COLORADO

John Singer, SAG Colorado Branch President

I have been President of the Colorado Branch of the Screen Actors Guild for six years and a member of the branch council for as long as I can remember. Over the years I have served on many local and national committees including the Legislative Committee, the Honors and Tributes Committee, and the Right To Work Task Force.

I started life as a corporate pilot and accidentally got elected to the Colorado State Legislature, which led to me hosting a local television show. When “Perry Mason” moved to town I jumped right in. I also worked on the “Father Dowling Mysteries,” “Diagnosis Murder” and many other shows, films and commercials. I remember when all my friends cheered for the bad-guy when I was murdered on “Unsolved Mysteries” some years ago.

I have been actively involved in lobbying the legislature and was an active participant in the defeat of Right-To-Work in Colorado – several times. I am currently working with legislators to improve Colorado’s film incentives.

David Hartley-Margolin, SAG Colorado National Board Representative, Third National Vice President and Chair, SAG Regional Branch Division

A Denver native and double degreed graduate of the University of Wyoming, David Hartley-Margolin has enjoyed a 39 year career as an actor: onstage, in front of a camera, and in the recording studio.

Mr. Hartley-Margolin has performed in thousands of radio and television commercials, television documentaries, sales and training videos and audio CDs, corporate programs and government presentations.  He has narrated over 500 books for the Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, and received the 1998 Narrator of the Year award from the Canadian National Library, and the American Foundation for the Blind’s prestigious Alexander Scourby Narrator of the Year Award in 2002.

Mr. Hartley-Margolin has been a SAG National Board Member for six years.  Prior to that, he was the SAG Colorado Branch President for twelve years.  He played a major role in the 2001 SAG governance restructuring and revision of the SAG Constitution.  He is currently National Chair of the SAG Guild Government Review Committee, and sits on several contract committees.

Mr. Hartley-Margolin also served as a National Board Member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) for 20 years, 6 years as a National Vice President.  He currently serves as a trustee on the board of the AFTRA Health and Retirement Funds.