephen Guarino, Brea Grant, and Traci Lords. Brianna Brown, who was terrific this summer on Devious Maids, is a fascinating new addition for season 2 as Cal’s sister, Hillary.  Other newcomers include Satya Bhabha, Adam Bucci, Vera Miao, and Willam Belli.

With top-notch production values, a talented engaging cast and fascinating complicated relationships, EastSiders is must-see Web TV for fans of great character drama.

Watch the Season 2 trailer below:

'EastSiders' Season 2 Trailer Released

EastSiders stars Van Hansis and Kit Williamsone star as Thom and Cal.

Indie Series Award-winning EastSiders has released a trailer for the show's upcoming second season. Things didn't look good for Silverlake couple Cal (creator Kit Williamson) and Thom (As the World Turns Emmy nominee Van Hansis) when last we saw them.

Based on the new trailer, it looks like they are opening up their relationship to help keep it alive, but will that work?

If you're looking for a continuing story with drama, humor and heart, EastSiders might be the one for you.

EastSiders also stars Constance Wu, Matthew McKelligon, John Halbach and features guest turns from Sean Maher, Stephen Guarino, Brea Grant and Traci Lords. Brianna Brown (Devious Maids, General Hospital) joins the cast this season as Cal’s sister, Hillary, along with new additions Satya Bhabha, Adam Bucci, Vera Miao, and Willam Belli.

Season 2 is being released through Wolfe Video and Vimeo on September 15. You can pre-order the entire second season here.

Watch the trailer below:

'Kiss Me, Kill Me' Trailer Released; Gay Murder Mystery Film to Premiere in Chicago on September 18

A trailer for the upcoming gay murder mystery Kiss Me, Kill Me was released on Wednesday.

From director Casper Andreas (Going Down in LA-LA Land) and screenwriter David Michael Barrett (Such Good People) comes the new gay thriller starring Queer as Folk lead Gale Harold and three-time Emmy nominee Van Hansis, Luke Snyder in As the World Turns.

While confronting his unfaithful boyfriend, Dusty (Hansis) blacks-out. When he comes to, his boyfriend Stephen (Harold) has been murdered and he's the prime suspect. Also joining the cast are: Jai Rodriquez (Queer Eye), Shangela (RuPaul's Drag Race), Jackie Monahan (Codependent Space Alien Seeks Same), Kit Williamson (Eastsiders) and also from Going Down in LA-LA Land, hunky Matthew Ludwinski and the hilarious Allison Lane.

The contemporary film noir, set in West Hollywood, will make its World Premiere next month at REELING: The Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, on September 18, followed by an after-party with cast and filmmakers. The premiere will launch the movie's worldwide festival run. More info can be found at the festival's website: reelingfilmfestival.org/2015.

Watch the trailer below:

Van Hansis Talks About Not Being Out While Playing Luke Snyder on 'As the World Turns'

Three-time As the World Turns Emmy nominee Van Hansis is interviewed by his EastSiders co-star Kit Williamson in the cover story of The Fight magazine. Williamson asks Hansis about why he wasn't out publicly until now.

"I guess it was a combination of a lot of things," Hansis says of his As the World Turns days. "It was my first job, it was a different time back then in regards to LGBT stories being told—I mean, the Luke [Snyder] story was groundbreaking at the time. Now, I think every remaining soap has a gay storyline. I was completely green, fresh out of college, and honestly, I was scared."

Hansis, who won an Indie Series Award this year as part of the EastSiders ensemble, also shares his excitement about season two of the hit web series.

'EastSiders' Announces Second Season; Willam Belli, Satya Bhabha, Adam Bucci & Vera Miao Join Cast

Indie Series Award-winning EastSiders, a critically acclaimed dark comedy starring Van Hansis (As The World Turns) and Kit Williamson (Mad Men) as a gay couple trying to stay together in the aftermath of infidelity, has announced that the series will return for a second season. The production will launch a Kickstarter campaign to finance the show on April 14.

Written and directed by award winning playwright Kit Williamson, EastSiders, explores the aftermath of infidelity on a gay couple in Silverlake, CA.

"I'm so excited to take the show back where it started: in the fans' hands, on Kickstarter," said Williamson. "This is a very unique moment in time where audiences have the power to say what kind of stories they want to see told. We've been so lucky to have found an amazing community of viewers that have been with us from day one, and continues to grow every day. I hope they want to see more from us, because I am so excited to continue telling this story.”

5th Annual Indie Series Awards Red Carpet Show (Part 3): Cherish Lee, Kit Williamson, Brea Grant, Dane Ohlrogge, Kelsey Jorissen, Coco Fernandez, Jonathan Holbrook, Jillian Clare, Patrika Darbo, Brandon Goins, Colleen Zenk & Philip Cook

In Part 3 of WE LOVE SOAPS TV's 5th Annual Indie Series Awards Red Carpet Show, Michael Goldberg chats with Cherish Lee, who offers a sample of her latest single. Also featured are EastSiders nominees Kit Williamson and Brea Grant; Dane Ohlrogge, Kelsey Jorissen and Coco Fernandez from the nominated ensemble of The Dreamers; four-time nominee Jonathan Holbrook of STILL; Clutch star and nominee Jillian Clare, who won the award for Best Supporting Actress - Drama; Patrika Darbo, from the nominated Bloomers ensemble and the upcoming Acting Dead; Tainted Dreams actors Brandon Goins and Colleen Zenk, who was also nominated for her work in Thurston; and Philip Cook from Malice, who took home Best Special Effects award.

Watch Part 3 (Episode 5.28) below and stayed tuned for more Red Carpet interviews soon.



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EASTSIDERS Launches Web Comic On March 27, New Pages on Mondays and Thursdays (Preview)

Six-time Indie Series Award-nominated EASTSIDERS has announced the next chapter in its life: as a web comic. The first installment will debut on the show's website (EastSidersTheSeries.com) on Thursday, March 27, with subsequent pages rolling out on Mondays and Thursdays through April 28.

Conceived as part of the successful Kickstarter campaign that funded the first season of the series, the web comic will pick up the story from the moment the first season left off, continuing the final scene of the first season. The web comic will be written by series creator Kit Williamson and illustrated by Aman Chaudhary.

Next Round of Presenters Revealed for the 5th Annual Indie Series Awards

We Love Soaps and the Indie Series Network are excited to reveal the next round of presenters for the 5th Annual Indie Series Awards, which celebrate the best in independently produced, scripted entertainment created for the Web. Stars from Television, Film, Broadway and the Internet are coming together to celebrate the very best of the World Wide Web.

The Indie Series Awards, hosted by Carolyn Hennesy, will take place on April 2, 2014 at the historic El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood.

Previously announced presenters include Charlene Tilton, Christine Lakin, Colleen Zenk, Sebastian La Cause, Eric Martsolf, Kyle Lowder, Jillian Clare, Rachael Hip-Flores, Van Hansis and Walt Willey.

The next 10 presenters are listed below:

Anthony Anderson
Anderson is the most-nominated individual in ISA history, with 16 total nominations for his work as a producer, writer and actor on Anacostia, and including a nomination for his guest appearance in Pretty. He won in 2010 (Best Ensemble), 2011 (Lead Actor) and 2012 (Best Writing - Drama). Anderson is currently finishing production on his new reality series, City Boyz.

Brad Bell
Bell won in 2013 in the Best Lead Actor - Comedy and Best Writing categories for his work on Husbands, and is up for those awards again this year. He is also executive producer of Husbands, which received six nominations this year including Best Web Series - Comedy. Bell has received nine total nominations in the past three years.

Darin Brooks
Brooks is nominated for his work in Bloomers. He is currently starring as "Wyatt Fuller" in CBS daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful. He received two Daytime Emmy nominations for his work on Days of our Lives, winning in 2009. Brooks starred for three seasons as "Alex Morgan" in the TBS sitcom Blue Mountain State. His other credits include Super Fun Night, Castle, CSI: Miami and the hit teen drama Miss Behave.

Critically Acclaimed Series EASTSIDERS To Be Broadcast As Feature Film On LogoTV (Press Release)

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SERIES “EASTSIDERS” TO BE BROADCAST AS FEATURE FILM ON LOGOTV

Los Angeles, CA (January 7th, 2014) The first season of “EastSiders: The Series” has been reformatted as a feature film and will receive it's broadcast premiere tonight at 11:30pm EST on the Logo network. This marks yet another step in the journey of the series which debuted its first two episodes on YouTube, made the move to LogoTV.com to release the remainder of the first season, and will now screen on television for the first time. “EastSiders” received the LA Weekly Award for Best Web Drama in 2013 and is currently nominated for a Satellite Award for Original Short-Format Program. This marks the first year that the International Press Academy has recognized new media projects. Check local listing for details.

STATEMENT FROM SERIES CREATOR KIT WILLIAMSON

“I am so excited that “EastSiders” is going to be broadcast as a feature on Logo. Back when we were filming the first episode in my living room I never imagined the show would be seen by as many people as it has. A cable broadcast certainly didn't seem like a possibility, and I'm so grateful to the fans that campaigned to see the show on the channel.”

WATCH: EASTSIDERS Season Finale

On the first season finale of EASTSIDERS, it's moving day. Kathy (Constance Wu) and Ian (John Halbach) patch things up and then Kathy helps Cal (Kit Williamson) pull his life together to say goodbye to Thom (Van Hansis) with dignity. Thom wakes up in Jeremy's (Matthew McKelligon) apartment and makes a surprising discovery. Thom and Cal finish packing.

Check it out below:

EASTSIDERS Tackles Abortion In New Episode

LogoTV.com series EASTSIDERS joins the list of programs in television history that have tackled the controversial topic of abortion. In the new episode, out today, Kathy (Constance Wu) decides to terminate her pregnancy without notifying her boyfriend Ian (John Halbach).

“It was really important to me that Kathy's abortion be handled without any judgement," say series creator (and star) Kit Williamson. "Growing up in Mississippi, the subject of abortion was almost verboten. The sole abortion clinic in the state is constantly under siege by both protestors and lawmakers, with a steady barrage of "regulations" and limitations threatening to undermine a woman's right to choose. It's a fact of life that many women in their mid-twenties have abortions and in a way I felt like avoiding the story the characters were presenting would make me complicit in stigmatizing those women."

EASTSIDERS Using Kickstarter To Raise Money For Full Season

EASTSIDERS launched a Kickstarter campaign to gauge fan interest in a full season, and the fans have spoken, raising nearly all of the $15,000 goal in just a few days.

The series premiered in December to critical acclaim and has over 81,000 views on the show's YouTube channel to date.

AS THE WORLD TURNS star Van Hansis, who received three Daytime Emmy nominations for his portrayal of Luke Snyder, plays one half of the gay couple at the center of the show, opposite series creator Kit Williamson.

Cal’s quirky best friend is played by indie film actress Constance Wu, whose work includes the Sundance film Sound of My Voice.  Kathy’s boyfriend is played by veteran stage actor John Halbach, whose work includes “Tartuffe” on Broadway and the cult hit “Children at Play,” featured in The Advocate as one of their top ten gay plays. Jeremy is played by Matthew McKelligon, whose work includes the upcoming James Franco film Interior. Leather Bar. which is slated to premiere at Sundance. Stephen Guarino, of ABC's HAPPY ENDINGS and Logo's THE BIG GAY SKETCH  SHOW, plays Quincy.

Click here to donate to EASTSIDERS.



SERIES SUMMARY

Written and directed by award winning playwright Kit Williamson, EASTSIDERS explores the aftermath of infidelity on a gay couple in Silverlake, California. When Cal (Kit Williamson) finds out Thom (Van Hansis) has been cheating on him with Jeremy (Matthew McKelligon), their relationship is turned upside down. Will the lies tear them apart or are they just stubborn enough to stay together forever?

THE CREATOR

Kit Williamson, the writer/director/star of the series, began his career on Broadway, acting in the Tony-Nominated revival of “Talk Radio.” Most recently, he appeared in the indie film Best Friends Forever which is slated to premiere at Slamdance this spring. As a playwright, he was awarded the Playwrights First Award by The National
Arts Club.

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WATCH: It's The End Of The World On EASTSIDERS

It's the end of the world as we know it, and the gang is going out with a bang on a brand new episode of EASTSIDERS. Cal (Kit Williamson) and Thom (Van Hansis) clash over an autobiographical short story Thom has published about their relationship while Jeremy (Matthew McKelligon) sets his hopes on a relationship and Kathy (Constance Wu) pushes her boyfriend Ian (John Halbach) define theirs. Watch the story unfold below:

INTERVIEW: Kit Williamson Previews Indie Web Series EASTSIDERS (Part 2 of 2)

EASTSIDERS creator Kit Williamson stars as Cal opposite AS THE
WORLD TURNS alum Van Hansis, who plays Thom.  Watch the first
episode of the series below.

Kit Williamson has appeared in television, film, and new media, as well as on stage (Broadway's "Talk Radio.") He's currently in graduate school, as a playwright, at UCLA. For his latest project, the upcoming indie web series EASTSIDERS, he exercised his talents as an actor and writer, and he also directed - for the first time.

In the series, Williamson plays Cal, who finds out his boyfriend Thom (AS THE WORLD TURNS alum Van Hansis) has been cheating on him, which turns their relationship upside down.

Continue reading our two-part interview with the talented actor/writer/director below.  If you missed the first part you can read it here.

INTERVIEW: Kit Williamson Previews Indie Web Series EASTSIDERS (Part 1 of 2)

EASTSIDERS creator Kit Williamson stars as Cal in the series which
premieres December 14

Kit Williamson has appeared in television, film, and new media, as well as on stage (Broadway's "Talk Radio.") He's currently in graduate school, as a playwright, at UCLA. For his latest project, the upcoming indie web series EASTSIDERS, he exercised his talents as an actor and writer, and he also directed - for the first time.

Luckily, Williamson has surrounded himself with an excellent cast, including AS THE WORLD TURNS alum Van Hansis. In the series, Williamson plays Cal, who finds out his boyfriend Thom (Hansis) has been cheating on him, which turns their relationship upside down.

We Love Soaps caught up with Williamson this week to find out more about his career and how EASTSIDERS, which premieres December 14, came to be.