CHRIS KOCH (Director) has completed both feature film and television projects. For television, Koch's credits include Scrubs for NBC, Malcolm in the Middle for Fox, and Pete and Pete for Nickelodeon.
Koch directed the hit film Snow Day before helming the independent film, Every Seven Minutes.
DAVID LADD (Producer) recently produced MGM's Hart's War starring Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell and directed by Gregory Hoblit.
Currently, Ladd is preparing a variety of motion pictures, including Godspeed Lawrence Mann. He will co-produce the film with Michael Douglas and Further Films; Richard Loncraine will direct. Additionally, Ladd is starting production on I Want Kandee, a teen comedy in the vein of the classic Roman Holiday.
Prior to forming his current production banner, David Ladd Films, Ladd worked as executive vice president of production for MGM. During his nine years at the studio, he was instrumental in its resurgence, supervising the development and production of numerous films, including Get Shorty; Red Corner, starring Richard Gere; the acclaimed crime drama Mulholland Falls; The Cutting Edge; and Untamed Heart.
Ladd, son of legendary leading man Alan Ladd, entered the world of entertainment as an actor. For his first starring role in a feature film, Proud Rebel, he won a Golden Globe Award. The film, directed by Michael Curtiz, starred Alan Ladd and Olivia de Havilland. Ladd also appeared in such critical and commercial successes as Dog of Flanders, for which he won the film critics' award from The Film Daily (forerunner of National Society of Film Critics). On the small screen, he guest-starred on such classic series as Bonanza, Ben Casey, and Wagon Train. He also starred in many live television productions, including Tom Sawyer.
After taking a hiatus from his acting career to earn a degree in business from the University of Southern California, Ladd served in the U. S. Air Force. Upon his return to Hollywood, Ladd developed an interest in producing. He worked in production for ABC Television producing movie and variety specials, moved to Columbia Pictures as a creative executive, then partnered with renowned producer John Veitch. Ladd's first solo producing credit appeared on Wes Craven's thriller The Serpent and the Rainbow.
In 1989, Ladd joined his brother, Alan Ladd, Jr. , as vice president of production for Pathe, which subsequently became part of MGM. Ladd remained with the company until his return to independent production with The Mod Squad for MGM.
DAVID NICKSAY (Producer) previously co-produced the comedy hit Legally Blonde for MGM. He also executive produced the Martin Lawrence and Danny DeVito comedy What's The Worst That Could Happen? and the thriller Antitrust starring Tim Robbins and Ryan Philippe.
As executive producer, Nicksay's credits include the animated live-action comedy The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle and The Negotiator, in addition to such hit films as Robin Williams' Flubber and Addams Family Values. He also produced the critically acclaimed Up Close & Personal.
A native of Massachusetts, he attended Hampshire College in Amherst and later moved to Los Angeles to train with the Directors Guild of America. Honing his skills in various aspects of motion picture production, Nicksay went on to produce the features Lucas and Mrs. Soffel. He also produced the multiple Emmy-nominated miniseries Little Gloria…Happy At Last and the two-hour telefilm pilot for the series Call to Glory.
Subsequently Nicksay became senior vice president of production at Paramount Pictures, serving as executive producer for a wide variety of critical and box office hits, including Ghost, Coming To America, The Untouchables, Scrooged, Star Trek V, The Two Jakes, and many others.
From 1989 to 1992, Nicksay was president and head of production for Morgan Creek Productions. He also served as executive producer for six of the company's films, including Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Pacific Heights and Young Guns ll.
He is a member of both the Motion Picture and Television Academies, the Directors Guild of America and the American Film Institute Education and Training Advisory Board.
GREG GLIENNA (Writer) is a writer/director/comedian who originally hails from Park Ridge, Illinois. He studied film at Columbia College in Chicago, and, while there, began performing standup comedy. His dry humor and funny songs soon made him a popular Midwest favorite. Glienna has opened for such luminaries as David Copperfield, Bobby Vinton, Connie Francis and Tim Allen. His friendship with comedian Emo Philips led to funding for the independent feature film Meet the Parents, which was written and directed by Glienna.
The film played to critical praise in film festivals and art houses in the United States and United Kingdom and eventually came to the attention of Steven Soderbergh, who brought it to Universal. Universal hired Glienna to rewrite his screenplay for a big budget remake starring Robert DeNiro and Ben Stiller, directed by Jay Roach. Glienna also wrote and directed the feature film Desperation Blvd. Glienna is represented by the William Morris Talent Agency and managed by David Faigenblum.
Pete Schwaba (Writer) hails from Chicago and attended DePaul University as an English/drama major. He won the College Comedy Hot Shots of Chicago Competition before performing stand-up for nine years across the country. Later, he often appeared on Comedy Central, Evening at the Improv, and Caroline's Comedy Hour and also at the Montreal Comedy Festival in 1997.
When he moved to Los Angeles in 1997, Schwaba was cast as the lead in three pilots. While maintaining his stand-up acts, he wrote for the WB and Comedy Central. In 1998, he began writing with Greg Glienna, a fellow Chicago stand-up. Schwaba continually writes new material and is currently in the process of making two independent films.
Matt Tarses (Writer) works as a writer and producer for television and feature film. His television credits include Overall Deal and Scrubs. Tarses co-executive produced Scrubs, acted as supervising producer on The Norm Show, and produced Sports Night with Imagine/Disney. Sports Night won a Humanitas Award.
Tarses served as executive story editor on Men Behaving Badly, The Arsenio Hall Show and Public Morals. He also worked as story editor on Fresh Prince of Bel Air for NBC. In addition, Tarses wrote Sparing Partners for Imagine/Universal.
Bill Wrubel (Writer), a native of Demarest, New Jersey, graduated with a BA from Wesleyan University. Wrubel produces the award-winning Will & Grace, and his television credits also include Sports Night (executive story editor, 1998-2000). He is currently developing the feature film The Sparring Partner with Imagine Entertainment, but he received his first feature film production experience on the set of Cameron Crowe's Singles. Wrubel is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company in New York, as well as the author of several sketches and full-length, one-act and radio plays. He worked in production at the Lincoln Center Theater in New York for five years on plays by David Mamet, John Guare, Richard Nelson, Shel Silverstein and Thornton Wilder. In addition, Wrubel assists extensively with The 52nd St. Project, creating theater with inner-city children.
Robbie Greenberg (Director of Photography) garnered two Emmys and two American Society of Cinematographer Awards in consecutive years for his camera work on the award-winning HBO movies Winchell, directed by Paul Mazursky, and Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, directed by Martha Coolidge. Greenberg's most recent feature credits include the hit film Save The Last Dance, directed by Thomas Carter, and Chris Koch's Snow Day.
A native of New York, Greenberg moved to San Francisco in 1969 to pursue a career in photography. This led to work as a gaffer and camera assistant in the documentary genre. After working as a cinematographer on a number of low budget features, Greenberg relocated to Los Angeles.
While working as a director of photography on the film Youngblood, he simultaneously filmed promos of Warner Bros. star artists in what is considered the birth of the music video.
His early feature credits include Ivan Passer's The Creator, The Milagro Beanfield War, Sweet Dreams, and Far North. Other credits include Sunset Park, Fools Rush In, Squanto: A Warriors Tale, Free Willy, and the 1972 segment of the Emmy-nominated television movie If These Walls Could Talk ll.
DAN DAVIS (Production Designer) most recently completed the upcoming Gwyneth Paltrow feature A View From The Top, directed by Bruno Barreto. He received an Emmy Award nomination for his work on the acclaimed telefeature Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows, starring Judy Davis. In recent years Davis also created the look of such features as Deep End of the Ocean, the Nora Ephron comedies You've Got Mail and Michael, and A Thousand Acres.
Davis, who was educated at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, England, and at the University of Waterloo in Canada, worked in New York City as an architect before embarking on a career in the movie business. His first project as art director was on the 1985 film Follow That Bird. Davis expanded his art director credits with such hit films as Moonstruck, Cocktail, Reversal of Fortune, Of Mice and Men, The Age of Innocence, Regarding Henry, Searching For Bobby Fisher, and Nobody's Fool.
Additional production design credits include Jonathan Demme's Beautiful Girls; A Pyromaniac's Love Story, and The Ref, also for Jonathan Demme.
DAVID MORITZ (Editor) most recently completed the period feature The Affair of the Necklace. Other recent projects include Town & Country and Knockaround Guys. Moritz edited Wes Anderson's critically acclaimed comedy hit Rushmore and was co-editor on Jerry Maguire. Additional feature credits include The Evening Star, Sleep With Me, Joe Hill, and Fifteen Minute Hamlet.
He served as associate film editor on I'll Do Anything and as first assistant editor on the film Father of the Bride, One Good Cop, and Dick Tracy.
Moritz has appeared on screen in Rushmore and Joe Hill.
Pam Withers' (Costume Designer) recent feature credits include such hit films as The Wedding Planner, Shallow Hal, Dude, Where's My Car?, and Nobody's Baby. She has worked on a total of six Farrelly Brothers movies, including Shallow Hal. Credited as costume designer on Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin, she graduated to assistant designer on There's Something About Mary, and costume designer on Me Myself and Irene. She also served as costume designer on the live-action sequences of Osmosis Jones.
Withers launched her career as a wardrobe assistant on Oliver Stone's Oscar®-winning Born on the Fourth of July. She served as wardrobe supervisor on the Coen Brothers The Big Lebowski and was assistant designer on Paulie and Thick As Thieves.
Addition credits for Withers include set costumer on Liar, Liar, Forget Paris, City Slicker ll and Kuffs. More recently she designed The Suburbans and the pilot for the television series Time of Your Life starring Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Withers also dressed Madonna on two projects: Abel Ferrara's Dangerous Games and Uli Edel's Body of Evidence.
MARK MOTHERSBAUGH (Composer) entered mass-consciousness in the mid '70s as singer/keyboardist/conceptualist in the multimedia project that was and is DEVO. During the decade that followed, the group generated numerous albums, hit singles (for both Virgin and Warner Brothers Records), and world tours, performing music distilled from the industrial soundscape of its native Ohio. Furthering their efforts to disseminate The Truth About Devolution, Mothersbaugh and DEVO created films and videos, visual art and printed materials - even a line of fashions based on the band's onstage attire.
Shortly before DEVO disbanded in the mid '80s, Mothersbaugh scored a Hawaiian Punch commercial, orchestrating the sounds of a factory to create a rhythm track for an animation of dancing robots. Soon enough, with the proliferation of sound sampling technology, this post-instrumental approach gained acceptance as "sound design. " Mothersbaugh's innovations earned him a Clio Award and several more offers for commercial work, in addition to a new vocation: composing for film and television.
Mothersbaugh provided the memorable theme for Pee Wee Herman's Playhouse, in addition to scoring several complete episodes of the series. Soon enough, he was providing the soundtracks, along with some 420 original songs, to 100 episodes of the Disney Channel's Adventures in Wonderland. He was commissioned to score Rugrats, television's most popular show for children.
Mothersbaugh belongs to a committee dedicated to preserving the legacy of iconoclast composer Raymond Scott and keeps a collection of historic synthesizers. He also formed the progressive film company Atomika with Nancy Ferguson.
Four years ago, after a second phase of recording and touring by DEVO which lasted through the early nineties, Mothersbaugh began to focus his musical energies on scoring for feature films. His credits include Rugrats: The Movie, 200 Cigarettes, Rushmore, Drop Dead Gorgeous, and The Mystery Men. Mark also wrote the underscore and 20 original songs for A Rugrats Live Adventure. Other credits include Rugrats II, Dawson's Creek, Rocket Beach, It's the Rage, Sugar and Spice, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Welcome to Collinwood, Sorority Boys, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Cheaters.
Advertising agencies have continued to enlist Mothersbaugh's services. Universal Studios, Miller Lite, JC Penney, Mattel, Cherry Coke, Toshiba, Toyota, The Learning Channel, and Nestle's are among his latest clients.
