CAST BIOS

	Amy Brienes (Betty) is starring in her second full-length picture, having wowed many with her bow in the award-winning A Holiday Affair in 2001.   She is also a writer and director, having produced the clever satire Chasing Penguins (2004) now making the festival rounds.   She's got plenty of dramatic chops, too, having excelled in a variety of New York theatre venues, such as in A Merchant of Venice at Center Stage.
	Jeff Bearden (Deke) divides his time between acting and working on the water. Presently he is underway in the Sea of Cortez as second mate aboard a small cruise ship, which in the spring will head up the Inside Passage into Alaska.   When not afloat, Jeff calls San Diego home . Hooray For Mister Touchdown is his first leading screen role.
	David Wilson Barnes (Lemmo Stats) has played a variety of comic and serious roles in theatre and film both here and abroad.   He has performed in many of New York's prominent venues in Hamlet, Hedda Gabler and Miss Julie, in addition to doing comedy both on stage and as voice-over characterizations.   You can also catch his numerous guest spots on Law & Order and other New York based shows.
	Matt Loney (Father Barnigan) is a New York stage actor and singer who has also appeared in a number of television programs.   He has a recurring role on three different soap operas: Another World, As the World Turns and Guiding Light and has also appeared on Law & Order.   He appeared on Broadway in the Richard Frankel production of The Sound of Music, and in King Lear and has toured the country performing Shakespeare and musical theater, though not necessarily at the same time.
	Gael Schaefer (Professor Strumph) is a New York veteran of stage and screen having performed in productions of Fiddler on the Roof, Sweeney Todd, The Winter's Tale, As You Like It and off-Broadway in Counsellor-At-Law with John Rubinstein.   Her television credits include Law and Order: SVU and Saturday Night Live.
	Adam Giordano (Manfretti) & Raymond Brahmi (Rocco) are on-the-square pals and both New Yorkers with numerous roles in Off Broadway and regional stage productions as well as film projects.   Adam has also written and produced his own work.   Ray has appeared on television in ABC's The City and Mathnet .
	Michael Bernosky (Coach Kalas) is a Pennsylvania native who has collected film credits in the U.S. and Australia. His resume includes Breaker Morant , That Championship Season and the digital feature The Hall Monitor , as well as a series of roles for public television.   He played the eccentric, pain killer-addicted father A Holiday Affair.
	Amy Vogel (Fanny) is a relative newcomer to film, though she has considerable experience as a singer, dancer and stage performer.  A Pittsburgh native, she has toured with both Praise/Motion and Educational Theatre, Inc., playing a variety of roles in children's theatre.  She has likewise appeared in New York as a singer and ballet performer.

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