Peter Ashlock is the Executive Director and founder of Nut Hill Productions, Inc. His background in fine art and animation led him to assisting the Oscar® Award-winning John Hubley in his final film project while attending Yale University as a graduate student. An independent artist with a life long interest in folk music and knowledgeable about the history of American vernacular music, Peter Ashlock is an artist working in diverse media.  He is the originator and Executive Producer of The Music of America television series.

Deborah Robins is the Development Director of Nut Hill Productions, Inc. As Director of Programming Acquisitions for AMC (American Movie Classics), she led a development team to create the prototype for AMC's American Pop!, the cable station's convergence network. In her managerial capacity at HBO in New York, Robins supervised legal activities for The Chris Rock Show, I'm Telling You For The Last Time (Jerry Seinfeld special), John Leguizamo's Freak, Sex in the City, The Sopranos, and many others. As Director of Rights & Clearances for B/Z Rights & Permissions, she supervised the research and administration of music, clip, and celebrity clearances for Spike Lee's Girl 6, ABC's The Sixties, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Hallmark's Captain Simian and his Space Monkeys, and Coca-Cola, to name a few. An expert in film clip archives, Deborah has consulted for MTV, VH-1, The Image Bank Film Division, and Second Line Search (now Corbis). She is the business consultant for Word of Mouth: The Journey of American Folk Music and What's So Funny: The Anatomy of Comedy television series.