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Lila, JENNIFER NICHOLE PORTER

JENNIFER NICHOLE PORTER, co-Producer and screenwriter of Mr. Barrington, plays Lila. Ms.Porter's film credits include The Langoliers,Follow the Broccoli, and The Ballad of Ida and Doob. Her many critically acclaimed stage credits with The Originals include Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Rose in The Woolgatherer, Beth in A Lie of the Mind, Babe in Crimes of the Heart, Mary Warren in The Crucible, May in Fool For Love, Scarlet in Lynn Siefert's Coyote Ugly, and Marjorie in Extremities. Ms. Porter is an accomplished and multiple award-winning musician. She composed and performed the film score for The Ballad of Ida and Doob, and is composing and playing the piano score for Mr. Barrington. Ms. Porter's additional screenwriting credits include Cassandra Speaks, a dramatic thriller, Condolences, a comedy about love and death, and 40 West, a poignant desert drama.

Samuel, ERIC SCHWEIG

ERIC SCHWEIG is an exceptional actor and artist who first gained worldwide recognition in 1992 for his powerful portrayal of Uncas in The Last of the Mohicans. Since then, Mr. Schweig has starred in numerous films including Pontiac Moon, The Scarlet Letter , Tom and Huck, Big Eden, and, most recently, Skins.

Mr. Barrington, BRIAN McCARDIE

BRIAN McCARDIE landed on the international film scene in 1995 when won an open audition to star with Liam Neeson, Jessica Lang and Tim Roth in Rob Roy. Since then, Mr. McCardie has starred in films such as Kidnapped, The Ghost and the Darkness,Speed 2: Cruise Control, and 200 Cigarettes.

Mrs. Hart, JONELLE ALLEN

JONELLE ALLEN (Mrs. Hart) is perhaps best known as Grace on the popular TV series, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. She received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical, and won a Drama Critics Award, a Drama Desk Award, a Theatre World Award, and an Outer Critics Circle Award for her role in the Broadway musical, Two Gentlemen of Verona. Ms. Allen’s feature film credits include The River Niger, for which she received an Image Award, Hotel New Hampshire, Come Back to the Charleston Blue, and Cotton Comes to Harlem.

DANA PACKARD, Producer/Director/Editor

DANA PACKARD makes his feature film directorial debut with Mr. Barrington. Mr. Packard's thirty minute 16mm film, The Ballad of Ida and Doob, was accepted to The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, where it was screened at Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Film Center, The Rhode Island International Film Festival (finalist), The Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, The Saguaro International Film Festival, Valleyfest, in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was nominated for the Kathadin Award at The Portland Festival of World Cinema. It received an Honorable Mention award at The Columbus Film Festival, and has aired twice on Maine PBS. Mr. Packard has directed over fifty plays, thirty five with The Originals, a thriving professional theatre company he founded with Jennifer Nichole Porter in 1988.