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  Lauren_Ashley_Carter

Name: Lauren Ashley Carter
Character: Noir

Lauren Ashley Carter is awaiting the premieres of two films this year: "Rising Stars", a story of young adults trying to find their way in the music industry (she is also featured on the sound track), and "The Prodigies" a dark motion capture picture about five young geniuses who are brutally attacked in Central Park and begin to unleash havoc across the country. She is currently living in New York and will continue to do films with this crew as much as she can!

 
       
  Mark Stephens

Name: Mark Stephens
Character: Marguile Novie, Narrator

Mark Stephens has portayed a radio DJ in another short film. He has also owned and sold a bar somewhere. He likes Sanford and Son. Aside from those three facts he remains a complete mystery.

 

 
       
  Vel Ayasha

Name: Vel Ayasha
Character: Boo Smith

Vel Ayasha is a local legend in the Kent music scene. His songs contain a wry wit not scene since the days of Wesley Willis. His video "Strange Magazine", detailing the true story of finding his girlfriend scantily clad in a disreputable publication, has a brief cameo with the esteemed writer/director Jorge Delarosa, who ironically, was also featured in that very same magazine. Clad even scantilyer.
 
       
  Mike Akers

Name: Mike Akers
Character: Special Agent Stephanie Bellman

Prior to being cast as Stephanie Bellman in the film "Black", Mike got his start as a mime in a local commercial for "650GOLD" in Cleveland. In addition to "Black", he is working on a small role in a Kent State University student film called "Listening to Rain". Until he gets his big break, he's working as a custodian for Kent State while attaining his Master of Fine Arts in Custodial Services (lol). One day soon he hopes to work in sitcoms and anything comedy related. In his spare time Mike can be found eating potato bugs, masturbating with sandpaper, and licking the buttholes of feral alley cats.

 
       
  Jocelyn Roueiheb

Name: Jocelyn Roueiheb
Character: Bobby Vinson, Narrator

Position: Assistant Director

Jocelyn Roueiheb is an actor, voice over artist, writer, director and producer in the Northeast Ohio area. She has worked with PBS stations in Akron (Western Reserve) and Cleveland (Ideastream) as well as Kent State University Teleproductions where she is a student producer and resident voice over artist. Jocelyn has voiced commercials and shows which have aired on Sports Time Ohio and PBS, as well as corporate videos and exhibits such as the Luxor hotel's Titanic exhibit in Vegas. Although Jocelyn has a well-rounded background in all types of production, her first love is film and television.

 
       
  Hank Fiorini

Name: Hank Fiorini
Character: Sheriff Calhoon

I was born in Bombtown, USA aka. Youngstown, Ohio. I'm a Baby Boomer, lol, employed at GM, in Lordstown, OH  for 24 years until July, 2006 and was a substitute teacher from Sept. 2006 - June 2007 and I decided not to renew my contract unless it included combat pay. I decided to give entertainment a try and my first gig was being an extra, coal miner, in "Walker Payne". I also work as a Brand Ambassador because I enjoy traveling to various venues to promote a wide range of products and services. Working with Matt, Brent and the rest of the gang was lots of fun because everyone is soooo nice! Very professional and I'm certain the final product will be fantastic and I'm very excited to see it soon.

 
       
  Jimmy Morris

Name: Jimmy Morris
Character: The Sickly Looking Man

Jimmy Morris will be the savior of mankind one day. As long as he isn't doing anything else at the time.

 

 
       
  Susan Martin

Name: Susan Martin
Character: Widow Presley

Susan M. Martin has been an actress in film, stage and t.v. for at least a million years! Constantly in pursuit of the role that will get her the "little gold naked statue" which she is sure will come her way when BLACK hits the screens and her moving portrayal of WIDOW PRESLEY is recognized by the Academy! Till that time you can rent or buy DEMONS RISING and be thoroughly entertained by her riveting performance as NORITA.

 
       
  Katherine Stamm

Name: Katherine Stamm
Character: 50's Style Homemaker

Position: Property Wrangler, Music Production and Gracious Host

When informed of the film "Black" she volunteered to help in anyway possible. We held her to it. Her home soon became Slow Mutants central as various scenes were shot in and around her home, strangers (sometimes covered in blood) slept in her living room and destroyed her bathroom. She paraded around in front of the cameras as a happy house frau on multiple occasions and was even forced at microphone point to record various classical piano pieces for royalty free atmospheric music. Amazingly she still talks to us.

  Drew Stamm

Name: Drew Stamm
Character: 50's Style Announcer
Position: Property Wrangler and Legal Advisor

Drew Stamm is the husband of Katherine Stamm. In addition to allowing strangers into his home, he also voiced the 50's Announcer in the film. He was awakened at 11:30 PM, dragged in front of a microphone and forced to perform like a circus monkey. As a current law student, he was a consultant on any copyright issues. This often resulted in him running around the set half naked screaming "Y'alls gonna git sued!" We quickly learned the value of ether and tranquilizer darts.
 
       
 
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  Jorge Delarosa

Name: Jorge Delarosa
Position: Director and Set Design
Character: Voice of Roland

Jorge Delarosa is a full time student at Kent State University. He is an avid fan of cinema, and enjoys torturing his few friends with awful movies. "When I initially approached the concept of BLACK, it was just going to be an exercise of the mise-en-scene technique.  Then I wrote it." says this young and handsome director.  Truer words were never spoken by any other self-acclaimed writer and director.  Yes, full of himself and often found staring into the mirror, we expect great things from this new mastermind of the silver screen.

 
       
  Brent Simon

Name: Brent Simon
Position: Editor, Sound Design, Camera Operator and Additional Effects

Brent Simon is a jack of all trades and master of none. He was raised to be an IT guy, but followed a brief career as an Avionics Technician. After a minor bout with electrocution he opted for the family job of grocery clerk. While in that position he reached minor internet celebrity status after releasing the songs “Space_Camp” and “World_Wired_West”. Now the wind has blown him into the gaping maw of The Slow Mutants. He has been seen freeing the domestic cats of Kent so that they might return to the wild graceful creatures they once were, filthy buttholes and all.

 
       
  Wyl Price

Name: Wyl Price
Position: Camera Operator and Set Design

"Life happens around me, not to me."

 

 
       
  Don King

Name: Don King
Position: Practical Effects, Additional Music and Camera Operator

Don is a visual artist and musician, as well as an Assistant Professor of Art at Kent State University. He holds both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Kent State, where he teaches Digital Media and Sculpture courses.  In his spare time, Don can be found foraging for wild mushrooms or practicing new culinary techniques he learned from Food Network. Recently, Don has become obsessed with the exceptional cleanliness of the buttholes of Kent's feral alley cat community, and plans to shoot a documentary on the subject.

 
       
  Mike Rawlinson

Name: Mike Rawlinson
Position: Digital Effects

Mike Rawlinson was born in the bowels of hell, at the age of 3 he decided to come up for air, at which point he was raised by wolves.  He was good friends with the spiders of the forest, and has agreed to call his friend for this film, and work on set as a translator.

 
       
  Sierra Holt

Name: Sierra Holt
Position: Makeup and Wardrobe

Sierra was last seen with a strange man calling himself "The Doctor". They have been seen entering and exiting a small blue box which mysteriously disappears only to reappear sometime later. Wherever this duo goes trouble follows. If they are seen, an immediate report should be filed with the United Nations Intellegence Taskforce (U.N.I.T.)

 

 
       
 

Name: Eric Farley
Position: Prop Director, Mr. Ayasha Double and Production Assistant

Eric Farley has spent much time searching for Sierra. Unable to face the fact that she drops in and out unexpectedly, he has decided the best course of action is to join forces with this "Doctor". He was last seen aboard the time ship "SS Madame de Pompador", sometime in the 51st century. Current location unknown.

 

 
       

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