I’m Jim Allen Jackson and as a comic actor it is my job to find the funny in all situations. I’ve been fortunate enough to do this in a number of commercials, television shows, and web series such as Finest Hour, Are You Serious and The Quarter Lifers.
I have played everyone from a wacky self-absorbed brain surgeon to a quiet insecure college professor and everything in between! I love playing physical comedy and transforming fully into any quirky character possible for a given project.
I have studied improv and sketch comedy with ACME Comedy Theater, John Michalsk, Martha Melinda, and Monkey Butler. I’ve also studied stand-up comedy with Greg Dean, Tony Stone, and Stanly Myron Handelman.
I have been blessed to have been inspired by such classic comedians as Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Laurel & Hardy. this has led me to create several one person shows where I paid tribute to legendary George Burns, Don Knotts, and my mentor Red Skelton.
I’ve had the honor of being happily married to my best friend and soul mate for a number of years. We have known each other since I first tripped in the door of our high school drama class. We have been having FUN ever since!!!
I am currently co-producing the new wacky web series Walter Walters Presents. Where I play a would be journalist with a horrific speech impediment. Who travels in search of his next big news story that will hopefully land him on network television or at least on an unknown cable channel. With only his best intentions, he finds his interviewees to be more inept than he is.
I am John Keating and I have had the privilege of acting onstage at such prestigious theatres as the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, in commercials, on television and also on the big screen in the independent film “Night Before the Wedding”.
I’ve performed in everything from classical Shakespeare to television comedy to commercials to feature film. My favorite genre to perform in is comedy. Whether being the straight man or the “crooked” man, making people laugh is a hoot.
I’ve studied the craft of acting with Ellen Geer, Robert Cohen, Brian Cutler, Andy Garrison, and Steve Eastin. I’ve studied improv and performed with Kansas City’s own Full Frontal Comedy and in Los Angeles I have studied long form improv with Monkey Butler/Mosaic Comedy.
I like to consider myself a Movie Star/Producer like my favorite role model of the same ilk, Cary Grant. I not only admire Mr. Grant for his accomplishments as a movie icon but also for his acumen as a businessman in this art form called “Show Business”. I aspire to mirror his success in accumulating what he called “horizontal money”. (A term that was coined by his good friend Quincy Jones when Mr. Jones was inspired by Mr. Grant’s success as a movie producer in creating residual income.)
In addition to a love of film comedy and loving to make people laugh, I am an avid martial artist, studying the art of Okinawan Go Ju Ryu Karate since my early days in college. I am currently the President of our martial arts club, Okinawan Karate Do Go Ju Ryu Tokai Juku USA and I have the pleasure of organizing our club’s annual seminar in the spring. (With lots of help from our Executive Committee and Board of Directors.)
I am currently helping to produce the comedy web series “Walter Walters presents”. In addition to producing I have had the opportunity to work in front of and behind the camera in the capacities that have included writing and directing.
Corinna Cechi is an avid martial artist with background in a variety of styles & weapons. A multi lingual and multi cultural actress, she is fluent bilingual in English/ Spanish, Italian, French and some German. She is very active and athletic and loves sports and exercise and dancing. She also loves traveling and is an amateur Egyptologist.
Her choice to become an actress stems from the need to ”be or play different people” and she truly enjoys embodying different lives as an actress.
Pablo Lewin is an Actor/Comedian/Producer/Director/Editor. He is a Graduate of the New York Film Academy (Universal Studios Hollywood Branch) He’s been a member of SAGA FTRA since 2001 and a member of the SAG Conservatory as well. Mr.Lewin has studied Stand-up Comedy with Judy Carter and Greg Dean and performed Stand-Up at the Comedy Store in Hollywood, The Improv, Ha Ha Cabaret, Union comedy and The Ice House in Pasadena. He has Acted in several Feature and Short Film and continues to train with Larry Moss (Acting Coach) Gary Austin (Creator of the Groundlings) and has studied in the past with Tim Phillips (Audition technique) Graham Beckel. Tom Todoroff , Lindsay Crouse , Diane Venora, Michael Pointer (commercial Acting) Jean-Louis Rodrigue (Alexander Technique).
Mr.Lewin has Produced and directed Several Short films (http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm1177126/).
Mr.Lewin continues to constantly update his knowledge of Film in Filmmaking having trained and graduated at the Film Institute with Dov S-S Simens and The Association’s DSLR advanced Cine Bootcamp.
Mr.Lewin is represented Theatrically and Commercially by the Almond Talent Agency (Aur-Aelion Israel) www.almondtalent.com
Ted Blegen is an actor, writer, fabricator who can currently be seen playing with the Drunkards and Dragons at ioWest. Most recently Ted designed and constructed the “Beast of London” for Sacred Fool’s Neverwhere.
Damon Evans was born in NYC. As a young man he ran the streets like many kids from the inner city.
In the 10th grade he took a drama class and enjoyed it, though as he bounced around from school to school that drama class stood with him. In college he became serious about acting and his journey began.
After finishing college he packed up his car and drove to lala land.
Since then he’s been a part of many projects and meeting other thespians along his path.
Veteran actress LOU*LOU majored in theatre at Texas State College
for Women (now Texas Woman’s University) and Emerson College in
Boston. Her first professional job was as a dancer in a chorus line
for a musical revue. She was a member of AGVA (American Guild of
Variety Artists) at the age of 19.
She starred in many plays in regional theatre and worked five
seasons at the Hayloft Dinner Theater in Lubbock, Texas. She taught
children’s theatre to corporate employees’ families and in a summer
camp.
In the mid-’50s LOU*LOU did the first live color television
commercial for Folger’s Coffee for NBC before video tape was in use,
when TV first introduced color.
She worked in television in Texas, for both NBC and CBS affiliate
stations, before moving to California, where she retired after 16-1/2
years with Columbia/TriStar International Television, a division of
Sony Pictures Entertainment, and resumed her career as an actress.
She has done scores of commercials, including voice overs and
print. She has been cast in numerous films and TV shows.
A member of SAG/AFTRA, she is also a member of Pacific Pioneer
Broadcasters, AFI, Professional Dancers’ Society, and a life member of
the Southern California Motion Picture Council. A published author,
she is also a life member of Book Publicists of Southern California,
a member of Independent Writers of Southern California and Women’s
National Book Association.
LOU*LOU is also a life member of Mensa and Intertel, of which she
serves as international president.
One of LOU*LOU’s goals is to make it into The Guiness Book of World Records as the oldest working character actress.
Her character, the “trailer trash granny” Mamaw, she performs
with a grey wig and granny glasses and with a redneck accent.
Clara Mae Golidy-Holmes:
I was Born and reared in Louisiana, USA. My mom, Clara, was also born in La; a housekeeper who would take in white shirts from the Dry Cleaners to wash and press. My father came from Mississippi. He was a Lumberjack. I am the fourth of six children. As far back as I can remember I was cutting up and showing off my skills as a little performer. Early on I was acting and soon I was placed before the family and asked to sing, dance or even to tell a story. Before long, I was reciting little speeches at local church functions where onlookers and others would cheer me on. During this time in my young life “rejection” was not a word found within my vocabulary. My often-instant rewards of coins and donated dollars cupped within my hands announced acceptance and gratitude for my performances. Early in elementary school I’d continue to participate within groups of performers in grade level productions. I was no longer a solo performer. I had to share the accolades with the masses of other children. At home I wrote skits and directed them with my two younger siblings and neighborhood kids as my cast of actors.
Now, after retiring from many years of working within the school system, I have returned to Acting. I’m boasting of conquests as a stage and movie performer and have added several commercials to my credits, as well as having been on TV episodes of long running shows.
Acting, cooking and sewing are all very important to me. Collectively, three things hold a special place for me: First is love of God, followed by my family, husband, children, and granddaughters. And I love performing comedy and drama.
Sherry Weston was born in Hollywood, California. She has appeared in several TV and film productions including “Criminal Minds”, “The Bill Engvall Show”, “The Big Bang Theory”, “Big Love”, “Everybody Hates Chris”, “Staunton Hill”, “Eyes of a Killer”, “The People I’ve Slept With” and “Stellina Blue”.
Sherry is also a proficient singer songwriter with BMI. She wrote and performed her original song “I Love a Cowboy” in the motion picture “Far Out Man” starring Tommy Chong of “Cheech and Chong” fame.
Sherry is a polished professional entertainer having played Vegas, Reno, Tahoe, Palm Springs and Playboy Clubs International and numerous hotels, restaurants, and nightclubs throughout greater Los Angeles. She’s been a dedicated and hard working artist since the age of three. She’s appeared and starred in numerous theatrical productions including “Annie Get Your Gun”, “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying”, “Arsenic & Old Lace”, “Heaven Can Wait”, and “The Heiress”, just to name a few.
Sherry resides in Valley Village, California with her husband Brad and their beautiful seal point ragamuffin cat Chardonnay.
Chuck Lacey – Chuck is an actor/comedian originally from MA. he has done stand-up comedy at local clubs (Comedy Store, Improv, Ice House) and is a SAG/AFTRA member. He received a B.A. Degree in Theater Arts from CSULA and studied acting with Michael Shurtleff and others. He has appeared on TV (“Two and a Half Men”, “Scrubs”), in independent films (“The Pen”, “Tax Season”) and onstage (“It’s a Wonderful Life” and many others). He wrote, directed and starred in his web series “Missing Person Finders”. Now he is enjoying performing in ATKM with a wonderful cast and crew.