OWEN MOOGAN (Producer, “Live From New York!”) is a veteran news producer with nearly twenty years experience and thousands of live hours of television to his credit.
He is also the producer and writer of the opening night film of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, “Live From New York!”
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Moogan worked as a stringer for UPI, while he studied print journalism and TV/Radio at Brooklyn College. He began his career at Fox News Channel, working his way up through various jobs until he became a producer for the network’s 1999 launch of the news hour, “The Fox Report with Shepard Smith”. His duties included creating “The G Block,” the show’s popular final segment, where Smith covered the pop culture and history stories of the day.
Moogan left Fox in 2006 and moved to Los Angeles where he helped launch a news division at TV Guide Network. A chance meeting with Larry Flynt led to a year-long stint as the porn magnate’s personal publicist and PR head of all his companies. He then worked as a producer on the Reelz Channel and as the radio/ internet spokesman for Frontier communications.
In early 2013, Moogan teamed up with Dean Karayanis to launch “The Angry History Show,” a popular podcast which utilized archival audio and the two hosts’ considerable knowledge and lively personalities to render history in a comic and entertaining way.
Moogan has written extensively on New York City during World War II, and is developing an anthology series of alternate history tales, “Points of Divergence”, exploring the “What If’s” of history, shown through the popular television documentary lens.
He is also developing the hybrid television show/podcast, “The Ground Station”, where the well-known and well-knowing discuss their personal stake in history against the backdrop of unusual and entertaining packaged reports.
Moogan’s interest in history and deep understanding of multiple media disciplines served him well as the writer/producer behind LIVE FROM NEW YORK! and fuel his unique perspective in the History production space.
     DEAN KARAYANIS was born a day after Theodore Roosevelt, but the same day as Hillary Rodham Clinton and the shootout at the OK Corral. An avid animal lover, Dean earned an Animal Science degree from Rutgers University. He was attracted to his state university because it’s one of the nation’s oldest. General George Washington headquartered near the New Brunswick campus, and a church in town hosted one of the first public readings of the Declaration of Independence.
Rutgers is also home to the second-oldest collegiate newspaper, The Daily Targum, which provided a great opportunity for writing. But veterinary medicine left little time for anything so regular as a column, and newsrooms tend to frown on people who smell like the pigsty or arrive to work on a horse.
Dean graduated from the farms of Rutgers to a series of veterinary positions, including at Manhattan’s prestigious Animal Medical Center. Between flea baths, spays, and the occasional gunshot wound (the unofficial, “Welcome to New York City,” for rural internists) he continued to pursue writing opportunities and read a ton of history. Perhaps his favorite patient was a rabbit belonging to the Shah of Iran’s daughter, a rare confluence of his passions.
After years in medicine, Dean dedicated himself to writing full time, working with the people inside the radio, television and Internet boxes. His resume includes a stint working for President Bill Clinton’s White House political adviser, writing and appearing in comedy opens on Rush Limbaugh the Television Show, web production, and authoring a travel adventure, Regional Greek Cooking with his wife — the daughter of a history teacher in Canada. He’s had one literary agent die and another retire, but continues to work on novels of historical fiction.
Dean’s favorite historical figures are William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and anarchist Emma Goldman. As his mother was a child inLondon during the Blitz, he’s always been fascinated by the Battle of Britain.
Dean currently lives in New Jersey on Washington’s Retreat Route, near a Liberty Pole that played a key role in the Revolution.