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Claire Coffee,

Ashleigh/Executive Producer

Claire starred in and produced the comedy pilot, I WAS A TEENAGE PILLOW QUEEN, written and directed by Bridget Moloney, which premiered at the 2019 Tribeca TV Fest. She’s in the cast of upcoming series LINCOLN RHYME: HUNT FOR THE BONE COLLECTOR on NBC. She created, wrote, directed and starred in the award-winning web series Chelsey and Kelsey Are Really Good Roommates with Ellie Knaus. Past TV and film credits include GRIMM (NBC, Series Regular), BUDDYMOON (Slamdance Audience Award Best Narrative Feature), FRANKLIN & BASH (TNT, Recurring), THE WEST WING (NBC, Recurring), as well as way too many pilots and presentations that never made it to air. Her first acting gig was at age 6 in The Mountain Play’s production of THE KING AND I, and she has worked her way through every improv comedy school in LA. She graduated with a BS in Theater from Northwestern University and now lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and son.

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Mark Webber, Eric

Mark Webber has appeared in over 40 films as an actor, working with such notable directors as Todd Solondz, Jim Jarmusch, Thomas Vinterberg, Lars Von Trier and Edgar Wright. His first film as a director, EXPLICIT ILLS, won the audience award and best cinematography award at the 2008 SXSW film festival. He followed with his second film, THE END OF LOVE which was nominated for the grand jury prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. For his third film, THE EVER AFTER Webber took a big leap into what he sees as the future of independent film and successfully distributed the film himself after its world premier at the L.A. Film Festival. FLESH AND BLOOD marked his return to SXSW in 2017 where the film was nominated for the Adam Yauch Visionary award. His latest film THE PLACE OF NO WORDS premiered at the 2019 Tribeca film festival and was nominated for best picture, then went to the Munich Film festival and was nominated in the Cinemasters section for best picture, and just recently took home the Best Film award at the 49th Giffoni Film Festival in Italy.

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Ruha Taslimi, Miriam

Ruha Taslimi is an actor, improviser, writer, dancer, choreographer. Currently a main stage performer at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. You can see Ruha performing regularly at UCB at Harold Night with their improv team GHOST, Maude Night with their sketch team Emerald, performing a new 30 minute sketch show every month, and at Legitimate Goddamn Theatre which is a show of one act plays by UCB's best writers and performers hosted and produced by Ruha, who also writes and performs a new one act play for every show. A lover of crystals, cats and magic in the world. Follow Ruha on Instagram for show info, fun dances, lip syncs and cats @ruhataslimi @legitimategoddamntheatreucb @emeraldmaude