Production Team
We have assembled an award-winning production team for "If I Get Out Alive," including:

Executive Producer Bill Lichtenstein, an award-winning broadcast and print journalist and president Lichtenstein Creative Media, Inc. Bill, a former ABC-TV News producer, was creator and executive producer of Lichtenstein Creative Media's "Voices of Illness" series, which has won 23 major awards including the George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting. A 10 - month investigation of the Oklahoma juvenile justice system, "Throwaway Kids," which Bill produced for the ABC News show 20/20 in 1982, resulted in a complete overhaul of the system.

Co-Producer/Director Tracey Barry, a documentary sound recordist for four years, who has worked on numerous productions including projects for National Geographic Television, The Discovery Channel, ABC News, Fox TV, two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple and many independent documentary production companies. She is a Vassar College graduate, where she studied film and radio production, specializing in documentary studies. Tracey will direct "If I Get Out Alive" and record location sound.

Co-Producer June Peoples, who has more than 20 years' experience in print and broadcast journalism, including radio and film production. June was story editor for "Depression: Voices of an Illness," narrated by Rod Steiger, the third show in LCM's Peabody Award-winning radio documentary series. She has won numerous awards for her work.

Composer Art Labriola, who wrote the original music for each of the three parts of LCM's "Voices of an Illness" series.

Advisory Board
To ensure the precision accuracy and balance of "If I Get Out Alive," a prestigious advisory board has been formed. In addition to advising the show's producers on research and other material, the board reviewed the project treatment/proposal and a rough-cut of the program. Members of the advisory board include:

• Charles Osgood, Correspondent, CBS News
• Mark Petersson, acclaimed documentary producer and director of photography
• Margaret McEvoy, Emmy Award-winning producer with 13 years experience producing for Dateline, NBC and CBS
• Professor Rick Halperin, professor of history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and former national chairman of Amnesty International
• Phil Gutis, who works on media projects for the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C.
• Howard Zinn, author and professor emeritus of political science at Boston University
• Professor Jeffrey Fagan, Director, Center for Violence Research and Prevention, School of Public Health, Columbia University
• Susan Sarandon, children's rights advocate and Academy Award-winning actress

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