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Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is an American actor who has appeared in films, television series, and theatre. He portrayed D'Angelo Barksdale on the HBO drama series The Wire, a role which earned him critical acclaim. He is also known for his role as Bob Stookey in the AMC horror drama The Walking Dead.
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PATCH DARRAGH graduated with honors from Juilliard and began his career playing significant roles in award-winning new plays and revivals at many of the country's top regional theaters, as well our foremost theaters both on and off-Broadway. He has accrued an extensive list of TV credits, more recently on the award winning HBO series SUCCESSION on which he played WayStar Royco board member, Ray Kennedy from Season two to Season four. Patch also had notable arcs on LAW & ORDER: SVU, MR. MERCEDES, THE LOUDEST VOICE, THE PATH, LONGMIRE, BOARDWALK EMPIRE, TOMMY, KALEIDOSCOPE, & LONG BRIGHT RIVER. He's perhaps best known as the lovable Dad on the Netflix cult hit EVERYTHING SUCKS! on which he was a series regular.
On the film side, Patch can be seen in the Blumhouse features THE FIRST PURGE and CAM. He also starred in SULLY, THE VISIT, BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON, CABRINI, THE UNION, and THE APPRENTICE. In 2017, Darragh starred in THE DEPTHS, and won Best Supporting Actor at the Los Angeles Film Awards. Upcoming: major arcs on the series 56 DAYS (Amazon), and MURDAUGH (Hulu).
As a writer, Patch has developed three television pilots, including two with fellow Juilliard grad Erin Gann. Their horror thriller BIRTHRITE will be in theaters and available to stream later this summer, beginning August 8th.
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An unapologetically vulnerable pioneer, Jen Ponton (she/her) is a lighthouse, currently performing her solo show, Sugarcoated.
Best known for her work on AMC’s cult hit Dietland, she has also guest starred on Starz’ critical darling Three Women, The Blacklist, 30 Rock, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Deadbeat, Orange is the New Black, Blue Bloods, Boardwalk Empire, Law & Order: SVU, + The Good Wife.
Jen landed on the map of cinema when she starred in Ash Christian’s Love on the Run alongside Frances Fisher, Annaleigh Ashford, + Steve Howey. Other film credits include Rebecca Miller’s She Came to Me, and Todd Solondz’s Wiener-Dog opposite Greta Gerwig + Kieran Culkin.She also starred in Tessa Slovis’ deeply moving Pizza Party, based on the Larry Nassar trials, which finished its festival run at Geena Davis’ Bentonville Film Festival.
As a multi-hatted creator, Jen has written and produced a number of projects that make her heart sing. From TikTok horror film Caretaker, to Sundance Episodic Lab semifinalist Queens of Daytime, to her nostalgia-core puppet sitcom, to her TEDx Talk, to her podcast All The Fucks, Jen weaves radical queer stories with unexpected main character energy.