His official title is President of The Famous Radio Ranch, but don’t let that intimidate you. He cannot throw anybody in jail without a warrant.

Radio has always been in Sandy’s blood. He began his broadcast career at the tender age of 16 as a DJ for WKOK radio in Sunbury, PA. After attending Shippensburg University as an English Major and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC, Sandy resumed his work at various radio stations, as well as ad agencies in and around the Harrisburg area.

In 1970, Sandy joined his brother, Dick, in Chicago where he established the Chicago Radio Syndicate and distributed programming to more than 2500 radio stations worldwide. Chickenman & Tooth Fairy remain in syndication to this day.

Along with his duties at the ranch, Sandy has successfully pursued a career in voiceover, narrating numerous A&E “Biography” shows, The Nashville Network’s “Life & Times” series, and 26 episodes of The History Channel’s “Civil War Journal”, among others.

When Sandy is driving he never turns left, preferring instead to make five right turns, sometimes going several blocks out of his way. Often he doesn’t actually get to where he’s going.

HARIS ORKIN (Creative Director-Writer-Producer)

After receiving a B.A. from Beloit College and an MFA in Creative Writing from USC, Haris soon realized he had no discernible skills with which to make a living. This despite being a finalist in the American Theater Festival for his one act play, Armageddon. Then, advertising beckoned.

After several years writing and producing award winning radio and television commercials, Haris sold his first screenplay -- Save the Dog -- which was produced as a Disney Sunday Night movie. Over the last several years, Haris has written scripts for Universal, Columbia, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, and Paramount. His play, Nobody Lives Forever, was performed at The John Harmon Theater in New York City. A short film based on the play and directed by Haris is currently running on spiketv.com. His feature script, Other People’s Wishes, is currently “in development” with Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow Productions.

And as if that were not enough, Haris has become a prolific writer and producer for the video game industry. In 2008 Red Alert 3 (EA Los Angeles) was released and Haris received a Writer's Guild Award nomination for best video game script. Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood, a first-person shooter video game he wrote for Techland and Ubisoft came out in 2009 to rave reviews. He's currently working on a new game for Techland, which he’s not allowed to talk about.

Which brings us full circle and back to advertising. Haris’s formidable experience has been considerably amplified since joining Mendelsohn/Zien advertising in Santa Monica as a writer-producer. His creative and production work are most prominently featured in the ongoing campaigns for Carl’s Jr/Hardee’s restaurants. Numerous awards have followed, as have angry letters, complaints, and other critical comments from scores of overly-sensitive TV viewers and radio listeners. Go to www.carlsjr.com to find out why.

Other ad agency work experience includes stints with Ogilvy & Mather, Italia, DDB, BBDO, JWT, Leo Burnett, and Biff & Benny’s AdCorp. Some of the accounts for whom he has done work include: BMW, Disney, CompUSA, ABCNews, Pepsi, McDonald’s [who hasn’t?], Toyota, American Express, and the Henderson Brothers Funeral Home.

Haris's favorite color is plaid.

MICHAEL “FEEVE” LEFEVRE (Assoc Creative Director-Writer-Producer-Performer)

As a native of Dayton, Ohio (‘The Birthplace of Aviation’), Michael “Feeve” LeFevre has spent over two decades in the advertising profession (if you can call it that). He is graduated from the small, but intensely academic University of Dayton, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Arts with a concentration in Broadcast Performance and a minor in English.

He has worked for both ad agencies and production companies and likes production companies better. His work experience includes being VP/ACD at Babbit and Reiman Advertising in Atlanta, Georgia, a noisy renegade ad shop which boasted the only Drive-In window in town. It was there that he honed his skills as a conceptor, writer, producer, composer, voicer, and director of highly effective, extremely creative radio advertising commercial announcements. Before that, he wrote and produced for Catspaw Productions (Atlanta), Poindexter and Associates (Roanoke, VA), Leslie Advertising (Greenville, SC), and more radio stations than he’d care to remember. Amongst a Mercury, a Clio, a Telly, an Effy, a Best of Show Mobius, and countless Addy awards, Feeve was also the 29th ranked Monopoly player in the nation in 1984.

After working as Head Writer/Senior Producer/Music Director for Bert & Barz & Company in Hollywood, CA for the better part of the 1990s, Feeve became a successful “freelancer” in and around the greater LA area.

He has happily joined the Radio Ranch as a writer-producer-performer and will also help around the office installing draperies and other interior decorating treatments. His favorite TV remains the 1960s Batman series and he doesn’t particularly enjoy being asked about any of his unfortunate horseback-riding incidents.

LISA ORKIN (Sr. Writer-Producer-Performer)

Lisa is a true Hollywood multi-hyphentate. She writes. She performs. She produces. She directs. She acts. She knits. She’s been described by the Los Angeles Times as “a deadpan blend of Anne Hathaway and Elaine May”.

Her non-Radio Ranch activities and credits include: filming Fully Loaded, a feature film she co-wrote and stars in with Paula Killen, produced by Adam McKay and Will Ferrell. Her new stage show is Sex, Drugs and Minivans and has enjoyed a successful run at the Fake Gallery in Hollywood. She has appeared on-stage at the The Comedy Store on the Sunset Strip, leading to numerous episodic television guest-starring roles on Becker with Ted Danson, Titus with Christopher Titus, Cybill with Cybill Shepherd and a recurring role on Kenan & Kel on Nickelodeon. She was also featured in a discussion about politics and comedy on ABC Nightly News with Peter Jennings.

But the medium in which she developed her unique voice and finds herself most often is radio. She wrote a pilot for NPR and has written and developed pieces for their popular Marketplace program. And here at the Radio Ranch, she’s basically “done it all”. From fixing the deluxe multi-blend coffee maker to writing, producing, directing, and voicing award-winning radio spots for our many and varied clients, Lisa proudly admits that she has never once ever been on time for a meeting.