Resume

Stephen Honeybill

(518) 810 8232

Stephen.Honeybill@verizon.net

2007 - Present             Freelance Field Producer, CBS Early Show

Responsibilities:           Research current national news events and produce live, satellite uplinked interviews.

2006 - Present             Owner, Sedgemere General Construction, LLC.

Responsibilities:          Acquire, design, budget and execute projects, including hiring specialized trades, financial control and book keeping for LLC.

2006                            Early retirement from WMHT Educational Telecommunications

2003 - 2006                 Senior Producer and Production Crew Supervisor, WMHT, Troy, NY

Responsibilities:           Oversee all aspects of studio and remote production facilities and crewing (freelance and staff) including supervision, scheduling, set design and construction, studio and remote lighting, hiring and contracting to meet needs of individual producers.

1998 – 2003                Senior Producer, International and Special Projects, WMHT, Schenectady, NY

Responsibilities:           Conceive, propose, budget, fund, produce and/or direct, design and construct sets for all programming for national and international release. Programs produced on location and in the studio around the World. Produced and/or directed station membership drives, auctions and special events.

1983 – 1998                Producer/Director, WMHT, Schenectady, NY

Responsibilities:           Conceive, propose, budget, seek funding, produce and direct programming for local, regional, national and international broadcast.  Produce and direct projects for state, federal, and commercial clients. Regional and local productions include documentaries shot on location across US, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Great Britain, and Ireland; studio based current affairs and performance series; remote location event coverage, sports and how-to programs. State, federal and client productions include multi-site interactive teleconferences, remote documentary shooting, informational tapes, commercials, national interactive closed circuit corporate programs, industrial training tapes and promotional tapes.

1982 – 1983                Assistant Producer/Director, WMHT, Schenectady, NY

1982                            Production Assistant

1978 – 1981                Production Manager and Assistant Floor Manager, BBC, London.

1972 – 1978                Company, Production, Technical, Stage management, and Lighting.

Awards

2000                            American Public Television, MVP, awarded in acknowledgement of the national distribution of a record number of television specials and series in a career.

1990                            Eastern Educational Network, Best Program in Performance, awarded for the production of Mark Twain: The Musical Biography.

Education

1978                            BBC TV Directors Training School, London 

1973 – 1975                Technical and Stage Management, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, London

1966 – 1972                Sheldon Heath Comprehensive School, Birmingham