THE HAT SQUAD 2025 - BEHIND THE SCENES

 

BEHIND THE SCENES

DIRECTORS
Manjul Sinha ('Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi', 'Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan')
Jeannot Swarc ('Grey's Anatomy', 'Bones', 'Smallville', 'JAG', 'The Practice', 'Kojak', 'Night Gallery', 'Without A Trace', 'Heroes', 'Columbo', 'Cold Case', 'Fringe')
Carlos Diegues ("Os Filhos do Medo", 'Brasil que Vale', 'Material Bruto')
Marty Callner ('On Location', 'Standing Room Only', many comedy/music specials)
Rick Levine (Commercials - Diet Pepsi, Wells Fargo....)
James Foley ('House of Cards', 'Billions', 'Twin Peaks', 'Hannibal', "Red Zone")
William Cran ('Frontline' documentarian)
Diane Martel ('Dropout', music videos for Miley Cyrus, Mariah Carey, Robin Thicke)
Dave Roberts (WTVR CBS-6 studio director)


WRITERS
Jules Feiffer ('Faerie Tale Theatre', 'Great Performance', 'Quest', 'Comedy Zone')
David Steven Cohen ('Courage the Cowardly Dog', 'Parker Lewis Can't Lose')
L.J. Smith (Author of 7 books in the "Vampire Diaries" series.)
Peter David ('Space Cases', 'Babylon 5', 'Ben 10: Alien Force/Ultimate Alien')
Martin Cruz Smith ("The Art of Crime")
Rose Leiman Goldemberg ("Burning Bed", "The Stone Pillow", "Letters Home")
Steve Hayden (1984 Apple commercial, 'Welcome Back, Kotter', "Hello, Moto")
Alfa-Betty Olsen ('The Great American Dream Machine', 'Dick Cavett Show')
Stephen Downing ('Dragnet', 'Adam-12', Showrunner for 'MacGyver', LAPD cop)
D.L. Coburn (Pulitzer winner for "The Gin Game" - five TV versions, three of them foreign versions.  First American version featured married couple Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.  The last American TV movie had Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.)

PRODUCERS
Allyce Ozarski ('SMILF', 'GOLF', 'Super Pumped', 'Baskets', 'The L Word: Generation Q', 'I Love That For You', 'I Love You, America' [Emmy nominated]) 
Roberto Orci ('Fringe', 'Hawaii Five-0'B, 'Scorpion', 'Sleepy Hollow', 'Alias', 'Matador', 'Limitless', 'Transformers Prime', 'Jack Of All Trades')
Peter Engel ('Saved By The Bell' franchise, 'City Guys', 'USA High', 'Hang Time', 'Malibu, Ca', 'California Dreams', 'How To Survive A Marriage', 'Sirota's Court', 'The Ice Palace', 'One World', 'Last Comic Standing')
Bill Dare ('Spitting Image', 'Dead Ringers', 'The Now Show')
Stanley R. Jaffe ('Fatal Attraction')
John Brenkus ('Science Live!', 'Sport Science', 'Car Warriors', 'Known Universe') 
Joseph Lovett (CBS & ABC TV specials about AIDS)
Jim McLaughlin (CBS 'Sunday Morning')
John Masius ('St. Elsewhere', 'Providence', 'Touched By Angel')
Jerry Mazza (CBS News)

MUSIC
Garth Hudson (Last of The Band, "Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band", 'Saturday Night Live', "Woodstock Diary", "Love For Levon", 'Classic Albums')
Alf Clausen ('The Simpsons', 'Moonlighting', 'ALF', 'The Critic', 'Bette')
Lalo Schifrin ('Mission: Impossible', 'Medical Center', 'Mannix', 'Starsky and Hutch', 'Petrocelli', 'Blue Light', 'The Young Lawyers', 'Planet of the Apes', 'The Partners', 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', 'Most Wanted', 'Bronk', 'Glitter', 'T.H.E. Cat', 'A.D.') 
Mark Snow ('The X-Files', 'Blue Bloods', 'Smallville', 'Ghost Whisperer', 'Hart To Hart', 'Falcon Crest', 'Millennium', 'Dark Justice', 'Nowhere Man',  'The Twilight Zone 2002', ' 'One Tree Hill', 'Starsky & Hutch', 'Family') 
Alan Bergman ('Alice', 'In The Heat Of The Night', 'Good Times', 'Maude')
Sonny Curtis ('The Mary Tyler Moore Show', 'The Mary Tyler Moore Hour', & 'Evening Shade' themes, "I Fought The Law" - used in 'EastEnders', 'The Simpsons', 'Miami Vice', 'Cheers', 'The Wonder Years', 'Hawaii Five-0', many others)
Cleto Escobedo III (Leader of The Cletones for his childhood friend Jimmy Kimmel)

ANIMATION
Jim Smith ('Ren & Stimpy', 'Samurai Jack', co-founder of SpumCo)

CAMERA
David Dorsett ('The Late Show with David Letterman' - 8 emmys)|

EDITOR
Seth Fox (CBS Evening News)


ART DIRECTOR
Ron Travisano (Meow Mix, Joe Isuzu, Pan Am, Reagan Campaign, NY Mets)
Renato Casaro (Artist who made posters for Italian release of episodes from TV Western 'Stories Of The Century')
Drew Struzan (Posters for 'Mob City', '80th Academy Awards')

SET DESIGN
John Conklin ("Carmen", "In The Penal Colony", "I Lombardi", "Lizzie Borden")

COSTUMES
Phyllis Dalton ("The Scarlet Pimpernel", "The Plot To Kill Hitler", "The Last Days of Patton", "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Magic Moments", "Arthur the King")
Theodore Pistek ('The Visitors', 'Dune', 'Children of Dune', 'Arabela', 'Pan Tau')

MAKEUP & HAIR
Greg Cannom ("Gleason", 'Tales From The Crypt', 'Werewolf', 'Any Day Now', "Thriller") 

STAGE MANAGER
Lisa Treadwell (CBS News stage manager)

PUPPETRY