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Director / Co-Producer
Bob has a long business career in film, television, stage, and radio.
As A Producer
Bob was the supervising producer for the nationally syndicated, reality-based television series Real Stories of the Highway Patrol & Emergency Call for Genesis Entertainment.
As Director / Producer / Writer
Bob has won Telly Awards for Producing and directing nationally released television commercials for Coupon Suzy and Coupon Bug. Bob also has had the pleasure of directing television commercials starring the late Paul Newman, Phyllis Diller, Robert Vaughn, and Hugh O’Brien. Other directorial projects include national corporate, promotional, and industrial videos, many of which Bob creatively developed and wrote the scripts.
As An Actor (SAG-AFTRA/AEA Member)
Bob’s newest feature film, Bad News on the Doorstep, is a coming-of-age sports/crime drama, and stars Chazz Palminteri and Rob Gronkowski. “Vault,” another crime drama, was released by Lionsgate. Here, Bob plays the role of Hyman Levine. The film stars Sons of Anarchy’s Theo Rossi, Everest’s Clive Standen, Chazz Palminteri, Don Johnson, The Sopranos’ Vincent Pastore, and Rocky’s Bert Young. Bob also performed the role of mob attorney Sam Rummel in America Fights Back for the Las Vegas Mob Museum. Additionally, he portrayed the character of Jeff Winters in the feature film Harvest for IBID Films and Kenny in The Deadliest Season, a “CBS movie of the week”. Bob was also featured as the tailor in The Makeover, a television film for The Hallmark Hall of Fame. Bob has many stage credits to his name as well.
As Director for the Stage
Regionally, and in New York, Bob directed the riveting drama Inherit the Wind and Simon Gray’s Stage Struck at the nationally acclaimed Historic Ivoryton Playhouse.
His other stage directorial credits include: Hystorical staged at the Duke Theater on 42nd Street, NYC, Y In the World, staged at the Bushnell’s Belding Theatre in Hartford, Death of a Salesman, I Hate Hamlet, Evita, Extremities, Front Street starring the late Ron Paolillo of television’s Welcome Back Kotter, and You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, among others.
His Training
Bob’s training includes vocal study at the Hartt School of Music. He holds a BA Degree in Speech and Drama (University of Hartford). He also attended the University of Connecticut’s MFA program in Directing. Bob’s acting coach was the late Henry Thomas, resident actor for the Hartford Stage Co.
Bob Dio: IMDB (link)
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Producer / Author / Screenplay
Greg has been communicating and creating for most of his life through multiple careers in broadcasting, video production, journalism, marketing, and most recently, as an authorpreneaur. An award-winning sportscaster for WTIC Radio in Hartford, a national talk show host for Enterprise Radio, the radio voice of the Tampa Bay Rowdies Soccer Team (NASL), the public address announcer for the Hartford Whalers (NHL) and the creator of multiple tourism television programs broadcast to tourists in hotels throughout Mystic and Hartford, Connecticut, Sedona, Arizona, and Newport, Rhode Island. In the last ten years, he has been an independent publisher and novelist with four novels published and a fifth on the verge of release. He is an avid sailboat racer and certified race official for US Sailing in Southern New England. He is currently a partner in Castle Fires Entertainment, preparing a movie production from his fourth novel, “Castle Fires”.
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Co-Producer / Location Manager
Ed is a native of New Haven, Connecticut and a graduate of the University of Connecticut, Class of 1969. In 1965, he founded Bands Unlimited which later morphed into Miriam Cohen Productions with his wife as his business partner. The business soon became the largest independent music management/booking agency in New England: managing five bands and booking one hundred. Simultaneously, he was playing 2nd sax, percussion and was backup singer for “The Gravy Train”. Throughout his involvement in the East Coast music scene, he worked with: Jerry Greenberg (later President of Atlantic Records and MJJ Music for Michael Jackson at Sony); Craig McGregor (Foghat); Bobby Torello (Edgar Winter); Fred Parris and the 5 Satins (of “In the Still of the Night Fame”); and Michael Bolton (formerly known as Michael Bolotin); and many others. In 1974, Ed encountered Dave Biro and his invention, The BiroTron- widely recognized as the rarest instrument in rock music history. Ed arranged a meeting with Rick Wakeman, keyboardist of YES, while in search of an endorsement to raise funds to build the instrument. Wakeman instead suggested a partnership with manufacturing be conducted at his factory in High Wickham, UK. However, only seventeen units were produced. Even so, the Biroron was used on recordings by YES, Wakeman, Tangerine Dream and extensively on the road. In 1980, Ed left the music scene with the emergence of disco. No one could pay him enough to play or even listen to THAT! When Ed moved to Southern California in 2008, he started hearing the music that he loved –ROCK! At a chance meeting poolside at a Palm Springs resort he met Robin McAuley, the lead singer of Survivor (now with the Michael Schenker Group - MSG). After a two-hour conversation, Robin said something that gave Ed pause for thought. Robin said: “You know what I am most grateful about in life? That, at my age, I am still privileged to perform and entertain audiences.“
Having returned to CT in late 2018, Ed Currently manages Italian-American composer/conductor/arranger/producer/multi-instrumentalist/track engineer/mix engineer/mastering engineer Max Di Carlo and Second Sight, a classic rock band comprised of current and semi-retired major moguls in the film/TV industry. He also manages Ray Griggs, DGA Director/producer/technologist/writer. Latest additions to the team are Steve Johnson, Rob “Rob the Drummer” Gottfried and Marston Smith “Lord of the Cello.”
Ed began a parallel career in filmmaking in 2021 as a location scout, locations manager, associate producer, product placement specialist and has since worked on ten feature films and lining up more at the time of this writing.
On January 25, 2023, Ed had an initial lunch with Jonathan Black at The Blue Colony Diner in Newtown, Connecticut. They were astounded to find that they had the burning goal to build the film industry in CT and committed to work together to get it done…and 5 months later with three other co-founders, and a great Board, The Connecticut Film and TV Alliance is ‘gittin’ ‘er done!’
UPDATE-NOVEMBER 9, 2024!!!
To date the Connecticut Film and TV Alliance is now a 501c3 nonprofit, and has twice successfully prevented the state legislature from abolishing the Film/TV Tax Incentive in Connecticut. We now have over 600 members, and are growing constantly. We have successfully accelerated the number of productions going on, and have helped productions crew up and overcome obstacles. We are partnered with UCONN to build soundstages, as well as working with other Universities and colleges through Digital Media Connecticut (DMCT). We have rolled out the first Health Benefits program in CT for Gig Workers and 1099 workers in the history of Connecticut. Our first major conference, held on November 9, 2024 at Goodwin University in East Hartford was attended by over 700 people, featured: Union Panel; Education Panel; Production Crew Panel; Movers & Shakers Panel; 16 VIP Interviews; Music Showcase; Exhibitors; Illiana Douglas Book Signing, and more!
I recently finished my 10th film.
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Associate Producer / Actor
Illeana Douglas is known for playing fearless, often outspoken women in films like Goodfellas, Cape Fear, To Die For and Stir of Echoes. Some of her favorite performances include Grace of My Heart, Picture Perfect, and Ghost World. She just completed filming The Greatest Man in The World. and can be seen in the film Infidelity (2023) Illeana is the granddaughter of two-time Academy Award–winning actor Melvyn Douglas. She has interviewed a pantheon of cinema greats on Turner Classic Movies; appears regularly on Joe Dante’s, Trailers From Hell; and has participated in film documentaries, including Rock Hudson: AllThat Heaven Allowed,CNN: The Movies, 78/52, Greatest Cult Films of All Time, The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh, and Kino Lorber’s Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers, which she executive-produced. Illeana received an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Angela on Six Feet Under and has guest starred in iconic shows like Entourage, Ugly Betty Seinfeld,Frasier, and all of the Law and Order’s. She recently she costarred on Goliath, Search Party, and Shrill.
Illeana’s first book, I Blame Dennis Hopper: AndOther Storiesfrom a Life Lived In and Out of the Movies,was named “one of the best books of 2015” by Entertainment Weekly. Connecticut in the Movies: From Dream Houses to Dark Suburbia (2023) is now in its second printing. She is working on her third book, highlighting actresses from the 1930’s studio system.
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Associate Producer
Alessandro is a CT-based documentary filmmaker, producer, and cinematographer. He has been an associate producer on multiple films shot in Connecticut including Marathon (The William Meredith story), and Diamond Ruff with Young Feature Films. Alessandro has been the assistant director and associate producer for the Film Industry Mixer networking event for over seven years. He is currently a DP for commercial video, and is creating a series of short documentaries for HARC Inc. to help improve the public's understanding of what those with learning disabilities are capable of. He is also the Co-Chair for the Events Committee of the CT Film & TV Alliance.
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