‘STRAWBERRY SUMMER’ PRODUCTION BIOS LARRY LEVINSON (Executive Producer) - Larry Levinson has served as executive producer on a wide range of movies, from miniseries to feature films. He has overseen numerous Hallmark Channel Original Movies in every genre, from adventure to drama to romance. Levinson also executive produced the popular Hallmark Channel Mystery Movie franchises “Jane Doe,” “McBride,” “Mystery Woman” and “Murder 101.” His film credits include “Larry McMurtry’s Streets of Laredo” and “Larry McMurtry’s Dead Man’s Walk.” He executive produced Burt Reynolds’ “Hard Times” telefilms featuring detective Logan McQueen. He also executive produced, with actor Dennis Quaid, “Everything that Rises” and “Mark Twain’s Roughing It.” With actor Tom Berenger, Levinson executive produced “Rough Riders.” For the Hallmark Channel, Levinson’s substantial work as executive producer on original films includes “The Last Cowboy,” “Straight From the Heart,” “Love Comes Softly,” “Audrey’s Rain,” "The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay,” “Hard Ground,” “A Time to Remember,” “Just Desserts,” “A Place Called Home,” “The Long Shot (Believe in Courage),” “Life on Liberty Street,” “King Solomon’s Mines,” “La Femme Musketeer,” “The Trail to Hope Rose,” “The Reading Room,” “Our House,” “Where There’s A Will,” “Love’s Enduring Promise,” “Out of the Woods,” “Thicker Than Water,” “Always and Forever” and “The Three Gifts.” Levinson also served as executive producer on “The Christmas Card” in 2007. The film stands as the Hallmark Channel’s highest-rated original movie. ### KEVIN CONNOR (Director) – Kevin Connor has amassed an impressive list of directorial credits in TV movies, miniseries and feature films. His collaborations with RHI Entertainment include the miniseries “Marco Polo,” with Ian Somerhalder, “Frankenstein,” featuring Donald Sutherland and Julie Delpy and the biblical miniseries, “In the Beginning,” starring Martin Landau, Jacqueline Bisset, Bill Campbell and Eddie Cibrian. He also directed the company’s television movie, “Mary and Jesus,” which included “Polo” co-star Mark Jax in the cast. Other miniseries credits for Connor include “North and South: Book II” with an all-star cast including Patrick Swayze and Kirstie Alley, “Mistral’s Daughter” starring Stacy Keach and Stefanie Powers, “The Apocalypse Watch” with Patrick Bergin, John Shea and Virginia Madsen, and “The Seventh Scroll,” co-written by “Polo” co-star Alan Shearman. (more) HALLMARK MOVIE CHANNEL / ‘STRAWBERRY SUMMER’ – Production Bios – Page 2 A partial list of his television movies include “The Little Riders,” “Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story,” “The Old Curiosity Shop,” “Diana: Her True Story,” “The Hollywood Detective” and “Mary, Mother of God,” as well as the Hallmark Channel Original Movies “Always & Forever,” “Santa, Jr.,” “Just Desserts,” “A Boyfriend for Christmas” and “Chasing Leprechauns.” For the Hallmark Movie Channel, Connor directed “I Married Who?” starring Kellie Martin. Connor has directed episodes of numerous popular television series including “Moonlighting,” “Hart to Hart,” “Hotel,” “Remington Steele,” “Lazarus Man,” “Dirty Dozen: The Series” and “Space: 1999.” ### GARY GOLDSTEIN (Writer) – Gary Goldstein has written numerous Hallmark Channel Original Movies including the comedies “The Wish List,” starring Jennifer Esposito and David Sutcliffe, “A Crush On You” with Brigid Brannagh and Sean Patrick Flanery, and “The Cabin” starring Lea Thompson and Steven Brand. His new comedy “Hitched for the Holidays,” starring Joey Lawrence, Emily Hampshire and Marilu Henner, will premiere on Hallmark Channel this holiday season. He also recently adapted his romantic comedy screenplay "This Magic Moment" for another upcoming Hallmark Channel movie. Goldstein’s indie feature "Politics of Love," a romantic comedy set before the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, was released in theatres last summer (it is currently available on DVD with frequent cable airings on Showtime). 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. The writer 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. Goldstein has 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. ### JIM HEAD (Writer) - Jim Head launched his independent production company, Head First Productions, in 2004, specializing in television movies, mini-series and series. Since starting his company, Head has developed and produced projects for NBC, CBS, Hallmark Hall of Fame, A&E, Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network, USA, TBS, ABC Family, Oxygen, Hallmark Channel and (more) HALLMARK MOVIE CHANNEL / ‘STRAWBERRY SUMMER’ – Production Bios – Page 3 Nickelodeon. In the television long form arena, Head was an executive producer for “Behind the Camera: the Unauthorized Story of Mork & Mindy,” which aired in 2005 on NBC and which earned the prestigious Prism Award for excellence in the accurate depiction of alcohol and substance abuse. Head also executive produced three movie projects for Lifetime Television – “A Christmas Wedding,” starring Eric Mabius and Sarah Paulson (premiered Christmas 2006), “I Dream of Murder,” starring Jolene Blalock (premiered June 2006) and “Intimate Stranger,” starring Kari Matchett (premiered October 2006). He produced the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie “Crossroads: A Story of Forgiveness,” starring Dean Cain and Peri Gilpin, which aired to extremely strong reviews in 2007 on CBS and which was awarded a 2008 CAMIE Award for outstanding character in entertainment. Head executive produced the movie “Gym Teacher: The Movie for Nickelodeon,” starring Christopher Meloni and Amy Sedaris (premiered September 2008). Currently, he is executive producing “Everything She Ever Wanted,” a mini-series starring Gina Gershon and Victor Garber for Lifetime Movie Network. Head and his company, Head First Productions, are partnered with Emmy®-winning producer Stan Brooks (“Broken Trail”) and Once Upon a Time Films. As a writer, Head’s romantic comedy movie, “Uncorked,” was recently produced for the Hallmark Channel and stars Julie Benz, JoBeth Williams, and Elliot Gould. He is currently writing “On Strike for Christmas,” a holiday movie for Lifetime Movie Network. Prior to starting his own company, Head worked in the Turner Broadcasting organization, most recently as Head of Original Programming for TBS. While at TBS, he was responsible for the development and production of the network’s original movies, series and specials, having created TBS’s original programming division. During Head’s tenure at TBS, the network’s original movies carried the highest ratings average in all of basic cable, and his movie, “First Daughter,” at the time of its airing earned the largest viewing audience for a movie, theatrical or original, in the history of basic cable. He was also at the helm for TBS’s successful original series, “Ripley’s Believe It or Not.” A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vanderbilt University (B.A., J.D.), Head currently splits his time between offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta. --HALLMARK MOVIE CHANNEL-- .