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C A S Q U A R T E R L Y I FA L L 2 0 2 2 59 Steve Weiss CAS has been mixing Season 3 of All Rise for Oprah Winfrey Network (moved from CBS) at Allied Stages in Simi Valley. Stacey Washer on boom, UST Brent Ellingwood, and Oscar Alva (our sound trainee) are doing great work. Richard Lightstone CAS is mixing the 16th season of the re- booted Criminal Minds with Eddie Casares on boom and Jennifer Winslow as 2nd boom/UST. Richard will be looking heavenward for any advice from the late Joseph Geisinger CAS. Karol Urban CAS MPSE and John Milo Train wrapped on Made for Love Season 2 for HBO Max and For All Mankind Season 3 at Formosa at Paramount. Looking forward to more adventures. After a seven-month run on The Offer, Sean Byrnes CAS has continued to stay busy with two comedy features, F***ing Identical Twins and The Donor Party—both to be released next year. Until then, he's enjoying the summer until starting Sugar, an eight-episode Apple+ series, starring Colin Farrell, in August. On this venture, Sean will be working with Gunnar Walter again on boom and welcoming Natasha Fagan on as sound utility. Coleman Metts CAS has been working a little bit for Marvel and took a video wall training course offered by the union. CAS Academic member David Bonilla completed his MFA in recording arts and technologies from Middle Tennessee State University this summer. His thesis, titled "An Exploration of Object-Based Audio Mixing Through the Dolby Atmos Ecosystem," along with his final creative project, were supported by conversations with a number of CAS members. David's primary advisor (and MTSU professor) Matt Foglia shares, "David's research approaches, creative endeavors, and problem-solving skills make him an ideal representative of our program and a valuable member of the latest sound for picture professionals." Brendan Beebe CAS, Ryan Graff, and Rebecca Chan are finishing up principal photography on The Brothers Sun for Netflix in L.A. and Taiwan. Next up, Season 6 of 9-1-1 for Fox. Mixers Glenn Berkovitz CAS and Bob Eber CAS, along with international boom op Paul Miller, survived the springtime production of Apple TV's Echo 3 in Colombia and New Mexico. "Neither jungles, mud, insects, nor mountain passes could slow our progress; but the full load .50 caliber blanks certainly gave us pause. With many thanks to our partner sound fishes David Stevens, Emily Price, Oscar Mendéz, Natalia Reyes, Luis Fernández, and Santiago Segura!" Look for the international adventure to stream this fall. Production sound mixer Stuart Wilson CAS, along with sound utility Keith Morrison and 1st assistant sounds Howard Bevan and Mark Hinkley, recently wrapped on the film Empire of Light. Set in 1980, the film was written and directed by Sam Mendes and shot over 12 weeks on location in the English seaside town of Margate. David Bondelevitch CAS MPSE has been elected to the Board of Governors of the San Francisco branch of the Recording Academy. (Denver is part of the SF branch.) Stacey Michaels CAS has been mixing Foley around the clock at Aura Sound. She's been busy on S4 of What We Do in the Shadows, just started S3 of Outer Banks, along with several other broadcast series and features with her long time team of Foley artists Ellen Heuer and Alex Ullrich. Not enough days in the week for this awesome crew! Over at Universal, the mix team Jon Taylor CAS and Frankie Montano just wrapped Bardo, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, over on the Hitchcock Mixing Stage. Up next for the team is Hocus Pocus 2, directed by Anne Fletcher… On Mix 6, David Fluhr CAS and Martyn Zub just started predubbing on Disney's Disenchanted for director Adam Shankman… On Mix Stage A, John Cook CAS and Ben Wilkins recently received two Emmy nominations. They were nominated for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (1/2 Hour) & Animation for their work on Hacks S2 episode "The Captain's Wife" on HBOMax. They were also nominated for Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for their work on the Gaslit episode "Final Days" on Starz. They've been busy this summer working on Little America S2 for Apple TV+ and the new Sam Esmail series, The Resort, for Peacock. This fall, they'll mix the new crime drama, City on Fire for Apple TV+. They are also set to work on White House Plumbers, starring Woody Harrelson and Justin Theroux for HBO later this year. Also at Universal, on Mix Stage 1, Mark Fleming CAS and Myron Nettinga are currently mixing two new projects for Peacock —Vampire Academy S1 and The Missing S1. They are also working on Season 2 of Peacock's One of Us Is Lying, and are looking forward to their fall schedule, which is shaping up nicely! Across the hall on Mix Stage 2, Keith Rogers CAS and his new FX mixing partner, Steve Bucino CAS, kicked off their summer schedule with AMC's Interview with the Vampire and Hulu's Untitled Chippendale Project. They are set to work on two projects that were recently picked up for a second season—Single Drunk Female and Welcome to Flatch. Over in 3153, the Mix 12 team of Peter Nusbaum CAS and Whitney Purple are currently mixing Grown-ish S5 and Everything's Trash S1. Later this summer, the crew will mix Never Have I Ever S4 and the second season of The Sex Lives of College Girls. They are excited to work on the fifth and final season of A Million Little Things this fall, as well. B E E N T H E R E D O N E T H AT