Collaborators

Rich Hollman (AEA, SAG-AFTRA) has been performing on NY stages and regionally (Playwrights Horizons, The Cherry Lane Theater, The Lucille Lortel, La MaMa Etc., Williamstown Theater Festival, Playhouse on Park) and on the big and small screen (Law and Order, As The World Turns, Mtv’s Braless, Mtv’s Made, Guiding Light, All My Children, PBS, SF Indiefest, NY Television Fest) for over a decade. He and Emily first teamed up for the short film YOUNG LOVE, and then once more for STRYKA, both highlights for Rich. He originally earned his Equity card from starring in an Off-Broadway production of the classic ‘A Servant of Two Masters’ directed by legendary NY Shakespeare Festival Co-Founder, Stuart Vaughan. Additionally, Rich performs with one of NYC’s longest running long form improv troupes, The Baldwins, every Saturday night at the People’s Improv Theater, and the touring company of premiere musical improv troupe, Baby Wants Candy. Also a writer, Rich won best writing along with his co-creators for their pilot, ‘Actualized’, at the 2012 New York Television Festival. As a musician, Rich has recorded music for multiple theater pieces, podcasts and for a toy company. Rich has served on the faculty at the People’s Improv Theater and New School University for acting and improv. Lastly, he once taught an improv class to the Real Housewives of New York. It was okay. And he plays the shofar.

Andrea Mazzariello is a composer, performer, writer, and teacher. His work borrows from both popular and art music approaches, and obsesses over technological intervention, instrumental technique, and the power of language. So Percussion, NOW Ensemble, Newspeak, and many others have performed his concert music. He’s played shows at venues like the Knitting Factory, the Princeton Record Exchange, Galapagos, and Cakeshop. The Queens New Music Festival, Make Music New York, and the Wassaic Festival have presented his songs and spoken word. Active as an educator, he’s taught at Princeton University, Ramapo College of New Jersey, and the So Percussion Summer Institute. He’s currently Visiting Professor of Music at Carleton College, where he teaches composition, music technology, and music fundamentals.

Jacob Yoffee is currently the Resident Composer for the American Studio Orchestra and recently worked on the trailer campaign for Star Wars : The Force Awakens. He was awarded a 2016 ASCAP Screen Music Award for his work on ‘Finding Carter’, a one-hour drama on MTV and his music has been used in trailer campaigns for Disney’s The Jungle Book, Kubo & the Two Strings, The Hobbit : Desolation of Smaug, X-Men : Days of Future Past & The Chronicles of Riddick. Yoffee’s scores include Showtime’s award-winning ‘Time of Death’ series, The award-winning feature, ‘Into the Mind’, ‘Pawn’ starring Forrest Whitaker & Ray Liotta, and the WIGS series Blue, Christine & Celia, directed by Rodrigo Garcia and starring Julia Stiles, Dakota Fanning & America Ferrera. He is the composer of Kid Can Drive’s The Ghost and Us.

A Brooklynite today, writer/director Katy Scoggin was raised in a smoggy valley east of LA. After studying sculpture and German, she was a Fulbright scholar in Berlin, where she made a doc about Turkish women. She went to graduate film school at NYU and was awarded a Graduate Assistantship in Cinematography. Her short thesis film FLOOD, a Hawk House Production, won a Sloan Foundation Production Grant. She is adapting the short into a feature script with support from the Sundance/Sloan Commissioning Grant. FLOOD will be her first feature film.

She recently shot and co-produced Laura Poitras’s film CitizenFour about Edward Snowden, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2015 Oscars.

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