NIKA EZELL PAPPAS
Actor
Nika Ezell Pappas is an actor, writer, and birth doula located in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated with honors from Columbia University with her Master of Fine Arts. Most recently she wrote a short film based around the experience of sitting in the Planned Parenthood post/abortion recovery room. She can be seen starring in the feature film “Nia on Vacation” with release to Netflix and beyond in the coming months. She worked on set with Martin Scorsese in HBO’s ‘Vinyl’ and appeared in various other feature and short films including ‘Adam Bloom’, ‘Middleground’, and ‘The Poet’.
On stage she’s performed in such productions as ‘Bad Jews’ at Roundabout, 'Midsummer Nights Dream' at Classic Stage Company, and ‘Proud to Present’ at the Guthrie. You may also glimpse her in various regional and national commercials for Verizon, Bank of America, and MLB. 
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PETEY J. GIBSON
Actor, Producer
Petey J. Gibson is a trans/nonbinary LA-based creator, writer, and Groundlings-trained character performer. Petey’s recent acting credits include Transparent, For The People, and The Comedy Get Down (with George Lopez and DL Hughley). Their recent writing/performing/producing projects include Meals with Mary (a comedic webseries whohaha.com called “complete magic... the best cooking show to ever exist”), as well as the Somerville series, a collection of shorts about a rowdy group of wicked Bostonians. In 2017, Petey wrote and co-produced half-hour pilot presentation Somerville, based off of these shorts, and recently completed their second half hour pilot, THEM, about a collection of loveable and hardworking trans twentysomethings.
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BRENDAN BOOGIE
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Writer, Director, Producer
Brendan is an award-winning writer/director/producer whose film Sundown - a comedy/drama about a family coping with dementia - won multiple awards at the 2017 Massachusetts Independent, Buffalo International, Long Island, Sanford International, and SNOB Film Festivals and will be released April 3 exclusively on Amazon. The Mayor of Rock & Roll, which Brendan wrote and starred in, was an official selection of the 2015 Massachusetts Independent and Buffalo Niagara Film Festivals. Brendan is also a mainstay of the Boston independent music scene, having shared the stage with Boston’s best, recording over a dozen albums with various bands, including Scamper and Parlour Bells.
In addition to his film and music endeavors, Brendan has spent the last decade working as a licensed mental health counselor with adults, teenagers, families, addicts, soldiers, and sufferers of all kinds. Working with people at their most vulnerable has helped Brendan gain insight into loss and pain as well as the endless hope of the human spirit, all of which are organically reflected in his films. Official Website Sundown Trailer |
