Come Fly With Me Nude

Co-writer of the stage show, Diane Karagienakos also directed & produced the feature-length film version of Come Fly With Me Nude, which made it’s festivaly debut (November 2005) in the Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema in San Francisco. She has written and directed several comedy short films, and worked as a freelance copywriter in the United States, Australia, and England. Diane has also been studying acting since 1998, including Improv in Melbourne, Australia, and more recently Scene Study in San Francisco with Andrew Utter. Prior to that, she enjoyed the comfortable lifestyle of a Casino Marketing Executive in Las Vegas.

In addition to cowriting the stage version of "Come Fly With Me Nude) Todd is an Equity actor who has performed in many Bay Area theatres including Berkeley Rep, A.C.T., Theatreworks and SF Shakespeare; in addition to his ongoing work as a voice-over talent (to hear Todd’s VO demo, click HERE). Todd received his B.F.A. in acting at the University of Nebraska and has also studied in New York City and London.

Screenwriter, Director of Photography, & Co-Director Dan Gomes had been making independent films for many years before writing the movie version of the stage show Come Fly With Me Nude. He worked for over ten years as a technology consultant, and currently runs the Technology and Facilities departments of San Francisco’s Film Arts Foundation.

CARA NEWMAN returns to her Stage Manager roots after having last stage managed a production of The Bacchae in Central Park for Byzantium International Productions. Other technical credits include Sacramento’s Music Circus and American River College. By day she is a teacher, writer and rock painter.

Editor Jonathan Parra’s career highlights include Jerald Howard’s short stop motion animation piece See The Truth (which aired on HBO and garnered several festival awards), Mara Wallis’ feature documentary Entertaining Vietnam (winner of the Best Documentary Award at the Gulf Coast Film & Video Festival), Pepe Urquijo’s documentary Fruit Of Labor, Cine Acción’s Festival ¡Cine Latino! Trailer which aired on PBS and Univision, Courtesy Sports spots which aired on ESPN and ESPN 2, and the recent 2004 Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema trailer. He is the on-call editor for Beyond Pix, InterCultura Multilingual Media, and Hotbed Productions - three of San Francisco’s top Post-Production Houses.

Costume Designer Daniella Turner used her background in stage costume design to achieve the timeless look that was so vital to this film. She also designed all of the costumes for the stage show Come Fly With Me Nude, and has been part of Berkeley Rep’s costume department for the past year. In 2005, she was the costume designer of the feature films Broken Arrows and Car Babes.

Nancy (Sparkle) Heine was last seen at the Sundance Film Festival in the short film Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, directed by San Francisco filmmakers Tiffany Schlain and Xandra Castleton. Nancy trained with the legendary Jeff Corey and Lew Palter in Los Angeles, and recently worked with Cassandra Chamberlain in the Bay Area.

Chicago native Sidney Burrows Jr. has performed in film, television commercials, voice-overs, and stage for 16 yearsHe’s performed in ads for Advair, Colt 45, Kroeger, Sprint, Kentucky Lottery and Scan Disk. He played the title role in the short-film, Riding with Jack, which won the Gold Award for best original comedy at World Fest. Other film credits include Clay Ashtray’s, Beaver Run, and Sending Me An Angel.

Mark (St. John Smythe) Hardwicke began acting in his own short films while at the San Francisco Art Institute. He later beefed-up his toolbox at ACT and began to do regional theatre in the Bay Area. Numerous commercials, industrials and indie films flesh out this life in performance, the pinnacle of which remains the Thank-You Man for the Bay Area’s Spare The Air campaign. "Thank you for not driving, and sparing the air!"

Robert Anthony Peters (Jack) is a full time actor working in film, theater, and voice over.  He trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York.  While studying there, he acted in many plays and indie films.  Back in the Bay Area since 2002 –  his childhood home — Robert has performed in more than a dozen theatrical productions, and in 2005 completed work on Pursuit of Happyness (acting alongside Will Smith) and Farewell Bender (where Robert had scenes with Kip Pardue and Josh Cooke).  Other recent indie films of note where Robert is featured include: Isolated, Hideout, Revolution Summer, Broken Arrows (with his wonderful Come Fly With Me Nude castmates Stephen Pawley, Stephan Smith-Collins, and Todd Pickering), and Carrier (also with Stephen Pawley).

Dom ….. Todd Pickering