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John Gray is a New York based writer-director-producer. He created the long running hit CBS series, GHOST WHISPERER, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, as well as writing and directing many award-winning and critically acclaimed movies for television, such as MARTIN AND LEWIS, starring Sean Hayes and Jeremy Northam; the Emmy® nominated A PLACE FOR ANNIE with Sissy Spacek; the Emmy® nominated mini-series HAVEN with Natasha Richardson and Anne Bancroft; HELTER SKELTER with Clea DuVall and Bruno Kirby, and many others. Gray has directed dozens of episodes of broadcast and cable series and was also the producing director of the CBS series RECKLESS. He has written and directed several studio and independent feature films, including the award winning WHITE IRISH DRINKERS, starring Stephen Lang and Karen Allen, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Gray's acclaimed short films have played and are currently playing in film festivals all over the world, including FRENCH KISS, which has also notched 6.3 million views to date on YouTube. His first novel, the supernatural thriller THE DESECRATED, was published in July 2022.

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A two-time Emmy Award-winning writer and producer, Melissa Jo Pelter won her first Emmy for educational programming at the age of 23. Since then, she has accumulated over 50 national and international awards and accolades for her work as a producer, writer and editor. She was director and co-writer of the primetime documentary special, "Scared Silent: Exposing and Ending Child Abuse", hosted by Oprah Winfrey. This multi-network simulcast was hailed as television’s most watched documentary ever, and earned Ms. Peltier the coveted Humanitas Prize. Following was the Peabody Award-winning "Break the Silence: Kids Against Child Abuse”. In 1994, she was producer-director-writer of A&E’s four-hour special, "Titanic: Death of a Dream" and "Titanic: The Legend Lives On", then the network’s highest-rated program ever, which won two National Emmy Awards, including one to Ms. Peltier for outstanding documentary writing. Three more Writer’s Guild of America nominations for documentary writing followed, as well as three primetime Emmy Nominations as an Executive Producer of National Geographic Channel’s "Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan”, also 2010 People's Choice Award winner.  From 1996-2010, Peltier was a partner and co-founder of MPH Entertainment, which created over 350 hours of original documentary and reality television programming, of which she produced, wrote or directed hundreds of hours.

Peltier’s dramatic TV and feature credits include writing the Lifetime movie "Nightwaves" and the story, "The Collector", for the hit CBS series, "Ghost Whisperer". With her MPH partners, she served as executive producer of the film "Men Seeking Women" (starring Will Ferrell) and co-executive producer of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” Most recently, she produced the multi-festival-winning indie feature, "White Irish Drinkers", for Ovington Avenue Productions, of which she is also a principal with her husband, film/TV writer/director John Gray.

Most recently, she wrote, directed and produced the award winning documentary “The Game Is Up,” and also co-produced the 2014 feature documentary “Look At Us Now, Mother!” and is the author of the darkly comic Hollywood novel, "Reality Boulevard" (a Kirkus Review “Best Indie 2013” pick). She is also the co-author of seven non-fiction works: including five books with 'Dog Whisperer' Cesar Millan, all of which were New York Times Best Sellers; the first, “Cesar’s Way”, staying  number one for 11 weeks. Peltier graduated Phi Beta Kappa/ cum laude from Pomona College in Claremont, CA.

Paul Bernard has extensive experience working as a producer, director, and assistant director. Bernard, along with his producing partner, James Scura, specializes in producing studio quality movies on independent budgets. Prior to White Irish Drinkers, Bernard, produced Seasons 2 and 3 of TNT's hit TV series Leverage, Executive Produced by Dean Devlin and staring Timothy Hutton. Bernard also co-produced and was the 1st Assistant Director on the first season of the series

Over the last several years, Bernard has produced numerous films including A Fork in the Road with Jamie King, Follow the Prophet with David Conrad and John Diehl, Blank Slate featuring Eric Stoltz, The Air I Breathe with Forest Whitaker and Kevin Bacon, The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines with Noah Wyle, Trust the Man with Julianne Moore and Billy Crudup, Venus and Vegas with Jamie Pressly, The Ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Passionada, and Loose Women, directed by Bernard himself, featuring Charlie Sheen, Keith David, and Giancarlo Esposito.

His numerous credits as assistant director include The Kingdom, Ghost Whisperer, NYPD Blue, Raising Helen, Spanglish, The Day After Tomorrow, Vanilla Sky, The Patriot, Any Given Sunday, Three Kings, The Siege, Godzilla, Mars Attacks!, Mission: Impossible, City Hall, Die Hard with a Vengeance, and Interview with a Vampire. The directors and producers he has been fortunate enough to work with include Oliver Stone, Woody Allen, Michael Ritchie, Brian DePalma, Tim Burton, Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin, Neil Jordan, Michael Mann, James L. Brooks, John Singleton, and Doug Liman.

In addition to his background in film production, Bernard also has experience producing music events and concert tours, serving as Line Producer and Production Manager for the Grateful Dead 1992 Summer Tour, Billy Joel's PBS concert in 1993, and Pete Townsend's Psychoderelict tour (1993). Bernard received a Bachelor of Arts in Media and Film from the University of South Carolina, where he now teaches on occasion and serves as one of the heads of the university's film board.

James Scura is currently unit production manager on the TNT program Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton, filmed on location in Portland, OR. He also served as producer/UPM on Jim Kouf's A Fork in the Road, currently being distributed by Shoreline Entertainment, and Follow the Prophet with Diane Venora and Tom Noonan. Prior to that, Scura was an executive producer on the film Two Tickets to Paradise directed by and starring D.B. Sweeney, with John C. McGinley, Moira Kelly, and Ed Harirs. Scura was also producer on the Los Angeles unit of the feature The Air I Breath.

Along with partner Paul Bernard, James produced Passionada with Jason Isaacs, and Emmy Rossum, directed by Dan Ireland. He also produced High Times' Potluck with Jason Isaacs, Jason Mewes and Tommy Chong. He was co-producer on Mixing Nia with Isaiah Washington, and began his career as executive producer of Paul Bernard's Loose Women with Charlie Sheen and Giancarlo Esposito.

On his own, Scura wrote and produced The Titanic Chronicles, a historical documentary. He has also been a media consultant for the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a non-profit organization specializing in the relief of children. He is also co-owner of Scura Enterprises, a privately held company consisting of various retail/video rental outlets. Scura is currently serves on the board of AirFlow Catalyst Systems Inc., a developer of leading edge materials for catalytic converter technologies. He graduated from Bucknell University with a degree in Accounting and Finance, and is a member of the Director's Guild of America.

A distinguished graduate of the American Film Institute, Seamus spent several years in Hawaii before moving to Australia where he spent the majority of his childhood. In 1996, returning to the states to pursue his film career, Tierney worked his way up the ladder in the lighting department on hundreds of commercials, music videos and feature films. He was the lighting designer for the famous photographer Steven Klein for three years, creating a look that set a new standard in fashion photography.

Tierney started to gain recognition as a cinematographer in the late 1990s shooting a student Academy Award-winning short Zen: The Art of Landscaping, which was the first in a series of films that won awards from festivals all over the world including Sundance and Cannes. Recently, Seamus shot the comedy Sin Bin directed by Billy Federighi; Josh Radnor's directorial debut HappyThankYouMorePlease starring Radnor, Malin Ackerman, Kate Mara and Richard Jenkins, which won the audience award at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

His other credits include second unit work on NBC's Kings starring Ian McShane; Adam released by Fox Searchlight starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne; The Good Guy starring Bryan Greenberg and Scott Porter; and The Narrows directed by François Velle and starring Vincent D'Onofrio. Other recent accomplishments include Veronika Decides to Die, directed by Emily Young and starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker and Erika Christensen based on Paulo Coelho's novel and the Korean film Hers. He has shot over 45 short films including Artistic License, which won the audience award at the Austin Film Festival. His accolades also include Movie Theatre Hero, recipient of the 2002 Coca-Cola Refreshing Filmmakers Award that screened in AMC theaters across the country.

Traceigh Scottel spent the early part of the last decade developing her production skills by coordinating such films as Thank You For Smoking and Don't Come Knocking. Since, she has spent the latter half of the decade serving as co-producer, line-producer, unit production manager, or production supervisor on a number of independent feature films and movies for television, including Already Dead, Mostly Ghostly, Soul Men, Backwoods and the upcoming releases Leonie, The Perfect Age of Rock 'N Roll, and Look at Me. Ms. Scottel also produced the short film, Big Guy and currently has two feature films in development.

Brooklyn native Mark Snow has been making music since the 1950s. Following a start in the music industry as a popular recording artist with his band the New York Rock and Roll Ensemble, Mark made the switch to composer for television and film in the 1970s. He is best known for his scores for such television series as The X-Files, Ghost Whisperer, Smallville, One Tree Hill, Kojak, Millenium, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, T. J. Hooker, Cagney and Lacey, Starsky and Hutch, Family, and Hart to Hart. Snow is the only ASCAP composer to receive the "Most Performed Background Music" award every year consecutively since the inception of the award in 1985-6. He has been nominated 17 times for Emmys for his work on television series and television films including Helter Skelter, Children of the Dust, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, and Something about Amelia. Recent film projects include the scores for the X-Files movie and the Knights of Appletown. He has also written scores for the legendary French director, Alain Resnais, (Hiroshima Mon Amour, Last Year at Marienbad), which include Coeurs (Snow received a Ceasar nomination) and Les Herbes Folles. He is currently working on The Hunters, a mystery thriller set in Europe.

From a very young age, Nicole Capasso fell in love with how beautiful clothes looked in old black and white movies. It is this early love of costuming in movies, from great old westerns through to the 1980's, that inspired Nicole's career - period pieces are her passion. Nicole studied at Syracuse University, followed by the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, where she earned a degree in Fashion Design and Patternmaking Technology. Nicole then moved to Los Angeles, and started in the business in 1995 designing costumes for a play at a small theater in North Hollywood. This experience jump started her career and led to her first movie work on a low budget feature film. Since then, Nicole has worked on numerous features and TV series in all aspects of the costuming field, including Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Weeds, and Bring It On, to name a few. She has also been the costume designer for many feature films, including Everybody Wants to be Italian and A Fork in the Road.

Tommaso Ortino spent the early part of his career in Europe, after graduating from the Accademia di Belle Arti of Florence, and receiving his Masters in film from the University of Paris. In 2001, he moved to New York City and began working on what is fast becoming an impressive and diverse list of award winning credits including, Sangre de mi Sangre, Grand Jury Prize Winner at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and released theatrically by IFC Films; and two selections at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, Against the Current and the acclaimed Toe to Toe. He also designed the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival hit The Good Guy.

His most recent credits include Holy Rollers (which debuted at Sundance in 2010),Coming and Going for director Edoardo Ponti and producer Scott Rosenfelt, and The Untitled Albanian Project for director Josh Marston, which will be released next year.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Neil Mandelberg moved to Los Angeles, California two days after graduating with a degree in Communication Arts. His first job in the industry was at a trailer house where he spent time with the editors whenever possible. He has worked as a sound editor, sound supervisor, assistant picture editor, picture editor, and producer of Post Production. He was invited to join the fraternal group for editors, American Cinema Editors, in 1989.

His work includes numerous Television series, Movies of the Week and feature films including Coach Carter, Alvin and the Chipmunks, a documentary that takes place in Iraq titled The Road To Fallujah, and White Irish Drinkers which has just been accepted in the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. He was awarded 2 Emmy Awards for editing on the ABC series Moonlighting, plus a nomination for an Emmy Award for his work on the miniseries The Temptations for NBC.

Neil is about to embark on a new feature film endeavor titled "Grassroots," to be shot in Seattle, WA, Summer 2010.

At the age of 21, Russell Boast won the prestigious Nelson Mandela Artists Award for his contributions to theatre in South Africa. At the same time, he was completing his BA in English and Communications at the University of South Africa, with a technical degree in Film, Theatre and Television. He graduated with honors in 1993. In the six years that Russell has been in Los Angeles, he has been involved in the staging of numerous theater productions and casting of over twenty films, and he has swiftly found himself in demand by the Hollywood film, television and theatre industries as a casting director, acting teacher, producer, director and ally to artists and entertainers across the world. He currently works as a casting director alongside Rick Pagano (XMen: The Last Stand, Alien: Resurrection, Hotel Rwanda) and Debi Manwiller (24) for Pagano/ Manwiller Casting and is a founding partner of Rocket Propelled Ltd. with Rick Pagano.

Nick Thurston is a California native from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been acting since childhood, and has received training at several theatre schools, including the American Conservatory Theatre and the British American Drama Academy in London. He recently graduated from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. He spent a semester abroad in England that opened his eyes to the masterful artistry and fresh energy of European theater, and he hopes to bring this dedication and excitement to his own work here in the United States.

While abroad he played Edmund in King Lear, directed by RSC veteran Kelly Hunter. He has worked on an episode of Ghost Whisperer directed by Jennifer Love Hewitt and Guest Starred on Cold Case. He plays the lead in this year's release of The Truth Below on MTV and stars alongside Stephen Lang and Karen Allen in John Gray's White Irish Drinkers, which will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. He just wrapped the Lifetime movie Reviving Ophelia in Toronto, Ontario. Recently, he spent two weeks volunteering in Haiti where he worked with the Jenkins/Penn Haitian Relief Organization.

Geoff Wigdor, a native New Yorker, has been working as an actor since childhood, where guest roles on The Babysitter's Club, Loving, and The Cosby Mysteries led to his big screen debut as a young teenager in the drama Sleepers, playing the younger version of the character played as an adult by Ron Eldard. He also played the younger version of Robert Downey, Jr.'s character in Neil Jordan's thriller In Dreams and Holly Hunter's son in Levity, also starring Billy Bob Thornton. His television credits also include guest roles on One Life to Live, The Guiding Light, Spin City, Law & Order, The Sopranos, Third Watch, Las Vegas, ER, The Black Donnellys, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

He'll next appear in the comedy Buddy Gilbert Comes Alive with Elisabeth Moss.

STEPHEN LANG is an actor renowned for his performances on stage, screen and television.

On film, Lang is perhaps best known for his role as 'Colonel Miles Quaritch' in James Cameron's seminal 2009 film AVATAR. In 2022, Lang reprised that role in Cameron's sequel, AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER. In 2016, he garnered critical acclaim as 'The Blind Man' in writer-director Fede Alvarez's hit thriller DON'T BREATHE and he reprised his starring role in the film's sequel, DON'T BREATHE 2.

Recent film roles include THE LOST CITY for Paramount with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum and the much anticipated THE INDEPENDENT with Brian Cox, Jodie Turner-Smith and Ann Dowd. Lang also completed work on PEP, based on the true story of Willie Pep one of the greatest boxers of all time where Lang portrayed his trainer.

Other film credits include THE SEVENTH DAY opposite Guy Pearce, director Joe Begos' action-horror film VFW, BRAVEN, opposite Jason Momoa, and director Scott Cooper's HOSTILES opposite Christian Bale. Lang's extensive film credits include BAND OF ROBBERS, LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, TOMBSTONE, GETTYSBURG, GODS AND GENERALS, PUBLIC ENEMIES, WHITE IRISH DRINKERS, CHRISTINA, A GOOD MARRIAGE, MANHUNTER, BAND OF THE HAND, and CONAN THE BARBARIAN.

Stephen Lang is also an award-winning playwright. He received the "Special Jury Prize for Acting" at the 2016 Phoenix Film Festival for his performance documentary BEYOND GLORY, which tracks the ten year odyssey behind his acclaimed solo performance piece about eight Medal of Honor recipients. The documentary was executive produced and presented by Lightstorm Entertainment principals, James Cameron and Jon Landau, and was acquired for distribution by Gravitas Ventures. BEYOND GLORY, the play itself, has received the NEA Chairman's Medal for Distinguished Service, and the Bob Hope Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, which honors Lang's accurate portrayal of the American fighting man.

On television Lang starred as Mid-western billionaire 'David Cord,' in a flashy recurring role on the hit Paramount+ series THE GOOD FIGHT. He was also the lead role of 'Hawkeye' in MARVEL'S WASTELANDER podcast series directed by Rachel Chavkin. Lang portrayed fan-favorite 'Waldo' in the first two seasons of AMC's genre-bending martial arts series, INTO THE BADLANDS. His television credits include regular roles on Steven Spielberg's TERRA NOVA, and Michael Mann's classic CRIME STORY, as well as celebrated portrayals of Babe Ruth in NBC's biopic, BABE RUTH, and 'Happy' in DEATH OF A SALESMAN, with Dustin Hoffman.

His work on the New York stage includes A FEW GOOD MEN, THE SPEED OF DARKNESS, DEFIANCE, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, THE GUYS, HAMLET, and 101 performances at The Roundabout Theater of his solo play, BEYOND GLORY, which he has also toured and continues to tour around the country. Theatre awards and nominations include The Tony, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Joseph Jefferson, Helen Hayes, and Outer Critics Circle Awards.

After studying design for several years in NYC and traveling for a year in Central and South America, Karen Allen began her career as an actor at age 22 working in the theatre in Washington, DC after being inspired by the work of Polish director Jerzi Grotowski. Returning in 1976 to NYC to study with Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg, Karen was cast in her first film, Animal House. Over the next three decades she has spent her time between film work (The Wanderers, A Small Circle of Friends, Raiders of the Lost Ark (Saturn Award for Best Actress), Shoot the Moon, Until September, Starman, Scrooged, The Glass Menagerie (Independent Spirit nomination), Malcolm X, King of the Hill, Falling Sky, The Perfect Storm, Poster Boy and her return as Marion Ravenwood in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), and working in the theatre in NY (The Monday After the Miracle (Theatre World Award), Extremities, The Miracle Worker, The Country Girl, The Glass Menagerie, and Speaking in Tongues). Her television projects have included East of Eden, Challenger, All the Winters That Have Been, Secret Weapon, and My Horrible Year.

Karen is on the faculty of the Theatre Department at Bard College at Simon's Rock and has recently directed Joan Ackermann's The Batting Cage and Michael Weller's Moonchildren. In 2003 she returned to her design roots and opened a design studio "Karen Allen Fiber Arts," where she creates a line of extraordinary and unique cashmere knitwear on Japanese knitting machines.

She has just completed filming on the Dreamworks film I Am Number Four, directed by DJ Caruso, playing opposite Tim Oliphant, and on Hallmark's 2010 Christmas film, November Christmas, also starring Sam Elliot, John Corbett and Sarah Pawlson. In the works is a plan to direct the film The Batting Cage and to mount another theatre production of Moonchildren. Karen has one son, Nicholas, who is 20 and a student at NYC.

Has been acting, writing, directing and producing for the past 40 years. His movies include: Animal House, Local Hero, Crossing Delancey, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Coldblooded, Utz, Oscar, Passed Away, The Mask, Traffic, White Irish Drinkers and the short film The Response, which received the ABA Silver Gavel and was short listed for an Academy nomination for live-action short. Television credits include: The Sopranos, Gypsy, Barbarians at the Gate, Concealed Enemies, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Damages.

On Broadway he was in The Old Neighborhood, An American Daughter, The Nerd and Dance With Me. Off B'Way includes: Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Birthday Party, Mountain Language, Isn't It Romantic and A Rosen By Any Other Name.

His directorial film debut was the Academy nominated short By Courier, which was followed by his first feature, King of the Corner, with Isabella Rossellini, Eli Wallach, Rita Moreno, Beverly D'Angelo, Eric Bogosian and Dominic Chianese.

He is currently preparing to shoot his next feature based on the novel A Field of Darkness, by Cornelia Read.

White Irish Drinkers is the first feature film role for Leslie Murphy, who received her degree in theater from UC Berkeley. Her stage credits include playing the title role in Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice for New York Stage and Film; Fear and Misery in the Third Reich produced at the Oval Theatre in London; and in the Pasadena Playhouse production of Rocket Science.