ERIC ALLAMAN – COMPOSER, WRITER
Eric Allaman has composed the scores for 45 films and over 600 episodes of television including: Duck Dynasty, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Mike Hammer Private Eye, Elvira’s Haunted Hills, Latter Days, Sherlock Holmes, Liberty’s Kids, Dante’s Cove and Legend to name a few.
Eric began studying the piano at age seven, guitar at fifteen, and continued his music studies at UCLA earning a B.A. with an emphasis in Music and Theater. He earned a Masters at Cal State Dominguez Hills with an emphasis in Literature. Allaman has also worked extensively in theater composing four musicals: Zeitelmoos – Im Bann Anderer Mächte, Wake Up, Battleship Potemkin, and Voices From The Cellar and three ballets: Camelot, Noah’s Ark, and The Sea Princess. Eric’s scores have been performed and recorded with orchestras in Moscow, Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia, Berlin, Germany, Belgrade, Serbia, Prague, Czech Republic and Skopje, North Macedonia.
During his career he has worked with a diverse collection of talent including: Jon Voight, Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Tom Cruise, Randy Jackson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kirsten Dunst, Larry the Cable Guy, Shia LaBeouf, Marcus Nispel, RC Matheson, Sam Shepherd, Cassandra Peterson, (Elvira) Jon Anderson of Yes, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Rick Springfield and Tony Award winners: Anthony Crivello, Maryann Plunkett, Alice Ripley and Billy Porter.
Eric is an active surfer and skier and has chased waves all over the world including the Mentawai Islands, Fiji, Hawaii, Peru, France, Ireland, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Mexico, Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.
BOB GARRETT – WRITER, LYRICIST
Bob Garrett received his Bachelor’s Degree from UCLA with a major in Zoology and minor in Environmental Sciences. His post-graduate degree in Aquatic Ecology came from the University of Arizona where he traveled throughout Mexico studying the desert pupfish (Cyprinidon macularius). Recently, Garrett has been the lead scientist in a mosquito abatement program in Kremlin, Colorado and recently received a grant to study zooplankton and phytoplankton in Agua Hedionda Lagoon in Carlsbad, CA.
A Professor of Biology at Palomar College in San Marcos, CA for the past 17 years, Garrett has received numerous Distinguished Faculty Award nominations. Prior to his academic career, Garrett served as an official U.S. Army Correspondent stationed in the Far East where he was a stringer for A.P. and U.P.I. He continued his writing career as a copywriter for J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency. Garrett is a published novelist, Music from Both Sides of the Moon; and a screenwriter (Scrum – a comedy about rugby).
RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON – PRODUCER
Richard Christian Matheson is a #1 bestselling author/screenwriter/producer the New York Times calls “a great horror writer.” He has sold sixteen spec feature scripts (considered a record), had twelve films produced and written and produced twenty-five comedy and drama primetime series. Matheson has worked with Steven Spielberg, Tobe Hooper, Joe Dante, Mel Brooks, Dean Koontz, Roger Corman, Stephen J. Cannell, Stephen King and many others. His films, series and limited series include “Amazing Stories”, “Three O’Clock High”, “Sole Survivor”, “Big Driver”, “Masters of Horror”, “Nightmare Cinema” and Stephen King’s “Battleground” which won two Emmys. He has also adapted novels by Roger Zelazny, H.G. Wells, Stephen King, Dean Koontz and George R. R. Martin for limited series.
Matheson is regarded as a master of magical realism and the stories of the surreal and 120 of his acclaimed stories appear in 250 major anthologies, including 20 YEAR’S BEST volumes. They are gathered in his collections “Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks”, “ZOOPRAXIS” and #1 bestseller “DYSTOPIA.”His critically-hailed suspense novels include “Created By”, “The Ritual of Illusion” and upcoming “Bombyx.” His work has been translated into 20 languages.
Matheson worked as a Paranormal Investigator at UCLA, on over 30 cases, including THE ENTITY. He is a professional drummer and studied privately with CREAM’s Ginger Baker. He is the president of MATHESON ENTERTAINMENT.
BRYAN STILLMAN – PRODUCER
Bryan Stillman was born and raised in Reseda, California during the time of transition between 8-track tapes and 45’s. His father was the owner/operator of Wilshire West Pool Supply caring for the pools of show business legends like director Otto Preminger and comedian James Gregory.
From ten years old on, Bryan grew up in the southern suburbs of Chicago encountering such elements as McDonald’s, Drive-in Theaters and Brunswick Bowl. He spent every Sunday morning of his teen years listening to Casey Kacem’s American Top Forty while counting his ever-growing collection of 45’s and albums. During the 1980’s in Chicago, Bryan was an often-working actor/model doing theater, commercials and films. While living in LA in the early 1990’s, he was an actor/producer at Theater 6470 and also spent time working in film development under Oscar-winning producer Dan Jinks at Universal.
Bryan has lived in San Francisco since 1995 with long stints in both the advertising and the hospitality industries.