Cast – The Lennon Report

EVAN JONIGKEIT

DR. DAVID HALLERAN

After a successful career in regional theater Evan Jonigkeit moved to New York and starred in the Broadway play High, opposite Kathleen Turner in 2010, for which he won a Connecticut Critics Circle Award, a Kevin Kline award and was nominated for a Outer Critics Circle Award. Since then he has been seen on the stages of New York, including the Broadway production of The Snow Geese, opposite Mary Louise Parker. His Television credits include HBO’s Girls and The Good Wife. In addition to The Lennon Report, Jonigkeit will be seen in Bone Tomahawk, opposite Kurt Russell and Richard Jenkins, as well as Goldbricks in Bloom, along with Zosia Mamet and Jake Hoffman. He is currently working on Tina Fey’s upcoming film with Paramount based on the best selling book Fun House by Kim Baker, about a foreign war correspondent. Jonigkeit attended college at Temple University where he began his acting career after an internship with the world renowned Pig Iron Theatre Company.

WALTER VINCENT

ALAN WEISS

Walter Vincent is a native New Yorker born and raised in Staten Island. He studied acting under William Esper at the William Esper Studio and writing at Wagner College. Vincent is a frequent creative collaborator with Writer / Director Jeremy Profe. Their first project together An Anomaly of the Theory took them to the Festival de Cannes where it was featured in the Short Film Corner and had a multiple award winning run in several film festivals. Walter’s first leading role in a feature film came in 2010 when he starred in Cynthia Hsiung’s Shades of Love. The film would go on to win two major awards at the Boston International Film Festival. He has since gone on to act on stage and in both film and television. The Lennon Report is Walter’s first writing collaboration with partner Jeremy Profe.

RICHARD KIND

DR. STEPHAN G. LYNN

Richard was born in Trenton, NJ and grew up in Bucks County, PA. Despite an interest in acting, he enrolled at Northwestern University as a pre-law major but rather than pursuing a law school, he moved to New York to try his hand at drama. He would eventually find his break out opportunity in Chicago, working with the comedic actors at the Practical Theatre Company and later at Second City. Richard would go on to be a star of both film and television. He has appeared in such films as Argo, and A Serious Man, as well as voice acting in several Pixar films including the Toy Story franchise and A Bug’s Life. Richard’s television work includes Mad About You, Spin City, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and currently he can be seen on Gotham.

STEF DAWSON

BARBARA KAMMERER

Having grown up with parents who were doctors, it was Stef’s fascination with people that led to her exploring human nature through acting; unraveling characters and understanding why people are the way they are. She trained extensively in theater, film and also singing, specifically opera and performed in numerous theater productions in Australia as well as parts in TV, including All Saints before making the leap to feature film with her first lead role in the Australian film Wrath. Dawson then made the leap to the United States, where she has been working on the big and small screen on an international scale. Most notably, she plays Annie Cresta, a victor and disturbed lover of Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games Franchise and appears in Catching Fire, Mockingjay 1 and Mockingjay 2. She has also recently played the lead in various feature films such as Creedmoria, a dark comedy, coming of age story about a teenage girl growing up in Queens in the 1980’s as well as The Paper Store working with Penn Badgley and Richard Kind.

DAVID ZAYAS

OFFICER JOSEPH MEDINA

David Zayas was born in Puerto Rico and raised in the Bronx. A movie lover since early childhood, Zayas always had acting aspirations, but after graduating from high school, he joined the Air Force and then pursued a career as a NYC policeman, placing his own dreams on hold to support his family. In the early 90’s he enrolled in acting classes while still working as a cop. Zayas’ talent was soon recognized, and he appeared in many plays. In 1992 he became a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company. He went on to win roles in television and film. His roles as Enrique Morales in HBO’s OZ, Sgt. Angel Batista on Showtime’s Dexter, and Sal Maroni on Fox’s Gotham stand out among his television work. David is expected to make his debut as a writer / director in 2016.

ADRIENNE C. MOORE

DR. PAMELA ROBERTS

Adrienne currently stars as Black Cindy on the critically acclaimed, hit Netflix series Orange is the New Black. She celebrated with the entire cast when they won the 2015 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. Additionally, Adrienne personally earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and was awarded the Vanguard Award at Essence Magazine’s Black Women In Hollywood Luncheon. Other TV appearances include Blue Bloods and 30 Rock. Adrienne’s extensive theatre credits include Milk Like Sugar (LaJolla Playhouse, Dir. Rebecca Taichman), The Women and War Project (7 Stages Theatre), Ethel Sings (Dir. Will Pomerantz), Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons, Dir. Rebecca Taichman), Tearing Down the Walls (Audelco Award nomination, Dir. Daniel Beaty); Suzan Lori-Parks’ 365 Plays/365 Days (Public Theatre), The 24 Hour Plays (Lucille Lortel), All’s Well That Ends Well and The Private Life of the Master Race (59E59). This spring you can see her at the Actors Theatre of Louisville in the world premiere of Colman Domingo’s play Dot, part of the Humana Festival of New American Plays.

DEVIN RATRAY

PHIL BERNSTEIN

Born in New York City to actor parents, Devin began his career at an early age. He made a name for himself playing Macaulay Culkin’s memorable older brother, Buzz McCallister in Home Alone. After his success, he attended the prestigious Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, where he graduated in 1994. Since his breakout role, Devin has appeared in several films, including Surrogates with Bruce Willis, Blue Ruin, Nebraska with Bruce Dern and Will Forte and the upcoming Masterminds with Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig and Zach Galifianakis.

STEPHEN SPINELLA

DR. RICHARD MARKS

Stephen Spinella won two Tony and Drama Desk Awards for the original Broadway production of Tony Kushner’s two-part epic Angels in America. Spinella has since starred on Broadway in revivals of A View from the Bridge, Electra, and Our Town with Paul Newman; and James Joyce’s The Dead with Christopher Walken, which earned him another Tony nomination, a third Drama Desk award, as well as an Outer Critics Circle award. In the 2006-2007 season he was in the smash-hit Spring Awakening that season’s winner of the Tony for Best Musical. In 2014 he appeared opposite Estelle Parsons in The Velocity of Autumn. His feature credits include Roger Spottiswoode’s Emmy Award-winning telefilm And the Band Played On; Brett Leonard’s Virtuosity; Michael Caton-Jones’ The Jackel; Alfonso Cuaron’s Great Expectations; Tim Robbins’ Cradle Will Rock; Blair Hayes’ cult movie Bubble Boy, with Jake Gyllenhaal; Michael Lembeck’s Connie and Carla; Gus Van Zant’s award winning bio-pic Milk; Quentin Dupieux’ Rubber; and Lincoln directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Daniel Day Lewis. He has spent two seasons recurring as Russell Berger in the perennial summer hit Royal Pains and is currently a recurring character on Steven Soderbergh’s The Knick and is in rehearsals for Classic Stage Company’s production of Hamlet starring Peter Sarsgaard and directed by Austin Pendleton.

ASHLIE ATKINSON

DEARTRA SATO

Ashlie is an award-winning theatre, film, and television actress. A 2003 graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse, in 2005 she received the Theatre World Award for Breakthrough Performance for originating the role of Helen in Neil Labute’s “Fat Pig”(opposite Jeremy Piven) – which also garnered her Outer Critics’ Circle and Lucille Lortel nominations. She has graced screens both big and small in Denis Leary’s critically-acclaimed Rescue Me, 3lbs, Spike Lee’s Inside Man, Another Gay Movie, Sex and The City Movie, Margot at The Wedding, Law & Order, Law &Order: Criminal Intent, Puccini for Beginners, and Filthy Gorgeous. MTV fans may recognize Ashlie as her hip-hop alter ego, “Chunky Pam”, a plus-size rap diva – and YouTube viral phenomenon. After appearing opposite Debra Jo Rupp in SecondStage’s “Butcher of Baraboo”, she returned to Broadway in 2007 to play Vivian Proclo in Terrence McNally’s The Ritz (starring Rosie Perez). Ashlie is a proud member of both the Bridge Theatre Commpany and Gotham Girls Roller Derby (where she skates under the name Margaret Thrasher, Prime Minister of Your Demise). Ashlie toured the world in Sam Mendes’ The Bridge Project and continues to work in film opposite actors such as Jessica Alba, Ryan Gosling, Kirsten Dunst, Ricky Gervais and Julia Roberts. She can currently be seen in the Steven Spielberg film “Bridge of Spies,” starring Tom Hanks.