DIRECTOR, PRODUCER & CO-WRITER

Tim Richardson  is a 1996 graduate from Indiana University South Bend with a B.A. in Speech & Theatre. While in college he directed six short plays, and acted in a variety of main stage productions as well. He won the Lester M. Wolfson Award 1st Place "Best Drama" for his screenplay To Write A Wrong, and 2nd Place for his play Toby's Play. His plays Face of a Child and Toby's Play were produced at the university in the studio theatre. Over the past eight years he has written, directed and produced 24 movies -- parodies, comedies and dramas. The feature films Revelations and Bloodlines have had much sales success via the internet. His recent film projects include the recently released thriller A:\kill and the short film Plunge, as well as an internet sitcom Nobody's Listening at www.nobodyslistening.tv . He'll also be directing a film set during the Civil War entitled Kill The Messenger in summer 2002, as well as a short film based on the characters in Messenger. Tim has also been a professional caricature artist for the last 12 years, drawing at company events and festivals in the midwest. He illustrates comics, does model photography, is a web designer, as well as a singer/musician/songwriter.

CO-WRITER & ACTOR

Michael Kouroubetes has a B.A. in Philosophy and a minor in Film Studies. He received the Lester M. Wolfson Award in 1992 for his short play Guard Duty, which was later produced in Spring 1996 (along with two other plays he wrote) at Indiana University South Bend. In Spring 1997 he won the Wolfson again for short fiction submitted to the campus literary magazine. In addition, he has conducted interviews with local artists which air on cable access. He also assisted in the organization the 1998 and 1999 Writer's Conferences at his university. He is the screenwriter, assistant director, executive producer, and an actor in the suspense thriller A:\kill. He wrote and acted in the short film Plunge and is currently co-writing the script for Kill The Messenger. He currently plays the weasely character  Sid in the internet sitcom Nobody's Listening.