Ryan Tavlin, co-founder/producing partner
His mother was a lion-tamer. His father was a lion. Oh, that old story.
Needless to say, his childhood lacked not for drama. And so now he spends his days trying to conjure it up for you folks. Enjoy, or he’ll rip out your larynx. (Seriously, I’ve seen him do it.)
Stage: Somewhere, There’s Still Good News (Warehouse Rep, St. Louis), Treaty of Long Island City (The Red Room Theatre, New York City), Flash (The Racket Collective, Los Angeles). Film/TV: “Counting Backwards” (Montague Films, 2008), “Without A Trace” (episode title: Devotion), “Ladies of Lambry” (pilot: Warner Bros TV), “Make Me Happy” (pilot), “The Trust” (pilot), “After The Fall,” (feature), “Steinbeck’s Son” (feature), “Best of Times” (feature). Ryan is Manager of TV Development for Last Straw Productions.
Heidi Koling, co-founder/producing partner
Heidi was conceived in a waterfall in Fiji, and things have been quite amazing ever since. She is a recent Chicago transplant, where she was a producing member of Pavement Group and Umalleniay Productions. She attended AADA in New York City and received her BFA in Acting from the University of North Carolina @ Greensboro in 2004. Some favorite roles include Donna in Arrangements, Dr. Narrator in Lipstick Traces, and Countess de Lage in The Women. She also loved her time in Collaboraction’s Sketchbook 6. Her favorite film experience to date was as the factotum of Montague Productions’ Counting Backwards. You will soon see her in a super-secret webisode project which will be completed the end of Summer 2009. Heidi is also a Licensed Massage Therapist in Los Angeles (which is more difficult than one can imagine) and proud puppy lover. Big thank you’s to The Racket Collective crew (all of you). Big love to her PG crew and pals. Huge hugs to Dippy.
Benjamin Montague, co-founder/producing partner
A graduate of London’s Mountview Theatre School, with a B.A. in performance and First Class Honors, Benjamin’s first job out of school was playing Pvt. McDowell in the HBO mini-series, Band of Brothers. He returned to Chicago directly afterward to focus on acting and producing. As a producer and board member for The Gift Theater Company over the past four years, he has overseen both their inaugural show, Boy’s Life by Howard Korder, and Pavillion by Craig Wright. Ben simultaneously worked as executive producer with RoxBox Productions, where he wrote, directed, and co-produced the short film, Busy Dreaming, and co-founded A Crew of Patches Theatre Company, a Shakespeare Rep Company for students, which has performed for over 15,000 students within its first two years.
Kristin Graham, producing partner
Kristin is a born and bred SoCal girl who started doing lighting and sound to help put herself through college. While doing so, she has worked from such clients as Robert Zemeckis, Oprah Winfrey and Michael Jackson. She graduated from San Francisco State with a degree in Cinema and went on to produce theater for Killing My Lobster, one of San Francisco’s leading comedy troupes. While with the Lobsters she also Associate Produced short films and commercials for Ziff Davies Media. After taking on New York City, Kristin has recently came back to Los Angeles where she has kept herself very busy working on webseries and a few shorts.