CAST

Tre

 

DANIEL CARIAGA

Kakela

 

KIMBERLY-ROSE WOLTER

Gabriel

 

ERIK MCDOWELL

Nina

 

ALIX KOROMZAY

Lyle

 

TEDDY CHEN CULVER

Rick

 

ERIK HACKETT

Tre’s Mom

 

JACKIE O’BRIAN

 

ABOUT THE CAST

 


 

 

KIMBERLY-ROSE WOLTER – “Kakela”

Kimberly-Rose Wolter is the co-Artistic Director of VS. Theatre Company in Los Angeles, an award-winning company dedicated to producing original works and West Coast Premieres.  Kimberly is currently playing Sheila in Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley’s Beggars in the House of Plenty. Prior VS. productions include Liv in Navy Pier and Amelia in The Credeaux Canvas.  She also produced the American premiere of Modern Dance for Beginners garnering Critic’s Pick in the LA Weekly.

While at the University of Hawaii, Kimberly played the Eurasian heroine, Sadako Kitabayashi in the world premiere of Velina Hasu Houston's Cultivated Lives (later renamed Ikebana). As a member of La Halau Hanakeaka, a theater company committed to producing new Hawaiian language plays, she performed in Kaluaiko'olau, the first stage production to be performed in Hawaiian since the overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy in 1893. Kimberly graduated Magna Cum Laude from The School of Theater at the University of Southern California.

Film credits include Eric Byler's short KEALOHA and his feature, CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES.  Additional theater credits include Carol in David Mamet's Oleanna, Desdemona in Goodnight Desdemona, Goodmorning Juliet, Jennifer in Night Sky performed at the Odyssey Theatre, Molly in The Mouse Trap at Conejo Players, and Donna in Hurly Burly at Theatre.

 

DANIEL CARIAGA – “Tre”

Daniel Cariaga began acting and writing plays in 1997.  His full-length plays include: Wasted, Sensitivity Training forMen, and Sleepwalk, which was a finalist for the PEN USA West Literary Award in 2001 and was produced by Playwrights Arena in association with A.S.K. Theatre Projects in Los Angeles.  Daniel was also a Playwrights Center Jerome Fellow for 2000-2001. His acting credits include plays: Two Sisters and a Piano by Nilo Cruz, Abraham Lincoln’s Dog  by Julie Hebert, Leon & Clark by Lucy J. Kim; television (“Crimestrike”); industrial films (“Home Savings”; “New Horizons”); film (SIGN OF THE CROSS;  JUST SHOOT). He has also worked with East West Players, Moving Arts Theatre Company, and A.S.K. Theatre Projects. 

ALIX KOROMZAY – “Nina”

Born and raised in Washington DC, Alix won her first award in regional theater at sixteen. After moving to New York, she studied at Circle in the Square. Since relocating to Los Angeles, Alix has worked steadily in television and film.  She's been sliced and diced in horrors, walked many a street in episodics, flashed police IDs, pulled out pistols, sat in courtrooms and laid in hospital beds - dying, recovering, birthing - she's begged for, done, and died of heroin. Chameleon-like, Alix is barely recognizable from role to role, her work continues to win critical recognition.  Her feature credits include BLOOD WORK, THE HAUNTING, MIMIC and MIMIC2, NIGHTWATCH, CHILDREN OF THE CORN 666, NETWORTH, THE PORNOGRAPHER, and KINDERGARTEN COP.

ERIK MCDOWELL – “Gabe”

Over the past six months Erik McDowell has portrayed a filmmaker dying of bone cancer, a lover betrayed by those closest to him and a young man suffering from AIDS.  “Gabe” in TRE marks his second starring role in a feature following the independent film IN MEMORIAM, directed by Amanda Gusack, which just premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Erik began his career on the New York stage where he quickly segued into film, starring in such independent shorts as the award winning SO,WHAT DO YOU THINK? directed by Darren Goldberg.

He has since relocated to Los Angeles where he continues to build his film and television repertoire, first as a guest star on "Cold Case," and on subsequent award-winning independents such as "WIDE AWAKE IN NOTHING directed by Paul Lingas.

Erik is managed by David Guc and Lil Laouri of Vanguard Management.