Charles Nelson Reilly, Writer/Performer
Barry Poltermann, Director/Editor
Frank Anderson, Director/Music/Animation
Robert Fagan, Producer
Wrye Martin, Producer
Paul Linke, Writer/Director of Stage Play
Anthony Balderrama, Cinematographer
Donita Sparks, Additional Music
Charles Nelson Reilly, Writer/Performer
Tony® Winner and multiple Emmy nominated actor Charles Nelson Reilly is best known today as a staple of campy 70s and 80s game show television. He appeared regularly on such programs as “The Match Game” and “Hollywood Squares”. Prior to that, Reilly was a regular guest on “The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson”, “The Dean Martin Show”, and “Rowan And Martin's Laugh-In”. In 1962 he was nominated for and won a Tony® for “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying”. He was nominated again just two years later in 1964 for “Hello, Dolly!”. Nominated for multiple Emmys over the last four decades and as recently as 1999, Reilly also has been nominated for a Tony® for directing for 1997’s “The Gin Game”. His one-man show, "Save It For The Stage: The Life Of Reilly", toured the US for several years to sold out shows and was highly critically acclaimed. He was educated at HB Studios by the legendary Uta Hagen alongside such acting legends as Steve McQueen, Jerry Stiller, Jason Robards, and Jack Lemmon. Reilly was born in The Bronx in 1931 and passed away on May 25, 2007 in Los Angeles.
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Barry Poltermann, Director/Editor
Poltermann most recently directed new media web campaigns for L'Orange Studios in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he directed television commercials for Los Angeles-based Neue Sentimental Films. From 1996 until 1999 he directed for Superior Street Productions/Spoke Films in Chicago and Los Angeles. His clients as a director include MSN Search, Activision, McDonalds, Ford Motors, TWA, Arthur Anderson, All State Insurance, Sprint, Dannon Yogurt, State Farm Insurance, Gatorade, AT&T, Infone and Coca Cola. Poltermann’s first feature film as a director, Aswang premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994. In addition to his directing, Poltermann co-founded the web based film financing company Civilian Pictures and currently serves as its CEO. Poltermann has edited several documentary pieces for Bravo/IFC's Split Screen program, as well as Chris Smith and Sarah Price's highly acclaimed documentary American Movie, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999 and was a Sony Pictures Classics release. Currently he is editing The Pool, a new film by Chris Smith, and serving as an executive producer on the documentary Rock The Bells which chronicles the behind-the-scenes struggle to put together the final performance of hip-hop supergroup The Wu Tang Clan.
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Frank Anderson, Director/Music/Animation
Frank Anderson has directed award-winning animation, music videos, and broadcast commercials for clients including the US Army, Coca Cola and Anheuser Busch. Anderson began making short films and animations while growing up in the Philippines. Anderson began his professional career as an animator in San Francisco in the 1980s working with such studios as Colossal Pictures, The Ink Hut, and Animation Au Go-Go. In the late 80s Anderson began animating for Tricky Pictures, the animation arm of Backyard Productions, and shooting live action music videos and television commercials for Los Angeles based B-10 Commerce. Most recently Anderson worked as the Visual Director and cinematographer on Peter Buffet’s acclaimed multi-media stage production of “Spirit: The Seventh Fire”, which is currently touring the United States. His work appears regularly on Turner Classic Movies, Lifetime, PBS and MTV. Anderson studied Japanese Literature at San Francisco State University.
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Robert Fagan, Producer
Robert Fagan is a founding member of 4orty 2wo Entertainment, where he manages the creation of content across all media for 4orty 2wo campaigns. Robert began his career in traditional advertising, producing television commercials for clients including Coca-Cola, Sony, and Sears. In 1999, Robert began providing production services to Microsoft, in particular, X-Box and Microsoft Games Studios where he contributed to the creation of production elements on such titles as Mech Commander, Crimson Skies and the Mech Warrior series. In addition, Robert produced all the video and photographic elements for The Beast, a promotional campaign for Steven Spielberg’s film A.I. which went on to be listed as Best Idea of 2001 in NY Times Magazine. In 2004, Robert acted as the Senior Media Producer for the I Love Bees campaign, which received a 2005 Webby Award and promoted the $125 million dollar launch of Halo2. The Life of Reilly is Robert's fifth feature film as a producer. Robert's fourth feature, Dummy, stars Academy Award winner (Best Actor), Adrien Brody, a film Richard Roeper refers to as "The best ventriloquist -stalker -family-drama -romantic -comedy I've seen in, well maybe forever." “Two Thumbs Up”. Robert is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America, New Media Council and the International Game Developers Association and has been a Featured Speaker at the Screen Actors Guild Panel on Independent Filmmaking. Originally from Newport, R.I., Robert currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Wrye Martin, Producer
Martin is a co-founder and president of L'Orange Studios, a digital production company based in Los Angeles. As a television commercial director from 1996 to the present, Martin's national clients include MSN, DISNEY, NIKON and ESPN. In 1996, Martin worked as a segment director for the television series "Split Screen" on BRAVO/Independent Film Channel. Martin worked as a staff television commercial director for the Best Buy Corp. from 1992 to 1995. In 1992, he produced and directed the feature Aswang, an official selection of the 1994 Sundance Film Festival.
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Paul Linke, Writer/Director of Stage Play
An MFA graduate of the University of Southern California, Mr. Linke co-founded the Garden Theatre Festival (LADCC Award) and was a member of the Company Theatre. He was the founder and original artistic director of the Powerhouse Theatre in Santa Monica where he created his internationally acclaimed TIME FLIES WHEN YOU’RE ALIVE, which was later filmed as an HBO Showcase special and nominated for a Cable Ace Award. Mr. Linke continued his autobiographical solo work with LIFE AFTER TIME, directed by Robert Egan, which premiered at the Pasadena Playhouse. Mr. Charles Nelson Reilly directed the third installment of Mr. Linke’s “Time Trilogy” FATHER TIME, at the Pacific Resident Theatre. Most recently, Mr. Linke staged THAT MAY WELL BE TRUE at the Ruskin Theater and directed NOBODY DON’T LIKE YOGI starring Ben Gazzara, at the Bay Street Theatre, Syracuse Stage, and Off-Broadway at the Lamb’s Theatre on 44th Street. Mr. Linke has developed and staged many other solo plays including CATERPILLAR SOUP, CAPTURE NOW, THE LAW OF RETURN (w/ Shelly Berman), SWING’N WILD, IT AIN’T NOTHIN NICE, WILDE AND WONDERFUL (Two Ovation Nominations), “…BUT FIRST, SAMMY SHORE” (w/ veteran comic Sammy Shore) for which he won the ADA for best direction of an original play in 2002. A professional actor for almost thirty years, he is best know as Artie Grossman on the NBC-TV series CHiPs. Mr. Linke’s motion picture credits include Motel Hell, Parenthood, and K-PAX.
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Anthony Balderrama, Cinematographer
Mr. Balderrama is an accomplished cinematographer who has shot television commercials for clients including American Express, AT&T, Verizon, Sony, Pepsi, Sprite, Countrytime, Gatorade, Maxwell House, Kraft, Texaco, Southwest Airlines, Jamaica Tourism, Mercedes Benz, Ford, Chevy, Pontiac, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Jeep, Charles Schwab, and Microsoft. As a Director/Cameraman he has directed and filmed commercials for McDonald’s, Texas Tourism, California Tourism, Jeep, UNC Health, Administaff, and Wal-Mart. Most recently Mr. Balderrama shot the 2003 long-form pilot “Fearless” for Jerry Bruckheimer/WB and the theatrical Star Wars parody motion picture preview for Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Mr. Balderrama began his career working as a camera assistant for directors such as Tarsem and on films such as The Principal, Miss Firecracker and Pacific Heights. He graduated from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 1978.
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Donita Sparks, Additional Music
The music of Donita Sparks and her seminal band L7 once inspired the Dean of American rock critics, Robert Christgau, to compare their “intense admixtures of ditty and power chord” to Nirvana, citing it as every bit “ as catchy, and a touch nastier.” Their anthemic “read-my-title outbursts like Wargasm, Diet Pill, and Shitlist fulfill the ancient prophecy of a time when girls would reinvent punk out of sheer delight in their own power.” L7’s power continued to spread throughout the nineties gaining momentum with every show and every record release while developing a fan base that borders on the fanatical to this day. That Donita Sparks has influenced and inspired a generation can be seen in the countless lists and internet polls on heros of modern rock. Rolling Stone lists Bricks are Heavy in their Essential Albums of the Nineties. Donita Sparks has now embarked on a whole new mission with her eponymous new group - featuring L7 drummer Lady Dee Plakas and lead guitarist Alan the Italian and bassist Dat T. Ngo.
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