Serena gets in the booth for Lesbian Visibility Week with budding pop star and sapphic icon ‪@zolita‬ to talk creative autonomy, vulnerability in art, and doing it your damn self.
On the Table is shot live from a banquette at Zinqué restaurant in sunny Venice, California, and features conversations about the messiness of being human.
0:00 | Serena Intro: Redefining Courage
2:31 | Zolita Intro
4:36 | Zolita Interview
48:40 | Am I Doing it Right Segment
Zolita
Instagram & TikTok: @zolita
Website: www.zolitamusic.com/
Serena Smith
Instagram: @serenasmith__ + @onthetablewithserena
Website: serenasmith.co
Our killer crew
Director/DP/Audio/host husband: Ian Smith
Gaff/Grip/Op: Luke Dejoras
Producer: Max Ostrove
PA: Thomas Robinett
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About the host
Serena Smith is a host, producer, writer, and dancer who has interviewed GOATs like Gloria Steinem, Pharrell Williams, Misty Copeland, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Gabriela Cámara, alongside too many friends and strangers to count. A four-time Emmy nominee, she was formerly Supervising Creative Producer at MasterClass - where she directed series spanning from food to feminism and won a James Beard Award - and Senior Producer at Larry King Now, which included writing the host’s questions and interviewing guests. She got her start in the industry working for Oprah Winfrey, was a restaurant critic in Chicago, and during one college winter break played a fairy princess who granted children wishes. It was magnificent.
Raised in Montreal, Vancouver, and Chicago, Serena graduated from Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism with a minor in psychology and an incorrigible curiosity about the human condition. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, ‘On the Table’ director Ian Smith, and their remarkable community of friends. If you need her, chances are she’s onstage at Stud Country.
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