Notre Dame College

Emerson College

Southern Methodist University

On Camera-Business Presentation Coach

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Teaching the needed skills to feel confident, look confident and be confident in front of a TV camera and/or in front of colleagues at a business presentation.

Freelance

Latest Demo reel:   <a href="https://vimeo.com/351920517">https://vimeo.com/351920517</a>

Freelance Voice-Over Talent and TV Producer/Writer

Producer/Writer

Teaching an intensive 4-week workshop on unscripted TV producing and TV documentary producing.  Students were given the specifics on how to successfully pitch a TV show or TV doc idea.  Every student pitched with visuals and budget estimates of their TV program and TV documentary ideas for broadcast, cable and/or the web.

KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts, A Subsidiary of KD Studio, Inc.

Course Instructor

Taught 4 classes per semester and in one semester 5 courses in On-Camera Interview and Performance, Broadcast News Reporting, Voice Over skills for Television and Radio, and Unscripted TV Producing.

University of North Texas

Senior Lecturer/Adjunct Radio TV Film Media Arts

Hired by High Noon Entertainment in Denver, CO to field produce and direct the reality show: "My First Sale".  The program profiled home sellers manuevering their way through the real estate maze.

High Noon Entertainment

Freelance Field Producer/Director

Senior Lecturer with UNT's Mayborn School of Journalism.  Taught 4 courses per semester.  Advanced Broadcast News Writing.  Media Performance for TV.  Basic TV News Broadcast Writing.  Also faculty manager for the student-run newscasts.  Faculty advisor for student internships.  Edited broadcast scripts and reviewed/approved broadcast pkgs.  Media performance classes focused on helping students overcome anxieties when speaking live on camera or in front of a live audience.

Journalism Senior Lecturer

Shoot video and stills for a multi-state media campaign titled;  “Keep it Made in America”.Determined very quickly who were the optimal storytellers, script their stories to share via uploads from the field for daily nationwide internet access.

Home Front Communications

Freelance Multi-Media Producer

Segment produced for NBC Network and the Miss Universe Organization the 2008 the Miss USA pageaent.  Interviewed each of the 51 contenders, field produced their field trips and worked backstage during the NBC telecast.

NBC and Miss Universe Pageant Productions

Segment Producer Miss USA Pageant

Helped develop a national digitally available entertainment-programming loop viewed by more than 5-million fast foot diners each month.  Responsible for casting talent, internal/external communications and approving programming content. Reached out to media suppliers to build relationships and build an extensive content source.

Indoor/Direct Digital Media Network

Director of Content and Production

Field directed and interviewed participants in a Discovery Health Network medical special and subsequent series about surprise pregnancies.  The special became the highest rated program on the Discovery Health Network.

Mike Mathis Productions

Freelance Field Producer/Director "I Didn't Know I was Pregnant!"

Extensive national-international travel as a staff field producer/director to more extensively develop the backstory set up package on guests who will be on the Tyra Banks talk show.

The Tyra Banks Show/TelePictures Productions

Staff Field Director

Worked on staff for the in-house production group creating programming, script writing and field directing for Animal Planet, The Travel Channel, TLC, Discovery Health, Military Channel, Discovery Education.

Discovery Studios (Discovery Communications, Inc)

Staff Producer Writer

Field Producer/Director working on bonus DVD features for Warner Bros. Home Video and Universal Home Videos.  Interviewed filmmakers inspired by the epic film, Ben-Hur. The documentary is included in the 25th anniversary DVD boxed set.  Later hired to do research and interview film professional influenced by the legendary director, Alfred Hitchcock, the master of the suspense genre.  Three different documentaries were created and are included with the updated colorized versions of the films, "Psycho", "Rear Window" and "Vertigo".

Leva FilmWorks

Bonus Feature DVD Field Producer/Director

Segment Writer for a Discovery Network series titled; C.I. Coroner Investigator.  The program profiled the real life work of a Los Angeles C.I. as she went on cases to investigate deaths, be they homocides, natural or accidental.

New Dominion Pictures

Contract Segment Producer

I was a field producer/director for several episodes for a program called 'Dreaming Big' for The Travel Channel Network.  I did the pre-pro set up, the production and handed it off to post.  I also wrote several show treatments.

Martin-Calvert Productions

Contract Field Producer/Writer Travel Channel Network

Field Producer/Director hired to interiew guests slated to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show.  With my video crew, I captured the  comments and lifestyles of guests slated to be showcased on the show.  My assignments featured film celebrities, local hereos and television celebrities and Oprah show contest winners.

The Oprah Winfrey Show

Multi-media television professional with extensive production experience writing and producing in hard deadline-driven environments.  Skills include a journalist’s knack for developing excellent sources in a constantly evolving social media world.  Ability to work independently. A hands-on, self-motivated team player with a distinguished multi-award-winning career in television producing/writing.

Producer/Writer and Field Producer/Director

National and international travel field producing and writing story segments for a weeknight primt time news program titled; National Geographic TODAY.

National Geographic Channel

Staff Producer/Writer

KTVT- CBS TV Channel 11 News

Executive Producer 'Positively Texas

Showrunner of an weekday morning entertainment magazine program. When hired, the show was in 3rd place.  During my tenure, the show reached 1st place status as a viewer favorite in the 25-45 age demographic.  Initiated taking our live studio show on the road and invited viewers to become audience members.  Researched viewer likes and dislikes and adjusted segment choices and guests accordingly.  Supervised a staff of 15+.

Michelle Redmond