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Allan Siegel - Producer
Allan Siegel has been making and directing films since 1967. He was a founding member of the documentary film group Newsreel and a co-director of Third World Newsreel. His films have been exhibited at most of the world's major film festivals, including Oberhausen, Berlin, Festival dei Popoli, Turin, Rotterdam, Ann Arbor and San Francisco. Siegel's programs have been shown extensively on public television and cable, and his productions of "The Marriage Dinner" and "No Time to Lose" were both selected for national exhibition on the Learning Channel program, The Independents. "No Time to Lose" was also broadcast on WNET.
Mr. Siegel directed and wrote the screenplay for A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, based on the story by Ernest Hemingway. The film won a "Bob" Award from Image Union, a program that features the work of independent producers. He is currently working on the documentary In the Shadows of the Shoah; writing a screen adaptation of the David Albahari novel, Bait; and doing the cinematography for the exhibition Mies in America, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art in June 2001. Mr. Siegel founded and coordinated the Third World Newsreel Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop and currently teaches in the film and video department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. |
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Fawn Ring - Executive Producer
Ms. Ring is the executive producer of cultural & entertainment programming at WTTW Chicago. She has been the driving force behind many of WTTW's most innovative arts programming initiatives. Ms. Ring's producing credits include five programs for PBS's Great Performances series since 1989, as well as the highly acclaimed special, "Mozart By The Masters" with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman and Victor Borge. Other production credits include "Love In Four Acts," a PBS special featuring works created especially for television by four Chicago choreographers. She was co-executive producer for the award-winning documentary Record Row: The Cradle of Rhythm & and Vanishing Act: Memories of Vaudeville.
Ms. Ring is host for Artbeat Chicago, a weekly arts magazine series showcasing culture and the arts in and around Chicago, which she was involved in launching in 1997. She is presently executive producer of Network Chicago Presents, a performance series produced in conjunction with Chicago arts and performance organizations. She is also executive-in-charge of Wild Chicago, an offbeat series that explores Chicago's most unusual and surprising people, places and things to do, and executive producer for arts specials and documentaries. |
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Dick Carter -Producer and Director of Performance Segments
After coming to work at WTTW in 1967, Dick Carter directed and co-produced 31 of the popular Kukla, Fran and Ollie programs for PBS. In Chicago, he brought two popular music performance series to television: On Location at the Cook County Jail taped before an audience of inmates, and Made in Chicago, featuring Steve Goodman, which was one of the first programs to be recorded and simulcast in stereo. Made in Chicago grew into the highly-acclaimed national series Soundstage. In the nineties, Carter directed the PBS/VH 1 series Centerstage at WTTW. He has also directed the PBS documentary Doris Day: A Sentimental Journey and Remembering, and dance productions with Hubbard Street Dance Company and several Ruth Page ballets. More recently, he has directed the news show Chicago Tonight, and was producer and director of The Golden Apple Awards for Excellence in Teaching. Carter has received numerous awards, including an Emmy, the Ohio State Award, and a Peabody for producing and directing for the Ruth Page ballet The Merry Widow. |
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Paul Thornton - On-Line Editor
Since joining the WTTW staff in 1985, Emmy award-winning editor Paul Thornton has enjoyed editing a wide variety of PBS programs. These include national stories for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, cultural presentations on Great Performances, Centerstage, and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and local favorites Wild Chicago and Chicago Tonight. |
The Performers
Artistic Director and Producer for the Chicago Human Rhythm Project:
Lane Alexander
The Artists:
Lane Alexander
Ernest "Brownie" Brown
Michael "Shoehorn" Conley
Barbara Duffy
Mark Mendonca
Reggio "The Hoofer" McLaughlin
North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble: Danielle Purifoy, Meighan Osborn, Emily Shoemaker, Tipton Isenhour, Whitney Goodman, Jared Grimes, Jack Gaskins, Erica Bava, Aftan Freeman, Kelly Dodson
Van "The Man" Porter
Rhythm I.S.S. : Idella Reed, Sarah Savelli, Sharon Rushing
Linda Sohl-Donnell
Prince Spencer
Fred Strickler
Dianne "Lady Di" Walker
Sam Weber
The Rich Fudoli Quartet:
Rob Amster
Larry Beers
Frank Caruso
Rich Fudoli
Brad Williams
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