Handsome Zombies

After studying Biology at a State College in New Jersey, Zack Griffiths is crashing on the couch in his friend's loft in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC. A major renovation of this old factory building is underway as Zack's friend is throwing a vegetarian BBQ on the roof. The careless construction crew discovers and unleashes a deadly Zombie spore that feeds on fat, and brain matter while secreting vitamins D and E resulting in perfectly fit hosts with no brains, great skin, and an insatiable hunger for human flesh. The infected terrorize NYC, but with the help of a brilliant professor, a rogue Zombie killer, who's lived through an outbreak before, and a special relationship with the Zombie spore, only Zack Griffiths can stop the city from being completely overrun by HANDSOME ZOMBIES!


A new episode each week for 7 weeks on HandsomeZombies.com.







Credits

Lucas Cantor and Jeffrey Whitted Present

A Subjective Film

ZACK GRIFFITHS IN

HANDSOME ZOMBIES

WRITTEN BY:
JESSE CAMERON ALICK, JULIA HOLLEMAN

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
LUCAS CANTOR, JEFFREY WHITTED

DIRECTORS:
LUCAS CANTOR, JEFFREY WHITTED

SCORE BY:
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STARRING:
ZACK GRIFFITHS – ZACK GRIFFITHS
MONIQUE LOMBARDO – STEPHANIE VELLA
THE REVEREND – ANDY WALDSCHMIDT
PROFESSOR D. P. CHANGELING – DARIUS STONE



CREW:
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: MICHAEL CASTALDO
2ND UNIT DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: RCYN
1ST AD: AUDREY NEDDERMANN, LISA KOPITSKY
2ND AD: CASSIDY LIEBMAN, MARK BRINKER, JULIA HOLLEMAN
SENIOR ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: MARK BRINKER
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS: JOSEPH KEGGIN, EMILY HOLLEMAN, STINA NELSON, ISAAC JAFFE
PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS: ADAM RUBIN, KATIE KELLY, BENNETT BANKS
MAKE-UP: DEZI SIENTY, LISA KOPITSKY, CASSIDY LEIBMAN, JULIA HOLLEMAN, JESSE CAMERON ALICK
VIDEO EDITOR: MICHAEL CASTALDO
SPECIAL EFFECTS SUPERVISOR: DEZI SIENTY
CHIEF AUDIO ENGINEER: EMIL KAROL
TITLE DESIGN: TONY J RILEY
STILL PHOTOGRAPHY: VANESSA ESPINAL, LAURA DUNCAN, AUDREY NEDDERMANN
WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT: BRIAN CORR
LOCATION MANAGER AND POWER OPS: SERGINIO FAROUL
TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED BY: MIKE TRAFFENSTEAD, THE HOLLEMAN MOBILE
BOOM OPERATOR: EVERYONE
COSTUME DESIGN: SEE BOOM OPERATOR
SET DESIGN: SEE COSTUME DESIGN
PRODUCTION DESIGN: SEE SET DESIGN
CRAFT SERVICES: FRANK CANTOR



ALSO STARRING:
MASO – PAUL FEARS
ZOE – VALERIE FEINGOLD
BROOKE – MEGAN GERLACH
JESSE – ANNE COURT
AMY – JULIA HOLLEMAN



CAST:
AL (CONSTRUCTION WORKER) – WILL FOWLER
DARREN (CONSTRUCTION WORKER) – JUAN JAVIER CARDENAS
DREAM CONSTRUCTION WORKER – ISAAC JAFFE
DREAM ZOMBIE SIRENS – KATIE HILLIARD, JASMIN FELICIANO, KATIE WASSERMAN
DREAM ZOMBIES – LUCAS CANTOR, AUDREY NEDDERMANN
EUROTRASH FOOTBALLERS – MARK BRINKER, BRIAN CORR, STEVEN GILLENWATER
GIRLS IN TRASH – ANGELA LOBMARDO, JENN PULEIO
HIPSTER PARTYGOERS – JESSE CAMERON ALICK, ALANE CLEMENS, ALAINA FEEHAN, BEN FIVE, DAVID MAYDONEY, LISA MICHURSKI, TRAVIS MILLER, JOSEPH MOORE, KATIE WASSERMAN, LISA KOPITSKY, LUCAS CANTOR, MICHAEL CASTALDO, JULIA HOLLEMAN
JOEY (CONSTRUCTION WORKER) – JOSH SHIRLEY
NYU DUMBASSES – EMILY HOLLEMAN, ANNABELLE MEUNIER
TRAV (CONSTRUCTION WORKER) – ROBERT BERN
ZOMBIE GIRL – TARAH BLASI
ZOMBIE MINIONS – DAVID NASH, IAN ROETTGER, MARCUS WATSON, LAURA KILLEEN, GORDON HOLMES, SARAH HUTCHINSON
ZOMBIE RAVERS – CLEA ALSIP, TRAVIS SEAN MILLER, MATT GORDON, CAT JOHNSON



ORIGINAL SONGS:

ZOMBIE KUMBAYA
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY: ILA CANTOR

STONE COLD ZOMBIE LOVE
WRITTEN BY: TRAVIS SEAN MILLER
PERFORMED BY: TRAVIS SEAN MILLER, LUCAS CANTOR, JEFFREY PETTIT, ILA CANTOR

ZOMBIE FIGHT THEME
WRITTEN BY: ISAAC JAFFE, LUCAS CANTOR, EMIL KAROL
PERFORMED BY: SAM LEVIN, NICK MYERS, ISAAC JAFFE, LUCAS CANTOR

HANDSOME ZOMBIES THEME
WRITTEN BY: LUCAS CANTOR, ISAAC JAFFE, EMIL KAROL
PERFORMED BY: SAM LEVIN, NICK MYERS, ISAAC JAFFE, LUCAS CANTOR, ROBIN PONTBRIAND

REV MONOLOGUE MUSIC
WRITTEN BY: LUCAS CANTOR, HERB PRIKER, VIOLA FALB, EMIL KAROL


VARIOUS CUES:

THE FIVE BOROUGHS PROJECT
WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY: JAMAHL RICHARDSON

GRACE CUES
WRITTEN BY: LUCAS CANTOR, EMIL KAROL
PERFORMED BY: LUCAS CANTOR, EMIL KAROL

HIPSTER ZOMBIES
WRITTEN BY: JEFFREY PETTIT
PERFORMED BY: JEFFREY PETTIT, LUCAS CANTOR

ALL MUSIC RECORDED AT FREEPLAY STUDIOS IN NYC


SPECIAL THANKS TO:
CLAUDIA ALICK, SUZANNE NAJMAN, THE RESIDENTS OF 330 MELROSE (3 TIMES THANKS), ROBERT KILBRIDGE, CIRA LIMOLI NISCO, ESMERALDA SANTIAGO, FRANK CANTOR, THE RESIDENTS OF 658 PROSPECT PLACE (2 TIMES THANKS), THE RESIDENTS OF 7 WOOD ST, MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE, SARA SAYLOR, SCOTT SCHREER, CHRIS WOODS, JAMIE KAROL, MARY MCKENZIE, PITCHNIK HARDWARE, BEDFORD AVE PEOPLE, THE WEATHER, OREN NEIMAN, DOUG MUNRO, BOB HANSMANN, THE PITT FAMILY, SCOTT WHITTED, SARAH CANTOR, ANGUS LANSING, THE LANSING GIRLS, DR. NOVA PANEBIANCO, DR. JOHN ADAMS, THE CITY OF NY, EMPEROR MICHAEL RUBENS BLOOMBERG, BARRY BRINKER, HALO 3 AND THE GOOD PEOPLE AT BUNGIE STUDIOS, MANGO THAI ON 7TH AVE, CARABINEER STEVE FROM PARAGON SPORTS, BATTERY ACID GUY FROM HOME DEPOT, MATTHEW D. FOWLER, AND THE ONE AND ONLY “BEZ” WHO WILL LIVE FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS.

THANKS TO WILLIAMSBURG AND HIPSTERS EVERYWHERE!









Cast Bios

Zack Griffiths (Zack Griffiths):
Zack Griffiths is handsome. His regional theatre credits include Widows, Reader (One Year Lease, NY Fringe, Greece),  American Book of the Dead, Party Discipline, The White Plague (Subjective Theater Co.) Sniper (Centerstage), An Island to Themselves (Abbingdon Theater) and The Goat (Hartford Theaterworks - Connecticut Critics Circle Award). Film/Television: The Limbo Room (Slamdance Film Fest). BFA from Rutgers University.

Stephanie Vella (Monique Lombardo):
Stephanie Vella has collaborated with the Subjective Theatre Company since 2006, serving as a writer and performer in Party Discipline (Asian American’s Writer’s Workshop), TELL (Collective:Unconscious), and Parallax (Gene Frankel Theater). She is currently a graduate student at Brooklyn College studying Theatre History and Criticism. Stephanie lives in Bushwick, and thanks to the generosity of her lovely housemates, you can see her roof featured in "Handsome Zombies." www.StephanieVella.com

Andy Waldschmidt (The Reverend):
When not slaying zombies, Andy Waldschmidt has been a mainstay on the New York film and theatre scene. NY theatre credits include Parallax, Party Discipline and Tell (co-writer), 7 BJs, Victims of Duty, White Plague (Subjective Theatre Company), Taming of the Shrew (NY Classical), Holiday (Gallery Players), Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet –u.s. (Pearl Theatre)  Regional: Walnut Street Theatre (PA), Black Hills Playhouse (SD).  Film: Save the Forest; other shorts including The Money Shot (Tribeca FF) and Slipaway (Kent FF). Temple University’s Acting MFA graduate.

Darius Stone (Professor D.P. Changeling):
Darius Stone has worked with numerous NYC theatre companies including; Target Margin, Synapse Productions, La Mama, Lincoln Center, The Worth Street Theatre, The Public Theater, Inverse Theater, Salt Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Subjective Theater, New Georges, HERE, NADA, The Ohio Theatre/SoHo Think Tank. Regionally he has worked at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, The Folger Shakespeare Library and The Source Theatre (Washington D.C.), Café Voltaire and the Folio Theatre (Chicago), The American Shakespeare Center.  Internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Neuss Globe (Germany) & tours in France and Canada.  Film & TV include A Beautiful Mind, HBO’s comedy series The Real Joke, and Nipply Ray for Passport Films. 

Megan Gerlach (Brooke):
Megan Gerlach hails from the great state of South Dakota and holds a BFA in Dance from the U of M, Twin Cities.  She has performed regionally in Hair (Pantages Theatre), A Chorus Line (Casa Manana), The Awesome 80’s Prom (Webster Hall), Cats, Anything Goes (Chanhassen Dinner Theatre), Pippin, Cabaret, The Importance of Being Ernest, and Nunsense (Black Hills Playhouse), and toured nationally with Seussical the Muscial.  Megan loves cucumbers, comedy, and kids.   But not zombies.   Megan definitely hates zombies.  

Julia Holleman (Amy):
Julia Holleman served as an actor / writer / associate producer / boom operator / cue card operator on Handsome Zombies. She is also the screenwriter for Subjective Films’ upcoming short The Party.  Julia is Resident Playwright of the Subjective Theatre Company and heads CoLab, its collaborative theatre wing.  She has served as the head writer of TELL (Collective:Unconscious) and Parallax (Gene Frankel Theater).  She also co-wrote and co-created STC’s Party Discipline (The Asian American’s Writer’s Workshop).  Her play Face of Beauty was produced in December 2008, and excerpts of it were published in Unsaid Magazine.  Julia is attending NYU’s MFA Dramatic Writing program.

Anne Court (Jessie):
Anne Court has appeared in a number of independent films including many ‘Speed Freak Productions’ and internationally in the German theater and nationally in OH, NJ & NY. She's trained in Film, Contemporary Theater, Television, Commercials, Improv, Shakespeare and Motion Capture technology. She’s appeared on Indigo TV as herself and you can see her work at: www.AnneCourt.com  

Paul Fears (Maso):
Paul Fears is a graduate of the School for Film and Television.  Some of his past works include Avodaco (Playwrights Horizons), Calling it Quits (Indie Feature), and SubterraNYa (Indie Sci-fi Feature). He was awarded the New York Innovative Theatre Award  for best ensemble for the play “To Nineveh”. Look for him on the Biography Channel for Celebrity Ghost Stories:  The Illeana Douglas Story which airs Nov. 7th.  An avid freestyle dancer, Paul has also done dance commercials/music videos for the MTV Movie Awards, Lord Willy’s (Suit Shop), Advil, and Yahoo!   

Valerie R. Feingold (Zoe):
Valerie R. Feingold was born in Zurich, the only daughter of a French physicist and the only professional mathematical monkey trainer. Thus began her career bridging the gap between the technical side of her scientist mother and the performance side of her Carnie father. She continued to explore these two facets until her parents mysterious disappearance on mountain climbing expedition in the Andes. Since then, she has devoted herself purely to the application of theoretical physics into theatre. She is excited to be involved with this as zombies and other marginally dead help to explicate the world as a purely quantum world. Valerie is also a member of Subjective Theatre Company’s CoLab, and has appeared in TELL and Parallax.