Gideon Evans spent six years at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as a field producer, produced Emmy-winning work with Michael Moore, and earned a Daytime Emmy nomination for My Grandmother's Ravioli with Mo Rocca. He is now the co-host and executive producer of the podcast Bad Elizabeth. We talked about what gets cut in the name of comedy, what it means to work without a boss for the first time, and the concepts that haven't found their form yet.

Tom Luse has shaped the worlds behind The Walking Dead, Billy the Kid, Remember the Titans, and plenty of others people forget he worked on. His work in physical production sets the real limits of the story.

Marc Liepis has spent his career working on guest-driven television, where timing, preparation, and judgment decide whether a segment holds together or ends up on the cutting room floor. His work spans SNL, Conan, Fallon, Stern, and VICELAND, sitting between the host, the guest, and the edit.

Susannah McCarthy builds the physical logic of a story. Her work on Mare of Easttown, Only Murders in the Building, The Gilded Age, Task, and FBI lives in details that don’t announce themselves but start to matter the second they’re wrong.