Claude Brooks is the CEO of C To The B Productions, a Paramount-affiliated production company. After producing and starring in “Claude’s Crib” and “Hitz,” both of which were Paramount projects, Paramount Network Television gave him a first look production deal, which has thrived over the last eight years. Brooks has executive produced a number of television and film projects including “Second Time Around,” a half-hour sitcom starring Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker for UPN, “Dance 360” starring Fredro Starr and Kel Mitchell for Paramount Syndication, “The Big Black Comedy Show” hosted by Monique for 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, and the feature Gas starring Flex Alexander, Khalil Kane and Tyson Beckford for 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Brooks has also completed production on the pilot “KeKe and Jamal” for the Disney Channel ,  “Baggin’” starring Ralphie May for VH-1 & Discovery Kids “Hip Hop Harry”. Most recently, Claude Brooks  completed production on My Network TV’s first scripted series “Under One Roof” and is wrapping production on a second series for the same network - “The Tony Rock Project” which is slated to premiere October 8, 2008.

GELILA ASRES
Executive Producer

Gelila Asres was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The daughter of an international businessman she spent most of her younger years traveling the world and living in exotic countries. Asres graduated from high school at 15 and relocated to the United States to attend university. At the age of 17, with the help of a family friend, Asres successfully persuaded her parents to let her pursue her love of the dramatic arts. She left Virginia where she was majoring in accounting to study acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, a performing arts college in New York City.
 
Shortly after finishing her education at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Asres began working on educational documentaries for PBS and hosted over 200 episodes of their Standard Deviant program. She continued to act fervently in the theater with occasional guest appearances on daytime soap operas before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in production.

Prior to joining C To The B Productions, Asres worked as a freelance production manager and producer in the music video and commercial world. In 2001, she joined C To The B Productions as a freelance producer to produce a pilot created by Claude Brooks.
 
Asres now oversees creative and day-to-day activities in all aspects of the company including development, production, business and legal affairs. Her credits include 65 episodes of the television series “Dance 360” for Paramount Syndication, the UPN sitcom “Second Time Around.”, Discovery Kids “Hip Hop Harry”& My Network TV’s “Under One Roof” Currently, she executive produces the “Tony Rock Project”, which  will premiere October 8, 2008 on My Network TV.