Fusion

Richard Manning has been a television writer/producer for… well, for longer than he cares to remember. His writing/producing credits include Farscape, TekWar, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Knightwatch, Once a Hero, and Fame. He has also written episodes of Sliders, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Exosquad, She-Wolf of London, and some even more obscure stuff. With longtime writing partner Hans Beimler, he co-created Beyond Reality, a half-hour science-fiction/fantasy drama for the USA Network. He grew up in various suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the same high school (Bedford High) as Halle Berry (alas, not remotely at the same time), after which he travelled west to study Cinema Production at the University of Southern California. He has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Toronto, and Sydney, despite the language barriers. He adores the work of Sergei Prokofiev, Buster Keaton, Keith Jarrett, the brothers Coen, John le Carré, Preston Sturges, the Who, and Monty Python. He (responsibly) imbibes single malt Scotch and Australian beer. He is midway through his second marriage. To the best of his knowledge, he has no children.

His fandom nick is “FrooniumRicky”; his production company is Froonium Productions, Inc., and he blogs at www.froonium.com, pontificating about topics such as writing for Muppets animatronics, the joys of fountain pens, and just what the heck “froonium” is anyway.

Chris Cleveland was born and raised in South Carolina. He grew up an athlete, playing football, basketball, and baseball. He earned a track and military scholarship to The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina and graduated from Army Airborne school. But after visiting family in Los Angeles during Christmas break of his senior year, Chris set his sights on the world of entertainment. He threw himself into acting classes at the University of South Carolina, drove hours to Atlanta and Charlotte for auditions, and gained experience doing print ads, commercials, and theater.

Chris moved to Los Angeles and immersed himself in acting classes, voice classes, and theater. One of his first roles in Los Angeles was in the independent film Relax… It’s Just Sex with Jennifer Tilly and Lori Petty. His next project was a play, Burning Blue, with Robert Gossett, William Sadler, and Tim DeKay. His first leading role in a feature film was in the sci-fi/horror The Living Dark.

In The Prestige, Chris was privileged to work with some of the industry’s best talents, including Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Andy Serkis, David Bowie, Rebecca Hall, and director Christopher Nolan.

Other feature roles include the indie family film The No Sit List (with Danny Trejo and Dee Wallace) and the sci-fi Heatstroke (with Danica McKellar of The Wonder Years). Heatstroke began Chris’s relationship with writer/producer Richard Manning and their collaboration on the web series Fusion.

Watch for Chris in an upcoming episode of NBC’s Heroes.

In addition to Chris’ acting accomplishments, he has built a production company, Good Ole Boy Productions. Chris is in the development stages on three new feature films and has his sights set on the continuation of Fusion. His simple mantra: “Persistence is key. Never give up, never!”

Visit Chris’s website.

Julianna Robinson was raised by Bornean jungle orangutans until a greedy developer destroyed her “family’s” habitat forcing young Julianna to leave her home and take up with a tribe of local headhunters whose native lifestyle was also in danger from international mining interests. The only thing that initially prevented the headhunters from killing the “Orangutan Child” was for young Julianna to entertain them, Scheherazade-like, with entertaining stories and interpretive dance. This fueled the passion for performance that would continue into her adult life. She soon became the headhunters’ leader and, using her spectacularly honed jungle skills and her ability to speak with animals, she and the tribe exacted brutal revenge against the greedy developers and saved the headhunters from a life of modern day serfdom. After a tearful goodbye, Julianna left the tribe, hopping a tramp steamer to Los Angeles to pursue her love of acting. She lives in Venice with her mongoose, Podo.

Kevin Fry-Bowers — Credits:

Film: Counter Strike, Next, Herbie, Storm Watch, A Civil Action, Why Do Fools Fall in Love?, Billboard Dad, Eraser

Television: Jericho, The Riches, Standoff, Lincoln Heights, Monk, CSI: NY, Wanted, CSI, Numbers, 24, Angel, She Spies, Titans, Nash Bridges; Walker, Texas Ranger; Early Edition, Martial Law, Brimstone, Legend, Jack’s Place, The Fugitive, High Incident, Burning Zone, The West Wing, ER, CSI: Miami, The District, JAG, Beverly Hills 90210, The Rockford Files (MOW)

Theatre: A Few Good Men, Pvt Wars, Bent, Golden Boy

Management: Blue Max Management

Credits:

Film: Megiddo, One Man Force, Erik, American Justice

Television: Judging Amy, Alias, Crosstown, Paradise, Night Court, O’Hara, Cameo by Night, Highway to Heaven, Simon and Simon, Magnum P.I., Remington Steele, Knight Rider, Fall Guy, Riptide, The A-Team, Cagney and Lacey, Command Five (MOW), Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Hill Street Blues

Theatre: Nuts, Time is Out of Joint, Neighborhood Crime Watch, Tartuffe, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Boccacio, Everything Dies in Winter, America’s Guests

Film: Who Moved My Blackberry (web short), Approaching Heaven (feature indie), The Class (feature indie), A Summer Sonata, Tiger: His Rise and Fall; The Same, But Different; Spaceman, Chemical Demons, The Blue Hour, Swansong, Dismissing Innocence, Patterson: A Love Story

Theatre: The Big Funk, Sonnets for an Old Century, the skriker, Miss. Julie, Baby with the Bathwater, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, $5000 Girl, School of the mericas, Boneyard Interim

Full resume, more photos, and reel at Actoreels.com

Brian Trenchard-Smith has directed 42 movies and TV series in various genres from martial arts to comedy to horror to action adventure. He is one of Quentin Tarantino’s favorite directors, and definitely in Ricky Manning’s top fifteen. Brian is also a popular raconteur who speaks at film festivals and blogs at Film Industry Bloggers.

Growing up in a European family, the kitchen table was where everyone shared the world and their perceptions of it; so for Teri, the collaborative storytelling process started early. Three artist uncles and a nuclear physicist father with a love of the science fiction masters sealed the deal on the world of make-believe. At San Diego State University, life took her in another direction - as it so often does - and it was quite some time before Teri found her way back to her first love. Tutelage under Toronto production designer Anthony Morassutti reminded her that there was no cure for the temporarily permanent insanity that is filmmaking.

Working her way up from Art PA, Teri has filled just about every role in the art department; from painter, coordinator and buyer, to art director and production designer. Projects have ranged from thesis films for the American Film Institute, including "The Passage of Mrs Calabash" - honored by the International Cinematographer's Guild - to the independent feature film "Blood Deep", shot at Universal Studios.

Recent live action work includes production design on two short films - now with Isotropic films – “Family Pieces”, for director Ryan Close, and “Bloody Baby Blue”, for director Vong Chea. “Bloody Baby Blue” has been selected to screen at the 2009 Swansea Bay Film Festival in Wales.

She happily reunited with “Calabash” cinematographer Dan Hertzog last April, when he directed the webisode pilot “The Art of Chores,” and was fortunate enough to reunite with producer Lea Beth Shapiro, and WGA writer Richard Manning, for the StrikeTV pilot “Fusion.” “Fusion” gave Teri the opportunity to mix production design with producing; a combo made relatively painless by the truly tremendous nature of both cast and crew.

Teri can currently be found at The Jim Henson Company, digitally coordinating the PBS Kids’ freshman animated series “Sid The Science Kid” to within an inch of its life.

Lea-Beth Shapiro is an independent producer with experience in independent film, cable television, and network news. After graduating from New York University, she produced promos for USA Network and the Sci-Fi Channel and also worked for MTV before earning her Master’s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Columbia University. She then went on to work for NBC News and The Today Show. Lea-Beth relocated to Los Angeles to earn her Master’s Degree in Film Producing at the American Film Institute. She is currently in pre-production on her third feature film and is looking forward to continuing the story of Rocco and Jasmine with more episodes of Fusion.

Paul Olson doesn’t wear shirts and is often referred to as the “Naked DP”. While attending school at NYFA in Universal City, CA back in 2002, Paul discovered his love for cinematography. He instantly fell in love with the digital medium, and has always kept on the cusp of the industry’s latest technologies. He also has a knack for editing and became Final Cut certified in 2005 which led to his first edited feature film that went on to win at the Moondance International film festival as well as many other festivals around the world.

Brandie Posey moved to Los Angeles on January 1st, 2007 to pursue a career in comedy. Since arriving, she has taken sketch and improv workshops through the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and performed stand up around town in other alternative comedy venues like the Improv Olympic. But comedy doesn’t pay the bills (just yet), so she has built a long resume of production experience, PAing and coordinating on TV shows like Thank God You’re Here, House M.D., and Deal or No Deal. You can view her full resume on her IMDB page.

Originally from Annapolis, Maryland, Brandie got bit by the entertainment bug in 1995 when she was 9, while viewing Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls for the first time… and delighted in telling her film professors at her alma mater, Drexel University, that Jim Carrey falling out of a rhino’s ass was the reason she was in their classes. She is a huge comedy and sci fi nerd and loves ska music more than anyone past 1998 should. She is very silly. She can be seen improving on the new MTV show Bromance, where she pretends to be Brody Jenner’s obnoxious cousin and harasses contestants competing for a place in Brody’s entourage. She views this credit as proof that even her career is determined not to take itself seriously.
 

Please don’t heckle Brandie if (WHEN) you come see her do stand up… she will make you cry. Both tears of laughter and sadness… it’s a multifaceted performance. She has also been preventing forest fires for 24 years and counting. You’re welcome.

John Blizek has cut nearly 200 hours of pilots, episodic, and television movies since graduation from USC Cinema some (mumbled) years ago. He's been nominated twice for the Cable Ace award (comedy series editing), and a recent short subject, Ancestor Eyes, has been winning awards on the festival circuit. John has also directed 30 episodes of television and a TV movie for Disney.

Born and raised in Chicago, he's a big fan of Little Feat, Indiana basketball, Italian beef sandwiches, Stanley Kubrick, and (like Ricky Manning) loves the work of the brothers Coen.

Steve & Bennique Blasini:

www.BFXImageworks.com

Joe Blasco’s Make Up FX School, Hollywood.
Mathew Mungle’s WM Creations Lab.
Maxim Mag. Stuff Mag. Lots of independent stuff.
Freelance currently,
Actor/Makeup Artist/Caddie/Caterer/Tile Setter/Everything.

myspace.com/jesseshepsmakeup
myspace.com/jessesheppard

Had fun, would do it again.
 

Stefania Koszti is from the European Beauty and Acting Industry.

After graduating from a drama high school in Hungary, she moved to Los Angeles.

She was always passionate about doing make up to create something beautiful. She has attended Cinema MakeUp School where she graduated from the class of Beauty and High Fashion in 2006.

She has a unique and creative artistic ability and a good sense of color.

She has also excellent attention for detail, and a good vision.

Stefania is a great team person; she has excellent communication skills and is a person you want to work with.

She is looking to work on movies, commercials, tv shows, fashion shows, weddings, and also with musicians and is committed to creating startling makeups.

Stefania has worked with actors like Dee Wallace, Tom Green, Danny Trejo, Taylor Negron, Ed Gale and also with the ”Girls Next Door” Bridget and Holly.

CHECK OUT Stefania’s website and her Imdb page.

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