Me First!

Strike.TV is the brainchild of Peter Hyoguchi. He is the CEO as well as a contributor to the network with the pilot, "Me First!";  his first produced work with writing/producing partner Krista Tucker.  Hyoguchi has written and directed three feature films including "First, Last and Deposit" (Independent Film Channel) as well as selling numerous teleplays and screenplays within the Hollywood system.

Peter founded the interactive video website, http://www.interviewinghollywood.com, which features in-depth interviews with Industry pros like Francis Coppola (The Godfather), Tim Kring (Heroes) and David Silverman (The Simpsons).

As a consultant, Hyoguchi helped develop http://www.turnhere.com whose clients include Simon and Schuster, Discovery Networks, Citysearch and Intercontinental Hotels.   He also initiated the first online video journalism division of Inman News (Inman Stories), which syndicates to the New York Times, LA Times, The Wall Street Journal and many more.

Krista Tucker has written for NBC/Universal’s The Land Before Time, Nickelodeon’s All Grown Up, The BBC’s Friends and Heroes, Noggin’s Pinky Dinky Doo and PBS’ Jay Jay the Jet Plane.  She has also scribed episodes of Disney TV Animation’s Special Agent Oso, Teamo Supremo and Lloyd In Space.

Tucker has written and produced two works for the stage: Glimpses, hailed by the L.A. Weekly as “well-written and eerily honest,” and Hardware: A Miracle Play, a satire the LA Times called “outlandishly funny and original!”  Me First is her first produced work with writing/producing partner Peter Hyoguchi.

Tim Bagley comes from good mid western stock. He was raised in Minneapolis Minnesota, Madison, and Trempealeau, Wisconsin, and Niles, Michigan.

After college came a string of odd jobs; A butler at the Playboy Mansion, a page at Paramount Studios, a Mitzi Gaynor dancer, and a phone service operator for two pimps named T-money and Blueberry Muffin.

Somewhere in there he began taking acting classes with Nina Foch, Howard Fine, and The Groundlings. He spent 1990 - 1995 writing and performing with the prestigious Groundlings main company. He won two LA Weekly awards for best solo comedy performance in “Groundlings, Pretty Groundlings,” and best ensemble for “Groundlings, Good and Twenty.”     

Film highlights include “Knocked Up,” “Employee of the Month,” “Accepted,” “The Day After Tomorrow,” “Happy Texas,” “Austin Powers 2/ Spy Who Shagged Me,” and “The Mask.” TV highlights include “Monk,” “Will and Grace,” “According To Jim,” “King of Queens.” “7th Heaven,” “Wanda Does It,” “Situation Comedy” “The Court,” “ER,” “Dharma & Greg,” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

Tim’s play, “Happy Hour,” won the 1999 Jury Award for Best One Person Show at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. Tim resides in Los Angeles, but still enjoys a good Wisconsin cheese ball.

CHARLES DOUGHERTY has worked for 31 years in feature films, television and theatre.

He appeared in the film BEAUTIFUL, with Minnie Driver, directed by Sally Field. He worked with Martin Landau in the  film AN EXISTENTIAL AFFAIR, and had a starring role in the Roger Corman film, WELCOME TO OBLIVION.

Charles has guest starred in over 50 television shows from HAPPY DAYS to MONK, with stops along the way on such shows as  IN JUSTICE, STRONG MEDICINE, THE DREW CAREY SHOW, DALLAS, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALF, QUANTUM LEAP, and WINGS.

He performed roles in over a dozen television movies including ALICE IN WONDERLAND with Shelley Winters, and IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE, with Mimi Rogers.

Charles has performed in numerous theatre productions including Off-Broadway in the Thomas Babe play KID CHAMPION, and  the Brian Friel play, FREEDOM OF THE CITY, directed by Fionnula Flanagan.

Aliza Murrieta has taught improvisation for a good decade and a half in Los Angeles and at Chicago's The Second City, where she wrote and performed as a Company Member. Since founding bang with her husband Peter in 1995, she has also been the Executive Producer of bang's critically acclaimed comedy theatre. Aliza works in L.A. as both a writer and actor. A member of numerous L.A. improv groups and stage shows, she appears frequently in sitcoms and indie film, and has optioned several of her solo shows to Paramount for television development.

The music of composer Douglas Romayne is noted for haunting, magical melodies, lush orchestrations, rich textures and sophisticated writing.

Romayne’s credits include the television series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel,” “Duck Dodgers,” “Miracles” and “Day Break” and the films The Skulls III, H.H. Holmes, Rocketboy and Truth About Faces. He also contributes additional music and orchestration to films such as Big Fat Liar, Stealing Harvard and I-60: Episodes of the Road.

He is the recipient of the Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Film Music and 5 Gold Medals for Musical Excellence from the Park City Film Music Festival, Best Use of Score Nomination from The Film & TV Music Academy and co-composed the Annie Award winning “Duck Dodgers” episode honored for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Television Production. He worked as Associate Music Director on the Emmy-nominated “Once More, With Feeling” episode of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” with Christophe Beck, who received an Emmy nomination himself for Outstanding Music Direction.
Romayne’s first film score album, Expressing the Inexpressible, is critically hailed as “excellent,” “highly recommended,” “skillful writing,” “fabulous” and “an addictive album.”

Romayne lives in Los Angeles and scores film, television and new media out of his project studio, Back Pocket, run carbon-neutral with green energy. He is a member of Film Independent, The Society of Composers and Lyricists and the American Federation of Musicians Local 47. He is repped by Linda Kordek, The Agency Group/LA, and Karrie Vickery, Bleu Jean Mgmt.

For more about Douglas Romayne, visit his official website: www.douglasromayne.com and IMDb.

While enjoying a successful design career in film and television, Jennifer is thrilled to collaborate with the creators of Strike TV. A graduate of UCLA’s  Theater Dept., Jennifer draws upon her love of creating characters through color and texture as seen in Chuck Rose’s “Side Effects” and Peter Hyoguchi’s “Me First”. Jennifer’s experience with stunts, practical effects and special effects make-up enabled her to create a new standard of horror-inspired action, filmed entirely in daylight, for Tom Holland’s “Five or Die”.

Character development and technical knowledge are the main components of all Jennifer’s work, including: “SAW”, “Veronica Mars”, “Killer Pad”, “House of the Dead 2”, “The Fallen Ones”, and most recently, Frank Mancuso Jr.’s remake of his 1986 horror film, “April Fool’s Day”.

My name is Sarah Lewis, and I have been pursuing my career in film since I was 16 years old. I went to a trade school in New York where I studied Video Production, then went on to film school in Orlando. I have been doing Production Sound for a few years now. I am a Boom operator and Sound Assistant as well. I have worked on various Independent Features, shorts and other various projects. If you ever need a great sound team, my contact information is below.

Sarah Lewis
Production Sound for Film
sarahtlewis@yahoo.com
www.myspace.com/sarahtl

I recently moved to the West Coast from Minneapolis at the end of 2007. I was born and raised in South Dakota, and went to school in Minneapolis for Audio Production and Engineering. My goal is to work on Post Production Audio. I currently work at a musical theater running sound. Although I love the unpredictable and exciting life of live sound, my real passion is in Post Production.

It all started in a tiny darkroom in Sepulveda, California. When I was tossed out of  some high school class or another for goofing around too much, they put on the school newspaper to fill the period. The teacher made me the photographer, and I was hooked. That was a long time ago, and I'm still shooting.

When the WGA strike started, my regular work slowed way down. To support the writers (and to stay out of my wife's hair all day) I began photographing strike activities. I met some great people covering the strike. One of the them was Peter Hyoguchi, who invited me to take unit stills for his show, Me First!, and recommended me for several others.

I have to say that some of the best time I've spent in production was working on StrikeTV projects. Seeing some of the shows I didn't work on makes me wish I could have contributed to more of them!

Patrick Francis has recently completed a feature documentary on the maverick film director, Andre deToth. Entitled, Andre deToth: The Director's Director, the picture probes the connection between deToth's wild life (his escape from Nazi occupied Poland, the devastating collapse of his marriage to Veronica Lake, his resilience after breaking his neck 3 times) and his extraordinary cinema (A-pictures, B-pictures, noirs, westerns, war films, and the 3-D classic, House of Wax) A collaborative effort, shot over the last years of deToth's life, the film ultimately proves to be an insiders document about a man who truly lived life on his own terms. Additionally, directors: Quentin Tarantino, Nicolas Roeg, Richard Donner, and Bertrand Tavernier pay tribute to this largely underappreciated artist.

For the video-based website, Interviewing Hollywood, Mr. Francis has produced and edited over 30 hours of content, and conducted career spanning Q&A’s with Crispin Glover, Elliot Gould, Peter Bogdanovich, and many others.  He’s also written several screenplays for hire (which hopefully will never be produced) and written film related journalism for such publications as L.A. Weekly, MovieMaker Magazine, among others.

It should be noted that Mr. Francis is obsessed with the cinema of Werner Herzog, is an L.A. native, and is the proud owner of a barrel of single malt Scotch whiskey, which is quietly aging in the briny sea air of southern Scotland.