Steven Merrill

Born in 1973 Steven first was on TV. news signing a bill for kids day with the mayor of Boise, Later photographed for an article in the Idaho statesman on the start of the year for new kindergärtners. With the first acting gig In 4th grade as a dancing potato. This was followed by years of classical (5th grade thru Boise State University) and jazz choir (7th grade thru Boise State University.) Choirs, and plays. This included being in numerous competition winning choirs at Fairmont Jr. High and Capital High school including 9th swing, and Capital singers. While at Capital He was in the then new video club, and an early short by Darren Ogden (Later director of the 35MM feature You me and a bag of chips.). At Boise state he was also the President of the BSU MENC chapter. After returning from an enlistment in army intelligence, he returned to Boise State, and received awards for review writing, short film (documentary and narrative films), poetry, Had part of an essay published in Sports Car International, and for comics. He also had a radio show Radio 62 on KBSU, and executive produced "Loud" Chris Demarcus, co-star of Pizza Man Vs. the Dude (IMDB and member of rock groups, Stiff Valentine, 16 Volt, SMP, Dismantled, engineer Front Line Assembly ) As well as recorded and released songs on IUMA with him under the comedy - punk - performance art group tentatively called the too much coffee men, based on all night post party improv recordings, and as an homage of the comic with him. He became an early member of the local film collective Small Pond Films, and was involved in crewing, acting or making many of the early DIY video productions -mixed media shows in Boise. Further as a mass com student at BSU, completed a student practicum and was a producer, and volunteer for TVTV - TVCTV, the local community access TV station. He competed in or led various teams for the I48 film competition. And worked on the award winning H48 film Convex (Parallel Worlds Productions). He has worked or volunteered on numerous local productions as everything from grip, to documentarian, to sound, 2nd unit, script supervisor, production assistant but takes pride in his work in craft services. Professionally he has worked as a Regal level 4 certified 35mm, IMAX and digital projectionist. And as a Distance Learning Technician, and Video Instruction Manager for ISU.