Donald is a seasoned stage and film actor/producer/director and president of Auburn Productions. He stars in the award-winning pilot/shorts, Whitey On The Run (which he directed), To Grieve or Not To Grieve (which he wrote and directed) and Ben & Tony. His Whitey web series is an award-winner for his direction, producing and acting, notable for Best Web Series at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and others. He also received awards for his short film adaptation of the acclaimed poem, Let There Be Peace. He appeared with Jason Clark in Chappaquiddick and stars in Auburn’s award-winning short film, Memory Lane as a father with dementia. He recently appeared in the comedy feature Motorvation, the series L.A. Macabre, and the psychological thriller Altered Perceptions.
Boston-born and bicoastal, Donald has portrayed Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and other founding fathers in various venues. As an entrepreneur, he maintains the touring company, Boston Town Crier, that conducts Freedom Trail tours from Boston Common, and is a member of the Freedom Trail Foundation. Donald: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1144423/
Dominic is an actor/writer/producer, born in New York City. He sang acapella in the subways of New York and fronted several teenage bands, one that appeared at the World’s Fair and in various clubs from Long Island to Greenwich Village, even opening for The Mamas and the Papas. He studied acting in New York, Chicago, Las Vegas and LA. His career spans numerous TV guest spots (House, NYPD Blue, Malcom & Eddie, Murder She Wrote, Matlock, and more), films like Double Bang with William Baldwin, and over 50 national commercials. He feels lucky to have played dual roles as a Fleet Commander and a Klingon in the multilevel video game, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and said, “There’s nothing like getting into that makeup!”
In addition to producing, starring and co-writing Ben & Tony, he and his wife Kaenan produced, co-wrote, and he stars in the pilot/shorts Whitey On The Run and Baked Ziti, as well as exec-producing and appearing in To Grieve or Not To Grieve. He and Kaenan are currently shopping their prizewinning screenplay, Coney Island—a coming-of-age feature based on a life-changing summer in his childhood. https://imdb.me/dominicoliver
Mariann launched her career with Off-Center Theatre In NYC as a sketch comedy writer and performer before joining the cast of Edge of Night as one of the first African-American daytime soap opera heroines. She went on to recur on the HBO dramedy First & Ten opposite OJ Simpson, as his cheated-on wife; on Designing Women as Meshach Taylor’s yuppie-from-hell girlfriend, and was a series regular on The Royal Family with Redd Foxx and Della Reese, playing their daughter. She later returned to daytime, recurring as the “tragically disfigured” Lena Hart on NBC’s Sunset Beach. More recently, she’s appeared on NBC’s The Blacklist and starred in the short film Gumbo for AMC’s ALLBLK-TV. She is also co-producer and star of the 25-episode web series Talk To Me, Ginger! based on her performance art character, “Dr. Ginger, Adult Sex-Ed Evangelist & Mojo Motivator,” from her solo show, Gettin’ Old Is a Bitch…But I’m Gonna Wrestle That Bitch to the Ground! She went to the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the feature film Spawns.
An influencer in the pro-age movement, she’s been recognized by AARP as an Age Disruptor; is a prolific podcast guest on ageing shamelessly, and has her own TEDx talk, Ageism Is A Bully…Stand Up to It! So, she is thrilled that she gets to help change the narrative on women and ageing by bringing a funny, sexy, smart and smartassy older woman to the screen in Ben & Tony. www.imdb.me/mariannaalda
Ilea Dene (pronounced eye-lee-ah), credited as Ilea Alfaro, was born in Fremont, California to a Filipina mother and an American Father. She is a Stand-Up comic, writer and actress who has performed at top LA clubs the Laugh Factory, Flappers and The Comedy Store. Most recently, she wrote, produced and stars in the award-winning comedy pilot Getting Her, which received writing awards at the Inroad Screenwriting Fellowship and the Big Apple Festival and Screenplay competition
Ilea starred in the Internationally popular web-series Kiss Her I’m Famous, which landed her on the cover of Curve Magazine. She appeared in the film The Violent Kind, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She has pursued acting since high school. After graduating from Cal State Sacramento, she supported her career as a Professional Photographer who ran her own business, then shifted her focus to film and television. She has starred in series television on The Newer Girl and EXIT Stage Left. Feature films include Ashley, Girl Club, and Julie and Jack as well as short titles Service Please, Pandora and 8 Guns Over a Dead Girl. She guest starred on Major Crimes and appeared on The Flight Attendant and Better Things. . https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1353016
John is a stage and screen veteran who studied in Manhattan with the great Olympia Dukakis. He most recently starred in the mystery-suspense feature The Hitchhiker Effect and the horror film, The Mean One. He has appeared in numerous series episodes and films, including The Book Club, Sweet Caroline, Welcome to the Horror Show, To Grieve or Not to Grieve, Whitey On The Run, SubText, Baked Ziti (directed by Ben & Tony’s Sascha Schnieder), Caroline the Job Hunter, Speedwriting, King of the Road, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and much more.
He wrote and starred in three episodes of the WMM Sketch show and the “Weed” episode of the series, The Turnpike. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0081879/
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