1979: Guide for Telluride Mountaineering School.
1984: Rigger for Gillette Commercial with John Bachar, "The Essence of Shaving", Yosemite.
1985: Rigger for Mike Hoover, ABC Sports special, "The Lost Arrow", Yosemite.
1992: Guide, the Nose Route.
1993: Guide, the Salathe Route.
1993: Head rigger for the ESPN Shield climb , a major rigging job which required managing five riggers and required 8 days of big wall climbing with the camerman (who received an emmy for the footage).
1994: Vertical Rigger and Camerman for Reebok Commercial: "Nancy Feagin's Dream", Zion National Park, Utah.
1995: Vertical Rigger for TV Series, "EXTREME".
2000: Vertical Camerman for Outdoor Life Network Baffin Island Adventure.

Carole Mikita joined KSL 5 Television in June of 1979. She currently co-anchors "Eyewitness News at 6:30" and is also the station's Arts and Religion reporter.

Carole Mikita is the only the only television reporter in the Salt Lake City market specifically assigned to the arts and culture, as part of her duties at KSL 5. She has been integral in covering Utah's Shakespearean Festival. Her participation has been so extensive, she has been asked to attend and has participated in numerous round table discussions on-site in Cedar City. Carole has also done extensive coverage of the Utah Symphony; Ballet West; and Utah Opera. She specializes in unique one-on-one interviews with well over 100 assorted artists both local and national who have performed in Utah. She has been a mainstay in coverage of the Sundance Film Festival.

Since the fall of 1998, Carole has written and produced documentaries that air during the LDS General Conference every six months. She first traveled with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir through Europe and created "We'll Make the Air with Music Ring." Next she went to Spain with President Hinckley for the dedication of the Madrid Temple, and turned that story into "The Saints in Spain" documentary. She then accompanied Lex and Peggy de Azevedo to Jerusalem to document the premiere performance of their musical about the life of Christ, "Jerusalem: Prelude to Gloria." Carole's subsequent features included special looks at the life and accomplishments of President Gordon B. Hinckley ( "A Faith for All Season"); the church's humanitarian work titled ("A Helping Hand"); and one about painter Arnold Friberg ("An Artist's Legacy: The Book of Mormon"). She has also done a half-hour special on Sister Marjorie Hinckley.

In 1998, Carole received an Emmy Award for her documentary "Gideon's Story." Carole speaks to and participates in a number of community and church organizations. Because of her dedication to people with disabilities, she was honored in 1994 by the Utah State Office of Rehabilitation, and in 1996, the Assistance League of Utah named her a "Woman of Distinction." Carole has hosted the Primary Children's Medical Center Telethon for more than 20 years.

Carole grew up in Steubenville, Ohio, and attended Ohio State University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater. She is married to Neil York, an American History professor at BYU. They have two daughters, Jennifer and Caitlin.

Buzz Miller (faculty) - (obituary from Dance Magazine, May 1999, written by Gemze de Lappe and Mary Kerner) - 75, a dancer prominent on Broadway and in film, died of emphysema in New York City on February 23, 1999. While the word "legend" is often bandied about, in the case of one particular male dancer, it is completely appropriate. Buzz Miller was not only a Broadway legend; he was also esteemed in Hollywood, on the concert stage, in Europe, in nightclubs, and throughout New York City after the War and during the 50s, when he was considered the hottest male dancer around. Miller worked extensively on Broadway with both Jack Cole and Bob Fosse in such shows as Magdalena, Two's Company, Bells Are Ringing, and Funny Girl. He danced in both the stage and film versions of The Pajama Game and also worked with the companies of Roland Petit and John Butler. Yet for all the fame he justifiably claimed, Buzz Miller was born simply Vernal, to a large Mormon family on a farm in Snowflake, Arizona, where the closest he came to the performing artist's creative life was on long rides far into the countryside alone on his hors. Miller had sex appeal and charisma as well as passion and wit in his dancing, with a mix of relaxed animal tension and contained energy that made audiences, both men and women, melt.

Born in Snowflake, Arizona. Received B.A. in music from Arizona State College. Two years in the Army, WWII as a front lines messenger. Three battle scars. Took first class in dancing at age 23 from Mia Slavenska. Auditioned for Jack Cole nine months later and was cast in MAGDALENA his first Broadway show. Future shows and Films had him featured opposite Carol Haney, Judy Holliday, Zizi Jeanmaire, Maria Karnilova, Nora Kaye, Joan McCracken Bette Davis, Marilyn Monroe, Lee Theodore, Gwen Verdon, Carmen De Lavallade, Barbra Streisand and and Violette Verdy He appeared in nightclubs with Kay Thompson in London and Paris and with the Jack Cole Dancers throughout the US. Appeared as guest artist with Roland Petit's BALLETS DE PARIS. Performed at the first SPOLETO FESTIVAL. Guest teacher of Master Classes at many Universities. Founding member and reconstructionists of the AMERICAN DANCEMACHINE.

Christopher is an accomplished stage, screen and television actor. However, Christopher's is probably best known for his voice over work. Christopher has performed in over 500 radio and television commercials for such clients as AT&T, McDonalds, JC Penney and Dodge.

Christopher's film credits include: The RM, The Work and the Story, Our Boy's, What Manner of Man, They Killed Mike, Forgiveness and Your Baby.

Christopher's stage credits include: Fiddler on the Roof (Pioneer Memorial Theatre), 1940's Radio Hour (Theatre 138), Jane Eyre (Murray Theatre), Skinny Lincolns Comedy Troupe (Trolley Square Live), Star Spangled Girl (Valley center Playhouse), The Odd Couple (Rose Wagner Theatre), Chez Comedez (The Wooden Dog) and My Fair Lady (The Grande Theatre).

While growing up in Goshen, a small Utah town, Rod Miller worked with horses and cattle (not to mention pigs and the occasional sheep) under the tutelage of his dad, who spent most of his life as a working cowboy. Rod rode bareback broncs in high school rodeo, as a member of the Utah State University Rodeo Team, and as a PRCA weekend warrior, as well as working for a stock contractor.

A professional bull slinger for more than 20 years, he has worked as an award-winning copywriter for advertising agencies in Idaho, Nevada, and Utah.

Rod was afflicted with poesy in the Spring of 1997. Since then he has concentrated on his writing. His poems have been published in several magazines including American Cowboy, Range, Cowboy, American Western Magazine, and Western Horseman. His poetry also appears in the recently released book Cowboys Are Part Human: A Collection of Western Poems.

Rod is a member of Western Writers of America.

L. Brent Miner, co-founder and Senior Vice President of MB Media Group has been active in the TV and Radio broadcasting industry for over 30 years. Brent has served in nearly every capacity of broadcasting. He has worked on-air as a radio announcer and radio news anchor as well as in key management, sales and engineering positions. His background includes an ownership position in several stations. Miner has grown up in the radio industry. His family built and operated TV and Radio stations throughout the West and Northwest. He currently appears on several TV Broadcasts and new product shows. Miner is an anchor of daily news broadcasts on the local FOX and ABC stations. He has voiced thousands of radio and television productions. He has served as President of the Utah Broadcasters Association and as a member of the UBA Board. Miner's established relationships in the industry are a valued asset to MB Media Group. In addition, Brent has taught Communications & Broadcasting at college and high school levels and is involved in community service and public service activities.

Kevin Mitchell played as a BYU walk-on kicker 1979-1983. After graduation Kevin and his wife, Terrie Kjar Mitchell acquired a broadcast camera for shooting local news events. Terrie worked in the KSL Utah County Bureau and Kevin became a freelance stringer for KTVX and other network and cable channels. They formed Mitchell Productions and later developed corporate clients, which took them through out the world creating productions in several languages.

In 1997, Mitchell Productions produced 13 half-hour programs directly from the Mormon Trail airing on the Odyssey Channel. Each program was shot and edited on location traveling along side the 150th anniversary reenactment of the Mormon Trail where some 11, 000 re-traced the steps their ancestors walked. From a motor home, a moving studio was created changing dusty locations daily along 1000 miles of remote western landscape of three states.

In 2000, Mitchell Productions was given exclusive access to record the final season of the 6th winningest coach of NCAA College Football, BYU Head Coach LaVell Edwards. Kevin Mitchell was co-producer of the 90 minute KBYU documentary, LaVell Edwards, The Spirit of Cougar Football.

In 2001, Mitchell Productions received exclusive access to document Gary Crowton's inaugural season replacing LaVell Edwards after 29 years as the head coach. Mitchell Productions also produced a weekly team highlight video as the Cougars went on to win 12 of 14 games.

Kevin and Terrie live in Orem, Utah and are the parents of eight, five girls and three boys.

Youngest of 7 children born to Mark and Dolores Modine. He was raised in a tight-knit Mormon family, which was forced to move every couple of years because his father worked as a drive-in movie operator. All of the children worked in the drive-ins. After seeing a documentary about the film Oliver!, Modine decided he wanted to become an actor. After high school, he dropped out of BYU and worked several odd jobs before moving to New York in 1979. He landed a job as a chef at Au Natural in Manhattan, where he met his wife, Cari. They married a year later, and Matthew began landing roles in film, and later theatre and TV. He and his family live at Arbolay, a 100-acre farm in Upstate Millbrook, NY.

Goodlooking, mild-mannered "boy next door" type whose varied performances have transcended his youthful appearance and generally placid screen persona. Raised in Utah, Modine spent his teenage years in San Diego, and paid the rent in his early adult years by digging ditches, grinding valves, and working on cars. Studying acting with Stella Adler later paid off, when the tall, boyish actor landed his first role in John Sayles'Baby, It's You (1983), playing a high-school kid. Costarring parts in Private School Robert Altman's Streamers (both 1983) and The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) followed, but it took a brilliant starring performance in Birdy (1984), as a traumatized Vietnam vet who thinks he's a bird, to make critics and audiences sit up and take notice. He starred in the youth-oriented Vision Quest (1985), then took the lead in Stanley Kubrick's challenging Full Metal Jacket (1987) and the actors' showcase Orphans (1987). His winning turn as an FBI agent in Married to the Mob (1988), with Michelle Pfeiffer, showed that Modine could handle lighter material, as well. Since then he's starred in Gross Anatomy (1989), Memphis Belle, Pacific Heights (both 1990), Wind (1992), Equinox Robert Altman's Short Cuts (as a sexually distant doctor), the made-for-TV And the Band Played On (all 1993), The Browning Version (1994), Bye Bye, Love, Fluke and Cutthroat Island (all 1995).

Director of sales and marketing. Susan directs sales and client services at Metropolis. Her own experience as a film and video producer and 17 years experience in the communications industry makes her a valuable asset to producers and clients coordinating a production through Metropolis.

Brad is a native of Boise making his HCT debut. Other theatrical roles include Anthony in "Sweeny Todd" at the Castle Theater, Joseph in the Boise debut of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In 1997 he toured Great Britain with the Ricks College Showtime Company. His film and television credits include "Unsolved Mysteries" and far too many low budget commercials (including the infamous hot tub scene for RiverRun). Following "Camelot," Brad begins to work on two feature films and a vocal CD through Maxum Records. Special thanks to Linda and Vickie at TMG, his friends, and all the Gummies. He's currently single and very available.

Performer, Director, Producer and Educator, Scott has worked on many theatrical and film projects and is currently directing and producing "Dreaming of You", an independent film for the Sundance Film Festival. Scott collaborated on the creation of the new musical Heidi and co-directed the stage premiere. Other directorial credits include Once On This Island, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and the touring production of Schoolhouse Rock, Live! Scott also co-founded, produces, and directs the touring company Acting Up! Theatre for Youth. Scott was recently seen at the SCERA in the role of Chauvelin in the Regional Premiere of The Scarlet Pimpernel. Other performing credits include: Tobias in Sweeney Todd, Cornelius in Hello, Dolly!, Val in Babes in Arms and Jud in Oklahoma. Scott has worked on various vocal recordings as both vocal producer and vocalist including the original cast recording of Heidi. Scott teaches private voice and is currently studying Political Science and Theatre Studies at Brigham Young University.

Was a soloist in Michael Smuin's production of "The Tempest" for PBS. Performed the third movement lead for KQED's production of Robert Gladstein's "Symphony in Three Movements". Was a featured choreographer and dancer in the documentary "The Creation of O.M.O." Was the featured lead in Robert Sund's "Women Song", a dance film for KQED.

I realize, only in retrospect, that I had a wonderful performing career as a Principal dancer with Ballet West (1969-1978) and the San Francisco Ballet (1978-1987). In those years I always wanted more, yet I was privileged to have performed lead roles in the Classics; Swan Lake, Giselle, Cinderella, etc., and in Balanchine Ballets; Chaconne, Serenade, Symphony in C, and many others. In the contemporary repertoire, I worked with William Forsythe, James Kudelka, and Jiri Kilian to name a few. Since my retirement in 1987, I have slowly and hesitantly opened my heart to Opera and musical theater. Life does not have the same youthful rush that it did in those performing years but I am more consistent and challenged in different ways. I have choreographed operas for the San Francisco Opera, Boston Lyric, Geneva Opera, Glimmerglass and others, as well as ballets for San Francisco Ballet Pennsylvania Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet and others. My life has been a series of dances; some created on me and some I have created. This latest technical dance with the Ballet CD-ROM has been one of the most challenging and educational. I am in awe as I attempt to comprehend how over 700 steps demonstrated by video, photos and text, accompanied by over 700 audio ballet terms, in conjunction with a brief ballet history and a series of interviews can reside within one thin circular disk barely 42 in diameter. So much has happened while I was busy doing those plies and tendus. It has been thrilling for me to be a part of bringing the world of dance and computer technology together. What better educational tool for a movement-oriented art form could there be? Now that we have one well-arched foot in the door, I hope to continue the union. We all know there is a long way to go

PREVIOUS POSITION: 1988-1997 I was the Resident Choreographer, Ballet Mistress and Movement Assistant for the San Francisco Opera. Responsibilities include choreographing dance sequences for the Opera as well as hiring, teaching, and coaching the dancers. I assist with the creation and execution of various aspects of movement on stage, coaching the chorus as well as the principal singers.

Also extensive choreography experience.

PERFORMANCE EXPERIENCE: Was a Principal Dancer for both San Francisco Ballet (1978-1987). Principal roles in the Balanchine repertoire include Chaconne, Western Symphony, Stars and Stripes, Four Temperaments, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Prodigal Son, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet and many more. Contemporary choreographers who I have worked with include Billy Forsythe, James Kudelka, Jiri Kylian, Elisa Monte, Bruce Marks, Val Caniparoli, John McFall. I also created many many roles with Michael Smuin and Lew and William Christensen.

TRAINING: Early formal training with William Christensen, Toni Lander, Bruce Marks. In New York, studied with David Howard, Maggie Black, and Marjorie Mussman. While with the San Francisco Ballet, studied with Erik Bruhn, Tatiana Grentzeva, Evan Kramar, Terry Westmoreland, and Helgi Tomasson.

EDUCATION: M.F.A. from the University of Utah, Magna Cum Laude

SPECIAL AWARDS: Carlisle Residency Program, Carlisle Workshop Program, three time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship, twice, a Djerassi Foundation Recipient, elected as the Young Alumni Par Excellence, from the University of Utah.

John Moyer graduated from Brigham Young University's department of theater and film in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. A week after graduation John was performing stand up comedy at The Seattle Improv kicking off his career as a professional stand-up comedian. In the last eight years John has been seen at clubs and colleges throughout the United States and Canada.

In 2000 director Kurt Hale of Halestorm Entertainment approach him about producing a script John wrote called "The Singles Ward." Assisting casting director Michelle Wright, John help cast the film which propelled itself to cult status among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The experience of working on the other side of the audition table prompted John along with Michelle Wright to form AND, ACTION! Actors Studio [in 2002] to give local talent the opportunity to develop their skills in acting, auditioning, and other areas of performance technique.

Paul Mulder is a graduate of the Actor's Training Program at the University of Utah with subsequent training at American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, the British American Drama Academy in Oxford and Shakespeare & Company in Lennox, MA. He has appeared in Dr. Dietrich's Process (off Broadway), Twelfth Night (off-off Broadway on Theatre Row), Sins of the Father (Walnut Street Theatre), Dancing at Lughnasa (Marymount) and The Second Shepherd's Play (Delaware Theatre Company). Paul has been a member of Circle Rep Lab in New York since 1988. Television and film credits include the upcoming feature film Jumping for Joy, All My Children, Walker, Texas Ranger and the role of Casey in James Dean, Casey & Me, which received the Mobil Arts Award. Recent theatre credits include W;t (The Emily Company), King Lear (PTC) and Gross Indecency:The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (SLAC). Paul and his wife Darlene Casanova have brought "Music Together" to Salt Lake City - a licensed program providing the highest quality music and movement experience in an informal, family-like atmosphere for children (birth to age five) and their parents or caregivers. Member of Actors' Equity Association.

Joan Mullaney has worked with each member of the cast and its director in other plays and other spaces. This trip to India has, in a sense, happened before. Destiny happens. She appeared opposite Tony Larimer in The Ride Down Mount Morgan (SLAC); in the company of W;t (The Emily Company) with both Tony Larimer and Paul Mulder (Ganesha); was directed by Kirt Bateman (Man) in the 4th Annual Egyptian Shorts (Egyptian Theatre Company); and was directed by Marilyn Holt (Margaret) in Whose Life Is It Anyway? and Our Country's Good (Babcock Theatre). Joan just finished shooting Dung Luck by Craig Clyde and has several radio and television spots running. Look for the anti-smoking commercial - it's a real testimonial against the habit she kicked with the help of family and jogging. Joan's next project is a one-woman show based on Juliette Gordon Low, which she is writing and producing. Joan is a graduate of The Actor's Training Program at the University of Utah. Married to her high school sweetheart of forty-one years, Joan has three sons and one perfect grandson, Eddie.

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