Darren Garnick 

        Senior Producer / Chief Choreographer

With former jobs including a shopping mall Santa, a kibbutz vegetable handler, a pizza delivery man, a dogsled musher and a costumed character for Smartfood Popcorn, Darren thrives on the offbeat to fuel his journalism projects.

Producing stories for Award Productions on science, health, politics and crime prevention, he relies heavily on his 15 years of newspaper reporting experience to unearth fresh angles. His scripts for fundraising videos have been known to even grizzly Marines cry.

Darren wrote and produced the award-winning PBS documentaries "Crashing The Parties", "I'm On The Ballot" and "Why Can't I Be President?", which have been critically acclimed for covering the presidential elections from the perspective of underdog candidates. His basement is now stuffed with the most obscure political souvenirs imaginable.

Underappreciated by his co-workers, he is best known in the office as the burly guy who changes the water cooler jug.

Darren, a.k.a. the 'Working Stiff" also writes about workplace issues for the Boston Herald's "Water Cooler" page and covers the pop culture beat for the Nashua Telegraph.

His personal heroes are Jessica Simpson, Jonas Salk, Brandi Chastain and Patrick Swayze, to whom he is eternally grateful for his foreign policy insights in "Red Dawn".