Producers are in fact entrepreneurs. The job of producer can mean anything in any context.

I'm in development right now on a host of new business.

Here are some things I’ve produced:

Web Sites

• product, marketing and management extranets and web sites for Vista Networks
• Plan d'action extranet for Canadian Coast Guard, Laurentian Region
• Symbol Grammar Study for Canadian Symbols Promotion Directorate

Television/Video/DVD

• Edsville - the DVD, A Really Big Production Inc., 2005
• Shooters: The Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit (1941-1946), 48:50, www.jamesoregan.com & Department of National Defence, 2004
• Getting the Story Home, Canadian Forces Public Affairs, WWII to 2000. 10 minutes, Department of National Defense (James O'Regan)
• Weekly Satire spot, TV pilot for CBC New Brunswick News (James O'Regan)

Theatre

• Killing Time (Barrie Keefe)

Liturgical Drama

• A Christmas Mime (James O’Regan)
• A Pentecost Play (James O’Regan)
• The Resurrection of Lazarus, a dance (James O’Regan, Choreography by Carla Murgia)
• Ecoman - a Utopitale (James O’Regan)
• Babel Rap (John Lazarus)

Radio Ads

• Atlantic Suzuki d’Atlantique Inc., Toronto/Moncton
• Neptune Theatre, Halifax
• My own commercial and characters voice demos.

Theatrical Film

• Edsville, A Really Big Production Inc., 1989

Newsletter

• ACTRA Toronto Performer’s Branch Newsletter

Japanese Food

Dulse Furikake (Flakes)
Frozen Edamame (Vegetable Soybean)

Entrepreneurial Spirit and the New

People with entrepreneurial spirit, including actors and writers, have a yearning to explore their own business possibilities because they find it exciting. Many hope to make a living doing that precarious activity. Some even nurture livings for others by creating jobs. My own entrepreneurial drive revolves around exploiting things that are new. For instance, while in downtown New Brunswick, I developed and took some new Japanese food products to Japan and developed existing Japanese products for new markets in Japanese North America:

Dulse Flakes
frozen apple juice
eau-de-vie aux pommes
edamame

All of the above enterprises have several things in common:

• each resource was underutilized
• each resource had new and established markets
• each resource was willing to partner to an extent in new marketing
• each venture needed more cash or less mistakes to succeed
• each remains untapped

Contact me for product and marketing details. It's quite fun and will be very rewarding if it really interests you.

I was a limited representative for a high tech company. They sell a multimedia software that has highly valuable uses in the entertainment industry especially for actors and writers:

• archiving broadcast product
• residual payment enforcement
• market intelligence per collective agreements

I discovered that product at a technology breakfast. When I saw the presentation, I knew immediately that there were applications for a sector in which I was intimately involved: acting and writing. I contacted the president of the company and asked to represent the product to performers and writers professional associations. The company was new with a new product, and I was able to come to an agreement to represent the product.

Producers invariably believe that they can help out and get things done. They produce results. Given my Japanese interests, I responded to an advert and was, for two years, a locator for the International Internship Program, placing Japanese Teaching Assistants in Ontario and Quebec Schools. I ended up creating a Canadian web site for them..

When I see something new that excites me, I try to somehow get involved if I feel I can make a difference. Here’s a random list of events that either helped create an appreciation for the new or were the result of that appreciation:

• Moved every two-three years as a child until I turned 12: Ottawa, Germany, Ottawa, Winnipeg, England, Ottawa.
• At 12 years old, lost my first and last wrist watch overboard in the mid-Atlantic
• Created and promoted re-newed phenomenon of liturgical plays during liturgical renewal in late 60's, early 70's.
• Developed strobe lights for rock bands and a clear plastic light box
• Comedy introductions to a rock band
• VeeJay on local cable station, before there were VeeJays, until kicked off the air during war measures act in 1968
• Changed formats from rock to jazz mid show of a radio programme I hosted
• Liturgical experience of the Holy Spirit at a rock mass - go figure
• Theological study centering on live liturgy and the idea of creature and creativity
• Wrote and produced a play as a term paper
• MA thesis: made connection between stage and liturgical performance dynamics
• Live multimedia R&D: uncovering a new grammar for non-verbal communication in live events
• Performing in television and radio commercials: leading edge of marketing and image creation
• Private scholar: I write on academic subjects that interest me. Usually, the writing gets published. Currently, very slowly, exploring chaos and complexity theory. I have a fleeting memory, in a grade 10 physics class, of the teacher explaining a theory within the context of bracketing the messy stuff of life, i.e. if you ignore all that stuff, this theory works. I thought it odd that you had to ignore what was real out in the world to explain a physics theory. Chaos and complexity provides the world view and the math to explain the messy real world stuff that Newtonian Physics couldn't quite grasp. This is really exciting. This new math may be the Mathematics of Creation with theological implications all round
• Edsville: first local initiative film production under ACTRA regulations on an ad hoc basis; first short film to earn direct box office revenue
• Creating liturgical catechesis as hermeneutic for random theology situated in weekly cultic praxis - yeah, I get lost reading that too but it's frightfully academic, don't you think?
• Wrote satire for CBC network show, What’s New, by predicting the news and was correct in the predictions - I should have my own psychic hot line
• Tried and failed to use structural analysis in research of historical liturgical gestures
• Making connections among chaos theory, complexity, cosmology and physics and fundmental theology, creation theology and liturgical theology. Finding new phenomenologically-based philosophical grounds for doing theology
• Discovering symbol structure and grammar for its use in live events like ceremonies
• Connections: creation, authentic interpersonal relations, surprises, Holy Spirit, free market enterprise, human movement and gesture, rite and liturgy, chaos, complexity and love, atomic and cosmological physics, fractals, associations, non-linearity ~ all are the same.
• Tried and failed to introduce edamame (vegetable soybean) into New Brunswick agrifood economy. Convinced $8 million fish plant working at 20% capacity to try soybean processing. Four-year project ran out of dough but do I ever know a lot about soybeans
• Actor: new parts all the time; when I did theatre, it was mostly new Canadian plays; seven years on live MM development discovering and asking basic questions on non-verbal communications
• Writer: develop my own material rather than write for existing shows