TOM DURHAM

On Friday February 12th, 2021, at 11 AM, Emmy Award Winning creator, and Special Guest for Theater & Media-Arts Tom Durham will be giving a 2-hour presentation at LTUE on making money with your creative skills.

Course Description

Can you actually make money with your creative talents? YES! Join Emmy-winning TV producer Tom Durham as he tells specific career path stories with practical value, and answers your questions. 

Tom’s Guests

During the second hour, Tom will be joined by filmmaker Jeff Parkin and professional storyteller & radio personality Sam Payne. They will discuss inroads to writing, producing, and directing in many fields of media production.

Registering for LTUE

The presentation will be streamed via Discord in the LTUE Douglas Adams Room. Visit the LTUE website and click Register Now to sign up for the symposium so you can enjoy the course. You can also click Schedule to see all class listings.

JEFF PARKIN

Jeff worked in Los Angeles for 15 years as a producer, director and/or writer with companies such as: Miramax Pictures, CBS Television, Orion Pictures, David E. Kelley Productions, EMI/Capitol Records, Fox Television, Dallas Museum of Art, Franklin/Covey, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Times, Lilly & Brandon Tartikoff, McGraw-Hill Companies and United Artists.

He has written, directed and/or produced two full-length feature films, a number-one-rated movie of the week for CBS Television, a feature-length web series and transmedia story which includes an alternate reality game and additional New Media elements, as well as numerous short films, commercials, documentaries, music videos and industrial films.

His work has been seen in film festivals around the world, and has won numerous awards. He has worked with such actors as Maureen O’Hara, David Ogden Stiers, Julia Duffy, Kirby Heyborne, Joey Laurence, Larisa Oleynik and Haley Joel Osment. With advanced degrees from USC, he currently teaches at Brigham Young University while he pursues a variety of creative projects.

SAM PAYNE

Sam Payne hosts The Apple Seed – the award-winning national radio show on the art of storytelling produced by BYU radio – and serves as the Weber State University Storytelling Fellow. He was part of the Peabody-nominated team that created Treasure Island 2020, the serial podcast based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, and has brought his stories and songs to halls in Canada, Bulgaria, Tokyo, and from coast to coast in the United States, including performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in the nation’s capitol, the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and the Timpanogos Storytelling festival in Lehi, Utah.

Sam has authored periodical publications for children with a regular readership of more than a million elementary school students, and has written books and stage pieces including Sanctuary: The Story of Zion for the centennial of the National Parks Service, Echoes of Hammers and Spikes (With Suzanne Christensen) for the sesquicentennial of the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, and One of a Million Stars, commemorating the 14-year mission of the Mars rover Opportunity.