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Kathy Connell will produce for the 13th consecutive year. SAG Awards Committee founding members Yale Summers, Daryl Anderson and Paul Napier, as well as committee members Shelley Fabares and JoBeth Williams, will produce for SAG; supervising producers for the ninth consecutive year are Gloria Fujita O'Brien and Mick McCullough.

Stephen Pouliot will be writing his ninth SAG Awards script. Production designers John Shaffner and Joe Stewart, who together share five Emmys, will be designing their fourth set for the awards. Lighting designer is Jeffrey Engel, a 21-time Emmy nominee.

Composer and conductor Lenny Stack, composer of the current SAG Awards theme, returns for his eighth show.

Filmmaker Douglass M. Stewart Jr. will produce the film tribute saluting the accomplishments of SAG life achievement award honoree Julie Andrews; a salute to SAG's membership is being produced by Quinn Monahan, and Paul Fagen will produce the "In Memoriam" homage.

Also returning are Keaton S. Walker, who has served as the SAG Awards art director since 1997; Keith Greco to design the grand entrance and showroom decor; event supervisor Andrea Wyn Schall; executive in charge of production Benn Fleishman; and Maggie Barrett Caulfield, executive in charge of talent.