LILI TAYLOR (Julie) has achieved remarkable success, recognition and praise for her wide range of performances on film, stage and television. She has received the Blockbuster award for Best Supporting Actress ( Ransom ), the Sundance Film Festival Special Grand Jury Prize for Acting for her body of work on film, and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress ( Household Saints ). She also received a special Golden Globe awarded along with her co-stars in Robert Altman's Short Cuts for best ensemble. In addition, Ms. Taylor co-wrote and starred in Cold Fever.

Julie Johnson reunites the Chicago native with the Shooting Gallery after her starring role in Illtown , directed by Nick Gomez. Ms. Taylor made her screen debut in the sleeper hit Mystic Pizza . Since then she has appeared in The Haunting, High Fidelity, A Slipping Down Life, Pecker, The Impostor, Dogfight, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Arizona Dreams, Say Anything, Born on the Fourth of July, Bright Angel, Ready-to-Wear, Kicked in the Hand, I Shot Andy Warhol and The Addiction . Another film includes Gaudi Afternoon, directed by Susan Seidelman, in which she co-stars with Juliette Lewis, Marcia Gay Harden and Judy Davis.

Ms. Taylor appeared as a recurring character on NBC's "Mad about You" and was nominated for a 1998 Emmy for her guest-starring role on Fox's "The X-Files."She made her New York stage debut in Chekhov's The Three Sisters , with a cast that included Amy Irving, Eric Stoltz and David Straithairn. She was a member of Naked Angels before forming her own theater company, Machine Full, where she made her directorial debut in a production of Tom Gilroy's Halcyon Days . Ms. Taylor also starred in the critically acclaimed Aven U Boys at the American Place Theater. In addition, she has participated in the prestigious Humana Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as a cultural exchange program that took her to Czechoslovakia.

Taylor starred in the HBO film "Live from Baghdad" as well as a regular role on the hit HBO series "Six Feet Under". Other film roles included "Casa de Los Baby's", "Factotum" with Matt Dillon and the upcoming films "The Notorious Bettie Page" and "The Secret" with David Duchovny.

COURTNEY LOVE (Claire) broke all barriers for women in rock as lead singer, guitarist, lyricist and songwriter with her band Hole. She released three of the most critically acclaimed albums of the 1990s (two of which, Live through This and Celebrity Skin – were multi-platinum) and earned five Grammy nominations.

She is passionately involved in artists' rights issues and is currently leading the fight against major labels to abolish the poor treatment and unfair contracts musicians receive in the recording industry.

Before she was a rock star, Ms. Love was an actress. As a child, she performed in radio and in Shakespeare productions at the Ashland Shakespeare. She worked in theatre in New York and acted in several independent films before starting Hole.

When she was 26, Milos Forman fought for her to star in The People Vs. Larry Flynt against the desires of the studio. Forman won his battle and Ms. Love earned a Golden Globe nomination. Her performance as Althea Flynt in that film was widely regarded as one of the best debuts in film history.

She also received best supporting actress awards from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Boston Society of Film Critics, most promising actress from Chicago Film Critics Association and runner-up for the Best Supporting actress award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

She appeared in 200 Cigarettes, where again she earned incredible reviews for her on-screen presence. In 1998 she re-teamed with Milos Foreman and played opposite Jim Carrey in Man on the Moon, another overwhelming critical success.

She has since gained momentum in her career with several new projects including "Trapped" with Charlize Theron and the upcoming "Lovelace" about the life of porn actress Linda Lovelace and "Miss June" in which she portrays Lady McBeth.

SPAULDING GRAY (Mr. Miranda) SPALDING GRAY (Mr. Miranda) was one of the few actor-writers today who created his own niche as a monologist. He presented 18 evening-length monologues throughout the U.S., Europe and Australia, including Sex and Death to the Age of 14 , Booze, Cars and College Girls , A Personal history of the American Theater , India and After (America), Monster in a Box, Gray's Anatomy and the Obie Award-winning Swimming to Cambodia.

Mr. Gray was also seen on Broadway playing Secretary William Russell in Gore Vidal's "The Best Man". In addition, he kept up a steady series of appearances on and off-Broadway, including the monologue "Morning Moon and Night" , Gregory Mosher's critically lauded production of "Our Town" (as the Stage Manager) and Hoss in The Performance Group's New York premiere of Sam Shepard's Tooth of Crime . With The Wooster Group, which he co-founded in 1977, he wrote and performed the autobiographical trilogy Three Places in Rhode Island .

Mr. Gray's film credits included Peter Cohn's Dunks (Shooting Gallery), Roland Joffe's The Killing Fields, Jonathan Demme's Swimming to Cambodia, David Byrne's True Stories , Steven Soderbergh's King of the Hill , Ron Howard's The Paper , Damian Harris's Bad Company , John Boorman's Beyond Rangoon , and Jeremiah Chechik's Diabolique . Steven Soderbergh also directed him in the film version of his monologue Gray's Anatomy. His television appearances include the HBO special "Terrors of Pleasure" and HBO's premiere films Ia. He also repeated his role as the Stage Manager for the PBS Great Performances telecast of Our Town.

Mr. Gray received a Guggenheim Fellowship and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. He received and Honorary Doctorate in Humanities from Rhode Island College in May 1998.

Gray went on to star in "Paper Mache Case" and "Kate & Leopold" before his untimely death from suicide in 2004.

NOAH EMMERICH (Rick) received widespread critical acclaim for his role as Marlon opposite Jim Carrey in Peter Weir's The Truman Show . He made his film debut in Ted Demme's Beautiful Girls, co-starring with Matt Dillon, Timothy Hutton and Uma Thurman. Other films in which he has appeared include Life , with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, Monument Ave., with Denis Leary and Martin Sheen, Cop Land with Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro, Crazy in Alabama opposite Melanie Griffith and Tumbleweeds opposite Oscar nominee Janet McTeer. Mr. Emmerich also appeared in the sleeper hit Frequency with Dennis Quaid and in the critical success Love & Sex opposite Famke Janssen. He performed in John Woo's WWII drama Wind Talkers , starring Nicolas Cage. He went on to star in a slate of critically acclaimed films including "Wind Talkers", "Beyond Borders," "Miracle" and "Cellular."

Mr. Emmerich was born and raised in New York City. He earned a B.A. with honors in history from Yale University, and studied filmmaking at New York University. He wrote and directed the short film, The Painter , which won the prestigious Cine Award and took First Prize at the Barcelona International Film Festival.

MISCHA BARTON (Lisa) appeared in "The Sixth Sense" and "Notting Hill" and made her feature film debut with the critically lauded Sundance favorite Lawn Dogs . She subsequently completed work on an additional five features and appeared in Skipped Parts, Tart, Paranoid and Lost and Delirious . Ms. Barton also appeared in Dragonfly opposite Kevin Costner. Other film roles include Ring of Endless Light, The OH in Ohio with Danny Devito and the upcoming The Decameron with Hayden Christensen.

She began her career in New York Theater with a lead role in Tony Kushner's Slavs! Ms. Barton soon segued into the lead role in James Lapin's Twelve Dreams at the renowned Lincoln Center. Among her varied stage credits are Where the Truth Lies and One Flea Spare , both of which took place at the New York Shakespeare Festival.

She was featured on television for three seasons on All My Children and portrayed the title role in the Showtime feature Frankie and Hazel .

She is perhaps best known as 'Marissa' in the hit Fox Television series "The O.C."

BOB GOSSE (Director-Screenwriter) made his producing debut with Nick Gomez's feature The Laws of Gravity.   Over the years, he has produced a number of feature films including Handgun, Another Girl, Another Planet, New Jersey Drive and The Last Home Run , which he also directed.   Mr. Gosse began his feature directing career with Niagara Niagara , which garnered the best actress award for Robin Tunney at the Venice Film Festival.   He recently completed a screenplay adaptation of Alec Wilkinson's A Violent Act .   Mr. Gosse lives in New York City with his wife and two dogs, Walter and Lucy.

RAY ANGELIC (Producer) is a longtime Shooting Gallery collaborator who line-produced such films as Hi-Life, Entropy , Niagara Niagara and Laurence Fishburne's directorial debut, Once in the Life.   Prior to his work with Shooting Gallery, Mr. Angelic's production credits include Sabrina , First Wives Club and Batman and Robin .

LARRY MEISTRICH (Executive Producer) is the founder/chairman/CEO of Shooting Gallery, a development/distribution company.  He has been an integral part of the production of roughly 100 films, commercials and music videos. As producer of such critically acclaimed films as Golden Globe nominee/Sundance Film Festival 2000 winner Kenneth Lonergan's You Can Count on Me , Billy Bob Thornton's Sling Blade , Nick Gomez's Laws of Gravity , Bob Gosse's Niagara Niagara , and Hal Hartley's Henry Fool, he has demonstrated a unique ability to bring out the talents of innovative filmmakers.

Mr. Meistrich currently serves on the boards of the New York Production Alliance, the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. He created the R.E.A.C.H. (Rallying the Entertainment and Athletic Communities to Help)™, Foundation for inner city schools and children with life-threatening diseases.

WENDY HAMMOND (Screenwriter) is a playwright whose work has been produced in New York (Atlantic Theatre, Second Stage, Soho Rep, Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art), regionally (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf, SLAC, Charlotte Rep, Purple Rose) and in London (London New Play Festival, Gate Theatre).   In addition to Julie Johnson, her plays include Jersey City, Family Life: 3 Brutal Comedies, Absence and Road Rage: A Love Story .

Ms. Hammond began screenwriting when she was awarded a position in the Chesterfield Film Writers Project. She has been the recipient of several grants and awards including an NEA grant and an American theatre Critics Association nomination for 1999 Best American Play. She has been invited twice to Sundance Playwright's Unit, once to the O'Neill Center, and is a New Dramatists alumnus.   Jersey City , a film version of her play, is scheduled to begin shooting in March with Calla Productions.

Ms. Hammond holds an MFA from New York University's Dramatic Writing Program. She currently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband and son, where she teaches playwriting and screenwriting at the University of Michigan.

DAVID M. DUNLAP (Director of Photography) has long been active as a second unit director of photography and camera operator in the New York film community.  Julie Johnson marks his second film as director of photography, his first being the Ben Stiller – Janeane Garafolo comedy Maclintock's Peach.

Mr. Dunlap's credits as camera operator for his mentor, director of photography Michael Ballhaus, include such films as Goodfellas, The Age of Innocence, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Broadcast News and Working Girl .

Among his director of photography credits for second unit of additional cinematography are K-Pax, Dracula 2000, shaft, Ransom, Air Force One, Viva Rock Vegas, The Wild, Wild West and Forrest Gump.

KATHRYN NIXON (Costume Designer) has been the costume designer for such acclaimed films as Happiness (Todd Solondz), Sunday (Jonathan Nossiter), The Wife and What Happened Was… (Tom Noonan).   She also completed Nossiter's Signs and Wonders, Katherine Dieckmann's A Good Baby and Michael Walker's Chasing Sleep starring Jeff Daniels.  

Ms. Nixon was raised in a military family in the United States and abroad and graduated from Middle Tennessee State University.

MARK RICKER (Production Designer) was born and raised in Burlington, North Carolina and studied design at Chapel Hill and NYU.   He began working in the film industry in set dressing and props.   He became an art director with The Substance of Fire , Montana and Jason Alexander's directorial debut Just Looking .   Production designer credits include Harvest, Walking to the Waterline, Better Living, Fever and Famous, the latter directed by Griffin Dunne.   He is currently working on 13 Conversations About One Thing.