REALITY TV CASTING

David Wallach :  5 time emmy  award WINNER !!!!  Gracie Award Winner!!!!

For the past 15 years, David has made it a point to be involved. As an Executive Producer (CNBC), Series Producer (PBS), Supervising Producer (A&E) and Senior Producer (FOX), new and interesting challenges are always welcome and are approached with a level of enthusiasm and energy that has proven to be successful. Once again, David has proven himself as the Director of the hit NBC reality series Starting Over, directing more broadcast episodes of reality programming than any other director/producer in the world. When a project needs to be done right, the networks continue to look to David. An award-winning producer and writer, he has more than 15 years experience producing for the Arts and Entertainment Network, CBS, NBC, PBS, FOX, The History Channel, CNBC, Sports Illustrated, The Travel Channel and more. David’s experience has taken him all over the world and his knowledge of telling a compelling story has earned him five Emmy Awards along with national recognition for being a superior Producer.

 
A&E's City Confidential comes to Michiana

David Wallach, senior producer for City Confidential

The cities of Elkhart and Mottville, Michigan are getting their 15 minutes of fame. Both places are the center of attention for a television program on the cable channel A&E.

New faces with cameras
For the past two weeks now, residents in Elkhart and Mottville have seen three guys with camera gear in tow, walking around city streets. The TV crew is affiliated with cable station A&E and a television program called City Confidential. David Wallach, senior producer for City Confidential, says, "City Confidential is about crimes that affect a community. This one was in Elkhart and Michigan and is still going on today."

The focus is on a bizarre murder in Mottville that took place in 1996. Carol Knepp was killed in a drive-by murder. The show, now in its 8th season, was drawn to the area because of the 'unbelieveability' of the crime. Show producers say it is one of the most bizarre crimes they have ever seen. "One murder of one lady spanned more random acts of violence then I've seen. There was a shooting, bombs, pipe bombs, house fires.  Just from one murder that happened in 1996," said Wallach.

January air date
The A&E crew is busy getting the final shots and final interviews for the piece that will air sometime in January. Producers say this crime will get people's attention. "It's always the off-center crimes like this one that makes people go, 'I never thought that would happen here'." Producers say the show goes together like 'vodka and peanut butter' because it starts out like a travel show, goes into the crime then ends with how crime has affected community.

 

Stephanie Tomasky – Producer, Writer, Director

Emmy award winning producer Stephanie Tomasky got her start in television working while still in college as an intern for NBC’s “Today Show”. After graduating from the University of Massachusetts with a degree in communications, she took a full time position with the “Today Show”, working on several travel related projects and the opening of the new “Today Show” studio at Rockefeller center in New York City. Leaving NBC, she joined HBO, where she worked on the premier of “The Chris Rock Show”, as well as the 1992 election coverage for “Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher”. Marriage took her to Chicago where she produced many hours of prime time television for A&E’s Biography Series and The History Channel on subjects ranging from Leonard Peltier and the Wounded Knee uprising, to biographies of Robert Duvall, Graham Kerr, and Suzanne Sommers. An opportunity to produce and direct the first season of “Starting Over”, a revolutionary daytime reality series created by Bunim/Murray, the originators of “The Real World”, allowed her to use her considerable talents to produce television that truly bettered the lives of the women on the show. For her production and directing work on “Starting Over” she received an Emmy for producing in a Special Class Series. A move to San Francisco brought her to supervise a HGTV show at Edelman Productions where she is finally able to combine her interest in style and design with her talent and experience in producing quality television programming. In a short time she and her husband Mitch (a trauma surgeon at San Francisco General Hospital) have become enamored with the beauty, landscape, style, food and vibe of San Francisco and the bay area.

Randy Barry:  Yugar Productions Casting:

After being a cast member on MTV's Real World, Randy got involved working behind the camera casting for such MTV shows as TRL. Now he has brought the casting process to college campuses across the country. "Experiencing the casting process first hand offers students a rare opportunity to learn about themselves and the shows that they love. This campus activity is different from any other that has been offered.  Students always pack these events, and unlike studio castings I've done, every person is involved one on one and gets to go through the process.  I also get a chance to speak to the students before the casting, so I'm able to give them tips and answer questions. Because were casting for so many different shows, people just have fun with it, they think about themselves and what defines them as individuals..."

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