Crew Details for Kranky Kids Theater 2007

Mark Calice - Sound

Mark Calice has worked in the professional audio/video industry for nearly 30 years. As chief engineer of Detroit's Sound Suite Recording Studios, he earned an Ampex Golden Reel Award for Bob Seger's double platinum "Strangers In Town" album and a Grammy nomination for Rance Allen's "I Feel Like Going On." He also recorded such legendary artists as The Spinners, The Romantics, Michael Henderson, Millie Jackson and Narada Michael Walden among others. After relocating to the "left" coast, Mark landed a position with Otari Corp. and served in successive roles as technical training manager, product specialist and product marketing manager for their first digital audio products, while creating point-of-sale videos for their products along the way. Later, as product marketing manager for Videonics, he designed their successful Edit Suite A/B Roll Edit Controller and after that, served as webmaster and technical writing specialist for Euphonix, a manufacturer of post-production audio consoles.

Having developed an ear for the Jazz idiom over the years and as a labor of love, Mark helped resurrect a small independent Detroit jazz record label called Corridor Records. Able to leverage his music producing skills, Mark ran the company and began mastering all their recordings.

Mark is one of the original founding members of the Santa Clara MacFilmmakers User Group and is currently owner of Ardenwood Sound & DVD, an offshoot of his independent record label. Ardenwood provides Production sound mixing for film and video, Audio post-production, Live event HD & 5.1 audio recording, Hollywood-style DVD authoring, High-resolution CD mastering, Record production, Video editing and CD/DVD box artwork design. Mr. Calice holds a B.A. in Television & Radio Production/Communication Arts from Michigan State University and has been a voting member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (Grammy awards) for over 25 years.

Joanne Dorgan - Camera

Joanne Dorgan began her career as a video editor with several internships in the San Francisco Bay Area at independent film companies and Avid Technology. She then worked as an assistant editor on independent feature films, short documentaries and commercials in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles. Now a film/video editor with more than ten years experience, she has worked on a wide range of projects, including documentaries, reality TV, commercials and corporate video.

In 2000 Joanne moved to Beijing, China, where she lived for five years and edited several documentaries, including Tibetan travelogues and a biographical piece on environmentalist Jane Goodall for National Geographic. While living in Asia, she did a stint as a trainer in the Mongolian capital Ulaan Bataar for a pioneering United Nation’s program that taught video editing to young Mongolians. Back in Beijing, she helped run Cherry Lane Movies, a non-profit theater that shows Chinese films with English subtitles, primarily for Western foreigners. She is conversant in Mandarin, and can read and write Chinese characters.

Beyond editing, Joanne’s interests include portrait photography, shooting video, swimming, yoga and travel.

David Murphy - Camera

Dave has had a long and rewarding career as a photojournalist and video editor at TV stations across the country. Beginning in 1985 in Corpus Christi, Texas, Dave developed a strong passion for shooting and editing news stories as he honed his skills.

Moving to Austin, Texas two years later to work at a TV station owned by President Johnson, Dave enjoyed working on many different assignments, such as: Covering the Texas State legislature, College and High School sports, environmental issues, Austin City Council meetings, and the shooting and editing of numerous documentaries. Dave took pride in occasionally traveling to stories in the station's jet ranger helicopter.

Newly married in 1995 with a bride whose parents lived in California, it was a natural progression for Dave to move out to the Bay Area. Immediately picking up work as a freelance photographer, Dave started working for KRON TV on their early morning newscast. Up at 2:30 in the morning, he drove a microwave truck to assignments, shooting with a reporter, editing in the truck and feeding the story back to the station, setting up in time to do a live broadcast on location.

In 2004, KABC TV in Los Angeles needed a local photographer to provide coverage of the Scott Peterson trial in Redwood City for their station. Dave was chosen and worked with KABC's reporter for the duration of the trial, editing and feeding coverage to KABC for their six daily newscasts. Upon completion of the trial, Dave was asked if he would cover another trial for KABC, which he readily accepted. Santa Maria became home for 6 months as Dave edited material for KABC from the Michael Jackson trial.

In addition to freelance work at KRON, KTVU, and KGO, Dave works part-time at the CNN bureau in San Francisco, where he shoots with network correspondents, crews on shoots for Larry King LIve and Anderson Cooper, and frequently travels out of state on internationally televised assignments.

Dave lives in Palo Alto, with his wife of twelve years and his 2 and a half year old daughter, and 12 week old son.

Adam Wilt - Technical Director/Camera

Sean Naderzad - Intern

Sean was a senior at Westmont High School in Campbell, CA. He interned on camera and boom.

Kranky Kids Theater 2007

The after-school program ran on Tuesdays and Thursdays (3 - 4:30pm) for:

Six weeks beginning Tuesday, 27 Feb and ending Thursday, 5 April and was held outside under one of the covered eating areas at the end of the first grade wing at Santa Rita Elementary in Los Altos. When weather was an issue, we rehearsed in the library.

The performance was on Thursday, 5 April, at 7 pm in the Multi-Purpose Room at Santa Rita. (Based on past programs, the performance itself will be about 40 - 60 minutes.)

As with the last two projects, this was also documented with 1- 3 cameras following the students and myself at all times plus full 3-camera coverage of the performance itself on Thursday evening, 5 April.

All participants and the school have received a DVD of the performance but the project documentary is still in the making because I wanted to do animation for it and then my personal medical issues started to interfere.

There is no charge to the parents or students for any Kranky Kids® programs. All costs are came out of my pocket.

A signed standard Performer's Release by all participants (students, volunteers and paid crew) was required.