TOM
CAVANAGH as Eric McNally
Tom Cavanagh's breakthrough
performance as Ed Stevens on ED earned him a
Golden Globe nomination and the TV Guide Award for Favorite
Actor In A New Series.
Cavanagh followed the success of ED with the series LOVE MONKEY
(alongside Ben
Shenkman) and a recurring role on SCRUBS. Cavanagh’s recent
feature film work
includes the soon to be released THE CAKE EATERS and SUBLIME,
GREY
MATTERS, TWO WEEKS and the family hit HOW TO EAT FRIED WORMS.
The busy actor’s television credits include a recurring
role on NBC's
PROVIDENCE and the TV movie ANYA'S BELL. His feature film credits
include the
family drama NORTHERN LIGHTS (in which he played Diane Keaton's
brother), the
adventure MAGIC IN THE WATER and the action-thriller MASK OF
DEATH as well
as THE DUKES, HONEYMOON, MOVIN' ON UP and CAR 54. Cavanagh also
starred
in the cable movie, BANG, BANG, YOU'RE DEAD, about school violence
and based on
the award-winning play of the same name. The film recently took
the Top Audience
Award at the Nantucket Film Festival and runner-up for the Golden
Space Needle Award
at the Seattle International Film Festival.
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BEN
SHENKMAN as Sam Miller
Ben Shenkman appeared in HBO's ANGELS IN AMERICA, receiving
Golden
Globe and Emmy Award nominations. His recent feature film credits
include the soon to
be released AMERICANESE, as well as MUST LOVE DOGS with Diane
Lane and John
Cusack, and JUST LIKE HEAVEN with Reese Witherspoon and Mark
Ruffalo. Other
film appearances include PERSONAL VELOCITY, ROGER DODGER, REQUIEM
FOR A DREAM, JESUS' SON, and PI. Shenkman was seen by television
audiences as
recurring characters on LAW & ORDER, ED and LOVE MONKEY,
the latter two with
his BREAKFAST WITH SCOT co-star Tom Cavanagh.
Shenkman received a Tony Award nomination for his performance
in the
Broadway hit “Proof” opposite his ANGELS IN AMERICA
co-star Mary-Louise Parker,
and starred with Laura Linney last summer in “Sight Unseen”
on Broadway.
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NOAH
BERNETT as Scot
Noah Bernett’s first big break was in the feature film
GOTHIKA alongside Halle
Berry and Robert Downey Jr. Noah will next be seen in a principal
role in BURNING
MUSSOLINI. The young actor’s television movie credits
include LAST EXIT,
SUPERSTORM, FATAL TRUST, PRANK CONTROL and DR. BETHUNE. Noah
recently finished filming DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE and you will
be able to see him
in the upcoming TV Movie BINKY, where he plays Janeane Garofalo’s
nephew.
Noah now gets noticed on the big screen, has fun on real movie
sets and plays
violin in Montreal’s Junior String Orchestra. He also
likes inventing things, talking and
playing soccer, bike riding, rollerblading, skate boarding,
swimming, rock climbing,
snowboarding, chess, ping pong, and yes - hockey.
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JEANANNE
GOOSSEN as Nula
Newcomer
Jeananne Goossen is recognizable as series regular Courtney
True on
the hit FALCON BEACH. The Torontonian has also appeared in episodes
of RENT-AGOLIE and ANGELA’S EYES. BREAKFAST WITH SCOT
is Goossen’s first feature
film.
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MEGAN
FOLLOWS (Children’s Aid lawyer)
Megan Follows is immediately recognizable to audiences around
the world for
her starring role as the headstrong, redheaded orphan Anne Shirley
in the three,
internationally popular ANNE OF GREEN GABLES movies based on
L.M.
Montgomery’s beloved books. Follows’ performances
won her Gemini Awards as Best
Actress in the first two movies, plus a Best Actress Gemini
Award nomination in the
third. The first movie, ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, also won an Emmy
Award as Best
Children’s Movie. Her recent work includes the television
movie BOOKY MAKES HER
MARK as well as guest starring appearances on CROSSING JORDAN
and CSI:
MIAMI. Follows was nominated for another Gemini Award for the
CBC movie OPEN
HEART, also helmed by BREAKFAST WITH SCOT’s Laurie Lynd.
Follows’ feature work includes leading roles in Allan
King’s acclaimed
TERMINI STATION, for which she was nominated for a Genie Award
as Best Actress,
Stephen King’s SILVER BULLET, Gregory Nava’s A TIME
OF DESTINY, DEEP
SLEEP, and the independent Canadian film, RELUCTANT ANGEL. More
recently, she
has starred in CHRISTMAS CHILD and in A FOREIGN AFFAIR.
Follows guest-starring appearances on television include the
popular drama series,
CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION, ER, The X FILES, LAW & ORDER,
ROBSON ARMS, THE DIVISION, STRONG MEDICINE, THE FUGITIVE, MADE
IN
CANADA, and THE OUTER LIMITS. She was also a lead actor in the
series SECOND
CHANCES.
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SHEILA
McCARTHY (School principal)
A Genie Award-winner for the classic Canadian films I’VE
HEARD THE
MERMAIDS SINGING and THE LOTUS EATERS, McCarthy has appeared
in the
recent films BEING JULIA, CONFESSIONS OF A TEENAGE DRAMA QUEEN
and
THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW.
Currently a lead in CBC’s hit series LITTLE MOSQUE ON
THE PRAIRIE,
Sheila McCarthy shines on the screen and stage with many credits
including VIRTUAL
MOM and I WAS A RAT (both directed by BREAKFAST WITH SCOT’s
Laurie Lynd),
ROXANA, MISSING, WONDERLAND, ROAD TO AVONLEA, AND STREET
LEGAL. She received Gemini nominations for her roles in EMILY
OF NEW MOON and
DUDLEY THE DRAGON.
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GRAHAM
GREENE (Hockey coach)
A member of the Oneida tribe, Graham Greene is best known for
his Oscarnominated
performance as the sage Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner’s
DANCES WITH
WOLVES. Greene was recently featured alongside Oscar-nominated
Felicity Huffman in
the independent hit TRANSAMERICA. His many upcoming features
include the sequel
to SPIRIT BEAR, THE STONE CHILD, PUSHING UP DAISIES, ALL HAT
and A
LOBSTER TAIL. After getting involved in theatre in Britain and
Canada, the actor broke into films with supporting roles in
RUNNING BRAVE, REVOLUTION, POWWOW HIGHWAY and THUNDER HEART.
Greene starred in CLEARCUT and BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT and was
featured in a comic role in MAVERICK. He appeared as the sole
survivor of a pre-WW1 Indian tribe in the TV movie THE LAST
OF HIS TRIBE and had
a recurring role in TV’s NORTHERN EXPOSURE and RED GREEN
SHOW. Greene
also appeared in the hit mini-series INTO THE WEST. He is currently
headlining at the
Stratford Festival.
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LAURIE
LYND - Director
Laurie Lynd is a critically acclaimed writer/director whose
film work has been
spotlighted at the Toronto International Film Festival. His
television work includes directing
the BBC mini-series I WAS A RAT, produced by BREAKFAST WITH
SCOT’s Paul
Brown. I WAS A RAT aired on BBC1 and received rave reviews from
The Times (“sheer heaven”), The Daily Mail (“a
brilliant piece of story-telling”), The Observer (“simply
oozes with flair”) and The Sunday Times, which called
it “the one to watch: funny, original and full of charm.”
I WAS A RAT opened the Sprockets International Children’s
Film Festival and won Best Children’s Program at the 2002
Banff International Television Festival and for Lynd, a 2002
Best Director, TV Movie or Mini-series Gemini nomination. Lynd’s
first feature film HOUSE, co-written by Lynd and star Daniel
MacIvor, was an official selection at the TIFF, Sundance and
London Film Festivals, and in competition at Tokyo and Mannheim.
His comic musical short, THE FAIRY WHO DIDN’T WANT TO
BE A FAIRY ANYMORE, with writer/star Daniel MacIvor and Holly
Cole, premiered in Canada at TIFF and in the U.S. at Sundance,
won Canada’s Genie Award for best Short Drama, a Silver
Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival, and Best Short
at the Seattle International Film Festival. Lynd’s short
drama RSVP, which features a vocal performance by opera diva
Jessye Norman, was also selected for TIFF & Sundance and
the Museum Of Modern Art’s New Directors/New Films series.
Lynd also produced John Greyson’s
award-winning comic short musical on anti-gay violence, THE
MAKING OF ‘MONSTERS’.
Lynd is currently co-writing and will direct the adaptation
of Geoff Ryman’s dark,
‘Wizard of Oz’ inspired novel WAS, as well as directing
a musical comedy MOVE OVER
MOON, written by Lynd with an original score by Kate & Anna
McGarrigle. His recent
television work includes episodes of MTV/Logo’s NOAH’S
ARC and OPEN HEART
starring Megan Follows, which garnered five Gemini nominations,
including Best TV Movie and Best actress. Lynd also directed
the critically acclaimed television adaptation of Diane Flacks
and Richard Greenblatt’s play “Sibs”, episodes
of Showtime’s QUEER AS FOLK, CTV’s DEGRASSI: THE
NEXT GENERATION; and VIRTUAL MOM, a movie for television starring
Sheila McCarthy and Debbie Reynolds.
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PAUL
BROWN - Producer
Brown’s first
feature film, I LOVE A MAN IN UNIFORM, directed by David
Wellington, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the
Genie Award for Best
Actor and Best Supporting Actor. Shortly thereafter, Paul was
invited back to open the
International Critics’ Week Programme at Cannes with his
next feature film SOUL
SURVIVOR directed by Stephen Williams. Brown’s feature
THE ASSISTANT, directed
by Daniel Petrie and based on the novel by Pulitzer Prize-winner
Bernard Malamud, stars Academy Award nominees Armin Mueller-Stahl
(SHINE) and Joan Plowright.
Brown’s television projects include ZEYDA AND THE HITMAN,
a black
comedy starring Judd Hirsch, Gil Bellows, Danny Aiello and Oscar
winner Mercedes
Ruehl, and Philip Pullman’s I WAS A RAT, directed by BREAKFAST
WITH SCOT’s
Laurie Lynd. A co-production with the BBC and starring Tom Conti,
Brenda Fricker, and
Ned Beatty, I WAS A RAT won the Audience Award at the prestigious
Sprockets Film
Festival for Children, and the Best Children’s Drama and
Best Canadian Drama Awards
at the Banff Film and Television Festival. Paul produced FAST
FOOD HIGH, a MOW
for CTV Television, WHAT KATY DID a British-Canadian co-production,
and
VIRTUAL MOM, directed by BREAKFAST WITH SCOT’s Lynd, and
starring Debbie
Reynolds and Sheila McCarthy, who was nominated for a Gemini
Award for Best
Actress. His current development slate includes SOLD!, a TV
series set in the world of
real estate for CTV. Mr. Brown attended the Canadian Film Centre.
In 1990 he formed
Miracle Pictures Inc. to produce high quality dramas for film
and television.
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SEAN
REYCRAFT – Screenwriter
Sean Reycraft has written for three of the top shows on Canadian
television. He
recently replaced showrunner Bob Martin (of Broadway’s
“The Drowsy Chaperone”) on the 3rd and final season
of TMN/Sundance Channel’s SLINGS & ARROWS. For two
seasons before that, Sean wrote for the ubiquitous DEGRASSI:
THE NEXT
GENERATION, a top hit among teens on CTV and The N! Network
state-side. He got
his start, and a Gemini Award nomination, writing for two seasons
on CTV’s awardwinning THE ELEVENTH HOUR.
Sean’s most recent play, ONE GOOD MARRIAGE has been produced
in Toronto
(two remounts), Montreal, New York, Washington (twice extended),
Ireland and London,
England. His other plays include ROUNDABOUT, THROAT (CBC Radio
– Writers
Guild of Canada Top 10 Nominee), and POP SONG (Winner of the
Canadian Chalmers
Play Award).
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MICHAEL
DOWNING – Novelist
Michael Downing’s stories, reviews, and essays have appeared
in the New York
Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Toronto
Globe and Mail,
Boston Globe, Commonweal, Harvard Magazine, Christian Science
Monitor, Newsday,
Boston Phoenix and other newspapers and periodicals. BREAKFAST
WITH SCOT was
his fourth novel and received the Honor Book Award from the
American Library
Association and was selected as one of Ten Best Gay Books of
the Year by Amazon.com.
Newsday magazine said
of the novel, “Witty, poignant, laugh-out-loud funny,
deftly
insightful . . . It's a turn-of-the-millennium look at parenthood,
families, relationships and
who gets to wear eyeliner.” Downing’s other books
include: SPRING FORWARD: THE
ANNUAL MADNESS OF DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, PERFECT AGREMENT and
SHOES OUTSIDE THE DOOR: DESIRE, DEVOTION, AND EXCESS AT THE
SAN
FRANCISCO ZEN CENTER.
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DAVID
MAKIN – Director of Photography
David works in both TV and film, in such productions as SKULLS
3, HELD UP,
WHAT LEONARD COMES HOME TO, MAD TV and THE MARTIN SHORT SHOW.
Having begun making 8mm movies with his brother at the age of
9, David Makin
continued his film education on set with his father, DOP Harry
Makin, as well as at
Ryerson and the American Film Institute. After working through
the ranks as a camera
assistant and operator, David began working as a DOP in commercials
then worked his
way into TV with the comedy series THE KIDS IN THE HALL. From
there, he went on
to do his first feature for The Kids In The Hall, BRAIN CANDY,
and then HOUSE (with
BREAKFAST WITH SCOT’s Laurie Lynd), THE WRONG GUY, DOG
PARK and
MICKY BLUE EYES, starring Hugh Grant.
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SUSAN
SHIPTON - Editor
Susan Shipton is one of the independent film world’s foremost
editors, having
worked regularly with an international roster of directors,
including Atom Egoyan and
István Szabó. For Atom Egoyan, she has edited
the Oscar-nominated THE SWEET
HEREAFTER, WHERE THE TRUTH LIES, ARARAT, FELICIA’S JOURNEY,
EXOTICA and THE ADJUSTER. For Richard Kwietniowski, she cut
LOVE AND
DEATH ON LONG ISLAND; for Robert Lantos and István Szabó,
she edited the Oscar
nominated BEING JULIA (Annette Benning, Best Actress nominee),
for director David
Wellington, she has cut I LOVE A MAN IN UNIFORM (produced by
BREAKFAST
WITH SCOT’s Paul Brown), LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO
NIGHT and the TV film,
BLESSED STRANGER, for internationally renowned theatre and film
director Robert
Lepage she cut POSSIBLE WORLDS, for Patricia Rozema, she edited
WHITE ROOM
and WHEN NIGHT IS FALLING and for BREAKFAST WITH SCOT’s
Laurie Lynd
and producer Paul Brown, she edited the TV film, VIRTUAL MOM,
starring Sheila
McCarthy and Debbie Reynolds. Other credits include: FOOLPROOF,
FULL OF IT, A
COOL DRY PLACE, THE AWAKENING, THE LOTUS EATERS and the upcoming
ROCKETT. Susan also directed the award winning short film HINDSIGHT
and is
developing her first feature as a writer/director, adapting
Helen Humphrey’s novel WILD
DOGS.
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TAMARA
DEVERELL – Production Designer
Tamara Deverell’s feature film credits include the soon
to be released CHARLIE
BARTLETT starring Anton Yelchin and Robert Downey Jr. and FIREHOUSE
DOG
starring Josh Hutcherson and Bruce Greenwood. Deverell is responsible
for the
production design on BLIZZARD, BOLLYWOOD/HOLLYWOOD and MASALA.
Her
credits for television include the movies SUBURBAN MADNESS,
COAST TO COAST,
ELOISE AT CHRISTMASTIME, ELOISE AT THE PLAZA, SOUNDER, DEAD
AVIATORS, CARACARA, MIND GAMES, SHADOW ZONE: MY TEACHER ATE
MY HOMEWORK, LULU, ECLIPSE, THE BURNING SEASON and the mini-series
FEAST OF ALL SAINTS. Her series work includes WONDERFALLS, KEVIN
HILL
and DEGRASSI: THE NEXT GENERATION.
Deverell honed her skills as art director on the feature films
DEATH TO
SMOOCHY, X-MEN, EXISTENZ, 54, MIMIC, CRASH, CANADIAN BACON,
and the
television series LIBERTY STREET.
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ALEXANDER
REDA – Costume Designer
A Gemini Award-winner for his costume designs on the mini-series
HEMINGWAY VS. CALAGHAN, Alexander Reda designed the costumes
for television
series’ JEFF LTD, REGENESIS and THE NEWSROOM. His cable
feature credits
include BEAT COP, SEX, LIES & OBSESSION, THE FAMILIAR STRANGER,
MTV'S JAILBAIT, Showtime's MY LOUISIANA SKY with Juliet Lewis
and THE
LAST DEBATE with Peter Gallagher. Reda designed costumes for
the television series
LITTLE MEN and was assistant costume designer on Atom Egoyan's
THE SWEET
HEREAFTER. Prior to BREAKFAST WITH SCOT, Reda designed the costumes
for his
first feature, MY NAME IS TANINO.
Mongrel Media and Capri
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