Creative Team
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Nancylee Myatt
Executive Producer/Writer
Nancylee Myatt has been writing and producing primetime television, features and plays for the last 15 years. Some of Myatt’s television credits include, Night Court, where she worked the last two seasons of its eleven-year run and ended up writing the series finale. She was the only female writer on the staff of The Powers That Be with Norman Lear, as well as producing and writing on The Five Mrs. Buchanans and Living Single for which she won a NAACP award. Myatt created and produced the teen sitcom Social Studies for UPN. For two seasons she pounded out episodes of Recess, Lloyd in Space and Teacher’s Pet from Disney TV animation and ABC for which she won an Emmy for 2001. She wrote and produced a cop show pilot set in New Orleans about two women who were partners in work and life called Nikki & Nora for UPN (which did not get picked-up). After that, Myatt launched and served as the Co-Executive Producer/show runner, Writer and Director for the first two seasons of South Of Nowhere on the N (MTV networks). The show was nominated for its 2nd year in a row for a GLAAD Media Award for Best Outstanding Drama, and a Teen Choice nomination for best break-out show. Currently Myatt is developing a show for ABC Family, and spending her free time at Santa Anita betting the horses.
Maeve Quinlan
Executive Producer/Writer/Actor
Maeve Quinlan is the founder and CEO of Beech Park Entertainment. Prior to producing and co-creating 3Way, she wrote, created and Executive Produced the television pilot The Pack for Animal Planet. Next up for Quinlan’s company is the feature film Doing Dara written by Neal Gumpel, as well as an animated series for television. Quinlan has also just recently completed a series of children’s books, with writing partner Lori Bregman. The first of which, entitled Buford’s Bath, should be on book shelves in mid-2008. Quinlan, an actress, spends her spare time acting so that she can pay the bills and further her new love of writing, producing and just…well…being Irish!
Joey Scott
Co-Executive Producer
Joey Scott brings the knowledge, experience and relationships of having Produced over 300 episodes of Network Primetime Television. Working with literally every Studio and Network in Hollywood. Some of his credits include, Growing Pains for Warners/ABC, Sister, Sister for Paramount/UPN and All of Us, for Warners/CW. He has 20 Network pilots under his belt, in comedy, drama and reality, including the Emmy nominated pilot for FX, Lucky. Mr. Scott is not only a Producer for hire, but has created and sold three pilots. One highlight in his career is the Feature Film, Perfect Game. Independently (by themselves!) developed, financed, produced, and sold to Disney — one of the only outside acquisitions Disney made that year. When Joey isn’t keeping the television industry on time and on budget he is riding his motorcycles on the highways and canyons of Southern California.
Paige Bernhardt
Executive Producer/Writer
Raised in North Georgia, Paige found her way first to New York University and ultimately to Los Angeles to be an award winning writer/producer, playwright and filmmaker.
Some of Bernhardt’s writing credits include the critically acclaimed South of Nowhere on The N (MTV Networks), Two Guys and A Girl, Yes, Dear and What About Joan with Joan Cusack. Among her producing credits are The Ride: Seven Days to End Aids (Logo) and Rollergirls (A&E). She is a regular contributor to Sit & Spin at the Comedy Central Stage or anywhere else they’ll let her talk about herself for ten minutes straight. www.myspace.com/popcrash
Maile Flanagan
Producer/Writer/Actor
Maile Flanagan started as a writer/producer/performer with the comedy group Every Mother’s Nightmare (with Nancy Walls, Tom McCarthy & Wayne Wilderson) in Boston and later Minneapolis. She then Co-Produced and wrote the pilot Work Force for Comedy Central. She created and Produced “Queer Comedy Night” at the Comedy Gallery in Minneapolis, and was a Producer and Host of “Fresh Fruit” on KFAI Radio in Minnesota. Flanagan co-wrote/co-produced hit plays in LA, Chicago and Minneapolis including Wymprov, Cabin Pressure featuring Mo Collins, and her own One-Woman Sound of Music (nominated for Best One-Person Show by the Chicago Reader). In LA, she produced plays at Third Stage with James Henricksen, including Pot Mom with Laurie Metcalf, Wife Swappers and the long-running smash show Oklahomo! and is currently producing the play Big Baby in Hollywood. Flanagan was a Producer and researcher for documentary television for Lifetime, Court TV, Discovery, A&E, Bravo, Travel Channel and others. She’s done other cool stuff like write new entertainment concepts for the Millennium Dome in London for Sony, developed an animated pilot for the Museum of Inventing, written thousands of questions for a trivia game company, and tried to figure out the meaning of “joy” for Goldie Hawn. In her spare time, she tries to sit quietly.
Mary Lou Belli
Director
Mary Lou Belli is the co-author of two books: The Sitcom Career Book and Acting for Young Actors. An Emmy Award-winning producer, writer, and director, she is currently directing her 7th consecutive season of Girlfriends on the new CW network. Belli directed Living with Fran starring Fran Drescher, Misconceptions starring Jane Leeves, and Eve starring hiphop artist Eve, as well as Charles in Charge, Major Dad, and Sister, Sister. Mary Lou received BET nominations for directing Girlfriends and One on One as well as a Prism Award for Girlfriends. After receiving a BA in theatre from Penn State, Mary Lou acted in musical theatre and soaps in New York, followed by a Los Angeles career producing and directing theatre with over 75 play productions to her credit. Among the awards she holds the dearest is her citation from the late Mayor Tom Bradley for her work with abused children. She lectures frequently throughout the United States including many universities such as AFI, NYU, Northwestern, and UConn.
Ben Garant
Director/Actor/Writer
Robert Ben Garant was born in Cookeville, Tennessee. He spent the early nineties appearing in Off-off Broadway theaters (bars) in New York City with the comedy group The State. The State had a three season run on MTV, which led to a forty-four minute run on CBS. He then created, wrote, produced, and occasionally appeared in three seasons of Viva Variety on Comedy Central. Since relocating to Los Angeles, he’s written feature films for Disney, Spyglass, Imagine, Warner Brothers, Columbia, Paramount, New Line, Dimension, and Universal Pictures, and Night at the Museum I and II for Twentieth Century Fox. He has written and directed two feature films, Balls of Fury for Universal, and Reno 911!: Miami for Fox and Paramount. In his spare time, he writes, directs, executive produces and stars in Reno 911!, Comedy Central’s second or third biggest show.
Courtney Rowe
Director
Courtney earned a film degree from the University of Southern California. After graduation she applied her skills to working as a 1st AD on “Fashionably L.A.” and 2nd assistant director on such series as “Scrubs,” “Dirt,” and “South of Nowhere” as well as many others. In 2002, Courtney wrote and directed “On the Outs,” an audience award-winning short film which was shown at festivals in San Francisco, New York, Paris, Tokyo and approximately twenty other festivals across the globe. When she’s not working on film, television and internet projects, you can find her drinking wine heavily. In 2004, Courtney took a wrong turn off the freeway and settled in partially-sunny Oregon where she began working at a winery. In between stomping grapes and convincing tourists that Oregonians can bottle a killer vintage, Courtney published articles in magazines for snobby wine people. She also worked at correcting the mass amount of wine disinformation while teaching wine classes. She continued to put her taste for grapes to good use by becoming a Certified Sommelier with the International Sommelier Guild.
John Dechene
Director of Photography
Born in the shadows of the MGM Studio Lot, cinematographer John Pierre Dechene was immediately intrigued by the Hollywood film industry. By age six, his family had moved to the San Fernando Valley. By age ten, he had processed his first film print from a hand-me–down developing kit. In less time than it took the muddy image to fully appear, John had developed an addiction to photography. Prior to becoming a cinematographer, John apprenticed 14 years through the ranks of Camera Operator. His career included working for such esteemed cinematographers as Bobby Byrne, Alan Davio, Nick Mclean, Bob Primes, Adrian Biddle and Vilmos Zsigmond. John has had a successful television and movie career in both the live action and visual effects fields. His experience has run the gamut. From Hollywood’s largest studios to it’s smallest commercial stages. Some of his Movie, Television, and Commercial credits include… Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, Hanna Montana, Mad About You, Murphy Brown, The Abyss, Fat man Little Boy, Christmas Vacation, Airplane II, Arco, Mobile One, Georgia Pacific, Suzuki Samuri, Barbie and Sohio Gas. “I’m a bit compulsive about composition. I like to shoot with natural-looking, motivated light, to create depth, and to make certain that the story being told is enhanced and communicated with the light and images.” John lives in the Conejo Valley with his wife and his two children.
John P.M. Higgins
Associate Producer
John Higgins has been producing and editing features, documentaries, and music videos for the past 6 years. John’s credits include The Decoy, a feature western that recently gained both domestic and international distribution, and a movie that represents the culmination of five years of dedicated labor to creating a viable film production company out of Tucson, Arizona. He has also earned 5 Telly Awards, including the prestigious Silver Telly, for his production and editing skills on El Tour de Tucson, a cycling documentary about one of the world’s largest perimeter bike rides. John is fluent in three languages, and has traveled to or lived in over 22 different countries throughout his life. He has used his wealth of knowledge of other cultures to bring to his films unique and enriching perspectives that have often surprised many of his peers. After the success of his first film, he relocated from Tucson, AZ to Los Angeles, CA, and found his way to 3Way where they made him an honorary lesbian. Learn more about John and his company at www.hkfilmproduction.com.
G. Charles Wright
Casting Director
G. Charles Wright was the casting director of the long running Fox TV hit, That ’70s Show, a series he worked on from its second season in 1999 until it’s finale in 2006. Additional casting credits include four recent sitcom pilots, Hackett and Union Jackass for Fox TV, Subs for the FX network, and Nice Girls Don’t Get The Corner Office for ABC. G.’s current film credits are, The Legacy and Tranny McGuyver. Past films are A Couple of Days and Nights, Peace, and A Day in the Life of a Bathroom Key. These are all being played at (and winning many) film festivals throughout the country and Canada. Days and Peace also recently secured distribution deals.G. also co-cast the short lived That ’80s Show for Fox and feature films Kalamazoo? starring Michael Boatman, Dee Wallace, Chita Rivera and Mayim Bialik and Home Room starring Erika Christensen and Victor Garber. This is G’s second project with Film Fatale, his first being the direct-to-DVD lesbian surf movie Wave Babes. G. is also a working actor who teaches a weekly sold-out class to other actors on how to prepare for auditions (mentioned in Entertainment Weekly, Sept. 21, 2007.) In January of 2007 he partnered with Emmy winning casting director Deb Barylski for TV pilots. Watch an interview with Charles at http://www.interviewinghollywood.com/videos/video-13.html.
Photography and Design Credits
3Way Photoshoot
Photographed by Michael Helms, designed by John Higgins.
Ladycops Photos
Photographed by John Higgins, designed by Keisha KNowles.