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Danielle Bessler
(Abby Endicott)
An actress, singer, and dancer from Edgewood, KY, Danielle currently resides in Burbank, CA. She made her TV debut as Shanya on Nickelodeon's Big Time Rush, is a lead in the short film Pollution, a co-star in the feature film Dragon Day, and is a recurring lead in Disney Interactive Media's web series The Possibility Shop. Danielle recorded a Hanukkah duet for Disney Home Entertainment, a lead vocal in North Pole Musical for Hal Leonard, and the singing voice for the short film The Maiden and the Princess. In 2011, she will record the voice of Barbie's sister Stacie in Mattel's Holiday DVD. Her commercial credits include Taco Bell, Kid's Bop, and Party City. Additionally, Danielle has a number of theater and voice over credits.
Michael "Mookie" Blaiklock
(Robbie)
Michael Blaiklock is an actor/writer/comedian in Los Angeles, and began performing with the members of Sorry Dad at Emerson College in Boston. Michael has appeared in film and television including It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Sarah Silverman Program, Hung, and Melrose Place. In 2010, he starred in the Comedy Central series Secret Girlfriend. Along with the other members of Sorry Dad, he was a co-writer, producer, creator, and star of Downers Grove for the WB, and Minor Stars for FremantleMedia's Atomic Wedgie.
Dave Horwitz
(Kevin)
Dave is a writer, actor, comedian, and producer from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. A regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, he has mounted dozens of shows including a monthly sketch showcase with his group A Kiss From Daddy. Together with Marisa Pinson, he started a humor blog called Dealbreaker, about all the various reasons you'd never want to date someone. The two recently adapted it into a book (Available now on Running Press), and ABC is currently developing it as a pilot. Along with the other members of Sorry, Dad Productions, he created, wrote, and starred in a web series for Warner Brothers called Downers Grove through their online arm Studio 2.0. Dave has never met the Fockers, and doesn't have any immediate plans to do so.
Elisha Yaffe
(Dougie)
Began performing comedy at Emerson College, where he co-created, produced & hosted ZEBRO, one of Boston's most popular comedy shows. Their videos were featured on CNN, BBC, MSNBC, The Today Show, MTV, and Salon.com. He formed SORRY, DAD in L.A. with the guys to create DOWNERS GROVE. He co-wrote the webseries, REMEMBER WHEN with Curt Neill, & BREAK UP BREAKDOWN, a webseries that launched on MSN's The Bubble. The Boston Herald called him "endearingly silly", The Boston Globe, "a rising comedic star" & The Denver Post, "what it means to see live comedy, breathing energy into an art form that sorely needs it". In '09, Heeb Magazine named him to their Heeb 100.
Justin Becker
(Ted Clarke)
Justin Becker began performing comedy in Boston as a founding member of the Zebro comedy show and as a columnist for Boston's Weekly Dig newspaper. Since moving to LA he has created content for Warner Brothers and Partizan Entertainment, among others. He currently works at the Los Angeles Times and is writing a script for Mosaic Media Group. His podcast will be launching soon.
Genevieve Jones
(Lalie)
Dan Gross
MUSIC
Dan Gross is a composer for film, television, and theatre based in Los Angeles, California. A graduate of the prestigious film scoring program at the Berklee College of Music, Dan's musical career has spanned many media including film, television, Off-Broadway theatre, audiobooks, internet, and silent film. Dan has composed for many companies including Disney, Coca-Cola, and Freak Show Entertainment. Dan currently resides in Echo Park, a quiet little village in the heart of Los Angeles. He is the staff composer and head of the music department of Freak Show Entertainment.
Rebecca Kinskey
PRODUCER
Becca Kinskey is a producer and arts journalist based in Highland Park, Los Angeles. After graduating from San Francisco State in 2005 with a degree in Technical Theatre, Becca moved to Edinburgh and London as a Stage and Theater Manager. Lured to LA in 2006, she has been working in film, tv, music videos, commercials and web tv ever since. Becca left Partizan Entertainment in 2010 after two years as Assistant to the Executive Producer to return to freelance production, and spent most of that summer producing Minor Stars with Sorry, Dad and Fremantle / Atomic Wedgie. She's currently pursuing an M.A. in Arts Journalism at USC, while continuing to produce with Sorry, Dad, Jeremy Konner (Drunk History), Partizan and others. If there's anything her time in grad school has taught her, helping funny people get their shit together is about as awesome as it gets.
Hillary Gurtler
PRODUCTION DESIGNER
Hillary Gurtler has spent the last four years (since graduating Emerson College) working as a production designer and set decorator for commercials (including NFL, Target, Sprint, MTV), films, and music videos (including Joe Pug, Menomena,and Frightened Rabbit). In addition, she co-runs This Is What We Imagine, a Los Angeles film & video collective. Hillary previously collaborated with Sorry Dad on the web series Downers Grove, also as production designer.
Pearl Wible
DIRECTOR
A graduate of Emerson College, Pearl directed an original rock opera and a bunch of music videos, culminating with a collaboration between MTV and Interscope Records. She interned in L.A. for Scott Rudin Productions, and is now a coverage-writing Xerox master. Disney tapped Pearl to co-write and direct their first viral campaign. Working with the agency Leo Burnett, she created a fictional mountain climber and convinced the world he was real. She has been regularly directing videos for Disney since. In 2007, Pearl helped Wayne's World director Penelope Spheeris to develop a script about (what else?) sex, drugs and rock and roll. Pearl's currently spearheading a collaborative time capsule called In 25 Years that features people from around the world talking to their future selves in 2035. She is also working on a script about vintage NASA that she is very excited about. As she was once quoted by Woody Allen in The New Yorker, she is technically done accomplishing things in life, but continues to try anyways.
E. Gustavo Petersen
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
With a background as a video-journalist in Los Angeles, Petersen has been a cinematographer on commercials, music videos, and narrative productions, shooting on nearly every format of film and a comprehensive range of digital cinema cameras. Most recently he has completed two highly successful web-series; Zombie Roadkill, directed by David Green for Sam Raimi's Ghosthouse Pictures, and After Hours, directed by Justin Viar for Cracked.com. Also of note is the comedic short Melt Down, also directed by David Green and featuring David Cross. Other recent productions include the feature film "Rust", directed by Corbin Bernsen and released by Sony Pictures. Petersen and Bernsen are teaming up again for another feature, "Barlowe Mann." Another feature film in the works includes Blair Underwood's Tennyson Hardwick novel, "From Cape Town With Love," for which Petersen has filmed several showcase scenes and a trailer.
Sorry, Dad Productions
Sorry, Dad is a comedic production team based out of Los Angeles. We are Dave Horwitz, Elisha Yaffe, Justin Becker, and Michael Blaiklock. The four of us met while performing comedy at Emerson College in Boston. In 2007, we formed Sorry, Dad in Los Angeles. We are writers, creators, and stars of DOWNERS GROVE, an original series produced for Warner Brothers' Studio 2.0. We also wrote PARTNERS, a comedy pilot for TBS.
Atomic Wedgie TV
AWTV is a young division of FremantleMedia devoted to incubation of quality scripted comedy, new media and branded entertainment. It celebrates it's 5th birthday in 2011 having produced more than 60 short-form webseries spanning 1000 clips for mobile, internet and television. AW was the birthplace of Comedy Central's groundbreaking POV series, Secret Girlfriend (currently available on iTunes), and has served as a powerful development ground to launch cutting edge TV series and dynamic digitally driven entertainment. FremantleMedia is the international production company behind American Idol, X-Factor, Price Is Right, Family Feud, The IT Crowd and about a trillion other shows ranging from the absurdly massive & popular to the arcanely small & hip.
