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Parks and Recreation

2009

In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie Knope, a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana, takes on bureaucrats, cranky neighbors, and single-issue fanatics whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the democratic process she loves so much.

David Stanford

David Stanford is known for Parks and Recreation (2009), From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series (2014) and Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016).

Rachna Fruchbom

Rachna Fruchbom is a writer and producer, known for Parks and Recreation (2009-2015), Fresh Off the Boat (2015-2020), and Shrinking (2023-).

Christopher Lusti

Christopher Lusti is an actor and writer, known for Parks and Recreation (2009), Fresh Off the Boat (2015) and I'm Sorry (2017).

Clark Freeman

Clark Freeman is an actor and producer, known for We Go On (2016), NCIS: New Orleans (2014) and Parks and Recreation (2009).

Susan Yeagley

Susan Melinda Yeagley is an American actress best known for playing Jessica Wicks in Parks and Recreation. She married fellow actor Kevin Nealon on September 3, 2005 in Bellagio, Italy and gave birth to their first child, son Gable Ness Nealon, on January 29, 2007 in Santa Monica, California. She can also be seen as the God-loving prostitute Pillow in the Kerri Kenney-Silver "Dame Delilah" web series.

Blake Lee

Cast · Known for Shell

Blake Lee is an actor, known for Parks and Recreation (2009), Mixology (2013) and Wisdom of the Crowd (2017). He has been married to Ben Lewis since January 17, 2016.

Sydney Endicott

Sydney Endicott is an actress, known for Parks and Recreation (2009), Suburban Supernova (2019) and Kids vs Monsters (2015).

Helen Slayton-Hughes

Cast · Known for Little Big Awesome

Helen Slayton-Hughes was an actress and writer. She was best known for playing Ethel Beavers in Parks and Recreation.

Deirdre Wall

Deirdre was born and raised in Cumberland RI into Irish-Italian, military family. As a teen, she started acting in New England and when she won best monologue and best actress at "Talent America" offers from agents and managers lured her to NYC. She s spent four years falling in love with New York City while flexing her theater muscles studying at Fordham University in NYC where she double-majored in Theater and Psychology. Deirdre found herself in Los Angeles after an impromptu road-trip and quickly became involved with the Groundlings Improv Theater and The Steve Eastin Acting Studio. Deirdre found her first big break in Television when Sam Mendes held a casting call in NY and LA for two roles and cast her as both of them for his Directors Art Promo on HBO. Deirdre's has also made recent TV appearances on Parks and Recreation, E-Ring, several feature, indie and short films, voice-overs and commercials. Her most recent television appearances showcase her in extreme sketch scenarios, as a recurring character on Nick Swardson's Pretend Time on Comedy Central. In this show, she had the opportunity to really stretch her comedic repertoire whilst playing opposite many of todays comedy giants (such as Bob Odenkirk, Rob Riggle, Kevin Farley, Adam Scott ....to name just a few) in the sketches: Nanastall, Creepios, Masturbating Sniper and more. You can see Deirdre in theaters in SuperAthlete co-starring with Tony Sirico (Sopranos), Faran Tafir (Ironman) and Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future).She also just completed the psychological thriller,Coffin. After completing a small role in Stay With Me (winner of 9 international short film festivals) with Christina Ochoa, Deirdre became writing partners with Ochoa and joined QE Productions as producing partner. QE Productions has several projects in production. Deirdre is a big fan of the outdoors and lists a long history of hiking, camping, scuba diving, swimming and most recently completing the "Camino de Santiago" (a 30-day pilgrimage in the north of Spain) to her personal resume. She is also a former team member (and big fan) of the Los Angeles Dodgeball Society. Deirdre has taken several trips abroad to volunteer including her work with the Sisters of Charity in Calcutta, India and also working with several charities in Australia and New Zealand. She resides and works in Los Angeles.

Mara Marini

Mara Marini is a Canadian actress best known for her role as Brandi Maxxxx in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation. Marini was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. During her childhood, she avidly studied acting and dance. After high school, she relocated to Los Angeles where she continues to act and write.

Rachel Axler

Rachel Axler is an American screenwriter and playwright. In television, her credits include Childrens Hospital, How I Met Your Mother, The Goodwin Games, New Girl, Bored to Death, Parks and Recreation, Veep, and The Daily Show. Axler was born in Queens, New York. She graduated from Hunter College High School in 1995 and Williams College in 1999. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego, As a playwright her works include the plays Smudge and Archaeology. Axler has won four Primetime Emmy Awards. In 2006 and 2009, Axler won two Emmys for her work on The Daily Show as a part of the writing team. In 2016 and 2017, she won two Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series for her work as Supervising Producer on Veep. She was also nominated for, but did not win, an Emmy in 2007 for The Daily Show.

Wendey Stanzler

Director · Editor · Known for Arrow, Sex and the City

Wendey Stanzler is an American film editor and television director. She was co-editor and associate producer of Michael Moore's documentary Roger & Me, in 1989. She also co-edited Moore's only fiction film, Canadian Bacon (1993). Stanzler was hired as an editor for Sex and the City and went on to become a guest director during the final season of the series. Stanzler has also edited for the series, Ed and Now and Again and the romantic comedy film Gray Matters (2007), directed by Sue Kramer, starring Heather Graham, Tom Cavanagh and Bridget Moynahan. She has directed several episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, The Middle and Ugly Betty, all on ABC as well as The Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, Parks and Recreation among other series. Stanzler was producer and director on the first season of the CW series 90210 in 2008–2009. In 2011, she directed the pilot episode of the ABC Family series The Nine Lives of Chloe King. In 2015, she began directing episodes of You're the Worst in its second season and in the third season, she became a co-executive producer and directed the season's episodes with series creator Stephen Falk. She won the American Cinema Editors' Eddie Award twice: in 2004 for the Sex in the City episode "American Girl in Paris, part 2" and in 1990 for Roger & Me. In 2003 and 2004, Stanzler was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her editing work on Sex and the City. Stanzler won a Children’s & Family Emmy Award in 2022 for Outstanding Directing for a Single-Camera Program for the Mysterious Benedict Society.

Luke Colombero

Luke Colombero is an American actor, best known as his famous role on NBC's Parks and Recreation: "Naughty Kid #4."

Morgan Peter Brown

Morgan Peter Brown is an American actor and producer based in Los Angeles. He is a 2003 graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he earned a BFA in Acting, and has also trained at improv schools like The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB). Brown is known for his work in the horror and thriller genres. As an actor, he appeared in the films Absentia (2011), Ouija (2014), Contracted: Phase II (2015), and XX (2017). His television credits include roles on "New Girl," "Parks and Recreation," "Castle," "American Crime Story," and "Colin in Black & White." In addition to acting, he is a prolific producer, with credits on films such as Absentia (2011), All the Creatures Were Stirring (2018), Jakob's Wife (2021), Glorious (2022), and Suitable Flesh.

Gavin Macintosh

Gavin MacIntosh is an American actor and former Ford model originally from Tucson, Arizona. MacIntosh's break out performance as fan favorite Connor Stevens, on the hit ABC Family drama series The Fosters (2013), brought MacIntosh world-wide social media attention, both for his acting accolades as well as his social stance on equality. MacIntosh has other guest-starring appearances on Bones (2005), Raising Hope (2010) and Parks and Recreation (2009). Additional credits include the feature film American Fable (2016), Sanctioned to Die (2011), as well as more than a dozen indie films, including The Science of Death (2011) and Breathe (2011). He has also appeared in numerous national commercials and national ad campaigns.

Vida Ghaffari

Multi award-winning actress Vida Ghaffari was born and raised in the Washington DC metropolitan area. The daughter of a NASA scientist and an artist, Vida was infused with a diverse artistic and analytical upbringing. Vida graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park (UMCP) with a major in Economics (to please her strict Persian father) and minored in theatre and communication for her own artistic growth and expression. While at UMCP, Vida performed in a lot of improv shows at the school’s avant garde black box theatre and participated in a few plays. After college,she started training with a number of acting coaches and completed the full improv program at the prestigious Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB), which was created by Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) and some of her colleagues. At this time, she began acting in feature films and TV. This acting powerhouse landed a great co-starring role in Mindy Kaling's humorous and much buzzed about show The Mindy Project as well as ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. She has also starred in Comedy Central's Mind of Mencia. These projects cap off a number of successes for the versatile starlet. She recently featured Variety for her work in multi award-winning filmmaker Harley Wallen’s Abeyance opposite an impressive ensemble cast consisting of Scout Taylor-Compton, Richard Tyson, Billy Wirth, Mel Novak, Kaiti Wallen and Yan Birch. Vida played the role of the cunning and powerful, femme fatale scientist Nikita, which garnered her international coverage given the power of the story, the cast and Vida portraying a scientist like her famous father. Vida is also a frequent collaborator of filmmaker Dustin Ferguson, who has been awarded numerous awards for his innovative films. In the upcoming sci-fi thriller Robowoman, she was cast alongside a stellar ensemble cast consisting of Dawna Lee Heising, Brinke Stevens (Slumber Party Massacre), Mel Novak, Sue Price (Nemesis 5: The New Model), Gregory Blair and Peter Stickles. In this film, she once again played an educated medical researcher Hannah. She also worked played the badass, hold no prisoners role of Becky in Ferguson’s Horndog’s Beach Party opposite Lee Heising and Saved By the Bell’s Troy Fromin. She also starred in the pivotal role of school security guard Joan in Nation’s Fire with two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern, Gil Bellows, UFC fighter Chuck Liddell, Krista Grotte and many others. The ultimate horror scream queen, she then played the role of the possessed Hayley in Holy Terror opposite Kristine DeBell (Meatballs) and Mel Novak (Bruce Lee's Game of Death, Black Belt Jones). For her compelling performance in that film, she was billed as the “Persian Linda Blair” by prominent journalist Maurice Dwayne Smith. She also portrayed the role of serious reporter Sabrina Sanchez in noted filmmaker Romane Simon’s Hybristophilia alongside Quinton Aaron (the Blindside with Sandra Bullock). She also recently shot Levin Garbisch’s Miranda Veil, where she plays the touching role of Alice Veil, a concerned mother who may or may not be what she seems.

Michael Schur

Executive Producer · Director · Known for Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Hacks, Parks and Recreation

Michael Herbert Schur (born October 29, 1975) is an American television producer and writer, best known for his work on the NBC comedy series The Office and Parks and Recreation, the latter of which he co-created along with Greg Daniels. Schur is also known for his small role on The Office as Mose Schrute, the cousin of Dwight Schrute.

Joe Mande

Cast · Known for Modern Family

Joseph Mande is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor. He is known for his appearances on Parks and Recreation (2009), Modern Family (2009), The Good Place (2016), and Hacks (2021).

Kelly Bashar

Kelly Bashar was born in Florida. She is an actress and director, known for Fargo (2014), Parks and Recreation (2009) and Smallfoot (2018).

Jen Statsky

Writer · Known for Hacks

Jen Statsky (born November 19, 1985) is an American television writer and comedian known for her work on Hacks, The Good Place, Parks and Recreation, and Broad City. She is the co-creator and co-showrunner of the critically acclaimed HBO Max series Hacks, for which she has received multiple awards, including 3 Primetime Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and 3 WGA Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jen Statsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Rashida Jones

Cast · Writer · Known for Hexed, The Grinch, The Social Network

Rashida Leah Jones (born February 25, 1976) is an American actress, writer, and producer. She is known for starring as Ann Perkins on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation (2009–2015), for which she received critical acclaim. Jones appeared as Louisa Fenn on the Fox drama series Boston Public (2000–2002) and as Karen Filippelli on the acclaimed NBC comedy series The Office (2006–2011). From 2016 to 2019, Jones starred as the lead eponymous role in the TBS comedy series Angie Tribeca. Jones is also known for her roles in such films as I Love You, Man (2009), The Social Network (2010), Our Idiot Brother (2011), The Muppets (2011), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), which she co-wrote, and Tag (2018). Jones also co-wrote the story of Toy Story 4 (2019). As a filmmaker, she directed the first episode of Hot Girls Wanted, a series that focused on the sex industry. She was also executive producer of the series. In 2018, her documentary Quincy, about her father, Quincy Jones, debuted on Netflix; it won the Grammy Award for Best Music Film in 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rashida Jones, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Pamela Reed

Pamela Reed (born April 2, 1949) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her TV roles as Roberta Deeks on NCIS: LA, Marlene Griggs-Knope on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, matriarch Gail Green on Jericho, Judge Sydney J. Solomon on the sitcom The Home Court, Denise Lerner on the sitcom Family Album, Janice Pasetti on the sitcom Grand, Mary Welsh on the miniseries Hemingway, T.J. Cavanaugh on the miniseries Tanner '88, and Sandy Farrell on The Andros Targets. Her best known film roles are as Arnold Schwarzenegger's hypoglycemic partner Phoebe O'Hara in Kindergarten Cop, Judge Lambrey in Why Do Fools Fall in Love?, Alison Langley in Bean, Angela in Junior, Carol Cruise in Bob Roberts, Tina in Cadillac Man, Gigi Hightower in The Best of Times, Trudy Cooper in The Right Stuff, and Belle Starr in The Long Riders.

Jay Jackson

Cast · Known for Parks and Recreation, Scandal

Jay Jackson is an actor, known for Fast Five (2011), Battleship (2012) and Parks and Recreation (2009).