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Cast

• Marlena Gate: Kristin DiSpaltro | bio

  Kristin DiSpaltro has appeared in various theater productions such as "The Angel Project", directed by Deborah Warner, Sarah Kane's Crave with Deborah Harry at Axis Theater and Broadway's A View from the Bridge. She has also worked with the theater groups, Cucaracha and Happy Accident. As a film actress, Kristin has been in various award winning short and feature films such as Transit, The Hill, Margarita Happy Hour and Daleko.

• Chance Abel: Cosmo Pfeil | bio

  Cosmo Pfeil, a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, has been in various independent films such as Shotgun Stories, The Northern Kingdom and Descent. Recently, we was in the critically acclaimed play The Woodpecker at the Cherry Lane Theater.

• Brian Deck: Brian Slaten | bio

  Recent tv and film projects include Army Wives, Law & Order SUV, Fringe, Deception. He was a member of Slant Theater Project in New York City.

• Chip Baight: Adam Nee | bio

  Adam Nee is a 28-year old American actor, director, and producer. As an actor, Adam Nee has worked on movies such as "The Last Romantic", released in 2006, in which he portrayed Calvin Wizzig, "Able Danger"(2007), and "Kiss Me Again"(2006). Adam Nee is also a movie director and has worked on movies such as "Minutemen", released in 2008, and "The Last Romantic"(2006). Also a producer, Adam Nee has worked on "The Last Romantic", released in 2006.

• Aunt Karla: Kathryn Rossetter | bio

  Kathryn Rossetter's Broadway credits include “Time Of The Cuckoo”, at Lincoln Center. Off Broadway she has appeared in numerous productions at The Working Theatre, The WPA Theatre, Public Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, Hudson Guild Theatre, UBU Rep, Playwrights Horizons, New Dramatists, Village Gate, Workhouse Theatre and The Ensemble Studio Theatre where she is a member. Besides “Death Of A Salesman” she has appeared in the films, Speed II”, “Fearless”, “Shakedown”, “The Night We Never Met”, “the Independent short, “Girls In Suits At Lunch”, and the Independent Sundance hit, “Whatever”. She has recently completed work on three more Indie films, “Pose Down”, “The Unidentified” and “Ten Stories Tall.”

• Det.Sally Lee: Mot Filipowski | bio

  Theater and film actor. Additional film credits include Grand Gorge, Chubby Buddy and the Ben Greenman newsical, Fragments of Death Comes for Britney Spears! the Musical.

• Fred: Rich Sommer | bio

  Rich Sommer is best known as Harry Crane the 1960s nice-guy media buyer turned Head of Television on AMC's multi-award winning drama series Mad Men. A Midwesterner though and through, he was born in Ohio, raised in Minnesota, got his college degree from Concordia and is a Case Western Reserve alum with a MFA (Master of Fine Arts theatre/performing arts). He studied improv at the Brave New Workshop in Minneapolis and the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. He also went on to start the improv group Slush Puppies. Besides comedy improv, Rich has extensive stage experience as Todd in Far Away, Mike in A Lie of the Mind and William Gibbs in Off the Map to name just a few – his most recent project being Jacob's Ladder written by Dennis Bailey and David Mixner.

  He has several national commercials to his credit, which marked his transition from stage to television screen. Rich has appeared on The Office, Law & Order and Without a Trace and made his feature film debut was as Anne Hathaway's drinking buddy Doug in The Devil Wears Prada.

Crew

• Director: Erika Yeomans | bio

  Director/Writer Erika Yeomans has created an extensive body of work in theater, mixed media and film. As the co-founder and artistic director of the performance company Doorika (1989-1999), she collaborated with various artists (Casey Spooner of FischerSpooner, Jon Langford of The Mekons and award-winning experimental filmmaker Ken Kobland of theWooster Group) to create multimedia and theater projects in Chicago and New York. Since 1999, Yeomans has focused primarily on filmmaking. Her videos and films have won grants and screened at film festivals and art institutions such a: London's ICA, Lincoln Center's New York Video Festival, Los Angeles' Disney Hall/REDCAT Theater, Berlin's Transmediale, Silver Lake Film Festival, Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum, Cinematek at the Danish Film Institute and New York's Anthology Film Archives. More info on
  her work can be found here: www.fortherestofyournaturallifeproductions.com

• Producer: Aaron S.Levine | bio

  AARON LEVINE (PRODUCER) is an independent producer based in New York City. Most recently, Mr. Levine produced the independent feature film “Pose Down”, written and directed by Erika Yeomans. In 1998, he produced Ms. Yeomans’ 35mm short film ‘Hardhead Flair’ and her theater group DOORIKA’s 1998 theatrical production ‘The Forgery’ at NYC’s Ohio Theatre. Mr. Levine produced a broadcast video inspired by the production of ‘The Forgery’ (2000) with video artist and Wooster Group Associate Ken Kobland. In 2000, Mr. Levine spent the year working as production supervisor at Independent Digital Entertainment (InDigEnt), a partnership between Sloss Special Projects and the IFC. At InDigEnt, Mr. Levine assisted in the production of a number of digital video features including Richard Linklater’s ‘Tape’, Ethan Hawke’s ‘Chelsea Walls’ and Bruce Wagner’s ‘Women In Film’. In the summer of 2002, Mr. Levine acted as Director of Operations and helped to produce the first annual Manchester International Film Festival in Manchester, Vermont. Also, Mr. Levine has produced the television show ‘Crib Notes’ for Todd Oldham and MTV; line produced the feature films “War Zone” and “The Missing Person”; production managed the feature films “The Reader” for The Weinstein Company, “Paper Man” for Artfire Films/Filmcolony, “Desert Flower” for Filmproductions GmbH, “State Property II” for Lion’s Gate Films, “West 32nd” for CJ Entertainment and “Chatham” for Cinemavault; associate produced the kid’s television program “Reading Rainbow” for PBS/RCN; and, production supervised the reality programs “FilmFakers” for AMC and “Hauting Evidence” for Court TV/Departure Films. Lastly, from 1995 through 1997, Mr. Levine worked as an assistant producer for Universal Television and NBC on the network programs “New York Undercover”, “Swift Justice” and “FEDS”.

• Costume Designer: Heather Priest | bio

  HEATHER PRIEST (COSTUME DESIGNER) has a MA in art history from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has costumed theater productions in Chicago and New York with award-winning companies such as Steppenwolf Theater, Remains Theater and New Crime Productions. She even got to design costumes for a production directed by Jeremy Piven. Additionally, she designed costumes for several theater and video productions for the acclaimed performance art collective DOORIKA such as "The Forgery", "Akogari No Pari", "Dear" and the Jon Langford musical "Bathe Me!", which have all played in various venues throughout Chicago and New York. She was the Assistant Costume Designer on various feature films such as Woody Allen’s “Sweet and Lowdown”, “Telling Lies in America”, “Once Upon a Time In Mexico” and “Burn Hollywood Burn”. She is now peddling hot dogs and film ideas in Los Angeles.

• Director of Photography: Benjamin Kasulke | bio

  BEN KASULKE (CINEMATOGRAPHER) studied film at the internationally known Filmova a Televizni Fakulta Akadmie Muzickych Umni in Prague, Czech Republic. In 1999, Mr. Kasulke obtained a Bachelor of Science Cinema Production degree, cum laude graduate, from Ithaca College where he was honored with the Best Senior Film Award. His most recent work, the 2005 35mm feature film “We Go Way Back”, premiered at the 2006 Slamdance Film Festival where the film took home the Grand Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature and Mr. Kasulke’s work as cinematographer was singled out and awarded the Kodak Vision Award for Best Cinematography. Mr. Kasulke also shot Guy Maddin’s 2005 feature film “The Brand Upon The Brain” which has been pre-selected to premiere at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. His other works have screened at a variety of international film festivals including the Seattle International Film Festival, the Edinburgh International Film Festival, the Cardiff Screen Festival, CinemaTexas, the Northwest Film & Video Festival and the Best Of the Northwest Film & Video Festival Tour. Currently, Mr. Kasulke is the Staff Director Of Photography with the Film Company based in Seattle.

• Picture Editor: Sandra Montiel | bio

  SANDRA MONTIEL (EDITOR) credits as an editor include Erika Yeomans' award winning short films “Chubby Buddy”, "Boo!" and "Grand Gorge". In addition as a film editor, Ms. Montiel was the principle television editor on the NBC comedy series “Kath & Kim”, “Andy Barker PI” and MTV's “The Hills”. She was also the first assistant editor on Paul Thomas Anderson's "Punch-Drunk Love" and Roman Coppola's "CQ". In addition to film and television work, Ms. Montiel has edited several music videos, Network Pilots and a DVD feature on the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Currently, she is editing MTV's reality program entitled “The City”. Ms. Montiel is a member of the I.A.T.S.E. Editors Guild and was named Hollywood Reporter Young Editors to Watch 2005.

• Composer: Pierre Foldes
• Production Designer: Diana Arrambide
• Casting: Boland-Eggman Casting | bio

  BOLAND-EGGMANN CASTING (CASTING DIRECTORS) have cast a number of independent feature projects including “Confess”, “Best Thief in the World”, which went to the Sundance Film Festival in 2004 and “Wendigo”, which won an award at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2001. Ms. Boland’s credits also include work for Warner Brothers Studios where she cast over 60 pilots including “Everwood”, “Smallville”, “Gilmore Girls”, and “George Lopez”. Also while at Warner’s, Ms. Boland served as a Casting Associate for “Third Watch”, “Witch Blade”, and NY casting for “ER” and “The West Wing”. Prior to Warner Brothers, Ms. Boland was a Casting Associate at Walken/Jaffe Casting where she worked on the first two seasons of “The Sopranos” as well as a number of feature films. Ms. Eggmann’s credits in casting include the feature films “The Mothman Prophecies”, “Chelsea Walls”, “Happy Accidents”, “Riding in Cars with Boys”, “Autumn in New York” and Woody Allen’s “Celebrity”, and, the television series "Queens Supreme". Currently, Mary Clay Boland serves as the Casting Director for daytime drama “As The World Turns” for which she received the 2005 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement for a Casting Director. Katharina Eggmann currently serves as the Casting Director for the primetime drama "Law & Order: Criminal Intent".

• Producer: Neil Konigsberg

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