Timothy Olague

Timothy Olague (b. circa 1967, Coronado Island, California) is a BMI-affiliated Music Publisher, Promoter, and Screenwriter who created Timothy Olague Entertainment in the 1990s and enjoyed a run of concerts at California Casinos, featuring Ray Charles, Enrique Iglesias, Freddy Fender (The King of Tex-Mex), Rick James (prison release concert tour) and Roger Troutman of Zapp and Roger (talkbox legend).

In 1991, Timothy Olague created Aztlan Priceless Music which currently owns the rights in perpetuity to several R&B hits of the 70s-90s, including The Dazz Mixx as well as the Remix of Fito Olviares' "Juana La Cubana," entitled "Orale Pues."

From 1994 until 1998, Olague recorded and released Aztlan Priceless Music content through his own label, Mayan Records. In 1998, Olague released Mayan All Stars, a compilation of R&B and Hip-Hop recordings featuring Chulo, TearDrop (both of A Lighter Shade of Brown), and the Creeps. Mayan All Stars was originally pressed and distributed worldwide by Mayan Records/BMG US Latin and is currently regarded as rare and hard to find although a digital re-release is scheduled for Summer, 2009.

In 2001, Timothy Olague formed Important Pictures with childhood friend, Billy Hilbert, p/k/a Will de los Santos (screenwriter of Spun and Mama Black Widow. An athlete, Timothy Olague was a standout in Football and Baseball at Chaffey High School in Ontario, California and played NCAA Division III Football at Pomona-Pitzer College in Claremont, California, where he started as running back and majored in Filmmaking.

Television and Film appearances

In 1990, to win a bet, Timothy Olague auditioned for a Contestant role on The Love Connection". A female contestant selected Timothy Olague to be her date and Olague revealed on national television, that the "date" was not a "love connection."

In 1991, the Producers of "The Love Connection" invited Timothy Olague to be a contestant on a new "dating" TV series entitled, "A Perfect Score." Once again, Olague was selected by the Female contestant to be her date and the two dined at Nicky Blair's on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

In 1995, Timothy Olague was a Guest Host on Univision's "Control" and he explained the game of Roller Derby to a Spanish-speaking television audience.

In 1996, Timothy Olague interviewed Don King and Julio Cesar Chavez--after his loss to Oscar De La Hoya--for ESPN via the Orange County News (OCN Netowrk).

In 2004, Timothy Olague was contracted to portray a Roller Derby referee for the the NBC Reality Series, "Average Joe."

In the early 2000's Olague's company, Important Pictures, contracted for the appearance of the Roller Derby sport in Sony Pictures' "Charlie's Angels II: Full Throttle," CBS' "CSI New York," as well as a number of other film and television productions which included the sport of Roller Derby in their content.

From 2000-2005, Important Pictures owned the rights to Mama Black WIDOW, currently in pre-production with Executive Producer Dave Mortell.

As of 2009, Important Pictures is doing business as The Write Factory. Will De Los Santos wrote the Adaptation of Mama Black Widow while Timothy Olague is an Associate Producer. Mama Black Widow traces the lives of a southern, African-American family that relocates to Chicago in the tumultuous years preceding the Civil Rights movement in America.

Professional Roller Derby

In 1995, Timothy Olague skated professionally for the Los Angeles Aztecs (6 games) and the Hollywood Stars (5 games) of the Roller Derby USA Roller Derby Skating League. The league was owned and operated by John DiCarlo and managed by Hall of Fame Roller Derby Skater Bert Wall

Olague, a speed skater, was primarily used by his team as a jammer to score points for Stars, a "white-shirt" team or "good team," but was often thrown over-the-rail by known red-shirts (villains) of the game, including Mark D'Amato, who would later skate for the New York Enforcers of the Roller Jam version of Roller Derby.

As skater on the Hollywood Stars, Olague was a teammate of Roller Derby Hall of Famer, Joanie Weston, the 'Golden Girl' of Roller Derby who skated professionally in the sport of Roller Derby for over 30 years, skating her last game as Women's Captain with the Hollywood Stars against the Orange County Express on September 23, 1995 at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles.