talkin' 'bout Our Generation
JULIAN G. SIMMONS
Co-Producer, Host
Julian was actually one of the hundreds of thousands of skinny long-haired kids stuck on the Thruway when Arlo Guthrie made his momentous announcement, “The New York State Thruway is closed, man…”
Julian was a true Woodstock Nation warrior for peace, a dedicated antiwar organizer with hair down to his waist. In his mid-teens, he was student president of a local western New York anti-war organization, S.T.O.P. (Students and Teachers Organized for Peace) and was also one of the student founders of the first Buffalo area Free Schools, first known as the Village School and later as Ultimatum. Julian studied journalism at Northeastern University and Shakespeare and Classics at Balliol College, Oxford.
Nowadays, Julian works as an actor, VO artist, writer, and audiobook narrator in L.A. For many years he worked in Public Relations (including his own company JS/PR), in music promotion, entertainment, and representing photographers. He has worked as a freelance journalist, screenwriter and is a published author; he has written seven screenplays and published short stories and poetry. His audiobook narrations consistently receive very impressive ratings on Audible. His poem, "Kennebunkport," was chosen by the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library for the Centennial issue of their
ROB WILSON
Co-Producer, Director
Rob is a graduate of Stanford University, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in the City of New York, the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies, and is a member of both the Writers and Directors Guilds of America.
In his youth, Rob was an avid environmentalist, serving 5 years as the Leader of Service Trips for the Sierra Club. He spent a summer working among the homeless in London. As an investigative reporter and TV writer/director/ producer, he covered the loss of community in rural America, the shameful history and present-day struggles of Native Americans, the Nicaraguan Revolution, police corruption in the Deep South, the cold reality on both sides of the death penalty among the many the conflicts and controversies of our Criminal Justice System, invasion of privacy and the manipulation of information by Government, Tech Companies and Political Campaigns, GLBT rights, herbicide spraying over back-country communes. He wrote & directed dozens of profiles about hometown heroes, outstanding teachers, remarkable human beings. Bringing out the human story has always been his forte, and he’s won the Emmy, Cable ACE and CINE Golden Eagle, among other honors. His work has appeared on all major networks and cable channels, as well as in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Ford Foundation publications. Most recently, he was story producer on 15 documentaries and multiple shorts for the Annenberg Space for Photography, currently running on PBS.
Rob is currently working as Director and Co-Producer of the podcast, OURGENPOD.com., and writing the blog, Mutterings from the Man Behind the Curtain," which will be available via the OURGENPOD website Blog page.