AJ Cook stars on the hit CBS drama “Criminal Minds.” She plays Jennifer “JJ” Jareau, a confident young agent who acts as the unit liaison for the team. Cook’s television credits include a guest starring role on Showtime’s “The L-Word,” Lifetime’s thriller “Vanished,” the cult Fox hit “Tru Calling,” and a guest appearance on “Dead Like M,” Showtime’s Emmy-nominated series.
On the big screen, Cook starred in New Line’s cult film “Final Destination II” and appeared in Director Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides.”
With over a dozen movie credits in the last five years, Orlando Jones is easily one of the industry's busiest talents. He can be seen next in Paul Weitz's film “Cirque du Freak” opposite John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek and Ken Watanabe. He also stars in the upcoming Peter Hyams’ film, “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” opposite Michael Douglas. C In addition, Jones recently produced the documentary film, The Music Lesson, for GreenBox Films.
The South Carolina native, who made his feature film acting debut in Barry Levinson's acclaimed drama “Liberty Heights,” was also seen starring opposite Laurence Fishburne in “Biker Boyz.” Jones also captured the screen in “Drumline,” “The Time Machine,” and Ivan Reitman's “Evolution” with David Duchovny and Julianne Moore. Jones’ other film credits include “The Replacements,” “Bedazzled,” “Say It Isn't So” and “Double Take.” His scene-stealing performances in the sleeper hit, “Office Space,” woke up national audiences to Jones’ comedic talent. Last fall, Jones received glowing reviews for his performance on stage as "Gabriel" in August Wilson's acclaimed play "Fences," opposite Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett. Currently, Jones simultaneously is working in front of and behind the scenes — he co-created and starred in the animated sketch comedy series, “BUFU” and the MTV2 animated series "The Adventures of Chico & Guapo" which aired world-wide last year. Jones got his start in the entertainment business as a writer for Fox Broadcasting Company's "Roc Live" and "Sinbad;" and not long after, made the inevitable jump to the other side of the camera as part of the original cast on the Fox sketch comedy series, "Mad TV," on which he spent two seasons.
Already a familiar face to film and television audiences, Sarah Carter, is becoming a household name thanks to her most recent television series, CBS's “Shark,” where she starred opposite the legendary, James Woods. Prior to “Shark,” Carter was recognized for her memorable and re-occurring roles on several popular television shows, WB's “Smallville” as Tom Welling's crazed lover, CBS's “Numbers” opposite Rob Morrow, and HBO's “Entourage” as the Sundance Girl, to name a few. Her favorite experience was on FOX's “Undeclared” as Charlie Hunnam's crush, landing her in a creative pool with of some of today's leading comedy actors Jay Baruchel, Tim Sharp, Seth Rogan and of course Judd Apatow. She is only at the beginning of what promises to be an exciting future on the big screen.
Moscow made his feature film debut in the classic film, “Big,” directed by Penny Marshall, in which he played Josh, the younger version of Tom Hanks’ character. Since then, he has appeared in several studio films including “Newsies” for Disney, and reuniting with Penny Marshall for “Riding in Cars with Boys” starring drew Barrymore. He starred opposite Jessica Alba in the urban drama “Honey” and he co-starred with Ashton Kutcher in the screwball comedy “Just Married.” Moscow is also a screenwriter and producer, with several of his own projects in development.
David Sutcliffe is best known for his starring role on the long-running hit WB show “Gilmore Girls.” Sutcliffe starred opposite Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel as Christopher, Lorelei’s ex and Rory’s father. He has also made guest appearances on other popular shows such as “Friends,” “Will and Grace,” and “C.S.I.”
Samuel Ball made his first film debut at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival when he starred in the award-winning “Urbania” directed by John Shear. He returned the following year with the MGM film “Pumpkin” starring Christina Ricci.” Ball’s other television credits include guest appearances on “Dawson’s Creek,” “Sex and the City,” and “Law and Order.”
Born and raised in New York City, Ron Satlof is an Academy Award and Emmy-nominated director and producer who has worked in film and television as well as repertory theatre. A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University, he began his film career as a trainee assistant director. Long active in network TV as a producer and director, Ron produced the long-running, top ten, TV series McCloud with Dennis Weaver, for which he received an Emmy nomination, and directed episodes of such classic shows as “Hawaii Five-O,” “Quincy” and “Barnaby Jones.”
Ron was a contract director at Columbia Pictures Television, where among other projects, he directed a two-hour TV production of “From Here to Eternity” with Don Johnson and Kim Basinger, Barbara Hershey and William Devane. Ron's picture “Spiderman Strikes Back,” which he produced and directed, was distributed in Europe, Asia and South America by Columbia Pictures International. He has also directed such recent TV productions as “Perry Mason Returns,” “Diagnosis Murder,” “Martial Law” and “Silk Stalkings.” TV pilots he's directed include “Jake and the Fatman” with William Conrad, and “Hunter,” with Fred Dryer. He also directed the TV movie “Original Sin” with Charleton Heston and Ann Gillian. He received an Academy Award nomination for his live action short Frog Story, which he co-produced, and directed.
Ira Pearlstein, co-producer and co-writer, is a practicing attorney in Brooklyn, New York.
This is his first produced screenplay. Having handled far too many divorces in his legal career, Ira now enjoys writing about family strife that gets resolved happily.
He has never been an evangelical Christian, though he counts several among his friends, and his two sons, now grown, were conceived by Ira and his wife in what the film's character Parker Bliss Sr. would characterize as "the normal way."
