Executive Producer) – Howard Braunstein, a Two-Time Emmy® Nominee, Was Born in 1961 and Raised in Los Angeles

‘MY BOYFRIENDS’ DOGS’ PRODUCTION BIOS HOWARD BRAUNSTEIN (Executive Producer) – Howard Braunstein, a two-time Emmy® nominee, was born in 1961 and raised in Los Angeles. He received his bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies at UCLA and his Master’s Degree from the USC Annenberg School for Communication. He started his career at the FOX Network in 1986, when the network was launched. After working at Fox for five years in the research, scheduling and current programming departments, he departed in 1991 to pursue his lifelong career goal of becoming a producer. He met long-time producer Michael Jaffe and they formed their own production company, Jaffe/Braunstein Films, Ltd. Together, they have produced more than 70 television films and six mini-series for the broadcast networks and cable buyers. 2009’s “The Informant” was Braunstein’s first feature film credit. Recent long-form projects that Braunstein and Jaffe have produced include “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter,” a 2008 telefilm for Lifetime Television and an Emmy nominee for outstanding movie-for-television, the multiple Emmy-nominated “Elvis,” a CBS Television mini- series event starring Golden Globe winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the title role, “The Engagement Ring,” starring Patricia Heaton for TNT, an earthquake disaster mini-series for NBC Universal Television titled “10.5 Apocalypse” -- sequel to the original ratings juggernaut -- featuring Kim Delaney and Frank Langella, “Faith of My Fathers,” based on Senator John McCain’s best-selling book, “Touch the Top of the World,” based on the true story of Erik Weihenmayer -- blind since childhood -- who eventually summits Mt. Everest and “The Brooke Ellison Story,” directed by the late Christopher Reeve, all for the A&E Television Network. Braunstein also executive produced the Hallmark Channel Original Movie’s “Growing the Big One,” starring Shannen Doherty and “Lucky in Love” starring Jessica Szohr and Deidre Hall. Additional projects include the three-hour television musical event “Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific,” starring Glenn Close and Harry Connick Jr., “First Do No Harm,” starring Meryl Streep, “Gilda Radner: It’s Always Something,” a remake of the family classic “Sounder,” for ABC’s “The Wonderful World of Disney” franchise, “Deliberate Intent,” starring Timothy Hutton, the first original film for FX Cable Network, “The Rosa Parks Story,” a winner of the NAACP Image Award for outstanding television movie or dramatic special, featuring Angela Bassett in the title role, who earned both an Emmy nomination and an NAACP Image Award for best actress and “Ice Bound,” starring Susan Sarandon, both for CBS. Braunstein and Jaffe were also producers and financiers of “The Nero Wolfe Mysteries,” a series for the A&E Television Network, also starring Timothy Hutton. They also financed a second series for A&E titled Sidney Lumet’s “100 Centre Street.” Braunstein has been married since 1992 to the former Beth Alexander and they have three beautiful children: a son Alex and twin daughters, Emma and Lily. ### (more) HALLMARK CHANNEL/ ‘MY BOYFRIENDS’ DOGS’ – Production Bios – Page 2 MARCY GROSS AND ANN WESTON (Executive Producers) — Marcy Gross and Ann Weston formed Gross-Weston Productions in 1982. Since then, the duo have developed and sold many projects, including feature films, two-hour movies made for television, mini-series, primetime series, reality series and late-night series. Their carefully molded works address important, contemporary issues in responsible and creative ways. This dedication to quality has earned them eight Emmy® nominations, several Christopher Awards, a Humanitas Award and a Golden Halo Award. In October of 1997, Gross and Weston were honored with the American Film Institute’s Charles W. Fries Producer of the Year Award. Their award-winning credits include the four-time Emmy® nominated and two-time Golden Globe® nominated “Billionaire Boys Club,” a 1987 four-hour miniseries for NBC starring Judd Nelson, which told the true story of convicted killer Joe Hunt and Hallmark Hall of Fame’s 1994 Emmy® nominated TV movie “A Place for Annie,” starring Sissy Spacek, Mary Louise Parker and Joan Plowright, about an HIV-positive baby who becomes the center of a custody dispute between two women. Other credits include several movies aired on Lifetime Network, including “The Stranger Game,” “Decoy,” “Invisible Child” starring Rita Wilson, Victor Garber and Mae Whitman, and “All the Good Ones are Married,” starring Daryl Hannah. In addition, they’ve executive produced many more made-for-TV movies, including Sci-Fi Channel’s “Encrypt,” Hallmark Hall of Fame’s “Little John,” Disney Channel’s “Can of Worms,” Showtime’s “The Spree” and “Big and Hairy,” CBS’s “Forbidden Love,” “Love & Betrayal,” “Getting Physical” and “Miss All American Beauty” starring Diane Lane, Cloris Leachman and Brian Kerwin, “I Love You Perfect,” “Deep Dark Secrets” starring James Brolin and Melody Anderson, “Have You Seen My Son,” “Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland,” “Jonathan, the Boy Nobody Wanted,” “Highway Heartbreaker” starring Heather Locklear, “Always Remember I Love You” starring Patty Duke, “Children of Times Square” and “Country Gold” starring Loni Anderson, Earle Holliman & Linda Hamilton. In 2009, Weston and Gross executive produced “Fired Up!,” a feature film for Screen Gems starring Eric Christian Olsen, Nicholas D’Agosto and Sarah Roemer. ### TERRY INGRAM (Director) – Terry Ingram is a Canadian citizen with over 30 years of experience in the industry. After years as a theatrical stage manager and an AD, Ingram crossed over to film and television as a director. His movies include “The Woodcarver” (John Ratzenberger), “Christmas Lodge” (Erin Karpluk), “Concrete Canyons” (Polly Shannon), “Angel and the Bad Man” (Lou Diamond Phillips, Deborah Kara Unger, Luke Perry), “All the Good Ones are Married” (Daryl Hannah), “Nightmare” (Haylie Duff), “Stranger Game” (Mimi Rogers), the sci-fi Greek tragedy “Odysseus and the Isle of Mysts”, starring Arnold Vosloo (“Blood Diamond”, “The Mummy”) and “Thomas Kinkade’s Christmas Miracle” (George Canyon). His most recent credits include the TV movies “Chupacabra vs. the Alamo,” “Profile for Murder,” “Hats Off to Christmas!,” “The Good Mistress” and the Hallmark Channel Original Movie, “The Wishing Tree.” (more) HALLMARK CHANNEL/ ‘MY BOYFRIENDS’ DOGS’ – Production Bios – Page 3 Ingram has directed multiple episodes of “R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour,” “Health Nutz,” “La Femme Nikita,” “Total Recall,” “Kung Fu: The Legend Continues,” “Relic Hunter” and Peter Benchley’s “Amazon,” to name a few. He has also worked on several feature films, including 2nd unit directing on the outrageous comedy “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.” Ingram is renowned for his extraordinary imagination and command of his craft. ### GARY GOLDSTEIN (Writer) – Gary Goldstein has written numerous Hallmark Channel Original Movies including the comedies "The Wish List," "A Crush On You" and "Hitched for the Holidays" (a 2012 holiday season hit for the network) and “This Magic Moment.” He also wrote “The Cabin” and 2012’s “Strawberry Summer” for the Hallmark Movie Channel. Goldstein also recently scripted the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Original “Along Came a Nanny.” Goldstein’s indie feature "Politics of Love," a romantic comedy set before the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, was released in theatres in August 2011. He also wrote the feature romantic comedy, “If You Only Knew,” which was produced by Eternity Pictures and Moonstone Entertainment and starred Johnathon Schaech, Alison Eastwood, James LeGros and Lainie Kazan. Goldstein has sold or optioned a number of original screenplays to various studios, production companies and independent producers, has a string of episodic television credits including “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Saved by the Bell” and has sold half-hour comedy pilots to both NBC and Warner Bros. Television. He has also written several comedies for the Los Angeles stage, including Just Men, at Hollywood’s Stella Adler Theatre and Parental Discretion and Three Grooms and a Bride, which both enjoyed long runs at the Coast Playhouse in West Hollywood. His family drama Curtain Call premiered in November 2008 at Carmel, California’s Pacific Repertory Theatre, where it was selected as the winner of PacRep’s 2007 Hyperion Playwriting Competition. ### JON MAAS (Writer) – Jon Maas was born in the Bronx and raised in New Jersey. He started his career in the entertainment industry as a gofer on Broadway working for the Theatre Guild on such productions as Absurd Person Singular and then went on to intern at the Chelsea Theatre Center. After graduating from the Pratt Institute, he worked in theatrical advertising and was the general manager’s assistant on such Broadway productions as Bent, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Sugar Babies. Maas was then tapped by the legendary Broadway producer David Merrick to be his assistant on the original production of 42nd Street. Maas then went on to become the Director of Programs, East Coast for NBC, where he supervised such series at “Late Night with David Letterman,” “Saturday Night Live,” “The News (more) HALLMARK CHANNEL/ ‘MY BOYFRIENDS’ DOGS’ – Production Bios – Page 4 is the News” and “Friday Night Videos.” Maas is currently writing and producing for television and film. His works include Showtime’s “The Last Debate,” with James Garner, Peter Gallagher and Audra McDonald, Lifetime’s “12 Men of Christmas,” starring Kristin Chenoweth and Josh Hopkins and the Hallmark Movie Channel Original “After All These Years” with Wendie Malick, Andrea Martin and Gregory Harrison. --HALLMARK CHANNEL-- .

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