BIOS

• Steve Marshall is a veteran writer and producer for television and films. Most notably, he began his television career as a writer and story editor on the classic WKRP IN CINCINNATI. While on that show, he rose to the rank of producer, then joined forces with fellow writer Dan Guntzelman for a writing and producing team that helped shape tv sitcoms for a decade to come. Marshall and his partner went on to executive produce the ALL IN THE FAMILY spin-off, GLORIA, starring Sally Struthers and Burgess Meredith. They followed that with the creation of a short lived but critically acclaimed sitcom, OFF THE RACK, starring Ed Asner and Eileen Brennan. Their next job proved to be their longest running when they took the executive producer reins of the ABC hit, GROWING PAINS. They also created that show’s spinoff, JUST THE TEN OF US. The pair then helped launch the fledgling UPN network with their highly praised one-hour comedy-drama about the television news business, LIVE SHOT. Marshall and his partner co-wrote a number of films, the best known of which is the 20th Century Fox release, REVENGE OF THE NERDS, II: NERDS IN PARADISE.
   

• Patty Miller-Marshall came to her love of movies late in life, when her new husband, Steve, started dragging her to them. She learned that, while it was convenient to rent movies on home video, there was no substitute for seeing them on a big screen with faces fifty feet high, accompanied by a huge tub of popcorn and a bladder-buster sized Diet Coke. Professionally, Patty is currently a social worker at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Her past accomplishments are many and varied, having run a psychiatric unit for a major Southern California hospital (a job for which she was more than qualified by virtue of her marriage to Steve) and serving as a regional manager for a foster care agency. She has also worked in private practice as a therapist and served as one of the first female parole agents in the state of South Dakota. Among her many abilities, Patty is a talented writer. She is a published poet and is currently at work on her first novel, a fact-based story on the life of a mass murderer who terrorized South Dakota in the 1940s. She is a true Renaissance woman who also manages to find time to be the mother of six and grandmother of ten.
   

• Chris Miller-Marshall is a student at Little Rock’s historic Central High School. He comes by his love of movies naturally as his mother reports that, at the age of one year, he would stand in his playpen and stare at the television for as long as there was a movie on it. His favorite at the time was 101 DALMATIONS. He watched that film approximately 101 times, presumably once for each Dalmatian. Chris’ favorite genre is horror and he substitutes on THE POPCORN CHRONICLES for his mom when she is too lily-livered to attend something scary. His favorite directors in the genre are Wes Craven and Rob Zombie and his professional goal is to become their colleague and direct horror films himself. His movie snack of choice is Milk Duds.