Honorary Co-Chairs for LifeWalk 2008

The honorary co-chairs for the 18th Annual LifeWalk event have defined community support through their hard work and many efforts, especially in the Dallas area. These individuals are undoubtedly honorary in every sense of the word. It gives us great pleasure to announce Mr. Del Shores and Mr. Jason Dottley as LifeWalk 2008 Honorary Co-Chairs.

Del Shores

Mr. Del Shores is the writer/director/executive producer of "Sordid Lives: The Series" now airing on MTV's LOGO channel. He wrote, directed and produced the movie "Sordid Lives" based on his award-winning play and wrote and executive produced the film adaptation of his play "Daddy’s Dyin’…Who’s Got The Will". For television he wrote for and executive produced the American version of "Queer as Folk" and wrote and produced for "Dharma and Greg", "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" and "Ned and Stacey". His plays have won NAACP, GLAAD, LA Drama Critics and countless other awards and have been produced in over 2,000 theatres world-wide.

Jason Dottley

Mr. Jason Dottley is currently starring as "Ty Williamson" in Del Shores' "Sordid Lives: The Series". Dottley stars with icons Olivia Newton-John and Rue McClanahan, as well as noted pros Bonnie Bedelia, Beth Grant, Caroline Rhea and Leslie Jordan. As a producer, Dottley is the President of Del Shores Productions. Currently they have partnered with Funny Boy Films to produce the film adaptation of Shores' GLAAD Award-winner "Southern Baptist Sissies". Delta Burke and Leslie Jordan are head-lining with the filming planned for 2008. Dottley will work as an actor on the project as well.

Organizations that have benefited from LifeWalk include:

• United Way
• Aids Arms, Inc.
• The Greg Dollgener Memorial AIDS Fund
• Legal Hospice of Texas
• Resource Center of Dallas
• The Women's Chorus of Dallas