Joy Borland * Katrina Melanie Walker * Scott Pyle * Brian Richeson * Sapphire DeFranco
John Lynch * Cheryl Eitman * Bruce Jennings * Ethan Rosenfeld * Sara Pink * Shanteal Davis * Drew Wheeler
Jamal Dillman-Hasso * Richard Krehnovi * Quata Tucker * Abigail Pink * Elizabeth Gould
Jaclyn Inglis * Cornelius Gould IV * Evonne Fields-Gould * Peter Anthony Fields
Joy Borland ("Mercedes LaRue")Joy moved to Ohio from Florida, where she performed in and directed murder mysteries, dinner theatre, and repertory theatre projects. Since coming to the Cleveland area, Joy has performed with many local theatres, including Willoughby Fine Arts Center, The Cleveland Stage Company, Cabaret DaDa, Mapleleaf Theatre, The Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival, The Halle Theatre, and Red Hen Theatre. Breath of Courage is the fourth picture Joy has made with Peter Fields and Little Beth Entertainment. She has thoroughly enjoyed working and sharing time with the Independent Film Community. In August, 2007, she was awarded the prize for Best Actress at the Indie Gathering National Acting Competition. She has also received a 2008 Telly Award for co-producing Little Beth Entertainment’s To See the Moon in the Morning Sky. Joy is currently a professor in the Theatre Department at Cuyhaoga Community College Eastern Campus, a producer for the Cleveland Stage Company, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Shaker Heights Arts Council.
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Katrina
Melanie Walker ("Melissa
Miller")Katrina is a 13-year-old from Berea.She will be a Freshman at Montessori High School at University Circle (as of 2009). This is her second production with Little Beth Entertainment. She has been involved in many Cleveland area productions including: Tiny Tim in "A Christmas Carol", Katya in "A Nightmare of Crime", Young Betty Ann in "Mama's Veil", and five consecutive years in The Marylin Bianchi Childrens Playwriting Festival, among others. She is also a published playwright for the festival for her plays Portraits of Grief and Elevator Music. When she is not on stage or on screen she enjoys, reading, making jewelry, and writing. She would like to thank Peter for casting her in this extraordinary film and her friends, family and fellow cast members for their support!
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Scott Pyle
("Dan Walker")Scott is a ninth grader from Westlake, Ohio (as of 2009). He has been peforming before audiences since he was four years old. He has been professionally trained in dance at the Lisa Wilhelm Academy and plays piano and drums. His theater background includes several performances with the Near West Theatre including “Godspell”, “Merrily We Roll Along” (Frank, Jr.) and “Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”. As a fifth grader, played Winthrop in the Westlake High School’s performance of “The Music Man”. Breath of Courage is Scott’s second film with Little Beth Entertainment. He looks forward to future appearances.
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Brian
Richeson ("Ryan Nickels")Breath of Courage marks Brian's third role in film produced by Little Beth Entertainment. Brian starred as Jim Corinth in Little Beth Entertainment's 2006 production, the Lords of Praxton and had a supporting role in To See the Moon in the Morning Sky. Brian also has a leading role in Johnny Wu's martial arts film, The Rapture released in 2008. Brian has appeared in numerous stage roles. His favorite roles include Ferdinand in the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival's production of The Tempest in 2004; the role of Charlie in the Canton Players Guild 2004-2005 production of Dirty Blonde; and the role of Max in the Canton Players Guild 2003-2004 production of Bent.
By day, Brian is an 8th grade math teacher at Oakwood Middle School in the Plain Local District in Canton, Ohio. He is currently working on his Masters Degree from Kent State University in the Mathematics Specialist program. He will complete his degree in May 2009. Brian would like to thank his wife Jen, Mom, Dad, and all his friends and family for their support in his passion for performing both on stage and in film.
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John Lynch ("Howard
Sims")John has performed in the Cleveland area for 30 years. Stage work includes performing with The Ensemble Theatre, Karamu, Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, The Jewish Community Center, Beck and Cain Park. He has a couple of music videos to his credit and Breath of Courage is John’s second appearance in a movie.
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Bruce
Jennings ("Ken Miller")Bruce Jennings is a frequent contributor to Little Beth Entertainment Projects, both as an actor and a composer of original music. He portrayed “Robert” in The Way Home, and also scored the film. In "Breath of Courage", he again played another dad, "Ken Miller". For the forgotten ones, Bruce contributed the song, “Don’t Wait Too Long”. Bruce continues to work on musical projects in his home studio in Shaker Heights . He works with children with learning disabilities in the Shaker Heights City Schools.
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Shanteal Davis ("Anna")
Shanteal, currently a senior at Shaker Heights High School, has performed in several school plays, including "Sankofa". Additionally, Shanteal has appreared in the stage play "Whispers" at Cuyahoga Community College. "Whispers" will return to the Cleveland stage in October of 2009 at the Palace Theatre. She is active in a Senior Ensemble and is a member of SCORR, a group which visits other Shaker Heights schools to speak to, encourage, and perform for the younger students.
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Jamal Dillman-Hasso (Original
Music Score)Jamal Dillman-Hasso was born in August of 1993. He has scored part of the Lords of Praxton with Peter Fields and Richard Krehnovi. Breath of Courage is the first complete score he has written, and he is extremely honored to have written the score for Peter. Along with being a composer, he is a pianist, trumpeter, chamber musician, stage manager, activist, screenwriter, and aspiring director. Jamal enjoys the writings of Edward Said, the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, and the music of Marcel Khalife. Despite all this, he does also enjoy John Williams and Hans Zimmer.
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Richard Krehnovi (Orchestrator)
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Quata Tucker (Associate Producer)
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Abigail Pink (Assistant Director)
Abigail is a student attending Case Western Reserve University and has performed on stage as a member of her high school's theatre ensemble and has performed on stage and worked as stage manager with Shaker on Stage / Shaker Summer Theatre. Ms. Pink has previously worked with Peter on his feature films, The Way Home, the Lords of Praxton, and To See the Moon in the Morning Sky. Her other interests include playing French Horn and piano, as well as reading novels by JD Salinger.
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Elizabeth Gould (Assistant Director)
Elizabeth is the sister of director Peter Fields and the daughter of screenwriter/producer Evonne Fields-Gould. She currently is a full time student attending Kent State University. Elizabeth began working in film at the age of five when she appeared on camera as the "Little Angel" in the feature film, The Walk (1996). Since then, Elizabeth has worked as production assistant on Seekers of the Statue [2003] (in addition to creating a painting that was featured in that film) and then as assitant director and property master on The Way Home (2004), the Lords of Praxton (2006) in which she also served as costume designer and the illustrator of the artwork that appears in the prologue of that film, and To See the Moon in the Morning Sky (2007). The company Little Beth Entertainment is named after Elizabeth.
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Jaclyn Inglis (Production Assistant)
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Cornelius Gould IV (Sound Design/Mix)
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Evonne Fields-Gould (Screenwriter/Producer/Production Manager)
Ms. Fields-Gould has worked as writer/co-writer, producer, and production manager on every Little Beth Entertainment production including the features films The Way Home (2004) and the Lords of Praxton (2006) and the 2008 Telly Award winning film, To See the Moon in the Morning Sky.
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Peter Anthony Fields (Director/Editor/Producer)
Peter Fields has directed and edited numerous productions over the past 18 years, including the independent films, The Way Home and To See the Moon in the Morning Sky.
Peter has also worked for APS TV15 on Time Warner Cable for the Akron area and Akron Public Schools Online Television Network as a videographer and editor of informational, documentary and children's programing, including the nationally syndicated children's show "Ask Gilby".
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