William C. Irwin
- Additional Crew
- Director
He was born in a small town in central Wisconsin, a track and football
star in High school, and also the Photo Club president for 3 years. He
majored in Electronics and Communications at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. At the age of 19, he began work in live and taped
television video production. His early experiences included Technical
Direction for the first live broadcast of Wisconsin's Gubernatorial
Press conference, and live broadcasts of the University of Wisconsin
Badger Hockey games. His early directorial experience included both
commercial production and live sporting events. He studied Special
Effects under Albert Whitlock and Lorne Petersen, and won 25 local and
area awards for commercial production, including voice-over work. Upon
moving to Los Angeles in the mid 1980s, he began working as a Technical
Director in Sit-coms, and supplemened his work schedule with live
sporting events. In the late 1980s he was hired by Prime Ticket, which
later became Fox West, as a Director. Since then, he has directed
virtually every type of live sporting event, from NFL Football, NBA
Basketball, to Barry Bonds season Home Run record breaking game with
Vin Scully. He has directed boxing events 8 seasons for Fox Sports Net,
from the programs inception. An Emmy and Aurora winner, he is extremely
well respected as a live events Director, bringing to the table a
combination of editing, engineering, directing, and people skills. He
is an asset to any production. Hobbies include a love of photography,
web design, and decades of playing jazz and blues guitar.