Executive Producers

Serena Ebhardt and David zum Brunnen

Since 1998 under Serena and David’s direction, EbzB productions (and its subsidiary WhyNot Theatricals) has toured nationally with a roster of live theatrical productions.  Their work includes conducting school & community-based dramatic art residencies.  Several of their live stage performances have been adapted for public television and produced for broadcast distribution.  These televised projects have aired in US and Canadian markets.  

EbzB Productions has been honored with several awards for its positive impact on the Arts in North Carolina.  The team has been hailed specifically for its "excellence, its exemplary work, and significant contribution to the dramatic arts in the North Carolina.”  

Both Serena and David are accomplished actors.  Their careers have taken them across the United States, Canada, and Europe.  Their Film, TV and Stage performances are enhanced by their experience in Arts Administration, Production, and Technical experience in the performing arts throughout their careers.  

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Director

Shaun Dozier 

Shaun is a North Carolina native and graduate of Atlanta’s SCAD MFA film program, and a graduate of Duke University.  After his experimental thesis film, For Natalie Who Left, garnered him several university awards, Shaun went on to produce and direct documentaries in Peru, Brazil and Mexico.  His first for Davis Projects for Peace, Treading on Sand, shows how a new form of democratic governance is transforming impoverished dunes of Lima, Peru.  His feature screenplay for the short A Burial Hymn was a Sundance Writer’s Lab finalist.  Shaun lived in New York for 9 years and served as Dean at VOICE Charter School for three years before deciding to pursue the SCAD MFA.

Director of Photography

Steve Milligan 

Steve is an accomplished career cinematographer with over fifteen years of experience.  His last feature work, experimental filmmaker Josh Gibson's , Pig Film, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2018.  Other samples of his work have been presented at Sundance, Tribeca, Toronto, SXSW, and dozens of other major film festivals around the world.  Before shifting his attention to narrative film, he worked with Kirby Dick (Twist of Faith, Invisible War) on his award-winning 2015 documentary Hunting Ground about rape on campus, as well as with many other distinguished directors, among them Brian McGinn (Chef's Table, Amanda Knox), Vanessa Roth (Freeheld, The Untouchables), Nancy Buirsky (The Loving Story), and Gary Hawkins (The Rough South of Larry Brown, Joe).  Steve is also a Lecturing Fellow in the Cinematic Arts program at Duke University in Durham, NC where he teaches cinematography and related topics.

Production Manager

Ayana Johnson

Ayana is a producer, production manager, actress, casting director, and location scout, among other areas of experience in film and television.  Based out of the Raleigh/Durham area of North Carolina, she also works with the Standardized Patient Program at Duke University as well as with a production company in performances for social change across country.