Our Stories
Danny Gordon
Danny is a television and film casting director, teacher and theatre director based in LA. Recent casting associate work includes: Beef (Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Limited Series), Griselda (Netflix) and the feature film All That We Love (Ley Line Ent). He also recently cast the Hebrew-language short film SULAM which premiered at the Aspen Film Festival and is currently showing at festivals throughout the country. Originally from NY, Danny attended Syracuse University where he received a BFA in Drama with an emphasis in directing. He went on to assist avant-garde theatre legend Richard Foreman, Tony Award winner Michael Mayer and several other theatre directors on new works. He directed and executive produced Kate Pazakis Unzipped: Live at the Zipper at the late Zipper Factory in NYC. The recording of the show was preserved by PS Classics and featured additional material by composer Jason Robert Brown. In LA he re-conceived and directed a staged reading of I Am My Own Wife with an ensemble cast of transgender and non-binary actors with the support of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright. For his work on reimagining this play, Danny received the Transgender Arts Initiative Grant through the city of West Hollywood. He also adapted and directed Eugene Ionesco’s Exit the King starring Drew Droege at the Mimoda Studio as a benefit for the ACLU.
Terra Mackintosh
Terra is an award-winning actress, producer, and writer. Her acting credits include - New York: Back (RAVE Theatre Festival Award for Outstanding Performance), Salty, Grounded, Running Interference (Fringe Excellence in Ensemble Award), Bryony Lavery’s Frozen, Fool for Love. She has appeared on television (Apple TV+, Netflix, HBO, NBC, CBS, Paramount+) and in multiple independent films, including: ‘I Am Like You,’ 'A Good Marriage' by Stephen King, and ‘In Defense of Wonder’ (Atlanta Film Festival Selection, NYU Film Festival Craft Award for Lead Actress). She co-wrote and produced ‘Best Summer Ever,’ the “unprecedented” (Variety) and “unlike anything you’ve seen before” (Forbes) feature made with a fully integrated cast and crew of people with and without disabilities, which was awarded the SXSW 2020 Final Draft Screenwriters Award. The film was named a NYTimes Critics’ Pick, a SXSW 2020 World Premiere Selection, a SXSW 2021 Spotlight Selection, and received raves from The Hollywood Reporter, USAToday, and Indiewire. She returned to SXSW in 2022 for the world premiere of Delta Spirit’s music video “What’s Done is Done,” the first music video to star actors with down syndrome, which she produced.
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