Spotlight On interview with Kevin Spirtas & Michael Slade

Published: June 3, 2019, 4:13 a.m.

b'Tami Goveia and Mike Mattes sit down with Kevin Spirtas & Michael SladeKevin Spirtas:Spirtas is perhaps best known for his roles as Dr. Craig Wesley on the\\xa0soap opera\\xa0Days of Our Lives,\\xa0Jonas Chamberlain\\xa0on the\\xa0ABC\\xa0soap opera\\xa0One Life to Live, and as Nick in the\\xa0slasher film\\xa0Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood\\xa0(1988). Spirtas has worked on\\xa0Broadway, with roles including Hugh Jackman\'s understudy in\\xa0The Boy from Oz, and has also worked as a\\xa0stunt performer. He began using the name "Kevin Spirtas" professionally in 1995, having been previously credited as "Kevin Blair".In 2015, Spirtas portrayed Dominic Delacort on the soap opera web series\\xa0Winterthorne.\\xa0In 2016, he was nominated for an\\xa0Indie Series Award\\xa0for Best Guest Actor in a Drama,\\xa0and a\\xa0Daytime Emmy Award\\xa0for\\xa0Outstanding Actor in a Digital Daytime Drama Series\\xa0for the role.Michael Slade:Writing as a team with a handful of other authors, Clarke has published a series of\\xa0police procedurals\\xa0about the fictional Special External Section (Special X) of the\\xa0Royal Canadian Mounted Police. His novels describe Special X protagonists as they track down fugitives, typically deranged murderers. Four other authors have contributed under the name Michael Slade: John Banks, Jay Clarke, Rebecca Clarke, and Richard Covell. Despite the collaborative nature of the books, Jay Clarke is the predominant voice in their writing[citation needed]. Currently, Jay and his daughter Rebecca write under the Slade name.Slade\'s novel\\xa0Ghoul\\xa0is on the\\xa0Horror Writers Association\'s recommended reading list.[3]\\xa0His work is published by Penguin.Fans of the series are referred[citation needed]\\xa0to as\\xa0Sladists, a play on the word\\xa0sadist.\\n\\n--- \\n\\nThis episode is sponsored by \\n\\xb7 Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'