Josh Radnor
Executive Producer / Host
Josh Radnor is an actor, writer, director, and musician. Recent television: Hunters (Amazon) opposite Al Pacino and Fleishman is in Trouble (F/X, Hulu.) He is best known for his leading role on CBS’ Emmy-winning How I Met Your Mother.
Additional TV: Rise, Mercy Street, Centaurworld, Grey’s Anatomy, Six Feet Under. He wrote and directed two feature films (happythankyoumoreplease & Liberal Arts) both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the former winning the 2010 Audience Award.
Other film: Afternoon Delight (dir: Joey Soloway), Social Animals, 3 Birthdays, All Happy Families. Theater includes the world premiere of Itamar Moses’ The Ally (The Public Theater), Little Shop of Horrors (Kennedy Center), Richard Greenberg’s The Babylon Line (Lincoln Center), the Broadway production of Ayad Akhtar’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, Disgraced. He made his Broadway debut in The Graduate opposite Kathleen Turner.
As a musician he made two albums with Aussie singer-songwriter Ben Lee as Radnor & Lee. Solo music: One More Then I’ll Let You Go, Eulogy: Volume 1 & Volume 2. You can find his popular Museletters over on Substack.
Craig Thomas
Executive Producer / Host
Craig Thomas is a co-creator, executive producer and writer of How I Met Your Mother, which received 30 Emmy Award nominations and 10 wins in its 9-season run, and remains one of the most popular TV comedies all over the world. Mr. Thomas has written for other TV series, including American Dad! and Late Show with David Letterman.
Craig is also an accomplished prose writer, with essays and short stories published in The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, McSweeney's, and The Iowa Review. His first novel—a layered family dramedy set at the high-speed intersection of disability parenthood and Hollywood—is forthcoming from MIRA Books.
He is also an Emmy-nominated songwriter who has written songs for Sesame Street and is a founding member of The Solids, a power-pop band whose music has been featured in TV & film.
Craig lives in New York City with his wife, Rebecca, his daughter, Celia, and his son, Elliot, whose unique journey has had a huge impact on his life and work.
Alek Lev
Producer
Alek Lev is a producer, writer, director and, in his other life, a nationally certified American Sign Language interpreter. Alek served as the New Media Director for How I Met Your Mother in Seasons 6-9, producing their DVD special features while also creating and hosting the 50 episodes of the original How I Met Your Mother Podcast.
Since then, he has produced several other podcasts, including Meeting Tom Cruise, Talking Buster Keaton, and the still-running Arts Educators Save the World, which brings together successful artists in conversation with their mentors; guests have included Lin-Manuel Miranda, Cecily Strong, Jonathan Groff and our very own Josh Radnor and Craig Thomas.
Alek wrote and directed WHAT?, a black-and-white silent feature film about a Deaf actor struggling mightily for respect in Hollywood. Alek graduated from Wesleyan University, where he shared both housing and a cat with HIMYM co-creator Craig Thomas. Follow him on Substack at Dead Fathers Society.
Alex Reeves / Point of Blue Studios
Audio Producer / Mixer
W. Alex Reeves is an award-winning writer, director, producer, editor, and sound designer based in Los Angeles. He began his career as a television editor on shows like Supernanny, The Amazing Race, and The Real Housewives of New York. In 2011, Alex founded Point of Blue Studios, a production company based in North Hollywood where he has since produced and directed multiple award-winning documentaries, short films, music videos, and commercials. A two-time MPSE Golden Reel nominee, Alex’s sound design can be heard on HBO, Netflix, and Disney+. He was the resident recording engineer for RocketJump Studios’ podcast network from 2013-2015. Since then, he has engineered and mixed dozens of podcasts including Meeting Tom Cruise (iHeart Radio), Alethea (Audible Originals), and The Real Housewives of Dungeons and Dragons. Alex is the other half of Hollywood power couple Nicolex and lives with his talented wife (Nicole Wyland) and three cats (Milo, Fran, and Elliott) in Valley Village, CA.
Doug Matejka
Co-Producer
Doug Matejka has been a writer and producer for over 20 years. In 2021, he created and wrote the AMBIE-award winning podcast Whistleblower (licensed to FX) and, in 2024, the acclaimed podcast Flashpoint, both with Tenderfoot TV. He’s also the EP of the semi-weekly podcast Arts Educators Save the World. Doug has produced myriad film projects for ABC Disney, Sony, iHeart Media, Hulu, Roadside Attractions, and Bleecker Street Media, including the Independent Spirit Award-winning feature Mass and the documentary The Spoils: Selling the Future of American Basketball. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, their son, and their dog Goose. He’s repped by Chelsea Kreps at WME.