Our Team:
Marc Collins
Founder & Executive Producer
Theatre kid, writing nerd, movie buff; Marc brings his love for storytelling to the world of live event and video production.
Places Lived: Orlando, San Francisco, NYC, Vancouver
Hidden Useless Talent: Quoting movies
Favorite Movies: Jaws, Casablanca, Star Wars
Favorite Holiday: Halloween
Favorite Movie Quote: “Sam, it’s December 1941 in Casablanca…what time is it in New York?”
Life Goal in Under Five Words: Life is right now
Mac or PC: “Mac…MAAAAAAC!”
Most Prized Possession: My imagination
Favorite Place in the World: French Quarter, NOLA
Melissa Claridy
Producer & Show Caller
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As a director, stage manager, and overall chaos coordinator from the world of live theatre, Melissa makes sure everyone has their script, makes their entrance, and finds their light.
Originally From: Powder Springs, GA
Favorite Movies: The Bob’s Burgers Movie, Grand Budapest Hotel, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The King’s Speech
Life Goal in Under Five Words: Live the Fullest Life
Favorite Movie Quote: “You shouldn’t throw the baby out with the bath water because then you’ll have one wet, critically injured baby.”
Favorite Places in the World: Dinard, France; Cozumel, Mexico; Savannah, GA
Hidden Useless Talent: Forgot About Dre karaoke expert
Favorite Food: Moe’s burrito bowl
Desired Superpower: blink and anything happens like in I Dream of Jeannie
Favorite Animal: Hedgehog!
Paige Gober
Producer & Show Caller
Passionate creator of theatre - producer, company manager, stage manager. She’s inspired by the stories we tell and the people who tell them.
Hidden Useless Talent: Can quickly create jingles but never remembers them
Favorite Movies: The Devil Wears Prada and various movies involving space (Arrival, The Martian, Apollo 13, Contact, Empire Strikes Back)
Favorite Movie Quote: “Gentlemen, there’s no fighting in here, this is the war room!”
Life Goal in Under Five Words: Love, choose courage, create joy.
Most Prized Possession: My voice
Favorite Food: My mom’s mac and cheese
Real Life Superpower: Perfect control of raising my left eyebrow
Artist Who Has Inspired Me: Florence Welch
Favorite Books: Slaughterhouse-Five, Song of Achilles
Grace Zottig
Stage Manager
A Stage Manager who thrives on the unexpected, Grace balances details with the big picture, making sure rehearsals run smoothly and everyone has a good time.
Places Lived: NOLA, Queens NY, Central Florida (Orlando, Lady Lake, Daytona Beach)
Hidden Useless Talent: Can skateboard, but by that I mean - can cruise on a skateboard and not do a single ollie.
Favorite Movies: Across The Universe, Wicked, Interstellar, Lady Bird
Favorite Movie Quote: "The world is full of extraordinary people. You just have to know where to look." - Big Fish
Favorite Place/s in the World: Nice, France & Puero Iguazu, Argentina
Favorite Food: Empanadas
Most Prized Possession: A tye dye jean jacket that I have covered in pins and patches gathered from my travels and experiences.
Artist Who Has Inspired Me: Julie Taymor
Life Goal in Under Five Words: Unfiltered and unapologetic happiness.
Emmy Collins
Office Manager & Bookkeeper
Yes, she keeps the books and manages accounts payable and receivable, but every company needs a mom. Emmy is ours.
Originally From: Greenville, SC
Studied at: Duke University
Artist Who Has Inspired Me: My sister Polly
Favorite Movie Quote: “You two are just dumber’n a bag a’ hammers”
Favorite Animal: Songbird
Life Goal in Under Five Words: Be helpful, not hurtful
Mac or PC: Nope
Favorite Book: Winds of War, Armageddon, A Land Remembered
Favorite Places in the World: Rivers and waterfalls in the Carolina mountains
Chad Cameron
Creative Director
Illustrator, fine artist, graphic designer, art director, teacher. Chad has been with Odyssey Creative since 2016, and has taught more than a thousand design students.
Originally From: The DC sluburbs
Hidden Useless Talent: the eyebrow wave
Favorite Movies: The Shawshank Redemption, The Fifth Element, Up
Favorite Movie Quote: “Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it.”
Favorite Place in the World: almost anywhere when I’m with friends and loved ones
Favorite Animal: The Golden Retriever
Real Life Superpower: The mostly useless ability to remember a very specific color very precisely.
Artist Who Has Inspired Me: Édouard Manet
Studied at: University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Virginia Commonwealth University, Academy of Art University
Shaun Paikai
Senior Video & GFX Editor
Shaun is an artist, animator, designer, and video editor whose storytelling prowess is matched only by the majesty of his beard. And he’s been a part of the team since 2007.
Originally From: Hawaii
Studied at: Full Sail University
Favorite Food: Coffee
Favorite Movie/s: Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
Real Life Superpower: Gets lost super easy
Desired Superpower: Sing like Jamiroquai
Favorite Holiday: Billie
Favorite Animal: Garfield
Mac or PC: Agnostic
Cameron Pearce
Visual Effects, Video Editing, & Animation Artist
Cam is a specialized content creator with unique vision; he uses each project’s potential to create a genuine emotional connection with the audience.
Hidden Useless Talent: Riding a unicycle
Favorite Movies: Pulp Fiction
Favorite Movie Quote: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Mac or PC: Mac
Most Prized Possession: A collection of post-in notes my wife slips in my suitcase for work trips.
Favorite Animal: Dragon Fly
Real Life Superpower: Embarrassing my children
Artist Who Has Inspired Me: Roger Deakins
Favorite Book: Stranger in a Strange Land
Our History:
Odyssey Creative, LLC was founded in May of 2001 when Icarus Productions merged with Digital Cinema, creating a boutique communications firm with live event and video production capabilities. We set up shop with the goal of storytelling on corporate and association stages and screens.
Since then, we’ve been fortunate to work with clients in just about every industry you can imagine all over the country and around the world, with the added benefit of loving what we do. It’s a pretty sweet deal.
Our Mission:
Whether we are supporting your live event or producing video, Odyssey Creative lives and works by three primary goals:
Create an exciting mode of communication for our clients where information and entertainment mix; our product quality will be unsurpassed.
Create a financially successful enterprise that provides value to our clients; we will use our industry experience and low overhead practices to produce the highest impact at the lowest cost.
Create a fun, energetic, and diverse workplace where ideas flow; we will do what we love, and love what we do.