The Craft Store

Episode 1 – Science Fair

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Alex Fox – Creator/Executive Producer/Writer – (Brooke)

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Alex Fox began her performance career at Emerson College in Boston, with the comedy troupe, The Swolen Monkey Showcase. After college, Alex moved to Chicago to study improv at The Second City, iO (formerly Improv Olympic) and Annoyance Theaters. Credits include; The Annoyance’s production of Sky Ship, directed by Mick Napier, 58!,which was named the New York Fringe Festival’s “Best Musical,” and was previously seen at the Annoyance Theater and Second City’s Unhinged Series. She was also featured as the leading lady in the pilot Almost Funny, with comedian Dan Levy at the New York and Los Angeles Television Festivals. Currently, Alex performs at iO West with the comedy duo, The Jon and Eddie Show, voted one of the top five improv teams in the nation by the Friars Club and named some of LA’s funniest women by BUST Magazine. She also performs at iO with the Harold Teams, Gypsy Lou and Dr. T. and the Ladies. Alex has contributed comedic commentary to Current TV’s Rotten Tomatoes Show and can be heard as the voice of Arial, the adorable paper bag in the Fandango commercials. She is currently studying at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in LA.

Rachel Lewis – Creator/Executive Producer/Writer – (Jeannie Marie)

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RACHEL LEWIS is a comedian, writer, actor and voice-over actor living in Los Angeles. Hailing from Big Sky country (Bozeman, Montana), Rachel made her way to Chicago after graduating from the University of Wisconsin—Madison with a degree in Theatre and Drama. She spent almost five years in the Windy City studying, teaching, and performing improv and sketch comedy at the world-renowned Second City, iO and the Annoyance Theaters. Now residing in LA, Rachel can be seen at iO West with The Jon and Eddie Show, voted one of the top five improv groups in the nation by The Friars Club and some of BUST magazine’s funniest ladies in Los Angeles, and with The Old-Timey Radio Hour. She is the voice of several national commercials and has been known to wear a red blazer and drink a Special K shake on TV. Rachel has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Comedy Central’s Mash Up, and contributed comedic commentary on Current TV’s Rotten Tomatoes Show. She has also studied comedy with the prestigious Groundlings and enjoys teaching improv to at-risk young adults with the nonprofit, Hollywood Arts.

Timothy Simons – (Mort)

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Timothy Simons, a graduate of the University of Maine, moved to Los Angeles after spending 6 years in Chicago’s independent theatre scene. He currently stars on Emmy nominated Veep on HBO playing the role of the smug white house liaison, Jonah.

Jamie Hoggson – (Joe)

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Jamie is a proud Vermonter who attended the University of Vermont. He graduated with a degree in political science and theater when he was 25. At one point in his life, Jamie was going to be a Marine. But instead he decided to pursue comedy, so he moved to Chicago to train at Second City, iO Chicago, and the Annoyance Theater. Currently you can see Jamie perform at iO West with Waterloo, Guy Friends, and JERKS.

Lily Anne Harrison – (Krystal)

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Lily Anne Harrison was born in Los Angeles to actors, Gregory Harrison and Randi Oakes. After a childhood of traveling, watching her father on stage and on set, she caught the bug herself, and began studying at The Portland Actor’s Conservatory and Portland State University. After a few years, Lily moved to LA to continue her training at the Ivana Chubbuck Studio and Groundlings, where she still studies today.

Frank Caeti – (Terry Lundgren)

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Frank Caeti is an alumnus of The Second City Chicago, where he was a member of the National Touring Company and performed on two resident company stages (Chicago e.t.c & Las Vegas). Frank was a series regular on the long running MADtv. Along with Matt Craig he is one half of the critically acclaimed duo FrankenMatt. Other tv/film credits include: Reno 911, NCIS, The Jay Leno Show, The Lakehouse, and Bad Meat. He performed in Reverie, a nonverbal sketch comedy show at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. Frank is a founding member of the improvisational troupes Tres, Whose Chorus Line is it Anyway? DITKA, and The Hot Karl. Other theater credits include: Upright Citizen’s Brigade, The Armando Show, ComedySportz Chicago, Bills and Caeti, and iO. He considers himself lucky to have performed comedy in 3 continents, 9 countries, and 39 states.

Ramsey Mellette – Director

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Ramsey Mellette began his film career when his $800 budget short film captivated audiences at the Aspen Shortsfest. He then enrolled in USC’s graduate film program where he wrote and directed Rock On, which put a Whitesnake song in everybody’s head when it toured film fests around the country. After film school, Ramsey directed the CAA Trainee Film where he got the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make fun of agents. Ramsey went on to direct more comedy projects, notably, My Long Distance Relationship with comedian Dan Levy, which became an online sensation and grew into a scripted comedy television pilot for MTV. Ramsey also directed Happy Trails starring comedian Owen Benjamin for Comedy Central’s atom.com, Duncan & Me, from NBC Community writer Steve Basilone, which charmed audiences at the LA ITVFest, and Coffee Bean Guys starring StevieTV’s James Kirkland. Ramsey is currently developing several television projects and is writing a feature comedy, which he plans to direct.

Conor Simpson – Director of Photography

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Conor Simpson makes films that tend to have a unique perspective on humans, our subconscious motivations, and how we fit together within our environment. He is fascinated by how humans see the world, how we interpret our dreams, and the mysteries that bind us all together. Conor works as a director and cinematographer, and is currently preparing to direct his first feature film from a script he wrote.

John Erickson – Production/Costume Designer

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John Erickson moved from Minneapolis, Minnesota to beautiful LA 3 years ago to work as the lead Visual Display Artist for Urban Outfitters, creating stunning in-store art installations and creative window displays. He has been working consistently as an artist in all forms; paint, digital art, illustration, and also tattooing professionally for the last 6 years. The Craft Store was John’s maiden voyage into the art of production and is looking forward to continuing this line of work.

James Fitzpatrick – Editor

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James Fitzpatrick is a Portland transplant to LA; encumbered with a film degree from Montana State University. He moved to Hollywood in 2007 with a song in his heart and a spring in hisstep. Now, James doesn’t remember that song and persistent sciatica prevents any “springing.” But since his move, James has worked in all areas of post production – concentrating on editing and visual effects. His work spans web, television, and film. He recently finished editing a web campaign for Denny’s restaurant produced by DumbDumb, Will Arnett and Jason Bateman’s company. This campaign took home a Bronze Lion at the 2012 Cannes Lions International Festival ofCreativity thus validating James’ bloated ego and awful attitude toward his peers. He can be funny, but never on command, your best bet is to surprise him.

Rachel, is this long enough? If not, please consider including this sentence in the bio.

Scott Friedman – Composer/Sound Design

rachelblewis — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:55:14 +0000

Upon graduating from Emerson college with a degree in audio and sound design, Scott moved to Los Angeles to work as a musical composer/sound designer for the “Endless Noise,” music company based in Santa Monica. He worked on numerous commercials in his 4 years there, for companies such as: Nike, Audi, BMW, Adidas, and Mazda; and in 2007, Scott was named best, young, up-and-coming composer by “Board’s” Magazine! In 2010, Scott began freelancing as a composer/sound designer, working on various projects, including music supervisor for the TV show, “Pipe Dream,” for Comcast’s, The Golf Channel. He also sound designed the Volkswagen, Star Wars Kid Superbowl commercial and the movie, “Dead Season,” a zombie feature film distributed worldwide.

Jon and Eddie Productions

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Jon and Eddie Productions is Alex Fox and Rachel Lewis, the comedic production team based out of Los Angeles. Alex and Rachel met in Chicago while studying and performing improv and sketch comedy at the world-renowned Second City, iO, and Annoyance Theaters. It was kismet at first laugh. Nicknaming each other Jon (Alex) and Eddie (Rachel) after their entertaining fathers, Alex and Rachel’s friendship and comedic partnership grew through their complementary humorous stylings, and love of ethnic food. In 2008, Alex and Rachel made their way west and began performing improv and sketch comedy together as, The Jon and Eddie Show, making them MSN.com’s “Top 100 Things to See in LA,” and some of BUST Magazine’s “Funniest Ladies in Los Angeles. In 2010, The Friars Club of New York named The Jon and Eddie Show one of the top 5 improv groups in the nation. In the same year, Alex and Rachel branched out to produce online content; writing, producing, creating and starring in The Jon and Eddie Web Series, an official selection of the Los Angeles Independent Television Festival. Jon and Eddie Productions has several other full length shows in the works…so stay tuned!

www.jonandeddieproductions.com

Atomic Wedgie

rachelblewis — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:33:10 +0000

Atomic Wedgie TV

AWTV is a young division of FremantleMedia devoted to incubation of quality scripted comedy, new media and branded entertainment. It celebrates it’s 6th birthday in 2012 having produced more than 60 short-form webseries spanning 1400 clips for mobile, internet and television. AW was the birthplace of Comedy Central’s groundbreaking POV series, Secret Girlfriend (currently available on iTunes), and has served as a powerful development ground to launch cutting edge TV series and dynamic digitally driven entertainment. FremantleMedia is the international production company behind American Idol, X-Factor, Price Is Right, Family Feud, The IT Crowd and about a trillion other shows ranging from the absurdly massive & popular to the arcanely small & hip.

http://www.atomicwedgietv.com
http://www.fremantlemedia.com