Virginia was born in Syracuse, NY to parents Warren and Anne Frederick. 

A proud Air Force Brat to this day, she lived with her family in Germany before her dad retired from the Air Force and they settled back in Pennsylvania, where she grew up with her siblings Topper, Peggy and Joey.

While growing up in the Owen J. Roberts School District, she played the trumpet in the various bands, acted in plays and musicals, was active in student government and Girl Scouts, and loved to do gymnastics and twirl the baton.   She was also Drum Major for 4 years in Junior High and High School, which if you catch her at a RSO symphony performance, you will probably see her subtly conducting the orchestra from her seat!

Following high school, Virginia spent a life changing year in the Philippines as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student.    Ironically today, she is the President of the Rotary Club of Reading, for a 2nd term.

While attending West Chester University as a Speech Communications Major, she thought she wanted to follow in the footsteps of Barbara Walters.  But after being exposed to the behind the scenes elements of television, was hooked on the technical, and ultimately the creative, end of video production.  As a young entrepreneur she started her first company, "Memories in Motion."  While college friends spent their Saturday's at football games, Virginia was off shooting weddings, and other "live" productions.  She also worked for a professional production company in the area, CCI Communications.  Ultimately, Virginia changed her major to Liberal Studies with minors in Speech Communications and Instructional Media.  She made the conscious decision not to transfer to the RTF program at Temple, but to keep gaining experience hands-on locally.
 
Following graduation, Virginia continued at CCI, primarily as a Producer, but she kept her hands in shooting and editing as well.  In 1993, Virginia and Craig married, bought their first house and Virginia left CCI.  After this tumultuous year, in 1994 through the urging of her past clients, Virginia started VA Productions.  And just to clarify, the VA comes from her name Virginia, not Veteran's Administration or other such things as have been inquired about in the past, and Craig chose the corporate color, teal.

Virginia is thankful to her longtime and new clients alike, who today she is happy to call her friends. 

She is grateful to her employees Troy and Nicole along with "the moms," VA's vendors and freelancers and especially Craig for all the support they have given to make VA Productions a success these past 15 years.

 

This segment was designed to tell the tales of the past 20 years or so, but really it was created to let Craig and others tell the "stories" to ALL so that Virginia doesn't have to hear them ever again.
 
This story is from a production with KPMG in California where Craig was the floor manager.  This was a union facility, meaning that certain positions on the technical crew needed to be run by the local union labor as contracted by the hotel. 

(We recommend to our clients to read and understand all facility stipulations and costs BEFORE signing contracts.  We are glad to assist anyone with questions about this process and understanding what you really need and what is suggested.  Also, please note that Craig and Troy are both card carrying members of I.A.T.S.E. local 97, the International Alliance of Technical and Stage Employees.)
 
Well back to the story, Craig was introduced to the "local union crew" who were responsible for the operation of the in-house audio system.  The audio guy, while very cordial mind you, was your typical laid back Southern California dude.  The crew was all on intercom headsets so that Craig, as floor manager and audio assist, could call the cues for the microphones as needed.
 
So, Craig was calling the show, but the audio operator was not keeping up with his requests and eventually got behind and had to be repeatedly reminded of his cues.  After several missed cues Craig called to the audio operator and said "Come on! You have to keep up!"  The operator responded in his calm laid back style "Dude, this ain't my first rodeo" to which Craig shot back "THERE'S THE PROBLEM! This isn't a RODEO!"   
 
So remember, "Sometimes corporate staging events might seem like a CIRCUS but it's never a RODEO!"