Chuck Woodruff
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Director
5/99 - present - DIRECTOR - INSIDE EDITION
5/00 - 5/01 - DIRECTOR - CURTIS COURT (Nationally syndicated - Kingworld Productions)
1992 - 10/98 - DIRECTOR of PRODUCTION / COORDINATING DIRECTOR NBC BROADCAST and NEWS OPERATIONS, CNBC - FT. LEE, NJ
Responsible for all CNBC studio and remote production and production facilities (2 studios, 3 control rooms and insert stage at Ft. Lee headquarters; studios in Manhattan, Washington, and Los Angeles bureaus) while continuing to function as coordinating (lead) director. Hired, or had input on hiring, all vendors associated with all in-house and remote projects (production and grip trucks, crewing services, uplinks, fiber suppliers, sound stages, government agencies, set designers and fabricators, lighting designers, animation houses, composers, photographers, labs........) Involved in everything from Graphic design to Operations.
*hired, trained, and managed all directors. Hired and managed all technical directors, audio engineers, and chyron operators. Managed staff of 26 full-time associates plus varying number of freelancers.
*designed systems for daily production of 17-1/2 hours of programming (equipment recommendations, production and pre-production schedules, development of chyron automation, upstream and downstream layering of various graphic sources, scheduling/structuring of all technical manpower...)
*developed concept for CNBC's unique 360 degree news studio "environment." Also developed set techniques utilizing multi-sided flats, backgrounds on tracks, video projectors, pull-downs, masking flats, fly-aways, hydraulics and more to allow wide variety of looks in a limited space. Introduced use of jibs and hand-helds to studio scheme. Coordinated technical, editorial, and production priorities during design and construction of sets in all studios and bureaus. Responsible for blocking of all shows.
*designed choreography to accomplish set reconfiguration, manual and robotic camera placement, and change of lighting schemes between back-to-back shows (no two news shows shot in same set orientation back-to-back.)
Selected projects: *Director and location Operations Coordinator of RIVERA LIVE from Washington's Scripture Cathedral; series of "TALK BACK AMERICA" town hall meeting specials from Chicago, Washington, and New York; and for series of "MEET THE MEDIA" specials with Tim Russert from NBC's Manhattan studios and Atlantic Video studios in Washington (all above w/studio audience.) *Responsible for directing shows and procuring all production assets for various multi-camera, audience participation remotes from such non-broadcast locations as Faneuil Hall in Boston, Navy Pier in Chicago, Park West Theater in Chicago, and the Reading Train Shed in Philadelphia (among others.) *October, 1997 - developed and directed BUSINESS CENTER (designed to be CNBC's "signature" show.) *Mid 1995-February 1996 - Project manager for multi-million dollar studio renovation and network graphic redesign. Involved complete gutting of existing news studio, outfitting of temporary studios, and coordination of all facilities necessary to keep network on air during construction. Coordination of all delivery schedules as well as scheduling of all trades and vendors during ambitious 24hr/day, 9-day demolition, re-wire, load, light, rehearse and relaunch. *January 1998 - project manager for coordination and implementation of new network graphic and music package.
1989-1992 DIRECTOR - CNBC Page 2
*Director of wide variety of news, talk, and entertainment formats. Primarily live. News shows incorporated 30-40 tapes per show, countless graphics, and as many as 15 remotes. Prime time and weekend programming involved musical performances, kids variety show, audience talk shows, specials from NBC studios, and a variety of on-location specials. *Director of over 750 JOHN McLAUGHLIN shows with studio audience. Also responsible for facilities acquisition and direction of McLAUGHLIN shows done entirely on location and with local audiences in London, Geneva, Washington and Los Angeles. *Director of RIVERA LIVE; UPFRONT TONIGHT (Geraldo Rivera and Diane Dimond;) WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORT (syndicated;) CHARLES GRODIN; THIS MORNING'S BUSINESS (syndicated;) KTV (syndicated;) HARDBALL with CHRIS MATHEWS; POZNER/DONAHUE; THE DICK CAVETT SHOW; "THE REAL STORY" (2-hour daily live talk/variety show) and dozens more.
1984-1989 SPORTS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS PRODUCER - WSYX-TV, COLUMBUS, OH
Primarily responsible for producing and directing schedule of live OHIO STATE BASKETBALL games for regional network. Involved negotiation of rights fees; overall budgeting; network traffic coordination; all travel arrangements including charter airlines, hotels, and cars; hiring of production and uplink trucks; booking of satellite time; hiring of local crews; design and construction of sets; design and sourcing of signage for arenas. Designed all graphic elements including animated opens, font styles, page construction, and composition of scoreboards. Wrote all intro, billboard, promo and other announce copy. Highly successful (profitable) package.
*Producer of MEMORIAL '86 HIGHLIGHTS (daily highlight shows during Jack Nicklaus'annual PGA Memorial Tournament.) Emmy. *Producer of BOBBY RAHAL: THE ROAD TO THE 500 (profile of Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal.) Emmy. *Producer/Director of highlight shows during the Ryder Cup golf tournament and the PGA Senior Open golf tournament. *Producer/Director of the annual "Columbus Touchdown Club" awards ceremony. Produced entire ceremony (not just television portion.) Acquired rights to all video, wrote all copy for celebrity announcers, contracted all vendors, etc. *Director of news, talk, and variety shows.
Other experience includes:
-Staff Producer/Director for ESPN (studio and field productions)
-Production Manager of local network affiliate
-Staff and freelance producer and director for local stations with responsibility for a wide variety of sporting events, and news, talk, sports and variety shows.
-Producer and director of commercials, promotions, and public service pieces utilizing single camera 35mm film format.
SELECTED DIRECTING CREDITS Page 3
SYNDICATED SHOWS CURTIS COURT INSIDE EDITION WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORT THIS MORNING'S BUSINESS KTV
SPORTS (events, specials, news) ESPN SPORTSCENTER (Producer/Director) NBA INSIDE STUFF NHL and AHL HOCKEY COLLEGE BASKETBALL (Producer and/or Director) AAA BASEBALL COLLEGE SOCCER BOBBY RAHAL: THE ROAD TO THE 500 (EMMY)-Producer/Director MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT HIGHLIGHTS (EMMY)-Producer/Director
TALK SHOWS RIVERA LIVE TOM SNYDER TIM RUSSERT CHARLES GRODIN POZNER/DONAHUE JOHN McLAUGHLIN DAISEY FUENTES DICK CAVETT HARDBALL with CHRIS MATHEWS EQUAL TIME with Mary Matalin and Jane Wallace AL ROKER
NEWS SHOWS UPFRONT TONIGHT with Geraldo Rivera and Diane Dimond BUSINESS CENTER CNBC, MSNBC and FOX NEWS (various)
ON LOCATION SPECIALS (live w/audience) TALK BACK AMERICA (series...NBC Studios, NY) MEET THE MEDIA with TIM RUSSERT (series...NBC Studios, NY; Atlantic Video, Wash.) THE AMERICAN DREAM (Park West Theatre, Chicago) JOHN McLAUGHLIN (London; Geneva; Los Angeles; Washington) EQUAL TIME (Faneuil Hall, Boston) BUSINESS INSIDERS (Navy Pier, Chicago) INSIDE OPINION (Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg, VA; Newport Convention Center, Newport, RI) NATIONAL BLACK CAUCUS (Washington Convention Center) DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION SPECIALS (Chicago)
VARIETY THE REAL STORY The BILL FLYNN POLKA REVIEW (really) The DREW ZOO (Producer/Director)
5/00 - 5/01 - DIRECTOR - CURTIS COURT (Nationally syndicated - Kingworld Productions)
1992 - 10/98 - DIRECTOR of PRODUCTION / COORDINATING DIRECTOR NBC BROADCAST and NEWS OPERATIONS, CNBC - FT. LEE, NJ
Responsible for all CNBC studio and remote production and production facilities (2 studios, 3 control rooms and insert stage at Ft. Lee headquarters; studios in Manhattan, Washington, and Los Angeles bureaus) while continuing to function as coordinating (lead) director. Hired, or had input on hiring, all vendors associated with all in-house and remote projects (production and grip trucks, crewing services, uplinks, fiber suppliers, sound stages, government agencies, set designers and fabricators, lighting designers, animation houses, composers, photographers, labs........) Involved in everything from Graphic design to Operations.
*hired, trained, and managed all directors. Hired and managed all technical directors, audio engineers, and chyron operators. Managed staff of 26 full-time associates plus varying number of freelancers.
*designed systems for daily production of 17-1/2 hours of programming (equipment recommendations, production and pre-production schedules, development of chyron automation, upstream and downstream layering of various graphic sources, scheduling/structuring of all technical manpower...)
*developed concept for CNBC's unique 360 degree news studio "environment." Also developed set techniques utilizing multi-sided flats, backgrounds on tracks, video projectors, pull-downs, masking flats, fly-aways, hydraulics and more to allow wide variety of looks in a limited space. Introduced use of jibs and hand-helds to studio scheme. Coordinated technical, editorial, and production priorities during design and construction of sets in all studios and bureaus. Responsible for blocking of all shows.
*designed choreography to accomplish set reconfiguration, manual and robotic camera placement, and change of lighting schemes between back-to-back shows (no two news shows shot in same set orientation back-to-back.)
Selected projects: *Director and location Operations Coordinator of RIVERA LIVE from Washington's Scripture Cathedral; series of "TALK BACK AMERICA" town hall meeting specials from Chicago, Washington, and New York; and for series of "MEET THE MEDIA" specials with Tim Russert from NBC's Manhattan studios and Atlantic Video studios in Washington (all above w/studio audience.) *Responsible for directing shows and procuring all production assets for various multi-camera, audience participation remotes from such non-broadcast locations as Faneuil Hall in Boston, Navy Pier in Chicago, Park West Theater in Chicago, and the Reading Train Shed in Philadelphia (among others.) *October, 1997 - developed and directed BUSINESS CENTER (designed to be CNBC's "signature" show.) *Mid 1995-February 1996 - Project manager for multi-million dollar studio renovation and network graphic redesign. Involved complete gutting of existing news studio, outfitting of temporary studios, and coordination of all facilities necessary to keep network on air during construction. Coordination of all delivery schedules as well as scheduling of all trades and vendors during ambitious 24hr/day, 9-day demolition, re-wire, load, light, rehearse and relaunch. *January 1998 - project manager for coordination and implementation of new network graphic and music package.
1989-1992 DIRECTOR - CNBC Page 2
*Director of wide variety of news, talk, and entertainment formats. Primarily live. News shows incorporated 30-40 tapes per show, countless graphics, and as many as 15 remotes. Prime time and weekend programming involved musical performances, kids variety show, audience talk shows, specials from NBC studios, and a variety of on-location specials. *Director of over 750 JOHN McLAUGHLIN shows with studio audience. Also responsible for facilities acquisition and direction of McLAUGHLIN shows done entirely on location and with local audiences in London, Geneva, Washington and Los Angeles. *Director of RIVERA LIVE; UPFRONT TONIGHT (Geraldo Rivera and Diane Dimond;) WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORT (syndicated;) CHARLES GRODIN; THIS MORNING'S BUSINESS (syndicated;) KTV (syndicated;) HARDBALL with CHRIS MATHEWS; POZNER/DONAHUE; THE DICK CAVETT SHOW; "THE REAL STORY" (2-hour daily live talk/variety show) and dozens more.
1984-1989 SPORTS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS PRODUCER - WSYX-TV, COLUMBUS, OH
Primarily responsible for producing and directing schedule of live OHIO STATE BASKETBALL games for regional network. Involved negotiation of rights fees; overall budgeting; network traffic coordination; all travel arrangements including charter airlines, hotels, and cars; hiring of production and uplink trucks; booking of satellite time; hiring of local crews; design and construction of sets; design and sourcing of signage for arenas. Designed all graphic elements including animated opens, font styles, page construction, and composition of scoreboards. Wrote all intro, billboard, promo and other announce copy. Highly successful (profitable) package.
*Producer of MEMORIAL '86 HIGHLIGHTS (daily highlight shows during Jack Nicklaus'annual PGA Memorial Tournament.) Emmy. *Producer of BOBBY RAHAL: THE ROAD TO THE 500 (profile of Indy 500 winner Bobby Rahal.) Emmy. *Producer/Director of highlight shows during the Ryder Cup golf tournament and the PGA Senior Open golf tournament. *Producer/Director of the annual "Columbus Touchdown Club" awards ceremony. Produced entire ceremony (not just television portion.) Acquired rights to all video, wrote all copy for celebrity announcers, contracted all vendors, etc. *Director of news, talk, and variety shows.
Other experience includes:
-Staff Producer/Director for ESPN (studio and field productions)
-Production Manager of local network affiliate
-Staff and freelance producer and director for local stations with responsibility for a wide variety of sporting events, and news, talk, sports and variety shows.
-Producer and director of commercials, promotions, and public service pieces utilizing single camera 35mm film format.
SELECTED DIRECTING CREDITS Page 3
SYNDICATED SHOWS CURTIS COURT INSIDE EDITION WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORT THIS MORNING'S BUSINESS KTV
SPORTS (events, specials, news) ESPN SPORTSCENTER (Producer/Director) NBA INSIDE STUFF NHL and AHL HOCKEY COLLEGE BASKETBALL (Producer and/or Director) AAA BASEBALL COLLEGE SOCCER BOBBY RAHAL: THE ROAD TO THE 500 (EMMY)-Producer/Director MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT HIGHLIGHTS (EMMY)-Producer/Director
TALK SHOWS RIVERA LIVE TOM SNYDER TIM RUSSERT CHARLES GRODIN POZNER/DONAHUE JOHN McLAUGHLIN DAISEY FUENTES DICK CAVETT HARDBALL with CHRIS MATHEWS EQUAL TIME with Mary Matalin and Jane Wallace AL ROKER
NEWS SHOWS UPFRONT TONIGHT with Geraldo Rivera and Diane Dimond BUSINESS CENTER CNBC, MSNBC and FOX NEWS (various)
ON LOCATION SPECIALS (live w/audience) TALK BACK AMERICA (series...NBC Studios, NY) MEET THE MEDIA with TIM RUSSERT (series...NBC Studios, NY; Atlantic Video, Wash.) THE AMERICAN DREAM (Park West Theatre, Chicago) JOHN McLAUGHLIN (London; Geneva; Los Angeles; Washington) EQUAL TIME (Faneuil Hall, Boston) BUSINESS INSIDERS (Navy Pier, Chicago) INSIDE OPINION (Williamsburg Inn, Williamsburg, VA; Newport Convention Center, Newport, RI) NATIONAL BLACK CAUCUS (Washington Convention Center) DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION SPECIALS (Chicago)
VARIETY THE REAL STORY The BILL FLYNN POLKA REVIEW (really) The DREW ZOO (Producer/Director)
