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Allison Leyton-Brown – Composer

Allison Leyton-Brown is an award-winning composer, pianist, and Musical Director. She has composed countless original scores for theatre, dance, opera and film productions across the U.S. and Canada. Recent productions include Pete the Cat: The Musical (2015 premiere), and Pilgrimage to the Mouth (Skyline Theater/NJ Arts Collective). Upcoming, Allison is writing score and songs for a regional production of the absurdist play BOB.

Leyton-Brown composes regularly for various TV programs including 20/20, The Good Wife, Primetime, What Would You Do?, and PBS Kids’ Peg+Cat. Recent film credits include dramatic shorts It Had Wings (Archipelago Cine), The Bicycle (NY Film Fest), documentaries Rainy Season and features Millions: A Lottery Story (nationwide screening) and Dog’s Life (Telluride Film Fest).

Leyton-Brown works regularly as a Musical Director, band-leader and recording pianist. Most recently, she musically directed and arranged music for the touring stage show and album of Tennessee Williams: Words and Music, and Bottle Shock: The Musical for the Napa Valley Film Festival and Fogg Theater in SF.

Allison can be seen performing around NYC with multiple groups including New Orleans jazzers Smith & 9th Ward.

Visit Allison’s website: www.allisonleytonbrown.com

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Dick Maitland C.A.S. – Sound Effects Designer, mixer and Foley Artist

Sound Effects Designer, mixer and Foley artist Dick Maitland C.A.S. 16x Emmy award winner.

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Sarika Matthew – Designer

Sarika’s passion is to create art that inspires and brings joy to people. Animated movies and television shows have been an inspiration to her from a young age. She earned a BFA in Film & Animation with a minor in Game Design from Rochester Institute of Technology. Sarika started as a designer and production assistant on Peg + Cat and is now a designer for Clifford the Big Red Dog. Her work can also be seen in the Peg + Cat books, Sesame Studio’s We Say Night Night Song and in Click Clack Moo: Christmas at the Farm. Each experience has taught her the art of bringing a director’s vision to life, new techniques, and of course, bringing joy to people through her artwork. In her free time, Sarika loves to bake, travel to exotic places, and photograph wildlife. 

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Dan Mennella – Audio Engineer

Dan has been a musician since the first day he beat a pair of pans with some wooden spoons in the kitchen of his parent’s house. In high school, he started to pursue music and engineering more seriously by joining bands and running the audio for the high school Musical Theater Department. From those experiences, Dan gained interest in the magic that was happening on the other side of the glass. Shortly after high school, he continued his education at The Institute of Audio Research, where he got interested in Audio Post Production. Upon his graduation from IAR, he continued on to become an Audio Engineer on The Wonder Pets! (Nick Jr.) and 3rd & Bird (BBC/Disney). Since then he has run countless VOs and music records with hundreds of people; most notably Idena Menzel (Rent), and Jim Breuer (SNL). During his time at Little Airplane Productions he earned a Daytime Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing on The Wonder Pets! for Nick Jr. and worked as the Audio Engineer on several other Emmy Award-winning shows. Occasionally, Dan works as a live sound technician and stagehand. Mixing, building stages and setting up sound and lighting at places like the Meadowlands Fair, Giants Stadium and the Bethelwoods Performing Arts Center. In the live music world, Dan has been lucky enough to work on concerts for artists such as Brad Paisley, The Fray, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny Chesney, Lauren Allaina, Cousin Brucie, and Ronnie Spector. Dan was the Audio Engineer on Peg + Cat and now Clifford the Big Red Dog at 100 Chickens Productions .

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Alia Nakashima – Producer

Originally from Toronto, Alia has built a gratifying career in animation through a series of chance encounters. After graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver (where she studied painting, drawing and printmaking), she needed a job. A production manager she met at a party led her to her first summer gig at Studio B Productions, cell painting, back when people still painted on acetate cells. She stayed more than a decade, producing original Canadian productions such as CTV’s D’Myna Leagues, YTV’s Yvon of the Yukon and Teletoon’s Class of the Titans and other series such as Ned’s Newt (for Nelvana) and The New Woody Woodpecker Show (for Universal Cartoon Studios). New York City became her new home in 2006, after the project she was working on in Vancouver moved to New York and she moved with it, to work on Word World, the Emmy-Award winning series aired on PBS.

Alia is very proud to have worked on Peg + Cat, an empowering show that features a strong girl character, is very funny, well written, and has great music and beautiful designs. In fact, she wishes such a program were around when she was a kid, one that showed math is everywhere and can be fun. She makes her home in Brooklyn, where she cohabits with a strong-willed feline name Zig.

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Robert Powers – Animation Producer

Robert Powers, a graduate from The School of Visual Arts and has been an Animator/Director working in the New York animation industry for 20 years. Robert has worked on such shows as Nick Jr’s Little Bill, The Wonder Pets!, Team UmiZoomi, MTV2’s Fridays, Peg + Cat, Click Clack Moo, and Clifford the Big Red Dog. With his company Slippery Rock Creative he has worked closely with clients such as PBS, NYRR, Nickelodeon, MTV, The Walt Disney Company, Marriott Hotel Properties and with the artist/musician Moby. In 2009, Robert directed an animated music video for The Subterraneans called TEST. It was an official selection for the 2010 Cannes Independent Film Festival and won best music video for that year. In 2014 Robert won a Daytime Emmy for his work on Peg + Cat. He has been nominated for producing and directing for six consecutive years.

www.slipperyrockcreative.com

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Steven Rebollido – Audio Director and Sound Department Supervisor

Steven joined the 100 Chickens team in 2010 during production of the “Peg+Cat” pilot.  He is responsible for providing creative sound direction and overseeing the studio’s audio production, including voiceover, music, and sound effects work. Some of his favorite day-to-day activities include directing voice talent, working with composers, recording, editing, and mixing.

Rebollido first met Peg + Cat co-creators Jen Oxley and Billy Aronson in 2004, when they began working together on Nickelodeon’s Emmy Award-winning hit series “The Wonder Pets!”, which earned him an Emmy Award nomination for Best Sound Editing.

Steven Rebollido has been creating high quality content for children’s television since 2003. Some of his credits include “Sesame Street”, “Bug Diaries”, “3rd & Bird”, “Click Clack Moo”, “The Electric Company”, “Winnie The Pooh: Wonder & Wander”, and short films “The Music Box” and “Petalocity”.

Some of Steven’s most recent work at 100 Chickens can be heard on Amazon’s 2019 reboot of “Clifford the Big Red Dog” and PBS’s hit series “Peg+Cat”, which earned him eight Emmy and two Golden Reel award nominations, including Outstanding Achievement in Voice Direction, Music Direction and Composition, Sound Editing, and Best Children’s Animated Series.

www.stevenrebollido.com

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Melinda Richards LaRose – Writer

Melinda Richards LaRose is an Emmy-nominated pen-for-hire, specializing in children’s media. She’s currently lending her quirky sense of humor to Clifford the Big Red Dog and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood among others. Her writing credits include Emmy Award-winning Outstanding Preschool Series Peg + Cat and Tumble Leaf; Disney Junior’s Vampirina and Jake and the Never Land Pirates; Nick Jr.’s Sunny Day, Nella the Princess Knight, Bubble Guppies and Dora and Friends; Amazon’s Creative Galaxy; and Sprout’s Astroblast. There are more but my guess is your eyes are getting tired right about now. Melinda got her start writing in the preschool world on The Wonder Pets, Oobi and 3rd & Bird. She got her humble beginnings in children’s media as the host of “The Playground” radio show for Boston’s WERS-FM. She’s also been known to dabble in development, e-books and the paper kind too. Melinda lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two focus group participants children – five-year-old Ben and two-year-old Lauren.

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Beth A. Richman, Ed.M. – Research Director

Beth Richman is an early childhood education expert, with a Master of Education from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. She has spent the past two decades of her career as a researcher and content specialist in the field of children’s media. Currently, Ms. Richman served as Research Director for Peg + Cat, a PBS KIDS educational series for preschoolers created by Billy Aronson and Jennifer Oxley of 100 Chickens Productions and produced by The Fred Rogers Company. In this role, she helped to ensure that young children could comprehend and benefit from the content and curriculum that served as the basis for Peg + Cat.

Ms. Richman conducts qualitative research with preschool and school-age children, parents, and educators, examining the efficacy of curriculum-based media. She previously served as Director of Development and Creative Executive for Scholastic Media, where she managed the development and production of new television projects, including MAYA AND MIGUEL for PBS. Ms. Richman also held several positions in the Education and Research Division of Sesame Workshop.

Ms. Richman is a contributing author to the book G is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street and has co-authored numerous articles and delivered a variety of presentations and guest lectures on issues related to creating educational television for children. She is also a Senior Advisor to Children’s Media Association, an organization committed to creating and distributing thoughtful, entertaining media to children and young adults.

Ms. Richman lives in Connecticut with her husband and their two daughters.

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Michael Zodorozny – Key Designer

Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and animation from Philadelphia College of Art, UARTS. He has worked in the animation industry in many roles. Before joining 100 Chickens productions he worked as a digital designer for Nickelodeon’s The Wonder Pets! and Blues Clues.

Michael has worked on several animated projects as background color supervisor including: Disney’s Doug, Doug’s 1st Movie, PB&J Otter, Daria, and Nickelodeon’s Doug. He painted color backgrounds for the theatrical film Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. While working at MTV Animation he was the Animation Production Supervisor for the music video I Got You Babe starring Cher and Beavis and Butt-Head. Two of his abstract animated films are included in the absolute film series Synthetic Movements distributed by The American Federation of Arts. Michael is a member of the electronic musical group Crash Course in Science.