PATRICK MARKEY (Executive Producer) has produced The Joy Luck Club, Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer and A River Runs Through It, Sam Raimi's The Quick and the Dead, Deep Star Six, The Dark Wind, The Tie That Binds and The Associate.

He also served as production executive on The Natural. In collaboration with director Norman Jewison, Markey produced the film Bogus for New Regency and the HBO adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Dinner With Friends. His other television credits include Michael Mann's series Crime Story and the Warner Bros. Television mini-series Dream West, which he proudly produced with Hunt Lowry.

The eldest son in a family of fourteen children, Markey was born in West Virginia and raised in Ohio. He began acting in high school and received a degree in theater arts from Ohio State University. While in the Masters Program at OSU, he was hired as a consultant to the Ohio Film Commission, which led to his introduction into the film industry as a production assistant on Brubaker, starring Robert Redford. He then became the location manager on Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People, and Michael Mann's Thief.

Markey currently serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Film and the Theater Arts at Montana State University in Bozeman, owns the Empire Café, one of the hippest restaurants in Houston, Texas, and serves on the Board of the Dactyl Foundation for the Arts and Humanities, a private non-profit gallery in Lower Manhattan.