Elisabeth Ness
Creator, Producer, Writer, and Actor ("Molly")
Elisabeth co-founded Good Porpoise Productions, LLC, where she produces, casts, writes, and edits videos for non-profits such as the Grace Institute and CBSBB, in addition to her own on-camera projects. As an actor and singer, she performs onstage, on-camera, and in voice-over; her work has been called “especially funny” (New York Times), “razor-sharp” (Washington Post), and “hilarious” (Times Herald-Record, Catskill Chronicle, and her mom). She associate produced and acted in NYCIFF ‘Best TV Pilot’ award-winner The Grid. As a creative entrepreneur, the Yale alumna runs a salon for women entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry; edits performers’ demos; writes song parodies; and conducts a ninety-person choir. More at www.elisabethness.com!
Daniel Seth
Director
Daniel is the co-founder of BCS Productions, and has directed The One Named Leo, This Game for Two, Hang Up, and an election-themed viral video for the Broadway production of Avenue Q. As an assistant or associate, he's worked with luminary writers and directors, including: Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Sam Buntrock, Christopher Gattelli, Sheryl Kaller, and John Tartaglia. As Creative Aide, he worked closely with Forest Whitaker on a range of films, including Lee Daniels' The Butler. Daniel graduated with honors from NYU, where he studied at Tisch School of the Arts’ Kanbar Institute of Film and Television. Additionally, you may have seen him as a green dot on your television during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, where he has proudly served as a balloon handler for Kermit the Frog.
Natasha Straley
Producer
Natasha produced and starred in a five-episode webseries, Brunch On Sundays. She produced and DP'd the short film, Breathe, with Delta 88 Studios -- which premiered at the Soho Film Festival. She produced and starred in their next film, Hypnotic, which is now in post-production. She also runs an actor headshot business, StraleyPhotos.com. She is currently working on several projects in front of and behind the camera. Visit www.tashastraley.com for more info.
Ed Nescot
Director of Photography
Ed Nescot is a co-founder of Good Porpoise Productions, LLC, and is the manager of Ventana Productions’ New York office. In more than a decade of shooting and producing video, Ed has helped Dr. Oz tackle his fear of heights atop the Woolworth Building 800 ft. above Manhattan, experienced Zero Gravity aboard the so-called “Vomit Comet”, fought the paparazzi on the red carpet with stars such as Scarlett Johansson, Mark Wahlberg and Steve Carell, checked up on international relations at the United Nations General Assembly, made visual music with maestros Joshua Bell, Marvin Hamlisch, and Wycleff Jean, discussed the future of Extra-Terrestrial Tourism with Virgin Galactic Founder Sir Richard Branson, and even scrubbed in for brain surgery. He’s garnered five Telly Awards, three Aurora Awards, and numerous Videographer, Aegis, Clarion, and New York Festival awards. But perhaps most impressively: his Metro Soccer League team won last year’s championship!
Juliet Brett
Writer and Actor ("Amy")
Juliet Brett made her Off-Broadway debut in Beth Henley's critically-acclaimed The Jacksonian at The New Group. She comes from a family of visual artists, has a percussion and dance background, and studied screenwriting at The New School. Film: Admission, Untitled Noah Baumbach Project, A Most Violent Year. TV: CSI:NY, Law & Order: SVU. Training: Sheila Gray. Upcoming: Beth Henley’s Laugh at New York Stage & Film and In The Summerhouse at the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.
Kevin Sebastian
Writer and Associate Producer
Kevin is the producer, writer, and one of the leads of the NYCIFF Best Pilot award-winning The Grid. Other writing and directing adventures include the films Julie & Riley, Sunday Times, Itch, and Mark’s Film in NJPAC’s production of RENT; as well as the NJ stage premieres of Fall of Squirrel, The Four Horsemen(c), and staged readings/workshops at The Theater Project. As an actor, he participated in one of the first Writers’ Guild series made for the internet, Issues: The Series, and is a series regular in Streamy-winner Tina Cesa Ward’s Producing Juliet. Kevin’s work has appeared at the Cannes Film Festival, NYC Opera at Lincoln Center, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Tribeca VisionFest, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Saturday Night Live, the American Globe Theatre and many others. AEA Member. @KevSebastian