Tasha Hardy - Writer/Producer

Tasha Hardy is a writer and producer with extensive experience in film and video. Tasha won Best Texas Writer at the 2019 Austin Revolution Film Festival and is a three time optioned writer. (One script from the producers of Mystery Science Theater 3000.) As well, her scripts have won first place five times in competitions and her work has made it to the finalist round in over ten other contests.

Tasha was a producer on the Star Trek special World Enough and Time, starring George Takei. This won a TV Guide Award and was nominated for Nebula and Hugo Awards. She also produced a television pilot, Hollywood Quad, co-starring Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad), which was featured in Emmy Magazine.

She was the Supervising Producer of Animation on National Geographic Channel’s The Big Picture, starring Kal Penn. In addition, Morton Salt Girl’s 100th Birthday, a commercial video she produced, won a gold & silver medal at Cannes.

Currently, she’s a senior filmmaker at Mofilm.

Tasha lives in Austin, Texas with her cat Beatrix Kiddo and dog Zelda.

James Sunshine - Director

James Sunshine is a producer, director and writer, known best for Safer at Home: The Coronavirus Movie starring Joseph D. Reitman, Kimberley Crossman and John Lehr. He has also directed numerous short films that have gone on to win awards in festivals, plus advertisements that have aired nationally. In addition, he’s produced over half a decade’s worth of major national television shows for CBS, ABC, Fox and more for shows including Hell’s Kitchen, Project Runway, Masterchef and Big Brother. He’s also written more than 20 feature screenplays and pilots. Placing as a Semi-Finalist in the 2018 Academy Nicholls Fellowship.

John Lehr is a comedic performer, writer and producer working in television, film and theater. He co-created Hulu’s comedy series Quick Draw, in which he also starred in and executive-produced. Lehr starred as Leslie Pool in 10 Items or Less, the half-hour improvisational comedy series from Sony on TBS. Lehr also co-created and executive produced the series, which ran for three seasons.

Lehr has created multiple projects, most involving his unique improvisational-based “hybrid” style found in 10 Items and Memron (a Slamdance award-winning mockumentary). With Lehr starring, he recently completed Let It Ride, a half-hour comedy pilot set in Las Vegas for Comedy Central; Retreat!, a half-hour comedy pilot set in a corporate retreat for NBC; King of Beers, a half-hour comedy set in a brewery for EUE/Screengem; and JailBait, a web series for Sony and Crackle.com.

In addition, Lehr created the pilots Team McPhearson, an animated series inhabiting the world of Nascar for Fox starring Jeff Foxworthy; and John Lehr Movie Club for TBS.

Lehr’s critically acclaimed Comedic Lectures solo performances have had sold out runs in LA and New York. He is also a respected improvisational performer having worked at the Organic Theater and Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, The Montreal Comedy Festival, Chicago Improvisational Festival and multiple venues in Los Angeles and New York.

Robert Treman “Bob” Clendenin is an American actor best known for portraying Dr. Tom Gazelian on the ABC-TV comedy Cougar Town. Dr. Paul Zeltzer in the comedy series Scrubs and Earl in That ‘70s Show.

Clendenin graduated from Cornell University in 1986 and earned his Master of Fine Arts from Penn State University in 1990. He has subsequently built an acting career defined by roles as oddball side characters in TV and film.

He has had series regular or recurring roles as Carl Dawson in the TBS series 10 Items or Less and Slow Roger in My Name is Earl. He appeared as characters in numerous shows including The Tick, Popular, Charmed (3x10), Will & Grace, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Ugly Betty, That ‘70’s Show, Felicity, Weeds, Gilmore Girls, NYPD Blue, Desperate Housewives, The League, Star Trek: Voyager (as a Vidiian surgeon), Space: Above and Beyond, Roswell, and on several episodes of The Closer.

He has appeared in many of John Lehr’s shows including Quick Draw, 10 Items or Less and Jailbait. He plays drug dealer Jamie DeBell on Netflix’s Longmire.

Steeples became nationally known when he was cast as the Rubberband Man in a series of award-winning commercials for OfficeMax, featuring the 1976 song The Rubberband Man by The Spinners. Steeples’ performance in those commercials led him to be named one of the World’s Sexiest Men of 2004 by People magazine. He has also appeared in the feature movie Torque, starring Ice Cube, Faison Love, and Jaime Pressly.

Steeples played the role of Darnell Turner on the NBC comedy series My Name Is Earl, which premiered on September 20, 2005 and ran for four seasons. Steeples on the show was known as Darnell Turner (witness protection name) aka Harry Monroe (real name) a.k.a. Crab Man.

He’s appeared as a guest on The Chris Rock Show and besides being an actor, he is also a producer, writer, director and musician.