MARTIN BECK (HERALD)
Martin Beck has an impressively extensive history as an actor for film, television, and theater. He and his wife actress Brenda Sheehy Beck, wrote and produced The Tele-Support Group for cable TV. The show was seen in most of the U.S. and Canada. It was the Becks way of giving back to the folks who are in need of support for muscle movement disorders. The show was distributed by the Dystonia Medical research foundation of Chicago. He was a member of The Actors Conservatoy Ensemble from 1990-1995, where he produced, directed and acted. He also has a history with The Los Angeles actors theater and The Los Angeles Theater Center, and is a member of the Gazzo theater workshop.
PHOEBE CRADDOCK (THE NURSE)
Phoebe is a British born actress who grew up in Australia and Hong Kong.She trained at London’s Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art as well as gaining a Master’s degree in Education from the University of London. She is currently based in Los Angeles. She has appeared in many theatrical productions as well as film work and is best known for her work in the Finnish film noir “Walter”. European credits include: BBC award winning short “Eyeball Tennis” and “The song of the Morrow” as well as “Staged” where she plays a cabaret dancer. In the US she recently completed 1930’s themed “Fake” as well as playing a sardonic nurse in the student short “At All Times, Herald”.
MATTHEW WRATHER (DARREL)
Matthew Wrather is an actor whose career, begun as a child in his native Los Angeles, spans two decades and three continents. Matt appeared alongside Sam Waterston in Travesties at Long Wharf Theater and alongside Ed Asner in the short film The Raft. Additional film credits include the titular character in Lucas Mirelles’s black comedy A Bad Person and a would-be terrorist with pangs of conscience in Iris Hefler’s Brother’s Keeper, produced by Academy Award-winner Bobby Moresco. Stage work includes Lt. Charles in The Adding Machine, directed by SITI Company’s J. Ed Araiza, and the initial reading of Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas, directed by Tina Landau. Beyond acting, Matt is an accomplished singer, pianist, and composer, with two full-length musicals and dozens of musical theater songs to his credit. And he is founder and editor-in-chief of Overthinking It, a successful website for pop culture nerds. He holds a newly-minted M.F.A. from UCLA and his B.A. from Yale.