Meet Bryan Kreutz

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Bryan Kreutz. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Bryan, thank you for being such a positive, uplifting person. We’ve noticed that so many of the successful folks we’ve had the good fortune of connecting with have high levels of optimism and so we’d love to hear about your optimism and where you think it comes from.

I’ve been on both sides of dark and both sides of the lighter side of emotion. As a TV producer or actor on either side of the camera, I’m put in a position where I can directly and profoundly affect the overall morale of the set/studio mood from the beginning.

I’ve found I personally get better results and I’m astronomically more resilient in the face of stress when I approach a day that starts with the first thoughts of best-case scenarios and a positive outlook. Regardless of how big or little the goal setting and checklist is for the day I also ensure to go out of my way to make at least one or two people feel especially appreciated. I’m working on this more with my wife, as she seems to be affected by her working from home mood more than anything, which of course in-turn affects my mood.

There are days when I feel less optimistic, but those days and moments are compartmentalized into a manner that are controllable knowing it can also lead to greater effort toward high-priority goals by purposely pushing or suppressing negative emotions aside.

My father, a Boeing aircraft employee for 45 years, always looked at life and most situations with optimism and a smile to accompany a notable comment on any given situation we found ourselves in. From a kid through my adult years, father taught me to treat people optimistically with a lighthearted attitude, plus he never met a stranger as an outgoing person. I would always joke to my mother or siblings, dad can strike up a smile and conversation with anybody as he practically knows half of Saint Charles, the Saint Louis Missouri suburb I grew up in. I incorporated a lot of his positive, optimistic people skills into my everyday life and found people were much more open to reciprocate a smile, laugh, or positive comment if I dished it out first, stranger or not. The few who didn’t reply or were cold and bold-faced recipients of my positivity would always make me think, hmm I need to work harder on my friendliness and optimism with that person next time I greet them.

Lastly, unlike corporate America where you might work virtually or with the same co-workers for years and years, on a film set you may only work with the same group of people for a day as a guest star, or a week before moving on to the next project (unless working on an episodic TV show).

Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?

After graduating from college in St. Louis, Missouri with a broadcast communications degree, Bryan Kreutz began a career as an FM radio deejay while also hosting and producing a football call-in show for the CBS radio affiliate, WKEI, on the outskirts of Peoria, Illinois.

While building a quick resume voicing over 100 commercials and almost as many programming promos for two radio stations in his first year, he commenced a career on-screen as a commercial TV actor. Bryan’s career has launched commercial spokesman opportunities front-lining him on national cable TV commercials for Fidelity Communications cable company in six states and Sono Bello TriSculpt, airing more than 200,000 times in every major U.S. TV market nationally. Bryan has played supporting and bit roles in numerous television shows.

Currently, Bryan is working on season five hosting the only broadcast television Star Trek talk show alongside Lili Fox-Lim, interviewing top Star Trek celebrities. The biopic style interview program has also brought in new Star Trek segments, former day-players Bryan worked with in Joanna Ferbrache, Jessica Jordan and a new face Harper Dhadde. Also, after pitching this Star Trek talk show titled “A Captain’s Log” to Hollywood Television and streaming platforms, the program itself airs on 32 television stations in 16 states and has producer Bryan hosting on a spin-off TV talk show with another host Laura Brunkala, titled “Icons: Between the Stars” encompassing all of Sci-Fi, Horror, Fantasy and animation interviews set for a Fall 2025 release on television. Both programs have also been produced alongside Dustin Serrano and many other integral crews.

On the acting side, in front of the camera, Bryan has played a diverse selection of roles, ranging from bit parts on Nickelodeon TV series “Drama Club”, Disney film “Cheaper By the Dozen” up to bit parts and a few supporting roles in major studio Hollywood film productions. Bryan would settle into the film scene, playing the spit bag passenger in an airport scene with Kate Upton on the William H. Macy film “The Layover”. Shortly thereafter, Bryan, the “host with the most” (lines), would appear as a supporting role as a fictional TV talk show host named Larry Thrunkleman in the Tom Green comedy film “Interviewing Monsters and Bigfoot”. During this same time,

Bryan owned a Midwest-based production company with an LLC moving this to Southern California where he appeared as a character, wrote, directed, and produced a high-school and roommate drama titled “Up on High Ground”, which landed on PureFlix and late-night The CW Network stations for 9 episodes.
Bryan resides south of the Los Angeles, California area in Temecula with his wife and three children.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Bryan Kreutz’s areas of knowledge stem from a corporate background in technology services, writing and skills in listening where he learned learn from the very best. Its a foregone conclusion that many people you may know have a thing or two to say about knowing how television camera’s, microphones, editing software, video effects and high-level graphics are created with sophisticated software. Bryan has an acute knowledge in the realm of being able to harness creative energy around technology based software skillets to make a television production leap frog over an average program to a notable one and even a two-time award winning one on Roku Channel.

What has been your biggest area of growth or improvement in the past 12 months?

In the past 12 months, I’ve learned to find more effective ways to streamline our pre-production workflow before the next TV season starts. For example, we’ve moved to our third television studio, and second one in the latest two seasons to squeeze an already taxing budget from season 4 in Pasadena to a 70% less-overhead studio cost now that were in a new studio in Glendale California. This has enabled us to boost our TV production team’s involvement on and off the set proving a better and more high-quality episode gets produced with more backgrounds and Star Trek-like scene movements. Here’s the kicker, even though our studio costs are 70% less this season, the new studio, built in 2021, but new for our show, “MyStudio-Montrose”, is equipped with the state-of-the-art Tri-caster-Blackbox equipment. This ensures we have a precisely placed background surrounding us hosts and a built-in team at the studio who are engaged, while hands-on, with making this TV show boldly go at warp speed. All this seethes “Efficiency”, ‘Equity” and “Engagement” for our audience to enjoy and perhaps relive a moment spoken about in our timeless interviews. Having grown from 14 TV station affiliates to 32 in the last 12-months is proof, as a producer myself, and a team of producers, “A Captain’s Log” is thriving while gaining strength as a Star Trek talk show that can’t be ignored by past, present, and future Star Trek fans who want to catch an edgy, never before or rarely interviewed actor, stuntman, line producer, or visual effects producer. We’ve interviewed a gambit of colorful personalities etched in time and history. Perhaps our biggest area of growth is having in-studio guests for the first time with Tom Morga and Chris Doyle, household Star Trek stunt superstars to join us for follow-up interviews having also interviewed both remotely a little more than 20 months ago.

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