Noah Dirks (Writer/Director) is a Film and Computer Science double major at Wesleyan University. He has made several short films to date including co-directing Clarissa Starlander and the Missing Moon Princess with Shane Bannon, which won Best Story, the Jury Award, and Best Campus Picture at the 2015 Wesleyan Campus Movie Fest and was invited to attend Cannes. His parents told him to write a happy movie this time so he came up with this. 

Alison Silverstein (Producer) is a Romance Studies major, which does not mean that she studies romance. She has experience organizing theater productions and radio plays. In her free time, she entangles herself in her friends' projects, speaks French and Spanish, and looks at videos of cute animals.

Wilson Lai (Producer) is a Film Studies major at Wesleyan. He has had experience working on multiple thesis films, but this is the first film that he is producing! He is extremely excited to be working with such a great team in Out. Wilson has no free time.

Joao Pedro Pereira-Webber (Producer) is a senior Film major and Noah’s housemate. He is from Chicago. João loves everything from Chicago. He is a Chicago cliche: he loves Mies van Der Rohe, Chance the Rapper, Wilco, the ‘L’ and is bitter about New York City (although he will admit that Lloyd’s has the best carrot cake in the world). He has experience working with 16 mm film as well as digital mediums.

Jack Maraghy (Director of Photography) is a Wesleyan University film major from Richmond, Virginia. A devout fan of Steve Erwin, his career began shooting nature documentaries in his backyard. Since then, he's graduated from the camcorder to director of photography on several shorts including Wesleyan film theses, 48-hour film festival submissions, and personal projects. 

Molly Byrne (Assistant Director) is a Neuroscience major with a minor in Film. She has entered the 48-hour film project 4 years in a row and has worked with the director on independent projects. She originally came to know him by sitting next to him in a Biology class. Biggest mistake of her life.

Annie Ning (Production Design) is a prospective Film and English major at Wesleyan University. Her desire to create unique visual spaces and worlds fuels her strong love for production design. Most recently, she has worked in the Art Department on various projects as a set decorator, ranging from a psychological-thriller shot in the Canadian woods to a home for unwed mothers set in the 1960's. Her heart belongs to rural New England—she cannot wait to work with the Out team to bring it to life on screen.

Megan West (Gaffer) is a Junior Film and English double major at Wesleyan University. She has worked in G&E on a number of projects, both on- and off-campus, and is excited to work with the talented crew of Out. 

Matthew Renetzky (Sound) just came here for a good time and is feeling so attacked right now. He is a Government major, and has worked with sound since 2013 and is a highly coveted member of the Wesleyan film community. In fact, he's so hard to get a hold of, we had to hold a duel to win over his services. Lucky us that Noah is handy with a spear!

Caris Yeoman (Art Department) is a freshman whose experience with filmmaking has thus far been limited to silent, minute-long shorts, shot on iPhone apps and forcibly starring her seven-year-old brother. She is excited (and terrified) to join the crew of Out, a film with a level of actual professionalism. She decorated her dorm room with extreme deliberation and hopes this means she will have success as a member of the production design team. 

Jeremy Freeman (Composer) is super stoked to be working on this film. He believes himself to be ready for the ride as he looks forward to stretching himself past the world of bass-slapping Pikachus and Dalmatians to the world of creepy hospice care. If that's not the definition of moving "Out," then you can check him into hospice care too.