CAST
James Roehl (Don)
Shona Tucker (Woman on Bus)
Katie Schorr (Patti)
Aidan Tumas (Milo)
Nicole Wood (Laura)
Lance Rubin (Cove)
Whiskey and Lono (Rodney and Pendle)

CREW
James Roehl (Writer/Story)
Kathleen Man (Writer/Director)
Caitlin Mae Burke (Producer)
Liz Galvao (Production Manager)
Katie Hickman (Assistant Camera/Art Design)
Will Castellucci (Gaffer/Title Design)
Kyle Porter (Sound)
Aidan Tumas (Boom/Grip)
Elissa Ewing
Julia Lukacher (still photography)

CAST

James Roehl (Don) The youngest of four brothers, James spent his childhood in Maryland and London watching television and getting beat up. After his nerd stage, he began making music and currently enjoys percussion. James recently graduated from Vassar College where he studied film and shouted nonsense words in a comedy group called Happily Ever Laughter. He might be in Los Angeles right now.

Shona Tucker (Woman on Bus) is the Acting Professor at Vassar College. She recently finished three years as a company member at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She works frequently at New York Theater Workshop, The Actors Center and Lincoln Center Directors' Lab. Off Broadway: The Public Theater, Circle in the Square, Playwrights Horizons, Manhattan Theatre Club, and La MaMa. Regional: Williamstown Theater Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Stageworks/Hudson, Arena Stage, The Acting Company, and American Conservatory Theater. Film/TV: Preaching to the Choir: On the One, Third Watch, New York Undercover, Law and Order , One Life to Live, and Trinity. A Schomburg Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, Shona earned a BS from Northwestern University and an MFA in Acting at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.

Katie Schorr (Patti) acts and writes in New York. Her one-girl show, Take Me. Seriously., ran for six months last year at The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and she often performs new works at The Ensemble Studio Theatre and Ars Nova, as well as in her bathtub. Katie has appeared on VH1's Best Week Ever and in a Trojan commercial as the Gonorrhea Girl. Katie co-stars in the Internet series, Head in the Oven, with Bill Hader and Maggie Carey. Her new one-girl show, Did I Do That?, will go up in August at Ars Nova.

Katie’s blog and video place: Schorr Thing.

Aidan Tumas (Milo) “Walk the Fish” marks a return to acting for Aidan Tumas after a long hiatus away from the stage. After starring turns in plays at his high school in Wisconsin, he enrolled in a two-year theatre arts program at Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific in British Columbia, where he acted in a number of plays including the Laramie Project, Under Milk Wood, and “Mountain Language.” At Vassar College, he acted in No Exit his freshman year. Four years later, this is his first time acting for film.

Nicole Wood (Laura) is a Hudson Valley actress and Vassar student. Despite having only just completed her Freshman year at Vassar, Nicole has appeared in the Powerhouse production of Metamorphoses as Myrrha and Psyche, and has had leads in local professional productions of Waiting For Godot, Barefoot in the Park, and Man of La Mancha. Nicole is a graduate of the Neighborhood Playhouse pre-professional program. She was awarded the Hudson Valley High School Tony for “Best Actress in a Musical” in 2007, and sings with Vassar’s oldest a capella group, the Night Owls. While shooting “Fish,” Nicole learned all the dirty secrets of the Vassar Golf Course.

Lance Rubin (Cove) Lance’s recent film credits include Germ Freak in Cafe, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. He is a co-writer and co-star of the hit comedy sketch show The Lance and Ray Show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. He collaborates frequently with pop-rock musical theatre composer Joe Iconis, including two Off-Broadway productions during the past year. He doesn't own any fish, but his dad has an intimidatingly large aquarium.

Whiskey and Lono (Rodney and Pendle) are Black Moor goldfish raised in Wappingers Falls, NY. Walk the Fish is their first film. These two have recently taken the plunge and moved to the Lower East Side to pursue further acting opportunities: Whiskey is currently taking classes at the Peoples Improv Theater, while Lono is seeking a mentor for training in the Alexander Technique. Love to fallen comrades and roommates Caitlin Mae Burke and Hannah Schorr.

CREW

Kathleen Man (Writer/Director)was born and raised on O’ahu and attended the same high school as Obama. She received her BA in Film Studies cum laude and with distinction at Yale University, where she also won the Howard Lamar Senior Prize in Film. She was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the University of Iowa, earning an MA in Film Studies and an MFA in Film/Video Production. As a Fulbright Scholar in Paris, she wrote and directed the award-winning short, The Interview (L’Entretien). While making both dramatic and documentary films (Kind of a Blur, Sita, a Girl from Jambu and Beauty Mark) and winning various awards (Best Comedic Short, Best Feature Film, Best Documentary, Audience Award) at many different festivals, Kathleen taught filmmaking at UC-Boulder. Now, she is an assistant professor on the tenure-track in the Film Department at Vassar College, where she teaches narrative and documentary filmmaking. Kathleen is the writer/director of Lychee Thieves, a dramatic film set in Hawai'i, which is currently in production.  
Kathleen's site.

James Roehl (Writer/Story) lost the original screenplay for Walk the Fish under his bed in between semesters during his senior year at Vassar College. Thank heavens he found it, or else none of this would be here.

Caitlin Mae Burke (Producer) is a Jersey-bred filmmaker exiled to the East Village of Manhattan, where she shares an apartment with the piscine stars of Walk the Fish. She attended Prague Film School in 2006 and left a great chunk of her heart (and dignity) in Bohemia. A 2008 film graduate of Vassar College, Caitlin Mae’s senior documentary Riding Tall won Best Student Documentary at the International Family Film Festival in Los Angeles. She is currently an associate producer for Discovery Health’s Mystery Diagnosis, and is working on producing music videos for Cudzoo and the Fagettes and finding a place to ride horses in New York City.

Liz Galvao (Production Manager) is an ’09 film graduate of Vassar College, and attended Prague Film School in 2007. She remembers fondly the summer she first heard the story of James walking the fish, and is delighted to be a part of recreating that story for the screen. Liz plans to live and work in New York City.

Katie Hickman (Assistant Camera/Art Design) is an ’08 graduate of Vassar College, with a double BA in Film and Religion. She currently lives in Brooklyn and is always looking to freelance on film projects - especially ones shot on film or involving animals. She recently worked with Red Bucket Films on Go Get Some Rosemary, an independent feature film directed by Josh and Ben Safdie which premiered at the Director's Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. Katie is also passionate about yoga and plans on becoming a certified instructor in order to teach when she is not working on a film. The best movie she saw recently was True Stories by David Byrne.

Will Castellucci (Gaffer/Title Design) was born and raised in Rhode Island. After considering art school, he decided instead to pursue a liberal arts education at Vassar, where he got into the arts anyway. Will majored in film at Vassar College, and graduated in 2009. He plans to work in film production and travel the world for the next few years, hopefully by boat (as he hates flying.) All the fish Will ever owned have met unfortunate, premature deaths.

Kyle Porter (Sound) is a rising Senior at Vassar College and will graduate with a major in Film and a correlate in Comparative Philosophy in 2010. He has experience working in most positions of the filmmaking process, though he is most experienced as a director and sound recordist. He has been an active member of the Vassar Filmmakers since its inception two years ago and hopes to continue encouraging aspiring filmmakers to create whatever films they wish as the organization's Creative Director next year. After Walk the Fish, he recorded sound for a short documentary, David and the Kingdom, and he is currently working on pre-production for a dramatic short he will be directing over the summer entitled Stripping the Myth.

Aidan Tumas (Boom/Grip) Aidan Tumas is a recent graduate of the Media Studies department of Vassar College, where his studies focused primarily on media theory and film production. He has directed a number of short films and has worked as a sound designer on other film department shorts. As his senior capstone project, he directed and edited a thirty-minute, four-screen experimental documentary, “Revival,” which examines the early history of presidential television campaigns.

Elissa Ewing (Hair/Makeup) is a stylist living in the Hudson Valley with her two adorable pups. Walk the Fish is her first film.

Julia Lukacher (still photography) has been taking photographs since the age of 14. She has worked at agencies including Creative Exchange Agency and the Artist Loft, as well as the Staley Wise Photography Gallery. Julia works as an assistant to a fashion photographer in New York and has produced shoots for V Magazine, Fashion Art and Type, Rodeo, Own Magazine and more. Currently, she also takes backstage photographs at fashion presentations. Julia is a senior at Vassar College and is from Rhinebeck, NY.