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DENNIS ANYONE? with Dennis Hensley

"A podcast about making things up and making things happen." L.A.-based writer-performer Dennis Hensley believes that art and creativity make the world go around and make life worth living. Each week, he interviews a different creative person each about what they do, why they do it, and how they manage the ups and downs of a creative life. Some guests are famous, some are less so...all are what Dennis describes as "beautiful strugglers." Past guests have included authors, actors, photographers, musicians, screenwriters, acrobats and one visual artist who makes cartoons centered around dead houseflies.

Dennis Hensley's Happy & Gay Crossover Episode: Oscars Schmoscars

37 mins; April 02, 2026

Author Mark Malkoff (Love Johnny Carson): "Johnny Was a Comfort"

69 hours 59 mins; March 26, 2026

Writer-Performer Mike Albo (Hologram Boyfriends, Unitard): "It's Hard to Find Someone Who Is Ready To Sit There"

70 hours 13 mins; March 18, 2026

THE YEAR IN MOVIES 2025 Part 2 w/ Queer Review Senior Film Critic Glenn Gaylord and actor-writer-film lover Drew Droege

64 hours 13 mins; March 12, 2026

THE YEAR IN MOVIES 2025 Part 1 w/ film critic Glenn Gaylord and actor-writer-film lover Drew Droege

68 hours 22 mins; March 05, 2026

The Fivesome from the play FOURSOME play "You Don't Know My Life!"

41 mins; February 26, 2026

Singer-Actor David Hernandez ("Beautiful 2.0"): "It's Always a F%$#-ing Shane"

70 hours 39 mins; February 19, 2026

Playwright Robert Axelrod ("Lifeline"): It Is Hard Work To Help People"

68 hours 2 mins; February 12, 2026

Playwright Justin Tanner ("My Son The Playwright"): "I'm A Nicer Person Than I Ever imagined I Was"

70 hours 17 mins; February 05, 2026

Audio Book Narrator Ron Butler (Baldwin: A Love Story): "I Ended The Book, Saved The File and Cried"

90 hours 53 mins; January 29, 2026

The Cast of ADAM & STEVE ESCAPE FROM MAGA play You Don't Know My Life!

57 mins; January 22, 2026

Author Jon Imparato (The Good Inside the Grief): "You Gotta Let Things Fall Away"

73 hours 48 mins; January 15, 2026

Writer Bob Merrick (Magnificent Obsession on Substack): "Madonna Was My Mother & Debbie Gibson Was My Older Sister"

74 hours 1 min; January 08, 2026

Dennis Hensley In Conversation with Anna David on the Behind the Book Cover Podcast

54 mins; December 31, 2025

Visual Artist Nino Alicea (Got Framed, Atabey's Treasure): "My Favorite Part Is When You See People Enjoying It"

76 hours 4 mins; December 25, 2025

2025 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Part 2 w/ Scott Williams & Cam Clarke

69 hours 4 mins; December 11, 2025

2025 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Part 1 w/ Jackie Beat & Brian Gryphon

54 mins; December 06, 2025

Director Maria Friedman (Merrily We Roll Along): It's a Reminder To Call Your Best Friends

37 mins; December 03, 2025

Boots Writer & Producer Greg Cope White: "Believe In The Story You Want To Tell"

74 hours 44 mins; November 26, 2025

Author Brian Schaefer (Town & Country): "I'm Very Excited That It's A Physical Thing Now That's On My Own Bookshelf"

76 hours 40 mins; November 19, 2025

Actor and Interior Designer Francisco Chacin (Matlock): "Oh, I Have To Go Be Mean To Kathy Bates"

71 hours 55 mins; November 13, 2025

Filmmaker Yen Tan (All That We Love): "Just Be Grateful That You're Still Doing It"

70 hours 36 mins; November 04, 2025

Writer Dennis Osborne & Author Barry Joseph (Matching Minds With Sondheim): "He Had The Youngest Energy Of Anyone In The Room"

70 hours 48 mins; October 30, 2025

Author Barry Joseph (Matching Minds With Sondheim): "This Whole Book Was a Puzzle For Me To Solve"

41 mins; October 23, 2025

Candied Camera Live! Creator & Star Nora Burns: "I Don't Let People Go"

62 hours 43 mins; October 16, 2025

Poet Steven Reigns (Outliving Michael): "I'm Comforted Every Time I Remember Him"

65 hours 37 mins; October 09, 2025

My Buffet-Style Birthday Bonanza

53 mins; October 02, 2025

A Jaded Gay Podcast Host Rob Loveless: "I Hope It's Creating a Conversation"

65 hours 9 mins; September 25, 2025

Filmmaker Spencer Cohen (The Compatriots): "This Is a True Bromance"

34 mins; September 18, 2025

Author Jon Kinnally (I'm Prancing As Fast As I Can): "I'm Too Tired To Prance & My Back Hurts"

83 hours 41 mins; September 11, 2025

Author Stephanie Elizondo Griest (Art Above Everything): "When Everything Is Impossible, Anything Is Possible"

98 hours 5 mins; September 04, 2025

Dennis Hensley's Happy & Gay: Carrie'd Away (by the Finale of And Just Like That...)

62 hours 2 mins; August 28, 2025

Cinecon 61 Producer Bryan Cooper: "We're Getting a Stretch Limo for Mamie Van Doren"

62 hours 2 mins; August 21, 2025

Actor/Author Jeff Hiller (Actress of a Certain Age): "This Poor Delusional Middle-Aged Queen"

69 hours 0 mins; August 14, 2025

XanaCrew Six-Pack: "We Feel Like Our Whole Lives Have Been Leading to This Moment"

88 hours 2 mins; August 05, 2025

Happy & Gay Bonus Episode: I Am Here To Make Friends

36 mins; August 04, 2025

The Crazy Kids Behind XANADU: THE MUSICAL at The Wisteria Theater play You Don't Know My Life!

68 hours 4 mins; July 31, 2025

Ellen Geer (Co-Director of Strife):"You Can Make Cities Out Of Mud"

53 mins; July 24, 2025

Queer Authors Panel at Pride Live Hollywood

82 hours 2 mins; July 17, 2025

Filmmaker-Performer Juan Pablo Di Pace (Before We Forget): "It's A Russian Doll Kind of Movie"

80 hours 36 mins; July 10, 2025

Writer-Director-Actor Leah McKendrick (Scrambled): "If Nothing Is Real, You Have To Be The Real Thing"

73 hours 12 mins; July 03, 2025

Filmmaker Fernando Andrès & Actor-Producer Jacob Roberts (Rent Free): "Film Is My Religion"

60 hours 16 mins; June 26, 2025

Author & Photographer Frankie Frankeny (Love: The Heroic Stories of Marriage Equality): "We Need To Go From Fear To Fierce"

58 mins; June 19, 2025

Documentary subject Kellie Maloney (Knockout Blonde): "I've Mixed The Good Of Frank With The Good Of Kellie And Became A Much Better Person"

68 hours 43 mins; June 12, 2025

Broadway producer and author Jeffrey Seller (Theater Kid): "Write That Letter & Make That Call"

93 hours 38 mins; June 05, 2025

Frank DeCaro & Jim Colucci (co-programmers of Pride Live!Hollywood): "You Know What Sparks Joy? Clutter!"

62 hours 21 mins; May 29, 2025

Playwright Tom Jacobson (Tasty Little Rabbit): "There Are So Many Stories Out There Waiting To Be Found"

79 hours 26 mins; May 22, 2025

Actor Kasey Mahaffy (A Man of No Importance): "We Need You To Be More Grounded"

64 hours 53 mins; May 15, 2025

Filmmaker Lovell Holder & Writer-Performer Roger Q. Mason ("Lavender Men"}: "Mother's Got Her Flashlight On All The Time"

65 hours 45 mins; May 08, 2025

Writer-Director Sarah Kambe Holland (Egghead & Twinkie): "I Know There's Somebody Who Needs This Movie"

38 mins; May 01, 2025

Chef Steven Havens (Winner of Season 3 of The Floor): "We Call Ourselves The Floor-mily"

57 mins; April 30, 2025

Author and Designer Hillary Carlip {"Willis Wonderland"} "It's Like a Pop-Up Book On Steroids"

65 hours 22 mins; April 24, 2025

"Patreon-ize me, People!" The Dennis Anyone: The Patreon Project Sample Pack

65 hours 36 mins; April 22, 2025

Author Paul Rudnick (Farrell Covington and The Limits of Style): "I Know What People Have Been Through"

60 hours 30 mins; April 17, 2025

Author Paul Rudnick (What Is Wrong With You?): Part 1: "I Cry Years Later"

63 hours 1 min; April 10, 2025

Filmmaker Roshan Sethi ("A Nice Indian Boy"): "Love Occurs In The Context Of Your Family"

37 mins; April 03, 2025

Author Bruce Villanch ("It Seemed Like A Bad Idea At The Time"): "I Have A Nine Inch Tongue And I Can Breathe Through My Ears"

59 mins; March 27, 2025

Playwright Audrey Cefaly & Actor Carolyn Messina (Alabaster): "I'm Very Serious About My Comedy"

81 hours 25 mins; March 20, 2025

Author David Wichman (The Four Rooms): "I Think You're Great At Sex!"

84 hours 24 mins; March 13, 2025

Excerpts from Dennis Hensley's The MisMatch Game: All Thorned Up Valentine's Edition

66 hours 5 mins; March 06, 2025

Margot Rose (Performer-Writer-Composer of the musical Unconditional): "I Had To Find a Purpose"

76 hours 18 mins; February 27, 2025

Actor-Writer Mitch Silpa (5 Game Shows & a Funeral): "For A Second, I Was Justin Bieber"

76 hours 18 mins; February 20, 2025

Filmmaker Kyle Henry (Time Passages): Oh My God, Is My Mom Flirting With Me?

65 hours 22 mins; February 13, 2025

THE YEAR IN MOVIES 2024 Part 2 w/ film critic Glenn Gaylord and actor-writer-film lover Drew Droege

90 hours 44 mins; February 06, 2025

THE YEAR IN MOVIES 2024 Part 1 w/ film critic Glenn Gaylord and actor-writer-film lover Drew Droege

60 hours 1 min; January 30, 2025

Filmmaker Luke Willis (Lady Like): "We Built An Ice Cave For A Hundred Bucks"

81 hours 29 mins; January 23, 2025

Playwright & TV Writer Steve Yockey (Sleeping Giant, The Flight Attendant, Dead Boy Detectives): "I Write Theatre Instead Of Going To Therapy"

72 hours 18 mins; January 16, 2025

Career Coach & Author Barbara Deutsch: "I Don't Go To Therapy Anymore. I've Peeled Enough Of The Onion"

54 mins; January 03, 2025

DENNIS DOES DNR HOLIDAY STYLE 2024

63 hours 47 mins; December 30, 2024

Instagram Creators Eric Seppala (@olivianewtonjohnisadoll) and Ruston Harker (@dolldecree): "Playing With Dolls In A New Way"

52 mins; December 24, 2024

Author Brian Sonia-Wallace (The Poetry of Strangers): "I'm Like An Uber Driver For Your Emotions"

90 hours 1 min; December 12, 2024

Author and Collector Bill Morgan (Collector's Guide To TV Toys & Memorabilia): "I Live Like This. This Is Every Day."

66 hours 34 mins; December 05, 2024

Actor-Singer Hugh Panaro (Man Without a Mask): "Darling, There Are Six Moments When You Have To Be Thinking With Your C@#k"

85 hours 50 mins; November 27, 2024

Actor Marc Samuel (The Merry Gentlemen): "I Call It The 'Hold In A Fart' Look"

78 hours 11 mins; November 20, 2024

Alexis Spraic & Prudence Fenton from the documentary The World According to Allee Willis: "If It's Not Blowing Your Dress Up, Go Get Ice Cream"

54 mins; November 14, 2024

Author David Ciminello (The Queen of Steeplechase Park): "Deep Inside Me Beats the Heart of a Bodacious Burlesque Queen"

61 hours 22 mins; November 07, 2024

Excerpts from The MisMatch Game: 20th Anniversary Show

36 mins; October 31, 2024

Actor-Producer Emerson Collins (Buyer & Cellar): "You Have To Celebrate The Rung Of The Ladder That You're On"

71 hours 23 mins; October 24, 2024

Author Frank DeCaro (Disco): "It Was About Fabulousness. Are You Fabulous?

88 hours 59 mins; October 14, 2024

Author Stan Zimmerman ("The Girls: From Golden To Gilmore") Part 2: "The Friggin' White Board Scared The Hell Out Of Me"

76 hours 44 mins; October 10, 2024

TV Writer & Author Stan Zimmerman (The Girls: From Golden To Gilmore) Part 1: "I Wanted To Be An Ernie Flatt Dancer On The Carol Burnett Show"

54 mins; October 03, 2024

Actors Michael Sturgis & Sean Luc Rogers (Clarkston): "A Genuine Dinner at the Costco Food Court"

56 mins; September 26, 2024

Actor-Singer-Influencer Garrett Clayton: "I Just Want To Be The Boy Version Of Thoroughly Modern Millie"

62 hours 55 mins; September 17, 2024

Happy Clothes filmmaker Michael Selditch: "With Pat, Nothin's Ever Too Much"

67 hours 17 mins; September 12, 2024

Actor-Singer David Burnham ("Burnham Sings Buble"): "My Pants Were So Tight I Almost Passed Out"

58 mins; September 04, 2024

Still Working 9 to 5 Filmmakers Gary & Larry Lane: "Just Cuz You're Twins, Don't Think You're Special"

66 hours 30 mins; August 29, 2024

Ganymede Filmmakers Colby Holt & Sam Probst: "I Believe We're Dealing With a Ganymede"

57 mins; August 22, 2024

Singer-Songwriter & Composer Greg O'Connor: "I Never Gave Myself Permission To Do This Before"

56 mins; August 15, 2024

Legendary Bingo founder & Musician Jeffery Bowman: "I've Lived this Nick at Nite Life"

76 hours 7 mins; August 08, 2024

With Love, Mommie Dearest Author A. Ashley Hoff: "Faye Dunaway Gave a Performance For the Ages"

76 hours 32 mins; August 01, 2024

L.A. Theater Director Bart DeLorenzo ("Design for Living"): "Bob Fosse Taught Me To Snap My Fingers"

77 hours 20 mins; July 25, 2024

Conversion filmmaker Zach Meiners and featured subject Elena Joy Thurston: "Using My Voice Helps Me To Heal"

72 hours 30 mins; July 18, 2024

Chronicles of a Wandering Saint filmmaker Tomás Gómez Bustillo: "Making Fun Sh#t With My Friends"

57 mins; July 05, 2024

Playwright Miranda Rose Hall & Executive Director Armando Huipe (The Sandwich Ministry): "I Write About The Questions That Keep Me Up At Night"

43 mins; July 02, 2024

Author Alonso Duralde (Hollywood Pride): "Take The Gays Away And None Of This Happens"

69 hours 23 mins; June 27, 2024

Actor-Singer Activist Bryan Terrell Clark (Diarra From Detroit): "Joy Can Be Resistance"

68 hours 51 mins; June 20, 2024

Trumpery playwright Christian McLaughlin: "It's All Gonna End Because of a Desk"

70 hours 52 mins; June 13, 2024

Lost Spaces podcast host K Anderson: "I Keep Getting Asked If I'm A Therapist"

69 hours 17 mins; June 06, 2024

Author Carl Siciliano (Making Room) Part 2: "What Do We Owe The People Who Love Us?"

76 hours 43 mins; May 30, 2024

Author Carl Siciliano (Making Room) Part 1: "I Could See That They Were Beloved"

67 hours 38 mins; May 23, 2024

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