Bryan Langlitz
Bryan has been working professionally since 2005. His New York credits include House of Cards, Orange is the New Black, The Looming Tower, SMASH, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and High Maintenance as well as the 2009 Tony Award Winner for Best Musical, MEMPHIS and The Public Theatre’s Shakespeare in the Park production of A COMEDY OF ERRORS. He toured North America as Sam Philips in MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET, and has worked with regional theatres throughout the country including The MUNY, Lake Dillon Theatre Company, West Virginia Public Theatre, and The Wild Swan.
In Los Angeles, Bryan is an ensemble member with IAMA Theatre Company (The Future Perfect; A Kid Like Jake) and starred in the West Coast Premiere of TOO MUCH SUN at The Odyssey Theatre. Since moving west, Bryan has filmed Secrets of Sulphur Springs, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, Days of Daisy, and is a frequent collaborator with Good Time Society (Homecoming, The Last Word). In 2023, Bryan partnered with Judy Kain and Workspace Hollywood to showcase 100 SANTS YOU SHOULD KNOW as part of a staged reading series.
Bryan holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The University of Michigan. He has studied with Scott Freeman, Andrew Stewart Jones, Ellen Novak, Lesly Kahn, Brad Greenquist, and Howie Deutsch. He lives in South Pasadena with his wife and two young children where he can frequently be found guzzling coffee and falling asleep with a book on his face.
Ellen Haun
Ellen Haun is an actor, writer and comedian. She's the co-author of the humor book "Cinderella and the Glass Ceiling and Other Feminist Fairy Tales," which was developed from a UCB sketch comedy show and optioned for television by Gaumont Studios and Freebird Films. As an actor, Ellen's credits include "How to Get Away With Murder," "Dad Stop Embarrassing Me," Williamstown Theatre Festival, IAMA Theatre, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. She has many years of sketch and improv comedy experience, and has performed in many a smelly basement bar. Ellen has appeared in national commercial campaigns for Duracell, Discover Card, and Xfinity Internet, among others.
Zach Bandler
Zach Bandler's films have won awards and played festivals across the globe. His short "The Lightkeeper" was named final recipient of the CINE Golden Eagle Award for Narrative Short Film, an award recognizing rising filmmakers since 1962 which has honored the early careers of Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Spike Lee, Taylor Hackford and others. His short films "Torn" and "The Stairs" are multi-award winners at festivals, and his first teleplay "Hollywood and Vine" was given an industry presentation at the American Film Institute starring Jason Alexander ("Seinfeld") and directed by Independent Spirit Award winner Mark Polish.
His other screenplays have been Finalists in both the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards and Cinequest Screenwriting Competition, and shortlisted for the ScreenCraft Film Fund. Zach recently served as a 2022 Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health with the Global Brain Health Institute in Dublin, Ireland, where he has developed two feature-length films (currently being financed) and a television series at the intersection of dementia advocacy and narrative cinema. He will begin filming in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo on his project “Koko Suzanne” in the spring of 2024.