KEG Productions Announces Film Workshop Slate

KEG Productions’ fourth annual film workshop starts this Saturday at the Havre de Grace Activity Center, 351 Lewis Lane. The workshop introduces a wide variety of topics related to film-making, culminating in the class producing a short film of its own. The classes are taught by Ken and Mary Kay Coughlan, Executive Producers for KEG Productions, along with professional guest instructors drawn from the regional film-making community. Registration for the entire nine week program is only $40 plus an administrative fee of $10 ($15 for non-Harford County residents). To sign up, visit the registration page.

The topics for each class and biographies for this year’s guest intructors are below:

September 12 (9am-4pm)
Introduction to the Film Set & Crew (Instructors: Ken & Mary Kay Coughlan)
Screenwriting (William R. Coughlan)

September 19 (12pm-4pm)
The Business of Acting (Lee Irving)

September 26 (12pm-4pm)
Cinematography (Ken Coughlan)

October 3 (12pm-4pm)
Film Makeup (Mary Kay Coughlan)

October 10 (12pm-4pm)
Fight Choreography (Dylan Hintz)

October 17 (12pm-4pm)
Film Lighting (Ken Coughlan)
Recording Sound (Ken Coughlan)

October 24 (12pm-4pm)
Acting for Film (Lee Irving)

October 31 (12pm-4pm)
Directing (Ken Coughlan)
Editing (Ken Coughlan)

November 7 (9am-9pm)
Film Shoot

This year’s slate of guest instructors includes two familiar faces and one new teacher, along with a brand new class on “The Business of Acting.” Read on for brief bios of all three of this year’s guests. If you haven’t signed up yet, there is still time. Classes start this Saturday at 9:00 am.

WILLIAM R. COUGHLAN (“Screenwriting” - 9/12)
William R. Coughlan is an award-winning screenwriter and director, and is one of the founders (and primary financier) of Tohubohu Productions — which basically means that even on pictures he doesn’t direct, he can at least squeeze in an Executive Producer credit. He is also a director with The Advisory Board Company in Washington, D.C., where he began as a graphic designer before segueing into video and multimedia, and then eventually into the ranks of creative department management. As of 2015, he has served two terms on the Board of Directors for TIVA, the Television, Internet, and Video Association of DC, Inc. He also enjoys acting, voiceover performance, design and illustration, editing, three-dimensional animation, and writing autobiographical comments in the third person. He is the illustrator of the therapeutic workbook Stories for Children with Problems & Wishes, has provided schematic graphics for several HBS case studies, designed the acclaimed Protégé clay poker chip line, served as the Critic at Large for the online literary magazine Inkblots, was a judge for the TIVA Peer Awards from 2010 through 2014, voiced the iHealthBeat and California Healthline weekly podcasts, and is an accomplished animator and ambigram artist (including having designed the ambigram logo for the Havre de Grace Drama Guild). He currently resides at a secret compound in Burke, Virginia, with his wife Pam and their two daughters.

LEE IRVING (“The Business of Acting” and “Acting for Film” - 9/19 & 10/24)
Lee Irving is the Owner, Founder, and Artistic Director of GEM Studios in Newark, Delaware and is an accomplished actor, writer and director. He was born in Delaware and has trained in Texas and New York City. He has appeared in numerous plays, films, and television shows, as well as countless commercials and industrial films. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association, and his theatre credits include The Full Monty, Psycho Beach Party, The Woman in Black, Communicating Doors, and Second Chance. On film he can be seen in Friday Night Lights, Confessions, and The Land of Shadowed Sand. Lee has appeared on television in A House Divided, Barney & Friends, Walker, Texas Ranger, LAX, and Dallas: Return to Southfork. In addition to his acting credits, Lee is on the Board of Directors of Dallas’ “Column Awards” and is a nominator/judge for Philadelphia’s “Barrymore Awards”. He was also a casting assistant for the Lifetime series Inspector Mom, as well as for both of the Inspector Mom movies. He has studied acting at the Class Act Studios in Dallas, TX and HB Studio in New York City, among other places. His coaches have included Austin Pendleton, Glenn Morshower, Daniel Foster, Grant James, Juli Erickson, Alec Harrington and Terry Martin. He has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Delaware.

DYLAN HINTZ (“Fight Choreography” - 10/10)
Dylan Hintz is a professional actor and stunt performer with SAG/AFTRA as well as a Multimedia Broadcast Technician at the John K. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and a Production Technician at Montgomery Community Media. He is the co-founder of the DC Stunt Coalition, a fun, encouraging training environment that promotes safety and inclusion to all those who want to take their bodies to the next level through action-based skill sets. He is a former member of the Six Flags America Stunt Team and has received training in “Fight Training,” “Sword, Shield, Swashbuckling, and Unarmed Stage Combat,” “Art of War,” “Act Tactical for Film,” and “Martial Arts Training” among others. His recent credits include the AMC series “TURN: Washington’s Spies,” and the film “Black Mass,” opening in theaters on September 18.