References

 

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Zev Buffman’s Broadway producing career is legend. He produced 29 shows in New York earning six Tony Awards personally and with his plays garnering close to 40 further nominations. He is currently head of the RiverPark Center in Ohio where he produces the International Mystery Writers Festival at which my screenplay Albatross won the 2007 Angie Award.


Philip Proctor has a voice you have almost certainly heard, you just don’t know it. One of the most sought after voice performers in Los Angeles, Proctor is a veteran of the Firesign Theater comedy group and an actor with close to 120 entries on IMDB. Phil played no fewer than five roles in Albatross.


Melinda Peterson played the female lead in Albatross, bringing the audience to tears at every performance. She is a veteran of the daytime dramas, movies and television as well as voice work.


Jerilyn Teo was a classmate in the University of British Columbia’s Entertainment Administration program. She worked with me on two major projects.


Tracey Mack is the Director of Business Affairs and Marketing and a Development Executive at Bardel Entertainment, a highly successful animation house in Vancouver where I did my practicum for the UBC program.


Michelle Bonneau is the Director-at-Large for an international NGO called Inter-cultural Women’s Educational Network. I prepared a new business plan for them last summer with the goal of breaking out of their rut of running on shoestring budgets of less than $100,000 and moving up to $3 to $5 million each year.


John Ziebell was my supervisor when I was an adjunct professor of English for the Community College of Southern Nevada. I taught creative writing, screenwriting, and composition.


Brett Harvey, Executive Director of the American Society of Journalists and Authors in New York, was my supervisor for three years when I edited the ASJA Monthly magazine.


Robert Besler is a Vernon, BC, businessman.


Lee Cartier was Program Administrator for Okanagan College Continuing Education. It was with him that I created and developed the college’s Professional Writing Certificate Program, an idea I brought to the college in 1996.


Sid Tafler is a writer and editor in Victoria, BC, and a past president of the Professional Writers Association of Canada.


Bill Johnstone is a writer and editor in Victoria, BC.