Office: CTI 454
e-mail: wbaykan@cti.depaul.edu
Teaching focus: Business of the Entertainment Industry
Courses Taught
Bill has a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and a BA from
UCLA’s Theater, Film and Television program. After graduation, he joined
the production department at HBO in Los Angeles working on projects including
“Tales From the Crypt,” and “The Larry Sanders Show.”
He founded and supervised the research department for the Emmy Award winning
mini-series “From the Earth to the Moon.” Bill moved to a post-production
supervisor position at MDP Worldwide before returning to Chicago in 1998.
A graduate of The Second City improv acting program and playwrighting workshops
at Victory Gardens Theater, Bill also produced numerous DVD and video releases
for Big Idea Productions, makers of the 3-D animated series “Veggietales.”
He has also produced news stories for Germany’s ARD-TV, examining American
reaction to the war in Iraq.
Bill presently works as Post-Production Manager at Harpo Studios and produces
freelance projects.
His research and teaching interests include Narrative and Storytelling, (both
in art and everyday life), Social Networking, Cultural Evolution, as well as
examining the Entertainment Business as a complex adaptive system.