Team

TOM SCHULMAN Director

Tom Schulman won an Academy Award for his screenplay Dead Poets Society, starring Robin Williams, and the film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Director (Peter Weir). His feature directorial debut was the dark comedy 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, starring Joe Pesci as a gangster attempting to transport a bag of severed heads across the United States.

Schulman also wrote or co-wrote Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Second Sight, What About Bob?, Welcome to Mooseport, Holy Man, which stars Eddie Murphy, and the Sean Connery drama Medicine Man. He was an executive producer on Indecent Proposal and Me, Myself & Irene.

He co-wrote and co-produced the HBO pilot The Anatomy of Hope with Rafael Yglesias and J.J. Abrams, and recently collaborated with Callie Khouri, Trae Crowder, and T Bone Burnett on the writing of One Lane Road.

Tom served on the board of directors and then as vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West. Tom was the president of the Writers Guild Foundation and serves on its board. He serves on the advisory board of the Science and Entertainment Exchange. Double Down South is Tom’s second feature film as director.

The Cast

Kim Coates as Nick

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KIM COATES

Kim F. Coates is a Canadian-American actor who has worked in both Canadian and American films and television series. He has worked on Broadway portraying Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and in the lead role of Macbeth performed at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. He is best known for his role as Alexander “Tig” Trager in the FX series Sons of Anarchy and as Declan Gardiner in the Citytv series Bad Blood, as well as his recurring roles in Prison Break, Cold Case, CSI and CSI: Miami. He has also had film roles in The Last Boy Scout (1991), Waterworld (1995), Bad Boys (1995), King of Sorrow (2006), Goon (2011).

LILI SIMMONS as Diana

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LILI SIMMONS

Lili Simmons is a series regular on POWER BOOK IV: FORCE, which set a premiere ratings record for Starz when it debuted February 6th, 2022 – link to The Hollywood Reporter article here. Simmons was the lead guest star in a season long arc opposite Liev Schreiber on Showtime’s RAY DONOVAN playing movie star ‘Natalie James’ who hires Donovan for protection. She is known for her work on Cinemax’s drama BANSHEE, starring as ‘Rebecca Bowman,’ an Amish girl disowned by her parents for her promiscuous ways who later takes up a life of crime under her uncle’s tutelage. Simmons remains a fan favorite for her fearless performance. Additionally, she was featured in recurring roles on both TRUE DETECTIVE and WESTWORLD, which she recently reprised her character, and will be seen on the upcoming season, airing in 2022. On the film side, Simmons starred opposite Kurt Russell and Patrick Wilson in BONE TOMAHAWK and made her feature debut in Matthew Lillard’s FAT KID RULES THE WORLD.

Igby Rigney as Little Nick

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Igby Rigney

Igby Rigney is about to be seen starring in Mike Flanagan’s highly anticipated Netflix horror series “The Midnight Club.” Based on the works of Christopher Pike, “The Midnight Club” is Flanagan’s first YA series for the streamer and centers on a group of young patients in a hospice who come together and tell sinister stories. A Flanagan series regular, Rigney recently appeared in “Midnight Mass,” also on Netflix. Rigney began acting as a teenager in small theaters throughout New York City. He graduated high school and college early in order to focus on acting and writing music, at which point he attending multiple acting programs in New York, including The Neighborhood Playhouse. Soon after, he kicked off his film and television career with roles in “The Fast and the Furious: F9” and “Blue Bloods.” Born and raised in upstate New York, Rigney currently resides in Los Angeles. He has the world’s cutest and most spoiled Shiba, Lexi, who eats at the dinning room table.

Tom Bower as Old Nick

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Tom Bower

Tom Bower is a veteran actor who has been active in film, television and theater for 45 years. He recently wrapped production on Double Down South, as well as Rodrigo Garcia’s feature Raymond and Ray for Apple TV+ opposite Ethan Hawke and Ewan McGregor. He can soon be seen in Chris Landon’s Netflix feature We Have A Ghost opposite Anthony Mackie. He is known for Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace with Christian Bale and Casey Affleck as well as Crazy Heart starring Jeff Bridges and Robert Duvall. Other film credits include Vince Gilligan’s El Camino, Ed Harris’ directing efforts Appaloosa and Pollack, Oliver Stone’s Nixon; and Casey Affleck’s Light of My Life. Other credits include: Senior Love Triangle, Die Hard 2, Raising Cain, The Postman, Hearts in Atlantis, High Crimes, The Amateurs, North Country, The Hills Have Eyes, The Killer Inside Me and many others.

He has appeared in over one hundred episodes of television, and his most recent work includes Made For Love, Goliath, Ray Donovan, Bosch, and Antoine Fuqua’s series Ice.

Also a veteran of the stage, Tom has appeared in more than 80 theatrical productions across the United States, including the recent production of Working2020, Harold Pinter’s “No Man’s Land” and “The Caretaker”, for which the production received “Best Revival” and “Best Ensemble” award from LA Weekly.

Justin Marcel McManus as Beaumont DuBinion

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Justin Marcel McManus

Justin is best known for his series regular role of ‘Jabari Reynolds’ on the Power spinoff POWER BOOK II: GHOST, and he is also often recognized for his recurring role as ‘Omari’ on the Fox series STAR. Justin’s other work includes guest appearances on SEARCH PARTY, BLUE BLOODS and Netflix’s SEVEN SECONDS. He recently starred in Will A. Parker’s film FORTY WINKS, alongside Susan Sarandon & John Turturro. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and raised in Carmel, Indiana, Justin is of African-American and Panamanian descent. He is a graduate of the University of Dayton, where he played Division 1 baseball, and is a member of the prestigious Actor’s Studio in New York City.

Cameron Cowperthwaite as Douche

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Cameron Cowperthwaite

Cameron Cowperthwaite started his acting career in 2016 guest starring on Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders. The following years lead to working with some of the most prolific producers in all of television, like Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Tina Fey, John Wells, David Simon, Shonda Rhimes, and Steven Binder. Cameron has appeared in prominent roles on Emmy and Golden Globe nominated shows like American Horror Story: CULT (playing the role of Speed Wagon), American Horror Stories (playing the role of Charlie in Necro), Shameless (playing the role of Batiste), Feud: Bette and Joan (playing the role of Michael Parks), The Deuce (playing the role of Peter), Animal Kingdom (playing the role of Cooper), and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (playing the role Austin). His independent film career started in 2017 with IFC Midnight’s Pledge, which has spawned a cult following amongst horror fans. He had the privilege of appearing in Academy Award Winner Tom Schulman’s Double Down South, playing the role of Douche, which premiered at the Newport Film Festival. He can most recently be seen in Netflix’s record breaking debut show Dahmer Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, playing the role of Steven Hicks. He has appeared opposite some brilliant actors like Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, Susan Surandon, Madison Iseman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ellie Kemper, Tom Bower, Igby Rigney, Kim Coates, Lili Simmons, and Emma Kenney. Cameron would like to thank his mother and late father for all their love and support.

Rebecca Lines as Sheila

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Rebecca Lines

Rebecca Lines plays sassy, fighting, deep southern Sheila in Double Down South. Lines is an American actress known for playing characters that are messy and complicated. She excels at portraying smart, capable women with a twist like Senator Atwood in Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier opposite Sebastian Stan or ruthless, down-on -her luck but cunning women like Kandace opposite Peyton List in Cobra Kai. With over 80 credits to her name, Rebecca has also shared the screen with many award winning actors as well as worked with award winning writers, directors and producers.

Jeff Trachta as Harvey Block

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Jeff Trachta

Jeff Trachta first earned international fame starring as “Thorne Forrester” for eight years on the hit CBS series The Bold & the Beautiful. He made his Broadway debut starring as “Danny Zuko” in Tommy Tune’s revival of Grease at the Eugene O’Neill Theater.

During his time on the soap, Trachta was able to showcase his talents as a singer, which led to an exciting international recording career. Trachta’s debut album Bold and Beautiful Duets, with his TV wife Bobbie Eakes, soared to the top of the European charts within one month of its release. Duets was the first of three albums, all of which have achieved triple platinum sales worldwide. Trachta has performed sold-out concerts throughout Europe.

Trachta’s other television and film roles include “Hunter Belden” on Loving, “Boyce McDonald” on One Life To Live, both on ABC. He starred as “Steve Caldwell” in the feature film Fatal Passion for Royal Oaks Entertainment, and starred in the feature films Interlocked and Poison, both for Franchise Pictures.

Trachta’s guest appearances include Here Come The Munsters on FOX Television, Comedy Central’s Strip Mall with Julie Brown, and the international hit series V.I.P. with Pamela Anderson Lee. His hosting credits include The Miss World Pageant from Sun City South Africa and the premiere run of The Price Is Right Live for Fremantle Media.

He also starred in the award-winning one-man play Agency, which ran for over a year in Los Angeles. Trachta received rave reviews and won both the Robby Award and the Los Angeles Critics’ Choice Award for Best Performance in a Solo Comedy Play. The show, which Trachta co-wrote, was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment. The producers of Seinfeld gave Trachta a development deal to build a sitcom around his unique talents. Trachta received an Ovation nomination and won the Dramalogue Award for Best Comedy Performance for his role as Kenny Brewster in the Los Angeles premiere of Three Guys Naked From The Waist Down. The Los Angeles Times called Trachta’s performance “A subversive, tragicomic tour-de-force. Whether he’s playing a Chihuahua in hysterics, singing a heartfelt ballad, or charting the crackup of a comic genius, Trachta is superb.”

Trachta’s other stage credits include: “Birdie” in Bye, Bye, Birdie with Rue McClanahan at the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, “The Phantom” in Phantom Of The Opera, “The Dentist” in Little Shop of Horrors, “Andy” in Love Letters, “Prince Charming” in Cinderella at The Pantages Theater in Los Angeles, with television legends Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows and Rose Marie, “Father Virgil” in the national tour of Nuncrackers, “Randy Newman, Sr.” in the world premiere of The Education of Randy Newman, and “Joseph” in Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at ArtPark in New York.

Trachta is a renowned Las Vegas headliner in addition to being a special guest for Liza Minnelli, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and James Taylor. He has had extended engagements at Palms, Wynn Las Vegas, The Rio, Westgate Las Vegas Resort, and the Borgata in Atlantic City. He is one of the most sought-after celebrity impressionists in the world today. With an array of over 100 spot-on impressions, Trachta’s show pays tribute to over fifty years of music, comedy, and pop culture. Trachta has performed at hundreds of Fortune 500 company events around the world and continues to amaze people with his spectacular talent.

Production Credits

Rick Wallace Producer

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Rick Wallace

Rick Wallace has produced and directed over 400 hours of primetime hour long television including Hill Street Blues, LA Law, Doogie Howser MD, The Pretender, NYPD Blue, The Closer, Law & Order: SVU, and Major Crimes. He has won three Emmy Awards for Best Dramatic Series for LA Law, and was nominated twice more for Best Directing.

Sara Sometti Michaels Producer

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Sara Sometti Michaels

Sara Sometti Michaels is a producer known for St. Agatha (2018).

Seth Michaels Producer

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Seth Michaels

After a busy 2021, 2022 has a lot more in store for Seth Michaels and his production company Benacus Entertainment. As expected, Red Notice was a big hit, becoming the most watched film in the history of Netflix. The first project of 2022 is “Southern Gothic” a film written and directed by Academy Award winner Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society) His second feature was “The Stenographer”, starring Emile Hirsch. With a slate of 7 projects from 4 features, 2 doc series and a TV Pilot, nothing seems to be slowing down anytime soon. Setting up a mini-studio out of Atlanta with original content has always been the dream, that dream has now become a reality.

Seth has studied with the best, from World Renown acting teacher and Author Eric Morris to Milton Katselas Successor Jocelyn Jones. He has also Studied with Character Actor David Proval and top Casting Director Risa Bramon Garcia. Also Stephanie Feury, daughter of Legendary Acting Teachers Peggy Feury and William Trayler.

His Television Credits include Doom Patrol, American Soul, a recurring role on CSI and co-starring on Nip/Tuck. Seth does Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at Casa di Giulietta every summer in Verona, Italy. He recently won Best Actor the California Women’s Film Festival for his starring role as Dragon in the film “Free Dead or Alive” and he was also nominated as Best Actor for “The Martyr” at the Method Film Festival that focuses only on acting, The Martyr went on to win the CINE Award of Excellence that year. He only spoke Hebrew and Arabic in the film. He also played a Mexican Federale on AFI’s top film shot on 35mm called “Lucha” all in Spanish, leaving audiences at festivals completely silent for the heavy content and realism of the missing Women of Juarez. He has played everything from Israeli to Mexican, Brazilian, American, Argentinean, Italian, Middle Eastern, French, Egyptian due to his Ethnically Ambiguous appearance. Seth has over 100 Commercials under his belt as well, he has shot in different markets, Spanish, English, European, Asian and South American for Top Brand names like Nike, Adidas, AT&T, Verizon, Honda, Chevrolet, Budweiser, Modelo, IHOP, Wendy’s, Etc…

Seth was born in Orange County, California. He excelled at soccer, he went onto College on full scholarships, first to San Francisco State University and then San Diego State University. After his sophomore year he left college to play Professional soccer for Pumas UNAM in Mexico City. One of Seth’s passions is traveling and meeting new people, he has traveled to 37 countries and counting. He is fluent in 4 languages, his native tongue English but also Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. He has been a Vegan for 20 years which leads him to donate part of his earnings to Charities like Hope For Paws and the ASPCA. He also donates to Harvest Home in Venice Beach, a place for single mothers who have nowhere to go, Seth Believes that a strong foundation to a child’s development is a strong bond with their mothers, teaching children Kindness and Compassion, Harvest Homes provides shelter and food to mothers that have nowhere else to go. He has also volunteered for P.A.L. (Police Athletic League) in Hollywood, CA helping youth at risk.

I am looking forward to keep making a difference through my work not only as a Filmmaker but as a human being, to give and help those less fortunate and to teach, invigorate, uplift, inspire the next generation of film makers. To collaborate with pioneers like Christopher Nolan, Alejandro Iñarritu and Steven Spielberg and also actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Daniel Day Lewis” and many more.

Alan Caudillo Cinematographer

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Alan Caudillo

Alan Caudillo is a cinematographer known for The Cleaning Lady (2022), Deputy (2020) and Skyfire (2019).

Yang-Hua Hu Editor

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Yang-Hua Hu

Yang-Hua Hu was raised in Taiwan and came to the US to pursue a film career. After finishing his MFA at USC, he went to the dark side: working in a cutting room. He is known for Mass (2021), The Public (2018), and Tell Me Your Secrets (2021).

Adam Berry Composer

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Adam Berry

Adam Berry is a GRAMMY® and Emmy award-winning composer, songwriter and record-producer who has scored over 600 episodes of television, 16 films and has produced, co-written and performed on two #1 Billboard chart-topping albums. Adam’s career began in 1997 when he was hired to compose the score for a new Comedy Central series, “South Park”. In 1998 Adam began working at Disney, and has since composed scores for six Disney series. In addition Adam has composed the scores for “The Sarah Silvern Program”, “The Penguins of Madagascar” (for which he won two Daytime Emmys and received two Annie nominations) and numerous films. Adam is a member of the Grammy® award-winning band White Sun and has produced many of their albums including their Grammy® award-winning album, “White Sun II”. “Double Down South” is his most recent score.