Creative Producer

Co-creator, co-executive producer and cohost

Get Lost! is a mid-life coming-of-age, open road travel show about a TV personality and arts advocate who come together and harness the power of friendship to find themselves by getting lost.

Having way too much fun!

Cohosts Lonita Cook and Michael Mackie at the World's Largest Spool of Thread in Hamilton, MO for KCPBS travel show, Get Lost!

Did we get the shot?

Lonita and Michael watch scene playback with Director of Production, Cole Blaise and Showrunner, Mariah Haberman

You can drive my car!

Behind the Scenes with Producer and Editor, Brad Austin as he makes the foundational magic for all the Get Lost! visuals

Shreeewww.

Lonita Cook + Mariah Haberman hide from the heat and enjoy ice cold drinks while on location at J. Rieger in Kansas City, MO

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Film Critic

Now contributing to KCTV5's My KC Live and WHO13's Hello Iowa

What fun it is to watch + discuss movies for a living! And to interview the world's brightest stars while keeping a finger on the pulse of local and regional film arts.


Lonita Cook with Best Actor Academy Award Nominee for Netflix's biopic about civil rights visionary, Bayard Rustin, Mr. Colman Domingo

He's here, he's there, he's every f--ing where! Oh wow, it's the great Roy Kent, otherwise known as Brett Goldstein, posing with Lonita at the Critics Choice Awards

Clocking funnyman and star of animated feature, The Bad Guys, Lonita chills with Craig Robinson after performing his onstage musical comedy escapade

Lonita interviews the Everyman himself, Mr. Jason Sudeikis and his Jiminy Cricket-- Beard, Mr. Brendan Hunt for S2 of Ted Lasso for KCTV5