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Delusion

2026

When her father's worsening dementia makes him a prime suspect in a murder case, a small-town school teacher races to uncover the truth amid dark rumors.

Julian Gavilanes

Julian Gavilanes is an actor, writer, filmmaker and podcaster based in NYC. He's appeared in hit shows like, Gotham, Mr. Robot, The Blacklist and The Other Two - just to name a few. And recently co-starred opposite Anne Hathaway in her critically acclaimed noir-thriller, "Eileen." Time Out Magazine listed him as, "Actors To Look Out For." And Lady Filmmaker's awarded him Best Actor for his portrayal of White Privilege in "DRIP." Julian explores his own artistic experience as well as many other guests on his podcast, "The Precipice of Delusion."

Jonathon Trent

Jonathon Trent, born June 5, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, is an American actor, best known for his role as Joey in the Allan Brocka drama, Boy Culture (2006). Trent's first acting role came in 2004 as Flynn in the movie, Delusion (2004). He followed that up with lead roles in the movies Screech, Miracle Dogs, Love Is the Drug, Pray for Morning and Boy Culture, among others. In 2006, Trent landed his first television role as Kyle in the American teen drama,  The O.C. (2003). Not long after, he guest-starred in various television series such as Dirt(2007), Cold Case (2003), and Cane (2007), just to name a few. Trent later appeared in the movies Making Change (2012) and Fashion Victim (2008).

The Eminence in Shadow

2022

Shadowbrokers are those who go unnoticed, posing as unremarkable people, when in truth, they control everything from behind the scenes. Sid wants to be someone just like that more than anything, and something as insignificant as boring reality isn’t going to get in his way! He trains in secret every single night, preparing for his eventual rise to power—only to be denied his destiny by a run-of-the-mill (yet deadly) traffic accident. But when he wakes up in a another world and suddenly finds himself at the head of an actual secret organization doing battle with evil in the shadows, he’ll finally get a chance to act out all of his delusional fantasies!

Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford's Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme. In 1982, he introduced into evolutionary biology an influential concept, presented in his book The Extended Phenotype, that the phenotypic effects of a gene are not necessarily limited to an organism's body, but can stretch far into the environment, including the bodies of other organisms. Dawkins is an atheist and humanist, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association and supporter of the Brights movement. He is well known for his criticism of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book The Blind Watchmaker, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. He has been referred to in the media as "Darwin's Rottweiler," a reference to English biologist T. H. Huxley, who was known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's evolutionary ideas. In his 2006 book The God Delusion, Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that religious faith is a delusion—a fixed false belief. As of January 2010, the English-language version had sold more than two million copies and had been translated into 31 languages, making it his most popular book to date.

Nigel Barber

Nigel is an American actor based in London England. He has worked as a professional actor and voice over artist since 1968, when he joined AEA. He is also a member of British Equity, SAG and AFTRA. Nigel has worked on stage (Drama and Musical Theatre) in Film, Television and Radio, as well as a Commercial Print and Voice Over artist. Nigel has just completed, 2014, shooting the features 'Firequake', playing the male lead 'Declan Glas' staring opposite Alexandra Paul, 'High Strung' a Michael Damian film, with Jane Seymour and Paul Freeman, as well as 'Lake Placid 5', playing the 'Mayor', directed by Stephan Faust. This year, 2014, Nigel appeared as 'Frank' in the world premier of 'A Hard Rain', directed by Tricia Thorns, for Above The Stag in London and was in the original cast of 'The Bodyguard -The Musical', at the Adelphi Theatre, West End, London. Nigel appeared as the lead, 'James Arthur Ray' in the world premier of 'Hearts On Fire', being short listed for best performance at the Edinburgh Festival. "The brilliant Nigel Barber as Ray speaks with a passionate, glazed-eyed delusion whose effects are frightening to behold" Broadway Baby. "Nigel Barber, believable, powerful and terrifying". US military service. American and British passport holder. Extensive Green Screen experience. Extensive Voice Over experience. Training: Certificate Program in Professional Acting, Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts. Advanced Acting Technique, The Actors Workshop - Los Angeles. Adler Technique - Level III, Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre - Los Angeles. Sal Dano Actors Workshop - Los Angeles. The Actors Centre - London. Nathan Osgood Actors Studio - London.

Lorraine Serabian

LORRAINE SERABIAN has had a long and varied career as a performer in non-musicals as well as musicals on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional and International Theatre, TV and Film. She studied extensively and exclusively with Uta Hagen and holds a degree in Theatre Arts from Hofstra University where she was honored with the George M. Estabrooke Award for Distinguished Service in the Arts, accompanied by a citation from the Congress of the United States. She created the role of The Leader on Broadway in Hal Prince’s ZORBA!, for which she received a Tony Award nomination and the Outer Critics Circle Award. (Ms. Serabian also received a Barrymore Award nomination for her performance in the revival.) She starred as Maria Callas in the tour of MASTER CLASS by Terrence McNally sponsored by Hofstra USA and NYSTI (The New York State Theater Institute). Other Broadway credits include CABARET (Hal Prince) and THE FLOWERING PEACH (National Actors Theater, directed by Martin Charnin.) She won the Helen Hayes Award for SHOW ME WHERE THE GOOD TIMES ARE and a Helen Hayes nomination for LUCKY STIFF. For many years Ms. Serabian divided her time between academia (Empire State College, SUNY) and her acting career. Sabbaticals took her to international and regional theaters stages, where she won critical raves for her performances as Mama Rose in GYPSY, INTO THE WOODS, A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM (Pioneer Theatre, Salt Lake City), ON THE TOWN (Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.), RUMORS (Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia), FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), 42ND ST. (Berlin, Germany), etc., etc. Her television credits include LAW AND ORDER: SVU, THE SOPRANOS, ALL MY CHILDREN, THE JIM GAFFIGAN SHOW, and Amy Poehler’s DIFFICULT PEOPLE. She directed 70 GIRLS 70 (Kander and Ebb) and moderated an evening with John Kander live at HB Studio’s HB Playwrights Theatre, MERCIFUL DELUSIONS — an evening of Tennessee Williams one act plays — at the Mile High Theater in Hoboken, Studio 54, and the HB Playwrights Theatre. Ms. Serabian will be directing a staged reading of Horton Foote’s A TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL in Spring 2022, and will restage MERCIFUL DELUSIONS, a presentation of Four One Act Plays by Tennessee Williams, at Theatre Row in November 2022.

Richard Paul

Cast · Known for Murder, She Wrote

Richard Paul (June 6, 1940 – December 25, 1998) was an American actor. He was able to imitate most American and many foreign dialects, though he had a tenor voice and trained with Lee Sweetland. Paul had a B.A. in public affairs from Claremont Men's College and an M.A. in psychology from California State University, Los Angeles. He was near completion of his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, but gave up his career as a therapist to become a full-time performer. Richard Paul was nicknamed "Pige Paul" by Slim Pickens while filming an episode of The Love Boat (1977) after local pigeons anointed a new suit jacket. In 1980 he guest starred in the ABC comedy 'One In A Million" which only aired for one season Richard was also a frequent panelist on Match Game in the 1980s. From 1977 to 1979 he portrayed Mayor Teddy Burnside in Carter Country, and later played the recurring character of Cabot Cove Mayor, Sam Booth, in Murder, She Wrote. He was cast as Dr. Bob Halyers in the "Clean Up Radio Everywhere" episode ofWKRP in Cincinnati (1978) because of his resemblance to Rev. Jerry Falwell. Paul played Falwell himself twice: once in Fall From Grace, a Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker TV movie made in 1990, and then in The People vs. Larry Flynt in 1996. Paul was in the cult classic film Eating Raoul (1982), written and directed byPaul Bartel. Also in 1982, he co-starred on the short-lived sitcom Herbie, the Love Bug. He also appeared in Bartel's short film, The Secret Cinema, a paranoid-delusional, fantasy masterpiece of self-referential cinema, which was part of theAmazing Stories series on television. Paul also appeared in Not for Publication, written and directed by Bartel. He volunteered with Actors and Others for Animals. He was on the Mental Health Advisory Board of Los Angeles County. He volunteered at childhood immunization clinics for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. He read books into tapes by special request at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles. He married Patty Oestereich in 1968 in Pasadena, California. They were married for 30 years until his death on Christmas day in 1998 at home in Studio City, California, due to cancer at age 58.

Michael Bryant

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Dennis Bryant (5 April 1928 – 25 April 2002) was a British stage and television actor. Bryant attended Battersea Grammar School and after service in the Merchant Navy and Army, he attended drama school and appeared in many productions on the London stage. He made his film debut in 1955. His greatest role was Mathieu in BBC2's 1970 adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's Roads to Freedom trilogy. His guest star appearance as Wing Commander Marsh, who feigns insanity in the 'Tweedledum' episode of the BBC drama series, Colditz (1972), is still widely remembered. Bryant was chosen by Orson Welles to play the lead role in The Deep, Welles's adaptation of the Charles Williams novel Dead Calm. The production frequently ran out of money, and following the death of actor Laurence Harvey in 1973, Welles stopped production and announced the movie - which had been completed except for one special effects shot of a ship exploding - would not be released. (The novel was finally adapted to film in 1989.) In 1969 Bryant took his love of the stage on a strange trip into the realm of cult films, playing a clever male prostitute who outwits a delusional family of killers in the dark comedy Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly, an adaptation of a play by Maisie Mosco. Due to poor marketing and a lack of faith in the film by the distributor, the film quickly sank into obscurity even before it could develop a cult following. One of Bryant's most memorable performances was in the classic BBC television play The Stone Tape (1972), in which he plays the leader of a team of scientists who investigate ghost sightings in a brooding gothic mansion. Bryant also had a supporting role as a sadistic psychiatrist in the cult classic black comedy The Ruling Class, with Peter O'Toole and Alastair Sim. He also appeared in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) as a British diplomat. Having played Lenin in the film Nicholas and Alexandria, Bryant would later reprise the role in Robert Bolt's play State of Revolution (1977). He had previously co-starred in Bolt's unsuccessful Gentle Jack. The 1977 production of a Bolt play though was significant for featuring the first role he performed at the National Theatre where he was a constant presence for a quarter of a century. Bryant, described by Michael Billington as "rock-solid company man", had earlier performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, including the premiere production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1965), in which he played Teddy, the returning academic. In 1980, Michael Bryant won the London Drama Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Actor, and his other theatrical performances were equally well thought of. Bryant won Laurence Olivier Awards in 1988 and 1990 and was nominated twice more. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Bryant (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia