CAST

SUNAH BILSTED (Stella)
Sunah Bilsted, a graduate of the prestigious H.S. of the Performing Arts, is Canadian born and New York City raised and she currently resides in Los Angeles. She most recently starred on NBC’s “The Office” and ABC’s “What About Brian.” TV credits also include “Wanted,” “Alias,” “Jack and Jill” and “The Jamie Kennedy Experiment.” She is proud to be an IO West alumni and a regular improv performer at their Los Angeles Theater. She has also received training at The Groundlings, The Upright Citizens Brigade, Austin Pendleton in NY, Bobbi Shaw Chance in LA and Syracuse University’s London Program. Some of her favorite theater credits include “The Vagina Monologues” and “Barefoot in the Park”. Sunah is also an active writer working on a variety of projects in both film and television.

SHARON EISMAN (Maya)
Sharon Eisman was born in Philadelphia and attended New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing. After her debut in HIGH LIFE, Sharon went on to work with the prestigous McCarter Theatre, and co-produced many works on the East cost. Sharon continues to act in theater and film, and works regularly on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live. She can also be heard all over the country as a voice over artist.

MAX FAUGNO (Bosco)
Max Faugno has been acting in the theatre since the age of 7 in his home town of New York City. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and has worked both in off and off off Broadway theater. His film credits include 'Back Road Diner'and the soon to be released 'Final Rinse' (Poly Vinyl Films), where he appeared with such notables as Sebastian Bach and Joey Ramone.

Max has appeared in numerous short films that have traveled the film festival circuit, and can be seen opposite Tova Feltcher in the upcoming Soap Opera 'Couch Confessions' for INEXTV.COM. Max has also appeared in several national television commercials.

PRISCILLA HOLBROOK (Melissa)
Priscilla Holbrook has many diverse New York theatre credits, with productions at P.S. 122, LaMama, E.T.C., the Kitchen, the Ontological, the Kraine, and countless others. She has worked with distinguished directors, including Reza Abdoh (Walker Arts Center, European tour), Pavol Liska, Kevin Cunningham, Edward Elefterion, Tony Torn, and Vera Beren. High Life is her first feature film. She is in a band with Peter Raucci and High Lifer Brit Till.

JAMES FORD (Benji)
James Ford regularly appears in independent theater and film in New York City. He is a member of the performance groups Six Characters and Synaesthetic Theatre. He has had tiny parts in many big films and big parts in many tiny films. This is Mr. Ford's second project with Lila Yomtoob, having appeared in her short film “Turbulence.” Mr. Ford has taught acting at the professional and university level.

SAM MARKS (Satchel)
Sam Marks, native New Yorker, has appeared at the Flea theater in Benten Kozo (OBIE) and Moon over the Caribees. Other New York stage credits include, Bony and Poot, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Einstein on the Beach, as well as a performance in his own play, Booty's Gift. Sam is currently a member of The Bat Theater Company, and is also working on a full length scipt. A writer, actor, and commercial performer, Sam has also appeared in the films Box Marley and One True Thing.

DOUGLAS PAULSON (Chris)
Douglas Paulson received his BFA-NYU; Playwrights Horizons Theater School (PHTS). Paulson has appeared in several plays by director Liz Swados, including Dusty in The Beloved Dearly, Dr. Von Vurst in Inside Out (both for Lincoln Center Institute) and Doug in Millennium Lounge (Linhardt Theater).

Other representative roles include Roderigo in Othello (Riverside, CA), Player in Act Without Words I (29th St. Rep), Chris in Turn (Greenwich St. Theater),Leopold in Tango Palace (Pelican Studio Theater), Mohammed in Berlin Berlin (The Flea, Dir. Lauren Costa), Anotoly in Chess (Linhardt Theater, Dir. David Bucknam). Douglas currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

MICHAEL WIENER (Sy)
Michael Wiener is a film and theater actor, performer and writer based in New York City. Recent film work includes the central role in “Other Way Round,” a feature adaptation of noted novelist Brian Pera's latest work and the title role in “Where's Joel Baum,” the narrative feature debut of acclaimed documentarian Pearl Gluck ("Divan"). Michael is involved in several dance theater collaborations debuting recently, and has regularly worked with Obie winning directors, appearing at such venues as The Kitchen, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, and St. Ann's Warehouse. He is vocalist and lyricist for The Children, a multimedia music collaboration with former core members of Cop Shoot Cop and Swans, debuting with a residency at Monkeytown (NYC).

CREW

LILA YOMTOOB (Director/Producer)
February 2007

Lila Yomtoob is an aging young upstart. She started making video at age 16. Needless to say, she persisted.

At the tender age of 25, Lila directed her first feature film, "High Life," which premiered at San Francisco Indiefest in 2005. Variety called "High Life " "perfectly honed" and "razor sharp."

In 2006, she received an Emmy Award for sound editing on the HBO documentary "Baghdad ER." Lila has been working in post production sound since 1999, and has had the pleasure of working on films such as “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” “The Man Who Wasn’t There,” “Door in the Floor,” “The Notorious Bettie Page,” and “Fur.”

In 2007, she was the first filmmaker invited to The San Mateo Video Blogger Residencey, and sits on screening committees for film festivals.

Lila was born into a working class family in the mid seventies: a first generation American and the third of three children. Although Lila has yet to make work about her ethnicity, she insists that her worldview, sense of humor, and storytelling is influenced by her mix or Iranian, Iraqi, Jewish and American culture. She also thinks that writing about herself in third person is akin to an outer body experience.

Yomtoob continues to make short films until she is ready to unveil the script for her second feature, which is currently in the works. In her spare time, Ms. Yomtoob daydreams about starting an angora bunny farm.

She is a graduate of NYU film school. Her short films and other projects can be seen at www.ndsweatshops.com

ZOE DOLAN
(Associate Producer)

Zoe Dolan has worked as an intern for U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV and the Kings County District Attorney's Office. And, she has contracted for the W.H.O. and taught English in Cairo, Egypt, where she lived on a houseboat. Her experiences there inspired a play entitled Adrift On the Nile, which is currently in development for main stage production at The New Group Theater in New York City. She has also associate produced Off-Broadway and freelanced as a journalist. She is now at work on a handful of short stories and a novel.

Bryan Newman
(director of photography)

Bryan grew up in New York City and attended NYU?s Tisch School of the Arts film school, graduating in three years with high honors. There, he shot countless shorts and music videos as well as "Freedom Downtime," a feature length documentary that won an audience choice award at the New York International Independent Film Festival. Immediately after college, at the age of twenty-one, Bryan began shooting television commercials for clients such as Excite.com, TiVo, and The Partnership for a Drug Free America, and music videos for artists including Moby, Sparklehorse, and Lou Reed. He also continues to shoot narrative work with directors such as Alex Rockwell and Jordan Brady. Bryan now lives in Los Angeles and is represented by Innovative Artists.

Brit Till
(art director)

Brit Till is currently an advertising art director for Viagra. No, he doesn't get free samples. Yes, he is currently working on a feature screenplay.

DOUCE (Original Music)