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Ron is an original member of The Groundlings, the award winning improvisational company that also gave us Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitt, Laraine Newman and Pee Wee Herman. His performing experience ranges over television and feature film with many credits including “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”, “Forever Fernwood”, “Comedy Jam” and “Gong-Show-The Motion Picture”.
His technical credits include, among many others, ~Cinematographer : -PBS U.S. “The Michael Chekhov Story”;
~Director-Producer-Editor: -Kiwanis International Rose-Parade Float coverage (which won an award as a mini-documentary); -The Latin Business Association’s marketing video for Business Expo with coverage of former President George W. Bush which was later utilized nationally.
~Media Director: -Operation Hope with filming keynote speaker, former Vice-President Al Gore, also used on national television.
His teaching experience includes having created and established Pasadena City Colleges’ first Improvisational Course. His students performed at The Ice House in Pasadena. Ron also directed the west coast premiere of the original stage comedy “A Night in Ellsinore”, PCC’s first play in 20 years. Ron also now teaches sold-out classes through Gary Austin’s workshops.
Ron brings over 40 years of creative and technical experience to Angel City.L.J. started her career performing with Covenant Players, an internationally famous touring theater company. She performed more than 250 roles over 4,000 times before leaving the troupe, pulling a wagonful of awards.
Back in L.A. she turned her sights to business, working for a film guarantor and then forayed into production accounting as a post-production accountant on numerous independent films. In fact, the screen credit “Post Production Accountant” was created for L.J and is now in common use.
Disney scooped her up as a production accountant where, as L.J. Van Cleave, she created budgets, schedules and cost reports on “The Lion King” (lead accountant); “Pocahontas” (interim accountant) and “Runaway Brain” (studio auditor). A promotion to Finance Manager found her working in Paris, transitioning Disney’s Paris Animation studio from the television department to feature animation.
The last decade L.J. has been busy at her computer monitor, taking up writing while a stay-at-home mom to son, Ben. She wrote a series of highly acclaimed chancel dramas, as well as filmed and recorded media for La Canada Presbyterian Church, plus authored a popular blog that ended up with several thousand followers after only one year. She finished a not yet published collection of short stories and is now writing a biography for web personality Irmagarde Crabby.
L.J. brings over 30 years of creative and business experience to Angel City.Info to come...
