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BIOS Royston Scott Royston Scott (Spade Slade)
Director, writer, actor, and designer and film producer is a native of Baltimore Md. and a graduate of NYU's Experimental Theater Wing. His many stage credits include several Off Broadway productions as well as a European tour in Tight, Right, White directed by Reza Abdoh. Royston has numerous film and television credits under his belt, including a featured role the Icelandic feature No Is No Answer Royston‘s company Real Cheap Film has produced three comedic movies along with the noted filmmaker Jacob Burckhardt. These movies include Freedom Ho! Or Harriet Tubman’s Tale, which was screened at the Black Film Festival of Berlin and Louis The Fourteenth Street, which screened as part of the Howl Festival in NYC and the Experimental Film Festival of Bangkok. His latest effort is the “film noir sex romp comedy thriller” Tomorrow Always Comes, which premieres this spring.
All the while making Underground movies, Jacob Burckhardt - Director, Cinematographer, and Editor worked at a variety of jobs: berry picker, steel worker, Fuller Brush man, truck and taxi driver. He did sound recording in North Africa and the porn industry. In the 80's he produced and directed two features that went to Berlin and other festivals: It Don't Pay To Be An Honest Citizen (with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Vincent D'Onofrio) and Landlord Blues, where he first worked with Gerard Little, a. k. a. Mr. Fashion. Eschewing the money raising rat race, Jacob prefers making shorts in 16mm film and video where it is possible to preserve a direct relationship between the film and the filmmakers. Bill Rice (Mr. Rice)
was perhaps best known as a legendary underground actor, but he was first and foremost a painter, then a photographer, sculptor, and historian, who was a fixture in the avant-garde art world of the Lower Eastside for over 30 years. His first performance was in a play, Raisin Pie and the Hermaphroditic Umbrella by Gabriel Oshen, and he has been involved in numerous theatrical productions by Jim Neu, Gary Indiana, Ray Dobbins, Charles Alcroft, and Bette Bloolips, and experimental films by Scott and Beth B, Jacob Burckhardt, Jim Jarmusch, Gary Goldberg, Amos Poe, Stuart Sherman, and Robert Frank. As Rice continued acting, he showed his work at the Brooklyn Terminal Arts Show in 1983 and began receiving recognition for his paintings. His last art show, The View from 13 East 3rd, was at the Mitchell Algus Gallery last fall in Chelsea. During a period of 20 years Rice helped scholar Ulla E. Dydo sift through original notebooks by Gertrude Stein to compile A Stein Reader, (1993), and Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923-1934, (2003). He has also spent several years researching the making of Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon and portrait of Gertrude Stein. Sara Bovi (Nightclub Dancer) is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College and holds a BFA in dance. She has performed professionally as a dancer with L'Oreal, Alpha Omega Dance Theater, the 13th Street Repertory Theater Company, and is currently performing in “Jubilee!” in Las Vegas. She is also the Administrative Director and co-founder of Breathless Entertainment. James Tigger! Ferguson (Basil Conners Jr.)
is an actor/dancer/stripper/librarian who has performed in NYC and abroad for 17 years: stripping-dancing from Austria to Australia w/Penny Arcade; touring the Bible Belt in a pink Sodomobile w/Michael Moore for "The Awful Truth;" also worked with Quentin Crisp, Marianne Faithfull, Karen Finley, Taylor Mead, Annie Sprinkle. As Tigger! he is one of the pioneers of the New Burlesque and has been New York's premier Boylesque Stripper for over 8 years. He can currently be heard in a brief spot on NPR. Call 212.802.TIGG Bret Flute (flute-musician/DJ/producer)
Armed with a flute, various saxes, and a bunch of fun percussion, Mimi Gross (Betty Mae West)
is a painter, sculptor, graphic, set & costume designer, sometimes teacher, and occasional cameo film actress, having appeared in movies by: Jacob Burckhardt, Rudy Burckhardt, George Kuchar, and Mike Kuchar. Collaborated with Red Grooms on various Ruckus films from 1960-1976. She is represented by Salander O'Reilly Gallery, NYC. George Kuchar (Hotel Desk Clerk # 1)
I was born with a twin brother, Mike, in 1942 on the Isle of Manhattan. We mainly grew up in the Bronx and were schooled in the world of commercial art. I supported myself, and my hobby of making 8mm movies, with paychecks from that Midtown Manhattan world of angst and ulcers. Earning enough money to switch to 16mm in the 1960s (1965), both of us started splicing together bigger strips of film and lugging around heavier projectors. The burgeoning underground film movement, which at that time was in full swing, gave us an outlet for our work and we continued grinding out our separate visions on celluloid. Kimberly Lewis (Tapioca)
Born and raised in Albany, NY Kimberly knew early on her dreams were too big for a small town (even if it is the state's capital). Legendary hotelier Ian Schraeger recruited Kimberly to open the Paramount one his many Meghan Love (Rhonda Fonda)
Meghan is an actor and a writer and appeared in many independent films and plays around the country. She had the lead in an Emmy winning film entitled Goiterboy. Since then she has worked regionally and locally with such companies as San Francisco Shakespeare, The Barter Theatre, Clubbed Thumb and Todo Con Nada. She has also had two of her own plays produced here on the New York stage
Claudia Koeze is a native New Yorker. Has studied acting under many of this city's most interesting and accredited teachers. Has mostly exprience doing off and off-off Broadway shows. Besides that, she does some painting and some songwriting. Listen to the new album 'Click Clack' on SPV records by Chris Spedding to hear two of her recent songs. She thanks Royston. Mariana Newhard (Mai – Fun)
Mariana would like to apologize to the Filipino community for her portrayal of Mai Fun. She would like her Filipino brethren and sistren to know she fought for the character to be named Pancit (as the dish is called in Filipino) Fun but they just wouldn’t go for it. She hopes they understand we have to pick and choose our battles and that under the circumstances she couldn’t give up such a plum (as in sauce) part. Pancit’s, I mean Mariana’s other film/TV work includes The Wanderlust Room with Pentothal Productions, Truck N’Roll with New Galena Films, and the Pilot, New York Verite. Most recently she has worked with filmmaker Douglas Buck on a project for Voice in the Head productions. She has also worked extensively in New York Theatre and is artistic director of NascentWorks whose mission is to stimulate, engage and encourage new work for the theatre. Megan Pearson (Vivian Conners Jr.)
When not working at Lips, she can be found at any number of karaoke clubs in Chinatown, though she prefers Miss Whinny's, and on The Maury Povich "Is it a Man or Is It a Woman" episodes. Much love and other special favors to Royston and Jacob, without those two hunks Ms. Pearson would still be slinging guacamole at Tortilla Flats, kiss kiss boys. Armen Ra (Hotel Desk Clerk #2)
Actor/tress, Thereminist, Model. "Her legendary beauty is surpassed only by her legendary ego". Marc Ribot (musician/composer)
In 1978, Marc Ribot crossed the river from New Jersey to New York City, where he served as sideman for such musicians as jazz organist Jack McDuff and legendary soul shouter Wilson Pickett. He joined the Lounge Lizards Amalia Rosa (Choreographer/Dancer)
Amalia is a native New Yorker. As professional dancer and actor Amalia has peformed and worked with Forces of Nature, Urban Ballet Theatre, Arts for Humanity, Ujiima Theatre, The Aquila Theatre, Alvin Ailey and a host of choreographers including Bernard Jackson. Amalia is also a Ballet and musical theater instructor at Ballet Arts of Forest Hills. This is Amalia's choreographic debut! Jenny Weaver – (Tap Dancer)
Jenny has been training for this film most of her life. She grew up attending daily screenings of "Singing in the Rain" and tapping her happy little feet in the hopes that one day she too would flap it up on the big screen. Debbie Renolds watch out! |
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