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Adam Bartley, a proud Minnesota native, received his acting training from the prestigious Southern Methodist University acting program in Dallas and spent the next decade working on stages in New York, Chicago, Dallas, Colorado, and Alaska. Adam spent 4 years teaching acting to students and directing over 15 productions in the Aspen, CO area with a company he co-owned. He made the move to Los Angeles in 2010, and within a year he landed the iconic role of Deputy Ferguson (The Ferg) on Netflix's hit show Longmire. Adam also recurred as Duke on the hit NBC show This Is Us, and as Carl Brown (the Mole) on CBS's Ncis La. Adam has starred in several movies including Under The Silver Lake, Annabelle 2, and Armed Response as well as TV shows: Justified, Criminal Minds, Bones, Doubt, and many more. Adam is also a professional singer (Jazz, Broadway), a successful acting coach / teacher in Los Angeles, a die hard Minnesota Vikings Fan, a Dad to 2 incredible dogs, and a self proclaimed "ping pong master."- Actor
- Soundtrack
Benjamin Cook is a New York-based actor who has appeared on television, film, Broadway and in two national tours. He is featured as Adam Fisher in HBO's Paterno (2018), starring Al Pacino and directed by Barry Levinson and has appeared in the TV series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Veep (2012), 30 Rock (2006) and House of Cards (2013).
After appearing in several plays in Washington, D.C., Ben made his Broadway debut at age 11 as Little Boy in the 2009 revival of "Ragtime." He was in the Broadway company of "Billy Elliot The Musical" for 15 months, then was on the national tour of the show in both the title role and as "Michael" for a year and a half. In 2014, Ben was cast as "Race" in the first national tour of Disney's "Newsies," a role he reprised in the filmed version, Disney's Newsies: The Broadway Musical! (2017), which was released in theaters, on demand, and Netflix in 2017.
After appearing on Broadway for a third time in "Tuck Everlasting," he was cast again by director Casey Nicholaw in the ensemble of "Mean Girls: The Musical." Written by Tina Fey and produced by Lorne Michaels, the show debuts on Broadway in March 2018.
Follow Ben on Instagram and Twitter: bentylercook.- Actress
- Producer
- Writer
A small town girl from Eden, North Carolina, Tabitha Brown is a Wife, Mom, Actress and Vegan food Influencer. Tabitha is known for her loving demeanor, and her honest, viral, and comedic food reviews! She has been featured on Ellen, GMA, Sara & Keke, Buzzfeed, Tasty, Now This Food, and Goodful just to name a few. In 2020, she gained immense internet popularity with her online video content which often incorporates veganism, humor and motivational speaking by spreading love and kindness. She has been deemed as Americas Mom! As an actress Tabitha is known for her comedic timing on Will&Grace and love and peace in her own show on Ellen's Digital Network " All Love with Tabitha Brown" just to name a few.- Francesca Curran is an American actress. She is best known for her compelling role as inmate Helen Van Maele ("Skinhead Helen") in Netflix's hit series, "Orange Is The New Black." She joined the cast in Season 4, making a splash as the intimidating white supremacist, part of the "white power" crew headed by Piper (Taylor Schilling). Curran has been widely praised for her incredible commitment in her transformation to play Helen. In 2018, she was nominated with her co-stars for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance In A Comedy Series. She appeared as the star of the famous Warner Bra's commercial, "Girls Gone Comfortable."
Born on May 10th, Curran was raised in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA. She is an alumna of The American Musical and Dramatics Academy of NYC, a prestigious theater and film conservatory. She is trained in Musical Theater, voice, and dance. She is a fluent Spanish speaker. - Actress
- Producer
- Writer
Heather Fairfield was born on 14 June 1969 in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress and producer, known for The War of the Roses (1989), The Opposite of Sex (1998) and Frame Up (1991).- Director
- Producer
- Actor
David Rountree was born in Eden, North Carolina, USA. He is known for Cut! (2014), xXx: State of the Union (2005) and 108 Stitches (2014). He has been married to Rosie Garcia since 26 August 2006. They have one child.- Actress
- Stunts
Lesley Tesh was born in Eden, North Carolina, USA. Lesley is an actor, known for Power Rangers Zeo (1996), The Boundary (2017) and The Night Slayer. Lesley was previously married to Einar Pedersen.- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Born as Cathy Aileen Immordino on August 28 1981 in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Her mother was a grade school teacher and boy & girl scout leader and her father was a successful V.P. at a transportation and logistics company.
Growing up, Cathy was focused on becoming a songwriter, musician and actress. She toured all over the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean Islands with her music project, Cillico. She began her acting career as a glorified background actor in major box office films such as Fat Albert, Disturbia and Accepted. Then she was given a break on Nickelodeon's "Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide" as a bully. More shows followed. Disney's "Totally Suite New Year's Eve" (2005) and the "Disney Channel Games" (2006). "Drillbit Taylor" and "Hotel for Dogs".- Writer
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Audie Harrison is a graduate of the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts, where he was the recipient a Student Emmy for his short film, "Ringed Planet!" Following college, Audie went on to make numerous independent films, both in animation and live action. Some of which screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance and SXSW.
As a character animator, Audie has worked at Pixar, Rhythm & Hues Studios and on Nickelodeon's "The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron". At Rhythm & Hues, he was a Supervising Animator on many films including the Academy Award Winning "The Golden Compass".
In more recent years, Audie has been writing, storyboarding and directing for television animation. As a story artist on the Cartoon Network show "Secret Mountain Fort Awesome", one of his episodes won Best TV Production at the 2012 Annecy Film Festival. He went on to help develop the acclaimed series "Uncle Grandpa" for which he was the Supervising Producer. Audie has also developed content for Nickelodeon and produced two original pilots for Cartoon Network.
Most recently, Audie was on an overall deal at Disney Television Animation where he developed high-profile Disney heritage properties, along with original content.
Audie is currently writing and developing some exciting new projects share with the world...- The story of Lady Bo is very much the story of a woman in a man's world. The story of a musical pioneer. The story of rock & roll's First Lady of Guitar. It is a common sight nowadays to see female musicians performing electric blues, jazz, rock & roll and R&B. So common, in fact, that one can quite easily forget that it's really not that long ago that those genres of music were once pretty much the sole preserve of the male of the species. One thinks of today's top female stars such as Bonnie Raitt, Melissa Etheridge, Wynonna Judd, Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt and Vonda Shepard. The story of the woman who paved the way for all of these performers is the story of Lady Bo. Lady Bo was born Peggy Jones on Friday July 19th 1940 and raised in the Sugar Hill district of Uptown Manhattan in New York City, in a neighborhood that could boast of producing such other musical luminaries as Duke Ellington, Carmen McRae, Leslie Uggams, Gregory Hinds, Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers, The Ronettes, and Vanilla Fudge. The young Peggy was very fortunate to be raised in a loving household where artistic development was very much encouraged. Born to musical parents (her mother was a singer and dancer and her father played the saxophone), Peggy and her mom would often practise singing and dancing together at home in front of the huge mirror that her father had installed on a wall in the family's living room. By the tender age of 4, she had developed a natural instinct for rhythm and movement and a keen sense of musical pitch and timing, and her parents realised that they had been blessed with that most precious of gifts, a musical child prodigy. By the age of 6, she had learnt to tap dance, and was studying ballet and modern dance, and had already appeared onstage at the prestigious Carnegie Hall, on TV's "Ted Mack's Amateur Hour" and on Ralph Cooper's "Spotlight On Harlem" radio show. She was attending Public School 186, (incidentally, the same school that screen actress Bette Davis had attended a few years before). By the age of 9 she had begun formal vocal training on her four octave range, and had notched up even more appearances at Carnegie Hall plus taken part in several performances of school operettas. At the age of 12 she had begun playing her first musical instrument, the ukulele, very popular with many female performers at that time, and which she used to accompany herself whilst practicing singing her scales. She went on to attend the New York High School of Performing Arts on a scholarship as a dance major, and there studied drama, music theory, and several musical instruments. In 1955, at the age of 15, she bought her very first guitar, and unwittingly began a chain of events that was to eventually change the role of women in music forever. Around this time she was also working part-time as a model, and began to write and arrange songs whilst still studying at school. After winning one of the famed Amateur Nights as a singer at the legendary New York Apollo Theater, she signed a recording contract with a major label and formed The Fabulous Jewels Band. Peggy had intended to go on to Julliard College to study classical music theory, when a chance meeting with the legendary rhythm & blues performer Bo Diddley outside the Apollo Theater during the summer of 1956 led to a change of direction for her that was to have repercussions for female musicians far and wide. She became the first female lead guitarist in history to be hired by a major recording act. Impressed by her prodigious talent for music, Bo Diddley began to work closely with Peggy to develop his ideas for new material and new sounds. She taught herself to play the guitar in his unique tunings and soon began to play in unison with the master of the world-famous "Bo Diddley Beat". Hit after hit soon began to follow; "Hey, Bo Diddley", "Mona", "Say Man", "Crackin' Up", "The Story of Bo Diddley", "Say Man, Back Again", "Road Runner", "Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger", "Aztec" and many, many more classic songs, and all featuring Peggy on electric guitar and vocals and occasional piano. Between the years 1956 and 1962, and at the same time as holding down an integral position in Bo Diddley's touring and recording band, Peggy also took time out to sing with The Buddy Johnson Orchestra (filling in for Ella Johnson at The Savoy Ballroom) and also recorded on a number of local hit singles, including The Continentals' "Picture Of Love" (1956), The Bopchords' "Baby"/"So Why" (1957), Greg & Peg's "Honey Bunny Baby" (1957), Bob & Peggy's "Everybody's Talking" (1959), The Jewels' "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" (1961) and Les Cooper & The Soul Rockers' nationwide Pop and R&B hit "Wiggle Wobble"/"Dig Yourself" (1962). Cast in the same mold as those other 2 great female musical pioneers and torch-bearers, Memphis Minnie and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Peggy and her electric guitar and stunning voice continued to forge her own path through the male-dominated worlds of rhythm & blues, soul, blues, pop, jazz and rock & roll, recording for the Checker/Chess, MGM, Decca, Columbia, Peacock, Savoy, Everlast, Holiday, Ro-Nan, and Whirlin' Disc record labels. Nowadays, female musicians are accepted by the music industry and the audience without question, but back in the late 50s/early 60s an electric guitar-playing, blues-shouting woman was still something of a novelty that record companies, promoters and managers frankly didn't quite know how to deal with! Another obstacle that Lady Bo continues to work hard to overcome is the lack of formal recognition given to studio session musicians by such organisations as The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and the record companies. Thanks in part due to the tireless work of stars like Bo Diddley and Etta James, Lady Bo and other deserving session players such as Johnnie Johnson (Chuck Berry), King Curtis (Atlantic Records), James Jamerson (Motown Records) and Carol Kaye (Frank Sinatra, Beach Boys etc) are only now gradually beginning to receive some of the recognition that they are surely due. Lady Bo alone appears on a total of around 50 credited and uncredited albums and CDs. As a performer, Lady Bo can probably best be described as Armed & Extremely Dangerous! Her lean, mean, slap-in-the-face guitar technique combining perfectly with her classy, sassy, smooth-as-silk vocal style. She describes her musical magic thus: "I was trained to go somewhere with a lyric, choose songs that are masterworks in content and words, and that musically say something strong because I know how to sing, to make a song mine, to play and to deliver it. I never sing a song the same way twice or believe that everyone feels exactly the same every day, so why should a song be the same? LIVE is real. Who I am is truth, and I am the artistry of what I created! I grew up with what my mother always told me from being a little girl: You be you always. You can't be nobody else..... My father would say to me: Don't let nobody stop you...you be your own person..... Years ago, the great Billie Holiday gave similar advice to Ruth Brown after she'd placed a flower in her hair and began singing Billie Holiday songs at a gig. Holiday, who was in the audience, told her: What you gotta decide is who you are on stage, so people will call you by YOUR name, and not mine..." In 1962, Lady Bo took a break from touring and recording with Bo Diddley to concentrate more fully on her band The Jewels who by this time had become one of the top East Coast pop/soul ensembles. In the Summer of Love of 1967, she was invited to play percussion on Eric Burdon & The Animals' worldwide Top 10 hit "San Franciscan Nights", and in the late sixties she and her new bass player Wally Malone were back on the road again touring around Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas with The Boogie Kings/The American Soul Train Revue. Around 1970, she received a request from Bo Diddley's then-manager Marty Otelsberg to move to San Jose, California and put together a brand new backing band for Bo Diddley. Lady Bo's vocal influences: her mom, Billie Holiday (she attended the funeral of Lady Day in New York City in 1959), Sam Cooke, Dinah Washington, Etta James, Ruth Brown, LaVern Baker, Minnie Riperton, Natalie Cole, Mahalia Jackson, Dionne Warwick and Kathleen Battle. Lady Bo's overall role model: Lena Horne. Lady Bo's male influences: Bo Diddley, Wes Montgomery, George Benson, John Tropea, Miles Davis and The JBs. Lady Bo is keen to stress that she was never influenced by any other female guitarists. Although she had heard of Memphis Minnie's guitar playing, she had never actually heard any of the Chicago-based singer and guitarist's recordings. Instead she gratefully accepted musical advice from the many male musicians that she encounted on the road; from the open-tuning guitar style developed with Bo Diddley, to the funk techniques learnt from time with the rhythm sections of the James Brown and Sam & Dave bands, to the soul and Latin rhythms taught to her by Mongo Santamaria. As a member of Bo Diddley's band, Lady Bo has shared the bill with some of the very top names in music: Santana, John Lee Hooker, James Cotton, Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Chuck Berry, The Four Tops, The Coasters, The Platters, Ben E. King, BT Express, Chubby Checker, The Temptations, Sarah Vaughan and many others. With her own groups, she has headlined with Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter, Albert Collins, Gene Krupa, Wilson Pickett, The Bar-Kays, Sammy Davis Jr., BJ Thomas, the Marvelettes, Gregg Allman, The Flamingos, Richard Berry, Joe Louis Walker and many others.
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Ian Fordyce was born on 25 October 1931 in Eden, Banffshire, Scotland, UK. He was a producer and director, known for Father Brown (1974), The Cedar Tree (1976) and Thriller (1973). He was married to Patti Hogan, Veronica Hurst and Juliette James. He died on 17 September 1988 in Westminster, London, England, UK.- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Wally White was born on 14 October 1969 in Eden, North Carolina, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for Almost Midnight (2015), Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) and Hollywood Heights (2012).- Producer
- Editor
- Director
Norwood Cheek was born on 28 December 1966 in Eden, North Carolina, USA. He is a producer and editor, known for Bring It On (2000), Yes Man (2008) and The Cable Guy (1996).- Composer
- Soundtrack
James "Son" Thomas, born 1926 in Eden, Mississippi , was an American Delta blues musician, gravedigger and sculptor. As a child, lacking proper toys, he used to make small Ford tractors of clay to play with, earning James Thomas the nickname "Thirty-seven Ford" in 1937, with became simply "Ford" and later dreaming of a music career, was turned into "Sonny Ford". It was his uncle Joe Cooper who taught him about molding clay, a hobby James Thomas turned into artistry. Filmmaker William R. Ferris made several documentaries with James "Son Thomas" which made him known to the blues crowd. In the 1970s, blues artist Eddie Cusic performed with Thomas at regular engagements, and together they recorded "Once I Had a Car". In later performances, he was accompanied by the Swiss harmonica player Walter Liniger, and his son Pat. James "Son" Thomas was recorded by several small record labels and is probably best known for his album "Gateway to the Delta", recorded by Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 1985, his sculptures was featured in the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where he was introduced to Nancy Reagan, then the First Lady. James "Son" Thomas died at the age of 66 in Greenville, Mississippi, from emphysema and a stroke on June 26, 1993. He is buried in Leland and memorialized by a headstone placed in 1996 by the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund and paid for by rock musician John Fogerty.- Soundtrack
Casey Carlson was born on 29 April 1988 in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA.- Soundtrack
S. Fillmore Bennett was born on 21 June 1836 in Eden, New York, USA. S. Fillmore died on 12 June 1898 in Richmond, Illinois, USA.- Additional Crew
- Actor
Anthony Harbour was born on 13 July 1962 in Eden, North Carolina, USA. He is an actor, known for A Kiss Before Dying (1991), In a Shallow Grave (1988) and Lassie (1994).- Todd Downing was born on 22 July 1980 in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA.
- Actor
- Producer
Michael was raised, mostly by his grandparents Ella and Vester, in rural North Carolina on a tobacco farm.
Graduated from New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1983, along with (among many others) actors Elias Koteas, Illeana Douglas, Louis Mustillo, Adam Klugman, Jody Wood, Elisa Anders, Jonathan Mandell, and Brian Markinson.
After graduating, Carter, Markinson, Koteas, Wood, Anders, and Mandell were members of the Academy of Dramatic Arts' 1983-1984 Production Company.- Marcel D. Bassett was born on 29 July 1983 in Eden, North Carolina, USA.
- Jay Foreman was born on 18 February 1976 in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA.
- Editor
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- Writer
Jeremy Hyler was born on 29 August 1985 in Eden, North Carolina, USA. He is an editor and cinematographer, known for CPU (2006), Tick, Tock, Trip! (2008) and The First (2008).