This is the 4th in a five-part collection profiling the panelists from GO’s digital Pride occasion “LGBTQ+ Representations in movie and TV.”

Robyn Levy
is looking adjust the face area of television — literally.

New Jersey-based business person, mother of two, and former “genuine Housewives of New Jersey” personality has just established her own manufacturing business, Famed Entertainment, and is also trying throw a diverse selection of LGBTQ+ females for all the new reality tv show
“The Facts of Wife.”

Mentioning a requirement observe a lot more lesbian people on TV, Levy talks of “the reality of partner” as a combination of “popular Family” and what goes on following ”
The True L Word
.” The tv show will give attention to an ensemble of varied lesbian/same-sex family members in their daily resides, who can come together in order to deal with bigger issues facing the LGBTQ+ society. By widening the
representation
of LGBTQ+ females and
households
on tv, Levy aims to alter the traditional household device is actually seen and start a multi-perspective discussion.

“we will be covering the life of this cast people, the assortment that is out there between you, but furthermore the similarities,” Levy tells GO. Along with since the residential direction, the ensemble cast will also take a trip across the nation, campaigning for LGBTQ+ individuals in need of assistance.

“It’ll be type of like lesbian ‘Avengers,’ available the united states creating modification,” Levy states. “that is certainly the reason for the tv series: making change and getting a variations of ourselves.”

Levy was impressed to generate “the reality of partner” to ensure that she could create change in true to life and on our displays. Having less same-sex individuals — especially, lesbian family members — on television is a space in our preferred culture Levy desires fill in. While programs like “contemporary Family” address the same-sex family direction, yet others, like “The L Word”, element lesbian figures, couple of, or no, do both.

On an even more individual level, Levy ended up being prompted by her own real life tv show knowledge. She and her wife Christina Flores had been initial lesbian couple highlighted on ”
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
” for the tv series’s 7th season. Levy and Flores had a tendency to stay out of the on-screen drama and just weren’t featured a lot — that is, until long-simmering tensions reached a boiling point between Levy and one of her fellow Housewives. Unexpectedly she ended up being forward and target display screen, embroiled in a verbal conflict with a castmate.

Even though the incident explained her figure throughout the tv series, Levy claims it isn’t really after all representative of which this woman is. “I found myself therefore mortified from that,” she claims. “It is built-up the whole season of me personally maybe not planning to do this. Immediately after which, finally, i recently entirely exploded.”

The view of just one critic in particular weighed on her head: her child, Jake, who was simply then a couple of years outdated. “I imagined to me, ‘Oh my personal gosh, he or she is going to see this and he is likely to be mortified that which is their mummy,'” she claims.

“which is kind of like in which ‘Facts of partner’ began,” Levy informs GO. “You will find, full imaginative power over my tv series, and I can also create modification. That is a lot more of my personal design. I do want to assist all of our society. I would like to assist moms and dads in our society. And battling seriously isn’t actually which i’m or the thing I want my personal children to see.”

While battling might not be the woman design, Levy does believe that sincere disagreement in the form of discussion, debate, and discussion is a critical kind of discussion that thrives when people from differing backgrounds bond. “it will likely be very interesting observe, with


these types of


assortment that people in addition provide the table, what the results are organically,” she claims of “The Facts of Wife.” She notes challenging an individual’s own perspective is actually a required step toward impacting bigger modification, and this she dreams having a diverse number of ladies on her program will emphasize this particular transformative discussion.

Unlike various other real life programs, Levy’s “focus is on letting people to end up being fully on their own,” which is the reason why it is important for her for the best cast for any ensemble. “It really is smart television; it really is educational, make-change, family members TV,” she says.

Levy along with her staff are trying throw LGBTQ+ women in addition to their individuals — both cis and transgender — of different events, religions, ethnicities, views, and experiences to form the ensemble cast. They are looking to hire second cast people, generally ambassadors — show representatives from various parts of the country whose role will be supervise and report local problems that change the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.

Levy, that will participate the ensemble cast along side her partner


,


says to GO that she’s looking to assist a culturally varied cast because it’s through this type of representations that change are first negotiated and applied.

“I want complete representation,” she claims, “therefore I’m selecting diversity in my own casting. The thing I wish is actually sincerity, and I desire, also, for us becoming viewed the same as any heterosexual person.”

“We don’t need a twin of me personally,” she contributes. “I’m casting those who are distinctive from us to make changes which affect everyone.”

Filming of this pilot for “The Main Points of Wife” is actually underway with its present cast members: Levy, Flores, and Nicole Guest. It actually was in the beginning to begin in April but had been delayed as a result of coronavirus pandemic. The casting process is going to be filmed included in the first period and will be broken in to the tv series in 2 specific phases. The very first period consists of Zoom interviews between Levy along with her group and qualified candidates through the candidate pool. Applicants exactly who create through basic circular will end up being asked for a face-to-face ending up in the production group to occur under socially distanced guidelines.

“The show is likely to be natural; it’s going to be genuine,” claims Levy. “The casting will be shot to ensure also [for] the individuals who don’t ensure it is for reasons uknown, there is still a chance for these to show off an item of their unique story.” Although the woman is wishing to complete the ensemble with cast members pulled from tri-state location, in which main recording needs location, it’s more significant for Levy to get the right cast, wherever a qualified


candidate comes from.

Famed Amusement


— basically had only by Levy — is partnering with
Red Coral Casting
on an open casting necessitate the tv show (Red Coral Casting in an arm of Red Coral, which


Levy can also be a partner in)


. Those


enthusiastic about


testing out for “the reality of partner”


can apply for a spot for the ensemble cast or as an ambassador on Red Coral Casting’s web site


. A subscription that will allow individuals entry to the casting database — a standard training for almost all casting communities — prices  $5


per month.

Levy’s creation team normally seeking employ LGBTQ+ individuals after all levels of team, including as manufacturers, administrators, and PR individuals. (Interested individuals can email


info@redcoralcasting.com


to find out more.)

Levy, an experienced business owner, isn’t any complete stranger with the behind-the-scenes aspects of the entertainment sector. For decades, she ended up being the author and manager of eating out Magazine NJ. During the woman time using the book, she created the YouTube series, “eating out using Manzos,” featuring Albie and Chris Manzo. The devoted mummy can the inventor of


Tushy Brand


, a clothing line for babies and young children.

Household reaches the biggest market of every little thing Levy does. The woman wife and their two sons, Jake (5) and Tyler (1 ½) are inspiration behind the woman creative undertakings. She credits her entrepreneurial drive to her daddy, Steve, who owns an advertising agency, while her desire to surrender originates from her mama, Ellyn, a retired college instructor.

Although this woman is incredibly near to her moms and dads, developing — after her brother, Cari, had already done this — was not a straightforward process. “So my personal sister arrived initially, and my personal moms and dads would not manage that really,” she states. Levy had her own sweetheart at that time but stayed determined not to ever inform this lady moms and dads ever, if necessary. It wasn’t until she ended up being with Flores that she ultimately told them. And though the woman moms and dads have since are available around and remain a way to obtain really love and help, Levy states the initial experience had been “horrible.”

While everything is a lot better today (she counts the woman moms and dads among the woman biggest champions), Levy expectations that by exhibiting LGBTQ+ persons and achieving truthful discussions together with her own family members — who can participate in “The Main Points of partner” — she’ll manage to broaden just how queer people and same-sex families are represented in preferred mass media and consequently accepted inside wider tradition.

“the audience is really love,” she claims of her family members. “This home is very filled with love that that is all my personal kids understand. I am aware that there are gonna be difficulties wewill face as a same-sex family that Really don’t really know if i am ready for, s


o easily may start to produce modification while they’re at this type of an early age, subsequently my greatest wish in the field is the fact that they can talk eloquently and with pride for the method they were raised. This is the most significant thing for my situation.”