Jaime Jaget - Writer+Director

Jaime Jaget is a Los Angeles-based Screenwriter and Playwright. Growing up in a small Long Island town with blue-collar roots, she is interested in the weight of generations. Full Length Credits: Babies Night In, Angie, Aggie, Anthony (IAMA Theater, dir. Catya McMullen), Soup Chickens (Great Plains Theater Conference 2021), Mrs. Swenson (Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, dir. Eddie Prunoske), SonnyBoy (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Shift (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, dir. Jenna Worsham), The Villagers (Echo Theater dir. Holly Hudson, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater dir. Jenna Worsham). Shorts Credits: Babies Night in (See What Sticks LA) Fire In Our Eyes (The Sherry Theater), ’94 Letters to Your Father (Theater Jam V, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, dir. Jenna Worsham). She is the former Managing Director of the Middle Voice at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and resident with Echo Theater's Young Playwrights and IAMA Under 30 Lab. She currently produces with the Wrise Collective.

Lauren Luklow - Producer

Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Lauren Lukow is an independent film producer based in Los Angeles. Her projects have screened at festivals around the world including the Sarasota Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, and LA Shorts, and have been supported by organizations including Wavelength Productions and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Her latest short, MARA HAS THREE JOBS IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, as part of the Rising Voices initiative founded by Indeed and Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad. For five years, Lauren worked for the Sundance Feature Film Program, most recently as their Manager of Producing and Artist Support. In this role she oversaw the Producers Track, while collaborating on Sundance's flagship Screenwriters and Directors Labs, in addition to providing ongoing creative and strategic support to 40+ artists/projects in fiction features annually. Before Sundance, Lauren was on the development team at Pixar Animation Studios where she assisted their in-house filmmakers in the earliest phases of their creative process for features and experimental shorts. Lauren presently serves as a board member for the University of Virginia’s Entertainment Club, her alma mater.

Jack MacDonald - Cinematographer

Jack McDonald is a Director of Photography with an MFA in Cinematography from AFI Conservatory, and a BFA in Film & TV from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. FISHMONGER, his AFI thesis film, will world premiere at Fantastic Fest ahead of its European premiere at Sitges FF in Spain. His additional DP credits include COFFEE SHOP NAMES, streaming on HBO Max, which played at Tribeca, and won Best Comedy at Palm Springs ShortFest. He shot three episodes of the Hulu series BITE SIZE HALLOWEEN, including SNATCHED, THE NEW NANNY, and GO TO BED, RAYMOND. Additional DP credits include PICNIC AND A LITTLE MUTINY, RATED R, SKETCH, BUG BITE, and LATE SUMMER DREAM OF FLYING, which premiered at the prestigious cinematography festival CAMERIMAGE. Earlier in his career, Jack worked as Gaffer and Key Grip on dozens of feature films, including the Safdie Brothers' GOOD TIME and Chloé Zhao's THE RIDER.

Dan Abeles as BEAU

DAN ABELES is an actor, musician, and producer. He is a creative producer for theater and a co-founder and co-producing director of NYC company, LESSER AMERICA. Currently, Dan can be seen in SPECIAL OPS: LIONESS, opposite Zoe Saldana (Paramount+). He just wrapped season 2 of OUTER RANGE (Amazon). NY: revolt. she said. revolt again. (SohoRep), Empathitrax (EST), The Undeniable Sound of Right Now (Rattlestick), Wyoming (Lesser America), Where We’re Born(Rattlestick, Hilltown Plays), Ethan Coen’s Offices (Atlantic Theater Company), Helping People (IRT), More LesserAmerica shows. Select Regional: Ivo Van Hove’s A View From the Bridge (Goodman), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Bay Street Theatre), reasons to be pretty(Philadelphia Theater Company), The Gnadiges Fraulein (Provincetown), The Comedy of Errors (Lake George). TV: “Outer Range” (upcoming), “Lioness”, “Women of the Movement”, “Strange Angel”, ”The Good Wife", "Blue Bloods", "Person of Interest", “Forever”, “Elementary”, “Smash” , “Law & Order”, “Wallflowers”. Upcoming: “Outer Range” Film: The Well, Campfire Alpha, Seattle Road, You Bury Your Own, Son of Mourning, Gasoline. CoFounder/Producing Director of LesserAmerica. Education: NYU: Tisch

Sarah Rich as EMILIA

Sarah Rich recently completed production as a major supporting role in Julie Pacino's debut feature film I Live Here Now, to be theatrically distributed by Utopia. Other film credits include: a major supporting character in Netflix's Purple Hearts starring Sofia Carson and Nicholas Galitzine, the lead in #LIKE streaming on Peacock and Amazon Prime, the ensemble feature Either Side of Midnight from director Roger Spottiswoode, and This Old House on Hulu. Television credits include Chicago P.D., FBI: Most Wanted, Law & Order: SVU, The Blacklist, Orange Is The New Black, The Detour, and tv movie Broadcasting Christmas for Hallmark. 

Melissa Schwimmer - Food Stylist

Melissa Schwimmer is an LA based private chef, food and product stylist and holistic nutrition coach. She loves all things food and wellness, dogs and being in the water. When she's not working you can find her somewhere dancing, on a gratitude walk or at Erewhon.