About the Actor
ACTOR BIO (Victoria Foyt): Victoria Foyt s first novel, The Virtual Life Of Lexie Diamond, was released March 2007, by HarperCollins Publishing. TeensReadToo.com gave the book a five-star rating, calling it a must-read! . Ms Foyt also wrote and directed the promotional video for the novel, currently posted on YouTube.com. Victoria Foyt has co-written and starred in four critically acclaimed feature films, Going Shopping, Déjà vu, Last Summer In The Hamptons, and Babyfever with indie film director Henry Jaglom. ACTOR BIO (Frances Fisher): Frances Fisher began by apprenticing at the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia. She spent 14 years based in New York City, playing leads in over 30 productions of plays by such noted writers as John Arden, Noel Coward, Emily Mann, Joe Orton, Sam Shepard, William Shakespeare, Jean Claude Van Italie, Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams. She won a Drama Desk Award - Best Ensemble for the American Premier of Caryl Churchill's THREE MORE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, played in the American premier of Judith Thompson's THE CRACKWALKER and originated roles in Elia Kazan's THE CHAIN and Arthur Miller's last play, FINISHING THE PICTURES. Besides working with Kazan and Miller, some of Ms. Fisher's more interesting theater experiences were creating roles from two great works of literature: George Orwell's 1984 and Victor Hugo's THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME. Ms. Fisher worked at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles alongside Annette Bening and Alfred Molina in Anton Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD. Fisher is starring in SEXY LAUNDRY with Paul Ben-Victor at the Hayworth Theatre in Los Angeles. She studied with Stella Adler and became a lifetime member of the Actors Studio by actually walking up the stairs and auditioning for legendary acting teacher Lee Strasberg. ACTOR BIO (Matt Salinger): The handsome son of the famed reclusive CATCHER IN THE RYE author, Matt Salinger began his career on stage, making his Off-Broadway debut in DRUMS IN THE NIGHT (1983) before appearing in his first feature, REVENGE OF THE NERDS (1984). A starring role on Broadway as a football player in DANCING IN THE END ZONE (1985) caught the eye of director Sidney Lumet who cast him as a professor turned political candidate in POWER (1986). Salinger followed quickly with TV projects, including the miniseries BLOOD AND ORCHIDS and the movie MANHUNT FOR CLAUDE DALLAS (both CBS, 1986) and frequently returned to the stage, most notably succeeding Tony Goldwyn as the gay son in the Off-Broadway production of THE SUM OF US (1991). Salinger went on to play a sleazy shrink in three episodes PICKET FENCES (CBS) during its 1993-94 season before co-starring opposite Connie Sellecca in the short-lived primetime soap SECOND CHANCES (CBS, 1993-94). ACTOR BIO (Eric Robers): One of Hollywood's edgier, more intriguing characters running around and about for decades, Eric Anthony Roberts started life in Biloxi, Mississippi, but grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. He began his acting career at age 5 in a local theater company called the Actors and Writers Workshop founded by his late father, Walter Roberts. After his schooling at Grady High, he studied drama at age 17 in London for two years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, then returned to the States and continued his studies at the American Academy in New York. He made his NY stage debut in REBEL WOMEN in 1976 at age 20 and appeared in regional productions, once playing the newspaper boy in a production of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE starring Shirley Knight and Glenn Close. After appearing in such daytime soaps as ANOTHER WORLD and HOW TO SURVIVE A MARRIAGE, his care
About the Director
The filmmaker/playwright trained in New York at The Actor s Studio, studying acting with Lee Strasberg and writing/directing with Harold Clurman. He performed in off-Broadway theatre and cabaret before coming to Hollywood under contract to Columbia Pictures, where he guest-starred on TV shows ('Gidget,' 'The Flying Nun') and was featured in a number of films, including ones directed by Jack Nicholson (Drive, He Said), Dennis Hopper (The Last Movie) and Orson Welles (The Other Side of the Wind), each of whom he eventually directed in return. Jaglom began his acclaimed filmmaking career, working with Nicholson to edit Hopper's 1969 hit Easy Rider. He made his debut as a writer/director with 1971's A SAFE PLACE, which starred Tuesday Weld, Nicholson and Welles. Since then, Jaglom has written and directed 18 more films, including TRACKS (1976), SITTING DUCKS (1980), CAN SHE BAKE A CHERRY PIE? (1983), ALWAYS (But Not Forever) (1985), SOMEONE TO LOVE (1987), NEW YEAR'S DAY(1989), EATING (1990), VENICE/VENICE (1991), BABYFEVER (1994), LAST SUMMER IN THE HAMPTONS (1996), DEJA VU (1998), FESTIVAL IN CANNES (2002) and GOING SHOPPING (2004). Since selecting her to star in his 2007 HOLLYWOOD DREAMS, Jaglom has collaborated with actress Tanna Frederick on the films IRENE IN TIME (2009), QUEEN OF THE LOT (2010) and THE 'M' WORD, which is currently in post-production.
