CLOSING GENERAL SESSION: LONGMIRE PRODUCTION
Saturday, May 31, 2014 - 1:00PM to 2:30PM
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Bailey Chase, Actor
Though home to actor BAILEY CHASE is Hollywood, it may just as well be on the range since his more memorable
roles to date feature him on the western front. Chase currently stars on A & E’s critically lauded contemporary
crime thriller LONGMIRE based on the best-selling series of novels by author Craig Johnson. He portrays Big Sky
country Deputy Branch Connally; a go-getter with blind confidence whose political aspirations often trump his
motivation to solve crimes. Though Chase most recently starred on DAMAGES with Rose Byrne, he is perhaps best
known for his portrayal of swaggering Detective Butch Ada on TNT’s acclaimed SAVING GRACE. Chase has since
completed the thriller SUMMONED, thereby adding Cuba Gooding, Jr. to his already impressive list of Oscarwinning co-stars inclusive of Holly Hunter and Glenn Close. Next on the horizon is the lead role in the big screen
adaptation of the Pulitzer prize-nominated novel TAO OF SURFING. Born in Chicago, but raised in Florida, Chase
went to a boarding school where he excelled in athletics and was offered a scholarship to Duke University. After
graduation, Chase moved to Hollywood but was unsatisfied and took a leave to hone his craft at the London
Academy of Music and Dramatic Art where Shakespeare took center stage. Upon his return, he made his film debut
in Adam Shankman’s COSMO’S TALE which screened at both Sundance and Cannes. After a few years in NYC, Chase
now calls Los Angeles home with his wife, Amy, and their Golden Retriever, Blue.
John Coveny, Executive Producer/Co-Creator/Showrunner
Born in Pittsburgh into an Irish/Italian family that loved television and movies, John Coveny is the youngest of five
children. The entire Coveny clan journeyed from Pittsburgh to St. Louis and eventually settled in Atlanta. There,
“Coveny” grew up in booming Georgia, a transplanted Yankee, and attended Marist High School. Next stop, South
Bend, Indiana, where he graduated from Notre Dame in ‘88 with a BBA and a harmless police record…Two weeks
later, Coveny started his first non-restaurant or lawn mowing job at Leo Burnett Advertising in Chicago, rising from
a media buyer to a Creative Director over a 13-year creative career that made him realize he was in the wrong job
and his dreams were out West…So, in 2002, John and his wife Amelia took a chance, sold their home in Chicago and
headed to LA, filling up their Tundra and driving out to California. What didn’t fit in the pick-up went into a Bekins
18-wheeler that they shared with writing-partner-to-be Hunt Baldwin and his wife, Claire. Upon setting foot in LA,
Coveny and Baldwin quickly learned that ‘living the dream’ requires a lot of reality: employment as a writer in
Hollywood was not easy and eventually a spec screenplay led to a meeting that led a meeting that led to another
meeting that led to yet another meeting that got them a gig as staff writers on FOX’s Fastlane. Finally, they were in
-- with a view of a dumpster on the back lot in WB Burbank. But their showbiz careers were underway…sort of.
After Fastlane was cancelled, a career “hiatus” ensued. Knocked down, and almost out, the phone finally rang in
2004. It was a new unknown show called The Closer. And that is where what was meant to happen actually
happened…Coveny & Baldwin have been writing ever since and rose to Co-Executive Producer status on The Closer
while developing their own projects with The Shephard/Robin Company and Warner Brothers TV along the
way…Trust Me, for TNT, was show number one. And now, the show that’s been pumping through Coveny’s blood
ever since he sat too close to the TV is entering its 3rd Season: Longmire. The West was always calling.
Chris Donahue, Supervising Producer
Chris Donahue is an Oscar and Emmy winning producer involved in film, television and new media. Proven
entrepreneurial leader who takes projects from inception through delivery. Currently serving as a supervising
producer on Season 3 of Longmire. Received an Academy Award for producing Visas and Virtue, a narrative
depiction of Holocaust rescuer Chiune Sugihara. Received an Emmy Award for producing the documentary, Be
Good, Smile Pretty, broadcast on the PBS series, Independent Lens. Selected as a Corporation for Public
Broadcasting Fellow at WGBH in Boston. He holds graduate degrees from The American Film Institute and The
Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley.
Cameron Duncan, Cinematographer
Upon earning his degree in film production from Cal State University Northridge, Cameron began working for
Panavision. He then transitioned into freelance camera assistant work. During this period he worked with some of
the most talented DPs and camera assistants in the business, all while shooting indie projects in his off time. In
2007 and 2010 he was awarded the Emerging Cinematographer Award from the International Cinematographers
Guild. Cameron is in his 3rd season of filming the original A&E TV series Longmire in Santa Fe, NM.
Patrick McKee, Unit Production Manager (UPM)/Producer
Patrick McKee has over twenty-five years experience in the television industry as Producer, Director, Assistant
Director and Unit Production Manager. Pat’s extensive television credits memorable shows such as Northern
Exposure, Charmed, Nip/Tuck and let’s not forget Columbo.
Rowan Stanland, Location Manager
Rowan Stanland began her film industry career as a dailies projectionist and set PA in 2002 and started her first
location job a year later in 2003. She has worked locations on over 15 feature films throughout New
Mexico. She was offered the Location Manager position for the Longmire Pilot in 2011 and has since managed
locations for three seasons of the Longmire show. Born in San Francisco, Rowan spent her childhood between
Northern California and Albuquerque, where she moved permanently in 1991 to attend the University of New
Mexico. Rowan received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from UNM in 1997 and today very much considers New
Mexico her home.
Thomas A. Walsh, Production Designer
Thomas was born into a Hollywood show business family whose patriarch was a national jitterbug champion and
contract actor at MGM Studios during the 1940s. Thomas began his career as a prop maker and scenic artist
working at many of Hollywood’s leading theatrical, TV, and film studios. He went on to receive his bachelor of fine
arts degree in theatre design technologies from California Institute of the Arts. The focus of his past and continuing
design work combines many different narrative design disciplines including feature films, IMAX, episodic series,
documentaries, Broadway and regional theatre. He recently completed an intensive performance review of the
American Film Institute’s Production Design Program, which is the first and most advanced design conservatory
program of its kind. Having been nominated many times, Thomas is the winner of the Television Academy’s Emmy
Award for his designs for CBS-TV’s critically acclaimed series Buddy Faro. He is a winner of the Art Directors Guild
Excellence in Production Design Award for the hit ABC-TV series Desperate Housewives. His work on In Search of
Dr. Seuss garnered another Emmy Award nomination as well. He also designed the much-acclaimed documentary
series MGM: When the Lion Roars, which won an Emmy Award for best informational special. A leader in designing
for IMAX, one of his films, The Living Sea, was honoured with an Academy Award nomination and another, The
Discovers, was the signature film for the Spanish Pavilion at their world Expo in Sevilla. Thomas is the originating
production designer of ABC-TV’s hit series Desperate Housewives, for which he designed the pilot and 84 episodes.
More recently he designed 3 seasons of the popular USA/Universal cable series In Plain Sight and the final season
of the Lifetime Channel’s popular series, The Client List.