Celebrities Donovan Leitch and Billy West

The Total Tutor Neil Haley will interview Celebrities  Donovan Leitch and Billy West.

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Donovan Leitch - @donovan_leitch

Donovan Leitch has spent his entire life in the entertainment industry. His father and namesake, the psychedelic rock pioneer Donovan, is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee. Growing up in the heart of Hollywood, Leitch started his acting career as a teenager. He then moved to New York to pursue a career as a musician, where he also worked for 10 years in the fashion industry. Setting his sights on becoming a producer, he has made six feature documentary films.

Leitch has had development deals at MTV Networks, Electus, and Maker Studios, and has created and produced web content for Microsoft, YouTube, Vogue.com, and MySpace. He is also the co-founder of Hollywood’s first co-work/incubator space, io/LA.

In 2002, Donovan co-founded the All-Star rock ‘n’ roll cover band Camp Freddy (now called Royal Machines), serving as the super-group’s lead singer. Royal Machines has played over 200 shows over the last 12 years, and has featured many of today’s leading rock stars including Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Idol, Scott Weiland, Dave Navarro, and Tommy Lee.

He is currently producing a musical called Head Over Heels, with actress Gwyneth Paltrow, based on the music of The Go-Go’s; and is a development executive at Insurgent Media, as well as host of AXS TV’s BREAKING BAND.

You know Billy as Stimpy on the original Ren & Stimpy (and later Ren as well), ..a host of characters on Futurama (Fry, Dr. Zoidberg, Professor Farnsworth, and Zapp Brannigan - to name a few), the voice of Elmer Fudd on “The Looney Tunes Show”