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Board of Advisors


Carol Lynn Sher, Agent
 
BIOGRAPHY:
Carol Lynn is a Senior Agent and Director of Commercials and Modeling, Young Talent Division at Cunningham Escott Slevin Doherty in Los Angeles.  She has worked as a franchised agent continuously in Los Angeles since 1984 and has represented some of Hollywood’s most notable young talent...



Robert Pafundi, Manager/ Attorney at Law
 
BIOGRAPHY:
Robert has a passion for all aspects of the entertainment industry—whether in Legal Representation, Talent Management, Career Guidance, or TV and Feature Film Production. He is a Partner at the prestigious Honolulu-based law firm of McCorriston Miller Mukai & MacKinnon, LLP (M4), heading up the firm's Entertainment Section in its Century City office. As a recognized advocate for children and children's rights...



Fern Champion, Casting Director
 

BIOGRAPHY:
Fern Champion's is a veteran casting director for numerous feature films and television shows.  Her career began in New York were she cast "Saturday Night Fever."  Later she cast "The Naked Gun," and the "Police Academy" series...



Elaine Hall, Acting Coach / Baby Wrangler
 
BIOGRAPHY:
Elaine Hall has worked as on on-set acting coach for Disney Studios, Universal Pictures, CBS, Nickelodeon and most recently the feature film AKEELAH AND THE BEE. Her innovative approach as a children’s acting coach has been featured on CNN, HBO, and Showtime. Known in the print and commercial world as The Baby Wrangler, Elaine and her team of coaches are sought after by Old Navy, Target, Graco, JC Penny, Disney, and many others...



Carl Sprayberry, Visionary Father
 

BIOGRAPHY:
The Sprayberry’s commercial and film life began in Houston, Texas when their now nine-year-old son Dylan, was just a toddler.  An agent approached them with the idea of starting a commercial career; now seven years and five agents later they reside in Studio City, CA...



Allison Meyers, Production Manager
 
BIOGRAPHY:
Allison Meyers is a Production Manager for M3 Television, a Burbank-based full-service creative agency and production company.  M3 produces the highly-popular interstitial series, Disney 365, for Disney Channel, along with Behind the Ears for the network's Playhouse Disney block.



Dan McGinnis, Studio Teacher/ Welfare Worker
 
BIOGRAPHY:
Daniel Edward McGinnis is a rare breed -  a third-generation Californian, he was born in Santa Monica and raised in Woodland Hills.  Dan received his Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984, and for ten years he worked as a technical editor; first for a naval engineering firm, and then for an aerospace company, working on such projects as the space shuttle main engine and space station power system...



Marie Rogers, Studio Teacher/ Welfare Worker
 
BIOGRAPHY:
Marie is a 4th generation Angelino. Her involvement in entertainment harks back to family members who dabbled in the industry:  a father who swam as an extra in Tarzan movies and a grandmother who was a professional seamstress designing gowns for the likes of Peggy Lee and Lena Horne. Marie began her career in education teaching Spanish, French and English as a Second Language at Marshall High School in 1980...



Arghavan Sadeghi, Child and Family Psychotherapist
 
BIOGRAPHY:
Arghavan received her Master’s Degree from Phillips Graduate Institute in 1992 and has since gone on to maintain two private practices here in Los Angeles...





 
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