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82 S U M M E R 2 0 2 6 I C A S Q U A R T E R L Y B E E N T H E R E D O N E T H AT Gavin Fernandes CAS started the year wrapping Netflix's One Piece, then mixed the feature Someone's Daughter. He went out to NIFCO in St. John's for Smash & Grab, then started summer with Stunt Driver for director Michael Dowse in Montreal. Richard Lightstone CAS has re-teamed with his crew of boom operator Eddie Casares and 2nd boom operator Jennifer Winslow for the fifth season of Criminal Minds: Evolution. This marks the 20th year for this long-running franchise! Devendra Cleary CAS here! My wife and I had the biggest blessing of all in December 2025 as we welcomed our baby boy Luca to the world! In January 2026, my team and I started up on a Universal Television half-hour comedy called Dig with Amy Poehler starring and Morgan Sackett as our showrunner. Sound team consisted of myself, Chris "Catfish" Walmer on boom, Maribeth Powers as utility, and Rocio Camacho as trainee. We had a blast! Next up after a short break is Paris Paramount, a feature film for Warner Bros. Pictures, written and directed by Nancy Meyers. This sound team consists of myself, Patrick Martens on boom, and Maribeth Powers as utility. We're hoping for a fun ride on this one through the summer! Shayna Brown CAS has been keeping busy at her post-production studio in Austin, TX, Chez Boom Audio, mixing ADR for a number of projects, including R.J. Decker, Marshals, M.I.A., Chicago Fire, The Terminal List S2, Matlock, The Boys, and High Potential. Ron Bailey CAS has recently mixed The Gentlemen S2 for Netflix, The Night Manager for Prime, and MobLand for Paramount+. Karol Urban CAS MPSE is currently mixing a theatrical Atmos feature documentary exploring the history and cultural impact of electronic dance music, while also preparing for S2 of the Netflix series The Hunting Wives. Additionally, she is celebrating the feature documentaries Dream Touch Believe, which is winning many awards and will have its international theatrical premiere at the 2026 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, and An Auschwitz Album Story, which had its theatrical debut presented by the Holocaust Museum LA for International Holocaust Remembrance Day at The Grove AMC in L.A. to a packed theater. It's such an honor to contribute mixes to such impactful and inspiring stories. Re-recording mixers Aaron Levy and Joel D. Catalan CAS are coming off a big stretch— wrapping S2 of NCIS: Origins for CBS and S2 of Diarra from Detroit for BET+/Paramount+. Currently, they're in the mix on Einstein, a comedic crime drama for CBS. Next up, The Body, a Netflix coming-of-age thriller from writer/director Quinn Shephard. Off the mix stage, Joel has been building something special over at "Mastering Post-Production Sound" on YouTube—a channel dedicated to pulling back the curtain on what it really takes to build a career in post sound. He's on the hunt for fellow CAS members to sit down with over Zoom and share their journey. If you've got a story worth telling (and let's be honest, you do!), Joel wants to hear it. Email him at joel@ masteringpostproductionsound .com In addition to celebrating the college graduation of his son Michael, and his daughter Savanna's continuing education as a CRNA, Matt Foglia CAS has been keeping busy on the unscripted mixing front with Animal Planet's Nevada Wild and the wrapping of S5 of two A&E series, Customer Wars