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Cast

• John Bowman: Russell Andrews | bio

  RUSSELL ANDREWS (“John”) was a celebrated high school athlete in Houston before attending Texas Southern. After several jobs ranging from drug store manager to furniture mover to prison guard, he found his way to the “boards.”

  Russell has had great success in August Wilson’s and others’ plays in New York, London, and Los Angeles, where his Stagewalkers Productions has done award-winning productions of classics of black theater. Russell currently stars in the soon-to-be-released film “Shattered.”

  A jazz enthusiast and self-proclaimed “common man's gourmet chef,” Russell lives in Los Angeles with his wife, writer Katrina Andrews, and their two children Anya and Kai.

• Yvette Andersen: Karen Landry | bio

  KAREN LANDRY (“Yvette) has been working as a professional actress in theatre, film and television for 30 years. She is also a director and teaches acting for UCLA's Entertainment Studies.

  Karen's work in film includes roles in "Live!," "Sweetland," "Peaceful Warrior," "Shattered," "Dragon Wars," "Jimmy Zip," "The Personals," and "Frozen Kiss.” She wrote and starred in "Patti Rocks" (opposite her husband Chris Mulkey).

  Karen’s many television credits "Six Feet Under,” "Picket Fences," and for three years as Myra White on "St Elsewhere."

  Her favorite of many onstage roles was Stella in “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

• Patrick Weller: Scott Alan Smith | bio

  SCOTT ALAN SMITH (“Patrick”) has numerous film, television, and stage credits as an actor. He is also an award-winning writer and director.

  Scott is a founding member of the Ashbury Actor’s Group and co-author (with Adam Paul) of the two-man play King of the Moon which ran Off-Off Broadway and in L.A.at the Groundlings Theater. It was made into a film for FOX Searchlab, premiering at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival.

  Scott holds an M.F.A. in acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, SAG, and AEA.

Crew

• Director: Dominic DeLay, O.P. | bio

  DOMINIC DeLAY (writer/director/producer) founded Mud Puddle Films to make thought-provoking, emotionally engaging, and artistic films.

  His award-winning DVD of four short films are already popular with discussion groups. More recently, Dominic completed a feature project called Last Notes red green blue or black, a cycle of four 80-minute films that work separately or as a group.

  Dominic’s MFA in film production is from Chapman University. He is a Dominican friar and Catholic priest in Los Angeles, where in addition to his filmmaking ministry, he serves as chaplain to the Dominican contemplative nuns in Hollywood.

• Producer: Joe Rassulo | bio

  JOE RASSULO (producer) is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. His most recent feature is Shattered (2008), which he wrote and directed.

  Next, he will direct his feature script Damaged. His screenplay Lena on the Seventh Day, written with his partner Robert Gibson, won the Geller Screenwriting Award. J

  oe has also worked on numerous television projects, including directing 26 episodes of Sunset Hotel, a Fox/Verizon original series. As a stage director, Joe has worked at theatres around the country.

  In 1989, Joe founded Dream Street Films to create ideas, concepts, and scripts for feature films and television.

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