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MF GHOST
2023
Japan adopts self-driving electric automobiles and renders most gas engines obsolete by 202X. The fastest cars find new life in the MFG, a racing circuit held on Japanese motorways. Drivers from around the world race for a shot at the title. Kanata Rivington returns from Britain to Japan for the MFG—and to find his father. Can he win the title and find answers? Buckle up and push it to the limit!
Jenna Stern
Cast · Known for 16 Blocks
Jenna Louise Stern (born September 23, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress. Member of an artist family, Stern is the daughter of actor/producer Tom Stern and Academy award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actress Samantha Eggar. Her brother, Nicolas Stern, is a producer for film and television. She married actor Brennan Brown in 1998, and they live in Brooklyn, New York. Stern graduated from the U.C. Berkeley with a B.A. and received her M.F.A. from NYU Graduate School. Credits include: Broadway: The Elephant Man Off-Broadway includes: Francine Volpe’s Late Fragment at Studio Dante, Amy Fox’s Summer Cyclone at EST, Erin Cressida Wilson’s Hurricane at CSC, Kate Robin's Intrigue With Faye at NY Stage and Film and David Auburn’s Skyscraper at Greenwich House Theater. Regional theatre includes: Hedda Gabler(Dallas Theater Center) Closer(Alley Theater) Othello (Portland Stage) and Love’s Labours Lost(NJShakespeare). Film: The Hungry Ghosts, 16 Blocks , Hitch, Random Hearts , The Eden Myth, Wirey Spindel, Picture Perfect and The Red Right Hand. Television: Canterbury’s Law, Gossip Girl, The Sopranos, Law and Order (s), Six Degrees, The Jury, Queens Supreme, HBO’s Baseball Wives, the ABC mini-series Widows, Spin City and The Larry Sanders Show.
Akihito Ikemoto
Producer · Known for Classroom of the Elite, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-
Akihito Ikemoto (池本 昌仁, Ikemoto Akihito) is a Japanese light novel editor and anime producer working for Kadokawa's MF Bunko J publishing department, where he has served as deputy editor-in-chief on such works as Machine Doll wa Kizutsukan, Hoshikoku no Ryuukishi, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, and Classroom of the Elite.
Jon Corzine
Jon Stevens Corzine (born January 1, 1947) is an American financial executive and retired politician who served as a United States Senator from New Jersey from 2001 to 2006, and the 54th governor of New Jersey from 2006 to 2010. Corzine ran for a second term as governor but lost to Republican Chris Christie. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously worked at Goldman Sachs; after leaving politics, he was CEO of MF Global from 2010 until its collapse in 2011.
Amanda Lund
Amanda Lund was born on May 11, 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Goosebumps (2015), Someone Marry Barry (2014) and Untitled MF 6: Bring the Rukus (2011). She has been married to Matt Gourley since May 6, 2017. They have one child.
M.F. Bernier
Johnny M. Wu
Johnny M. Wu grew up in Queens, NY. He plays Dr. Randall Shentu, the hospital's Chief Compliance Officer on NBC's Chicago Med. Johnny recently worked with Denzel Washington and Michael B. Jordan in the film A Journal For Jordan. Johnny has also guest-starred on several shows including New Amsterdam, Manifest, Elementary, High Maintenance, Blue Bloods and has recurred on The Good Wife, Law & Order: SVU and 24. He also has a passion for live performance and has done plays on Broadway, at Lincoln Center, and across the country. Johnny tries to do one great play a year. Johnny has an M.F.A. in Acting from UC San Diego and is on faculty at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University where he teaches the final year MFA's.
Edward Brence
Edward Brence is an actor originally from Maryland. He received his training at the Actors Studio Drama School where he earned an M.F.A. in Acting. Edward has since gone on to appear in several roles both on onstage and in front of the camera. Most recently, he has portrayed Jasper in season one of the Apple TV+ show Severance (2022), DJ Stretch Armstrong in season two of Hulu's Wu-Tang: An American Saga (2019), and Thief in season one of the Paramount+ show Lioness (2023). While at the Actors Studio Drama School, home of the acclaimed Inside the Actors Studio, Edward has had the privilege of attending master classes hosted by James Lipton, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jessica Chastain, HBO's cast of Girls, Viola Davis, Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Wiig, Ted Danson, Bradley Cooper, Alec Baldwin, Jane Lynch, David Oyelowo, Henry Winkler, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, James Burrows, Kelsey Grammer, Ellen Burstyn, and Al Pacino.
Jeremy Shamos
Cast · Known for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), Disclosure Day
Jeremy Shamos (born February 22, 1970) is an American actor. Shamos was born in New York City but raised in Denver, Colorado. He has a M.F.A. from New York University. Shamos is a character actor. His most notable roles are Craig Kettleman on Better Call Saul, Johanes Karlsen in Nurse Jackie, and Ralph in the film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Shamos is also a stage actor, starring in productions including Steve Martin's Meteor Shower, Clybourne Park for which Shamos was nominated for a Tony Award, The Qualms, The Assembled Parties, Dinner with Friends, 100 Saints You Should Know, and Elling.
Alma Cuervo
Alma Cuervo is an American stage actress and singer, who has also performed in film and television. She holds an M.F.A. in acting from the Yale School of Drama, from which she graduated in 1976 alongside Meryl Streep. She starred in the role of Madame Morrible in the first national tour of Wicked.
Ana Ularu
Cast · Known for Has Fallen
Ana Ularu is a Romanian born actor and director. She began acting at the age of 9 in French productions like "Meurtres par procuration" and "Passion Mortelle". Since graduating with a B.A. and M.F.A. in Acting from the National University of Theatre and Film "I.L.Caragiale" (UNATC) in Bucharest, she has appeared in more than 50 short films, TV films, TV series and feature films. She is also an award winning theatre actress, appearing at the moment in 4 productions in her native Bucharest.. She acted in local films by Romanian New Wave directors like Cãlin Peter Netzer, Cristian Mungiu and Radu Muntean, but also in international productions by Academy Award winners Francis Ford Coppola, Susanne Bier and Ron Howard. In 2010, Ana received the 'Boccalino d'Oro' in Locarno and the 'Best Actress' award at the Thessaloniki Film Festival , as well as the "Best Actress Award" at the "Cinema City" Festival In Novi Sad for her portrayal of Matilda in Outbound (2010). She plays the Wicked Witch of the West in the NBC TV series Emerald City (2016). She starred in Siberia alongside Keanu Reeves. She now plays Eva Stellenbosch in the Amazon series Alex Rider and will be seen next in the Netflix production Tribes of Europa.
Ana Reeder
Cast · Known for No Country for Old Men
Ana Reeder (born Julianna Ananda Reeder in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and costume designer whose exact birthday is not publicly confirmed in major sources. She earned a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.F.A. from New York University, and is a member of The Actors Center in NYC. She won Best Actress at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actress for Acts of Worship (2001), and has won an Obie Award for her stage work. She is married to actor Rob Campbell (since November 30, 2013) and they have one child. Her most notable film credits include Alix in Acts of Worship (2001), Poolside Woman in No Country for Old Men (2007, directed by the Coen Brothers, 93% on Rotten Tomatoes), Margo in The Locksmith (2010), and Connie in One for the Money (2012, with Katherine Heigl). On television she is best known as Carol Tobin in Damages (2010, 5 episodes, with Glenn Close and Rose Byrne), Lynn Mills in You Don't Know Jack (2010), Kaylee in The Affair (2017), Louise Kendrick in Blue Bloods (2015), and Lynn in Lost Girls (2020, with Amy Ryan and Sarah Wisser). On stage she has appeared on Broadway in Top Girls, The Big Knife, and Radiance, and played Shari in Neil LaBute's The Distance From Here at the Almeida Theatre in London (with Amy Ryan and Jason Ritter).
Andrew Rein
Andrew Rein is an American stage, screen and television actor based in New York. He holds a B.A. in Drama from Duke University and a M.F.A. from the American Conservatory Theater’s Advanced Training Program.
Dan Daily
American Dan Daily was trained by the late Robert L. Hobbs in the Professional Actor Training Program at The University of Washington, where he earned an M.F.A., and earned a B.A. from The University of Notre Dame where he was mentored by Dr. Reginald Bain, and Frederic Syburg. He has taught and directed at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy for twenty years.
Brian McEleney
Brian McEleney is an Actor of both theatre and film. A graduate of Trinity College and the Yale School of Drama, he is founding director of the Brown University/Trinity Rep M.F.A. Acting Program. He has acted in over 75 plays, including An Iliad, King Lear, Richard II, Richard III, Julius Caesar, The Glass Menagerie, …Edgar Allan Poe, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Odd Couple, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Cider House Rules, Angels in America, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Threepenny Opera, Cherry Orchard, Amadeus. Director: Over 25 productions as Trinity Rep Associate Director, including Death of a Salesman, To Kill a Mockingbird, Blues for Mister Charlie, Ivanov, The Grapes of Wrath, House & Garden, Absurd Person Singular, The Crucible, Twelfth Night, The Dreams of Antigone, A Raisin in the Sun, All the King’s Men, Our Town, Hamlet, Measure for Measure.
Gregory Scott Cummins
Cast · Known for Bosch, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Batman Returns
Gregory Scott Cummins is an American character actor known for his recurring roles in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Bosch. Gregory grew up in Orinda, CA (East Bay Area in Northern CA). In 1985, after receiving his M.F.A. in Acting from U.C.L.A., and many years performing in theatre, Greg began his Television and Film career. He has performed lead, supporting lead, and supporting roles in many feature films and lead and guest starring roles in even more T.V. episodics, sitcoms, & network and cable movies. He is best known for playing heavies but he has performed in many comedic and dramatic roles. Greg took drama classes as an undergrad while attending Cal-Berkeley (where he eventually received his B.A. in Theatre Arts) and the University of Hawaii. At both Universities Greg was also on a football scholarship as the starting punter for California (U.C. Berkeley, (1974 & 1975 seasons) and the University of Hawaii, (1977 & 1978 seasons) leading the nation in multiple punting categories in his final two years at U. of Hawaii. Greg then turned down a contract to play for the NFL'S Green Bay Packers and signed the following year with The San Diego Chargers where he was released due to injury. Greg also teaches acting when his schedule permits. Greg is in his 35th year as a professional actor in the Entertainment industry and continues to shine on screen.
Jaffar Mahmood
Director · Known for Young Sheldon
Jaffar Mahmood [Jah-fur Ma-mood] was born and raised in Toms River, New Jersey. He received his B.A. in Economics from Tufts University and his M.F.A. from The Peter Stark Producing Program USC. The issues Jaffar faced growing up bi-racial became the inspiration for his feature directorial debut, Shades of Ray. Executive produced by Jake Kasdan (New Girl), the independent film stars Zachary Levi (Chuck) and won awards at film festivals around the world. In 2013, Jaffar was a member of the inaugural Warner Bros. Directors’ Workshop. From there he directed/created Courtside, a short comedic web series that got the attention of executives at HBO. They invited Jaffar to shadow on the HBO comedy The Brink. In late 2014, Jaffar booked his first network television directing gig—NBC’s About a Boy.
Bryan Manley Davis
An Amarillo, TX native, Bryan Manley Davis found his passion for acting after an injury his senior year of high school put him on the sidelines. Graduating from West Texas A&M University, Bryan moved to Washington DC to pursue his M.F.A. in Acting at The Catholic University of America and upon completion was accepted as an Acting Apprentice at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. While theatre remained a passion, Bryan turned his focus to Film and Television and moved to New York City.
Jason Sussberg
Jason Sussberg is a documentary filmmaker focusing on the art and humanity in STEM. He started his career working in sports television as a producer/editor for the San Francisco Giants and the Golden State Warriors. After receiving a M.F.A. at Stanford University, he and fellow director David Alvarado founded Structure Films, a science storytelling production company. They directed and produced The IMMORTALISTS (2014), a film about two scientists trying to find the cure for aging; and BILL NYE: SCIENCE GUY, a film about a science educator and his quest to change the world with science.
Daniel Hugh Kelly
The middle of five children. His father was a police officer/detective and his mother was a social worker. He received his B.A. from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania and pursued his M.F.A. on a full scholarship at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Kelly has appeared in numerous off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway productions, primarily at the Public Theater and the Second Stage. A product of regional national theater, he has been a company member of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Folger Theater, Arena Stage, and the Actors Theater of Louisville among others. He toured with the National Players, the oldest classical touring company in the United States. He starred on Broadway as Brick opposite Kathleen Turner in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", and as Paul Verrall opposite Madeline Kahn in "Born Yesterday". In 2003, he appeared at the Mark Taper Theater Forum, originating the role of Richard in "Living Out" by Lisa Loomer.
Jody Flader
Jody Flader is an American actress,voice actress and singer. From the age of nine, she was heavily involved in community and semi-professional theater in the Washington, D.C. area, at venues such as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She earned her B.A. from Harvard University and went on to earn an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco before settling in New York City, where she made her Off-Broadway debut as the lead in the Vineyard Theater's quirky production,"The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island," to rave reviews. She continues to do theater in New York as well as pursuing roles in film & television, and maintaining a thriving commercial career. She assumed the role of narrator for Oxygen's true-crime series Snapped, after long-time narrator and producer Sharon Martin left the series in 2018.
Marilee Talkington
Marilee Talkington (she/they) is an award winning actor, artist, writer, director, creator, educator, consultant, disability advocate and activist. She holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) and received the Carol Channing Trouper Award for Excellence and Dedication in the Craft upon graduation. Marilee has been advocating for herself for nearly 20 years as a disabled performer and began advocating for the blind/low vision and disabled community on the national level in 2018. In 2019 she founded Access Acting Academy, a 1st-of-its-kind actor studio specifically for blind and low vision actors, for which she innovated a leading-edge pedagogical approach to actor training rooted in her Anti-Ableist and Non-Visually Biased teachings.
Peter Cambor
Cast · Known for NCIS: Los Angeles
Peter was born in Houston, TX. He attended college at Wesleyan University in Connecticut where he received a B.A. in English. Peter then moved to New York to pursue a career in acting. After two years in New York, he was accepted by The American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and the Moscow Art Theatre, where he received an M.F.A in Acting. Shortly after receiving his M.F.A., Peter was cast in the Mark Taper Forum's production of The Cherry Orchard starring Annette Bening and Alfred Molina in 2006. During the production, a producer asked him to come and audition for the pilot of ABC's Notes from the Underbelly, in which he was cast starring opposite Jennifer Westfeldt. The series was picked up that summer, and ran on ABC for two seasons. Peter was next cast in CBS's drama NCIS:Los Angeles as Operations Psychologist Nate Getz. He still appears as Nate as a recurring cast member. Peter recently starred in the TBS comedy Wedding Band which aired in the fall of 2012. He just wrapped up shooting the NBC pilot Assistance starring Krysten Ritter, Alfred Molina, Zach Cregger, and Vinette Robinson.
Greg Kean
Gregory Kean Williams (born September 27, 1962) is a Canadian television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Clancy Lass in the television series Dead Like Me. Kean was born in Oshawa, Ontario, the son of Dorothy and Rex Williams. He earned an M.F.A. from Cornell University. His first acting role was either a dancing rabbit named "Nibbles" in a grade 5 presentation of the operetta "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" or as another bunny in an Easter play both at Adelaide McLaughlin Public School in Oshawa, Ontario in 1973. As a stage actor, Greg has been a resident company member of the Alley Theatre in Houston Texas. He also has worked with the Los Angeles Theater Centre and the New Mexico Rep as well as the first Actor's Equity Association sanctioned production of Tony and Tina's Wedding in Los Angeles. Greg is also an acting teacher and one of the owners of the William Davis Centre for Actors Study in Vancouver, British Columbia along with Dead Like Me colleague Christine Willes. Mr. Kean is currently teaching drama at South Pointe Academy, a private school located in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, Canada. Description above from the Wikipedia article Greg Kean, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.