Hold Please

Hal Cantor has written for the stage, television, and film. The web series, HOLD, PLEASE, marks his writing debut on the Internet. He is currently writing two projects for producer John Davis: a one-hour drama, which has been optioned by Fox Television Studios, and an action-comedy feature. Prior to this, Hal sold a one-hour drama pilot to SHOWTIME, entitled THE LAKE EFFECT. His full-length play, CUBICLES, which he also directed, was presented at ALLIANCE REPERTORY THEATER in Burbank—where it garnered 7 Theater League nominations including Best Play, Best Writing For the Stage, and Best Director. Additional theater credits include: I Wanna Be Nick EASY (Pantheon Theater, NYC); THE BONUS ROUND (American Theater of Actors, NYC); MADE FROM CONCENTRATE (Altered Stages Theater, NYC). Additional television and film credits include TWILIGHT, a one-hour drama pilot written for Sony Pictures Television; the parody short, NYPD JEW, which can be seen on ifilm.com; several short films, which he’s written and directed, including DEPARTED (selection: Silverlake Film Festival); and numerous shows for the VH1 Music Channel.

Royana Black (Mandy Stern) lives a dual life. Her career as an actress spans 25, starting as a young child on Broadway in Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs". Her theatre background includes such venues as Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The WPA Theatre, and in Los Angeles, The Odyssey, The Cast Theatre, The Complex Theatre, The Alliance Repertory Company and others. She has had the good fortune to work with writers such as Neil Simon, the late Wendy Wasserstein, Hal Cantor, Stephen Fechter, Angus McLaughlin & MZ Ribalow, to name a few. Television credits include the title character in the CBS series "Raising Miranda" and guest stars on "Touched by an Angel", "The Cosby Show", "Touching Evil", "Related". Film credits include the soon-to-be-released "A Beautiful Life", Woody Allen's "Radio Days" and the indies "Fixed", "Happy is Not Hard to Be". Royana is currently the Artistic Director of the Alliance Repertory Company (still looking for a home!) and is also the West Coast producing arm of New River Dramatists (http://www.newriverdramatists.org/). She would like to thank her cell phone provider AT&T, her wonderful manager, Melanie Sharp, the talented and life-saving Hal Cantor, MZ Ribalow, her friends and family, her lovely fiancé JP Hubbell and most importantly, all of the bosses she's had over the years, none of whom suffered too greatly. She feels very grateful to have her current job in Investment Banking, as it provides not only a paycheck, but great material.

Deb Hiett moved to L.A. after years of living in New York City, where she performed in such diverse Off-Broadway shows as "Henry V," "Crimes of the Heart," "Whisky Down," and the European tour of "West Side Story." Since moving to L.A., Deb has appeared on "The Office," "Desperate Housewives," "Prison Break," "Boston Legal," "Passions," and HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher." Her one-woman show, "Tattoo Expo and Accordion Show" premiered at L.A.'s Second City Theater, which is also where her original sketch comedy show "Deb and Rick on a Stick" premiered (co-written and performed with Richard Kuhlman). More at www.debhiett.com.

Bettina Adger graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English and Theater. She has been living in Los Angeles for the past 4 years working in theater, film, and television. Some past television credits include The Bold and The Beautiful, Fashion House, and Watch Over Me. Theater credits with the Alliance Repertory Company include: Sister Cities, Cubicles (written/directed by Hal Cantor), and Nice Tits. Bettina is a member of AFTRA and SAG. She hopes that Hold, Please takes off, and she doesn't have to go to law school.

Judy Kain has been making her living acting professionally for 30years in Los Angeles television and films. Prior to that she attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and attained a BFA degree, graduating in the top of her class.

Judy is classically trained and applies a lot of her theatre background to her work in commercials. She also studied with Dena Dietrich (It's not nice to fool Mother Nature) and Michael Holmes, as well as Ken McMillan for scene study work. She has trained at Second City with Paul Sills in Improv and worked with the Groundlings and Gary Austin. She also co-wrote and produced the award-winning show "Women Who Judge Too Much and the Mothers Who Made Them." Judy has been a Television Series Regular on The Jackie Thomas Show and recurred on several sitcoms such as "Married with Children," "For Your Love,” “Manhattan, AZ" and "Grosse Pointe." Most recently she shot a pilot for FOX called ERNESTO with Wilmer Valderama. She teaches on camera Commercial acting with Francene Selkirk and coaches privately.

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After spending the first 14 years of his life overseas in countries like India, Pakistan, Greece and Lebanon, Callen finally moved to the USA. He went to high school in Massachusetts and earned his BA in History at American University in Washington D.C. Callen made his television debut as a series regular on “Mad TV” and the HBO prison series “OZ”. He has appeared on several television series including “Fat Actress,” “Sex and the City,” “7th Heaven,” Stacked, “King of Queens”, “Las Vegas,” “Significant Others,” “West Wing,” “CSI”, “Law and Order: SVU,” “NYPD Blue,” “Suddenly Susan,” “Frasier,” “News Radio,” and most recently as Rob Rubino in the HBO series Entourage. In addition, Callen has appeared in such feature films as “Bad Santa,” “Old School” and “Scary Movie 4.” In 2008 he will be appearing along side Will Ferrell and Jeremy Piven in the film “The Goods: The Don Ready Story.” He has performed stand up comedy on several TV shows including “The Late Show With David Letterman.” He hopes to make a lot of money someday so he can have a helicopter, servants, and a large entourage which is to include a Giant, acrobats and a pet eagle.

Geoffrey Sharp is a writer/director living in Silver Lake, California. These days he spends most of his creative energy writing and directing non-fiction programming for History, Discovery, National Geographic and other channels. He has written pilots and features for ABC, Showtime, Touchstone, Disney Channel and many other outlets. “Walter and Henry” a Showtime Family film, which he wrote and produced, was nominated for a Daytime Emmy, a DGA award and several other honors in 2003. His Feature film, “Slings and Arrows” played at Film festivals around the world and premiered on Starz pay per view. Before he moved behind the camera, Geoffrey was an actor who appeared in the National Tour of “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” and in the original Tony award winning Broadway production of “Biloxi Blues.” He appeared in many Off-Broadway shows and on the television soaps, “Another World” and “As the World Turns” but unfortunately never bothered to tape any of his soap opera “performances.” People always tell him he looks a lot younger than his age.

Brad Lipson has been in the film business for 30 years. He started his career in Denver, Colorado in 1979 where he learned not only electric and lighting, but all aspects of filmmaking. He started working for a gaffer who owned a small lighting company and quickly worked his way up to Best Boy as the lighting company began to grow.

By the mid 1980’s Brad was gaffing movies of the week for Viacom, such as the“Perry Mason Returns” series. He and a partner then opened up their own production company and wrote, produced, shot and edited commercials and short film projects. In 1996 Brad moved to Los Angeles to live and work in the epicenter of the film industry. He entered the market as a Gaffer with the main VFX unit on the movie “Titanic” and has continued gaffing on numerous independent feature films, television projects and countless commercials.

Recently Brad began pursuing work as a Director of Photography. He shot a comedy series for Spike TV called “Factory” which enabled him to join Local 600. He then worked on the TV series “Ugly Betty” as the Chief Lighting Technician and Director of Photography for double-up days. Brad enjoyed working with Hal Cantor and Geoffrey Sharp on “Hold Please”. The writing, directing and acting was fantastic and the collaboration on the set made the
project creative and fun. Everybody brought something unique to the table which helped elevate the production value and creative process resulting in a better show.

Michael Gordon Shapiro has scored seven feature films and numerous industrial, multimedia, and video game projects, all of which was really a prelude to his music for Hal Cantor's "Hold Please". Michael has fond memories of Hal lording over his music studio, screaming for more pathos, and threatening to replace him with his cousin who plays guitar in a band. Visit Michael on the web at www.mikemusic.com.

Craig moved to LA a week after graduating from college with no car, no job and no apartment. Through the goodwill of great friends and a lot of luck, he got work in post production and has been in it since. He's currently working on a few feature films as well as cutting other shorts, documentaries and a web series (HOLD, PLEASE).

Eric Potter graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory where he was awarded the 2004 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Scholarship.

He has edited documentaries and commercials for Atlanta Housing Authority, Refugee Women’s Network, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Phoenix House Foundation, Starbucks, Actual Reality Pictures, Verve Music Group, Life Rolls On Foundation, and the Weather Channel.

His recent projects include the feature films: Elegy, Henry Poole Is Here, The Midnight Meat Train, and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.

He was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award in 2006.

Darrell Bryan has worked in many capacities over the years. His focus now is on acting. He recently appeared on CBS's CRIMINAL MINDS, and wrapped work in the feature film DRIFTER: HENRY LEE LUCAS. He does sound only for those very dear to him.

Jim Fink has worked in the video production industry for thirty years and has been a professional video editor for 25 years. In September of 1986 he started FrameLine Production Co., Inc. in Ashland, Oregon. FrameLine existed for 3 years until he and his family moved to Austin, Texas so that his wife, Joanne Hershfield, could pursue her PhD. While living in Texas, Jim worked as a contract editor for dozens of post-production companies in Austin, Houston and Dallas. For the past fourteen years Jim has been working in the video post-production industry in North Carolina and quickly developed a reputation as a creative an accomplished high-end editor of commercials, corporate productions, and documentaries. He is also a highly skilled post-production supervisor.

In 1999, Jim started New Century Digital Media, a High-End Digital Video Post Production Facility in Chapel Hill North Carolina. He is a partner with Robert F. Landau who has been an established Long Form and Commercial Editor for more than 30 years and now lives in Burbank, Calif.

New Century Digital Media, also known as NCDM.tv is also actively involved in new Media, Video Streaming and of course, Post Production using Avid DS and FCP systems. Web site: http://www.ncdm.tv/

Hal Cantor has written for the stage, television, and film. The web series, HOLD, PLEASE, marks his writing debut on the Internet. He is currently writing two projects for producer John Davis: a one-hour drama, which has been optioned by Fox Television Studios, and an action-comedy feature. Prior to this, Hal sold a one-hour drama pilot to SHOWTIME, entitled THE LAKE EFFECT. His full-length play, CUBICLES, which he also directed, was presented at ALLIANCE REPERTORY THEATER in Burbank—where it garnered 7 Theater League nominations including Best Play, Best Writing For the Stage, and Best Director. Additional theater credits include: I Wanna Be Nick EASY (Pantheon Theater, NYC); THE BONUS ROUND (American Theater of Actors, NYC); MADE FROM CONCENTRATE (Altered Stages Theater, NYC). Additional television and film credits include TWILIGHT, a one-hour drama pilot written for Sony Pictures Television; the parody short, NYPD JEW, which can be seen on ifilm.com; several short films, which he’s written and directed, including DEPARTED (selection: Silverlake Film Festival); and numerous shows for the VH1 Music Channel.

Royana Black (Mandy Stern) lives a dual life. Her career as an actress spans 25, starting as a young child on Broadway in Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs". Her theatre background includes such venues as Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The WPA Theatre, and in Los Angeles, The Odyssey, The Cast Theatre, The Complex Theatre, The Alliance Repertory Company and others. She has had the good fortune to work with writers such as Neil Simon, the late Wendy Wasserstein, Hal Cantor, Stephen Fechter, Angus McLaughlin & MZ Ribalow, to name a few. Television credits include the title character in the CBS series "Raising Miranda" and guest stars on "Touched by an Angel", "The Cosby Show", "Touching Evil", "Related". Film credits include the soon-to-be-released "A Beautiful Life", Woody Allen's "Radio Days" and the indies "Fixed", "Happy is Not Hard to Be". Royana is currently the Artistic Director of the Alliance Repertory Company (still looking for a home!) and is also the West Coast producing arm of New River Dramatists (http://www.newriverdramatists.org/). She would like to thank her cell phone provider AT&T, her wonderful manager, Melanie Sharp, the talented and life-saving Hal Cantor, MZ Ribalow, her friends and family, her lovely fiancé JP Hubbell and most importantly, all of the bosses she's had over the years, none of whom suffered too greatly. She feels very grateful to have her current job in Investment Banking, as it provides not only a paycheck, but great material.

Deb Hiett moved to L.A. after years of living in New York City, where she performed in such diverse Off-Broadway shows as "Henry V," "Crimes of the Heart," "Whisky Down," and the European tour of "West Side Story." Since moving to L.A., Deb has appeared on "The Office," "Desperate Housewives," "Prison Break," "Boston Legal," "Passions," and HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher." Her one-woman show, "Tattoo Expo and Accordion Show" premiered at L.A.'s Second City Theater, which is also where her original sketch comedy show "Deb and Rick on a Stick" premiered (co-written and performed with Richard Kuhlman). More at www.debhiett.com.

Bettina Adger graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English and Theater. She has been living in Los Angeles for the past 4 years working in theater, film, and television. Some past television credits include The Bold and The Beautiful, Fashion House, and Watch Over Me. Theater credits with the Alliance Repertory Company include: Sister Cities, Cubicles (written/directed by Hal Cantor), and Nice Tits. Bettina is a member of AFTRA and SAG. She hopes that Hold, Please takes off, and she doesn't have to go to law school.

Judy Kain has been making her living acting professionally for 30years in Los Angeles television and films. Prior to that she attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and attained a BFA degree, graduating in the top of her class.

Judy is classically trained and applies a lot of her theatre background to her work in commercials. She also studied with Dena Dietrich (It's not nice to fool Mother Nature) and Michael Holmes, as well as Ken McMillan for scene study work. She has trained at Second City with Paul Sills in Improv and worked with the Groundlings and Gary Austin. She also co-wrote and produced the award-winning show "Women Who Judge Too Much and the Mothers Who Made Them." Judy has been a Television Series Regular on The Jackie Thomas Show and recurred on several sitcoms such as "Married with Children," "For Your Love,” “Manhattan, AZ" and "Grosse Pointe." Most recently she shot a pilot for FOX called ERNESTO with Wilmer Valderama. She teaches on camera Commercial acting with Francene Selkirk and coaches privately.

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After spending the first 14 years of his life overseas in countries like India, Pakistan, Greece and Lebanon, Callen finally moved to the USA. He went to high school in Massachusetts and earned his BA in History at American University in Washington D.C. Callen made his television debut as a series regular on “Mad TV” and the HBO prison series “OZ”. He has appeared on several television series including “Fat Actress,” “Sex and the City,” “7th Heaven,” Stacked, “King of Queens”, “Las Vegas,” “Significant Others,” “West Wing,” “CSI”, “Law and Order: SVU,” “NYPD Blue,” “Suddenly Susan,” “Frasier,” “News Radio,” and most recently as Rob Rubino in the HBO series Entourage. In addition, Callen has appeared in such feature films as “Bad Santa,” “Old School” and “Scary Movie 4.” In 2008 he will be appearing along side Will Ferrell and Jeremy Piven in the film “The Goods: The Don Ready Story.” He has performed stand up comedy on several TV shows including “The Late Show With David Letterman.” He hopes to make a lot of money someday so he can have a helicopter, servants, and a large entourage which is to include a Giant, acrobats and a pet eagle.

Geoffrey Sharp is a writer/director living in Silver Lake, California. These days he spends most of his creative energy writing and directing non-fiction programming for History, Discovery, National Geographic and other channels. He has written pilots and features for ABC, Showtime, Touchstone, Disney Channel and many other outlets. “Walter and Henry” a Showtime Family film, which he wrote and produced, was nominated for a Daytime Emmy, a DGA award and several other honors in 2003. His Feature film, “Slings and Arrows” played at Film festivals around the world and premiered on Starz pay per view. Before he moved behind the camera, Geoffrey was an actor who appeared in the National Tour of “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” and in the original Tony award winning Broadway production of “Biloxi Blues.” He appeared in many Off-Broadway shows and on the television soaps, “Another World” and “As the World Turns” but unfortunately never bothered to tape any of his soap opera “performances.” People always tell him he looks a lot younger than his age.

Brad Lipson has been in the film business for 30 years. He started his career in Denver, Colorado in 1979 where he learned not only electric and lighting, but all aspects of filmmaking. He started working for a gaffer who owned a small lighting company and quickly worked his way up to Best Boy as the lighting company began to grow.

By the mid 1980’s Brad was gaffing movies of the week for Viacom, such as the“Perry Mason Returns” series. He and a partner then opened up their own production company and wrote, produced, shot and edited commercials and short film projects. In 1996 Brad moved to Los Angeles to live and work in the epicenter of the film industry. He entered the market as a Gaffer with the main VFX unit on the movie “Titanic” and has continued gaffing on numerous independent feature films, television projects and countless commercials.

Recently Brad began pursuing work as a Director of Photography. He shot a comedy series for Spike TV called “Factory” which enabled him to join Local 600. He then worked on the TV series “Ugly Betty” as the Chief Lighting Technician and Director of Photography for double-up days. Brad enjoyed working with Hal Cantor and Geoffrey Sharp on “Hold Please”. The writing, directing and acting was fantastic and the collaboration on the set made the
project creative and fun. Everybody brought something unique to the table which helped elevate the production value and creative process resulting in a better show.

Michael Gordon Shapiro has scored seven feature films and numerous industrial, multimedia, and video game projects, all of which was really a prelude to his music for Hal Cantor's "Hold Please". Michael has fond memories of Hal lording over his music studio, screaming for more pathos, and threatening to replace him with his cousin who plays guitar in a band. Visit Michael on the web at www.mikemusic.com.

Craig moved to LA a week after graduating from college with no car, no job and no apartment. Through the goodwill of great friends and a lot of luck, he got work in post production and has been in it since. He's currently working on a few feature films as well as cutting other shorts, documentaries and a web series (HOLD, PLEASE).

Eric Potter graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory where he was awarded the 2004 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Scholarship.

He has edited documentaries and commercials for Atlanta Housing Authority, Refugee Women’s Network, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Phoenix House Foundation, Starbucks, Actual Reality Pictures, Verve Music Group, Life Rolls On Foundation, and the Weather Channel.

His recent projects include the feature films: Elegy, Henry Poole Is Here, The Midnight Meat Train, and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.

He was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award in 2006.

Darrell Bryan has worked in many capacities over the years. His focus now is on acting. He recently appeared on CBS's CRIMINAL MINDS, and wrapped work in the feature film DRIFTER: HENRY LEE LUCAS. He does sound only for those very dear to him.

Jim Fink has worked in the video production industry for thirty years and has been a professional video editor for 25 years. In September of 1986 he started FrameLine Production Co., Inc. in Ashland, Oregon. FrameLine existed for 3 years until he and his family moved to Austin, Texas so that his wife, Joanne Hershfield, could pursue her PhD. While living in Texas, Jim worked as a contract editor for dozens of post-production companies in Austin, Houston and Dallas. For the past fourteen years Jim has been working in the video post-production industry in North Carolina and quickly developed a reputation as a creative an accomplished high-end editor of commercials, corporate productions, and documentaries. He is also a highly skilled post-production supervisor.

In 1999, Jim started New Century Digital Media, a High-End Digital Video Post Production Facility in Chapel Hill North Carolina. He is a partner with Robert F. Landau who has been an established Long Form and Commercial Editor for more than 30 years and now lives in Burbank, Calif.

New Century Digital Media, also known as NCDM.tv is also actively involved in new Media, Video Streaming and of course, Post Production using Avid DS and FCP systems. Web site: http://www.ncdm.tv/

Hal Cantor has written for the stage, television, and film. The web series, HOLD, PLEASE, marks his writing debut on the Internet. He is currently writing two projects for producer John Davis: a one-hour drama, which has been optioned by Fox Television Studios, and an action-comedy feature. Prior to this, Hal sold a one-hour drama pilot to SHOWTIME, entitled THE LAKE EFFECT. His full-length play, CUBICLES, which he also directed, was presented at ALLIANCE REPERTORY THEATER in Burbank—where it garnered 7 Theater League nominations including Best Play, Best Writing For the Stage, and Best Director. Additional theater credits include: I Wanna Be Nick EASY (Pantheon Theater, NYC); THE BONUS ROUND (American Theater of Actors, NYC); MADE FROM CONCENTRATE (Altered Stages Theater, NYC). Additional television and film credits include TWILIGHT, a one-hour drama pilot written for Sony Pictures Television; the parody short, NYPD JEW, which can be seen on ifilm.com; several short films, which he’s written and directed, including DEPARTED (selection: Silverlake Film Festival); and numerous shows for the VH1 Music Channel.

Royana Black (Mandy Stern) lives a dual life. Her career as an actress spans 25, starting as a young child on Broadway in Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs". Her theatre background includes such venues as Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The WPA Theatre, and in Los Angeles, The Odyssey, The Cast Theatre, The Complex Theatre, The Alliance Repertory Company and others. She has had the good fortune to work with writers such as Neil Simon, the late Wendy Wasserstein, Hal Cantor, Stephen Fechter, Angus McLaughlin & MZ Ribalow, to name a few. Television credits include the title character in the CBS series "Raising Miranda" and guest stars on "Touched by an Angel", "The Cosby Show", "Touching Evil", "Related". Film credits include the soon-to-be-released "A Beautiful Life", Woody Allen's "Radio Days" and the indies "Fixed", "Happy is Not Hard to Be". Royana is currently the Artistic Director of the Alliance Repertory Company (still looking for a home!) and is also the West Coast producing arm of New River Dramatists (http://www.newriverdramatists.org/). She would like to thank her cell phone provider AT&T, her wonderful manager, Melanie Sharp, the talented and life-saving Hal Cantor, MZ Ribalow, her friends and family, her lovely fiancé JP Hubbell and most importantly, all of the bosses she's had over the years, none of whom suffered too greatly. She feels very grateful to have her current job in Investment Banking, as it provides not only a paycheck, but great material.

Deb Hiett moved to L.A. after years of living in New York City, where she performed in such diverse Off-Broadway shows as "Henry V," "Crimes of the Heart," "Whisky Down," and the European tour of "West Side Story." Since moving to L.A., Deb has appeared on "The Office," "Desperate Housewives," "Prison Break," "Boston Legal," "Passions," and HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher." Her one-woman show, "Tattoo Expo and Accordion Show" premiered at L.A.'s Second City Theater, which is also where her original sketch comedy show "Deb and Rick on a Stick" premiered (co-written and performed with Richard Kuhlman). More at www.debhiett.com.

Bettina Adger graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English and Theater. She has been living in Los Angeles for the past 4 years working in theater, film, and television. Some past television credits include The Bold and The Beautiful, Fashion House, and Watch Over Me. Theater credits with the Alliance Repertory Company include: Sister Cities, Cubicles (written/directed by Hal Cantor), and Nice Tits. Bettina is a member of AFTRA and SAG. She hopes that Hold, Please takes off, and she doesn't have to go to law school.

Judy Kain has been making her living acting professionally for 30years in Los Angeles television and films. Prior to that she attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and attained a BFA degree, graduating in the top of her class.

Judy is classically trained and applies a lot of her theatre background to her work in commercials. She also studied with Dena Dietrich (It's not nice to fool Mother Nature) and Michael Holmes, as well as Ken McMillan for scene study work. She has trained at Second City with Paul Sills in Improv and worked with the Groundlings and Gary Austin. She also co-wrote and produced the award-winning show "Women Who Judge Too Much and the Mothers Who Made Them." Judy has been a Television Series Regular on The Jackie Thomas Show and recurred on several sitcoms such as "Married with Children," "For Your Love,” “Manhattan, AZ" and "Grosse Pointe." Most recently she shot a pilot for FOX called ERNESTO with Wilmer Valderama. She teaches on camera Commercial acting with Francene Selkirk and coaches privately.

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After spending the first 14 years of his life overseas in countries like India, Pakistan, Greece and Lebanon, Callen finally moved to the USA. He went to high school in Massachusetts and earned his BA in History at American University in Washington D.C. Callen made his television debut as a series regular on “Mad TV” and the HBO prison series “OZ”. He has appeared on several television series including “Fat Actress,” “Sex and the City,” “7th Heaven,” Stacked, “King of Queens”, “Las Vegas,” “Significant Others,” “West Wing,” “CSI”, “Law and Order: SVU,” “NYPD Blue,” “Suddenly Susan,” “Frasier,” “News Radio,” and most recently as Rob Rubino in the HBO series Entourage. In addition, Callen has appeared in such feature films as “Bad Santa,” “Old School” and “Scary Movie 4.” In 2008 he will be appearing along side Will Ferrell and Jeremy Piven in the film “The Goods: The Don Ready Story.” He has performed stand up comedy on several TV shows including “The Late Show With David Letterman.” He hopes to make a lot of money someday so he can have a helicopter, servants, and a large entourage which is to include a Giant, acrobats and a pet eagle.

Geoffrey Sharp is a writer/director living in Silver Lake, California. These days he spends most of his creative energy writing and directing non-fiction programming for History, Discovery, National Geographic and other channels. He has written pilots and features for ABC, Showtime, Touchstone, Disney Channel and many other outlets. “Walter and Henry” a Showtime Family film, which he wrote and produced, was nominated for a Daytime Emmy, a DGA award and several other honors in 2003. His Feature film, “Slings and Arrows” played at Film festivals around the world and premiered on Starz pay per view. Before he moved behind the camera, Geoffrey was an actor who appeared in the National Tour of “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” and in the original Tony award winning Broadway production of “Biloxi Blues.” He appeared in many Off-Broadway shows and on the television soaps, “Another World” and “As the World Turns” but unfortunately never bothered to tape any of his soap opera “performances.” People always tell him he looks a lot younger than his age.

Brad Lipson has been in the film business for 30 years. He started his career in Denver, Colorado in 1979 where he learned not only electric and lighting, but all aspects of filmmaking. He started working for a gaffer who owned a small lighting company and quickly worked his way up to Best Boy as the lighting company began to grow.

By the mid 1980’s Brad was gaffing movies of the week for Viacom, such as the“Perry Mason Returns” series. He and a partner then opened up their own production company and wrote, produced, shot and edited commercials and short film projects. In 1996 Brad moved to Los Angeles to live and work in the epicenter of the film industry. He entered the market as a Gaffer with the main VFX unit on the movie “Titanic” and has continued gaffing on numerous independent feature films, television projects and countless commercials.

Recently Brad began pursuing work as a Director of Photography. He shot a comedy series for Spike TV called “Factory” which enabled him to join Local 600. He then worked on the TV series “Ugly Betty” as the Chief Lighting Technician and Director of Photography for double-up days. Brad enjoyed working with Hal Cantor and Geoffrey Sharp on “Hold Please”. The writing, directing and acting was fantastic and the collaboration on the set made the
project creative and fun. Everybody brought something unique to the table which helped elevate the production value and creative process resulting in a better show.

Michael Gordon Shapiro has scored seven feature films and numerous industrial, multimedia, and video game projects, all of which was really a prelude to his music for Hal Cantor's "Hold Please". Michael has fond memories of Hal lording over his music studio, screaming for more pathos, and threatening to replace him with his cousin who plays guitar in a band. Visit Michael on the web at www.mikemusic.com.

Craig moved to LA a week after graduating from college with no car, no job and no apartment. Through the goodwill of great friends and a lot of luck, he got work in post production and has been in it since. He's currently working on a few feature films as well as cutting other shorts, documentaries and a web series (HOLD, PLEASE).

Eric Potter graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory where he was awarded the 2004 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Scholarship.

He has edited documentaries and commercials for Atlanta Housing Authority, Refugee Women’s Network, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Phoenix House Foundation, Starbucks, Actual Reality Pictures, Verve Music Group, Life Rolls On Foundation, and the Weather Channel.

His recent projects include the feature films: Elegy, Henry Poole Is Here, The Midnight Meat Train, and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.

He was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award in 2006.

Darrell Bryan has worked in many capacities over the years. His focus now is on acting. He recently appeared on CBS's CRIMINAL MINDS, and wrapped work in the feature film DRIFTER: HENRY LEE LUCAS. He does sound only for those very dear to him.

Jim Fink has worked in the video production industry for thirty years and has been a professional video editor for 25 years. In September of 1986 he started FrameLine Production Co., Inc. in Ashland, Oregon. FrameLine existed for 3 years until he and his family moved to Austin, Texas so that his wife, Joanne Hershfield, could pursue her PhD. While living in Texas, Jim worked as a contract editor for dozens of post-production companies in Austin, Houston and Dallas. For the past fourteen years Jim has been working in the video post-production industry in North Carolina and quickly developed a reputation as a creative an accomplished high-end editor of commercials, corporate productions, and documentaries. He is also a highly skilled post-production supervisor.

In 1999, Jim started New Century Digital Media, a High-End Digital Video Post Production Facility in Chapel Hill North Carolina. He is a partner with Robert F. Landau who has been an established Long Form and Commercial Editor for more than 30 years and now lives in Burbank, Calif.

New Century Digital Media, also known as NCDM.tv is also actively involved in new Media, Video Streaming and of course, Post Production using Avid DS and FCP systems. Web site: http://www.ncdm.tv/

Hal Cantor has written for the stage, television, and film. The web series, HOLD, PLEASE, marks his writing debut on the Internet. He is currently writing two projects for producer John Davis: a one-hour drama, which has been optioned by Fox Television Studios, and an action-comedy feature. Prior to this, Hal sold a one-hour drama pilot to SHOWTIME, entitled THE LAKE EFFECT. His full-length play, CUBICLES, which he also directed, was presented at ALLIANCE REPERTORY THEATER in Burbank—where it garnered 7 Theater League nominations including Best Play, Best Writing For the Stage, and Best Director. Additional theater credits include: I Wanna Be Nick EASY (Pantheon Theater, NYC); THE BONUS ROUND (American Theater of Actors, NYC); MADE FROM CONCENTRATE (Altered Stages Theater, NYC). Additional television and film credits include TWILIGHT, a one-hour drama pilot written for Sony Pictures Television; the parody short, NYPD JEW, which can be seen on ifilm.com; several short films, which he’s written and directed, including DEPARTED (selection: Silverlake Film Festival); and numerous shows for the VH1 Music Channel.

Royana Black (Mandy Stern) lives a dual life. Her career as an actress spans 25, starting as a young child on Broadway in Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs". Her theatre background includes such venues as Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The WPA Theatre, and in Los Angeles, The Odyssey, The Cast Theatre, The Complex Theatre, The Alliance Repertory Company and others. She has had the good fortune to work with writers such as Neil Simon, the late Wendy Wasserstein, Hal Cantor, Stephen Fechter, Angus McLaughlin & MZ Ribalow, to name a few. Television credits include the title character in the CBS series "Raising Miranda" and guest stars on "Touched by an Angel", "The Cosby Show", "Touching Evil", "Related". Film credits include the soon-to-be-released "A Beautiful Life", Woody Allen's "Radio Days" and the indies "Fixed", "Happy is Not Hard to Be". Royana is currently the Artistic Director of the Alliance Repertory Company (still looking for a home!) and is also the West Coast producing arm of New River Dramatists (http://www.newriverdramatists.org/). She would like to thank her cell phone provider AT&T, her wonderful manager, Melanie Sharp, the talented and life-saving Hal Cantor, MZ Ribalow, her friends and family, her lovely fiancé JP Hubbell and most importantly, all of the bosses she's had over the years, none of whom suffered too greatly. She feels very grateful to have her current job in Investment Banking, as it provides not only a paycheck, but great material.

Deb Hiett moved to L.A. after years of living in New York City, where she performed in such diverse Off-Broadway shows as "Henry V," "Crimes of the Heart," "Whisky Down," and the European tour of "West Side Story." Since moving to L.A., Deb has appeared on "The Office," "Desperate Housewives," "Prison Break," "Boston Legal," "Passions," and HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher." Her one-woman show, "Tattoo Expo and Accordion Show" premiered at L.A.'s Second City Theater, which is also where her original sketch comedy show "Deb and Rick on a Stick" premiered (co-written and performed with Richard Kuhlman). More at www.debhiett.com.

Bettina Adger graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English and Theater. She has been living in Los Angeles for the past 4 years working in theater, film, and television. Some past television credits include The Bold and The Beautiful, Fashion House, and Watch Over Me. Theater credits with the Alliance Repertory Company include: Sister Cities, Cubicles (written/directed by Hal Cantor), and Nice Tits. Bettina is a member of AFTRA and SAG. She hopes that Hold, Please takes off, and she doesn't have to go to law school.

Judy Kain has been making her living acting professionally for 30years in Los Angeles television and films. Prior to that she attended the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and attained a BFA degree, graduating in the top of her class.

Judy is classically trained and applies a lot of her theatre background to her work in commercials. She also studied with Dena Dietrich (It's not nice to fool Mother Nature) and Michael Holmes, as well as Ken McMillan for scene study work. She has trained at Second City with Paul Sills in Improv and worked with the Groundlings and Gary Austin. She also co-wrote and produced the award-winning show "Women Who Judge Too Much and the Mothers Who Made Them." Judy has been a Television Series Regular on The Jackie Thomas Show and recurred on several sitcoms such as "Married with Children," "For Your Love,” “Manhattan, AZ" and "Grosse Pointe." Most recently she shot a pilot for FOX called ERNESTO with Wilmer Valderama. She teaches on camera Commercial acting with Francene Selkirk and coaches privately.

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After spending the first 14 years of his life overseas in countries like India, Pakistan, Greece and Lebanon, Callen finally moved to the USA. He went to high school in Massachusetts and earned his BA in History at American University in Washington D.C. Callen made his television debut as a series regular on “Mad TV” and the HBO prison series “OZ”. He has appeared on several television series including “Fat Actress,” “Sex and the City,” “7th Heaven,” Stacked, “King of Queens”, “Las Vegas,” “Significant Others,” “West Wing,” “CSI”, “Law and Order: SVU,” “NYPD Blue,” “Suddenly Susan,” “Frasier,” “News Radio,” and most recently as Rob Rubino in the HBO series Entourage. In addition, Callen has appeared in such feature films as “Bad Santa,” “Old School” and “Scary Movie 4.” In 2008 he will be appearing along side Will Ferrell and Jeremy Piven in the film “The Goods: The Don Ready Story.” He has performed stand up comedy on several TV shows including “The Late Show With David Letterman.” He hopes to make a lot of money someday so he can have a helicopter, servants, and a large entourage which is to include a Giant, acrobats and a pet eagle.

Geoffrey Sharp is a writer/director living in Silver Lake, California. These days he spends most of his creative energy writing and directing non-fiction programming for History, Discovery, National Geographic and other channels. He has written pilots and features for ABC, Showtime, Touchstone, Disney Channel and many other outlets. “Walter and Henry” a Showtime Family film, which he wrote and produced, was nominated for a Daytime Emmy, a DGA award and several other honors in 2003. His Feature film, “Slings and Arrows” played at Film festivals around the world and premiered on Starz pay per view. Before he moved behind the camera, Geoffrey was an actor who appeared in the National Tour of “Brighton Beach Memoirs,” and in the original Tony award winning Broadway production of “Biloxi Blues.” He appeared in many Off-Broadway shows and on the television soaps, “Another World” and “As the World Turns” but unfortunately never bothered to tape any of his soap opera “performances.” People always tell him he looks a lot younger than his age.

Brad Lipson has been in the film business for 30 years. He started his career in Denver, Colorado in 1979 where he learned not only electric and lighting, but all aspects of filmmaking. He started working for a gaffer who owned a small lighting company and quickly worked his way up to Best Boy as the lighting company began to grow.

By the mid 1980’s Brad was gaffing movies of the week for Viacom, such as the“Perry Mason Returns” series. He and a partner then opened up their own production company and wrote, produced, shot and edited commercials and short film projects. In 1996 Brad moved to Los Angeles to live and work in the epicenter of the film industry. He entered the market as a Gaffer with the main VFX unit on the movie “Titanic” and has continued gaffing on numerous independent feature films, television projects and countless commercials.

Recently Brad began pursuing work as a Director of Photography. He shot a comedy series for Spike TV called “Factory” which enabled him to join Local 600. He then worked on the TV series “Ugly Betty” as the Chief Lighting Technician and Director of Photography for double-up days. Brad enjoyed working with Hal Cantor and Geoffrey Sharp on “Hold Please”. The writing, directing and acting was fantastic and the collaboration on the set made the
project creative and fun. Everybody brought something unique to the table which helped elevate the production value and creative process resulting in a better show.

Michael Gordon Shapiro has scored seven feature films and numerous industrial, multimedia, and video game projects, all of which was really a prelude to his music for Hal Cantor's "Hold Please". Michael has fond memories of Hal lording over his music studio, screaming for more pathos, and threatening to replace him with his cousin who plays guitar in a band. Visit Michael on the web at www.mikemusic.com.

Craig moved to LA a week after graduating from college with no car, no job and no apartment. Through the goodwill of great friends and a lot of luck, he got work in post production and has been in it since. He's currently working on a few feature films as well as cutting other shorts, documentaries and a web series (HOLD, PLEASE).

Eric Potter graduated from the American Film Institute Conservatory where he was awarded the 2004 Hollywood Foreign Press Association Scholarship.

He has edited documentaries and commercials for Atlanta Housing Authority, Refugee Women’s Network, the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Phoenix House Foundation, Starbucks, Actual Reality Pictures, Verve Music Group, Life Rolls On Foundation, and the Weather Channel.

His recent projects include the feature films: Elegy, Henry Poole Is Here, The Midnight Meat Train, and Underworld: Rise of the Lycans.

He was nominated for an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award in 2006.

Darrell Bryan has worked in many capacities over the years. His focus now is on acting. He recently appeared on CBS's CRIMINAL MINDS, and wrapped work in the feature film DRIFTER: HENRY LEE LUCAS. He does sound only for those very dear to him.

Jim Fink has worked in the video production industry for thirty years and has been a professional video editor for 25 years. In September of 1986 he started FrameLine Production Co., Inc. in Ashland, Oregon. FrameLine existed for 3 years until he and his family moved to Austin, Texas so that his wife, Joanne Hershfield, could pursue her PhD. While living in Texas, Jim worked as a contract editor for dozens of post-production companies in Austin, Houston and Dallas. For the past fourteen years Jim has been working in the video post-production industry in North Carolina and quickly developed a reputation as a creative an accomplished high-end editor of commercials, corporate productions, and documentaries. He is also a highly skilled post-production supervisor.

In 1999, Jim started New Century Digital Media, a High-End Digital Video Post Production Facility in Chapel Hill North Carolina. He is a partner with Robert F. Landau who has been an established Long Form and Commercial Editor for more than 30 years and now lives in Burbank, Calif.

New Century Digital Media, also known as NCDM.tv is also actively involved in new Media, Video Streaming and of course, Post Production using Avid DS and FCP systems. Web site: http://www.ncdm.tv/