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"Minneapolis" Creative Team
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| Pete Shaner is a motion-picture writer-director who has written and directed two independent features: Lover's Knot (starring Billy Campbell, Jennifer Grey, and Tim Curry) and Nicolas, a supernatural thriller (the first independent feature ever shot in 24P HD). After graduating from the prestigious USC film school program he went on to develop the video curriculum for UCLA Extension, where he now teaches DV production. He has also produced a DVD-ROM for each textbook that contains example video project styles, interviews, trial software for PC and Mac, and production form. |
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| Pete co-wrote and directed the second unit for the action movies Shootfighter and Shootfighter II. He also has written for the TV series JAG and worked as the on-set technical advisor for A Few Good Men. A Pete is also an Annapolis graduate. He has served many years as a naval officer and as an ROTC instructor at UCLA. As a navigator on the C-130 aircraft he has provided vital support to US troops around the world with with Air National Guard. He recently pioneered cutting edge GPS technology to increase the altitude level needed to safely drop supplies to ground troops in Afghanistan. |
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| Peter Meech was born in Toronto, is a citizen of the United States and Canada, and received a Masters in communications from Stanford University, where he won a Stanford Nicol award for writing. He currently gives private instruction to students in chi kung and is an accomplished writer and producer. Peter has served as a script doctor on several feature films, and was a director of Island Films, which, in conjunction with Atlantis Films, produced Vincent Price’s Dracula and Lucy Maud Montgomery’s I Know a Secret. |
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| He has written for a variety of television shows, including Emily of New Moon, Masked Rider, VR Troopers, Ready or Not, The Adventures of Tintin, and Robert Halmi's Dracula: The Series. He also provided the voice of the Radio Announcer on the Tintin series.Peter spent two years writing for German television. He also worked in Japan, producing a Japanese movie with Robbie Robertson entitled Jenifa, starring Jennifer Holmes and Takayuki Yamada, which premiered in Tokyo in May, 2004. He is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America, the Animation Caucus of the WGA, the Writer’s Guild of Canada, the British Academy of Film and Television, and the Screen Actor’s Guild. Peter currently has several projects in development. He recently published the book Mysteries of the Life Force: My Apprenticeship with a Chi Kung Master. He currently lives in Los Angeles, California. |
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| Terry Hagerty is a free-lance writer and actor. Born in Indiana, this fifth-generation Hoosier studied Theatre and Drama at Indiana University, and Screenwriting at the American Film Institute. At one time or another, Terry has performed every task in the theatre, from writer to actor, director, lighting designer, stage carpenter, and ticket taker. He has also taken on practically every role on different videos and film shoots, from writer to producer, actor, assistant director, equipment coordinator, cameraman, and caterer. As a screenwriter, Terry helped produce A Cross To Bear, an S, S, & H / A.F.I. Production; Spin Doctors, a Ker/Ter Production, and A Dream Come True from Tir Na Nog Productions. Terry's numerous stage performances include Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Leandro in Scapino!, Barnaby Tucker in The Matchmaker, Charlie Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Valentine and the First Officer in Twelfth Night, Rick Shannon in Shadows in the Dawn, and Brendan in The Gruagach. |
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| His film and video roles include Ben in Spin Doctors, Harvey in A Dream Come True, Demitos in A Cross to Bear, John in Clown, Dr. Rickett in Behavior, Ramsey in Practical Solutions, and Mr. Jones in Operation Lizard. Among his literary stage efforts, Terry had Shadow in the Dawn produced by the Civic Theatre of the Calumet Region in Hammond, Indiana; The Occasional Coup, Musing, and Home Schooling all produced by the Spokane Civic Theatre in Spokane, Washington; and a musical, The Gruagach, staged in Los Angeles, California by Tir Na Nog Productions and the San Quentin Drama Workshop. |
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"The Occasional Coup" Cast and Crew at The Spokane Civic Theatre Playwrights Forum.
Jerry Scarrio, Tony Caprile, and Christine Clayburg with writer Terry Hagerty and director Dennis Ashley |
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