STuff is comprised of a motley crew of something...well, we'll all just speak for ourselves.
Ethan Aronoff enjoys writing about himself in the third person and make it look like someone else is talking about him. Not much is known about Ethan's early life. A native Manhattanite, his childhood was principally occupied with topiary and smiling cutely while licking out the empties at his parents' parties. Ethan Aronoff has thus far received unanimous critical praise for both his serious drama, improv, and avant garde performances in the New York theater world as well as independent film and television roles. A graduate of Stella Adler and New York University, please treat him with respect and courtesy, because that last sentence cost him nearly $100,000.
When not being sexualized in a sketch or while walking down the street, Diana is curled up under a blanket with her new husband and their two cats, Squeakers and Stinky Stinky Hobo Cat. She's been in movie theaters twice so far this year with the independent films, Anything for You and Modern Love is Automatic. Google her, it's fun. Oh yeah, and check out www.dianacherkas.com or fan her on Facebook or follow Diana at www.twitter.com/DianaCherkas
CHARLIE CONIGLIO was born following an extremely difficult labor, permanently damaging his mother's bladder in the process, for which she has never forgiven him. Since then, he has gone on to perform in a wide range of New York and regional theater, with leading roles in such productions as Taming of the Shrew (King's County Shakespeare), The Clearing (Phoenix Players/ATA), Glengarry Glen Ross (Stella Adler Theatre) and Einstein's Dreams (Aporia Players/NYC Fringe Festival). Most recently, he was seen in HERE's annual One-Minute Play Festival, in which he spoke quite loudly and waved his arms about for emphasis. In his spare time, he plays accordion, studies particle physics and considers having a salad.
Raymond Cordova is an actor/comedian born and raised in Queens, NY. Having trained at different acting schools, done tons of student films and found little success, he stumbled upon improv at the UCB Theatre. You know how they say, “some people are born into greatness, while others have it thrust upon them”? Well neither of those applies to him. Nevertheless, quite the optimist, Raymond feels he has finally found his place amongst the underground comedy scene. With his career finally coming into focus, Ray enters a new venture with STUFF films, which he believes will be one crazy and hilarious, hell of a ride that he hopes you meet the height requirement for :)
Jessica grew up in the south suburbs of Chicago with an affinity for poop jokes and dancing to The New Kids on the Block concerts on TV while using her My Little Pony sleeping bag as a dress. Surprisingly today she is a somewhat sane actor who currently resides in NYC. Jessica has studied theatre performance all over the world: Fordham University Lincoln Center, LAMDA, The Moscow Art Theatre and NYU Paris Study Abroad. Recent Film and TV credits include: The Sitter (Dir. David Gordon Green), What Would You Do? (ABC Primetime News), Dreams of a Petrified Head (Dir. Dan Ouelette), Amy (Dir. R.P. Patnaik), Celebrity Ghost Stories (Biography Channel), The Collector (Dir. Ezequiel Arribas) Recent Theatre credits: Close Up Space staged reading at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center (Dir. Sheryl Kaller), Marion Bridge at The Director''s Company (Dir. Laila Robins). Jessica can be seen in the FlatRate Moving commercial currently running on both coasts. As a natural philanthropist, Jessica's mission is to spread the joy of poop jokes across planet earth. You can see more about Jessica Here! www.jessicadigiovanni.com and here! http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3693977/
Griffin DuBois is an actor, writer, and general contributor to Stuff Films when he's not acting, writing, and generally contributing to the fabric of society. A native of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York, Griffin has spent the past few years putting his state college Bachelor's degree to work here in NYC. A regular at the Manhattan Children's Theatre and various summer Shakespeare productions, Griffin also takes classes and performs at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
Jonathan "Gonzo" Galvez is an actor, playwright, director, teacher, and surrealist raconteur from NJ. He is often seen sitting, standing, lying down, or doing a random yoga pose. His produced pieces as a playwright have included Thirty Minutes or Less in the 2009 NY Int'l Fringe Festival, Crossing Lights at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre, and has had his one-acts premiere in The Shortened Attention Span festivals, Sundog Theatre’s Scenes from the Staten Island Ferry, and the Strawberry One-Act Festival. He buys new underwear every June. He was a featured contestant (and winner!) on the hit internet gameshow Red Carpet Run by Avignon Bound Media. He one day plans to own Denmark. He also Co-founded and is the Artist-In-Residence for Theatrical Gems, a non-profit group aimed at presenting lost theatre classics of the past and unknown theatre classics of the future. He earned the nickname Gonzo after a tragic accident with a taffy puller. He received his B.A. in Theatre Education from Wagner College and is a M.F.A. Candidate for Playwrighting at Hollins University. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and was told there would be cake and pie involved. He has yet to see any cake and pie.
Joya Mia Italiano is one of the few non-hipster AND non-lesbian graduates of Sarah Lawrence College, if you can believe it. While a student, Joya studied theater, comedy, and attempted to stop being a fake Italian by actually going to study commedia dell’arte in Arezzo, Italy. A native of Denver, Coloradey, she made her New York City debut last year in John Patrick Shanley’s Psychopathia Sexualis, at the 45th Street Theater. She has appeared in numerous productions since, including Six Seeds: The Persephone Project, which has been curated by The Tank, as well as the International Cringe Festival, in which she convinced a guy to rub chicken salad all over his junk, which, as an actor, is its own reward. She is delighted to be a member of STuFF FiLMs, but is flustered about having to remember how to spell STuFF FiLMs. It took her three tries to get the capitalization right just now.
Joshua Key-Maginnis originally hails from South Portland, Maine. Yes, Maine. Yes, we have electricity. No we don't poop in outhouses. Yes, we have great lobster. Stop asking him these questions if you want to live. He graduated from Wagner College with a BA in Theater (what does it mean?) and has trained with the likes of B.T. McMichael, Roberta Reardon, and Robby Benson. He was trained in improv by the lovely people at Magnet Theater, and is a member of Red Tie Mafia. He loves everything about Stufffilms. He also loves his super supportive girlfriend, friends, family, and San Dimas.
Jared Miller has been a professional actor in New York and Philadelphia for over thirteen years. He studied pre-med at theUniversity of Pennsylvania but hated the idea of having stability and a steady paycheck so he found theater instead. He studied Shakespeare at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford, England under the tutelage of John Barton and later learned improv and sketch comedy technique at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater in NYC. An early mentor of his, John Gallagher, taught him truth in film and the joy of scotch and put him in his first feature, Cupidity, in which he won a Best Supporting Actor Award at the NY Independent International Film & Video Festival in 2003. TV credits include recurring roles on LAW & ORDER and ONE LIFE TO LIVE and the pilot ACTING CLASS also directed by John Gallagher. Other credits include: LIFE ON MARS and GUIDING LIGHT. You can also see him perform as Emeril Legasse at www.bestemeril.com and hear his voice in video games and commercials. His theater credits include stints Off-Broadway: Tony N’ Tina’s Wedding; Desert Sunrise Regional: I Hate Hamlet (Cortland Rep); The Balkan Women (Bristol Riverside); Dealer’s Choice (Vox/Walnut St. Theatre); Off-Off Broadway: Authenticating Eileen (TheaterLAB/Tin Lily) in which he co-wrote; Beyond Therapy (Friends-In-Theatre); Three Years from “Thirty” (Pantheon). Catch him reanimating Frankenstein's monster of at the Jeckyll & Hyde club in NYC or at the New York Musical Theater Festival's (nymf.org) 2010 production of The Most Ridiculous Thing Ever Hoid as "Chico Marx" at Urban Stages. Also, he can be seen roaming the country doing Arithmetickles, a math-based theater program for elementary and secondary schools. He is a co-founder and producer of STuFF FiLMS and is proud as hell of all the hard work the team puts in each and every week. If you like us, tell lots of people! If you don't, tell more people. Check out his full resume at www.sag.org/iactor/jaredmiller or follow him at twitter.com/jaredmiller.
Conceived, so scholars claim, when a burst of solar radiation hit a TV antenna and produced a surge of electromagnetism that jump-started parthenogenesis in his virgin mother, Jonny Murray was born with the innate ability to turn creative thought into tangible media. After learning of others before him with the same uncanny talents, he studied their teachings and eventually began training at the Temple of UCB, where he hones his skills to this very day. Jonny is still young, mostly inexperienced, but it is his hope to one day become powerful enough to save the world from those that would use their gifts for evil. 'Yeah, I'm looking at you, Steph Meyer.'
Born in Berlin, Germany, Dylan started making films at age 12 using an 8mm palmcorder & whatever subjects he could find around the house with no real editing ability. Now, he does all of his work in HD on an Apple computer & prefers to edit with Final Cut Studio. Making videos is like breathing to him, so naturally when he encountered the mad geniuses of Stuff Films, he had found a source of endless comic material. Little did he know the cycle of abuse he would have to endure without end. Prior to working with Stuff, Dylan worked on the pilot "Bad Apples" for Sid & Nancy Productions, as well as original programming for Brooklyn Independent TV, SOAPNet, the Discovery Channel, and John Stossel. He finds daily inspiration in his beautiful, wacky wife Stacy Ann & the two cats who graciously took them in. Stuff forever!!!
I am Cooper's bio, that is, if she had taken the time to write one. :P
Always looking for new talent, STuFF FiLMS makes a concerted effort to exploit as many people as possible. Sometimes we exploit twice a day depending on our caffeine intake. If you are inetrested in working with us, drop us a line at info@stufffilms.com