family valuables
Cast
Crew
SERGIO BERNAL Director of Cinematography/Lighting/Camera Guru
ALAN WOOLF Mr. Smith
has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild for over 30 years and he really enjoys it when he works! Between New York and Los Angeles, Alan has also been in over 150 theater productions, and most of them have been new plays. When he's not acting, Alan tends to allow his ADD to run amok, so it's important to help keep him working. So support this series and ask for him by name!
PETER CILELLA Tex Smith
grew up in Washington, DC and Columbia, SC. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame, he headed to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. Since then, he has worked steadily in commercials, films, and on stage. His interests include surfing, snowboarding, writing, sweaty wedding dancing, and competitive air guitar. www.petercilella.com
AVITAL ASH Indiana Smith
was born in Miami Beach and moved to NY, CA, Israel, and back by age 6. She moved to Los Angeles after high school, though she may have benefitted from time in a place like Portland, Chicago, or Seattle, where, she guesses, people have their priorities in order and are not a bunch of sun worshippers. Ash has starred in five indie films, and another she wrote, produced, and directed, called Kaleidoscope, now in the final stages of post-production and showing at a festival near you in 2011. She is most passionate about chocolate chip cookies, Leonard Cohen, and her dog, Junebug. She encourages you to contact her with tips on where to find the best chocolate chip cookie, or with Cohen’s home address.
STEWART CALHOUN Paul Dobson
is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago where he earned his BFA in Acting. Stewart moved to LA in 2007 and quickly earned recognition for his work by gaining several Los Angeles Theatre Award Nominations. He won a Backstage West Garland Award for best Ensemble in the two person musical as Nathan Leopold in "Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story." Stewart also worked along side Desperate Housewives star James Denton in the world premiere of How Cissy Grew, winning him his second Best Supporting Actor Nomination for LA Weekly.
Stewart can be seen on Take 180's web series In2ition as the mind reading evil brother Seth. (www.take180.com) Other films include Paradox Alice, The Eves, You Only Better, and the short film Danny.
PATRICK WENK-WOLFF Writer, Director, Donnie Monroe
has received several awards for short films including a 2004 student Emmy nomination for "The Interrogation." He has a B.A. in Visual and Performing Arts from CSUSM, and an A.A. in RTV Production from Palomar College. Acting Credits include: Rizzoli and Isles - TNT, Life on Mars (Pilot) - ABC, The Ex List - CBS, Julius Caesar - New Village Arts, A Christmas Carol - North Coast Rep. He is represented commercially and theatrically by HRi Talent in Los Angeles and Artist Management in San Diego.
DANIELLE K. JONES Writer, Director, Patience Dobson
graduated with a BFA Acting from California Institute of the Arts, and trained in commedia dell'arte with Teatro Punto and Accademia Dell’Arte in Italy. She is a member of Critical Mass Performance Group and 8 Sided Films. Since joining the Los Angeles acting community, she has worked on numerous film projects and was nominated for Best Actress by the 2007 MayDay Festival. In addition, she played Ophelia in Jessica Kubzanksy’s Hamlet (Theater 150), and was nominated for a Back Stage West Garland Award for her work in Michael Michetti’s Dark Play or Stories for Boys (Theater @ Boston Court). She is also a published author, a world traveler, a self-professed geek, and can play with swords. www.daniellekjones.com
BRENNAN TAYLOR Creator, Writer, Director, Matt Jablonski
was invented about thirty years ago by his parents in Portland, Oregon. He now lives in Los Angeles and works as an actor. He's been in various tv shows, most notably Veronica Mars. He also shot a film this year called Stonerville starring Pauly Shore, so you may not see him in that. Brennan created Family Valuables, and enlisted the genius of Danielle and Patrick to help in this venture, in order to appear successful to his girlfriend, who is receiving her PhD in psychology. She is very smart.
DOUGLAS SARINE Bruce
is a Los Angeles based writer/performer who is most well-known as the co-creator of the Ask A Ninja webseries, which among other awards earned a Webby for Best Actor and a Best Series award from YouTube. Douglas is a graduate of the Second City Conservatory and has guest starred on shows like NBC’s The Office, HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, USA’s Monk, MTV’s Punk’d and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Douglas performs live in Los Angeles regularly. He loves great BBQ and making people laugh.
DIANA GITELMAN Cassie Monroe
was born in Odessa, Russian (presently the Ukraine) Her family
Immigrated from Russia in 1982. Diana has appeared in numerous national commercials, a couple web-series, notably as Chloe in “So on and So Fourth,” independent films, and most recently rescued a VERY nice Terrier of some sorts named Bobby. She’s very excited to play Cassie in “Family Valuables,” and finds writing bios fun.
RICH BAUMAN P.A.
BOBBY BROMLEY Potter
JANET HWU Graphic Design/Logo
JEREMY CARBERRY Sound Engineer
JAMIE BLAIR Makeup/Hair
BRITTANY MADRIGAL Makeup/Hair
NICK ARMSTRONG Steve
JILLIAN LEIGH Joan
BOBBY BROMLEY Sketchy Guy
HILLARY THOMAS Composer of ‘Family Valuables Theme’/
Soundtrack
is a composer for film, television and video games that has received rave reviews for her work from such places as the LA Times and msnbc.com. She has written the music to many creative projects, including the award winning film, “On Great White Wings” that was narrated by Martin Sheen and won, Best Short Documentary at the Newport Beach International Film Festival and Treasure in the Sea” with Kevin Costner. Recently she has completed work on the touching film “Trail of Tears”, that will be playing at the Smithsonian in Washington DC and the commercial campaign for AnnualCreditReport.com that has become an internet hit.
