Mr. Rice has over twelve years of experience in operations, business management, and international marketing. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Rice was a territory marketing supervisor for British Petroleum/Amoco Oil. Mr. Rice also planned and executed national promotions, media relations, and public affairs for BP/Amoco. During 1996 to 1999, he served as Territory Manager for World Vacation Travel. From 1990 to 1996, Mr. Rice successfully led the marketing department for RC Corporation and was the company's top producer. Mr. Rice received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the University of Phoenix and serves on several advisory boards. Mr. Rice is an accredited instructor of marketing and public relations courses at the university level.

Mr. Rice directs all operations for marketing, sales, advertising, and public relations. He is a member of the Office of the Chairman.

Born in Washington, D.C., Allen grew up in the surrounding suburbs of both Maryland and Virginia. He attended film school at Wright State University where he adopted the joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

While other college kids went south for spring break, in 1995 Allen went north to Toronto, Canada. Not even 5 minutes after arriving in the city, Allen conned his way onto the set of the Joey Lawrence movie "Prince for a Day," then called "The Prince and the Pizza Boy." After being approached by the Assistant Director and asked if he was suppossed to be there, Allen replied "yes." During a park scene early on Allen can be spotted in a variety of shots looking much older and scruffier than the rest of the clean-cut cast of teenagers.

Has a pet cat named after his favorite dessert, Brownie.

A Washington, D.C. native, Stephen grew up playing various instruments including the violin, saxophone, guitar, and piano. He joined his first band in high school and soon began writing, producing and recording his own material. After moving to Salt Lake City, Utah in September of 1994, Stephen continued working on his music while playing in several cover bands.

In the fall of 1996, Stephen stumbled into acting. He soon landed parts in commercials and independent features including "Blue Ridge Fall" and "The Right Temptation."

In the summer of 1999, pre-production of the CD "I'M JUST A MAN" began. In October, Stephen landed a lead role in the Promark Production BABY BEDLAM. Stephen plays a goofy mobster named Butch alongside veteran actor Robert Costanzo. The movie also stars Joe Piscopo, Julie Hagerty and Reggie Theus. After finishing BABY BEDLAM, Stephen continued working on his CD, which was finally completed in late April 2000. During this time he worked on another Eric Hendershot film called MESSAGE IN A CELLPHONE.

Stephen's good fortune continued as he landed his biggest role yet playing the foul-mouthed gangster, Joe Starko, in GREEN DIGGITY DOG.

GREEN DIGGITY DOG won the audience appreciation award at the 2001 Slamdunk Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

Tanya Rizzuti began working at Swan Animation in 1999 as a Color Model Supervisor and Production Coordinator for Princess and the Pea. Before that, she worked for Duarte Design as an artist and speaker coordinator for an impressive clientelle, and previously worked as a 3D and Multimedia Artist at Mojave for the PC video game Secrets of the Luxor, for which she also co-wrote the hintbook. Currently, Tanya is working as a 3D artist on The Velveteen Rabbit.

Supervising the budget accounting of a large motion picture requires highly specialized expertise. Roberts has vast experience working with many multi-million dollar productions. Roberts was the Production Accountant for various projects with Lions Gate Entertainment, the Vice President of Finance and Physical Production for Mediacube USA, and the Director of Production Control for Morgan Creek Productions. His films include: The Untouchables (1987), Last Man Standing, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), Matinee (1993), The Babe (1992), Dad (1989), Dead Again (1991), Flight of the Intruder (1991), Pretty in Pink (1986), Rocky IV (1985); The Cure (1995). [Also: The Puppet Masters (1994); Big Top Pee-wee (1988); Sylvester (1985)]

Rad Robinson's association with the King's Men quartet was his primary profession, beginning in 1930. In Los Angeles, he frequently performed on radio, and was a serious vocal student with Nina Koshetz, an intimate of Sergei Rachmaninoff. From 1934 to 1937 The King's Men (Ken Darby, Arranger & Bass; Rad Robinson Baritone; Jon Dodson, Lead Tenor; Bud Linn, Top Tenor) were a feature of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra on RCA records and the Kraft Music Hall. They subsequently appeared with many other orchestra leaders, including Rudy Vallee. They were heard, and sometimes seen, in many feature films, including "Sweetie" (My Sweeter than Sweet), "Hollywood Party" (Feelin' High) "Let's Go Native" (title song), "Belle of the Nineties" (Troubled Waters), "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Murder at the Vanities" (Lovely One) and notably "The Wizard of Oz," in which they are the off screen voices for the Lollipop Guild. In that film, Robinson sings the part of the Coroner ("She's not only merely dead, she's really most sincerely dead"). On screen they were remembered as the singing cowboys of the Hopalong Cassidy films. In the film "Honolulu" the King's Men play the Marx Brothers on ice skates. For a few years they were associated with the Music Department at Disney Studios (Make Mine Music, Pinocchio), and on the long-running radio show "Fibber McGee & Molly." The King's Men group was the basis for the Ken Darby Singers, featured on John Charles Thomas' "Westinghouse Broadcasts" and on many Decca phonograph records, such as Bing Crosby's original recording of "White Christmas." When not singing, Mr. Robinson was the entertainment contractor for the five Howard Hughes hotels, based in Las Vegas.

Latter-Day Saint. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Spent many years living in Los Angeles, California. Gary has years of experience in writing, acting, producing and directing. Mr. Rogers has produced and directed hundreds of projects over many years. He has directed Academy Award-winning actor Charlton Heston and many other Hollywood celebrities.

Rogers founded International Television Productions in 1984. He recently sold the company to devote full time in producing The Book of Mormon Movie. ITP has produced multimedia projects for some of the world's most renowned companies, including Rockwell International, Coca-Cola, Nissan, Motorola, Mitsubishi, Honeywell, AT&T, Dow Chemical, Lucent Technologies an many more.

Rogers and ITP have produced many projects for, and relating to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, including; "And Should We Die," an award-winning documentary about the Mormon pioneers, "Before Columbus," a video that played in the South Visitors Center theater on Temple Square for many years, concluding the Book of Mormon tour, "The Purpose of Temples," an award-winning video that was shown to the public before the dedication of every new Temple for the past ten years, "FARMS," a video for the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies at Brigham Young University, "Temple Training Video," a video used in all temples throughout the world to train new ordinance workers.

Gary Rogers and ITP have been the recipient of the Industry's highest awards, including first place at the United States Film and Video Festival, First place at the Houston International Film and Video Festival and 29-time winner of the International Telly award.

Lisa Rogers graduated from the University of Utah with a BA in Communications. Lisa is a professional choreographer and an accomplished actress, having appeared in TV commercials, corporate videos, stage productions and feature films.

Lisa started working at the young age of 14! She has held a variety of distinguished positions throughout the years, including Executive Assistant to the Executive Vice President of Franklin Covey in Salt Lake City. Lisa is also an accomplished speaker. She was a former Utah state officer for DECA, a National marketing organization and has represented DECA as a speaker on a National basis.

Ms. Rogers spent several years as a Production Assistant for International Television Productions coordinating projects with scriptwriters, on and off-camera talent, producers, directors, camera operators, art departments and duplicating/packaging vendors.

Lisa graduated from the University of Utah with a BS in Communications. Lisa has appeared in a variety of stage plays, television commercials and industrial videos.

Lisa's stage credits include: The Other Side of Love (Hale Center Theatre), A Street Car Named Desire, Talking With, No Exit, A Doll's House, Nunsense, A Tale of Cimmeron City, Steel Magnolias and Romeo & Juliet.

Other than a brief walk-on in Charly, this will be Lisa's film debut.

Lisa is a professional choreographer and will choreograph all the dance scenes in The Book of Mormon Movie.

Troy Rohovit was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1963. His family moved to Salt Lake City in 1972. Shortly thereafter he and his twin brother, Trell, began making home movies with a 8 mm camera his parents bought them at a garage sale. His interest in film making grew while attending East High School in Salt Lake. After graduating in 1982 he attended film school at the University of Utah. He left film school in 1985 when he was hired as a Production Assistant on a TV movie that was filming in Salt Lake City at the time. He continued working his way up the production ladder as a Production Assistant, Assistant Director, and Producer on such film as "Halloween 4, 5, and 6," "A Midnight Clear" and many TV movies and locally produced films. In 1992 he became eligible for membership in, and joined, the Director's Guild of America. In 1995 he began working on the top ten rated television series "Touched by an Angel" where he continues to work as a 1st Assistant Director.

Before joining Swan Animation to work on The Princess and the Pea in 1996, Adrian was a special effects animator and effects compositor on the PC video game, Secrets of the Luxor, for which he also co-wrote the hintbook. In 1999, Where in the Universe is Carmen Sandiego?, a planetarium featurette, was released with Adrian's digital effects work as well. At Swan Animation, Adrian has had such varied responsibilities as dialogue tracking, storyboarding, animatics, and screenwriting. Having just finished storyboarding on The Velveteen Rabbit, he is now working under Ric Estrada on the Princess and the Pea Animated Series.

Susan has performed in a variety of TV commercials, stage plays, musicals, TV shows and films as an actress, singer and dancer.

Susan's film credits include: Road to Riches, A Happy Place, Luna's Moon, A Fine Day, and The Night Fly.

Susan's stage credits include: Deseret Destiny, Babes in Toyland, Murder Mystery and The Royal Wrap.

Jean Rouverol Butler is an actress, a teacher, a writer for books, magazines, television and film, a survivor of the blacklist and a member of the 1973 Women's Committee of the WGAw. Ms. Butler's screenplays include LEGEND OF LYLAH CLARE, FACE IN THE RAIN, and SO YOUNG, SO BAD. She has many Daytime Television credits, writing for such series as AS, THE WORLD TURNS, GUIDING LIGHT, and SEARCH FOR TOMORROW. Her books include: WRITING FOR DAYTIME DRAMA, WRITING FOR THE SOAPS, STORM WIND RISING, JUAREZ, A SON OF THE PEOPLE, PANCHO VILLA, A BIOGRAPHY, HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, WOMAN CRUSADER. She has also written novellas for magazines including McCalls, Housewife and Seventeen. Because of the blacklist, Ms. Butler lived in Mexico from 1951 to 1960, in Italy till 1963, and back in Mexico until the end of 1964. Then, when the blacklist was beginning to lift, she and her family returned to California. WGAw is currently restoring the credits on AUTUMN LEAVES and investigating credit on THE MIRACLE, two uncredited films written (in collaboration) during the blacklist. She is currently working on a memoir of the Mexico years, entitled WE HAPPY FEW, a portion of which was published in WGA's "Written By," in October 1997. Ms. Butler has taught at USC, UCLA Extension, and in 1994 she lectured on US Daytime Drama in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Ms. Butler is a recipient of the WGAw's Morgan Cox Award, an Emmy for INVISIBLE SOLDIERS, and WGA Award for Best Daytime Writing for GUIDING LIGHT. As a member of the WGAw, she has served four terms on the Board of Directors and is a three-time member of the negotiating committee. Her other professional affiliations include AMPAS Documentary Committee, and ATAS Board of Governors.

If her last name sounds familiar, then you must have seen my earlier work. Her brother, Todd, starred in a handful of my earlier movies like "The Switch" and "Chick Magnet". Well, Joanna heard about the movie ["Love Logs On"] and wrote me saying "I will do ANYTHING" so, she's got a job. She will be helping out any way she can, from being a stand-in to running errands. But mostly we will try and teach her some new things and I've even promised to write a part in for her into the script, since she's got some of that Ruitman talent in her. Joanna went to state this year in her theatre class by the way. So see, she does have that Ruitman Talent in her.

Ada Dwyer Russell (1863-1952): Well-known Utah Mormon actress who performed in the Salt Lake Theater, on Broadway, and on the London stage. Russell entered a long-term relationship with Amy Lowell, a nationally prominent poet and lesbian, in 1912. Russell was the subject of Lowell's poetry from 1912 until Lowell's death in 1925.

Suggested readings: Quinn, Michael D., Same-Sex Dynamics Among Nineteenth Century Americans: A Mormon Example, pp. 172-173.

It was also in 1912 that Amy Lowell met actress Ada Dwyer Russell. From about 1914 on, Russell, a widow who was 11 years older than Lowell, became Amy's traveling and living companion and secretary. They lived together in a 'Boston marriage' until Amy's death. Whether the relationship was platonic or sexual is not certain -- Ada burned all personal correspondence as executrix for Amy after her death -- but poems which Amy clearly directed towards Ada are sometimes erotic and full of suggestive imagery.

Tom comes from an advertising background, writing and directing numerous regional and national television commercials including several animated spots. His commercial work garnered over 40 Addy Awards, four Auroras and five Silver Microphones. He has also written and directed short films and a feature. He has been a prize winner of the Slamdance Sreenwriting Competition and has been recognized by the Maryland Film Festival for his feature-length work.

Tom currently teaches beginning production, intermediate production, and beginning screenwriting.

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