Henry Ian Cusick is a Peruvian actor and director, best known as Desmond Hume in the U.S. series Lost (2004), for which he received a Primetime Emmy nomination. He also starred as Marcus Kane in The 100, Stephen Finch in Scandal, Dr. Jonas Lear in The Passage, and Russ Taylor in MacGyver. Born in Trujillo, Peru, to a Peruvian mother and Scottish father, he is fluent in English and Spanish. His first leading stage roles came at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow — including Dorian Gray opposite Rupert Everett as Hamlet in The Marowitz Hamlet — and his classical work earned a special commendation at the 1995 Ian Charleson Awards. After starring as Jesus in The Gospel of John (2003), he was cast in Lost. His short film dress (2013) won Best Short Film at the Peace on Earth and Hawaii International film festivals.
Thomas Kretschmann is a German actor whose life story is as compelling as his roles. Born in Dessau, East Germany, he trained as a competitive swimmer with Olympic ambitions before defecting at 19 — a perilous month-long journey through Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Austria. After his debut in Westler (1985) and the Max Ophüls Prize for Best Young Actor, his breakthrough came as Hauptmann Wilm Hosenfeld in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002). He is celebrated for nuanced historical portrayals in Downfall (2004) and Valkyrie (2008), and his credits span Peter Jackson's King Kong (2005), Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023).
Daniela Couso is an American actress known for her versatility across roles in Girl Group (directed by Rebel Wilson), A Royal Christmas Ballet, and Pretty Girls All Go to War in School. She studied musical theatre at the New World School of the Arts in Miami. In Los Vampires she also lends her voice to “Vianca's Theme,” a reimagining of the traditional La Llorona.
Óscar Núñez is a Cuban-American actor and comedian, best known as accountant Óscar Martínez on NBC's The Office. His accolades include two Screen Actors Guild Awards and two Daytime Emmy Awards, plus a Primetime Emmy nomination. A member of The Groundlings, he created and co-starred in Comedy Central's Halfway Home.
Jefferson Mays is a Tony Award–winning actor celebrated as one of the American theatre's great chameleons. He won the 2004 Tony Award for his Broadway debut in Doug Wright's Pulitzer Prize–winning I Am My Own Wife, and earned further Tony nominations for playing nine roles in the musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder and for Oslo. A graduate of Yale and UC San Diego, his honors include a Helen Hayes Award, two Drama Desk Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and three Obie Awards.
Born in Lima, Peru, Carol Abney earned her BA in Theater from UC San Diego and her MA in Dance from the Rotterdam Dance Academy. Her television credits include Modern Family, 9-1-1: Lone Star, Big Love, and Parenthood, and she appeared in the feature Songbird opposite Demi Moore and Bradley Whitford. She has extensive stage credits in San Diego, including the San Diego Repertory Theatre.
Jorge Diaz is a first-generation Mexican-American actor born and raised in Los Angeles. He is best known as the voice of Gabe on Disney's Elena of Avalor, and his screen credits include Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, The 33, the miniseries The Long Road Home, and recurring roles on Jane the Virgin and East Los High, with guest appearances on Arrested Development and The Good Place.
With Jake Regal, Andrew Baldwin, and Roman Phillips.
From Long Beach, California, Craig Mitchell studied film at California State University, Long Beach; acting and directing with David Emmes of the South Coast Repertory Theatre; and with Lee Strasberg at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. He made his first feature as a teenager — released by Universal Studios to favorable festival attention. As a screenwriter he co-wrote The Flock (starring Richard Gere) and New Line Cinema's Highwaymen, wrote a pilot for Lionsgate Television, and has worked extensively as an uncredited script doctor. He served as Executive Vice President of Creative Affairs for Harvey Comics, producer of Casper.
Ty Donaldson is a producer, director, actor, and graphic designer in film and theatre. A graduate of Bard College, he grew up on film sets, his mother a make-up artist, his father a special mechanical engineer for Jim Henson on The Dark Crystal and Fraggle Rock, and went on to found Buddha-Cowboy Productions, a multi-media company dedicated to projects that elevate the human spirit through thought-provoking storytelling.
His producing credits include RIFT, a feature shot in six days under COVID protocols and now streaming on Paramount+ and Tubi; the historical epic Soldier of God, Best Feature winner at the Stratford-Upon-Avon International Film Festival; FBI Guys, Best Drama at the Independent Television Festival; and the psychological thriller RewinD. Earlier credits include Bunny Whipped, consulting-producer work on Getting Ed Laid with Ed Asner and Jean Smart, and choreography coordinator of more than 250 dancers on Dance with Me. For Los Vampires, a feature filmed entirely on stage in fifteen days, he earned the Producers Guild of America mark (p.g.a.). He is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Atlanta local, where he serves on the Indie Outreach Committee.
Simon Coull is a Scottish director of photography with credits and collaborators in more than fifty countries. After years living and working in London and across Europe, he established himself in New York. He is known for his cinematography on Michael Kang's West 32nd (2007), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival — earning a Best Narrative Feature Jury Award nomination — and was praised by the Busan International Film Festival as “vivid and compelling, and beautifully rendered by cinematographer Simon Coull.” Over nearly three decades behind the camera, his work spans feature films, narrative shorts, music videos, and commercials for clients including Audi, Volkswagen, Ford, L'Oréal, Guinness, Samsung, Nissan, Adidas, and Disney.
Ricardo Jattan's passion for building and design began in his hometown of Toronto, where he and his best friend founded a small business creating big ideas from a modest garage. After moving to the United States, he spent nine years assisting some of the industry's leading production designers — a grounding in construction, crew management, and budgets that launched a design career spanning several feature films and more than 500 commercials. Twenty years on, he still relishes every new challenge, from sleek modern interiors to rustic façades to futuristic ships, working with a longtime team of collaborators to make every set work regardless of budget or logistics — creating, as he puts it, something very real, but somehow also magical.
Petra Larsen has worked in costumes for twenty years. She was assistant costume designer on I, Tonya, Nicolas Winding Refn's Too Old to Die Young, Andrew Dominik's Blonde, and Mike Mills' 20th Century Women, and received an Emmy nomination for her work on Pam & Tommy. Los Vampires is her second feature as costume designer, following Noah Pritzker's Ex-Husbands.
Jennifer Aspinall is an Emmy Award and Hollywood Make-Up Artist & Hair Stylist Guild Award winner whose career spans more than four decades. She headed the special make-up department for HBO's Westworld and the make-up departments of the long-running sketch shows Saturday Night Live and MADtv — the show that brought her to Los Angeles in 1996 at the invitation of Quincy Jones and Fox. Her work ranges from Broadway (Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews) to character make-ups for Vanessa Redgrave, David Bowie, and Alex Borstein, to creature effects for Star Trek, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Captain Marvel. She holds an Emmy win with 23 nominations and six Make-Up Artist & Hair Stylist Guild Awards, and has been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, Time, and Fangoria, and in the books The Leading Ladies of Make-up Effects and Monster Squad.
Evan Millard is originally from South Florida and graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a BA in Communication Arts (Film, Television & Radio). He has more than a decade of film and television experience as an editor, sound designer, and production sound mixer, contributing to several award-winning films, multiple TV series, and global ad campaigns. He is the co-founder of Trapezoid Studios, a post-production company in Los Angeles.
Josh Mancell is a Los Angeles–based composer whose work spans festival-acclaimed independent features (The Wake of Light, Love Comes to the Executioner, A Star for Rose, Eat the Sun), animated television (PBS's Clifford the Big Red Dog, Disney's Sam Sandwich, Nickelodeon's Gary the Rat), the multi-million-unit video game franchises Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter, and national campaigns for Target, McDonald's, JCPenney, and AT&T. His iconic Crash Bandicoot music was performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London's Royal Albert Hall in 2018, and music from both game franchises by the Manchester Video Game Orchestra in 2022; he will be a featured composer at the 2027 Music Legends concert in Milan. He has guest-lectured at the American Film Institute, the Royal Northern College of Music, and the University of Michigan, among others, and performs and produces with several bands.
Joey Montenarello is a New York–based casting director working across film, television, and theater. He recently launched his own office, Montenarello Casting, after serving as a casting director at Stewart/Whitley, where as the sole casting director leading the company's expansion into film and television he was responsible for acquiring and overseeing new projects.