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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y I S P R I N G 2 0 2 1 9 C O L L A B O R AT O R S Adam Howell CAS In 2002, Adam Howell CAS moved to LA after graduating from Full Sail with a recording engineer degree. Beginning at Hans Zimmer's studio and working in the music industry, Adam ventured into post-production for television as a sound editor and took his skills into the field as a production mixer in 2004. For more than 15 years, Adam has enjoyed the privilege of mixing and supervising more than 100 shows for clients as diverse as MTV, FOX, and ABC. Delivering the best audio is Adam's passion and he feels fortunate to work with so many talented and creative individuals. He also enjoys playing guitar, hiking, traveling, and hanging out with family. Peter Kurland CAS was raised in Nashville and has been in production sound for 36 years, including all Coen brothers films, booming on Blood Simple, then mixing O Brother, Where Art Though? through the most recent The Tragedy of Macbeth. Peter also mixed Walk the Line and many Barry Sonnenfeld films, including the first three in the Men in Black series. He has won two Grammys, has four Oscar nominations, a BAFTA, and three CAS Awards. Peter lives in Nashville where he is Business Agent for IATSE Local 492 when otherwise unemployed. Dr. Elliot Smithson DPT, PT, ATC, EMT-B is a physical therapist/ath- letic trainer with a background in sports medicine and performing arts medicine. Through his career, he has worked for major organiza- tions such as University of Central Florida, Marshall University, Walt Disney World Entertainment, Live Nation Entertainment, and currently with Counter Logic Gaming as player performance and eSports medicine, as well as a head physical therapist at California Rehabilitation and Sports Therapy in Beverly Hills. His private company, Performance X Medicine, is available to deliver concierge physical therapy and injury prevention ser- vices directly to the home, office, or set. More information can be found at www.performanceXmedicine.com with a background in sports medicine and Lori Dovi CAS was born in San Francisco and has been a production sound mixer since 1989. She started in documentary sound and earned more rhan 100 BBC credits. Lori went onto mixing scripted shows over the past 25 years, working with directors David Fincher, David Ayer, Zoe Lister Jones, Marc Webb, Craig Gillespie, Gina Rodriquez, and Tom Ford to name a few. She is a member of IA 16, 695, and CAS. In 2018, Lori founded International Women Working in Film, an initiative to help women advance economically in film & TV. She appears in the Focal Press book Women in Audio by Leslie Gaston-Bird. Lori currently lives in West Hollywood and loves Los Angeles! Patrick Spain CAS began his career in the scoring world at Signet Sound in 2001 working on varied films like Cars and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In 2006, he was hired at the venerable Ocean Way Recording (now renamed United Recording), this time working on everything from Dr. Dre productions to John Mayer records to the score for Avatar. In 2011, Patrick was hired as a mix tech at the industry-leading Todd- AO Lantana Stages in Santa Monica. His very first day there was an FX playback of a single reel of Avengers for director Joss Whedon on the same stage where Saving Private Ryan was mixed! It was in this incredible environment where Patrick learned the ropes of film and television audio post from some of the best re-recording mixers, editors, and sound supervisors in the world. He worked on shows as different as the run-and-gun feature Lone Survivor to HBO's Girls to the music-centric hit Nashville. After the closing of Todd-AO, Patrick worked a quick stint at Technicolor Sound Services, and then made the jump to freelancing as a re-recording mixer full time. In that time, Patrick has mixed for clients such as Netflix, Disney, WB, ABC, and DreamWorks. G. John Garrett CAS is a production sound mixer living in Boston, MA. He began mixing live music around 1970 and learned acoustics, signal flow, and recording technology along the way. He began in the industry booming for Boulder mixer Garrett Collenberger and moved into mixing documentaries, commercials, and feature films after moving to Boston in 1984. He then expanded his RF training by working with broadcast engineers and now also consults with a broadcast tech company in the area.