Cast

Susannah B
Lola
Susannah B is an accomplished singer-songwriter, screenwriter and actor. A Los Angeles resident for most of her adult life, Susannah (aka Susannah Blinkoff) grew up in Manhattan as the daughter of well-known Broadway composer/lyricist Carol Hall. From an early age, Susannah was acting off-Broadway and singing professionally in NYC clubs. At Brown University, she met her longtime friend, director Drew Ann Rosenberg. As an actor, Susannah has appeared on Broadway and in film and TV. She co-wrote the film BELLYFRUIT and collaborated on the title song with composer/producer Stephen Bray (Madonna, THE COLOR PURPLE). She is currently writing a comedic musical TV series with author Annabelle Gurwitch. As a singer, Susannah B has performed at many clubs in L.A. including Hotel Café and Catalina Jazz Club. She has released six albums of her own pop songs as well as an album of retro jazz standards. Most recently, Susannah B released an EP of techno house remixes with DJ/producer j. wells and the duo have a new electronic single “Moon & Sand” dropping later this summer.

India Carney
Ladona
India is an American singer, songwriter, vocal arranger, vocal coach and actress. A native of Brooklyn, New York, and graduate of LaGuardia Arts High (The “FAME“) School, India finished her classical music training at UCLA.
Before graduating college, India made her national television debut on NBC’s Emmy Award-winning series, THE VOICE – Season Eight. She wowed audiences and four highly acclaimed celebrity judges as the Top 5 Artist with her passionate vocal performances. She toured with award-winning pop artist, Katy Perry, and has sung for Grammy-award winning artists, including Dua Lipa, Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish, Meghan Trainor, H.E.R., and will be joining Christina Aguilera this Summer. She has performed at the VMAs, GRAMMY AWARDS, BET AWARDS, The ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW and Coachella.
As a vocal coach, she worked with the singers of AMERICAN IDOL – Season 4 (2021) and Alter Ego – Season 1 (2021). You can hear India’s voice on the American Express 2020 Holiday campaign, “Small Lang Syne,” and featured on the new video game, FORSPOKEN (2022).
Her original music fuses her pop, folk, classical, R&B, A Cappella, jazz and musical theater influences. In 2019, India signed to UK publishing company, Phrased Differently, to start the next chapter in her music career and is currently signed with Randy Jackson’s management company, 1963 Entertainment. Her debut single, “Human,” a personal account on equality, representation and empathy, released last May, and her upcoming single, “Where Your Heart Is,” releases this Summer.

Cassius Willis
Dixon
Cassius is an American actor who has guest starred in numerous TV shows and movies. He most recently was seen in the recurring roles of Det. Gil Wallace on the CBS soap opera, THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS and Det. Robert Gunther on the ABC serial drama REVENGE. He has appeared regularly on the TV series’ TRAINING DAY and AMERICAN CRIME STORY.
Crew

Drew Ann Rosenberg
Director / Producer
Drew grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and graduated from Brown University. She began her career in the arts working at Playwright’s Horizons Theatre in New York City. She’s also a classically trained singer.
Drew’s first feature, SEX AND A GIRL, premiered on Showtime and Lifetime Networks. Her feature, FOLLOW THE PROPHET, had a US theatrical release. Drew co-directed 65 one-hour episodes for an off-net telenovella series, SAINTS & SINNERS. She also wrote and directed the short film, DAYBREAK, which received an LA Emmy. Work as a Second Unit Director includes THE RETURNED, STARKID and NOW AND THEN.
In 2019, Drew was named one of the DGA’s mentored TV Directors by the highly selective DGA Mentorship Program. Through the program she wrote and directed the short film, AMY’S GIFT, which received four awards at festivals.
Drew has worked as an Assistant Director in television and movies, including 6 Academy Award-winning films, alongside directors Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Jonathan Demme, Curtis Hanson, Barbet Schroeder and Rob Reiner, to name a few.

John K. Anderson
Writer / Producer
John grew up in Erie, PA and received degrees at UC San Diego in biology, biochemistry and acting. He found his love of writing when he discovered Microsoft Spellcheck. John was winner of best film and best script at the 48-hour film project for SCARED SLIM. He was also a series writer on PRESUMED INNOCENT, an episodic based on real-life cases from the Innocence Project. Among his many writing credits, he co-produced the horror film, MANEATER starring Dean Cain. John was writer/director on the movie, THIS TOWN and short film THE CORGI CONSPIRACY, which premiered at Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Marie Zeniter
Producer
Marie Zeniter is the Vice President of Sales at Utopia, a sales and distribution company based in Los Angeles. Before joining the company in 2022, Marie was Director of International Sales at Magnolia Pictures.
Marie is French-Algerian and was born in Paris. After completing a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and an MSc in International Business Negotiation, Marie worked for Canal+ in France. In 2012, she was selected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to develop French businesses abroad and moved to New York.
Shortly after, she joined US in Progress (a program aiming to foster trans-Atlantic film industry collaborations and partnerships) to handle filmmaker outreach and selection. Marie has also worked as a programmer for international film festivals and institutions, including Tribeca Film Festival, Hamptons Inter. Film Festival, Film Society at Lincoln Center and the Champs-Élysées Film Festival; and has been part of the jury at Reykjavik Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival and more. She has developed an extensive, global network of filmmakers, programmers and distributors. At IFC, she notably worked on the release of Lars Von Trier’s THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT (US Box Office $5.6MM), Iannucci’s THE DEATH OF STALIN (US Box Office $24MM) Assayas’ PERSONAL SHOPPER (US Box Office $2.7MM) and handled all Midnight and repertory titles.
She joined Magnolia Pictures as a sales manager before being promoted to Director of Sales, where she supervised all sales on academy award nominee RBG (Foreign sales USD 3MM+), Sundance hits ASSASSINS, HAIL SATAN?, overseeing a catalog of more than 100 features.

Byron Werner
Cinematographer / Producer
Byron Werner is an LA-based Director of Photography who has shot a massive collection of work over his 20 years of filmmaking in feature films, short films, music videos, and commercials. Byron’s cinematography is showcased in Todd Robinson’s PHANTOM starring Ed Harris and David Duchovny and THE LAST FULL MEASURE starring Samuel L. Jackson, William Hurt, Sebastian Stan and many others. Byron’s work in Jose Manuel Cravioto’s BOUND OF VENGENGE premiered at Sundance Film Festival. In 2019 Blumhouse released his work in CULTURE SHOCK through their Into the Dark Series on Hulu.
Byron has shot over 100 short films and commercials for many top named brands including Target, adidas, Microsoft, Michael Kors, Taco Bell, and HP. Byron’s work in music videos has him sought after by many of today’s leading musicians including Coldplay, David Grohl/FooFighters, Bruno Mars, The 1975, ELO, Pharrell, The Killers and more. His Coldplay “Orphans” music video won the MTV VMA for Best Rock Video in 2020.
Byron Werner grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. At the age of 16 he began his career working at Sega studios creating live action video games. While earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film and television from Chapman University, Byron shot his first feature film, the first of over thirty. He never moved up through the ranks; rather, he shot anything and everything he could as a DP, using experience to further his education.

Steven Nevius
Editor
Steven Nevius is a film and television editor who is passionate about character-driven stories, most recently working the last five years on the fantasy drama series THE MAGICIANS for the SyFy channel.
He started in RobReiner’s cutting room learning how to edit while working on films like WHEN HARRY MET SALLY…, MISERY, and A FEW GOOD MEN and has made it a goal to pass on the lessons he has learned to new editors. When he is not at an edit console, he can be found surfing with his teenage daughter.

Kelsey Wright
Production designer
Kelsey Michelle Wright is a photographer, fine artist and indie production designer from Colorado currently based in Los Angeles, CA.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Upon the demise of my youth, I became acquainted with the pestering stir of what would one day demand the role of my life’s ambition. What began as a destructive child slicing her way through reams upon reams of copier paper in an effort to compose functional clothing soon matured into a passion for visual design that has thus refused to be extinguished.
My work is primarily additive and expressionist yet precise despite the seemingly disordered results. Taking a conceptual page from some of the Cubist greats of the early 20th century, I explore unresolved spacial relationships and the fragmentation of organic forms. Layers of opacity and texture juxtaposed against static forms provides an implied sense of tumultuous motion.
- In photography, my approach is similar- utilizing chance and the deceiving dimensions of the physical world found in reflections, perspectives and shadows narrates an inquisitive adventure with a breath of hushed privacy.
- My work and I evolve in tandem, endlessly provoking each other to edit and expand while fostering a visual experience that is to be warmly savored and enjoyed.

Danielle “Dani” Brown
Costume Designer
Danielle “Dani” Brown is a native of Dallas, Texas, where she graduated from the prestigious Booker T. Washington School for the Performing Arts before earning her degree in Fashion Design from El Centro College.
During her career in Dallas, Dani has worked on marketing campaigns for brands including Neiman-Marcus, NIKE, Hook And Albert, Krogers, Clamato, Canada Dry, and more. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2020, Danielle has worked as a Designer and Stylist on campaigns for brands including Carhartt, Facebook/Meta, FOX.

John Ballinger
Composer / Musical Producer
John Ballinger is an award-winning composer, musician, and sound designer. From jazz to modern opera his multi genre songs and scores can be heard in short and feature films, TV, and all distribution platforms. Film scores include 3 DAYS WITH DAD (Brain Dennehy, J.K. Simmons), GIRL FLU (Katee Sackhoff, Jeremy Sisto), DADDY’S EYES (Susannah B., India Carney). TV credits include Universal Cartoons, Comedy Central, MTV, ABC, CBS. John has composed and designed sound for regional/off-Broadway theatre on both coasts and has toured as a multi-instrumentalist and singer with Rufus Wainwright, Tracy Bonham, Moira Smiley, Dancing With the Stars, and Pato Banton.