Two Weeks From Monday
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 | "Simone" Carissa Weir started acting in the fourth grade as a member of the drama club while living in Jamaica. After settling in the Bay Area, she began studying at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco where studied for almost two years. She worked as an extra on various feature films including Sweet November, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions. From there, she moved on to independent films such as Departure, Rice Cracker, and Coordinates. www.carissaweir.com |
 | "Sidnee" Eric Reid, a native of Baltimore, Maryland has been studying with Shelly Mitchell of the Actors Center of San Francisco for the last few years. He honed his acting chops on stage for various theater productions before going behind the scenes as a producer and director. Eric has also had experience in front of the camera, acting in such projects as Coordinates, Tea and Travel, and The End of Face. www.sfcasting.com/ericreid |
 | "Gabe" Alex Plant minored in Theater at Vanderbilt University and is a veteran of stage and film. He currently lives in San Francisco and splits time between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. For the past 15 years he has acted in a variety of theater productions and feature length films including A Christmas Carol, High School Musical and Oklahoma. He can also be seen in the films Divine Unrest and The Four Twenty-One. |
 | "Bennett" Dan Wilson has worked primarily on the stage for the last decade, but can also been seen on film in the short That's Why You Never Drink Red and the feature length films The Invisible Forest and Canary. He is the author of the plays Sweetie Tanya: the Demon Barista of Valencia Street, Vagina Dentata, 411, and Get it? Got it. Good!. He can also be heard performing regularly on the podcast Radiostar Improv, which is available for free via iTunes. www.danwilsonshow.com |
 | "Matt" Joshua Pringle graduated from Ohio University in 2002 with a degree in magazine journalism. His news writing and magazine features have been printed in several publications. He is also the author of a full-length novel and two screenplays. As an actor he has experience on stage as well as on screen. Pringle is also a singer with his band The Cycle and has a passion for slam poetry. www.joshuapringle.com |
 | "Cleaning Solicitor" Robin Plutchok has a degree in Theater and Dance from Amherst College and has studied with Charlie Varon, SITI Company, ACT Studio, Leonard Pitt, and Dell’Arte Summer Programs. She started performing as a child with Vallejo Children's Theater and has performed with the award winning Lunatique Fantastique in several shows including Beauty and the Breast, E.O. 9066, and Fixed Boundary. She co-created Tripping on the Equator and Other Stories and is the 1997 recipient of a Solano County “Arty” Award for Best Female Lead in a Drama. |
 | "Telephone Solicitor" Benjamin Euphrat was bitten by the acting bug when he was in middle school and has been working ever since. He attended Pitzer College where he received a BA in Theatre performance. He has worked extensively on film and stage, classical and modern and spent many years studying Improv with the Groundlings and Improv Olympic. He's even a trained corporeal mime. Ben continues to act and write plays, screenplays and music with his band Goodbye Nautilus. He recently co-wrote and co-produced, and acted is his film Focus. |
 | "Toner Solicitor" Philip Raupach was a theatre geek in high school but went on to major in computer science at San Jose State University where he continued to take drama classes on the side. In 2000 he trained by night with Billie Shepard at the San Jose Repertory Theatre and with Anna Budd at Cañada College in Redwood City. His recent roles include Athos in The Three Musketeers and Rev. Chasuble in The Importance of Being Ernest. www.phillipraupach.com |
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filmmakers
| Carissa Weir - Writer, Producer, Director, Editor Carissa studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco for almost two years, spent 6 years in front of the camera as an actress, and 20 years working in business before making the transition to filmmaking. That amalgamation of both worlds gave origin to Cacao Films in 2006. Two Weeks from Monday is Carissa’s first project. www.carissaweir.com |
| George Sakellariou - Sound Production George, owner of 88 Monkeys LLC, is an accomplished sound designer, recording engineer, and composer. He studied at the world-renowned Dick Grove School of Music and has worked in the film and music industry for the past 15 years. A number of those 15 years was spent at Industrial Light & Magic and Lucas Films Ltd.; his credits include Siggraph R&D Reel for Industrial Light + Magic Electronic Theatre, American Cancer Society PSA, Coordinates, and various other film, television, and music projects. www.88monkeys.com |
| Aaron Meister - Director of Photography Aaron received his B.A. in Film and Digital Media from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2002. After graduating he started out working as a set PA on features, but moved into editing for a small corporate production company before going back to school. He received his M.F.A in Cinematography from San Francisco State University in 2002. Aaron has worked on various narratives, commercials, and documentaries. Some of his film credits include Departure, MuZak, and Waiting for a Train: The Toshio Hirano Story. www.meistercinematography.com |
| Phyllis Bowie - Art Director As the owner and principal of Bowie Interiors, she has built reputation in the past 20 years both as an interior designer and production designer. Her unique path has led her into television and to a number of guest designer appearances on HGTV and Fine Living networks. She hosted and produced a design show called Living with Soul for the TV One Cable network. Phyllis has also developed the speaking series entitled How to Design the Life of Your Dreams. She has worked with Essence Magazine and San Francisco Magazine and her film credits include Blue Crush and Her Best Move. www.phyllisbowie.com |