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Adam Ferrara is a stand-up comedian and actor who proudly played Chief Needles Nelson on the Emmy nominated FX drama series Rescue Me (2004) with Denis Leary and Frank Verelli on Showtime's hit series Nurse Jackie (2009) opposite Emmy Award winner Edie Falco. Ferrara has also costarred alongside Kevin James in the hit movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) and in Definitely, Maybe (2008) with Ryan Reynolds and Isla Fisher.
Presently Adam hosts the critically acclaimed BBC sensation, Top Gear USA (2008), airing on History. Additionally, Adam is an internationally touring headliner, two-time nominee for best male stand-up by the American Comedy Awards, and has three Comedy Central Specials. Ferrara has also appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2009), The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), "The Late Show with David Letterman" (1989)_, _"The View" (2000)_ and Rachael Ray (2006).
Ferrara's earlier TV credits include NBC's Law & Order (1990), ABC's Ugly Betty (2006), CBS's The King of Queens (1998), as well as a series regular on the critically acclaimed ABC show, The Job (2001), starring opposite Denis Leary. At a Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, Denis Leary was quoted as saying, "Adam Ferrara is a great comedian, but he's really pissing me off now because he's become such a great dramatic actor."
Apart from opening for his comedy idol, George Carlin, and performing at both Carnegie Hall and Radio City Music Hall, Ferrara was asked to perform at a benefit for the President and all of the Senators.
Adam Ferrara lives between New York City & Los Angeles and is married to indie actress Alex Tyler.- Music Department
- Actor
- Composer
Winner of the Richard Rodgers Award, the American Theatre Wing's Jonathan Larson Award, and the Edgerton Award as composer/co-lyricist of the musical, "The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea", Andrew Chukerman works extensively in film, television, theatre, and concert work, as a composer, orchestrator, music director, and keyboardist.
Andrew's keyboard work is credited on Rod Stewart's series of multi-platinum, Grammy-winning standards albums, "The Great American Songbook, Vol. 1-3", with combined sales of over 12 million units. Having made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2000 as a composer and pianist with the New York Pops Orchestra for his work, "My Only Son," Andrew can also be heard as arranger and keyboardist on Carly Simon's standards album, "Moonlight Serenade." As a keyboardist/pianist he's played for such diverse award-winning artists as Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Reba McEntire, Carole King, Pink, Al Jarreau, Stephanie Mills, Bette Midler, Elvis Costello, and David Foster amongst many others.
Andrew's score to Le Chase (2006) received the 2006 "Best Score" Grand Prize at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, and he's worked on such hit primetime network TV series as Westworld (2016), Glee (2009), Frasier (1993), Murphy Brown (1988), Charmed (1998), and The Wonder Years (1988) amongst many others. Most recently, Andrew worked on Rules Don't Apply (2016) written, directed, and starring Warren Beatty, and he was hired to do all of the historical period music research for the well-received feature film, Tombstone (1993) while still in music school.
In addition to his above-referenced Carnegie Hall performance, Andrew's live orchestral commissions include "Hallelujah: A Soulful Celebration" for the Atlanta Symphony (broadcast nationally on PBS), as well as an extensive 15-minute medley in 2015 honoring jazz legend Ramsey Lewis for the Ravinia Festival in celebration of his 80th birthday.
Originally from Chicago, Andrew possessed perfect pitch at the age of four, and was recommended to study jazz and improvisational piano with the highly-esteemed Lucille Gould. Post-secondary studies brought him to Los Angeles where he was a music major at Occidental College, completed two full-time programs at the Grove School of Music in Composing, Arranging, and Film Scoring, as well as selected for two fellowships in film scoring with both ASCAP and BMI.
Andrew is a music branch member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS), the Recording Academy (NARAS), ASCAP, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).- Writer
- Music Department
- Producer
Caprice Crane is a screenwriter/TV Writer/Internationally-Bestselling Novelist known for her insightful and relatable comedy. Her television credits include the 90210 reboot (2008 - 2009) as well as the Melrose Place reboot (2009 - 2010) and her feature film, Love, Wedding, Marriage was released in 2011. Prior to writing for network television Caprice wrote for MTV and VH1, providing content and comedy including the MTV Video Music Awards in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Caprice has spent the last few years dividing her time between New York and Los Angeles writing novels, screenplays, and most recently selling pilots and developing her own TV shows with NBC, CBS and 20th Century Fox.- Actor
- Producer
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Charlie Carver was born in San Francisco, California.
At a young age, Charlie moved up to a small town in the Napa Valley. It was there in school that Charlie had his first exposure to acting. He went on to study at the Interlochen Arts Academy, ACT San Francisco, and the University of Southern California, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Art History.
Carver's acting debut came in 2008 when he won the role of Porter Scavo in ABC's Desperate Housewives. Other roles followed in Teen Wolf and The Leftovers.- Additional Crew
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Courtney Miller is a filmmaker, writer, producer and choreographer whose musical short film "REPAIRations" garnered him multiple awards and the attention of The Gersh Agency.
He has directed commercials for Nike, Apple, and Hewlett-Packard utilizing his comedic timing and dance background honed as a choreographer for such television shows as "New Girl" and "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia".
His feature directing credits include Twisted House Sitter for Tubi, 13th Step (Under The Influence) for TVOne, and Judgement Day for Bounce TV.
Prior to his feature film career, he directed, co-created, and co-executive produced, Mandy Moore's "Candy" tour, choreographing "Scream" and "Ghosts" music videos for Michael Jackson, along with videos for Usher "My Way", Britney Spears "Crazy", and Destiny Child's "No,No,No" and "Bugaboo" music videos.- Actor
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- Writer
Douglas Hodge is a Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle award winning actor, composer, director and writer. Recent films include Alfred in Joker, Gemini man The Report and Red Sparrow. Recent TV includes The Great, Black Mirror, Lost In Space, Catastrophe and Penny Dreadful. Tony and Olivier awards on Broadway and the West End for La Cage Aux Folles and originated the role of Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Drury Lane in London's West End. Ten years working as an actor and director with Harold Pinter. Major Shakespearean and classical roles at the Royal National Theatre and R.S.C. and The Globe. New plays by Pinter, Barker, Penhall, Johnson and more at the RoyalCourt, Almeida, Classic Stage and Donmar Associate Director at Donmar Theatre and director of many plays on West End and on Broadway Stiles and Drewe Best Song Award and composer and lyricist of 101 Dalmatians, Meantime and Wigmaker on the West End. Trained at RADA and a council member alumni of the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain for many years.- Production Designer
- Set Decorator
- Art Department
Originally from Scotland, Emma Fairley started working in Los Angeles early on in her career, designing hundreds of advertising campaigns and music videos. She has designed multiple films and two television series and has worked extensively in the US, UK and throughout Europe. She is fluent in both English and French.- Eric Lawrence Lively was born Eric Lawrence Brown on July 31, 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia & raised in Los Angeles, California. His mother, Elaine Lively (née McAlpin), is an acting coach and talent manager, and his father, Ernie Lively (born Ernest Wilson Brown Jr.), is an actor and teacher. His family works in the Entertainment Industry, with his sister being actress Blake Lively, his half-siblings being thespians Robyn Lively Jason Lively, and Lori Lively, and his brothers-in-law being actors Ryan Reynolds' and Bart Johnson.
Eric finished high school at the age of 15 and immediately moved to New York where he planned to get a degree in photography from The Parsons School of Design. After being approached by The Ford Agency to model... he landed campaigns such as Abercrombie and Fitch, Levi's, and Tommy Hilfiger. This gave him the opportunity to learn from photographers he admired.
He returned to Los Angeles, where he resides, after booking a small role in American Pie (1999). - Editor
- Editorial Department
- Actress
Heather Capps is a twice-nominated ACE® Award editor living in Los Angeles, California. Recognized in the "Best Edited Comedy Series for Commercial Television" category for hit series Portlandia, she is also known for her work on projects such as Twisted Metal, Loot, Shrill, and Comedy Bang! Bang! Capps' credits span film and television and include various projects on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.
Capps started her career as an Assistant Editor on Comedy Central's Nathan For You and Adult Swim's Tim and Eric's Bedtime Stories before editing with the team on Nuts!, an Amazon documentary directed by Penny Lane which won the "U.S. Documentary Editing Award" at Sundance.- Director
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Jerry Foley is best known as the Director and Supervising Producer of The Late Show with David Letterman and Executive Producer/Director of the Live on Letterman concert series. As a network Technical Director, Foley moved from NBC to CBS with David Letterman in 1993. In June of 1995, he succeeded Hal Gurnee as Director of the Late Show. After leaving Late Show for about a month in 2003, Foley returned as Director and was named Supervising Producer. He produced and directed the America Salutes You benefit concert for the Tribune/Sinclair networks in November of 2016. In December of 2016, he directed the NBC prime time special Tony Bennett Celebrates 90-The Best Is Yet To Come. Jerry Foley has also directed episodes of The View and Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC. After directing an off-Broadway presentation of Dorothy Dandridge-Hollywood's Sepia Goddess for The Amas Musical Theater group, Foley directed the ABC series Sundays With Alec Baldwin (fall 2018). Jerry Foley has received thirteen directing Emmy nominations.- Actor
- Director
- Stunts
Lewis Tan is a half Chinese half English, film, television and theatre actor. He played as the series regular Gaius Chau on season three of AMC's "Into The Badlands" ; Lu Xin Lee on Netflix's first Asian American original series "Wu Assassins" and many films including the record breaking Marvel film "Deadpool 2" and most recently the lead role in James Wans Warner Bros reboot of "Mortal Kombat"
Born in Manchester, England to a fashion model Joanne Cassidy and national champion martial artists Philip Tan. Lewis moved to Los Angeles at a young age as his father was making a mark on action cinema as a stuntman and fight choreographer working on legendary films like "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", "Batman" and "Tango and Cash". Lewis began learning martial arts from his father while at the same time attending theatre school. Lewis had multiple honors in school as well as winning many amateur fights in kickboxing and Muay Thai.
After graduating Lewis began his professional career guest starring in TV shows from "CSI:NY", "CSI:Miami", "Hawaii 5-0" to his first major films including "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", and "Den of Thieves".
At the same time Lewis gained notable fame as a fashion model. He signed with Wilhelmina modeling agency and secured a contract as the face of Nivea in Asia for a few years doing numerous campaigns and commercials. He did many editorial ads including Diesel, Dolce and Gabanna, Puma and Levi's.
Lewis was then picked by Forest Whitaker to play the lead in the indie drama "Sacrifice", this was the start of his film career. The film won awards at many film festivals, it was then that Lewis received world wide attention for his guest role in Marvel's "Iron Fist" where he played the drunken master "Zhou Cheng", the scene was top ten most paused Netflix moments of the year and the scene received a viral campaign with fans asking for a more prominent role.
Lewis is known for performing his own action scenes and got the attention of the show runners Al Gough and Miles Milar of AMC's "Into the Badlands", securing him a lead role in season 3 of the show, led by famous choreographer from "Kill Bill" and "The Matrix" Master Dee Dee. His role on the show and his action ability gained him more critical acclaim.
In 2018 Lewis began filming a lead role in Netflix's Asian American action series "Wu Assassins" along side Kathryn Winnick and Iko Uwais. He plays the flamboyant gangster Lu Xin Lee, the show premiered to great reviews both with fans and critics.
Lewis continues to be a strong voice in the Asian American media as an advocate for diversity and original story telling.
In 2019 Lewis was cast as the lead role in James Wan's reboot of "Mortal Kombat" for Warner Brothers and New Line. The film was released April 23, 2021 in theaters and HBO Max on the same day. The film's trailer broke the record for most watched R rated film of all time and is the most watched WB film.
In 2021 Lewis will star in the Netflix action film "Fistful of Vengeance" and alongside Emma Roberts in the romance comedy "About Fate". He is also producing and starring in the spy series "Quantum Spy" with partner Tony Krantz and is in development for his first feature film as a director.- Actress
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Mercedes Mason immigrated to the United States at the age of 12. At age 13 she was discovered by FORD modeling agency, launching her into an international modeling career while attending high school. While studying psychology in college, she booked her first audition opposite Vince Vaughn in The Break-Up (2006). After graduating, she starred in Red Sands (2009) opposite Shane West and J.K. Simmons. She then continued the franchise cult favorite Quarantine (2008) as the lead in Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011) for Sony Screen Gems. Mercedes gained notoriety for her role in the film Three Veils (2011), getting nominated for Best Supporting Actress by the UK International Filmmaker Festival in 2011. Three Veils went on to win numerous awards including Best Feature Film at ARPA International Film Festival. Mercedes can most recently be seen on ABC's The Rookie (2018) as Captain Zoe Andersen. She's also appeared in critically acclaimed shows like Entourage (2004), The Closer (2005), and Traffic Light (2011), as well as recurring in the fan favorite, Chuck (2007). She was also the lead female in FOX's Bones (2005) spin-off, The Finder (2012), opposite Oscar nominated Michael Clarke Duncan. She starred in the ABC hit series, 666 Park Avenue (2012), with Emmy Award winner Terry O'Quinn and Emmy Nominated Vanessa Williams. She had recurring rolls on Californication (2007), opposite David Duchovny, NCIS: Los Angeles (2009), and Anger Management (2012) opposite Charlie Sheen.- Nicole Lauren Ryan (née Salpeter) is a TV and Radio Host who started her career working at the front desk of the Sirius-XM offices while it was still a fledgling start up company. Nicole worked her way up being on the radio, doing promos and sweepers.
Producers for SiriusXM took notice of Nicole's natural fit for radio; her voice was pleasing, she was likable, and she could strike up a conversation with anyone that came walking through the studio doors. It wasn't long before they offered her the co host position on The Morning Mash Up, their most listened to morning show (next to Howard Stern), on Hits 1. Nicole was an instant success and quickly expanded her role to include entertainment reporter and producer for Hits 1's "411" segment which provides listeners with hourly updates in the world of music, movies, television, and pop culture as a whole.
As the popularity of Morning Mash Up continued to grow, Nicole solidified herself as a pop culture expert and started to branch out into television. She made appearances on E!'s Chelsea Lately, The Food Network's Guys Big Bite and Vh1's You Oughta Know Concert series. Before long she landed her own weekly show on Fuse TV titled The United States of Hip Hop where she interviewed such industry heavyweights as: Talib Kweli, Kendrick Lamar, Chris Rock and many more. Recently, VH1 had her co host guest appearances on their Morning Buzz with Nick Lachey.
Nicole Ryan has also been a spokesperson for Nivea, 808 Audio, Uppababy and Stella Valle. As Nivea's Brand ambassador Nicole co hosted the "Nivea stage" in Times Square on New Year's Eve for two consecutive years in 2013 and 2014. She also frequents red carpets acting as a correspondent for various networks including OK!TV.
Nicole's magnetic and quick witted personality is the reason she is a requested interviewer by many well known celebrities including: Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, Seth Rogan, Katy Perry, Hugh Jackman, Lady Gaga, Neil Patrick Harris, J. Lo and Adam Levine. Her approach is disarming, and it allows Nicole to lock her guest and her audience into an engaging conversation that is interesting and meaningful.
Perhaps the most appealing thing about Nicole is her balanced life and her diverse interests. Not only is she a TV/Radio Host, Brand Ambassador and Pop Culture Expert, she is also a Key Note Speaker, Chef, Wife, and Mother. Ms. Ryan holds each role in her life with the same weight. As Nicole moves forward in her professional career, she looks to increase her presence in the Television space with Sketch Comedies, MC or hosting gigs for shows such as E! News, Extra, Entertainment Tonight, Access Hollywood, etc.
Nicole Ryan is managed by Primary Wave Talent Management (other clients include but are not limited to: Gina Rodriguez, Cat Cora, CeeLo Green, Gabrielle Union and Melissa Etheridge). - Actor
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- Director
Richard is a veteran of Film and Television with an incredibly diverse body of work.
His career began with a series of cult, genre, and family film films including the Quentin Tarantino favorite "Vice Girls," the Genesis Award winning, "The Bike Squad," and the groundbreaking "Call of the Wild 3D."
"InSight" was theatrically released to critical acclaim Yahoo Movies calling it "Well Directed and Acted From Start to Finish." The feature starring Natalie Zea, Sean Patrick Flanery, and Christopher Lloyd was later picked up by A&E Networks for it's World Television Premiere.
Subsequently, Richard Directed and Produced seven consecutive feature films that were picked up by A&E: "Imaginary Friend" starring Ethan Embry, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Schul, and Paul Sorvino, "In The Dark," starring Elisabeth Rohm, Sam Page, and Shannon Elizabeth, "The Good Mother," starring Helen Slater, Jean Louisa Kelly, Patrick Fabian and Beverly D' Angelo, "Non-Stop," starring Lacey Chabert, Drew Seeley, Will Kemp, and Veronica Cartwright, and "The Wrong Woman" (The Highest Rated Acquisition of All Time) starring Danica McKellar, Jonathan Bennett, Dina Meyer and Jim O'Heir, "Expecting Amish" which premiered as the Highest Rated Cable Program starring A J Michalka, Alyson Stoner, Jean Luc Bilodeau, and Jesse McCartney, and "Mommy I Didn't Do It," starring Danica McKellar, Jonathan Bennett and Jen Lilley.
Richard's western, Justice, starring Nathan Parsons, Stephen Lang, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Jackson Rathbone, and Ellen Holman was picked up by Universal for theatrical and then digital release.
He also recently directed two films for The Hallmark Channel, "A Gingerbread Romance," starring Tia Mowry and Duane Henry, and "A Feeling of Home" starring Nathan Parsons, Jonna Walsh and Robbie Benson.
Richard was just nominated (2020) for an Emmy as a Producer on the popular Amazon Series "The Bay."
Additionally, Richard was a producer on both Steve Boyum's Fox feature "Supercross" and the 2010 Toronto Discovery Award Winner "Beautiful Boy" which starred Michael Sheen and Maria Bello.
A graduate of USC, Richard lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.- Writer
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- Additional Crew
Emmy Winner Scarlett Lacey got her start in 2001 with Save The Last Dance at Paramount and is currently Executive Producer of The Empress for Netflix, winner of "Best Drama" at the International Emmys. In 2020, Netflix hired Scarlett as Creative Consultant to Europe, England, The Middle East and Africa. She works around the world as a producer and writer of TV and film.