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Among his credits are films he shot in collaboration with director Andrew Fleming such as Threesome, Dick, The In-Laws, Hamlet 2 and Nancy Drew. Other credits include 54, Maximum Risk, Promised Land, Brothers, Deliver Us From Eva, Tremors and I Like it That Way for which he received nomination for Independent Spirit Award. His most recent credits are movies directed by Tyler Perry including For Colored Girls and Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds.

Gruszynski’s television work includes telefilms “Surviving,” “Cast A Deadly Spell,” “By the Dawn’s Early Light,” “The Last Innocent Man,” “The Women Of Brewster Street,” among others. For his work on the television movie “Kingfish,” Gruszynski won the Cable Ace Award For Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography and was nominated for same by the American Society of Cinematographers.
ELOISE C. STAMMERJOHN (Production Designer) began her work with Mr. Tyler Perry on his feature film “The Marriage Counselor” that is due for release in March of 2013.

In the past Ms. Stammerjohn has worked with the director Rod Lurie on a number of projects, most notably on his feature film “Nothing But Truth” starring Kate Beckinsale, Vera Farmiga and Alan Alda and on his ABC series, “Commander In-Chief” starring Geena Davis. Ms. Stammerjohn started her career as a production assistant on the film “The Long Walk Home,” starring Sissy Spacek and Whoopi Goldberg. She prides herself on the fact that she has worked her way up in the industry holding most positions in the Art Department including Set Decorator and Art Director.

Ms. Stammerjohn has worked as a prop maker, carpenter, accountant and even as a grip - for a day. She has tried to learn every aspect of the art and business of filmmaking but realizes that each day on set provides a new lesson. She always gives credit to her crews for their effort on behalf of the look of the film and tries to never lose sight of the collaborative nature of filmmaking.

Some of her other credits include: set decorator on “The Contendor” starring Jeff Bridges and Joan Allen; set decorator on “The Last Castle” with Robert Redford; art director on the John Sayles film, “Honeydripper;” production designer on the independent drama “Farewell To Harry” and the independent romantic comedy “Falling For Grace,” starring Gayle Harold and Fay Ann Lee.

Ms. Stammerjohn attended Stanford University where she studied Anthropology. When she is not designing films, Ms. Stammerjohn remodels historic homes and commercial properties and does interior design work for private clients around the world. She loves photography, writes children’s books and is completing her first screenplay.
MAYSIE HOY, A.C.E. (Editor) began her theater training in her hometown of Vancouver, Canada.  She studied improvisational theatre in San Francisco with “The Wing” and “The Committee.”  Upon returning to Vancouver, she formed an improvisational company called  “The Good Will Store” where she was the artistic director.  For the next two years, her troupe performed and taught Viola Spolin’s theater games in schools and correctional institutions.  During this time she was cast in Robert Altman’s “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.”

  When the movie wrapped, she left for Los Angeles with only a backpack and sleeping bag.  She knew two people in L.A.-- a friend who offered her a place to stay and Robert Altman.   For the next eight years she learned the art of filmmaking by working for Robert Altman in research, costume and production design.  She also acted in several of his films, including “California Split,” “Nashville” and “Three Women and a Wedding.”

  It was on Altman’s “Buffalo Bill and the Indians” that she landed a job as an editorial apprentice.  There she discovered her passion and talent for film editing.  She moved up quickly to a film assistant, and then became a film and sound assistant on many Altman films and on projects that he produced with directors Alan Rudolph and Robert Benton.

  Her editing credits include: “The Joy Luck Club,” “The Player” (co-edited), “Smoke,” “What Dreams May Come”, “Freedom Song,” “Lovejones,” “Freeway," and several films for Tyler Perry including “For Colored Girls,” “The Marriage Counselor,” “Madea’s Big Happy Family,” “Why Did I Get Married, Too?,” “I Can Do Bad All By Myself,” and  “Madea Goes To Jail.” 

  Ms. Hoy is an alumna of the American Film Institute’s Directing Women’s Workshop.  She is on the Board of Directors in both the Motion Picture Editors Guild and American Cinema Editors.  She has been featured with thirty accomplished craftswomen in a book called “Great Women in Films.”

JOHNETTA BOONE (Costume Designer) A common thread woven throughout the complexities of characters in the Tyler Perry produced film  For Colored Girls, featuring a star studded cast of Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni-Rose, Tessa Thompson and Thandie Newton, is the rich mosaic of relationships, love, dreams- and nightmares composing their lives. Their storylines are played out, with a powerful, emotional intensity, in wardrobes of color creating a buzz of its own. Enter the master designer “behind the seams” of For Colored Girls- Johnetta Boone.

Starting as an aspiring art student at the Duke Ellington School of the Performing Arts, Boone has served as stylist and designer for the still photography, television, commercial and feature film arenas for more than three decades. Her fashion imprint is brought to bear on designs running the gamut--everything from turn of-the century, classic, contemporary, and retro to various uniforms, including sport attire.

Boone began her career working with such notable photographers as Ruven Afanador and George Holz, while creating spreads for German Vogue, Entertainment Weekly and Us Magazine. She spent many years developing her craft while studying in New York at the Fashion Institute of Technology. With Edith Head as her inspiration, her dream of someday designing images for the motion picture industry soon became her reality. While supporting an Academy Award®-winning designer with the cast of Beloved, Boone gained acclaim not just for her captivating style but also a compelling sense of integrity.

Other costume designers have described her as one of the best they’ve ever worked with, bringing to productions more than panache, but also a coveted authority on personal style. Academy-Award® winning designer Albert Wolsky was so highly impressed with her that on the film Runaway Bride he gave her carte blanche to recreate her exact design image, including her “personal” hand-made jewelry for actress Joan Cussack. Producer Tim Reid recognized her talent and work ethic and invited her to design for the Showtime Original Series Linc’s.

The nation’s capital served as backdrop for her expert skills when she costume designed for HBO’s original television series K Street, directed by Steven Soderbergh and executive produced by George Clooney. There, she infused flair into the bland Washington, D.C. political arena. Political consultant Mary Matalin was so in love with the designs Johnetta created for her character that when the series ended, she carried it over into her personal life by purchasing each and every piece.

Boone’s versatility was also captured in baseball uniforms that she designed for the sports movie Mickey (written by John Grisham and directed by Hugh Wilson of Guarding Tess), boxing attire for Showtime’s original pilot The Contender (also directed by Hugh Wilson), and firefighter uniforms for the History Channel’s recently produced docu-drama Countdown To Ground Zero, which retells the 9/11 tragedies during the last 102 pivotal minutes.

Boone’s design mastery is also displayed in period attire like 1940’s pieces in The Notebook and Cadillac Records,featuring Beyonce and covering 1940 to the late 1960’s. She has also designed for actors such as Sam Shephard, Lynne Redgrave, John Malkovich, Kathy Baker, Maria Bello and Emily Blunt. Her work has been featured in numerous regional and national television commercials as well as the pages of the book “The Color of Fashion.”

A hard-working professional who loves her craft?  Yes. A person wrapped in the New York/Hollywood culture? No.  Boone not only grew up in Washington, DC but continues to live in the DC area, maintaining a grounded lifestyle as a suburban wife and mother of two children.

Yet, based on the growing Oscar® buzz surrounding For Colored Girls, Boone is now poised to enjoy game-changing success in her field despite being anchored far from the traditional entertainment epicenters. 

JOEL C. HIGH (Music Supervisor) is a music supervisor and producer who has worked on over 100 films and television projects and also is chief executive for a company he co-founded in 2006. Over the last decade, he created and supervised the music departments for two of the leading independent studios in the industry: Trimark Pictures and Lionsgate Entertainment. He built the publishing division for both companies and started the boutique soundtrack label Lions Gate Records. In addition to his acclaimed work in motion pictures working with directors such as Tyler Perry, Marc Forster, Peter Bogdanovich, Don Roos, Roger Avary, James Foley, Bill Paxton, Billy Ray, Mario Van Peebles, Duane Adler and Rob Zombie, he oversaw the music for the growing Television group at Lionsgate, including "The Dead Zone" and the Golden Globe®-winning series “Weeds.”

Joel is the music executive behind such films as “Saw,” “Girl with a Pearl Earring” and the Leonard Cohen documentary “I'm Your Man.” He oversaw Lionsgate’s first Academy Award® nomination in the Original Song category, for Best Picture winner “Crash” and the Golden Globe® nominated score from "Girl With A Pearl Earring" by Alexandre Desplat.

Joel has been the music supervisor for all of Tyler Perry's films including "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" , “Madea Goes To Jail”, "I Can Do Bad All By Myself",the ground breaking “For Colored Girls” based on the prizewinning seminal play and most recently “Madea’s Witness Protection”. Joel has co-produced and supervised two films in a row for Mario Van Peebles including the coming of age dance film “We The Party”. He recently completed “Cobu 3D” a dance film from Writer/Director Duane Adler and producer Robert Cort (“Step Up, Save The Last Dance”. He is the music supervisor for films ranging from "In the Mix,” starring Usher, Rob Zombie's "The Devil's Rejects," "The Wash" with Snoop and Dre, Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert’s “Strangers with Candy", Oscar® winner "Monsters Ball”, “The Other Woman” starring Natalie Portman and the HBO series “Little Britain – USA”. He is a four-time nominee as outstanding Music Supervisor of the year and is a founding member and board member of the Guild of Music supervisors, and has previously served on the board for the California Copyright Conference.

Joel is currently the principal executive at Creative Control Entertainment, a multi-faceted music supervision, consultation, live event and production company, with offices in Los Angeles and New Orleans and diverse clients ranging from independent studios and national brands to international governments.

Tackling another Nicholas Sparks adaptation, The Last Song, in 2010, Zigman wrote the instrumental “Steve’s Song”—which debuted at number one on the Billboard charts. Going for another record, in 2007 Aaron Zigman scored an unprecedented nine films in one year. Inexhaustible and unlimited in his capabilities, Zigman has risen to the highest ranks of today’s film composers.
AARON ZIGMAN (Composer) is quickly proving to be one of the most prolific and versatile composers in film music today. The Emmy®-winning songwriter plants one foot in the world of pop idioms and the other in the emotional scope of a symphony orchestra to create narrative scores that complement each genre he’s assigned—and with more than 50 film credits to his name, that has encompassed everything from the passionate romance The Notebook, to the fantastical adventure in Bridge to Terabithia, to the sensitivity of For Colored Girls.

A classically trained pianist since childhood, Zigman began his musical career as a session keyboardist, arranger, and as a producer to popular music stars.  Soon his resume boasted names like Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, Phil Collins, Oleta Adams, Tina Turner, Patti Labelle, Chicago, Nona Gaye, Carly Simon, Huey Lewis, Christina Aguilera and Seal.

In 2002 Aaron Zigman scored his first feature, the Denzel Washington thriller John Q, for director Nick Cassavetes which began an ongoing composer-director collaboration; Zigman went on to score three more films for Cassavetes. Their next project was The Notebook, the wildly successful adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ romantic novel, starring Gena Rowlands and James Garner.  Their most recent collaboration was “My Sister’s Keeper,” starring Cameron Diaz.

Zigman’s versatile credits include the family adventure fantasy film “Bridge to Terabithia;” “Akeelah & The Bee,” starring Laurence Fishbourne and Angela Bassett; “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium,” which he co-scored with Alexandre Desplat; the period drama “Flash of Genius” starring Greg Kennear; Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls;” and the dark drama “Alpha Dog,” another collaboration with Nick Cassavettes.  In the past few years, Zigman has had three romantic hits with “Sex and the City,” “The Proposal” starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, and “The Ugly Truth” starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler.  In addition, Zigman has scored the last nine Tyler Perry films.  Other scores include “Sex and the City 2” and “The Company Men” starring Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper.

Zigman's broad musical palette is further evident in his diverse body of work.  He masterfully transferred small screen success to the big screen by scoring both films based on the hit HBO series Sex and the City; the timely story of a downturn economy in The Company Men; the sexy rhythm of three Step Up films; the sports biopic Pride; the sweet equestrian ride of Flicka and the touching John Cusack drama Martian Child.

  Tackling another Nicholas Sparks adaptation, The Last Song, in 2010, Zigman wrote the instrumental “Steve’s Song”—which debuted at number one on the Billboard charts. Going for another record, in 2007 Aaron Zigman scored an unprecedented nine films in one year. Inexhaustible and unlimited in his capabilities, Zigman has risen to the highest ranks of today’s film composers.

Kim is based in Los Angeles but casts at least one project per year out of New York.