Dead End City

“A hybrid Director for today’s FX filled movies and television shows” Jeffrey G. Varga has functioned in almost every capacity of the Hollywood motion picture and television industry over the last 23 years working on almost every stage in town. It's hard to put Jeff into a box. Creator seems to be the best term that encompasses his broad range of motion picture expertise; although when pressed he will tell you that he's a Director with a heavy background in visual effects. Jeff is one of those unique individuals that is equally insightful alone in the editing room as he is directing talent and crew.

He's a deeply sensitive visionary that has a knack for connecting with actors to draw out their best performances and at the same time he's able to flawlessly set up complex visual effects sequences so that they composite easily in. He is 100% "actor's Director" and 100% a camera/lighting/VFX Director.

Mr. Varga began his career after attending film school in the early 80’s landing a position as a Production Coordinator at Charlie Band's highly lucrative Empire Pictures. There he learned the art of making low budget productions look like millions more. Continuing on from serving Jim Cameron on The Abyss, he shares in the achievement of an Academy Award for outstanding special effects designs in the creation of Terminator II, having staffed the artists and supervising much of the nuclear blast and hot steel pour sequences. In 2004-2007 he created visual effects for I Robot, Blade 3, Spiderman II, Pink Panther, Fantastic Four and Live Free or Die Hard among numerous others.

In the 90s, juggling multiple career objectives, Mr. Varga became a reputable creative force behind the filming of commercial products, motion pictures and television productions. He has worked with ABC, CBS, NBC, WB, CAROLCO, Sony, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, and Universal among many others and has worked on TV shows including Star Trek Enterprise, Gilmore Girls, Malcolm In The Middle and Drew Carey's Green Screen Show.

Mr. Varga also spent a number of years as a marketing advisor to independent producers and distributors, cutting movie trailers and designing movie posters. One of his proudest achievements was originating the Scream movie key art concept. His long-term clients have included Joel Coler former Head of Marketing for 20th Century Fox and Michael Baumohl former V.P. Int'l Marketing at Warner Bros. and Lucusfilm's European division. Together, he helped launch a new theatrical distribution company, AMPG, serving as its Creative Director for movie releases such as Dinner Rush. Many of the movies he has produced and directed have been released into the home video market and have consistently generated revenues triple of the investments, usually within 6 months of release.

Having an intuition for what audience crave, he developed and produced several TV pilots such as Spy Girl whose characters and styles became popular years later through similar series such as James Cameron's Dark Angel and Alias.

Just before creating Dead End City, Jeff directed 3 national and international spots including a Smirnoff, Electrolux and AT&T commercial.

Gary Graham is a familiar celebrity on television especially among sci-fi programing. He has played more than 30 TV character roles, and has also been in more than 30 movies. He is probably best known for his starring role as Detective Matt Sikes in the television series Alien Nation (1989-1990), which was followed by the TV movies Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994), Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995), Alien Nation: Millennium (1996), Alien Nation:The Enemy Within (1996), and Alien Nation:The Udara Legacy (1997).

Star Trek fans probably know him best from his more recent guest-starring roles on Star Trek: Enterprise as the recurring character Ambassador Soval, a Vulcan ambassador to Earth. He also guest-starred on Star Trek: Voyager (1995) playing Ocampan community leader Tanis.

Some of his films include All the Right Moves, The Last Warrior, Robot Jox, Hollywood Knights and Hardcore. Gary recently released a book: Acting and Other Flying Lessons. Visit Gary's website: http://garygraham.com

Never letting the dream die since age 5, Misty began her career in local commercials, studying Shakespeare in school and majored in Theater Performance at the University of Nebraska. She performed on stage in Ireland for a number of years and then came directly to Hollywood where she landed the role as Sally.

The creator of Dead End City says “I don’t think there’s anyone else in the world that could pull of Sally’s character as perfectly as she has according to what I envisioned.” “She’s sexy and sassy and embodies all the great characteristics of legends like Lauren Becall.

Dani has been performing professionally for most of her life. She began a singing career as a child that took her all over Europe and to Carnegie Hall in New York. Having fulfilled her singing career goals she decided to start over and begin her career as an actress. She studied acting at The College of Dupage and later at the University of Illinois at Chicago before heading to Los Angeles.

She’s landed numerous film roles before being cast as Brandy in Dead End City. She brings a wealth of spunk and charisma, to this production.

Mandy May is a Canadian actress who graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Business degree. She enrolled at the Lyric School of Acting in Vancouver where she studied for the next five years and landed a role on the Canadian TV show “Cold Squad.”

Since arriving in Los Angeles, only nine short months ago, Mandy has done several films and starred in a stage performance of "Soldiers Don't Cry" at the Whitmore Lindley Theatre in North Hollywood. She is currently studying with Ivana Chubbuck and Margie Haber.

Trinh Tran was born in Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam. Although she was discovered as an exotic beautiful model at very young age she was determined to complete her priority in education at Staffordshire University, U.K majoring in Business Administration. She graduated with honors, and after that she decided to pursue editorial, runway and advertising modeling as her full-time career. Since then, she has been working with top modeling agencies around the world such as: Elite, Starz People, Models International, Model Management, Model Genesis, Calcarries, New Face, K.S.A, Network International Models…, though she is mainly based in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

In 2004, she returned to her hometown in Vietnam after years of living abroad to take part in Miss Vietnam 2004 - 2005 beauty contest. With her unique beauty, charm, and intelligence, she was able to draw wide attention from local press and media immediately and conquered almost everybody at the beauty pageant to win Miss Vietnam Title Elected by People Nationwide. Since the huge success from the pageant, she became an active entertainer working constantly in Television, Stage, Hosting, Spoke-Model, Columnist… and graced numerous covers of magazines and publications. At the same time she was invited to compete in Miss World 2005 and had many offers to star in local and foreign Films and Productions, but unfortunately she couldn’t find the time to do it all. But that is when and how she began to find a genuine interest in acting.

In 2007, she came to Hollywood to get serious acting training with some of the most well-respected coaches in the industry. She is well studied in Meisner Technique, Chekhov Technique, Groundling Technique, cold reading and improvisation skills. She is well trained in martial arts, Japanese samurai sword, NRA certified Firearms and other self-defense techniques.

Matthew is new to Los Angeles from New York City . Since January, he has acted in 4 films, a national commercial and several smaller spots. He recently landed a supporting role in an independent feature, comedy playing Osama Bin Laden.

Matthew's New York actor training is extensive, including advanced scene study, improvisation, Meisner Technique and experimental theater. He trained with award winning, Broadway director, Peter Jensen of the American Academy, "Coach to the Stars" Susan Batson at Black Nexxus and he honed his on-camera technique with Emmy winning director Peter Miner.

Tennessee has appeared in plays, commercials, television movies of the week, as well as feature films. He recently wrapped principle photography as supporting actor in an Independent Feature currently in post, as well as wrote and performed in the recent production long running, cross-country tour of Mark Twain in The 21st Century.

He has studied under: Dr. James Flannery, University of Ottawa Theatre Department. John Giuliani, Henry Tarvanian, Michele George, and Rosemary Dunsmore of the Maggie Bassett Studios (Toronto, Canada); Uda Hagen/Strasberg/Stanislavsky process taught. His current acting ‘coach’ is Bryan Rasmussen.

“A hybrid Director for today’s FX filled movies and television shows” Jeffrey G. Varga has functioned in almost every capacity of the Hollywood motion picture and television industry over the last 23 years working on almost every stage in town. It's hard to put Jeff into a box. Creator seems to be the best term that encompasses his broad range of motion picture expertise; although when pressed he will tell you that he's a Director with a heavy background in visual effects. Jeff is one of those unique individuals that is equally insightful alone in the editing room as he is directing talent and crew.

He's a deeply sensitive visionary that has a knack for connecting with actors to draw out their best performances and at the same time he's able to flawlessly set up complex visual effects sequences so that they composite easily in. He is 100% "actor's Director" and 100% a camera/lighting/VFX Director.

Mr. Varga began his career after attending film school in the early 80’s landing a position as a Production Coordinator at Charlie Band's highly lucrative Empire Pictures. There he learned the art of making low budget productions look like millions more. Continuing on from serving Jim Cameron on The Abyss, he shares in the achievement of an Academy Award for outstanding special effects designs in the creation of Terminator II, having staffed the artists and supervising much of the nuclear blast and hot steel pour sequences. In 2004-2007 he created visual effects for I Robot, Blade 3, Spiderman II, Pink Panther, Fantastic Four and Live Free or Die Hard among numerous others.

In the 90s, juggling multiple career objectives, Mr. Varga became a reputable creative force behind the filming of commercial products, motion pictures and television productions. He has worked with ABC, CBS, NBC, WB, CAROLCO, Sony, MGM, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, and Universal among many others and has worked on TV shows including Star Trek Enterprise, Gilmore Girls, Malcolm In The Middle and Drew Carey's Green Screen Show.

Mr. Varga also spent a number of years as a marketing advisor to independent producers and distributors, cutting movie trailers and designing movie posters. One of his proudest achievements was originating the Scream movie key art concept. His long-term clients have included Joel Coler former Head of Marketing for 20th Century Fox and Michael Baumohl former V.P. Int'l Marketing at Warner Bros. and Lucusfilm's European division. Together, he helped launch a new theatrical distribution company, AMPG, serving as its Creative Director for movie releases such as Dinner Rush. Many of the movies he has produced and directed have been released into the home video market and have consistently generated revenues triple of the investments, usually within 6 months of release.

Having an intuition for what audience crave, he developed and produced several TV pilots such as Spy Girl whose characters and styles became popular years later through similar series such as James Cameron's Dark Angel and Alias.

Just before creating Dead End City, Jeff directed 3 national and international spots including a Smirnoff, Electrolux and AT&T commercial.

Gary Graham is a familiar celebrity on television especially among sci-fi programing. He has played more than 30 TV character roles, and has also been in more than 30 movies. He is probably best known for his starring role as Detective Matt Sikes in the television series Alien Nation (1989-1990), which was followed by the TV movies Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994), Alien Nation: Body and Soul (1995), Alien Nation: Millennium (1996), Alien Nation:The Enemy Within (1996), and Alien Nation:The Udara Legacy (1997).

Star Trek fans probably know him best from his more recent guest-starring roles on Star Trek: Enterprise as the recurring character Ambassador Soval, a Vulcan ambassador to Earth. He also guest-starred on Star Trek: Voyager (1995) playing Ocampan community leader Tanis.

Some of his films include All the Right Moves, The Last Warrior, Robot Jox, Hollywood Knights and Hardcore. Gary recently released a book: Acting and Other Flying Lessons. Visit Gary's website: http://garygraham.com

Never letting the dream die since age 5, Misty began her career in local commercials, studying Shakespeare in school and majored in Theater Performance at the University of Nebraska. She performed on stage in Ireland for a number of years and then came directly to Hollywood where she landed the role as Sally.

The creator of Dead End City says “I don’t think there’s anyone else in the world that could pull of Sally’s character as perfectly as she has according to what I envisioned.” “She’s sexy and sassy and embodies all the great characteristics of legends like Lauren Becall.

Dani has been performing professionally for most of her life. She began a singing career as a child that took her all over Europe and to Carnegie Hall in New York. Having fulfilled her singing career goals she decided to start over and begin her career as an actress. She studied acting at The College of Dupage and later at the University of Illinois at Chicago before heading to Los Angeles.

She’s landed numerous film roles before being cast as Brandy in Dead End City. She brings a wealth of spunk and charisma, to this production.

Mandy May is a Canadian actress who graduated from the University of Ottawa with a Business degree. She enrolled at the Lyric School of Acting in Vancouver where she studied for the next five years and landed a role on the Canadian TV show “Cold Squad.”

Since arriving in Los Angeles, only nine short months ago, Mandy has done several films and starred in a stage performance of "Soldiers Don't Cry" at the Whitmore Lindley Theatre in North Hollywood. She is currently studying with Ivana Chubbuck and Margie Haber.

Trinh Tran was born in Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam. Although she was discovered as an exotic beautiful model at very young age she was determined to complete her priority in education at Staffordshire University, U.K majoring in Business Administration. She graduated with honors, and after that she decided to pursue editorial, runway and advertising modeling as her full-time career. Since then, she has been working with top modeling agencies around the world such as: Elite, Starz People, Models International, Model Management, Model Genesis, Calcarries, New Face, K.S.A, Network International Models…, though she is mainly based in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

In 2004, she returned to her hometown in Vietnam after years of living abroad to take part in Miss Vietnam 2004 - 2005 beauty contest. With her unique beauty, charm, and intelligence, she was able to draw wide attention from local press and media immediately and conquered almost everybody at the beauty pageant to win Miss Vietnam Title Elected by People Nationwide. Since the huge success from the pageant, she became an active entertainer working constantly in Television, Stage, Hosting, Spoke-Model, Columnist… and graced numerous covers of magazines and publications. At the same time she was invited to compete in Miss World 2005 and had many offers to star in local and foreign Films and Productions, but unfortunately she couldn’t find the time to do it all. But that is when and how she began to find a genuine interest in acting.

In 2007, she came to Hollywood to get serious acting training with some of the most well-respected coaches in the industry. She is well studied in Meisner Technique, Chekhov Technique, Groundling Technique, cold reading and improvisation skills. She is well trained in martial arts, Japanese samurai sword, NRA certified Firearms and other self-defense techniques.

Matthew is new to Los Angeles from New York City . Since January, he has acted in 4 films, a national commercial and several smaller spots. He recently landed a supporting role in an independent feature, comedy playing Osama Bin Laden.

Matthew's New York actor training is extensive, including advanced scene study, improvisation, Meisner Technique and experimental theater. He trained with award winning, Broadway director, Peter Jensen of the American Academy, "Coach to the Stars" Susan Batson at Black Nexxus and he honed his on-camera technique with Emmy winning director Peter Miner.

Tennessee has appeared in plays, commercials, television movies of the week, as well as feature films. He recently wrapped principle photography as supporting actor in an Independent Feature currently in post, as well as wrote and performed in the recent production long running, cross-country tour of Mark Twain in The 21st Century.

He has studied under: Dr. James Flannery, University of Ottawa Theatre Department. John Giuliani, Henry Tarvanian, Michele George, and Rosemary Dunsmore of the Maggie Bassett Studios (Toronto, Canada); Uda Hagen/Strasberg/Stanislavsky process taught. His current acting ‘coach’ is Bryan Rasmussen.