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Dale Hansen

Dale is a television commercial producer at Comcast Spotlight, where he produces commercials and designs marketing campaigns fpr cable advertising clients. Dale is responsible for all aspects of commercial production, including writing scripts, hiring talent, directing, shooting, and editing.

Steve Roberts (Crescent Sun Pictures)

Steve Roberts owns and operates Crescent Sun Pictures, a freelance film production company in Fort Collins, Colorado. Previously, he was a television commercial producer at Comcast Spotlight, where he wrote and produced hundreds of commercials and designed marketing campaigns for more than 300 clients. Before joining Comcast, Steve was the Creative Services Manager for KGWN, the CBS affiliate in Cheyenne.

Steve's work has garnered four Emmy Awards, a Telly Award, and an award from the National Association of College Broadcasters. He graduated with a technical journalism degree from Colorado State University, where he produced several documentaries and created Backyard Videos, a music video program still in production today.

Shadow Play Films

Shadow Play Films, with offices in Johnstown, Colorado, specializes in television specials and series. The company's committed, talented team is led by David Priest (director, camera operator, and senior editor) and Brenda Rundback (production manager, director of photography, and motion graphics artist). Working together since 1987, David and Brenda have produced over 250 programs. Most recently, Shadow Play Films has completed 52 episodes of the top-rated PAX-TV series, Encounters with the Unexplained.
 
Shadow Play Films has done amazing production work on very reasonable budgets and tight delivery deadlines. They have assassinated President Lincoln, walked with Otzi the Iceman in the 8th century B.C., found the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1948, found POWs in North Korea in the 1960's, watched Butch Cassidy's failed attempt to rob a train in 1886, and marveled at a crop circle forming. Locally, they've found Colorado locations to stand in for most of the U.S., the jungles of Peru, the interior of the great pyramid of Giza, the Italian Alps, Nova Scotia, and Portugal. Broad experience and constant ingenuity make Shadow Play Films one of the premier production companies in Northern Colorado.

George Flynn

George Flynn is a voiceover talent, actor, producer, and director with more than 30 years experience in the business. He is an acclaimed voiceover coach and director who has taught voiceover and acting classes throughout Northern Colorado. He has worked on numerous projects in New York, Florida, and Denver. His media production experience includes feature films, radio and TV commercials and infomercials, television productions, special interest videos, corporate sales and training, audio books, and interactive Media.

Paul Rohrer

Paul Neal Rohrer is a thirty-plus-year veteran of film, television, and stage. Most recognized for his "character" style of acting, Mr. Rohrer has been awarded the honorable CLIO award numerous times and has been hired to perform for the Oscar award-winning producer, Carol Pasternak with Dewey-Obenchain Films on numerous occasions.
 
Mr. Rohrer has studied with some of the most recognized and successful leaders of the film and television industry; Tony Barr, Lynn Stalmaster, Marvin Paige, Mike Fenton and Dabney Coleman to name a few. Mr. Bob Giraldi ("Dinner Rush") cast Paul Rohrer as Mr. Erikson (a turn-of-the-century salesman of electricity) for McCann-Erikson's Pacific Gas & Electric commercial in 1982. This was the beginning of Mr. Rohrer's continued success in the commercial film and video marketplace.
 
A 24-year professional, on stage and for the camera, Mr. Rohrer is internationally recognized for his public speaking, acting, and directorial skills for both public and private enterprises. Fortune 500 Companies, such as IBM, Sunoco Oil, Hewlett-Packard and Caterpillar are among the hundreds of industrial, commercial, and feature-length film work to Mr. Rohrer's credit.
 
Now in his 20th year of coaching actors for the camera, students attend his weekly workshops in a studio setting where they learn all aspects of working as professionals on camera, as well as off. Mr. Rohrer is able to draw on his many years of experience and materials, as well as the many industry related professionals who also share their expertise as guests.

Peter DeAnello

Peter DeAnello, a 20-year veteren actor, screenwriter, and producer, has worked closely in film, television and theatre with such luminaries as Woody Harrelson, Christian Slater, Chazz Palminteri, Dan Lauria, James Cagney, Art Carney, Barbara Eden, Bruno Kirby, Kathy Bates, Danny DeVito, and Penny Marshall. Mr. DeAnello owns Big Fish Talent Agency in Denver, Colorado.
 
A 1990 graduate of The American Film Institute, Mr. DeAnello has sold and produced numerous stage and screen plays, both in New York and Los Angeles. Currently, his screenplay, "Sold Short" is slated to go into production under the direction of Chazz Palminteri. "Suicide Squeeze" began production in the fall of 2002. Since 1998 he has held a free and preparatory workshop for actors (represented by Mr. DeAnello's agency) every week. The workshop is designed to develop, nurture, and refine acting and screenwriting skills and to attract awareness and business development throughout the theatrical industry to Denver.

Tara Marie

Tara Marie Tara Marie is a "triple-threat," with skills in acting, singing, and dancing. She has been part of a drama team for 7 years, and now serves in a leadership rile, specializing in human videos. She has also been an assistant director and choreographer in several musicals. Tara has used her gymnast skills in stunt work, and has taught many young actors the art of falling. In addition, Tara has written and collaborated on scripts for full-length plays, sketches, comedy nights, and competitions.

Marc Durso

Marc Durso teaches private workshops throughout the United States and Europe. His students are working SAG, AFTRA and AEA members with film and TV starring and co-starring roles, national tours and commercials to their credit. His students have gone on to study at The Atlantic Theater Company, AADA, Neighborhood Playhouse, H. B. Studio in New York, The Irish Theatre and Oxford Summer Programs. Marc is a nationally renowned director. He is a Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers Associate and a member of Actors' Equity Association. He has assisted Broadway directors Alan Arkin, Tony Stevens, Tony Award winner Ann Reinking and Tony Award winner Charles Nelson Reilly. He has directed/associate directed NY and LA premieres starring Tony Award winners Uta Hagen and Fritz Weaver as well as for legendary Master Teacher, Sanford Meisner.
 
Marc has coached actors for film/TV in Los Angeles and taught acting and directing as guest faculty at The Musical Theatre Project, the Ford Festival of One Act Plays-Heidelberg, Germany, where he received the Award for Excellence, and E.T.A.'s International Thespian Festival held at the University of Nebraska. He assisted the Cayman National Cultural Foundation on the country's first live televised theatrical production. He coaches actors for Film and TV in the South Florida entertainment market where his is the rehearsal coach for the Miami Telenovela OCEAN AVENUE, as well as the US competitors in the World Ballroom Theatrical Dance competition in Blackpool, England.
 
Marc assisted Impresario James A. Doolittle in presenting the Baryshnikov, Kirov, Joffrey, American Ballet Theatre and Radio City ROCKETTES dance companies at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles developing budgets for multi-million dollar productions. Marc is a graduate of the Burt Reynolds Institute, where he studied with Tony Award winners and Broadway stars Julie Harris, Leonard Frye, Tom Troupe, Alan Arkin, Jerry Herman and Charles Nelson Reilly.

Pete Seel

Dr. Pete Seel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism and Technical Communication at Colorado State University where he teaches video production, documentary history, and new communication technologies. He holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from Indiana University and is the co-author of two books on television technology. While centered on the study of HDTV technology, Dr. Seel's wider research interests include the social effects of global telecommunication technology and digital media. He is a former Vietnam combat photographer with sixteen years experience as a producer-director of broadcast, corporate, and medical television programs. He has produced recent television documentaries on Indiana stone cutters, Colorado bronze sculptors, and is working on a program about elementary education in Guatemala.

 


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