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KTCA Production Team
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Producer/Director Writer Narrator Composer Associate Producers Videographer Editor Audio Design Graphic Design Lighting Director Field Audio Production Manager Additional Videography |
Additional Audio Additional Editing Music Record Music Performed by Scheduling Post Production Supervisor Production Assistance Vice President, Arts and Cultural Production GERALD RICHMAN C. 1996, TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION, INC. |
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Biographies of some of the the key players behind
Bring Warm Clothes.
Barbara Wiener, Producer/Director
Barbara Wiener has been working in the Twin Cities film and video community for the last thirteen years. For eleven of those years, she has been on the cultural production staff of KTCA. Many of her shows have won awards and been screened at film festivals. She has won three Midwestern Emmys, one for her documentary Inside Mayo Clinic, one for The Screenplay Project: Four Shorts, a drama special of original short plays, and one for her participation in the first season of Tape's Rolling!, a verité documentary series about life in the Twin Cities.
Barbara's accomplishments include: Curious George Goes to Hell, a short piece featuring the little monkey Curious George as the hero in Dante's Inferno, which was chosen to be screened at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival; Whisper: the women, a piece about growing older in America which won a National Media Award from , Iron Range: A People's History, a documentary on the history of Minnesota's three iron ranges; and Grandma's Way Out Party, a quirky and heartwarming road trip special with storyteller Kevin Kling and cartoonist Lynda Barry, which was screened at INPUT `94 and picked up for international broadcast by Channel 4 in London.
Most recently, Barbara completed A Family Concert, a live concert taped
at the Guthrie Theatre featuring The Roches and the Music Workshop for Kids,
which received a Parent's Choice Award; and Wacipi--PowWow, a cultural
documentary created with the Dakota Indian community which chronicled a major
PowWow held in Shakopee, Minnesota.
Barbara's past includes growing up in Florida and Texas as a daughter of a
space program physicist, a graduate degree in Theatre and a stint working with
Peter Sellers at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Presently she happily
shares her home in south Minneapolis with two charming cats.
Peg Meier, Writer
Peg has been a reporter for the Star Tribune since 1970. She writes
primarily human interest stories about Minnesota people, past and present.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 with a B.A. in
journalism. She was a reporter for the Sheboygan Press, the
Milwaukee Journal and The Paper for Central Wisconsin (Oshkosh,
WI) before joining the Star Tribune staff.
For her coverage of Minnesota history, Meier was recognized by the American Association for State and Local History for "skillful presentations of American history". She has also won first-place awards from the Associated Press, the National Association for Retarded Citizens an the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. Three of her articles have won sweepstakes awards in the Page One competition.
Meier has written five nonfiction books about historical and contemporary Minnesotans: "Bring Warm Clothes," "The Pie Lady of Winthrop," "Coffee Made Her Insane," "The Last of the Tearoom Ladies," and "Too Hot, Went to Lake."
"Bring Warm Clothes" is the best selling book ever published about Minnesota, and "Too Hot, Went to Lake" was judged by the Midwest Independent Publishers Association to be the best paperback book in its 1994 "Midwest Book Achievement Award" contest.
Kevin Kling, Narrator
Kevin Kling graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1979 and has been a member of the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis since 1983.
Kling performed his one-person plays "21A" and "Home and Away" at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Westside Arts Theatre and Second Stage Theater (off Broadway); Seattle Rep, The Goodman Theater, The Denver Center Theater, Festivals in Sydney and Perth, Australia; Quicksilver Stage, The Jungle Theater and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
His play "Lloyd's Prayer" received a workshop at the Sundance Institute and premiered at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville. Other plays include "The 7 Dwarfs", "The Education," "Fear and Loving in Minneapolis," and "The Ice Fishing Play."
Kling's stories, "Curious George Goes to Hell and "The Innocent Man," have been seen on KTCA-TV/Channel 2. Along with Lynda Barry, he was in the travel adventure "Grandma's Way Out Party," also for KTCA and BBC Channel 4 in England. His stories have been heard on National Public Radio and Minnesota Public Radio.
Kling is a recipient of a Jerome Fellowship, the Heideman Award, a Bush Fellowship, an NEA grant, a McKnight Fellowship, and the Whiting Literary Award. Along with Loren Niemi and Michael Sommers, he is a proud member of the performance trio "Bad Jazz." Kevin was last seen as Vladimir in the Twin Cities' Jungle Theater's production of "Waiting for Godot."
Chandler Poling, Composer
Chan has composed music for several KTCA productions, including Grandma's Way-Out Party and Donna's Day. He was a member of the band "The Suburbs."
John Lightfoot, Associate Producer
John Lightfoot been on the production staff of the Arts and Cultural Department at KTCA-TV/Channel 2 for three years. He co-produced "QAPLA! Twin Cities Star Trek Convention" for the first season of "Tape's Rolling!" He has produced a number of arts segments for "Arts On 2" and "NewsNight Minnesota" - most notably "Sewage Dance." At KTCA he's also worked on "Lost Twin Cities II", "Wacipi-PowWow," and "Iron Range: A People's History."
Independently, he's documenting the county fair demolition derby circuit.
Jim Kron, Director of Photography
Hi my name is Jim Kron the Director of Photography for Bring Warm Clothes. I've been at Ch. 2 for about six years working on various projects for Public, Community, Arts and Cultural Affairs. Some of the highlights were the award winning Minnesota "Diaries" that focused on various individual's from Minnesota's minority communities. "Get Over It" a documentary on gay rights issue's that ended up with a march on Washington D.C. and gave me the chance to receive an Emmy for videography. At the same time I have been shooting video all along for Almanac, Newsnight, Tapes Rolling and The News Hour.
I'm originally from Duluth Mn. graduated from the College of Saint Scholastica with a B.A. in Media Arts with an emphasis on still photography. From my last year in college to present I have been working shooting video for broadcast television and keeping my still photography as a hobby
My wife Nancy and I have been married for 12 years and have lived in south Minneapolis for almost 10 years. No children as of yet just our 10 year old golden retriever Bozwell.
Jerry Lakso, Editor
I have 20 years of production and broadcasting experience in public and commercial television. For the past 18 years, I have been employed by Twin Cities Public Television, KTCA-TV Channel 2, where I have had extensive experience in post-production, field and studio production, and broadcast operations. During my tenure here my skills have grown as KTCA has become one of the top production facilities in the PBS system. (On the down side my Resume and cover letter writing skills may have gotten a bit rusty.)
From 1985 to 1991 I was the principal editor of the Emmy Award winning Newtons Apple series. In1989 I traveled to England where I worked with the BBC and Visnews as Associate Producer/Technical Coordinator on, Carols from Kings, a BBC / KTCA co-production. (it's nice to get out of town once in a while, don't you think?). I have also edited for MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour as well as numerous documentaries for local, state and national distribution. In 1991, I was awarded an EMMY for my editing work on the documentary KMOJ: Heart and Soul. I've also had the pleasure to work with the Producer of Bring Warm Clothes, Barbara Wiener, on many other productions like Wacipi/Pow Wow and A Family Concert and many others.
Vern Norwood, Audio Design
Vern is the Director of the KTCA Audio Department and the guru behind many of KTCA's awards for TV audio production over the past several years. As a composer his credits include, most recognizably, the theme music for the weekly program Almanac, and skags of other noteworthy productions. He's also a former professional studio percussionist.
Joe Price, Lighting Director
Joe has been responsible for the lighting design of almost every KTCA produced studio production and many field productions seen on Channel 2 in the past several years, including the national PBS series Newton's Apple.
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