Cast
Erin Cunningham (Jane Desmond)
Erin is a graduate of New York University, where she studied with The Atlantic Theatre Company and abroad at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Recent film credits include the independent feature The Weekend, which was released last April by Warner Brothers; and the short Bad Moon Rising, which was seen at the short film corner in Cannes last year. Erin’s theatre credits include Amelia in The Credeaux Canvas (Sanford Meisner Theatre), the Governess in Turn of the Screw (Twenty Feet Productions), Macbeth (George Bernard Shaw Theatre, London), and the sketch comedy show Professor Tops Old Time Radio Hour.
Gretchen Poole (Brenda)
A corporate lady by day and performer by night, Gretchen Poole attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute of New York and has a Bachelor’s in Music from Hunter College. In December Gretchen sang with the GuitarBot, an original work by composer Roy Vanegas at LEMUR in Brooklyn, NY, and recently appeared as “Fake Sarah Palin” on Nick and Geoffrey Stevens’ Fitzy’s Funspot via YouTube. In addition to Stay True Darling, Gretchen appeared in fellow Arkansan James Morrison’s 2003 short film 50/50 which premiered at the Little Rock Film Festival in 2007. She is best known for her daily, unintentional Tina Fey/Liz Lemon impressions.
Eva Dorrepaal (Sally)
Eva headshotEva Dorrepaal began her acting career under the tutelage of minimalist filmmaker Pim de la Parra. In 1995, after studying acting and directing in the Netherlands, Dorrepaal went to Yugoslavia, where she performed with the renowned experimental KPGT theater group and traveled through Kosovo with them. She has had leading roles in all of Edwin Brienen’s feature films, including Terrorama, Hysteria, and I’d Like to Die a Thousand Times. She now divides her time between Amsterdam and New York working in theater, film and television.
Alexis Macnab (The Reporter)
Alexis Macnab is a performer and director living in Brooklyn. Other independent film credits include Day Job, A Failure of Nerves, and 813 Lake. She is a member of The Bats, the resident acting company at The Flea Theater, and has been seen in Dawn, Offending the Audience, The Director, and Before the Before and Before That. Other theater credits include Conversation (University Settlement), A Penny Arcade Portrait of a Busbee Berkeley Dream (HERE Arts Center), and Savages (Ontological-Hysteric). Alexis directed and performed in Timothy Braun’s Trigger Happy Jack at HERE Arts Center, and performed her solo clown piece Letter from Rubbish Island at The Brick Theater’s Clown Theater Festival. She performed for three years with the experimental dance-theater company Laboratory Theater, and appeared with them in Magic Monkey Dance Company, Coming Forth by Day, and E.R. Rendezvous.
Andrew Fierberg (Mr. Tinstein)
Andrew is a leading New York-based film producer now working at Vox3 Films. Over the years he has produced numerous provocative independent films under his own label, Studio Fierberg and double A films.
Most recently Andrew produced Sally Potter’s RAGE, starring Judi Dench, Dianne Wiest, Steve Buscemi and Eddie Izzard. In the last two years he has produced Gina Kim’s Never Forever, Zoe Cassavettes’ directorial debut Broken English, and Feel by Matt Mahurin. Never Forever and Broken English premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival Competition. Feel premiered at the 2007 Philadelphia Film Festival.
Andrew has produced a plethora of noteworthy independent films over the last ten years, including Steven Shainberg’s Secretary, which won a Special Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, Jill Sprecher’s 13 Conversations About One Thing, starring Matthew McConaughey and Alan Arkin, Isaac Julien’s Baltimore, a moving image art installation, which premiered at the FACT Gallery in Liverpool and won the prestigious Grand Jury Prize at the Kunstfilm Biennale in Cologne. He also produced Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet, starring Ethan Hawke, Sam Shepard, and Bill Murray, Jonathan Nossiter’s Sunday, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Stringer starring Burt Reynolds, Corps Plonges directed by Raoul Peck, and Nadja produced with David Lynch. Andrew was also supervising producer of a series of six short films that accompanied The Concert for New York City, which helped to raise more than $30 million for 9/11-related charities, collaborating with directors Woody Allen, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Ed Burns, Kevin Smith and Jerry Seinfeld.
Andrew is an Associate at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. He sits on the Finance Committee of the Film Forum and is Secretary of the organization’s Board of Directors.