Anthony Grippa, Co-Writer/Director  Running Funny is the 25 year old filmmaker's first feature film. His plays, The Marriage Technique and Graduates Synonymous, have had staged readings at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the DeBaun Center for the Performing Arts in Hoboken, New Jersey, and at The Actors Chapel in New York City among others. Anthony started making short films in high school using borrowed equipment and his friends as actors. He is a graduate of Rutgers University with a degree in History and performs improv regularly at The People's Improv Theater in New York. He currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey where he is developing his next feature.

www.thepit-nyc.com (The People's Improv Theater)

Matt Christensen, Producer  Matt first took an interest in film after completing his course-work toward a Creative Writing and English degree at UCLA and crashing a few screenwriting courses. He went on to work in Los Angeles as an assistant to Writer/Producer Chris Brancato, helping to manage the writer’s office for Brancato’s ground-breaking (single, 66-episode order) Sci-Fi channel series, “First Wave.”

Matt moved to New York City to attend Columbia Unversity’s MFA Film program. At Columbia, he wrote multiple screenplays and produced numerous short films while working toward an MFA in screenwriting. After graudating from Columbia, he worked as a Post Production Producer for the Tenafly Film Company’s 2004 Sundance selection, “Second Best” starring Joe Pantoliano and Jennifer Tilly.

Matt lives and works as a writer and producer in New York City. His most recent projects include “The ArtFusion Experiment,” a documentary featuring world famous artist and tattoo masters Paul Booth and Filip Leu. Currently he is in preproduction on writer/director Eric Weber’s latest film, “Church and State.”

Charles Evered, Co-Writer Charles took his undergraduate degree from Rutgers and a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Yale University, where he studied with George Roy Hill. He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan commission at The Manhattan Theatre Club, The Crawford Playwriting Award, The Edward Albee/William Flanagan Fellowship, The Bert Linder Fellowship at The Millay Colony, The Lucas Artist Fellowship at Villa Montalvo, the $15,000 Berrilla Kerr Award and the $20,000 Amblin/Chesterfield Writing Fellowship. Mr. Evered’s published plays include: The Size of the World and Other Plays, Billings/Morris, 1997, The Shoreham and Other Plays, Whitman Press, 2002, WILDERNESS OF MIRRORS, Broadway Play Publishing, 2004, CLOUDS HILL, Broadway Play Publishing, 2005, CELADINE, Broadway Play Publishing, 2005, Adopt A Sailor, 2006, selected monologues in "Audition Arsenal", Smith and Kraus, 2006 and selected monologues in Smith and Kraus's The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2005 and The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 2005, Smith and Kraus, 2006. Other plays include Ted’s Head, (2005 Heideman Award Finalist), Boston, Looking Again and Adopt a Sailor. His work has been featured in The New York Times, NBC’s Weekend Today Show, Sports Illustrated, BBC World, NPR, and ESPN’S "Cold Pizza." He has taught at Rider University, Carnegie Mellon University and at The University of California's new Palm Desert Graduate Center in Palm Desert, CA.

Mr. Evered has written screenplays for Dreamworks, Universal and Paramount Pictures among others and collaborated with Liev Schreiber on the screenplay adaptation of his play "The Size of the World." Produced works for TV and film include the adaptation of his play "Running Funny," co-written with Anthony Grippa and produced by InvisiFilm as well as an episode of the hit USA Network series "Monk," starring Emmy winner Tony Shaloub. Currently, Mr. Evered is writing an original half hour pilot for NBC. He is married to the actress Wendy Rolfe Evered. They have two children and live in California and Princeton, New Jersey.

www.charlesevered.com