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Tara Killian: After
years of community theatre, dance lessons, voice lessons,
and being crowned Miss United States Teen, Tara pursued a
B.A. in Music at the College of Charleston, SC on a full
academic and music scholarship. After her Sophomore
year, the brainiac was pre-accepted to medical school at
the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston.
During her Senior year, she landed a co-Star on an episode
of Dawson's Creek. After a week on the set of a
network series, she saw that she really liked the biz.
What to do, what to do...Tara immediately called the
medical school and asked for two years off...granted.
Off to New York City she flew to pursue a career in
acting. And she never looked back.
Since
moving to Los Angeles, Tara has worked on such TV shows as
Without A Trace and Spy TV. She also starred in the
Roger Corman movie Slaughter Studios, and she has 2 movies
coming in 2005: Mr. Fix It with David Boreanas, and
American Pie 4: Band Camp. She is currently starring
in David Steen’s Southern gothic play A Gift from Heaven
at the Beverly Hills Playhouse.
www.tarakillian.com
John Beach:
A Louisiana native,
John F. Beach began his acting career in Texas, performing in
commercials, industrials, and independent films in Austin
and Dallas/Ft. Worth. Beach studied acting briefly
while attending college at SMU in Dallas, TX. After
graduating pre-med with a degree in psychology, he
decided to forego the opportunity to attend medical school
to pursue a full-time career as an actor. The
year 2003 proved to be a turning point, as Beach landed
leading roles in the feature films "Hallow's
End" and "Vagabond Garden," directed
by award-winning Texas filmmakers Jon
Keeyes and David Haynes, respectively. That
same year, Beach co-wrote, co-produced and
starred in 2 short comedies that were official
selections to the 2003 Deep Ellum Film Festival in Dallas,
"Spared: A Butler's Tale" and "Bob
3:13," the latter also being a 1st place winner
at the 2003 Dallas Video Festival.
Beach
moved to Los Angeles in late 2003. He currently
lives in Hollywood and studies acting with Lesley Kahn
and Cliff Osmond. Beach will make his television
debut in January, 2005, with a co-starring role on the Fox
hit, "The O.C."
Rene Parker: Rene
Parker is a veteran stage performer of over 8 years. Rene
studied acting at the BFA programme at Boston University
and has performed on stages all across the country.
Including such shows as Alan Strang and Peter Schaffers’
Equus; Alex Burgess in John Robin Baitz’s: A Fair
Country and Ira Stone in Neil Simon’s: Laughter on the
23rd Floor.
Since
moving to Los Angeles, Rene has starred in numerous short
films and will be appearing on the crime drama Reasonable
Doubt in February. Visit
website.
Lara Black:
Lara
spent her childhood performing in shows of all kinds, from
European Honor Choir to American theatre festivals.
After finishing high school in Germany, she moved to
California to earn her BA in Theatre Arts from Cal Poly,
San Luis Obispo. Her experiences with various
characters, especially Kate in All My Sons and the Baker's
Wife in Into the Woods, combined with her summers in the
Central Coast Repertory Shakespeare Festival, served to
cement her artistic intentions. Following
graduation, Lara moved to Los Angeles to begin a career in
film - but her first audition led her northward again to
Sierra Repertory Theatre, as Constance in The Three
Musketeers. She was invited to remain with the
company and went on to play varying roles, most
notably Mary in Run For Your Wife and Regine in Ibsen's
Ghosts. Lara returned to LA late in 2003, and enjoys
an extraordinarily busy acting schedule. She is
proud to be a company member of LA’s West Coast
Ensemble, and returns every January to the San Francisco
area to perform The Vagina Monologues. Shooting Jake
Kennedy's We All Fall Down energized Lara's enthusiasm for
film, and since it wrapped she has completed several
projects. Her most recent role, as Alyssa in Blane
Dydasco's Nate Washington, will be presented at upcoming
film festivals. Currently Lara can be seen on stage
in LA at the Actor’s Playpen, playing a variety of
characters in Chart Three's production of Please Check In.
Julia Ling:
Julia Ling, a
charismatic and talented Asian actress in Hollywood, has
been performing since she was three years old.
She performs with the passion of a true artist as a
dancer, singer, model and actress.
By
the age of seven, Julia had appeared in numerous TV shows
as an incredible dancer. She had her first television
debut as the Power Potential on UPN series Buffy the
Vampire Slayer.In the past year, she starred in the films:
“Waitress,” a short comedy about the life of a
waitress; “Private Tutor” as a villainous alien
visiting Earth; “Seven Games” as the lead voice-over
actress; She recently completed the feature film
“Dynamite Swine”, playing the role of the Villain’s
bodyguard with her martial arts and combat skills.
She very recently worked on Steven Spielberg’s
“Memoirs of a Geisha” as a dancer.
Her TV
credits include the series: Walt Disney sitcom “8 Simple
Rules”, Paramount Picture series “Educating Lewis”,
“Diego Sun”, “A Love for Francis” and film
credits: Martin Lawrence’s “Rebound”, Sony Pictures
Entertainment film “Dinner Party”, “Smile”,
“Ionian”, “73 Virgins” and many others. She also
has numerous music videos, commercials and voice-overs.
Currently,
Julia is writing her own screenplay and producing her own
feature film. This year, she produced a short film
entitled “25 Seconds” where she also played a
Supporting character. After the filming of “Dead
Reckoning” this December, 2004, Julia will be flying
with her new entertainment team to Hungary and Austria to
film another feature entitled Metamorphosis” as a lead
actress, playing the role of Kim, an American
girl-next-door cutie who travels with her best friends to
visit some ruins only to find out they’re caught in a
trap with vampires.
The
industry executives believe Julia Ling is the next Asian
Hollywood star:
“Julia
came in to the audition and read for Kim. She nailed
it beyond belief. She is AMAZING.” -Jeno Hodi,
Cinepartners Entertainment
“[Julia]
is gonna be big. I can see it right now. I never see
any actresses with the charm and charisma, talent and
beauty that [she] can bring.” –Todd Grodnick,
producer. Sunset Gower Studios
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