Team

Ric Stewart Writer/Producer

Ric Stewart is a 20 year veteran radio dj, writer and video producer. His music-based story telling on WAIF, 88.3 Cincinnati, KALX 90.7 Berkeley, WTUL 91.7 New Orleans and There1.com has been highlighted in The Village Voice, SF Bay Guardian and Offbeat. In 1995, he founded THERE, an innovative radio-magazine and performance site which has drawn over 1 million web viewers. For THERE Ric produced dj shows, and interview/performances with Allen Toussaint, Courtney Pine, Buckwheat Zydeco, Doc Watson, Tony Joe White, Peter Case and many more, while filtering over 10,000 releases, rare/exclusive video sources, and live shows in legendary Louisiana and San Francisco venues to develop a resource for adult music fans. Ric has written and produced over a dozen short films for festivals, winning The New Orleans Film Festival Award for best 16mm film in 1991. Writing for diverse publications: All Music Guide, Citysearch, Rockvillage.com, and Electronic Musician, Ric has also chronicled the intersection of music and new media. In the web audio video arena Ric has provided web production and broadcasting consulting services to many companies including Apple Computers, Ascend Communications, and Macromedia. Ric began writing humor pieces at the age of 16 and has conceived of Raw Music as a way to blend traditional vaudeville and variety show elements into an interactive 21st Century venture.

Shaun Landry Writer/Actor

A Chicago native, Shaun Landry recently wrapped up production with a lead role in a feature film with Danny Glover and Karen Black. She is Artistic Director of Oui Be Negroes, the only African American Sketch Comedy Improv Company in the country. Shaun is also a founder of the San Francisco Improv Co-Operative, and an actor on the Sketch Comedy Show Seriously Unusual Television Network on UPN. She was a member of The Second City Chicago Touring Ensemble, and is currently a member of Black and Tan Improv, Multi Ethnic Theatre, Isis Arts Collective and is on the board of directors of The Climate Theatre and The Next Stage Theatre. Shaun teaches improv nationally and internationally and can be read in the Improv Resource book "Whose Improv is it Anyway...Beyond The Second City".

Daniel Gamburg Director

Daniel was born in Riga, Latvia and immigrated to the US at age 9. He has been directing, acting, and teaching theater and film since 1993. He received a BA and MFA in film production from San Francisco State University. He taught film production, documentary, and theory at the Academy of Art University. In 2004 he taught a directing workshop at Pixar Animation Studios. In 1996 he produced and edited Basil, a short film staring Edward Asner, which was acquired by Finish Television and Encore Media. Daniel co-founded Barewitness Productions, an ensemble film company, which has produced over 20 short films, some of which have played at festivals in the US and Europe. His first documentary film, Tsipa and Volff received the Ann Arbor Film Festival Award sfor best short film. The film aired on KQED TV, and played at major festivals around the world. In 2004 Daniel completed his first feature film, IPO, which premiered at Slamdance and in San Francisco at the 20th Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema is distributed by Netflix in 2005.

John Dunstan Producer

John Dunstan brings a unique perspective to the Raw Music team developed over decades of parallel career tracks in music and marketing. As a musician, John is an accomplished R&B bass player (with Zakiya Hooker, Planet Blues, Red Archibald, Austin Delone and on many blues and R&B recordings). The last few years have found him branching out as a songwriter and publisher in the folk/rock genre. In the world of Marketing, John has produced events for technology companies in the broadcast (Abekas), post production (Avid, Pinnacle) pro audio (Meyer), computer hardware (Fujitsu) software (Autodesk), and telecommunications (Netgear, Lucent) industries in North America and Europe, and has served as General Manager of NetWorld+Interop and on several industry committees.

Cynthia Zeiden Distribution

Cynthia handles public television distribution for Raw Music. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Cynthia coordinates marketing and distribution for public television programs including, MoneyTrack, Oil on Ice, Lost Childhood: Growing Up In An Alcoholic Family, High Tech Home, Digital Journey: Stories From a Networked Planet, Sit and Be Fit and many others. She served as Program Manager at KCSM-TV in the San Francisco market and as Director of Broadcast Operations for WYCC-TV in Chicago. Cynthia has a Master's degree in Broadcast Management from the University of Tennessee/Knoxville.