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CAST:
Austin Peck (Sam)
Austin Peck portrays “Brad Snyder” on As the
World Turns. Prior to assuming this role, he played “Austin Reed,”
boxer-turned-marketing-executive, on NBC’s Days of our Lives.
Born in Hawaii and the younger of two
children, Austin and his family moved several times due to his father’s
position in the Navy, finally settling in Los Angeles when Austin was
nine. He was sixteen when a talent agent discovered him and made his
television debut in a Kellogg’s Pop Tarts commercial. Work as an
international model soon followed and Austin was lucky to grace the
pages of GQ, Vogue Hommes, British Vogue and Esquire before he
eventually turned to acting. In 1995 he landed the role on Days of our
Lives, taking over the popular role and quickly making the character
his own.
Austin has added many small and big screen
credits to his name, including Strong Medicine, The District, Charmed,
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch and independent movies Breaking Dawn and
Dating Games People Play. He is also actively involved in the theater;
as a member of Theater 40 in Beverly Hills he recently appeared to rave
reviews in “Blue Silence” and “Japanese Death Poem.”
A self-taught sketch artist, Austin lives
with his wife and their two young sons in Los Angeles.
Bryce Johnson (David)
Bryce Johnson was raised in Sioux City,
Iowa, where he lived with his mother and two brothers. For a short time
his family lived in Denver, Colorado, during his high school years,
which is where his dream to become an actor came to life. Similar to
his character on “Popular”, Johnson was the captain of the varsity
soccer team and co-captain of the school's golf team. Also, he was
elected Class president of both his Junior and Senior classes. Soon
after graduating high school in 1995, Bryce headed for Los Angeles,
California where he trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
He quickly landed a series starring role on “Popular”. He also appeared
in five episodes of the MTV comedy “Undressed”.
Since then, Johnson has starred in a number well-regarded independent
films, including the Sundance selections Harry + Max for director
Christopher Munch, Stay for Bob Goldthwait and Freshman Orientation for
Ryan Shiraki. He also has been seen on episodes of “Nip/Tuck”, “Without
a Trace”, and “Shark”.
When not working, he enjoys playing all sports, especially golf, beach
volleyball, and American football.
Tom Gilroy (Louis)
Tom Gilroy is a
writer/director/producer/actor from New York and has appeared in over
30 films, having worked with such directors as Ken Loach, Sidney Lumet,
Jean-Luc Godard, Jim McKay, Christopher Munch, Cam Archer, Paul Auster
and multi-media artist Robert Longo. He has written, directed and
produced two award winning films--the short Touch Base (IFC/BRAVO) and
the critically-acclaimed feature Spring Forward (IFC/MGM) starring Live
Schreiber, Ned Beatty, and Campbell Scott. His plays--most notably “The
Invisible Hand” and “Halcion Days” have been produced in several US
cities.
Roma Maffia (Dr.
Christopher)
From a hit television drama to a medley of
feature films, Roma Maffia graces the entertainment mediums with her
trademark sophistication and charismatic appeal. Roma portrays the
smart, no-nonsense anesthesiologist, 'Dr. Liz Cruz,' on the hit FX
drama, "Nip/Tuck." The Warner Bros. Television-produced "Nip/Tuck" won
the 2005 Golden Globe for Outstanding Drama series and received an
American Film Institute Award. The show is now in its fifth season and
has relocated its setting from Miami to Los Angeles.
Most recently, Roma wrapped production on writer/director Robert
Celestino's feature film Yonkers Joe, with Chazz Palminteri. She has
also completed production on the crime story Kingshighway, due out in
2008. Also in the can is the psychological thriller, Ghost Image for
writer/director Jack Edward Snyder.
Roma started her acting career performing off-Broadway, off-off
Broadway and in regional productions ranging from Shakespeare to Sam
Shepard. She has appeared in other films such as: The Paper, Nick of
Time, Double Jeopardy, I Am Sam, Kiss the Girls, Holes, Things You Can
Tell Just By Looking At Her. Her television credits include “Chicago
Hope”, “Profiler”, “Law & Order”, “ER”, “The Ghost Whisperer”, “The
West Wing” and “The Sopranos”.
In her free time, Roma is actively involved with the non-profit
organization, Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA) which dedicates
itself to advancing democracy and equality in South Africa. Although
she is happiest when acting, Roma also finds time to run on her
treadmill, write, play ping-pong and hang out with her two dogs, Lou Lu
and Lucky.
Lauren Stamile
(Rebecca)
Lauren Stamile has most recently landed a major recurring role on the
hit series “Grey’s Anatomy”. Playing the role of “Rose,” a smart,
strong, girl next door type, her character plays the new love interest
to Patrick Dempsey’s character “McDreamy.” Finishing up a strong 2007,
she guest starred on the shows “Scrubs”, as a sarcastic patient on her
death bed, and “CSI:NY” as a crooked CEO.
Lauren is perhaps best know through her lead
roles of “Kate Jackson” in the NBC TV Movie, Behind the Camera: The
Unauthorized Story Behind Charlie’s Angels, and “Liz Lombardi” in the
WB series “Off Centre”, where she played opposite John Cho and Eddie
Kaye Thomas.
With an extremely strong resume in prime time television, and roles
that range from adorable paralegals to SWAT team leaders, she has also
guest-starred on many of today's hottest shows, including “Heroes”,
“Boston Legal”, “Numb3rs”, “Criminals Minds”, “CSI: MIAMI”, “The West
Wing”, “Cole Case”, “Crossing Jordan”, and “Without a Trace”.
Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Stamile describes herself as a
"histrionic" child, due to the fact that she was the middle of five
children. She performed in her first play at age 4 and started a
theater program at her high school. After majoring in theater at
Northwestern University, Stamile moved to New York and then Hollywood
to pursue acting professionally.
Amber Benson (The
Fan)
At the age of fourteen, Amber Benson's
family moved from Birmingham, Alabama, to Los Angeles, where Amber
began her professional career as an actor and writer. Since then she
has made over a dozen films, including King of the Hill and Imaginary
Crimes, yet it was her three season stint as “Tara Maclay” on the hit
show “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” that brought her wider acclaim.
An actress/writer/director, her most recent
work includes the independent films Latter Days, Race You to the
Bottom, Chance and Lovers, and Liars and Lunatics. The latter two she
also wrote, produced, and directed. Among Benson's other film credits
are The Crush, and Bye Bye Love. Upcoming projects include the original
Sci Fi Channel movie Gryphon and the independent films Strictly Sexual
and Tripping Forward.
She is also the co-author (with Christopher
Golden) of two novels for Random House: The Ghosts of Albion: Accursed
and Witchery.
Karen Black (Zena)
When Karen Black appeared on the Roseanne
Show, Roseanne called her “One of America’s Greatest Actresses”, and
certainly Karen’s body of work speaks for itself.
With an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe wins already in her
collection, 2005 found Karen winning two Best Actress awards for
Firecracker, a carnival tale, in which she plays both female leads.
America Brown, with Natasha Lyonne & Michael Rappaport for producer
Andrew Fierberg (The Secretary) premiered at the Tribecca Film festival
2004, and Teknolust, co-starring with Tilda Swinton, premiered at
Sundance two years earlier.
Having done many Broadway plays in the past,
including Robert Altman’s Stage version of Five And Dime, Karen
returned to the New York stage recently with The Vagina Monologues
Off-Broadway and with the national touring company.
When Karen was seventeen, she left her home
in Park Ridge Illinois to start a career in New York City. Almost
immediately, Karen hooked up with Joseph Papp, and did Shakespeare in
the Park and also Olivia in “Twelfth Night” at Papp’s off-Broadway
Heckshire House. Karen landed the lead in a Broadway show, “The
Playroom”, which garnered her a nomination for Best Actress by The
Drama Circle Critics award. This led to her first starring role in
Francis Ford Coppola’s You’re a Big Boy Now, which brought her to
Hollywood. Easy Rider followed, directed by Dennis Hopper. The producer
of the film, Bob Rafelson, cast Karen in his next film, Five Easy
Pieces, which firmly established Karen as a versatile and talented
actress. Karen won a Golden Globe for her performance in that film and
was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Karen received two more Golden Globes, one for The Great Gatsby and
another for Day of the Locust. A number of memorable film roles
followed, including that of the jewel thief in Hitchcock's last movie
Family Plot, and a trans-sexual in Robert Altman’s Come Back to the
Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, which LA weekly called “the best
performance of the year.” She appeared with Steve Baldwin in George
Sluizer’s (director The Vanishing) Crimetime, in Lynn Hershman’s
Conceiving Ada, official selection Sundance 1998, George Hickenlooper’s
Dogtown for which she received Best Actress at the Hermosa Beach
Festival. For another independent film, Fallen Arches, she won best
actress at the Chicago Alt Festival, playing an alcoholic Italian mom.
One of Karen's favorite roles is the agoraphobic mother in the Southern
drama Red Dirt warmly received as official selections to the Los
Angeles Independent and the Seattle Film Festivals.
Other great reviews were for her part in Men
with Sean Young and John Heard. Karen also did the original adaptation
from the book for that film. Yes, Karen has recently turned her hand to
writing: Going Home, her short, won the Golden Plaque at the Chicago
International film festival, 97, She co-wrote and co-starred in First
Degree, in competition at the Austin Film Festival in October 1999,
which garnered praise for its recent release. Her screenplay Deep
Purple was accepted at the Sundance Screenwriters lab in Utah.
Other credits include: Co-starring with David Boreanaz and Anne Heche
in a new film directed by Alan Cumming, director of The Anniversary
Party, entitled Suffering Man’s Charity.American legend Henry Jaglom’s
hilarious and ironic film, Hollywood Dreams with Karen hooking up with
“Angels in America” star, Justin Kirk, which came out in 2007. As well,
later in the year, her next film Read You like a Book , with Danny
Glover, was released. This last November and December, Karen did a film
in Moscow with the legendary Russian actor/writer/director Rodion
Nahapatov, a film about the injustices of the system for insane asylums.
Her play, “Missouri Waltz” is being done
(music by Harriet Schock) at the award winning Second Stage Playhouse
in May, 2007.
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