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Jen Nikolaisen - Actress - "Emily/Formidable Woman"
Jen Nikolaisen first conquered the bread-and-butter industrials and independent film of the Seattle market before moving to Los Angeles to pursue her passion full-time. Her credits are diverse: Close to Home, Passions, a lot of award-winning independent film, and the object of affection to a number of serial killers in a series of Weinstein Co. films. She is the current spokesperson for AT&T Media Net, and the series lead, Iris, in the Fox TV Studios Pilot “Iris Expanding,” which will hopefully be a huge hit on network TV soon. |
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Courtnee Draper - Actress - "Queen Natalia"
Courtnee has stared in various film and television roles and has worked consistently since the age of 13, with a singing and theatre background stretching over 18 years. Some of her roles have included the staring role of Morgan Hudson on Disney Channel's original series The Jersey, for which she won a Young Artist award, series regular Erica Lovejoy on CBS' "The Bold and the Beautiful", and re-occuring guest star Emma on ABC's The Days. Film work has included Disney Channel's "Stepsister from Planet Weird" and "The Thirteenth Year", "Sleepover", "The Duke", "Surf's Up", "The Yard Sale", "The Biggest Fan", and most recently "The Immaculate Misconception", for which she won the Gasparila Film Festival's "Rising Star" award. Courtnee has also done various guest star and co-star roles on shows such as Ghost Whisperer, Campus Ladies, Pacific Blue, Home Improvement, Veronica Mars, Eyes, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Tru Calling, and CSI: Miami. | |
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Gena Shaw - Actress - "Kimberly/Slave Leia"
Born and raised in New Jersey, Gena Shaw, was cast in her first television pilot before graduating from High School. She has gone on to appear in numerous films, commercials and television shows (CSI, Cold Case, Without a Trace). While studying acting in Manhattan, Gena amended her theater classes with writing workshops and was able to finish her first feature film script before the age of twenty.
After relocating to Los Angeles, she decided jump in head first to film making by writing, producing and directing her first film, "DIG".
Gena is currently at work on several short film projects and is putting the finishing touches on a feature length screenplay.
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Kelsey Crane - Actress - "Lori"
Born in Palo Alto, California, Kelsey fell in love with acting at the age of nine when she was cast in her very first play. Kelsey was accepted to the University of Souther California's BA Theatre Program. While at USC, Kelsey took as many acting classes as her schedule would allow. In addition to her coursework, Kelsey acted in more than 15 USA Student Films. During her junior year at USC, Kelsey attended The British American Dramatic Academy (BADA), a classical conservatory in London. Kelsey has appeared in several films, including "The Danny Mckay Project"; "Waking up with Monsters", and "Lake Dead" (HorrorFest 2008) and Charlie Matthau's "Baby-O." Kelsey is represented by her amazing managers at Main Title Entertainment and an incredible team of agents at TalentWorks. Her television credits include Swingtown (CBS) and Pretty Handsome (FOX), and Dexter (Showtime.) | |
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Adam Wylie - Actor - "Wil/Convention Worker"
Adam Wylie first became widely known as Zack Brock, the youngest of Sheriff Brock's three children in the television series Picket Fences from 1992 to 1996. This was followed by appearances in many other television programs, including as a series regular in Love and Marriage as Max, and recurring roles on Ed and Gilmore Girls. He played Garfield in The Biggest Fan and has guest starred on 7th Heaven, Sliders, Touched by an Angel, Judging Amy, Entourage, Living Single, Monk, Veronica Mars, Avatar, and Ben 10. Among his animated voiceover credits are Brainiac 5 in Legion of Superheroes, and Jimmy Olsen in Superman: Doomsday.
In 2002, Wylie appeared as Jack in Stephen Sondheim's Tony Award-winning revival of Into the Woods on Broadway. He has also frequently appeared in regional theatre, including Camelot as Merlyn-Tom-Morgan, Big River as Huck Finn, 110 in the Shade as Jimmy Curry, On the Town as Chip, Footloose as Willard, Precious Sons as Freddie Jr., House Arrest as Todd, and Beauty and the Beast as Chip. In 2007, he played Boq in the Los Angeles production of Wicked.
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Maggie Reid - Actress - "Fan"
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Adam Mallinger - Writer/Director
A life-long comic book geek and proud owner of a complete 22-year run of Superman comics, Adam Mallinger is a graduate of Denison University with a BA in Cinema. During his time at Denison, he not only wrote and directed several short films, but he was also the show-runner on the half-hour student-produced soap opera, The Best Years of Our Lives, during his junior and senior years. The series was to be the flagship show of Denison’s student-cable network, the brain-child of an ambitious group of Denison students, including Matt Bolish. Though ultimately there wasn’t enough interest from students and faculty to allow the project to flourish, it marked the first of several creative collaboration between Adam and Matt. When yearly visits to the San Diego ComicCon inspired the project that would become Booth Girls, Adam knew Matt and his Tomorrow the World collaborators were the right men for the job. When he’s not obsessively bagging and cataloging his comic book collection, Adam can be found working on his screenplays.
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Matt Bolish - Producer/Production Designer
Long study in the field of political science has prepared Matt to stab his partners in the back the first chance he gets. Long study in the field of theatre has insured that it will be done with appropriate dramatic flair. Matt's interests include directing, and writing and he has pursued those interests through directing and writing respectively. Before producing Booth Girls, Matt served as a producer on the thriller Matches, was a writer and producer of The Return of Anubis, co-wroted and directed The Paranormalists, all shot in and around Los Angeles. Currently, Matt works in Los Angeles, California eking out a living handling someone else’s phone…for now.
You can contact matt at matt@tomorrowtheworld.net |
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Bryce Forester - Producer/Cinematographer
From the days when his mom would simply put in Empire Strikes Back to keep him occupied Bryce has been infatuated with movies. After struggling to find his niche at Michigan State University, Bryce finally zeroed in and finally graduated with his BA in Film Study and English. With a few student films completed along the way and with a specific goal in mind he took off for Los Angeles where he met Jon and Matt while working at New Line Cinema. They shared his desire to make the films they want to see and not wanting to be an assistant forever. From that Tomorrow the World! was born. Bryce is currently in post production on his short film entitled Matches where he wrote and directed with the TtW team producing.
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Jon Peele - Producer
Jon was born and raised in the warm, southern embrace of Tallahassee, FL. Twenty-two years, and one hard earned Bachelor’s degree in Finance later he took his favorite t-shirt and his dreams of conquest west to Los Angeles. It was there, while working as a Celebrity Confidant for hire, that he met Bryce Forester and Matt Bolish. Their undeniable talent and skills, not to mention a lot of time sitting next to each other answering other people’s phones, led to the formation of Tomorrow The World. Jon recently served as producer on a number of short films including Booth Girls, The Paranormalists, and Matches. Currently, Jon works in Los Angeles for what’s left of New Line Cinema.
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Brian Giovanni - Composer
Brian grew up in St. Louis, MO, earned a B.A. in cinema in central Ohio, then traveled west to LA where everything makes sense. Since then, Brian has composed music for a number of recent collaborations, having scored Survey on Cyprus, Matches, The Paranormalists, and now Booth Girls. His interests in music range from playing bluegrass banjo, to speculating about one day owning a theramin, which may or may not be a good idea. |
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Josiah J. Patrow - Editor
A native Minnesotan, Patrow moved to Los Angeles, California after finishing his education in 2005. Since then he has worked on numerous commercials, television shows, music videos and feature films. But don't let this fool you. Despite crawling deep within the industry, Patrow says that he's "the Maxwell Smart of film production; a guy wanting to be the best who often finds he's a goof." Fortunately, Patrow doesn't always "miss it by that much." His contribution to "Booth Girls" proves it. ...Now all he needs is a 99 to keep him company. | |
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Erica Berger & Katie Rampey - Casting
Two proud graduates of the UC system, Erica Berger and Katie Rampey knew they were destined for greatness in the entertainment industry. Erica and Katie met while working at Liberman/Patton Casting in Hollywood, where they each have been working for the past several years. Having worked on many television shows with L/P Erica and Katie acquired a wealth of knowledge of the finest actors in town and were ready to go off on their own to cast some of the greatest independent projects of all time. Erica and Katie were very honored to work on Booth Girls, and can’t wait to collaborate with the great talents behind Tomorrow The World, and writer/director Adam Mallinger again soon. | |
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