----- Horace J. Digby
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Horace J. Digby (a.k.a.
Joseph O. Daggy) led a misspent youth recording for Mother Bear Records, doing network television
with Paul Revere, Mark Lindsey and the rest of the Raiders
(Happening 69), Barbara Feldon (Get Smart), Angela Cartwright (The Danny Thomas Show and Lost In
Space), John Kay and Steppenwolf, The Grass Roots, and The
Classics Four for Dick Clark Productions, until he
finally did the "adult
thing."
He fell in love with humor and film
making.
Quote
"I was probably eight years old,
pretending to be sick from school, when I stumbled across a book of humor
essays in the attic. I couldn't put it down. that book
was Robert Benchley's My Ten Years In A Quandary." --
Horace J. Digby
--
Profound
Statement
"You're kidding right? What are
you looking here for."
The Horace J. Digby
Report
Digby's new online radio show,
The Horace J. Digby Report, at A3Radio.com out of Ann Arbor,
Michigan, gives Horace and his listeners in-depth visits with some of
America's leading humorists, comedians, writers, actors, and humor
coaches.
Writing
Credits
Award-Winning Humor Columnist, Winner of the
prestigious Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor, by vote of his
piers, the Robert Benchley Society of Boston, and Espree
Magazine of Chicago. Invited to judge the 2006 Benchley Society
Award with Pulitzer-Prize-wining humorist Dave Barry.
Digby's work appear in the Columbia
River Reader, SandBagger Mag-e-zine, The Washington
State Bar Journal, The Willamette Law Review, The Longview
Daily News, Tacoma News Tribune, Renton Record
Chronicle, Weyerhaeuser News, Kent News Journal, Auburn Globe
News, We're In The People Business, and other
publications.
He was a staff writer
and photographer for Weyerhaeuser
News, the official Weyerhaeuser Company corporate
newspaper; a promotions coordinator for KISW Radio,
Seattle; an Advertising Account Executive for Fournier
Publishing (now Valley Press); as a Freelance Advertising
Creative director for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
Seattle; a graphic designer, writer and editor for Were
in the People Business the YMCAs of Southwest Washington's
newspaper.
Motion Picture Production
B-17 - Post Production - Northwest Film
Projects, and C. Tad Devlin;
The Immigrant Garden -
First Assistant Director, Second Unit Director, Best Boy - Northwest Film
Projects, and C. Tad Devlin;
The Patron -
Assistant Director - Poverty Pictures, and C. Tad
Devlin;
Lifewriting With Steven Barnes - Producer,
Director, with Ronin Arts Productions, Lexington Film, LLC, and
Break Away Video Productions, LLC;
The Five Minute Miracle With
Steven Barnes - Producer, Director, Post Production -
Lexington Film, LLC, and Ronin Arts Productions;
Stevan Plinck's
Serak Series (3 Volumes) - Director, Producer - Lexington Film,
LLC, Tiga Productions, Inc, and Ronin Arts Productions, Break Away Video
Productions, LLC;
A Christmas Carol - Director,
Co-Writer, Producer, Post Production, KLTV, Lexington Film, LLC, and The
Cowlitz Wahkiakum Bar Association;
There's Something About
Mary (and Don) - Producer, Photographer, Editor - Lexington Film,
LLC;
Developer Eyes SandBagger Island - Director,
Producer, Editor - SandBagger News Team, Lexington Film, LLC, and
KLTV;
The Truth About Chickens - Director, Producer,
Editor - SandBagger News Team, Lexington Film, LLC, and KLTV;
A
City of Two Tails - Director, Producer, Editor - SandBagger News
Team, Lexington Film, LLC, and KLTV;
Nutty Narrows (A Man, and
His Bridge) - Director, Producer, Editor - SandBagger News Team,
Lexington Film, LLC, and KLTV;
Voyage of the Destiny II
- Director, Producer, Editor - SandBagger News Team, and Lexington Film,
LLC;
The Hudsen Hamburger Triangle - Director,
Co-Writer, Producer, Editor - Lexington Film, LLC;
The History
of the Flags of The United States of America - Director,
Producer, Editor - Boy Scouts of America, Chinook District, and
KLTV;
Performance Highlights
Horace J. Digby is a popular
lecturer, entertainer and speaker. He has recently appeared with
Pulitzer-Prize-winning humorist, Dave Barry, on Seattle's National Public
Radio station, KUOW. He has also appeared on KBAM, KLOG, KEDO, KISW,
KISN, Ann Arbor Live, A-3 Radio, and other Radio Stations. He has been called, "The Next Robert Benchley," and "the
Dave Barry of Southwest Washington." On stage or at the lectern,
Horace J. Digby shares his unique brand of wit and humor (Abbott and
Costello meet Groucho Marx and Mark Twain) with audiences, young and old
alike.
Digby wrote and performed in
We Need A New Act, as a member of the vaudeville team of "Daggy and
Daggy," and the team of "Daggy and Morrill" at
the Columbia Theater in Longview, Washington, and the Rialto Theater in
Tacoma, Washington.
He played "Professor
Mashuganah" in Doug York's Murder On The Rails, at
Longview, Washington's premier destinations, Rutherglen Bed and Breakfast
Dinner Theater, and The Hotel Monticello.
His Audience
Appearance with Sinbad in The Sinbad Show at the Reno
Hilton, in Reno, Nevada, brought down the house.
His on-stage
appearances have met great audience response, performing his version of
Goldilocks and The Three Bears, for Literacy Week and the
Story Teller's Network at Luigi's Coffee House, Longview, Washington;
lecturing about his twisted explanation of "Identity
Theft," Monticello Hotel, Longview; presenting his award-winning
"Why We Sleep" and "Upping the
Relationship" at the Robert Benchley Society annual awards
banquet, Boston, Mass.
On DVD
Everyone at SandBagger Mag-e-zine and
Lexington Film, LLC is anxiously awaiting Digby's first live comedy video
album, "The Real Kennewick Man" coming soon, live on
DVD from Lexington Film,
LLC |
----- Adam J. Daggy -----
Barely unpacked from a year abroad as a Rotary
International exchange student, studies abroad at Cambridge University in
England, flight studies at the University of North Dakota and a trip back
to Slovakia, Daggy is now studying Anthropology at Whitman College.
Adam's misspent youth involved:
Filmmaking with legendary Hollywood Executive
Producer, C. Tad Devlin, (George of the Jungle,
Mighty Ducks III, Sleeping With the Enemy, When A Man Loves A
Woman, Annie Hall, The Immigrant Garden);
On-Stage appearance with Pulitzer-Prize-Winning
Humorist Dave Barry at Tacoma, Washington's Pantages Theater, where he
earned a rafter rattling ovation from standing-room-only crowds,
for his rendition of that song that Washington made famous,
"Louie Louie;"
Video Production Work with Lexington
Film, LLC, Northwest Film Projects, Inc, Ronin Arts
Productions, Tiga Productions, Inc, and SandBagger News Team; a dash of
musical composition, television, stage and radio experience.
All together these experiences give Adam J. Daggy a
depth and breadth of experience few attain in a lifetime, let
alone as a teenager.
Quote
"In the old
days, to become a reputable scholar, you had to discover gravity or
be excommunicated or something, but anymore all you need is a friend to
quote you on their website." -- Adam J. Daggy
(written for Miss Washington contestant Alicia
Holteman)
Profound
Statement
"You only
need one real stroke of genius to make it through life . . . Gee I hope
that wasn't mine!" -- Adam J. Daggy
Motion Picture
Production
The Codebreakers -
Writer, Director, Editor, Producer, Star - Lexington Film, LLC.;
The Immigrant Garden - Best Boy - Northwest Film
Projects, Inc, Clearview Northwest, LLC, and C. Tad Devlin;
Stevan Plinck's Serak Series - Camera Operator,
Production Assistant - Lexington Film, LLC, Ronin Arts
Productions, and Tiga Productions, Inc.;
The
Patron - Production Assistant - Poverty Pictures, and C. Tad
Devlin;
Lifewriting With Steven Barnes - Production
Assistant - Lexington Film, LLC, and Ronin Arts Productions;
A City of Two Tails - Camera Operator, and on-screen
interviewer - SandBagger News Team, and Lexington Film, LLC;
The
Truth About Chickens - Camera Operator - SandBagger News Team,
SandBagger Mag-e-zine, and Lexington Film, LLC;
Toy
Wars - Director, Co-Writer, Producer, Director of Photography,
Editor, Music Composer, Sound Editor - Lexington Film;
Performance
Highlights
An Evening With Dave
Barry - Daggy's on-stage appearance with Pulitzer Prize Wining
humorist Dave Barry brought the sold out house to its feet as Barry and
Daggy invited the crowd to join in a rousing final chorus of Rock 'n Roll's national anthem, "Louie Louie," at the
Pantages Theater, Tacoma, Washington;
Father Mulligan
Story - Daggy played the title roll - Longview,
Washington;
The Steve Lloyd Show - multiple guest spots
- KISN Radio, Portland, Oregon;
We Need A New Act - As
Daggy of the vaudeville team Daggy and Daggy - Adam Daggy's comic lines
knocked even the sound technicians off their stools - Columbia Theater,
rebroadcast on KLTV, Longview, Washington;
Murder on Harbor
Street - Daggy played Spats (the snitch) - Harbor Street Players,
Victoria, BC, Canada;
Hudsen Hamburger Triangle -
Narrator, Co-Writer, Production Assistant - Lexington Film,
LLC;
A City of Two Tails - Reporter - Lexington Film,
LLC, and SandBagger News Team;
WahWah2E/IE31 -
This experimental music composition, written, arranged, and performed by
Daggy is heard in several Lexington Film videos;
Star Wars -
The Cestus Deception - Daggy served as a background
consultant for novelist Steven Barnes, during the writing of his
best-selling novel for Lucasfilm, and Bantam
Books.
Community Service
Awards
"Good Will Good
Turn," "Scouting For Food," and other service projects
for Rotary International, Lions International, SandBaggers
International, Church, Community and other organizations helped
Daggy earn recognition from the Boy Scouts of America which awarded him
their highest honor of Eagle Scout.
Contact: Lexingtonfilm, LLC.
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