Ilana Zackon is an actor, voice over artist, writer, director and award-winning filmmaker originally from Montreal, Quebec. Her short film, Grain, won the Toon Boom Award for Best 2D Short Film at the 2025 Fantasia International Film Festival. Ilana has over 40 voice-over credits in commercials, animation and video games. Video game roles include Mazaam in Mazaam - The Musical Genius (Analekta), Katanira in Disciples Liberation (Frima Studios) and Catalyst in Livelock (Tuque Games). Ilana has been the voice of international brands including Colgate, Buick and Nestea, as well as highly regarded Canadian companies such as Intact Insurance, Desjardins Group and Hydro Quebec. Animation credits include Naya in the multi-award-winning Quebec feature film, Katak The Brave Beluga. Notable theatre performances include Isabelle in the English-language premiere of Mazel Tov (Infinitheatre Montreal), Ilana in the world premiere of So, How Should I Be? (Presentation House Theatre, North Vancouver), Polly Garter in Under Milk Wood (Edinburgh Fringe Festival), as well as multiple original multidisciplinary performances co-created with Vancouver-based company, Theatre Conspiracy. Theatre directing credits include An Assertive Girl and Teddy Bears at Speakeasy Theatre's Pull Fest VII and the Jessie Richardson Award nominated The Great Canadian Porno: The Musical at the 2019 Vancouver Fringe Festival.
Thomas Hollow is an LA based actor, singer, and producer. He earned is BA in vocal performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. On stage he has been seen as Brock in the Netflix production of ‘The Stranger Things drive-into Experience’ and Warner in the Hollywood Majestic’s production of ‘Legally Blonde.’ Thomas founded the production company Late to the Party Films. He is currently producing 2 short films, ‘That’s the Gift’ and ‘Riders and Roses.’ Learn more at thomashollow.com and thatsthegiftfilm.com
Veronica Maccari is an actress, writer and filmmaker born and raised in Milan, Italy, based in LA. As an actor, she has performed on various NYC and LA stages as well as in shorts, feature films and commercials. As a writer-filmmaker she has written and produced many award-winning short films, and recently she has been on the festival circuit with her six-part web series IMPOSTER, which she wrote and starred in, winning 17 awards and screening at 30+ festivals all over the world, including the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts and Cleveland International Film Festival. She is currently adapting her web series into a pilot to sell as a TV show, as well as writing an Italian-language sports coming of age feature based on her experience being a teen sailing champion.
Dilara Foscht is an internationally working multi-hyphenate: actress, dancer, and filmmaker. Foscht was born and raised, one out of five kids, in Austria, Europe. Her ancestry however, leads back to Italy and Slovenia and Dilara spent parts of her life living in Germany as well. As an actress, Dilara started her creative journey with dancing, competing successfully at both, national and international championships in the dance categories ballet, modern-, jazz-, acrobatic-, and musical- dance. After dancing had tickled her fancy, she hopped on the acting train, performing on stage, as well as on set in Austria and Germany. Foscht started acting at the TaO youth-theater company in Graz, which led her to being cast, as the lead, in her first theater production. Later, Foscht studied the Performing Arts in Germany until she relocated to Vancouver. Besides Dilara's European training in theatre and film, Foscht worked with renowned acting coaches and studios around the world, such as Larry Moss, the Lee Strasberg Institute, The Second City, and coaches John Homa, and Harry Shifman. Foscht also trained with well-known voice and singing coaches such as Bob Corff, Bruce Eckstut in LA and Broadway coach Tyler Capa in NYC! One of Foscht's most acclaimed theater productions, so far, has been Dorian Gray-Pictures of Beauty, which premiered in her hometown Graz. She was also cast for the German TV pilot I'm Awake, a leading role in the 13th season of the German TV show Das Supertalent, as well as appearing in several independent films. In 2024, Dilara was also invited to join Disney's prestigious "TV directors workshop" as an actress! Apart from acting, Foscht loves to write and produce her own stories, most commonly together with her identical twin sister Bianca Foscht, who she often describes as "her better half". In 2023, alongside her twin sister, she wrote, directed, produced and starred in their first feature film production "Day Of A Lion". The production won them many nominations and awards, from "Best feature film" to "Best actress". Foscht also is an experienced horseback rider with proper equestrian training and she enjoys singing, dancing and educating herself in multiple fields, in her spare time. Dilara Foscht is fluent in English, German and speaks basic Italian.
Michael has appeared in numerous regional theatre productions including, as Sebastian in Twelfth Night with New Mexico Rep; Doc, Matt Galloway and Dr. Cantway in The Laramie Project with Sierra Repertory Theatre; Jeffrey and Darius in Jeffrey at Theatre on the Square in San Francisco; Tobias in Sweeney Todd with Anchorage Opera; the Tenor in The All Night Strut with Arizona Theatre Co.; Henrick in A Little Night Music at Marriott's Lincolnshire Theatre (Chicago); The Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz at San Diego's Starlight Theatre; Jacques Brel with Opera Fresca (Mendocino); I Love You, You're Perfect, State Fair and My Way at Sierra Repertory Theatre. In Los Angeles he appeared in As You Like It and Carrolling at A Noise Within Repertory Theatre; as Mr. Mantalini, Mr. Snawley and Mr. Pluck in Nicholas Nickleby at Theatre 40; as Joly and Marius in the National Touring company of Les Miserables; as Houdini in Ragtime with the South Bay Cities CLO and as the Tenor in Berlin to Broadway With Kurt Weill for which he won an LA Drama Critics Circle Award. TV/Film credits include Knots Landing, One Big Family and the independent films A Game of Hide and Die and Chet Bond. A graduate of Northwestern University, he has also directed and choreographed numerous productions at the American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City, MO.

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