Cast

Alan Cumming——Director / Johnathan Vandermark
Eclectic Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming (www.alancumming.com) is currently enjoying quite a fruitful and creative period in his prolific acting career. Fresh off his successful return to the West End in Bent, reprising the role originated by Richard Gere and Ian McKellen, Cumming recently garnered a Best Actor nomination for the What's On Stage People's Choice Awards for the show, as well as an Independent Spirit Award Best First Feature nomination for Sweet Land. Cumming produced and starred in the subtle Sweet Land, giving a thoughtful performance that has received much acclaim and many audience awards at nearly every film festival it has played.

Cumming has also been no stranger to Broadway, as he recently starred opposite Cyndi Lauper, Jim Dale, Ana Gasteyer and Nellie McKay in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera. Alan, who trained at the Scottish Royal Academy of Music and Drama, also appeared on the New York stage playing the Pope in Jean Genet's Elle, which he personally adapted for the stage. For the Roundabout he has appeared in Design for Living and Cabaret, for which he won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Theater World, New York Press, FANY and New York Public Advocate's Awards. In London: Hamlet at the Donmar Warehouse (for which he won the TMA Best Actor Award and a Shakespeare Globe nomination), Cabaret (Olivier award nomination), La Bete (Olivier nomination), Conquest of the South Pole (Olivier nomination) and seasons with the RSC and the Royal National Theatre, where he won an Olivier Award for his performance in Accidental Death of an Anarchist (which he also co-adapted).

Among his extensive film work, Cumming wrote, directed, produced and acted (with Jennifer Jason Leigh) in The Anniversary Party, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won a National Board of Review Award and two Independent Spirit Award nominations. He also recently shot the films Full Grown Men, Neverwas (with Aaron Eckhart) and the Margaret Cho directed Bam Bam and Celeste. Both Neverwas and Bam Bam and Celeste debuted at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival to rave reviews. Full Grown Men debuted at The Tribeca Film Festival in April.

His film repertoire also includes X Men 2, the Spy Kids trilogy, Eyes Wide Shut, Emma, Urbania, Nicholas Nickleby, Titus, Goldeneye and Circle of Friends. Cumming's television work includes The L Word and Reefer Madness on Showtime. He is also the author of a book, Tommy's Tale, and has recently launched a successful fragrance and product line called CUMMING, available at www.cummingthefragrance.com.

David Boreanaz——Sebastian St. Germain
David Boreanaz has a quiet intensity that plays well on both the small and big screen.

On the small one, he stars as Special Agent Seeley Booth opposite Emily Deschanel in Fox's crime/drama hit "Bones," which recently began its second season.

While relatively new to acting he landed a guest-starring role on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and vaulted to stardom as the mysterious and tortured Angel. He later starred in his own WB series, "Angel."

Boreanaz was exposed to the TV business at a young age as the son of a veteran weather forecaster for WPVI in Philadelphia. He moved to Los Angeles to try his luck in Hollywood after graduating from Ithaca College. He got his first break with a guest spot on "Married...with Children," in which he played the biker boyfriend of Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate).

On stage, Boreanaz has performed at the Ensemble Theatre in "Hat Full of Rain" and at the Gardner Stage in "Italian-American Reconciliation" and "Fool for Love." He has also performed on theatre row in "Cowboy Mouth."

Boreanaz is an avid golfer and traveler. He lives with his wife, actress Jaime Bergman, and their 3-year-old son, Jaden Rayne, in Los Angeles.

Anne Heche——Helen
Anne Heche has proven herself as an exceptional actress in film, television, and stage. Her talents have earned her critical praise as well as both Tony and Emmy award nominations.

Anne can currently be seen starring in her television series debut in "Men in Trees." The ABC show centers on a female relationship guru (Heche) who moves to Alaska to get over her philandering ex-fiancee, only to discover herself surrounded by available men. The show airs on Thursday nights at 9:00 PM on ABC.

Heche earned her first primetime Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of a drug-addicted mother in the 2004 Lifetime Television, original movie "Gracie's Choice" alongside Diane Ladd. She recently appeared in the Lifetime movie, "Fatal Desire" and the Hallmark Channel's holiday movie "Silver Bells" on CBS, which was seen by over 16 million viewers. She has created memorable characters in several guest starring performances on hit shows including "Nip/Tuck," "Everwood," "Ally McBeal" and HBO's telefilm, "If These Walls Could Talk," directed by Cher.

On the big screen, Heche was last seen opposite Nicole Kidman and Lauren Bacall in New Line Cinema's "Birth," directed by Jonathan Glazer. "Birth" was screened at the 2004 Venice Film Festival and the Deauville Film Festival. Heche won The National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for Barry Levinson's "Wag the Dog," in which she appeared opposite Robert DeNiro and Dustin Hoffman. In the previous year she starred opposite Harrison Ford in "Six Days Seven Nights." She starred with Tommy Lee Jones in "Volcano" and achieved critical acclaim for her role in "Donnie Brasco." She co-starred in Gus Van Zant's update of "Psycho" with Vince Vaughn and Julianne Moore and "Auggie Rose," alongside Jeff Goldblum, which was screened at the Montreal Film Festival. In 2002, Heche co-starred in the Denzel Washington drama, "John Q" and opposite Christina Ricci in the Miramax film, "Prozac Nation." Other film credits include Agnieska Holland's "The Third Miracle" opposite Ed Harris, "The Juror" with Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin, "Walking and Talking," "The Wild Side," "Twist of Fate," Pie in the Sky," "Milk Money" with Melanie Griffith, "The Investigator" and "I'll Do Anything."

In 2002, Heche made her Broadway debut in the critically acclaimed production of the Tony Award-winning play "Proof." She garnered rave reviews across the board from theatre critics and the show was extended, making it one of the longest running non-musical plays in recent history. She triumphantly returned to Broadway in the Roundabout Theater stage production of "Twentieth Century" in 2004. Her critically acclaimed performance opposite Alec Baldwin earned her a Tony Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Play.

Also a writer and director, Heche wrote and directed a short feature entitled "Reaching Normal," for Showtime's "First Director Series," as well as the second installment of "If These Walls Could Talk II." In September 2001, Simon & Schuster published Anne's autobiographical "Call Me Crazy," which appeared on The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times bestseller lists.

Henry Thomas——Eric
Henry Thomas is best remembered for his outstanding performance as the young boy Elliott in E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, for which he earned a Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination in 1982. He earned another Golden Globe nomination for his performance as Ray Buckey in HBO's Indictment: The McMartin Trial in 1995.

Thomas made his film debut opposite Sissy Spacek and Eric Roberts in 1981 in Universal's Raggedy Man. He recently starred in "The End of the Whole Mess" in the TNT miniseries Nightmares & Dreamscapes, based on the stories of Stephen King. His numerous other credits include BBC Films' I Capture the Castle, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, Billy Bob Thornton's All the Pretty Horses, Ed Zwick's Legends of the Fall and Milos Forman's Valmont.

Karen Black——Renee
Karen Black entered Northwestern University at 15 and left two years later. Instead, she studied under Lee Strasberg in New York working in a number of off-Broadway roles making her critically acclaimed debut on Broadway in 1965 in "The Playroom".

Her first big film role was in You're a Big Boy Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Shortly afterwards, she appeared as Marcia in the TV series The Second Hundred Years. The film that made her a star was Easy Rider, where she worked with Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and a supporting actor named Jack Nicholson. She appeared with Nicholson again the next year when they starred in Five Easy Pieces, which garnered an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe for Karen.

Her edgy sex appeal meant she played the dispossessed: waitresses, hookers and women on the edge.

She received another Golden Globe for The Great Gatsby with Robert Redford.

One role for which she is well remembered is that of the jewel thief in Alfred Hitchcock's last film, Family Plot. Another is as the woman terrorized in her apartment by a murderous Zuni doll come to life in the well-received TV movie Tales of Terror.

She again won rave reviews for her role in Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean in 1982. Since then, her film career has been busy with independents and studio pictures.

Jane Lynch——Ingrid
Jane cut her theatrical teeth at The Second City, Steppenwolf Theatre and in many church basements all over the greater Chicagoland area.

Since her inappropriate sexual advances this past summer with Steve Carrel in The Forty Year Old Virgin, Jane has wrapped up work on Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby with Will Ferrell, Christopher Guest's latest installment, For Your Consideration, Spring Breakdown with Parker Posey, Surviving Eden, Margaret Cho's new film Celeste and Bam Bam. Other films include Lemony Snickets, Sleepover, The Californians, A Mighty Wind and Best In Show.

Jane heads up the fictional elite dating service Lovespring International, a new series on Lifetime and will be returning as Joyce Wischnea this season on The L Word. Jane was a series regular on ABC's medical dramedy MD'S and has recurring roles on Two And A Half Men, Arrested Development, Seventh Heaven, Felicity, Judging Amy and The West Wing and has guest starred on many others.

Jane's creation, Oh Sister, My Sister! enjoyed nice runs at the Tamarind Theatre and bang Theatre garnering the LA Weekly Comedy Ensemble of the Year Award.

Carrie Fisher——Reporter
Carrie Fisher is still remembered as the plucky Princess Leia in the hit film Star Wars (1977). Carrie Fisher made her feature film debut in Shampoo with Warren Beatty and two years later had her breakthrough with Star Wars. She also joined co-stars Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford in two sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Her other films have included Hannah and Her Sisters (1986, directed by Woody Allen and When Harry Met Sally (1989, with Meg Ryan). In the 1980s Fisher battled drug addiction and manic-depression and later described her struggles in the semi-autobiographical book Postcards From the Edge (1990). In the 1990s she became known as a screenwriter and "script doctor" for feature films, and since then has had a talk show on TV, Conversations From the Edge, and another novel, The Best Awful (2004) as well as continuing to star in numerous TV shows and films.