All producers are independent of LCTV and contribute their productions for airing on LCTV free of charge.

Producers:

Art Mayers

Art has been involved in video production for over 20 years and is a former chairman of Kennebec Community Television in Augusta. Art became involved with LCTV when he moved to Newcastle in 1991. Since then, he has cohosted "Waldoboro with Art and Goodie", "Art's Video Grab Bag", 'The News with Art and Sam" and "Wuzzup" with Bobby Whear and Kit Hayden. He is often seen video taping local events including parades and celebrations. Art also continues to add to his collection of interviews with the elders of Lincoln County, "Lincoln County Oral Histories", begun in 1991 and periodically shown on LCTV. He is also a former newspaper reporter and a former selectman of Newcastle. Art has written and acted in many plays and currently plays bass with the Narrow Gauge String Band.

Michael Christopher

Michael has been involved in the professional audio field since the mid 1970's, working in various production studios, nightclubs and outdoor concert venues and building and repairing professional audio equipment. He spent the 1980's in Hollywood, California, as a Pro Audio Technician/Audio Engineer and Location Sound Recordist. Michael relocated back home to Maine in the 1990's to raise his family. Michael is currently producing "Wuzzup" with Bobby Whear and Kit Hayden and sits on the board of BRCTV in Boothbay.

Lee Arnott

Lee Arnott began volunteering for her local community station, Boothbay Region Community Television, in 2004 and has expanded her horizons with Lincoln County Television in Newcastle. Lee has produced ongoing shows: Cooking With Mr. C (2005) and Lincoln County Animal Shelter (2005-2010). Her documentaries include: Conversations With Ruth (2006), From Norway to Maine (2007), and Road to Ferndale (2009). She produces the annual fundraiser Eat Your Heart Out for Charity Waffle Eating Contest each summer, benefiting a local charity. Her production topics usually cover what she is passionate about: animals, children, art, unique individuals, and whatever else she finds interesting. Lee is the owner of Sweet Thunder Productions, a video production company she established in 2010. Her work can be viewed at www.sweetthunderproductions.com .

Lee received a BS in Mass Communications/Film Studies, from Emerson College in 1994. She attends the Media School in Rockport, Maine every summer to further her craft and to observe the work of other professionals.

Tom Handel

Tom joined the LCTV board in 1989, where he served for 17 years. He produced Local Report with Mitchell Wellman in the late 1980's,early 1990's, a live half-hour weekly talk show. Then he produced a monthly comedy show, El Sea Spectacle, with his wife, Andrea; their three children; Natalie, Tony and Sophia; Mitchell Wellman and, for a while, Duff Powell, with the participation of numerous locals. His involvement with LCTV led to his current job working at the public access station and regional community television station, Channels 2 and 5 in Portland and greater Portland, where he currently produces Community Update, which also airs on LCTV. Tom organizes and helps tape Masses at St. Patrick's in Newcastle to air on LCTV. He lives in Newcastle with Andrea, and their two dogs, Daisy and Sparky. The kids are grown and gone, but Andrea and he love visits with their year-old granddaughter, Carmen.

Mark Kuzio

Mark Kuzio's life was quite normal before community tv............well, if you believe that there is not much that I can do for you. Why he ever thought that involvement with technology that was completely alien to him would ever help him with his stress levels and feelings of complete utter uselessness...well, you tell me! What community television has helped him to see is that he has wasted his life to this point, he now realizes that if only he were thirty years younger and only now trying to decide as a young man what to do with his life. A degree from NYU film school....a Masters in Television Production from USC.....a Doctorate from UCLA in New Media!!!!! Wine, Women, Song, Dance...and then more Wine!

Susan Bickford

Susan Bickford joined the board of LCTV in November of 2009. Since that time she has produced and taped many local concerts and events. Susan also took a studio production class at LCTV which certified her to use the LCTV studio and equipment with which she produced and technically directed "Panel 1: the Midcoast Green Collaborative". She hopes that Panel 1 will soon be followed by Panel 2 and is the first of many studio shows on local events and topics. Susan is also working toward building a bridge between Lincoln Academy and LCTV and hoping to get a chance to mentor the talented youth in our community.

Susan Bickford is a full time artist and educator currently teaching visual and electronic art at the University of Maine at Augusta and The Vermont College MFA program. Recently her focus has been new and immersive media, including projected video for theater and stand alone installation. In the Fall of 2009 she designed projected video for "Metamorphoses", directed by Lynne Conner and performed at Colby. Spring of 2010 she opened "How the Children Stopped the War" and "Snapshot Silhouette" with Odelle Bowman directing A Company of Girls at the Irish Heritage Center and Portland Stage Company Studio Theater. She also designed an interactive video backdrop for "13, a new musical" presented at the Chocolate Church by the New England Youth Theater. In September of 2009 she installed "precarious balance", a solo show of interactive video installation, electronic sculpture, drawings and collaborative performance at the Charles Danforth Gallery at the University of Maine in Augusta. Another recent collaborative performance was entitled "FF>>: Duet for Piano, Hydraulic Lift and Volume F", and was performed at the Portland Museum of Art in February of 2006. Her works were selected for inclusion in the Portland Museum of Art's 2005 Biennial. Susan is a full time practicing artist, exhibiting internationally in various media for over twenty years. She curated "Light in the Dark" at SPACE Gallery in Portland in 2005 and in 2004 she curated "FeedBack" at the Jewett Gallery at UMA. She co-organized "In my Backyard", an annual art and performance festival in Yarmouth from 2001 - 2005; the 2004 festival featured eighty artists, for which she was voted among Portland's most influential people by the Portland Phoenix. Susan has her Bachelors of Fine Art '85 and Bachelors of Industrial Design '86 from Rhode Island School of Design and her Master of Fine Arts '01 in Studio Arts from Maine College of Art. Until 3 years ago Bickford lived in her home town of Yarmouth, Maine. In 2007 moved to Newcastle to renovate an 1850's farm house with her partner Rich Simon and daughter Bella Rocha.

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