When we say “Hollywood,” it’s kind of like saying “Washington.”

There’s more that makes up these places than just – these places. In many cases, the people who make things go in Hollywood, like in Washington, come from somewhere else, and they land in those places after long professional or personal journeys that start all over the globe. And sometimes those Hollywood scripts start in a place like Washington, where people toil in a variety of pursuits.

Political Theater talks to three of those people today, denizens of the DMV, creatures of Washington, whose work just might land them in Hollywood.

Show Notes:

• They work for Congress. They also have second jobs
• ‘Brain Dead’ on Capitol Hill: Reid Staffer Consulted on New Series
• Heard on the Hill: There’s No Business Like Show Business
• Fact-Checking ‘House of Cards’ and Its ‘Senate of Cards’ Sequence
• How to stay ‘alarmingly authentic’ while working on the Hill