Hamilton Carver Zombie P.I

Ben Cunis

Hamilton Carver/Writer/Producer

Ben Cunis is an acting company member and fight choreographer for Synetic Theater, Washington DC's Premier Physical theater, specializing in a blend of mime, dance, movement, and traditional acting. For Synetic, he has played such roles as Dante in Dante, Zviadauri in Host and Guest, Don Jose in Carmen, Romeo in the silent production of Romeo and Juliet and many more. Upcoming he will play Antony in a wordless Antony and Cleopatra for Synetic at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Lansburgh Theatre. He also recently killed zombies as Fortinbras in Rorschach Theater's Living Dead in Denmark, and film credits include The Spook for the short film The Waterboard in which, yes, he got waterboarded, and Jacob in Terminus, in which he was a vampire that got Pwned.
Clint Herring

Director/Composer/Lucifer/Editor

Clint Herring is a freebooting cinemagician and musicialist in the DC area. While not pillaging the creativerse for nuggets of awesomecology, he plays with his band The B-Film Extras in terroriforous explosions of rock, makes crazy noirtype filmstock, and chases coffee around the hours of the day and night with crazed intensity. He met Ben Cunis at Catholic University, where they studied theatrics together and went on pirate adventures. Now they are hurling themselves against the world in a semi-pretentious artistic frenzy, without heed for their sanity. Thanks CUA, Naum, beautiful friends, Croatia, dark beer, beautiful women, and special parentals.
Ryan Sellers

Harry

Ryan Sellers is an acting company member for Synetic Theater, Washington DC’s Premier Physical Theater, specializing in a blend of mime, dance, movement, and traditional acting. For Synetic, he has played such roles as Tybalt in the silent production of Romeo and Juliet, a Demon in Dante, and, oddly enough, another demon in Dracula (pattern anyone?). He’s totes brills thrilled to be playing the role of Harry in HC, and thinks that everyone should spread the word on DC theater and film.
Kelsey Rae Grouge

The Lips

Kelsey Rae Grouge has been performing on stage and on screen for 10 years. After graduating from the Catholic University of America Drama Department, she toured the United States with ten other brave souls for the nine month long national tour of both Othello in which she played Desdemona, and The Importance of Being Ernest in which she played Ms. Prism. A Riot Grrl with Taffety Punk Theatre Co, she was most recently seen in Measure for Measure a year after the grrl’s debut with Romeo and Juliet in which she played Juliet. Other performances include This Property is Condemned, The Curator, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Uncle Maroje in the Dubrovnik Theatre Festival. Kelsey is thrilled to immortalize “The Lips” in HC after having so much fun with her in Choices of Ghosts, and she hopes that you find the series to be as exciting and fun as she did...Sugar.
Laura Keena

Stiletto Jean

Laura Keena has been thrilled to be a part of the HC revolution. A native of Georgia, she completed her undergrad degree in Musical Theatre at Catholic University in Washington, DC, where she met her fellow noirtypes. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Lucy Savage

Hilary

is an aspiring actress who is extremely stoked to be making her webseries premiere in the Hamilton Carver series! Savage graduated Catholic University in May '09 with a bachelors in music. Savage spent her post-graduation summer living in Samoa's tropical paradise while working for the CBS reality show Survivor. Lucy just recently made the drive across country to pursue a carreer in acting in LA. You can watch her road trip series Calling all Pots on youtube.
Ken Gagnon

Writer

Ken Gagnon lives and works and writes and sings his little heart out in New Hampshire. He’s a big fan of the following: Brick, zombies, scenes in which a cigarette is lit, slapstick comedy, garlic, and girls lounging on top of grand pianos.
Peter Cunis

Writer, Slapped Around Thug

Peter Cunis is a student of philosophy and theater at Providence College. He has been writing for Granite Kiss productions since it’s formation in 2008, when he co–wrote “The Choices of Ghosts” for the Washington DC 24–Hour Filmrace. At Providence college, he has acted in stage productions of “Noises Off”, “Charley’s Aunt”, “Moon Over Buffalo”, and “Romeo and Juliet”. He has also directed productions of “Drama”, “A Clockwork Orange” (which he adapted for the stage), and is currently directing Eric Bogosian’s “Talk Radio”. He is currently the president of improv comedy group “Harry Houdini’s Box of Doom”. In film, he has worked as an intern with EVP Creative films, and writes/directs short comedy sketches with “The Flying Socrates”, a group he co–founded. His films can be seen at theflyingsocrates.blogspot.com. Mostly though, he is a groovy dude who breaks hearts and noses.
Brian Reber Belida

Bespectacled ninja

Brian’s physical talents have taken him many places in life. He has been training in the discipline of parkour for over 4 years, during which he has been a member of the American Parkour Company’s performance team “The Tribe” as well as its community support and growth group, the APK Alliance. His performance experience includes live demonstrations on the K-Swiss Cross Country Freerunning tour, the Men’s Health Urbanathalon, and at large corporate company events in locations such as Las Vegas and Connecticut. Recently, Brian has been delving into small independent film works. He has provided his talents on projects with award winning director Mike Yamrus, such as “Dispersion” and a short film that took grand prize and best cinematography in the Frederick 72 Hour Film Fest. A jack of all trades, he also worked alongside Mike Yamrus and noir-ninja Sam Slater to film a trailer for a feature-length script he wrote, titled Windtraceurs.
JJ Area

Macbeth

JJ Area recently helped co-found Wandering Souls, a company bringing arts to underserved populations, and appeared in its first production, The Winter's Tale. DC/Baltimore credits include: Baltimore Shakespeare Festival: Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, and All's Well that Ends Well; The Folger (,Winter’s Tale (u/s) & King Lear); Rorschach Theatre: The Skin of Our Teeth; dog & pony dc: Cymbeline; The Shakespeare Theatre (Edward II, Tamburlaine and Argonautika (u/s)); Molotov Theater Group (For Boston); Journeymen Theater Ensemble (The Christmas Foundling); Rep Stage (Hamlet); Washington Shakespeare Company (Richard II), and Synetic Theatre (Jason & the Argonauts). Training: Catholic University, MFA; Notre Dame, BA.
Stephen Blommer O'Malley

Newsdude

Stephen is a Junior English major at Saint Mary's College of California. He is excited to continue plugging Hamilton Carver and Granite Kiss on the West Coast.
Chris Dinolfo

Hamlet

Chris Dinolfo is a stage actor based in Washington, DC and has performed locally at Adventure Theatre, Folger Theatre, The Keegan Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Maryland Shakespeare Festival, Molotov Theatre Group, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Solas Nua, The Studio Theatre, and The Studio Theatre 2ndStage. He graduated with a BA in Drama from Catholic University where he met Ben Cunis and many of the other fine people in this web series.
Samuel Slater

Ninja, Fight Choreography Consultant

Samuel has been training in the martial arts for over 16 years; training in Tang Soo Do, Hapkido, Hsing Yi Chuan, Tai Ji Chuan, Budo Taijutsu, Kumdo, Fencing, and Western Boxing, and Fencing. Currently, Samuel uses his experiences to organize, choreograph, and coordinate the Shelton Martial Arts Demonstration team, based out of Odenton, Maryland. Samuel has also been training in Parkour/Freerunning for 4 years, and has participated in a myriad of performances for the American Parkour Co. including performances at the 2008 NY Urbanathalon, 2008 Cisco Systems Partner Summit, 2008 K-Swiss Freerunning Tutorial filming, and the 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships opening ceremony. Samuel has utilized these talents as well as an interest in acting and performing to become an important resource for various low budget local film projects such as Be More Film’s “Vengeance With a Smile”, the short film “Dice” produced by American University film students, an Assassin’s Creed film contest submission titled “12 Inches From Death”, and most recently has worked performing stunts and assisting in the development of fight choreography for Hamilton Carver: Zombie P.I.
Travis Noble Graves

Flippy Ninja

Travis discovered parkour in spring 2006 and immediately began training and researching every aspect of the art. Coming from a background of elite-level ice-hockey Travis started with a good base of physical fitness and a mentality of hard work. In fall 2006, Travis found himself in a teaching role after co-founding the country's first officially recognized parkour club at a major university, the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Through over two years of near-daily teaching, Travis honed a skill set that would afford him the opportunity to move to Washington DC to teach at Primal Fitness and head up the gym's parkour program. Now a full-time parkour practitioner and teacher, Travis works to improve the community and his own skills on a daily basis.
Aaron Kozloff

Crippled Ninja

Aaron Kozloff is a complete amateur in everything he does. He has some experience doing parkour, and singing in theatre, and wants to have more. He is working on learning some stage combat, and dance, as well as trying to learn Italian and Thai. He was a Hunter in Studio Theatre’s production of Fucking A. He wants to travel to on average one new country a year.
Vato Tsikurishvili

Biggish Ninja

Vato Tsikurishvili is thrilled to be on film for the first time, having this awesome learning experience and performing alongside his great friends Ben Cunis and Ryan Sellers. He got to make new friends and travel all around the DMV while pretending to be a ninja alongside actual, kickass, ninjas.
Pat Mitchell

Pizza Guy

Pat was last seen on stage with the Keegan Theater as Aide Warren in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Before that he was seen behind the scenes at the Synetic Theater in 2008 as a Production Manager. You will find him on stage with his band Deville when he is not frequenting Noir City.
John Dellaporta

Rico

John Dellaporta (Rico) has enjoyed his time in Noirtown, and hopes you do, too. Area Theatre Credits: Matt in The Fantasticks (Bay Theatre), Strephon in Iolanthe (Washington Savoyards), Man 1 in Closer Than Ever (DC Theatre Scene Audience Award Nominee - Best Actor), as well as numerous other shows with the Kennedy Center, Open Circle Theatre, and Toby's Dinner Theatre. "Appointment!"
Sarah Taurchini

Hilary stand-in/stunt-double

Sarah Taurchini is really glad she can say she's worked as a stunt-double. And a ninja. Other credits include playing a fairy (Puck) and a zombie (Guildenstern) in "Living Dead in Denmark", and a dream figment (Beth)/Ensemble in "Dream Sailors" with Rorschach Theatre. She also loves working with Synetic Theatre ("Antony & Cleopatra" and "Lysistrata") because she generally gets to dance around and be sexy. Film credits include: Caelum (not a vampire, but killed by one) in "Terminus", and Audrey Verona in “Adams Morgan: the Movie” which sadly had no supernatural creatures in it.
Steven Courson

Sound Designer/ADR Supervisor

Steven has a passion for all things music and sound. The owner and operator of Save Poncho Studios got his Audio Engineering degree from James Madison University and built his recording studio shortly after graduating. After using the studio to record and produce for local bands/musicians as well as his own solo music, he was thrilled at the opportunity to take on the role of sound designer for the Hamilton Carver series.
Kyle Herring

Assistant Editor

Kyle Herring is what some people might call a "nerd" which is how he found his place working on the Hamilton Carver series. After spending a year and some months working at the Apple store in Christiana, DE he broke free and took his knowledge of all things Apple and computer related and began editing movies and recording music. Durring the day he is your average American History Major at the University of Delaware, a competitive figure skater for Team USA, and the bassist for a new band The Hastings, but was more than thrilled and ready when his older brother Clint Herring called him at his residence in Newark, DE to put his computer skills to use on editing HC.
Schmitty

Ninja

Schmitty is a fan of the Internet, media, noir, and all things awesome. When not freelancing as a ninja assassain he enjoys long, long, long walks on the beach and romantic comedies. This is all that is known of him.
Rob Mylroie

PA, Hapless Dishwasher

Rob Mylroie is excellent at the following things – porchside philosophical consultation, washing dishes, making kilts out of scarves, and generally making random things happen and people calm down. He lives in DC, but no longer works at J. Crew, ladies.