REFERENCES

References from the individuals below are available upon request:

Alan Myerson - Director

Alan began his career in New York City after studies at Pepperdine and UCLA. He directed theater on and off Broadway before moving to Chicago to direct the Second City theatrical group. In 1963 he moved further west and founded The Committee in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, where he was a director until 1974. During that time Alan taught acting and directing at UC Berkeley and at San Francisco State. Alan has written film scripts, including the movie, IT'S SHOWTIME! and directed three hundred theatrical features, numerous television films and pilots and more than a hundred television episodes. He is a member of the DGA, the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy, and is listed in WHO WHO'S IN AMERICA. He has been nominated for an Emmy, a DGA Best Lessons and Steelyard Blues. Television: HI HONEY, I'M DEAD; BAD ATTITUDES; HOLIDAY AFFAIR; ALLY MCBEAL; BOSTON PUBLIC; FRIENDS; FRASIER; ED; JAG; GILMORE GIRLS; LARRY SANDERS SHOW; PICKET FENCES; MIAMI VICE; CRIME STORY; HUNTER; LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY; RHODA; BOB NEWHART; ARCHIE BUNKER'S PLACE. Stage: Director and founder of The Committee in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York; Director of Second City Chicago and New York Alan is pictured here with Julie Robinson, also a Workshops Instructor.

Charles Merzbacher - Chairmain, Department of Film & Television, Associate Professor of Film Boston University College of Communication

BA (hon.), Williams College; MFA, University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. Professor Merzbacher has taught film producing, directing, screenwriting, and basic cinematography in a number of prominent film programs. He is a member of the master faculty at the International Film & Television Workshops in Rockport, Maine and has served as Executive Vice President of Altar Rock Films, Inc. His films have been screened in festivals around the world, including the Chicago International Film Festival, the Sundance Film Festival, the San Francisco Film Festival, the USA Film Festival, the Columbus International Film Festival and the National Educational Film & Video Festival. His first feature, Jane Street, premiered at the British Film Institute in March 1997. He is currently the Acting Chairman of the Department of Film and Television.