Crew:

DANIEL NOAH (Writer/Director)

Daniel began his career as a member of Second City's first children's improv troupe at the age of 12 in his home town of Chicago. He went on to become a teenage stand-up comedian before launching the weekly comedy radio program "The Late Night Television Radio Network" with his partner/brother on WNUR FM, as well as the long-running improv show, "Naked TV."

Daniel moved to New York in 1991 to attend NYU's Dramatic Writing Program. After graduating, he worked in creative development as an assistant and then as a writer for various independent film companies in and around New York. In 1997, he formed a small theater company and produced several "off-off Broadway" plays before shifting focus to directing low-budget films.

With the hour-long movie-on-video "Richard" in the can, and a feature-length documentary in process, "Twelve" marks Daniel's first foray into Internet filmmaking. He currently resides in Washington D.C. with his fiance, Stephanie.
 

SEAN WILLIAMS (Director of Photography)

Sean was born in Cuba under the name Gerard Montore, but affected the pseudonym under which he currently resides after he fled to the U.S with his family.

Sean saw his early years traveling with the gypsy carnival his parents sold him to as a young toddler. He picked up his first camera after finding it in the bleachers after a peformance. His portfolio, "Visions of a Bearded Lady" was a sensation at the young age of 12, and Sean has been a shooter ever since.

He is also a decorated veteran of Operation Desert Storm.
 

CHRIS CHRISSOTIMOS (Editor, Location Sound, Special Effects)

Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, Chris recently graduated from UMBC College. He has been shooting, editing, and directing 16mm films and documentaries for the past three and a half years. His current goal is to become a director of photography for feature films.

In 1999, his film "Harvestime" was selected for screening on "Independent Eye," an annual series spotlight about independent filmmakers aired on Maryland Public Television, a PBS affiliate. Recently, he has worked on a 35mm short with German director Steffen Kaminski.

Some of his other film and video experience includes: grip and assistant cameraman work for FOX Televisionin Baltimore, as well as video, animation, and multimedia design for NASA (National Aeronautic Space Agency).
 

TAMARA BENVENISTE (Line Producer)

Tamara spent 6 years working in Business Affairs and International Sales at October Films. She is currently taking a stab at the Internet, working in film acquisitions for Edgepictures.com. She'sworked as a P.A. on a handful of ultra low-budget films and must like the long hours and low pay.
 

EBBA ADIELSSON (Associate Producer, Web Master)

Ebba is a former managing editor for Sweden's largest entertainment monthly, a magazine best described as a mix of Paper Magazine and Village Voice. About a year ago she moved to NYC and has since completed an old Bachelor of Liberal Arts at The New School with a focus on film and media studies, worked with independent filmmaker Doug Block (Home Page) and as an assistant field producer at Fox News Channel. Besides co-producing "Twelve," she is currently freelancing as a writer and TV-producer for Sweden and starting up her own web company, a community site for Scandinavians in New York.
 

JOE LANDES (Locations Manager)

After graduating the University of Iowa 1994, Joe Landes worked as a kindergarten teacher for four years in Chicago. He moved to New York in the summer of '99 to pursue a career in writing. Joe is currently working on the screenplay for an upcoming Ruff Ryders production, as well as several others of his own.
 

Cast:

LAUREN FOX (Zoe)

Lauren Fox was born and raised in New York’s Upper West Side near Lincoln Center, where she attended the High School of Music and Performing Arts.  She currently divides her times between New York and Los Angeles.

Lauren can be seen as the “spiritually driven” artist, Camille, in the soon-to-be-released, STANDING ON FISHES with Jason Priestly, Bradford Tatum, Meredith Scott Lynn, Pamela Reed and Kelsey Grammer.  Her two most recent starring roles are in Studio-Next’s TWELVE, director Daniel Noah’s popular internet-cum-feature, which was chosen to close the 2001 Austin Film Festival and in Jay Lee’s conspiracy thriller, NOON BLUE APPLES which was chosen for the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.  She made her film debut with Claire Danes, Jude Law and Jeanne Moreaux in the Miramax film, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU NOT.  The following year she appeared in two films, which premiered at Sundance 1998, the award winning PI and TOO TIRED TO DIE.  Lauren also appears in the short film EIGHT which won the 2001 New York Film Festival’s Grand Marnier Award.

She recently completed THE EGOISTS, an independent film directed by Anthony Nichols, which shot in New York City.

Television credits include SWIFT JUSTICE and TEEN ANGEL.  On stage, Lauren appeared with the About Face Theater Company in STRIKE OF ’92 and with the Strike Theater Company in the Los Angeles production of the musical GREETINGS FROM VENICE BEACH.

Lauren has co-written two feature films, SAM and GABRIEL.  She is the sole writer of her latest two screenplays: BAR HOP and ATLAS OF THE SOUL, both of which are actively in the process of being produced.
 

MAURICE CARR (Reece)

Maurice is a Chicago born musician, writer, and independent filmmaker, who graduated from NYU's Undergrad Film and Television Department in 1994. He has been a musician for 19 years, and an independent filmmaker for 12 years. He's worked in film and video production ever since he started interning for YO! MTV RAPS in 1992.

In 1997, he worked as an Associate Producer on YO! (formerly YO! MTV RAPS), where he also did a lot of writing for the show, as well as other MTV specials. In 1998, he left MTV to pursue his career as an independent writer/musician/filmmaker.

He currently resides in Harlem.
 

RANDALL JAYNES (The Repair Man)

Hailed "a contemporary Buster Keaton" by Robert Brustein in American Theatre Magazine, Randall was twice awarded the Bay Area Critic's Award, one for Best Actor in '93 and the other for Best Supporting Actor in '92.

His original works - including Conduct of a Tin Man, The Pinocchio Experiment, and The Birdcatchers - have toured abroad in Venezuela, Moscow, Slovakia, and in NYC in venues such as P.S. 122 (Henson International Puppet Festival) and the Tony Award-winning Ontological.

Credits include leading roles the world premieres of works by Anne Bogart, Paula Vogel, Robert Brustein, Steve Martin, Spencer/Coltan, and Charles Marowitz. At the American Repertory Theatre, he most recently appeared as Boo in "The Marriage of Bette and Boo." Film: Leads in the upcoming features "You Are Here" and "Apartment."

Randall is a graduate of the A.R.T.Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. Currently, he can be seen in NYC as a Blue Man where he is a veteran Performing Director for the Award-winning Blue Man Group (Obie, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel).
 

DANIEL VESPA (Crespo)

Daniel lives in NY and has performed off-off Broadway in Richard Greenburg's "The American Plan," and in various independent feature and short films as well.

He is a graduate of Harvard University's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training where he co-created and played the lead in the original production of Tina Landau's "Space," worked with Joanne Akalaitis in her adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's "Running in the Family," as well as the title role in Shakespeare's "Richard III."
 

BOB HARBAUM (Harvey)

Bob is a veteran stage actor who has appeared in more than 40 plays in New York City, including productions of HAMLET, THE SEAGULL, CLOUD NINE, WAITING FOR LEFTY, SAINT JOAN and AN ENEMY OFTHE PEOPLE.

He grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and began acting while living in Florida.
 

JODY LAMBERT (Abe)

Jody recently made his off-Broadway debut in the Atlantic Theater Company's "The Water Engine" by David Mamet.

Other NY Theatre: Americana Absurdum, Vomit & Roses, Wolverine Dream (The Present Company), City (The Filling Station at the Flea Theater), Belly of the Whale, Doughboy (The Filling Station in the NY Int'l Fringe Festival), Suburbia (Atlantic Theater).

TV/Film: Home, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, and Mr. PotatoHead Kids. He is a member of The Present Company (creators of the New York International Fringe Festival) and a graduate of NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, where he trained at the Atlantic Theater Company's Acting School as well as the Lee Strasberg Studio in London. He is the author of the screenplays PANIC BEACH and BRAVE NEW JERSEY (with Michael Dowling).
 

ZORIAH (Willy)

After his film debut as an extra in the Rodney Dangerfield film "Ladybugs" at the age of fifteen, Zoriah gave up his glamerous Hollywood-lifestyle to finish high school and continue on to college. Upon receiving a bachelor's degree in Electronic Music Composition and Technology from the Evergreen State College outside of Seattle, Washington, Zoriah moved to New York city, where he has been pursuing a career as an electronic sound designer/programmer.
 

SUSAN WALLACK (Marcia)

Ms. Wallack began her acting career in Washington, D.C. Regional credits include: "Merry Wives of Windsor," "Getting Out," "3 Penny Opera," "The Good Doctor," "Jacques Brel..Starting Here, Starting Now."

In New York, she has performed new plays with: Circle Rep Lab, Playwrights Horizons Theatre Fests, Samuel French One Acts, Nuyorican Poets Café, Abingdon Theatre Co., New Georges Theatre Co., 42nd Street Workshop and NYU Dramatic Writing Program. She has workshopped new musicals at ASCAP and BMI. She was a guest artist at Queen's College in a new musical Subway Suite.

Film work includes NYU graduate films and independent features. She is a member of the 42nd Street Workshop and an acting company member in the Dramatic Writing Program at Tisch. She won an outstanding performance award in the Turnip Company 15-minute Play Festival last season.
 

EAN SHEEHY (Slim)

Ean has become an ubiquitous figure in New York Off- off Broadway Theatre. Most recently he was seen in Warren Leight's "The Final Interrogation of Ceaucescu's Dog" at the EST Summer Marathon. He also has appeared in innumerable short films, and performs regularly with the improv group Kundalini Komedy.
 

KEVIN WALDRON (FBI Agent)

Graduate of American Repertory Theater at Harvard University working almost exclusively in regional theater since completion of degree. The Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas has been my main home for work other than a few short runs of Off Broadway and Way the Hell Off Broadway theater here in New York City.
 

DAVID SITLER (Dr. Randall)

David has worked on Broadway (AN INSPECTOR CALLS), off-Broadway, and with over a dozen theatre companies in NYC as well as regionally around the country from California to the Carolinas. Film-wise, he has been in a number of independent films that have gone to Sundance, and on the A&E channel.

He is a member of the NYU Acting company for the Grad writing program. Most recently he read the graduating students screenplays there in a special program. He just finished shooting the film TODAY WILL BE YESTERDAY TOMORROW. Television credits include NOW AND AGAIN, and the soaps GUIDING LIGHT and AS THE WORLD TURNS.
 

JOE RIGANO (Ed)

Mr. Rigano has been a supporting actor in: "Casino," "Donnie Brasco," "Mickey Blue Eyes," "Analyze This," "Marvin's Room," "Ghost Dog," "The Crew," "Sweet and Lowdown," "Four Deadly Reasons," "La Ciudad."

Other skills: former boxing manager; former professional boxer; former semi-pro baseball player; fluent in Italian.
 

JAMES SOBOL (Marcus Boyle)

James appeared most recently in NY as Rawdon Crawley in the Ariel Repertory Theatre's production of "Vanity Fair." Other roles include: Petterson in "The Wild Duck" at the American Repertory Theatre, Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., and Jihei in "The Love Suicides At Amijima" at LaMama ETC.

For the National Shakespeare Co: Dromio of Syracuse in "The Comedy of Errors" and Roderigoin "Othello."

Film and TV credits: Jack, the lead role in the independent film "Night," directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski ("The Matrix"), and a featured role on "The Cosby Mysteries" for NBC.

James is a graduate of the American Repertory Theatre Institute at Harvard University, where he particularly enjoyed playing the role of Vershinin in David Mamet's translation of "The Three Sisters."