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1 PRODUCTION BIOGRAPHIES COURTNEY KEMP AGBOH (Creator, Showrunner, Executive Producer) Courtney Kemp Agboh started her career in the magazine world, publishing articles in GQ, Vibe, and Marie Claire. She then left New York to pursue a career in television writing as a staff writer for "The Bernie Mac Show" (Fox), acting as executive story editor for "Eli Stone" (ABC), and producer for "The Good Wife" (CBS), among others. She is the creator and executive producer of the show Power, which tells the story of James Ghost St. Patrick, a wealthy New York City nightclub owner who caters to the city's elite. He wants to build an empire, turn the club into a Fortune 500 business, but there's just one problem: Ghost is living a double life. When he is not in the club, he is the kingpin of the most lucrative drug network in New York for a very highlevel clientele. His marriage, family and business all become unknowingly threatened as he is tempted to leave his criminal life behind and become the rags-to-riches businessman he wants to be most of all. Power was picked up by Starz for an 8-episode order and Courtney serves as the series show runner. It premieres this summer. Kemp Agboh holds a B.A. from Brown University in English Literature and received her M.A. in English literature from Columbia University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. CURTIS 50 CENT JACKSON (Executive Producer) 50 Cent, born Curtis James Jackson III, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, investor and actor from Queens, New York. He rose to fame with the release of his 2003 album Get Rich or Die Tryin', which has sold more than 8 million copies. The Grammy Award winner has sold more than 30 million albums worldwide and has been awarded numerous accolades including 13 Billboard Music Awards, six World Music Awards, three American Music Awards and four BET Awards, to name a few. He was ranked as the #1 rap artist and most successful Hot 100 Artist of the 2000s by Billboard Magazine, as well as that decade's sixth-best artist and fourth top male artists of that decade. 50 Cent's fifth studio album, Animal Ambition features collaborations with Trey Songz, Yo Gotti, Jadakiss, Styles P and more. On March 18, 2014 the first two songs and videos from Animal Ambition were released and each week following an

2 additional song and video become available continuing through the album's release date of June 3, The highly anticipated Street King Immortal album will follow in fall What began as music chart dominance for the rap music phenomenon quickly transformed to success in corporate America as a multi-tiered business mogul to be reckoned with. 50 Cent has also carved out a successful and acclaimed career as an actor, appearing in more than 21 films including Frozen Ground with Nicolas Cage and John Cusack, The Tomb starring Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger and will begin filming Spy with Melissa McCarthy and Jude Law in spring He recently wrapped filming on The Prince with Bruce Willis and John Cusack. He is currently serving as executive producer and has a reoccurring role on the highly anticipated series "Power" set to air on Starz on June 7, Recognized as one of the most talented and prolific music artists of his time, 50 Cent has managed to leverage his star power into record breaking brand extensions encompassing a broad spectrum of businesses including artist management, film production, footwear and apparel, fragrance, video games, publishing, headphones and health drinks and supplements. DAVID KNOLLER (Executive Producer) After studying and working as an actor and director in theater, David Knoller applied his knowledge into live television specials and reality shows, such as Cinemax Comedy Experiment with Harry Shearer, Martin Mull, Fred Willard, Merril Markoe, Roseanne Barr, and some of the last CBS Candid Camera specials with Allen Funt, working both as a producer/director and actor. Knoller segued into low budget feature films, and with the exception of his last acting role in the film House of the Rising Sun, he moved strictly behind the camera, while still directing theater and teaching acting in the Los Angeles area. Accepting an executive position at HBO, he oversaw pilots and series for its upstart HBO Independent Productions, including FOX's Roc, Down The Shore, and Martin, at the same time HBO's Comic Relief, HBO Comedy Specials, One Night Stand, Women of the Night, Andrew Dice Clay and its series, Dream On and Larry Sanders. He segued back to producing with HBO's Concert Feature Martin Lawrence: You So Crazy and the award winning mini-series America's Dream, with Danny Glover and Wesley Snipes. Jumping at the opportunity to start-up Original Programming at AMC, Knoller moved to New York, developing projects like the Emmy award-winning period '40s radio station series, Remember WENN and the documentary Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial, which garnered the Television Academy's prestigious President's Award. Missing Los Angeles and his wife Wendy, who remained in Los Angeles producing Friends, Knoller returned to HBO in Los Angeles and moved to the new Dreamworks Television. With Dreamworks, Knoller formed his production company Knollwood Productions and produced many network pilots, including Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks for NBC. It was from that pilot that he was asked to come aboard for the first time as a producer/director on the Christina Applegate comedy series,

3 Jesse for NBC, and went on to produce the single camera comedy series Grosse Pointe with Darren Star. It was the series Carnivàle and the development of a drama series, Kitchen Confidential, with Darren Star that brought him back into the HBO fold, cementing his love for drama. Upon the completion of the series, Knoller hitched himself to the polygamy drama Big Love, where he lovingly spent the next six years on the award-winning series as both a director and producer. Knoller is fully focused on writing and development now, working on pilots and pitches with such artists as Darren Star, Doug Ellin, Carrie Fisher, and Idina Menzel. Among many projects, his love for period storytelling continues with his development of a biblical drama about King David with Gahl and Lior Sasson, a mini-series about the 1947 Exodus ship, a series based on the book Blackbirds, and is presently prepping a series with Steven DeKnight for STARZ Original Series Incursion. In his personal life, Knoller is involved with the Center Theater Group in Los Angeles, The Jewish Federation, AIPAC, The UCLA Epilepsy Foundation, and The Scleroderma Foundation. He is the proud father of two sons, Joshua and Garrett, who remind him every day of the true meaning of gratitude, and his wife Wendy, who has been his rock and foundation through it all. (Oh, and he considers himself a know-itall on musical theater). MARK CANTON (Executive Producer) Mark Canton has been a preeminent force in the entertainment industry helping to bring more than 300 pictures to the screen in his capacity as a senior studio executive and producer. Canton controls a large number of high profile projects in various stages of development, pre-production, production and postproduction. Most recently, Canton released 300: Rise of an Empire, the companion to the 2006 mega-hit, 300. It is written by Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad and is directed by Noam Murro for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros., based on Frank Miller s latest graphic novel. In post-production is SITE 146, a horror film set against the intersection of ancient Egyptology and modern Archeology, which Gregory Levasseur directed for Fox International Productions. Also in post-production is Outcast, an adventure-drama directed by Nick Powell and starring Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christiansen, which was filmed in China on which Canton is Executive Producer. Shooting in July 2014 is Last Witch Hunter, a classic tale about an immortal witch hunter and a powerful warlock -- starring Vin Diesel, it is written by Corey Goodman with Breck Eisner set to direct for Summit/Lionsgate and Emmett/Furla Films. In advanced development are: -Den of Thieves, a crime thriller about a gang of outlaws who try to rob the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles and a gang of renegade cops who try to stop them. It is written and will be directed by Christian Gudegast

4 with Gerard Butler in a starring role for Relativity Media. -Crash Bandits, an adventure film with Rob Cohen directing for Millennium. Written by Michael Stokes, it will film in China. -Tunnels, also for Relativity Media, is expected to be the next sensation to replace the Harry Potter franchise. Based on the first in a series of novels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, it will be directed by Mikael Håfström. Scheduled to go into production this October is All Access, a romantic comedy written by Robert L. Flenoy that will be directed by Stuart Renfrew on location in South Africa. In the television arena, Canton is currently Executive Producer on Power, which is shooting in New York. The series was developed with rapper Curtis 50 Cent Jackson and CBS Studios for STARZ, with Courtney Kemp-Agboh ( The Good Wife ) as the writer/show runner. Also in preparation for television is Vanguard, written by Christian Gudegast for FX, in the tone of Sons of Anarchy, but in the world of Navy Seals. Additionally, Canton has entered into a first look arrangement with STARZ for the development and production of cutting edge, high-concept original programming for the network. Amongst his notable films are 300, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Immortals. 300, based on the Frank Miller graphic novel and directed by Zack Snyder for Warner Bros Pictures, opened to record-setting box office numbers, having grossed more than $460 million worldwide and is the highest-grossing March release in the history of the motion picture business. The 300 DVD has set sales records around the world. The Spiderwick Chronicles, based on the best selling children books by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black with Mark Waters (Mean Girls) directing, was released in February 2008 by Paramount Pictures and was the highest-grossing family film of early Immortals, an epic mythological tale set in war torn ancient Greece, was released on 11/11/11 and has since amassed a worldwide gross of almost $250 million. He had two movies released in 2010: Letters to Juliet, a romantic drama for Summit Entertainment, which was directed by the late Gary Winick on location in Verona and Tuscany, Italy, and New York City, and Dimension Films Piranha 3D directed by Alexandre Aja, which Canton describes as Jaws for a new generation. Its sequel, Piranha 3DD, was released last year, also by Dimension. Canton initially joined Warner Bros. as Vice President of Production, rising to Senior Vice President and President of Worldwide Theatrical Production. During his tenure at the studio, Canton was instrumental in creating the notable Batman, Lethal Weapon and National Lampoon s Vacation film franchises. His creative influence brought some of today s most powerful filmmakers to the fore and some of the studio s most successful films to the screen. The latter included Tim Burton s Pee Wee s Big Adventure, Batman, Beetlejuice, the Academy award-winning Driving Miss Daisy and Martin Scorsese s Goodfellas. Canton also put into production such popular hits as Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Purple Rain, Above the Law, The Witches of Eastwick, The Mission, and Presumed Innocent, among others. He departed Warner Bros. to join Sony Pictures Entertainment s Columbia Pictures as Chairman. In the ensuing years he rose to Chairman of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Companies, with all creative,

5 operational and management responsibility for Columbia Pictures, Triumph Films, Sony Pictures Classics SPE s international theatrical operations and Columbia TriStar s strategic motion picture alliances. Soon after joining SPE, Canton revitalized motion picture production operations, restructured the marketing and distribution companies and released a wide range of critically acclaimed action and comedy hits, among them: A Few Good Men, Groundhog Day, In the Line of Fire, Bram Stoker s Dracula, Bad Boys, The Net, The Professional, The Fifth Element, and Jumanji. Canton also championed a distinctive slate of dramas and romantic comedies, such as the Oscar -winning Sense and Sensibility, Legends of the Fall, The Mirror Has Two Faces, A League of Their Own, Fly Away Home, Sleepless in Seattle, Poetic Justice, The Age of Innocence, Little Women, The Remains of the Day and The People vs. Larry Flynt. Also produced under Canton s aegis at Sony were the Academy Award-winning As Good As It Gets, starring Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt; Oscar-winner Jerry Maguire, starring Tom Cruise and Cuba Gooding Jr.; Men in Black, starring Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones; the Julia Roberts romantic comedy My Best Friend s Wedding; the thriller Anaconda; and the Wolfgang Peterson film Air Force One starring Harrison Ford. In addition Canton initiated I Know What You Did Last Summer, Starship Troopers, Zorro, Godzilla, and Stepmom, starring Julia Roberts and Susan Sarandon. Following Sony, Canton returned to Warner Bros. to create his own production entity, The Canton Company. His first picture was the Warner Bros. Christmas classic Jack Frost, starring Michael Keaton (Batman) and Kelly Preston (Jerry Maguire). The next film came the following year, as Canton produced the much anticipated remake of the British cult classic Get Carter, directed by Stephen Kay (Last Time I Committed Suicide) starring academy award winners Sylvester Stallone (Rocky) and Michael Caine (Cider House Rules) along side Rachel Leigh Cook (She s All That) and Miranda Richardson (Sleepy Hollow). Shortly thereafter, Warner Bros released the dramatic Mars thriller Red Planet directed by Antony Hoffman, and starring Val Kilmer (Heat), Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix), Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan) and Oscar winner Terrance Stamp. In early 2002 he joined Artists Production Group as a partner, Chairman and CEO and in December 2003, he launched Atmosphere Entertainment MM an entrepreneurial venture to develop, produce and finance theatrical motion pictures and television programming. Two films produced under The Canton Company and Artists Production Group banners -- Warner Bros. Pictures Taking Lives, a Village Roadshow Pictures and Canton Company Production starring Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke, Kiefer Sutherland and Oliver Martinez, and Lionsgate Film s Godsend starring Robert De Niro, Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and Greg Kinnear, were released in early Canton executive produced the Jack and Jill TV series for Warner Bros. Television, and is presently developing new television projects at HBO, ABC, CBS, TNT and Lifetime. A native of New York, Canton is a UCLA graduate (magna cum laude) and a member of UCLA s National Honor Society for American Studies. He delivered the 2011 commencement address at UCLA s School of

6 History. In addition to serving on the UCLA Board of Councilors and the Deans Advisory Board for the School of Theatre, Film, and Television, Canton was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute and Founder and is Chairman Emeritus of AFI s Third Decade Council. RANDALL EMMETT (Executive Producer) One of the entertainment industry's most prolific film producers, Randall Emmett has produced over 50 feature films since his start as Mark Wahlberg s assistant in the 1990 s. Combining financial acumen with an incisive creative sensibility, Emmett is partner and co-founder alongside George Furla of Emmett / Furla Films, a production company dedicated to the development, financing and production of top tier filmed entertainment for the theatrical marketplace with its own equity fund. Also, he is founder and partner of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's production company, Cheetah Vision Films. In the last decade, Emmett s ability to package films with well-known actors and filmmakers resulted in major box office success netting more than a quarter of a billion dollars in the US box office alone. Additionally, he forged strong partnerships with major Hollywood studios to finance and distribute commercial films to audiences both domestically and internationally. Aside from high concept films, Emmett also produced smaller, critically acclaimed indie fare such as Narc and Wonderland. These films and others played at world acclaimed film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Venice, Telluride, and many have been nominated for Independent Spirit Awards and Golden Globe Awards. In the past year, Emmett finished shooting Lone Survivor directed by Peter Berg, starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Emile Hirsh as well as 2 Guns, written by Steven Grant/Blake Master and directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington; Empire State, written by Adam Mazer and directed by Dito Montiel, starring Liam Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, and Emma Roberts; The Tomb, written by Miles Chapman and directed by Mikael Håfström, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Additionally, he produced The Frozen Ground, written and directed by Scott Walker, starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Vanessa Hudgens, and Curtis 50 Cent Jackson. Most recently, he signed on to finance and produce Martin Scorsese s highly anticipated Silence and the Bruce Willis film: Expiration. Other projects he will also finance and produce: Everest with Working Title and Universal Pictures and Vin Diesel s With Hunter with Summit and Lionsgate. Films that were recently released include: End of Watch, written and directed by David Ayer, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña; Lay The Favorite, with two-time Oscar nominated director Stephen Frears, starring Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall, and Vince Vaughn; and Freelancers, starring Robert De Niro, Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, and Forest Whitaker. Past films include: Bad Lieutenant, Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes, King of California, 16 Blocks and The Contract.

7 Born and raised in Miami, Emmett graduated from the respected performing arts high school, New World School Of The Arts. As an undergrad, he attended the prestigious The School Of Visual Arts in NYC. Presently, he speaks at various industry conferences and mentors up and coming filmmakers at UCLA s School of Continuing Education. He lives in Los Angeles with his family. BART WENRICH (Producer) Bart Wenrich began his television career working in the locations department and served as the location manager on a number of films set in New York City including Swimming to Cambodia (1987), Rooftops (1989), A Shock to the System (1990), A Rage in Harlem (1991), and Malcolm X (1992). Wenrich segued into television on the hit series New York Undercover, and was promoted to unit production manager until the series ended in His other television credits as a unit production manager include The Sopranos, Hack, Johnny Zero, Love Monkey, and Gossip Girl. In 2009, Wenrich made his directorial debut with the Gossip Girl webisode spin-off series, Chasing Dorota. He went on to direct three Gossip Girl episodes: "It-Girl Happened One Night," "Raiders of the Lost Art," and "Dirty Rotten Scandals" in 2011 and He became producer in the final season of Gossip Girl. Wenrich resides in New York with his wife and is currently producing the one-hour drama series Power for the STARZ network. ANTHONY HEMINGWAY (Director, Episodes 101 & 102) Anthony Maurice Hemingway, born in the Bronx, New York, is an African-American film and television director and producer. Hemingway has long been fascinated with the art of telling stories, yet it took stepping onto a set as a production assistant while still in high school for him to find his medium. From that day to this, Hemingway has found a way to bring stories to life on screens large and small. Shortly after his experience on The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles set in North Carolina, Hemingway began chasing his passion. He graduated from E.A. Laney High School in Wilmington, North Carolina and soon became the youngest Second A.D. in the Directors Guild of America at the age of 19 and then the youngest First A.D. at 22 in Hemingway s A.D. experience included work on feature films Neil Young: Heart of Gold, Jawanna Mann, Taxi, Ali, Changing Lanes, Freedomland and The Manchurian Candidate as well as acclaimed television series The Corner, Oz, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and The Wire. He has worked with dozens of the top producers and directors of the day, including Jonathan Demme, Barry Levinson, Scott Rudin, Tom Fontana and Agnieszka Holland.

8 Hemingway s directorial debut came in 2006 on The Wire. Showrunner David Simon said that Hemingway proved what they already knew: that it was time. In 2009, Hemingway again joined forces with David Simon, Eric Overymer and Nina Noble on the HBO television series Treme. Hemingway served as both Co-Executive Producer and Director on the series. In 2008, George Lucas tapped Hemingway to direct his long-awaited WWII action adventure, Red Tails, inspired by the heroic Tuskegee Airmen the first African-American fighter pilots in U.S. military history. Production of Red Tails began April 2009 in Prague and Croatia and was released by 20 th Century Fox in Since his directorial debut, Hemingway has been in constant demand and has directed episodes of some of the hottest shows on both network and cable television. Those credits include HBO s The Newsroom, True Blood, Treme, The Wire ; Low Winter Sun, AMC; Shameless, Showtime; Falling Skies, TNT; Fringe, FOX; Battlestar Galactica, SCI-FI; Heroes, NBC; CSI:NY, CBS; Once Upon a Time, ABC. Hemingway has earned multiple NAACP Image Award nominations for his work on Treme, Heroes, and Close To Home. In 2008, Hemingway received an AFI Award for his contribution to The Wire. In 2005, the North Carolina Cine Noir Film Festival honored him with the Trailblazer Award. Hemingway currently resides in Los Angeles. JOHN DAVID COLES (Director, Episodes 103 & 104) John Coles is an award-winning director and producer known for evocative material with compelling performances from some of today s most respected actors. He has enjoyed success in features, television and theater while his production company, Talking Wall Pictures, has focused on the development of cutting edge feature and television projects. Coles shot his first full length 16mm film at 17 a wry update of Casablanca re-imagined in a high school. While at Amherst College he directed a documentary about the school that was aired on PBS, and soon after was making short films for Saturday Night Live. He then went on to become an editor on Francis Coppola s Rumble Fish and The Cotton Club. His feature directorial debut, Signs of Life, starred Beau Bridges, Vincent D Onofrio, and Mary Louise Parker. The film won the International Critics Prize at Deauville and launched a prolific and versatile directing career. Other long form credits include Rising Son with Matt Damon and Brian Dennehy, Darrow with Kevin Spacey and The Good Fight with Christine Lahti. In the world of television, Cole s distinguished himself as one of the few directors who is equally adept at both drama and comedy. He has directed numerous Emmy Award-winning series ranging from Sex and the City to The West Wing, and many other notable shows such as Justified, Damages, and Bates Motel. Coles recently directed the Netflix phenomenon House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey and

9 produced by David Fincher, A&E s Those Who Kill with Chloë Sevigny, and the new STARZ Original Series Power. His success as an episodic director allowed John to begin a producing career and one of his first projects, Thief, led to Andre Braughers Emmy award for Best Actor. Other executive producer credits include hit drama Elementary, Unforgettable, Law & Order: Criminal Intent with Jeff Goldblum, 3 lbs. with Stanley Tucci, New Amsterdam, and the drama Wonderland, a critically acclaimed series that addressed the frail boundaries of insanity within a New York City hospital s psychiatric ward. Coles continues to write and create original dramas through Talking Wall Pictures, which produced the CBS drama Songs in Ordinary Time (based on the Oprah Book Club pick) starring Sissy Spacek and Beau Bridges and co-created and executive produced the series Crash and Burn. Talking Wall has developed numerous projects with HBO, CBS, New Line, IFC, Bravo and worked with numerous distinguished writers, including Academy Award nominated Mike Weller (Hair), Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Wright (Quills), Kate Robin ( Six Feet Under ) and Ann Peacock (Nights in Rodanthe). In the theater world, Coles was a member of the Circle Rep Lab and an alumnus of Wynn Handman at the American Place Theater. His Off-Broadway credits include directing the critically acclaimed play The Impostor starring Austin Pendleton and Calista Flockhart, as well as Johnny Suede, starring Tom DiCillo. Coles lives in New York with his wife, Laura and his kids, Sam and Jessica. He is a Sundance Director s Lab Alumni, and teaches at the Columbia University Graduate Film Program. GEORGE TILLMAN JR. (Director, Episodes 105 & 106) After seeing the films, Cooley High and Taxi Driver, Milwaukee, Wisconsin native George Tillman, Jr. became inspired to make films of his own. In 1994, Tillman wrote and directed his first feature film, Scenes for the Soul. It was shot entirely in Chicago, using local talent and resources. The film, which cost $150,000 to make, caught the attention of Doug McHenry and George Jackson who acquired it for Savoy Pictures for $1 million. Following the momentum of this success, he began to write a script, loosely based on his own life Soul Food. Soul Food began production on November 6th, 1996 on a hectic 30-day schedule with a cast that included Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Nia Long, Mekhi Phifer, Michael Beach, Irma P. Hall, and Brandon Hammond. Modestly budgeted at $7 million, Soul Food opened to critical and financial success, grossing over $43 million domestically. As a result, Tillman and his producing partner, Bob Teitel, landed a two-year, first look deal at Fox State Street Pictures became their company s new name a reference to their earlier years as a filmmaking team in Chicago. Tillman s next directorial effort was Men of Honor, an epic story inspired by the life of Carl Brashear, a man who battled the obstacles of racism, a lack of education, and the loss of his leg to become the United States Navy s first African-American Master deep sea diver. The film starred Oscar -winning actors Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Robert De Niro with an ensemble cast that included Charlize Theron, Michael Rapaport, Lonette McKee, Glynn Turman, and Hal Holbrook. After the success of Men of Honor, Tillman ventured into producing. In addition to his role as Executive Producer of the beloved Soul Food: The Series for

10 Showtime Networks, Tillman co-produced with partner, Bob Teitel, the MGM films Barbershop and Roll Bounce. Tillman stepped back into the director s chair in 2007 to direct the biopic Notorious at Fox Searchlight. This edgy telling of slain rapper Notorious Big s life proved to be the perfect vehicle for his directorial style and finesse. Starring the unknown Jamal Woolard as Christopher Notorious Big Wallace, the film also boasts strong talent such as Derek Luke as Sean Puffy Combs, Oscar nominated Angela Bassett as Voletta Wallace and Anthony Mackie as Tupac Shakur. The film began shooting principle photography in March of 2008 and Faster in Tillman fell in love with The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete written by Michael Starrbury in 2009 and spent three years trying to get the film made. It debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The cast includes Jennifer Hudson, Anthony Mackie, Jeffery Wright and introducing Skylan Brooks and Ethan Dizon. The movie was released in fall 2013 by Lionsgate. KARI SKOGLAND (Director, Episodes 107 & 108) As Writer, Director, Producer, Kari Skogland s most recent film Fifty Dead Men Walking (starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Jim Sturgess) premiered at a Gala at the Toronto International Film Festival, won Critics Top Ten, the Vancouver Film Festival top prize and DGC Best Director and a Genie for Best Adapted screenplay. The film was nominated for 7 Genie awards (it won 2) and was nominated for a Spirit Award. Skogland s previous film (also as director, writer, producer), an adaptation of the best-selling book The Stone Angel, starring Ellen Burstyn and Ellen Page, (Vivendi) premiered at the Toronto Film Festival Skogland was nominated for DGC Best Director/Best Film and several Genies including Best Actress and WGC for Best Screenplay; it won a Genie for Best Music. Skogland was named by The Hollywood Reporter as one of its Ten Directors to Watch for her debut as writer-director of Liberty Stands Still (Wesley Snipes, Linda Fiorentino - Lionsgate). Most recently Skogland s TV pilot Shattered (Global) was nominated for 3 Gemini s including best Director and she was then nominated for a CSA for best director on The Listener and won DGC's Best Drama Series for her work on The Borgias and Best Director for the mini-series Terminal City. She is also nominated for a 2014 CSA Best Director for The Borgias. Her latest television work includes The Borgias, (Showtime) Boardwalk Empire, (HBO) The Killing, (AMC) Under the Dome, (CBS) and Vikings, (History). Skogland s career began in Canada by directing award-winning commercials and music videos. She then moved into television where she was the lead director on the enormously successful and multi-award winning series Traders (nominated for 9 Geminis including Best Director and won Best Series), White Lies, a movie for CBC, nominated for several Geminis and an International Emmy and won a Tout Ecran. Her films The Size of Watermelons starring Donal Logue and Paul Rudd and Men With Guns, have both screened and won awards at major festivals internationally. Skogland was also nominated for a DGC best director and a Gemini for her work on The 11th Hour (CTV) and for her film, Chicks With Sticks. Skogland was the honored director at the 2008 Female Eye Film Festival.

11 MARTIN AHLGREN (Directory of Photography) Martin Ahlgren was raised in Sweden and would probably have followed some path relating to science if he hadn t watched the Christopher Lambert movie Highlander when he was 14 years old. From then on he started making films, ranging from the short and violent to the long and tedious. After various studies such as Astronomy and Film Theory, an uncompleted military service and other life lessons, he headed to New York and the School of Visual Arts to study cinematography. Upon graduation he spent a decade shooting commercials and music videos before venturing into feature films and television. He is currently shooting season three of the Netflix series "House of Cards". LAUREN SCHMIDT HISSRICH (Producer; Writer, Episode 103) Lauren Hissrich began her television career as a summer intern on the first season of NBC s The West Wing. After graduating from college, Lauren left her home state of Ohio and moved to Los Angeles full time. She worked for The West Wing for the next six years, climbing the ladder from production assistant to story editor. Since then, she s written and produced shows such as Private Practice (ABC) and Parenthood (NBC), and has most recently developed scripted material for CBS and Bravo. Lauren joined Power as a coexecutive producer this past summer. Hissrich graduated with a B.A. in English Literature and Creative Writing from Wittenberg University. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons. SASCHA PENN (Producer; Writer, Episode 104) *bio forthcoming* RANDY HUGGINS (Producer; Writer, Episode 105)

12 Randy Huggins is the Supervising Producer on STARZ s upcoming drama Power. His writing career began on FX s groundbreaking police drama The Shield, where he served as the writers assistant for four seasons. In 2006, Shawn Ryan, the series showrunner, bought an idea from Huggins and gave him a story by credit for an episode entitled Cut Throat. That same year, he followed Shawn Ryan to The Unit to work with David Mamet, who hired him as a staff writer. Huggins wrote five episodes and assisted on countless others across the second, third, and fourth seasons. He went on to become Executive Story Editor on STARZ s first scripted drama Crash, where he reunited with Glen Mazzara, his boss and colleague from The Shield, who was serving as the series showrunner. When Crash ended, Huggins became a Co-Producer on NBC s medical drama Trauma. In 2010, he served as a Producer on Criminal Minds and wrote three episodes. Huggins went on to become Supervising Producer of the cop drama Prime Suspect. Born and raised in Detroit, he graduated from St. Martin DePorres High School and later received his B.A. in History from Grambling State University. He taught third grade and fifth grade in the Detroit public school system prior to relocating to Los Angeles, where he currently lives with his wife, Korin. SALVATORE STABILE (Producer; Writer, Episode 106) Salvatore Stabile has built up an impressive resume in the industry as a producer, writer and director. He currently acts as co-executive producer on the STARZ original series, Power. Earlier this year, he developed several projects for FBC/FTVS and CBS/CBS Studios. Previously, Stabile has worked as supervising producer on hit ABC series including Revenge and My Generation. Other notable credits include co-producing on FX s Rescue Me, and as a writer on the iconic HBO series The Sopranos. Additionally, Salvatore has acted as writer and director on several feature films: Taggart Productions A Civil Right and Gravesend as well as Vulcan Productions Where God Left His Shoes, for which he won a Humanitas Award. RAPHAEL JACKSON JR. (Writer, Episode 107) The second oldest in a family of seven, Raphael Jackson Jr. was born and raised in metro Detroit. Jackson is a University of Michigan graduate who studied extensively in film production. After graduating, he decided to move to Los Angeles where he gained valuable experience working on shows ranging from Criminal Minds, Cory in the House, to All of Us. Prior to joining Power, Jackson served as a writer on the AMC drama Low Winter Sun as well as the upcoming NBC drama Crossbones created by Neil Cross, the Emmy nominated creator of Luther. DAMIONE MACEDON (Writer, Episode 107)

13 Damione Macedon was born in San Francisco. He then lived in Phoenix, AZ until the 8th grade and then moved to Reno, NV where he finished high school. While in Reno, his father, who is a practicing Baptist preacher, introduced him to writing through an extensive film collection he had collected over the years with some 3,000 movies in it. Macedone graduated from California State University of Northridge with a degree in History. Before joining Power, he previously served as Staff Writer on AMC's "Low Winter Sun," as well as the upcoming NBC drama Crossbones, created by Neil Cross, the Emmy -nominated creator of "Luther." VLADIMIR CVETKO (Writer, Episode 108) Vladimir Cvetko immigrated to California from the former Yugoslavia. He started his career in television, working on shows such as, My Own Worst Enemy (NBC) and Outlaw, (NBC) before landing his first writing assignment for Once Upon A Time (ABC). He currently writes for the STARZ Original Series Power and Navy St. (DirecTV). He holds a B.A. in English Literature from CSU Chico and received his M.F.A. in Screenwriting from the University of Southern California. DAN DAVIS (Production Designer) Dan Davis studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London and later took an interest in film design, being inspired by the work of Ken Russell and Derek Jarmin. He moved to New York and worked for architects for a few years before landing a job as Assistant Art Director working for Tony Walton on Mike Nichols Heartburn. Other credits as an assistant or Art Director include Radio Days, Age of Innocence, Of Mice and Men, Regarding Henry, Nobody s Fool, and others. His first Production Design credit was The Ref for Ted Demme while his other film credits include The Other Woman with Nick Cassavettes, Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight with Stephen Frears, and You've Got Mail with Norah Ephron as well as numerous television projects notably How To Make It In America for HBO. FRANK L. FLEMING (Costume Designer) New York City-based costume designer and stylist Frank L. Fleming has designed extensively for film and television. Most recently his work can been seen in Ivan Reitman s Draft Day starring Kevin Costner and Jennifer Garner, Machine Gun Preacher starring Gerard Butler, Morning Glory starring Rachel McAdams and Harrison Ford as well as several other feature film and television projects including the Oscar nominated The Kite Runner. Fleming has designed several features with Marc Forster as well as worked with many other notable directors including Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Apted, Jodie Foster, Spike Lee and Anthony Hemingway. In particular, he participated early in his career in the design of Malcolm X and Amistad both of which earned Academy Award nominations for Ruth E. Carter. Fleming s experience extends to celebrity styling and has landed Keri Russell on several best dressed lists.

14 JEFF RUSSO (Composer) Grammy -nominated musician Jeff Russo has become a prominent composer, songwriter and arranger in the film and television industry. Russo is currently composing music for two highly-anticipated television series: FX's ten-episode limited series, Fargo, starring Billy Bob Thornton, Martin Freeman, Colin Hanks, Bob Odenkirk and Kate Walsh and the STARZ new Original drama, Power, from executive producer, Curtis 50 Cent Jackson. He has just completed work on the feature film thriller, The Surface, starring Sean Astin and Mimi Rogers and later this year, he is slated to begin work on the upcoming Wilt Chamberlain Biopic, Wilt. In addition to composing music for film and television, Russo still plays music with his rock band. He is a founding member, lead guitarist and co-songwriter of two-time Grammy nominated, multi-platinum selling rock band, Tonic. Their debut album, "Lemon Parade," posted three singles in the U.S. Mainstream rock Charts' Top 10, with "If You Could Only See," rocketing to number one. In 2003, the band received two Grammy nominations, one for "Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal" for "Take Me As I Am," and one for "Best Rock Album." Most recently, Russo co-composed the score for CBS's television mini-series drama, Hostages, starring Dylan McDermott and Toni Collette, and wrote the original score for USA Network's Necessary Roughness, starring Callie Thorne, Marc Blucas and John Stamos. In 2013, he also worked on several feature films, including Shoreline Entertainment's Watercolor Postcards, starring Laura Bell Bundy, and the independent feature, Free Ride, starring Anna Paquin, Cam Gigandet and Drea de Mateo. Russo's work can also be heard in films and television shows such as Marvista Entertainment's film Bad Behavior; the independent feature About Cherry; Lifetime's Meet Jane; the pilot for ABC's Charlie s Angels ; Showtime's Shameless episode, "It's Time to Kill the Turtle"; ABC's My Generation and The Unusuals ; a documentary featuring interviews of the original students and teachers of the 1967 "Third Wave Experiment," Lesson Plan; and ABC/Bad Robot's main title song for What About Brian with Low Stars. Russo has also contributed to the score for Showtime's Weeds ; a rap song for ABC's hit-series Castle ; score for NBC's Smash ; and NBC's final season of Crossing Jordan, and debut season of The Bionic Woman, both under renowned composers, Wendy & Lisa. Tonic's music has also been featured in films such as, Universal Pictures' American Pie and Dimension Films' Scream 2. In addition to scoring film and television, Russo has composed music for the New York Ballet Company Cedarlake Ensemble.