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B E E N T H E R E D O N E T H AT Brendan Beebe CAS is hoping you all have been enjoying the wonderful new year. In 2020, it felt great to be back at work supervising America's Got Talent Season 15 at Universal Studios. Although working on an almost empty lot could, at times, feel eerie, being on such a carefully managed, safely monitored set coming out of quarantine was reassuring and a relief. Adding to the excitement of being back on set, AGT 2020 welcomed its first spoken- word poet winner, Brandon Leeke! Next up, my crew and I returned to 9-1-1 Season 4 for Fox/Disney. Rebecca Chan and Evan Freeman are at the top of their game on this challenging show where locations change quickly and fires must be put out constantly. My team expertly navigates the new protocols while seamlessly capturing sound on set as we roll into 2021. Safety and success to all! David Bondelevitch CAS MPSE recently completed mixing the documentary Burning Sky, about the tests of the H-bomb on the Bikini Atoll. Much of the footage was only recently released under the FOI Act. The documentary has distribution in Europe and is currently seeking distribution in the States. Philip Perkins CAS mixed the dance documentary People of the Forest (as well as its "making of" film), and continues work on the (big) PBS doc feature I Wanted to Be a Man with a Gun, based on interviews with WW II combat vets shortly before they passed away and also uses a huge pile of archival audio and footage. Gratefully, Kenn Fuller CAS and his stellar crew of Kevin Culligan on boom, Daniel Martinez (the Swiss Army knife of utilities), and Y-16a sound trainee Julianna Cruz have managed to navigate the challenges of COVID production protocols since mid-September on the HBO Max series Generation. While surreal at times, having the opportunity to practice our craft in this unique environment has given us a real sense of accomplishment. Matt Foglia CAS is enjoying the spring semester teaching at MTSU while also mixing S2 of The Osbournes Want to Believe and S4 of Paranormal Caught on Camera for Travel. Steve Weiss CAS is mixing All Rise with as many as 16 cameras in the courtroom scenes and others. There are no camera operators or boom ops allowed on set. That's production life in the pandemic! Stacey Washer and Dennis Carlin are sharing the wires, sanitation, jamming, and a myriad of other chores. Karol Urban CAS MPSE and Kurt Kassulke CAS are mixing David E. Kelley's Big Sky and Made for Love for HBO Max. We are also excited to begin the second half of Season 17 of Grey's Anatomy. Philip Silver CAS (retired) recently moved into the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital campus in Woodland Hills, CA. He was on the waiting list for a number of years, and is happy to be able to spend his senior years in the company of fellow filmmakers. Fred Ginsburg CAS is teaching his final semester of production sound at California State University Northridge, and continues to contribute articles to Student Filmmakers Magazine. Fred will be hanging up his headphones for good and retiring early summer to his other home in Las Vegas, where he and his wife plan to enjoy Jeep-ing, competition BBQ, and shooting sports. See you all at NAB! Frank Morrone CAS and Robert Carr CAS have wrapped on Killing Time and are currently mixing Roswell, New Mexico; Magnum P.I.; and Legacies on Technicolor's Stage Four. Jeffery J. Haboush CAS and Joel D. Catalan CAS are grateful to be back on Stage 5 at Smart Post Sound. Currently, the team is mixing S6 of DC's Legends of Tomorrow, S4 of Black Lightning, and beginning work on S2 of DC's Stargirl. During these unprecedented times, the team wishes health and safety to all their colleagues. Daniel Vasquez Velez CAS recently finished the mix of the Colombian film The City of Wild Beasts, the Costa Rican documentary Strange Objects, and the Panamanian/ Colombian film Something Blue at Clap Studios in Medellin, Colombia. Gavin Fernandes CAS has been mixing away on Blood & Treasure for CBS. Lots of blood, but haven't found the treasure… Production sound mixer Michael Wynne CAS and boom op Jorge Del Valle had a successful deployment of their