JENNIFER NICHOLE PORTER (Lila)
co-Producer, Screenwriter, and Film Score Composer of Mr. Barrington, Ms.Porter's film credits include The Langoliers, Follow the Broccoli, and The Ballad of Ida and Doob.  Her many critically acclaimed stage credits include Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Rose in The Woolgatherer, Beth in A Lie of the Mind, Babe in Crimes of the Heart, Mary Warren in The Crucible, May in Fool For Love, Scarlet in Lynn Siefert's Coyote Ugly, and Marjorie in Extremities.  Ms. Porter's additional screenwriting credits include Cassandra Speaks, a dramatic thriller, Condolences, a comedy about love and death, and Prairie Dogs, a desert drama.

 
ERIC SCHWEIG (Samuel) is an exceptional actor and artist who first gained worldwide recognition in 1992 for his powerful portrayal of Uncas in The Last of the Mohicans.  Since then, Mr. Schweig has starred in numerous films including Pontiac Moon, The Scarlet Letter, Tom and Huck, Big Eden, Skins, and most recently as Chidin in The Missing.

BRIAN McCARDIE (Barrington)landed on the international film scene in 1995 when he won an open audition to star with Liam Neeson, Jessica Lang and Tim Roth in Rob Roy.  Since then, Mr. McCardie has starred in films such as Kidnapped, The Ghost and the Darkness,Speed 2: Cruise Control, 200 Cigarettes, and Solid Air.

 
JONELLE ALLEN (Mother Anne) is perhaps best known as Grace on the popular TV series, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.  She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and won a Drama Critics Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Theatre World Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her role in the Broadway musical, Two Gentlemen of Verona.  Ms. Allen’s feature film credits include The River Niger, for which she received an Image Award, Hotel New Hampshire, Come Back to the Charleston Blue,
and Cotton Comes to Harlem.
 


TOM CRAIG (Executive Producer) recently moved to Maine after ten years as Senior VP on the creative side at Universal Pictures, where he oversaw the development of such films as Shakespeare in Love, White Palace, Beethoven, Bird on a Wire, King of the Hill, and A Kiss Before Dying. Prior to that, Mr. Craig was VP of Creative Affairs at United Artists, and Story Editor at Warner Brothers.

DANA PACKARD (Producer/Director/Editor)
Mr. Packard's thirty minute 16mm film, The Ballad of Ida and Doob, screened at The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, The Rhode Island International Film Festival (finalist), The Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, The Saguaro International Film Festival, Valleyfest, and was nominated for the Kathadin Award at The Portland Festival of World Cinema.  It received an Honorable Mention award at The Columbus Film Festival, and has aired twice on Maine PBS.  Mr. Packard has directed over fifty plays, forty-two with The Originals, a thriving professional theatre company he founded with Jennifer Nichole Porter in 1988.

  
 
ERIC J GOLDSTEIN (Director of Photography) Mr. Goldstein's credits behind the camera include American Pie 2, Road Trip, Say it isn’t So, Me, Myself, and Irene, The Usual Suspects, The Right Temptation, Nightmare on Elm St. 7, The Abyss, American History X, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Grifters, Arachnophobia, Buffalo Girls, The Addams Family, The Blob, The Yearling, Candy Man 2, Final Approach, for which he was the 1992 Golden Scroll Award winner, and the Oscar nominated short film, Contact, starring Brad Pitt and Elias Koteas, for which he won the Eastman Kodak Cinematography Award.  Mr. Goldstein's distinct style has been aptly termed "Lustrous Naturalism".