After 15 years working as an actor and singer in theatre, film, and TV, both in New York and Los Angeles, and directing off-off-Broadway productions, I joined Group One Productions in L.A.. This award-winning company was one of the truly innovative production companies in our business. It was at Group One that I learned film production, working on projects ranging from small, one camera shoots with two technicians, to live performances (Carole King Live in Central Park) requiring 12 cameras and a union crew of over a hundred.

     For the next 20 years I worked as a producer and/or first assistant director on dozens of theatrical features, TV movies, and corporate films, as well as on over one thousand TV spots.

     In 1989, while continuing my freelance producing work, I began producing and directing on my own, primarily multi-camera videos of both studio and live performances. To date, I've produced, directed, and edited about 100 half-hour TV shows and some four dozen documentaries, theatrical shows (dramatic and musical), and live concerts.  For five years I produced and edited the videos for the O'Neil Theatre Center's Cabaret Symposium. My documentary Robert and Elizabeth was among the productions featured at the 2002 New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. In 2007 my scenic video, Big Sur Coast won first prize in the Coastwalks Video Festival “Places” category.

     In 2004, with my partner Eric Brown, I developed and directed Elizabeth Hepburn's Better and Better Series, a three-part video designed as complementary therapy for patients and caregivers having to manage the emotional stresses of surgery. (For more information and video clips, go to the Major Projects page.)  In 2005, also in collaboration with Eric Brown, I began work on a feature-length documentary, Birth of the Music Video, which explores that phenomenal explosion of creativity in the mid-60's which led to the ascendancy of the music video, one of today's most visible art forms.  Completion date for the documentary is set for mid-2008. (For additional information and video clips, go to Major Projects.)

    As for print and web media access to some of my views on video production, you might check articles on shooting and editing published on Ken Stone's FinalCutPro web site, as well as my chapter in Transitions: Voices on the Craft of Digital Editing, published by Apress. 

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