ABOUT DESERT LIGHT PRODUCTIONS

New York Theatre professionals April Adams and Gregory Doucette formed Desert Light Productions in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The company moved to Los Angeles where Philip A. Hoffman then joined the company.

Desert Light’s first film, FALLING. IN LOVE, was completed in mid-2002. Currently, the company has several feature film projects in development as well as half-hour, hour and MOW projects for TV.

The name Desert Light Productions was chosen in homage to the startlingly clear light of New Mexico’s “Magic Time” the hours of the desert sunrise and sunset. In any medium, Desert Light chooses strong stories that focus a clear, crystalline light on the human sprit.

APRIL ADAMS april@desertlightproductions.com worked at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre, the Theatre Development Fund and John Houseman’s The Acting Company.

Ms. Adams is an experienced Casting Director and helped cast the cult film DAYS OF HEAVEN, TV’s ROOTS, SOAP, EIGHT IS ENOUGH and THREE’S COMPANY. Theatre casting includes Broadway, NY’s Roundabout Theatre and a variety of well-known regional theatres. Her work casting award-winning commercials led to her being invited to be a judge for the CLIO Awards.

She went on to produce the wonderfully successful stage version of JAZZ BABIES at New York’s Lincoln Center.

April has a graduate business degree in Producing and served as Producing Director for The Theatre of The Hudson Highlands. Over a ten-year period, she led the organization from a small company with a very limited budget to one of the premier professional arts organizations in its New York Region.

April studied Producing for Film at AFI, the American Film Institute. She also spent a cycle researching and writing questions for PARANOIA, a game show for Fox Family. She produced FALLING. IN LOVE, an Official Selection of the Los Angeles Short Film Festival and an entry at the Marche’ du Film at the Cannes Film Festival.

As a performer, Ms. Adams has played Carnegie Hall (portraying Mozart for the New York Chamber Orchestra) and Madison Square Garden (as a skater with HOLIDAY ON ICE). Theatre stints included roles in THE RIMERS OF ELDRITCH by Lanford Wilson, THE SHADOWBOX and CURLEY McDIMPLE, all off-Broadway. Her TV
appearances include LAZARUS MAN, THE ROSEANNE SHOW, AS THE WORLD TURNS, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and Eric Idle’s new update of THE RUTLES.

GREGORY DOUCETTE greg@desertlightproductions.com started his career as an actor. New York theatre stage productions included TWELFTH NIGHT, PURPLE DUST and THE RIMERS OF ELDRITCH. After TV appearances on THE GUIDING LIGHT, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW, ALL MY CHILDREN and a recurring role on TEXAS, he appeared in Sydney Lumet’s noir classic THE VERDICT.

Greg directed IT’S CALLED THE SUGARPLUM by Israel Horowitz Off–Broadway and IT’S NOT WHERE YOU START…, MODERN MANAGEMENT and I DO, I DO. Helming OBSESSIONS and CLOCKAMAMIE! for cable TV led to the position of Artistic Director of the Theatre of the Hudson Highlands in New York, where his productions included JACQUES BREL…, THE MOUND BUILDERS, THE GIN GAME and MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.

In LA Greg studied screenwriting at the American Film Institute, which led to work with Universal Studios’ Family and Home Entertainment division. He also worked on the writing staff of THE ROSEANNE SHOW. Autumn Winds Productions hired Greg to write the screenplay for THE LOST TREASURE OF UBAR, which was based on historical research and his own travels to the Sahara desert. He now has several projects in development.

Currently, he is writer/producer for Inflight Entertainment Network where he creates shows for the entertainment channels onboard American, United, Northwest Delta and several other airlines.


PHILIP A. HOFFMAN phil@desertlightproductions.com began his career designing product shots for consumer print advertising and soon began working on commercials and music videos. Some of his more notable works include spots for Pepsi and Budweiser and Madonna’s VOGUE video as well as spots for Scooby Doo character toys, kids clothes and home fashions. Philip designed greens and exteriors on the film TREMORS and the ABC-TV drama EQUAL JUSTICE.

He has coordinated set decoration on the films THE GREAT WHITE HYPE, DEUCES WILD, and THE ONE. Philip designs and produces on the press junkets for major studio features, including TERMINATOR 3, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, AMERICA’S SWEETHEART, GODS AND GENERALS, THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE, COLLATERAL DAMAGE, THE DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YAYA SISTERHOOD and HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS.

His1998 design on the spec reel for HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE began a relationship with the Warner Brothers franchise. That ongoing relationship still continues beyond the press release of the latest 'HP' installment of HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS in October of 2002.

Philip earned his Bachelor of Science degree from CAL POLY University in Landscape Design and Contracting. His graduate film studies at UCLA were supplemented with production design studies at "The AFI" and three dimensional design and marketing communications at California State University at Long beach. He is an active member of the UCLA Alumni Theatre, Film & TV Assn. and The Set Decorators Society Of America. And he is a voting member of the Video Premieres Academy and an Art Advocate of the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.