Lisa is excited to be performing in her first SCERA production. Although Lisa is making a grand entrance onto the SCERA stage as Marian, leading roles are not foreign to Lisa. Recent credits include Lily Garland in On the Twentieth Century at the Grand, Leah in Jane Eyre (at Hale Center Theatre), and various dead people in Spoon River Anthology (Wasatch Theatre Company). A proud BYU Graduate, Lisa has a Master of Science Degree in Speech Language Pathology and works at Altara Elementary School in Sandy. She sends her love and good karma to her family and friends that support her in all her theatrical endeavors. Lisa is forever grateful to her the voice teacher that "changed her life." Watch for Lisa in the upcoming feature film, "Singles Ward."

Ron, his cameras, and his crew are constantly in demand by national producers for "60 Minutes", "20/20", "Dateline", The Discovery Channel, The Disney Channel, "Prime Time Live", BBC documentaries and many others. Ron has built a national reputation for creative camera work and lighting. He has been providing production services since 1981.

Providing production services to local advertising agencies for commercial television productions. Began shooting for national broadcast television programs in 1983 for "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous". Expanded services to Fox Television Network with flyaway camera packages for magazine format shows. In 1985, we began shooting on a consistent basis for the 3 major networks, and have continually shot for such shows as 60 Minutes, 20/20, Dateline, Discovery Channel, The Disney Channel, Prime Time, BBC documentaries and many others.

Since that time, network directors and producers and come to rely on Ron's creative style in lighting and direction to produce award-winning segments. Ron's clientele is now composed of a wide list of these producers who keep a consistent schedule revolving through his available time.

Currently Ron Hill Imagery supplies crews and packages for all major network magazine shows and employs five production packages and a full compliment of special effect cameras and support equipment. Ron also shoots and has a 16 millimeter film package and continues to service the advertising community with film production for commercial work.

Key Clients: 20/20; 60 Minutes; NBC/NBA Entertainment; The Disney Channel; HBO; PBS; Dateline; BBC; Prime Time (ABC); Discovery Channel; World News Tonight (ABC); Sundance; VH1; MTV; Missing/Reward; Intimate Portrait (A&E); Beyond The Glory (Fox TV).

Nate has 7 years experience in film and video production and post-production. Some of his accomplishments have been the Best PSA for Big Brothers/Big Sisters '99 and a Silver Telly Award for KUTV 2000 image spot. Nate is finishing his degree in telecommunications at the U of U [University of Utah] 2002.

Jessica has quickly become one of Canada's top comedic performers. The "It Girl of Canadian comedy--dark and delicious is the name is the name of Holmes' game," says Toronto's Globe and Mail.

She began performing comedy at local clubs in 1998. Her ability to transform herself into dozens of hilarious characters caught audiences' attention and in 1999 she was nominated for the prestigious Tim Sims Encouragement Award - a yearly scholarship given to promising comedic talent in Toronto. That same year Jessica also landed several appearances at the Montreal Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival where she competed in the Canadian stand up competition and also appeared in the World Improv Championships.

Soon after Jessica joined Toronto's legendary Second City where she co-wrote and performed in several revues. That same year, along with her comedy partner Dave Tomlinson, Jessica wrote and starred in The Best of the Very Last, a sketch show that got rave revues and resulted in a 2000 Canadian Comedy Award nomination! She has also appeared on "History Bites", "The Laughing Matters Special", YTV's "Little Big Kid" and guest starred in CTV's Sonic Temple with Sean Cullen and Gavin Crawford.

In 2000 Jessica starred in her first 1-hour comedy special for The Comedy Network entitled "Holmes Alone". Her special was nominated for a Gemini Award and for a 2001 Canadian Comedy Award for outstanding performance in a TV Comedy. Jessica made her TV series debut starring in The Itch on The Comedy Network. On The Itch Jessica was praised for her hilarious character work and scathing impressions of such stars as Celine Dionm, Kathy Lee Gifford and Prince. "Holmes is a gifted comic talent with a range and sensibility that remind me of Tracey Ullman," said the Georgia Straght. In November Jessica also wrapped shooting on her first pilot called The Holmes Show.

Marilyn Holt is a retired University of Utah professor of theatre and has acted in or directed over 100 plays in Utah and the Intermountain West, in addition to film and television work. Her most recent onstage appearance was in The Beauty Queen of Leenane (SLAC), where she has also appeared in Keely and Du and The Last Lists of My Mad Mother (also in the KUED film version). Other recent acting credits include The Crucible, Our Town and The Little Foxes (Pioneer Theatre Company); The Chairs and Mixed Emotions (Egyptian Theatre Company); Long Day's Journey Into Night (Babcock Theatre) and The Gin Game (Missoula, Montana). Notable directing credits include The Girl on the Via Flaminia and Our Country's Good (Babcock Theatre); Beast on the Moon and Sight Unseen (SLAC); Misalliance (ARTE, Provo); The Raid (a Utah State Centennial Event at Kingsbury Hall) and A Raisin in the Sun (PTC).

Rob served in physical production and project administration for Cinema Completions International, the industry's largest completion guarantor. Some of CCI's pictures include The Thin Red Line, Bless the Child, Rules of Engagement, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. He also worked as a project manager for Entertainment Coalition, a firm providing both entertainment insurance and completion bonds for its industry clients. Rob's degree in economics is from Brigham Young University, with emphasis in business and film. Rob is President of Entertainment Business Group.

Russ Holt directed the epic period film The Lamb of God, which has become one of the most highly awarded and widely distributed films of the LDS Church, having been broadcast annually as an Easter movie in top media markets across the country. His directorial debut, How Rare a Possession, won a CINE Golden Eagle, has been released internationally in more than a dozen languages, and is still being distributed worldwide. Until recently, he served as a producer for the LDS Church, having written, produced and directed over 30 films, including Lives of Service, Gordon B. Hinckley - Man of Integrity (award winner, Columbus Film Festival), An Ensign to the Nations, and Special Witnesses of Christ. He was second unit director and supervisor of visual effects for the 70mm Testaments.

Lisa Hopkins is originally from Salt Lake City, Utah. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Theater Studies and Acting from Yale University in 2001. After receiving her BA she went on to the Manhattan School of Music and is currently getting her Master's in Voice. She is the founder of the Yale College Opera Company. Performances include La Voix Humaine, Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare, Polly Peachum in The Threepenny Opera, Casilda in The Gondoliers, Mrs. Nordstrom in Sondheim's A Little Night Music.

David Hunter graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Film with a Business emphasis. As a student he excelled in production classes, winning the Golden Leaf at the Utah Student Film Festival. David has successfully operated his own home and condominium construction business, grossing over twenty-four million dollars ($24,000,000).

Bio provided by Hoppe:

Lincoln Hoppe was born in Illinois in 1971. His family moved to Moorestown, New Jersey in 1976 where Lincoln lived until attending BYU in 1989. He served a full time mission in the Portugal, Lisbon North Mission from 1990-1992.

Upon returning to BYU, Lincoln became an original cast member of the Garrens Comedy Troupe and began taking acting classes to improve in improvisational acting. He has written extensively, mostly comedy sketches and songs, such as "Happy Together: the Stalking song" which have received extensive national radio air play.

Lincoln graduated from BYU in advertising and communications in 1996. He founded the Skinny Lincolns comedy troupe and now plays in both ComedySportz Utah and Provo. Lincoln married Page Ann Palmer and they now have two boys, Tucker and Martin. Lincoln acts full time and works in both Los Angeles and Utah.

John Huntington is one of Southern California's premier musical theatre artists, having won acclaim in roles as diverse as Bud Frump in "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" and Cyrano de Bergerac in "Cyrano." He has played Captain von Trapp in "The Sound of Music," Leadville Johnny Brown in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," and God in the recent West Coast premiere of Stephen Schwartz's new musical, "Children of Eden." His vocal gifts are similarly varied and embrace the operatic, oratorio and concert repertoire, as well as folk, jazz, and church music. He is a frequent soloist with symphonies and choirs.

Mr. Huntington's long list of stage credits includes the Dons Magnifico (La Cenerentola), Quixote (Man of La Mancha), and Pasquale (Don Pasquale). Other roles include Neville Craven in "The Secret Garden" which garnered him a Dramalogue Award, Fagin in "Oliver", Oberon in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Mr. Antrobus in "The Skin Of Our Teeth", and Starbuck in "110 in the Shade". He also appeared in the National Company of "Phantom of the Opera" in San Francisco and young audiences will recognize him as "Hans" in the popular children's video, "Rigoletto".

Mr. Huntington's advanced training occurred in New York under the tutelage of noted director and teacher, Tad Danielewski. Presently, Mr. Huntington divides his times as an actor/singer/director/costumer and operates a private voice studio in Mission Viejo, California, where he resides with his wife of 24 years and their seven children.

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