Cast of Characters
![]() ROSEMARY BROWN Ronit Corry Rosemary Brown is a medium. A quiet gentle woman, she is modest and charming, if not a little air-headed. Ronit Corry started her life in Montreal Canada and moved to London England at the age of 14. She spent 2 years pursuing a degree in 3D Art and then changed directions and received a BA in the Performance Arts from Middlesex University, London. Her life as a performer began when she was a child, singing and performing with her father on stage at his folk and blues club in Montreal and in other venues. Ronit was key member of a rock band in London in the 1980's playing guitar and singing. The band performed around London as well as recorded extensively in studios. Ronit has performed in many capacities ranging from improvisational a cappella to her own musical compositions for dramatic productions. She has acted in a variety of types of shows from experimental drama and comedy to musicals. Ronit left England for San Francisco in 1989. There she attended the 3 year full-time Alexander Technique training course at American Conservatory Theatre in order to become an AmSAT certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. During this time she worked with actors and musicians assisting them with refinement of stage presence, projection, poise and vocal production. Ronit is also a certified Life Coach specializing in The Work of Byron Katie and helping people to achieve their goals of self-fulfillment and freedom. She is scheduled to appear as the "Love Coach to the Stars" character in a soon to be regularly scheduled Hollywood satire. Most recently she appeared on television and in a short film screened at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. website: http://www.ronitcorry.com |
![]() FRANZ LISZT Kelly Livingston Franz Liszt is the main ghost that Rosemary communicates with. Intelligent and charming, he is hoping to spread his message about the after life to the world. Kelly Livingston is a senior at UCSB after transferring first from Red Rocks Community College in Denver, Colorado and then Diablo Valley College in Lafayette CA, previous film credits include: Joe White in "Joe White and the Seven Psychos" Maurice Lester in "Spank Zombie" and Dracula in "Monster Party." His love for acting began in high school when he was in every play that the school put on, followed by every play in college that he was picked for. When Kelly?s not acting you can find him at the beach, studying of course, or much more likely, rehearsing or studying lines, or even more likely, playing video games on his couch.
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![]() BISHOP OF SOUTHWARK Edward Hightower A well known community figure, Mervyn Stockwood, The Bishop of Southwark, is a strong advocate of Rosemary's work. Edward Hightower's film credits include Nashtastic (dir. Jesse Cortez), The Garden Perfect (dir. Jason Ryder), as well as numerous voiceovers for a series of peculiar EnlivenArt cartoons (www.enlivenart.com). Recent regional theatrical credits include Carl-Magnus, A Little Night Music and Bill Sykes, Oliver! (www.pcpa.org); SF Bay Area credits: Kodaly, She Loves Me; Cyrano, Cyrano de Bergerac; Guido, Nine; Max Mencken, It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!; John Wilkes Booth, Assassins; Autolycus, The Winter's Tale and Einstein, Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Offscreen and offstage, Edward writes plays, graphic novels and light extemporanea. website: www.myspace.com/edwardian |
![]() IAN PARROT Marc Sims Ian Parrot is a well respected Musicologist from Aberystwyth, Wales. Through his contacts at the BBC he is assisting Rosemary in publicizing her work. Marc Sims, PhD, is an Experimental solid state Physicist with a focus on the Physics of Organic Semiconductors. Currently based in industry, after a move from the UK, he is seeking to identify some of the dominant degradation pathways in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) for application in electronic displays. He has recently developed a novel experimental technique that allows unparalleled insight to the inner-workings of OLEDs, facilitating improved performance through design. Marc’s research is of a fundamental nature, and his contributions to the Organic Electronics forum have been published in several distinguished peer-reviewed articles. He is a drummer and a soccer player, and An Uncommon Affair At Tooting Bec Common is his acting debut. |
![]() EDNA MOSELEY Kyrsten Lew A first time interviewer for the BBC, Edna Moseley doesn't believe that Rosemary is a real medium. Kyrsten Gabrielle Lew is eighteen years old. She was born in Riverside, California and lived there until the age of nine when her family moved to Stockton, California. Currently, she is a hard working Freshman at UC Santa Barbara and her many interests have made her hesitant to declare a major. An Uncommon Affair At Tooting Bec Common is her first film. However, she has previously enjoyed the limelight as an extra in an independent film about Japanese internment camps called ?A Day of Independence?. Kyrsten participated in drama throughout high school at East Union. In advanced theatre she performed in several plays including ?Robin Hood? where she honed her English accent. She also served as the Thespian president of Troupe #4467. Kyrsten has always loved to act and she has enjoyed being in this film. It was a new experience for her and getting to work with the cast and crew has made it unforgettable. |
![]() JOHN NAFFIS Justin Stark John Naffis is using his position as a camera man for the BBC to be the inside man for a unnamed secret society intent on stopping the work of Rosemary Brown. Justin Stark studied theatre at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he grew up, and has been acting since he was 13. He was last seen in Tape at The Center Stage Theatre and last year as Froggie in The Foreigner at The Garvin Theatre. Justin has also been in productions of The Man Who Came to Dinner and Gunfighter: A Gulf War Chronicle at The Garvin Theatre. Last year Justin was the Center Stage Theatre with Dramatic Women as Dubya in The Last Liberal. Playing another foreigner, Justin played Brodie in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing at Santa Barbara Ensemble Theatre. |
![]() PIERCE INGOLDSBY Cade McCall The secretive, short sighted, handler for the unnamed society, Pierce Ingoldsby is under cover as a BBC technician who acts without thinking of others. Cade McCall is a graduate student in social psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He studies human responses to digital media and uses immersive virtual environments to study social behavior. An Uncommon Affair At Tooting Bec Common is his first foray into acting. |






