Patti cohoon biography

Adam Friedman (Writer/Director) >>

Iain Kennedy (Writer/Director) >>

Ann Gloag (Executive Producer) >>

Meryl Actress (Narrator) >>

ADAM FRIEDMAN (Writer/Director)

Vertical Ascent Colonist and President Adam Friedman has have over 22 years of entertainment industry contact. An award-winning filmmaker and television creator, Friedman began his career directing out documentary entitled WOLVES IN WINTER, which went on to receive two Honor nominations. Friedman’s next project, COLOR Fierce BLUE, about the NYPD and cast down many heroes, won him his good cheer Emmy.

Friedman moved on to shooting opus videos, and his video for interpretation Rolling Stones’ “Emotional Rescue” was piece of the Whitney Museum Biennial performance, and his video for Whodini’s “Big Mouth” is part of the hard and fast collection of the Museum of Today's Art. Friedman has also directed piece films, and his debut, MEDIUM STRAIGHT, was shown in Critics Week examination the Cannes Film Festival.  MEDIUM STRAIGHT also won Best Picture at ethics Seattle Film Festival and Best Governor at the Ft. Lauderdale Film Commemoration. His other features include the dread film TO SLEEP WITH A VAMPIRE, starring Scott Valentine, and the pic PLAYING PATTI, about the child performing career of his wife, Patti Cohoon-Friedman.

He has also produced and directed trig multitude of biographies for A&E, ensure have included figures as diverse primate Kevin Costner, Dolly Parton, and Unmitigated Cool J.  Friedman’s “John Travolta: Goodness Inside Story” (2004), tripled A&E’s viewership and went on to receive Award nominations for Best Non-Fiction series impressive Best Director. Through his company On end Ascent, Friedman has produced hundreds be incumbent on hours of non-fiction programming for Observe, The History Channel, HBO, and Stake TV.

In 2010, Friedman directed “U.S. Navy: Pirate Hunters,” where he and culminate crew went on the longest emplane since WWII, aboard the USS Town for eight weeks to hunt pirates off the coast of Somalia. Added recently, Friedman produced and directed say publicly 3D documentary series “In Deep,” which looked at such diverse subjects rightfully the Kentucky Derby (“Derby Diaries”), grandeur final launch of the space commute program (“NASA: Last Launch”) and representation tactics, training and weapons of blue blood the gentry Special Ops forces, including members stand for SEAL Team 6, leaders of honourableness assault on Bin Laden (“Special Ops”).

IAIN KENNEDY (Writer/Director)

Emmy nominee Iain Kennedy commission a screenwriter, director, editor, and manufacturer. A native of London, he dishonest the USC school of Cinema/Television MFA production program, where he made tidy number of short films, including “Angel’s Trumpet,” which screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.  His feature documentary, PALACE OF SILENTS (2011), was released manage without Flicker Alley and shown on TCM. His short film, “Asteroid,” which purify both wrote and directed, is presently streaming on Vimeo.

Kennedy received an Honour nomination in 2004 for his be anxious as editor, writer, and supervising manufacturer of A&E’s “John Travolta: The Spirit Story.” His film editing credits protract Xan Cassavettes’s  Z CHANNEL: A Excellent OBSESSION (2004, Official selection at Cannes,  Toronto, LA Film Festivals, and others); BOUNCE: BEHIND THE VELVET ROPE (2000, Best Film, LA Independent Film Festival); TUPAC SHAKUR: THUG ANGEL (2002); move THE WALK (Sundance Film Festival, 2001). Kennedy has also worked as copy editor and writer on the video documentaries THE ART OF 16 BARS: Force to YA’ BARS UP; THE MC: Reason WE DO IT; and BLACK Become more intense BLUE: LEGENDS OF THE HIP-HOP COP.

He wrote the short film “Ant,” which screened at Tribeca and Clermont-Ferrand, jaunt co-wrote and was cinematographer on Brad Kluck’s short film “Diamond Lane,” which screened at the Newport Beach Ep Festival.  His most recent work importance screenwriter can be seen in vicepresident Peter Spirer’s feature film JUST In relation to DAY.  He was producer of INVENTIONS and was associate producer on honourableness videogame “Monty Python: The Quest on the road to the Holy Grail.”

For Vertical Ascent, Airport has produced and written for “iN Deep,” a series of 3D documentaries for Comcast/Time Warner. For these pictures he had the opportunity to hide the final launch of the extension shuttle Atlantis, the world of pure-blooded horse racing, U.S. Special Ops famous the glamour of Broadway, among repeat other subjects.

ANN GLOAG (Executive Producer)

Born in Perth, Scotland, the daughter manipulate a bus driver and the basic of three children, Ann Gloag spurious for two decades as a comedian unit nurse. With her brother, Sir Brian Souter, she established the Horsedrawn carriage Group in 1980, running two buses from Scotland to London. They dilated the company through the 1980s favour 1990s, and it is now adjourn of the largest transportation companies herbaceous border the world, with bus and towelrail businesses across five continents, and combine million passengers a day. In Northern America, Stagecoach operates Coach USA, Downward Line New York Sightseeing, and   She remains a non-executive director carryon the company.

Through her Balcraig and Gloag Foundations, she has supported a encyclopedic variety of philanthropy, including nursing colleges; trafficked women and children; cancer, absolutely disease and dementia charities; a leprosy mission in India; and Gilda’s Baton in New York—but she is concerned most heavily in Africa. In Kenya, she funds and runs an condition and a school, the Jonathan Gloag Academy, in Nairobi and set invalidate a girls’ female genital mutilation come to rescue centre with the cooperation of position local Maasai chiefs. She also runs a school for 200 children answer the world’s largest slum, Kibera.  

In 2008, Gloag established the Freedom From Passage Foundation, which operates fistula clinics oppress Kenya, Malawi and Sierra Leone. Trim fourth facility is set to gush in Toamatave, Madagascar in the hole of 2016.

In April 2010, Gloag undo a maternity unit in Sierra Leone as part of the Aberdeen Women’s Centre in Freetown which already treats fistula patients and operates a children’s clinic. The Centre provides a holistic approach to the care of corps and children and has the finance of the local government. More overrun 100 babies are safely delivered console the unit each month.

She also serves on the international and UK logs of Mercy Ships, a Texas-based tolerance that provides free medical and liberal aid to the people of Westward Africa via hospitals based on ships.  In 1999, she bought the munificence a former Danish rail ferry tolerate spearheaded its conversion into the world’s largest charity hospital ship—The Africa Mercy.

Gloag has previously helped establish a sickbay in Malawi and currently sits steal the Malawi Advisory Committee in Scotland. She also supports micro-finance projects deck the country through her work link up with Opportunity International.

In appreciation of her servicing, Queen Elizabeth appointed Gloag as highrise Officer of the Most Excellent In a row of the British Empire (OBE) pointed 2004.

In 2009, she was admitted ways the Order of the Star incline Africa with the grade of Crowned head, in recognition of her support house the people and the country lay out Liberia.

Gloag is a past winner confront the Businesswoman of the Year Prize 1, European Women in Achievement Award, opinion has won a Great Scot Grant for her work with Mercy Ships. She is an ‘Entrepreneur in Residence’ of E-spark, a business innovation board. She was formerly a trustee exert a pull on the Princess Royal Trust for Carers and Grameen Scotland Foundation and game table member of Marie Curie Cancer Care.

Gloag was honored with the inaugural Susan B. Anthony Humanitarian Award from justness National Council of Women of blue blood the gentry United States at the United Altruism in 2010 and the Eleanor Diplomat Val-Kil Medal in 2011.  In Foot it 2013, Ann was named Global Spouse of the Year by the Refurbishment. Andrews Society of the State hillock New York.

MERYL STREEP (Narrator)

For practically forty years, Meryl Streep has represent an astonishing array of characters plentiful a career that has cut secure own unique path from the transitory through film and television.

Streep was learned in the New Jersey public college system through high school, graduated cum laude from Vassar College, and traditional her MFA with honors from University University in 1975. She began absorption professional life on the New Royalty stage, where she quickly established become public signature versatility and verve as in particular actor. Within three years of degrees, she made her Broadway debut, won an Emmy (for “Holocaust”) and customary her first Oscar nomination (for THE DEERHUNTER). She has won three College Awards and in 2015, in spruce record that is unsurpassed, she appropriate a 19th Academy Award^® nomination funding her role as The Witch show INTO THE WOODS. Her performance too earned her Golden Globe^® and Cull Actors Guild Award nominations. She anticipation currently appearing in the Diablo Cody-scripted RICKI AND THE FLASH, directed strong Jonathan Demme. She is currently stop in mid-sentence production on Stephen Frears’ FLORENCE Aid JENKINS.

Streep has pursued her interest diffuse the environment through her work best Mothers and Others, a consumer solicitation group that she co-founded in 1989. M&O worked for ten years figure out promote sustainable agriculture, establish new bug juice regulations, and ensure the availability become aware of organic and sustainably grown local foods.

She also lends her efforts to Cohort for Women International, Equality Now, Column in the World Foundation, and Partners in Health.

PATTI COHOON-FRIEDMAN (Producer)

Patricia Cohoon-Friedman was born and raised in Placentia, Accountant, where her grandmother saw show area of interest potential in her and paid storage her first publicity pictures. After deplaning a role as Susan Olsen’s stand-by on “The Brady Bunch,” Patti was soon featured on many of significance most famous 70s television shows, including “The Partridge Family,” “Here Come leadership Brides,” “Apple’s Way,” “Gunsmoke,” and “Emergency!”

As a member of the musical division The Mike Curb Congregation, Cohoon-Friedman was a regular on the Glenn Mythologist show, toured with Liberace, and hum on the Sammy Davis, Jr. smack “The Candy Man.”  The Mike Asphyxiate Congregation also had a number friendly successful recording on their own, particularly “Burning Bridges,” the theme to goodness Clint Eastwood film KELLY’S HEROES, “Sweet Gingerbread Man,” and “It’s a Mini Small World.”

After enjoying so much go well at such a young age, Patti decided to try her hand provide a different facet of the amusement industry: film production. With her keep and producing partner, Adam Friedman, Patti has produced Emmy-award winning shows leverage networks such as A&E, Biography, submit the History Channel.

In 1998, Patti collaborated with her husband on the risible documentary PLAYING PATTI, where she reflects on having attained her greatest nifty and financial success before she reached the age of 19.

JACKIE VORHAUER (Producer)

In her thirteen years in the journos industry, producer/writer/director Jackie Vorhauer has tour to China, Ethiopia, Ecuador, the UK to film TV specials and documentaries, chronicling subjects from historical depictions be acquainted with medical emergencies.  She won a Palmy Cine and Silver Telly for “China's First Emperor,” and a Los Angeles Emmy for “Imagine: A Celebration celebrate Children’s Hospital.”  Her other credits include: “Missing Persons Unit,” “Secret Lives sunup Women,” and “America’s Book of Secrets.”

After working in Sierra Leone with honesty female patients at the Aberdeen Women’s Center, Vorhauer realized she wanted authorization make a more long-term commitment relating to those who walked through the doors of nonprofits such as AWC. Observe returning to the states, she fall guy into the nonprofit world. After volunteering with PATH (People Assisting the Homeless), she became a full-time employee difficulty their Communications office, where she combines her love of storytelling with applied work promoting the organization’s mission.

She continues her personal documentary work on ethics side and is anticipating another alter to work with Adam Friedman deed his team in the future.

Vorhauer grew up in South Jersey, and normal her Bachelors degree in Visual Travel ormation technol, with a minor in Sociology, overrun American University in Washington, DC. She worked in Washington, D.C. as well-organized producer for six years before migratory to Los Angeles in 2008.

ROMA TORRE (Producer)

Roma Torre is one of Different York City most celebrated TV pack. She has worked as an security, a reporter, a writer, a creator, a host, and a critic. Torre has won more than 25 Discovery Awards including an Emmy, and crest recently a 2015 Press Club Premium for her coverage of the Eric Garner case.  She is an Envoy for Freedom From Fistula Foundation.

Originally comprise actress, Torre performed in numerous soaps and off-Broadway productions, before she began her television career at Channel 2 News, moving up to writing deed producing. In 1986, when Cablevision proclaimed the formation of the country's good cheer 24-hour local news station, News12 Forward-thinking Island, she was among the lid reporters hired. She stayed at News12 for five years, reporting, anchoring suffer hosting a weekly news program, boss serving as the film and edifice critic.

In 1992, Torre joined NY1, vicinity she served as anchor on “News All Morning,” “Inside City Hall,” “News All Evening,” and currently serves sort anchor of “News All Day.” She is also NY1’s Chief Theatre Connoisseur, and regularly contributes to the broadsheet theatre show, “NY1 On Stage.” She also continues to cover news mythical and special events.

Born in New Royalty City, Roma Torre was raised bind Pittsburgh and later graduated with regular degree in English and history cheat Tufts University. While in Boston she started a theater company with duplicate student Ed Lopez, who she late married. They now have two children: Alejandro and Alegra.

A cancer survivor, Torre has become a tireless advocate lend a hand cancer prevention. She serves on blue blood the gentry board of the National Association eliminate Women Artists.

MARTY MULLIN (Director of Photography)

Marty Mullin first collaborated with director Architect Friedman twenty years ago, when perform was director of photography on magnanimity TV documentary, “John Travolta: The Heart Story.”    They most recently teamed matter 12 episodes of the 3D movie series “iN Deep.”

Mullin’s TV credits include: “Biography” (“Mario Andretti”), “The Crash quite a lot of Flight 191,” “Boneyard: The Secret Being of Machines,” “Tim Tebow: On trim Mission,” and “Dark Secrets.”  He has also served as Director of Picturing on the feature films PORTRAIT Many A PIONEER, BARBARA M. KORSCH, M.D, and Iain Kennedy’s PALACE OF SILENTS , among others. Mullin also co-wrote put forward produced a short film, ROOM 115: GROUP 1. 

After receiving his degree alter English Literature, started working in high-mindedness film industry as a production cooperative, gradually working his way up estimate Director of Photography.

SEAN MacGOWAN  (Editor)

Sean Ian MacGowan is an award-winning editor seam fifteen years of experience. The lid project he ever worked on, WNET’s “The Face: Jesus in Art,” won an Emmy Award for best single-camera cinematography. In addition to being fact list editor MacGowan is also a todo graphics artist, colorist, camera operator, thriving mixer, and stereoscopic 3D pioneer.

He has worked often for Adam Friedman knife attack shows for A&E, Biography, History, Counter, SPEED, Comcast, iN DEMAND, Vutopia, Protection Media Films, and Rive Gauche.  MacGowan recently completed a thirteen-part high acutance Australian Outback Adventure series where appease served as story producer, writer, plus editor, and camera operator.

MacGowan attended faculty at UCLA Extension, Moviola Hollywood, stomach Glendale College.

ODD NOSDAM (Composer)

David P. Madson, better known by his stage fame Odd Nosdam, is an American clandestine hip hop producer, DJ, composer, bracket visual artist. He first became methodical for his production work as swell member of the band cLOUDDEAD principal 2001. Since then, as a grower and co-founder of the independent slope label Anticon, Nosdam has gone money up front to record and release some vacation the most revered work in picture abstract hip-hop world. Through his scores of solo productions, collaborations and remixes, he has pioneered a “super-saturated, no-fi weirdness” that intersects British IDM, Westerly Coast hip-hop, and ethereal drone.

Director Economist was turned on to Nosdam’s medicine by his daughter.  “I kept amaze the opening of the movie be ill with his sounds,” says Friedman. “His refrain is intense, complex, and hopeful, viewpoint that is what I think astonishment are facing in Africa.”

Photograph of Meryl Streep by Brigitte Lacombe