Chatting with Cris Franco

from Studio City Now · host Michele Marotta

I had the pleasure of speaking with Cris Franco recently and WOW – he is one interesting and super cool person.  And please excuse the recording quality.  Sometimes no matter what you do .....    :)   In high school, he and and our mutual friend, Micki Furr (shout out to Micki !!!) were understudies in Guys and Dolls. He started his career as a singer in Disney World, and left it to come back home to California for the most romantic reason, his partner, now his husband. He and Casey have been married over 40 years! Cris then went on to work at Disneyland, went to Cal State Northridge, and by a twist of fate, wound up in Zoot Suit.  That changed his life forever.   Cris was a tour guide at Universal Studios for awhile, and has some  Cris Franco has combined his bilingual-bicultural Mexican-born roots with a desire to entertain and educate by creating engaging, humorous television that enlightens the viewer to the unique "American-Latino" experience. For his outstanding work on PBS, Cris has received 3 Los Angeles Emmy Awards, 2 Southern California Golden Mike Awards, The Imagen Award and The Nosotros Golden Eagle Award. One of his youtube videos is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hThBQavf64c His shows are: The Cris Franco Show, East LOS High – a telenovela for good looking teenagers, Café California, To be or not to be Latino. I had so much fun talking to Cris. I can’t wait to talk with him again and once lockdown is over, we will do coffee. Can’t wait to meet Casey.

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I had the pleasure of speaking with Cris Franco recently and WOW – he is one interesting and super cool person. And please excuse the recording quality. Sometimes no matter what you do ..... :) In high school, he and and our mutual friend, Micki Furr (shout out to Micki !!!) were understudies in Guys and Dolls. He started his career as a singer in Disney World, and left it to come back home to California for the most romantic reason, his partner, now his husband. He and Casey have been married over 40 years! Cris then went on to work at Disneyland, went to Cal State Northridge, and by a twist of fate, wound up in Zoot Suit. That changed his life forever. Cris was a tour guide at Universal Studios for awhile, and has some Cris Franco has combined his bilingual-bicultural Mexican-born roots with a desire to entertain and educate by creating engaging, humorous television that enlightens the viewer to the unique "American-Latino" experience. For his outstanding work on PBS, Cris has received 3 Los Angeles Emmy Awards, 2 Southern California Golden Mike Awards, The Imagen Award and The Nosotros Golden Eagle Award. One of his youtube videos is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hThBQavf64c His shows are: The Cris Franco Show, East LOS High – a telenovela for good looking teenagers, Café California, To be or not to be Latino. I had so much fun talking to Cris. I can’t wait to talk with him again and once lockdown is over, we will do coffee. Can’t wait to meet Casey.

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