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Mr. Strathairn is an American-born actor best known for his Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated performance as Edward R. Murrow in George Clooney’s GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, for which he received the coveted Volpi Cup at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. Other feature film credits include THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, THE RIVER WILD, MATEWAN, LINCOLN, WE ARE MARSHALL, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, SILKWOOD, EIGHT MEN OUT, BOB ROBERTS, THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES, DOLORES CLAIBORNE, CITY OF HOPE, HEAVENS FALL, NO GOD NO MASTER, THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET, A MAP OF THE WORLD, THE SENSATION OF SIGHT and RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS SEVEN. He is the recipient of a Primetime Emmy Award for his work in HBO’s TEMPLE GRANDIN and starred as Dr. Lee Rosen in the SyFy Channel’s hit television series ALPHAS. On stage, Mr. Strathairn has performed in numerous productions, including THE HEIRESS, SALOME, DANCE OF DEATH and THE THREE SISTERS on Broadway, as well as several Off-Broadway productions and at regional theaters across the country. He is regarded by his peers as one of the industry’s most respected character actors and appreciated for his extensive work in more than a dozen independent films.

Frances Louise McDormand is an American actress and the recipient of two Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award, making her one of the few performers to achieve the “Triple Crown of Acting”. She has starred in a number of films by the Coen brothers, including BLOOD SIMPLE, RAISING ARIZONA, FARGO, THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE and BURN AFTER READING. For her role as Marge Gunderson in FARGO, she won the Academy Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. Other film roles include MISSISSIPPI BURNING, ALMOST FAMOUS & NORTH COUNTRY, all earning her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2017, she starred as a hardened woman seeking justice for her daughter’s murder in the film THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI, winning a second Oscar, in addition to the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Actress. She has appeared in numerous theatrical productions on Broadway and at regional theaters across the country, garnering a 2011 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play as a troubled single mother in GOOD PEOPLE. On television, she played the titular role in the HBO miniseries OLIVE KITTERIDGE, for which she received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress.

John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. His play, DOUBT: A PARABLE, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2005 Tony Award for Best Play. In 1988 he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his film MOONSTRUCK. Mr. Shanley was born into an Irish-American family in The Bronx, New York City. His mother worked as a telephone operator, and his father was a meat-packer. The neighborhood Shanley grew up in was considered very rough. His academic career did not begin well. After his Freshman year at New York University, he was put on academic probation. He then enlisted in the United States Marines, serving in a stateside post during the Vietnam War. Following his military service, he wrote a novel, then burned it, and returned to the university with the help of the G.I. Bill, and by supporting himself with a series of jobs: elevator operator, house painter, furniture mover, locksmith, bartender. He graduated from New York University as valedictorian in 1977. Mr. Shanley is the author of more than 23 plays, which have been translated and performed around the world, including more than 80 productions a year in North America.

Steve Pickering is a Chicago actor that has been working at area theaters for the past 25 years. He has appeared in more than 30 productions at the Tony Award winning Goodman Theatre, including THE LITTLE FOXES, ROMEO AND JULIET, ON THE OPEN ROAD, GOOD PERSON OF SETZUAN, LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, KING LEAR and DEATH OF A SALESMAN (also on Broadway, for the national tour and in London’s West End). Recent credits include TIN WOMAN (Theatre at the Center), THE AUDIENCE and THE LAST WIFE (TimeLine Theatre Company), TREASURE ISLAND (Lookingglass Theatre Company and Berkeley Repertory Theatre) and the title role in MACBETH (Santa Cruz Shakespeare). He received a 2013 Helen Hayes Award nomination for WALLENSTEIN at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., and has performed with many of the country’s regionals, including Pittsburgh’s City Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and others. Mr. Pickering is a 2016 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow with the Ten Chimneys Foundation in Wisconsin. His writing credits include co-adapting George Orwell’s ANIMAL FARM for The Steppenwolf Theatre, Alastair Reynolds’ DIAMOND DOGS for The House Theatre of Chicago, and, with David Kersnar, 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, for Lookingglass Theatre Company, for which he has received a 2018 Joseph Jefferson Award nomination for Best Adaptation.

Over the last decade, Nuno Malo has become one of Portugal’s most respected and busiest film composers. He has scored over 25 feature films both in the US and in Europe, and in 2011 was awarded Breakout Composer of the Year 2010 at the prestigious IFMCA Awards, where he was also nominated for Best Original Score for a Drama Film with his score for AMALIA (alongside the scores for THE KING’S SPEECH, BLACK SWAN, TRUE GRIT and KARATE KID). Mr. Malo’s score for the Sundance Film Festival selection LUV was nominated for Best Score for a Feature Film at the Hollywood Music In Media Awards 2012, and in 2014 he was again nominated for another IFMCA for his score for NO GOD, NO MASTER. Both his scores for LUV and NO GOD, NO MASTER were in the pre-selected list of Original Scores in Contention for the Oscars. He has been nominated for 4 “Sophia” awards for Best Music for Film, by the Portuguese Academy of Cinema (2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018). He has also composed music for commercials both in Europe and the US, and contributed with string arrangements for the latest 2 albums of American Artist J Cole. He is a unique breed of composer who blends seamlessly elements from classical, modern music, and ethnic music. His balanced command of the old and new techniques of film scoring make him an original combination that breathes an emotive sound into his film scores.

Veteran cinematographer Paul Sanchez has an impressive résumé that spans 20+ years in the motion picture industry. Mr. Sanchez has been the eyes behind the camera for some of Hollywood’s most successful blockbusters, including SIDEWAYS, DEATH AT A FUNERAL, 3:10 TO YUMA, DRAG ME TO HELL, MRS. DOUBTFIRE, SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER, THE RIVER WILD, SPIDERMAN 3, LARRY THE CABLE GUY, MR. WOODCOCK, PATCH ADAMS, BAD NEWS BEARS, THE MATRIX RELOADED, THE MILLION DOLLAR HOTEL, MAGIC, HANGOVER PART 2, WALK THE LINE and Disney’s OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL. He was Director of Photography for Strata Productions’ feature films HEAVENS FALL and NO, GOD, NO MASTER, and will helm that position on its upcoming production of THE LAST SURRENDER OF GERONIMO AT THE COURTESY AUTO. His television credits include camera work for MAD MEN, SCANDAL, CARNIVALE, THE CRAZY ONES, TWISTED, HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, JUST ADD MAGIC, NASH BRIDGES, SURVIVOR’S REMORSE and INVASION. On set, Mr. Sanchez is a consummate professional with unique skills and talents coveted by directors. In a phrase, he knows how to get the shot. Paul’s wife, Mary Trunk, is a nationally known award-winning documentarian.