bios

Debbie Rochon as “Madam Won Ton”

Starting out as a New York stage actress, Debbie Rochon belonged to numerous theatre companies during the 1980′s as she honed her acting skills in classical and contemporary works. After working on several bit parts in indie films she had found her true love; film.By the mid-1990s, Rochon was starring in dozens of horror features. Since her debut, she has starred in over 160 horror films and has garnered praise as the definitive Scream Queen of her era. Although mostly associated with creepy features and thrillers – she has garnered acclaim for her turns for comedy and drama. She has since expanded her role from being in front of the camera to behind it, taking on tasks as both writer and production of a handful of films. Moreover, Rochon has also co-hosted a number of radio shows in New York City which focused on film and pop culture. In addition to her cinematic and broadcasting talents, Rochon has written for numerous publications including GC Magazine, Videoscope, Femme Fatales, The Joe Bob Report, Draculina, Scream Queens Illustrated, Scan and Sirens of Cinema.

Lou Martini, Jr. as “Elvis Presley/Louis Diaz”

Born in New York City to a show biz family- Dad Luigi Martini was a well respected character actor and singer until his death in 1971 — Lou Jr. was seen early on in the classic The Godfather. Lous other childhood roles included the Mary Tyler Moore film Whats So Bad About Feeling Good? After Luigis death, Lous mother decided to pull him out of the business. However, Lou always had the bug and after graduating from the University of Houston, he finally came back home to NYC to pick up where he left off.

While working on his craft, Lou landed his first big break with a leading role in the off-Broadway smash ‘Tony ‘n Tina’s Wedding” and would later star in off- Broadway in such shows as Pleasant Avenue, Gangster Apparel, On the Waterfront, and the current off-Broadway hit Murdered by the Mob. Most recently, Lou was the lead in the Penguin Repertory Companys world premiere of “Centennial Casting”.

Lou’s television credits include numerous appearances on NBCs Law & Order as well as Sydney Lumets critically acclaimed 100 Centre Street, NBCs As the World Turns, Late Night with Conan OBrien, and FX’s “Rescue Me.” Lou also became Americas favorite doorman on the E Television networks smash hit Gastineau Girls. Nicknamed by some of his colleagues as the hardest working actor in New York, Lou landed a recurring role in the remarkable HBO series The Sopranos as Anthony Infante, brother-in-law to New York mob boss Johnny Sacramoni.

Cathrine Jandrain as “Linda Meyers”

Catherine Jandrain has studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and is currently taking classes at the HB Studio in New York City. She has appeared in numerous plays in Belgium and France, a few favorites include O’neil and “Independance” by Lee Blessing. She has also performed in several musicals including: “The Merry Widow” and “Mediterranee” by Leo Vicas. In New York, she has acted in several music videos and short movies. Catherine has also modeled for many famous brands as Armani, Hugo boss and Guess.

Daniel Trinh as “Asian Cook”

Daniel Trinh is an up and coming actor, who wants to make a difference in the world through films. He almost ignored this dream due to hardship factors, that is, until he was in the middle of getting his Master realization that dreams are worth fighting for and decided to make his mark on the film industry.

Since then, Daniel has worked on numerous projects including: feature films, television shows, short films, industrial videos, prints, and even a public service announcement. Many of Daniel’s past work includes his supporting role in the SAG feature film “Lonely Jpe” (2009), a guest role on the TV Show “The Whitest Kids U Know,” and his supporting role in the Chino y Nacho ft. Don Omar music video “Dentro de Mi.” For 2009, Daniel is finishing up his lead role in the SAG feature film “Real Men Wear Pick” (2009) and of course, preparing for his supporting role in the SAG feature film “Won Ton Baby!”

Gunnar Hansen as “Dr. Kurt Severson”

Gunnar Hansen was born in Reykjavik, Iceland. He moved to the US when he was a boy and grew up in Texas, where he attended the University of Texas.

For more than thirty years he has worked mostly as a writer, publishing work in magazines in the US and Europe, and publishing several books, including Islands At The Edge Of Time. He has also written and directed numerous documentary films, including Penobscot, Invisible and Ntolonapemk: Our Relatives Place.

Gunnar is best known for playing Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, one of the most influential horror films ever made, now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

In 1987, Gunnar returned to acting in the cult classic Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. He has acted in twenty-four movies since then, including Mosquito, Freakshow, Hatred Of AMinute, Hellblock 13, Swarm Of The Snakehead, Murder-Set-Pieces, Gimme Skelter, Chainsaw Sally, Apocalypse & The Beauty Queen, Brutal Massacre and Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre.

He has been featured in a number of documentary films, including: The Greatest Movies Ever, The Perfect Scary Movie, Unconventional, I Love The 70s, Masters Of Horror and The Fearmakers .

Harry Terjanian as “Dr. Severson’s Assistant”

Harry Terjanian is a NYU graduate, actor, and stand-up comic. Based out of New York City, he has performed live at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Gotham Comedy Club, Carolines on Broadway, The Improv, Laugh Factory, and Stand-Up New York. Harry has also performed for major universities nationally including Syracuse, Skidmore, NYU, and UMass at Amherst. He has starred in films such as Rob Frio: Indifferent School Teacher and Pasadena General. His latest film is the lead role of Guy Hart in the Morgue Art Films mockumentary Guy With a Camera, due out in 2009.

Keely Kate Williams as “Sally Greentree”

Keely Kate Williams was born in California and raised in Texas. An oddity to her classmates, who never really understood her liberal views and why rolled off her tongue, Keely was naturally drawn to the theater and its ragtag gang of misfit actors. Her love for performing continued to grow as she pursued her BA in Theater from The University of Texas at Austin. To this day, how ever many years later, she has yet to shake film. Some of her favorite credits include: Female Chorus in Secrets of Lamp Lit Blinds, Jezzie in Screen Doors on Submarines, Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol, and Turtle in The Honorable Urashima Taro. Keely is proud to me making her horror film debut as Sally Greentree in Morgue Art Film’s Won Ton Baby!.

Nick Raio as “Detective Bob O’Reilly”

Nick Raio, SAG, AFTRA, AEA, is a native New Yorker raised in the Bronx and living in Manhattan. He is a retired New York State Prison Guard who also worked in Home Improvement and Real Estate sales before finding his true calling as an actor. He is frequently cast as a gangster or law enforcement but does have a good sense for comedy. His Nick’s commercials and his role as Guile in Street Fighter: The Later Years on the College Humor website have earned him a bit of a cult following.

Rob Kabakoff as “Dwight”

In 1993, Rob committed himself to a career devoted to performing as an actor in film, television and commercial productions and has been a working member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1997. Thus he has had the privilege of working with many of the most talented people in one of the world’s most creative and competitive professional environments. In 1999, on a parallel and complimentary track he was granted a Bachelor’s Degree – cum laude – in Security Management from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Prior to that and for over ten years he was gainfully self-employed in the trucking business in NYC. Any spare time Rob has is spent traveling the world.

These adventures have brought him to many diverse and fascinating locales, among them: Moscow, Marseilles, Paris, Beijing, Bangkok, Rome, Istanbul, Hanoi, Cairo and Jerusalem through Rio de Janeiro, Maccu Piccu and Mexico City to points beyond which are too many to list, but he documents his experiences in a weekly email newsletter titled Tip From the Top and would be flattered to ad you upon your request. He was born in Philadelphia and raised in the quaint old seashore community of Brooklyn, New York. Got a problem wit dat?

Sal Sirchia as “First Assistant Rob”

Sal is also known as musician, composer, manager, and producer in the rock industry. A long-time friend of the deeply-missed and cult favorite Joe Spinell, over the past decade Sal has become a fixture on the horror scene making appearances in such films as Nikos, The Tenement, and Sins of the Father. After a long stint as one of the inmates on the popular HBO series Oz, Sal earned accolades from critics and fans alike for his scene-stealing performance as “Troy” in the Joseph Ariola-helmed horror Knock Knock. A regular on the MYC-based television show New York Rocks, it is no surprise that Sal's upbeat personality and diverse talents as an actor, musician, and promoter has led to writers, directors, and actors asking him back to collaborate with them time and again. Though Won Ton Baby! marks his first collaboration with writer/director James Morgart, the two of them have already begun preliminary planning on two new projects set for 2010 & 2011.

Simone Xi as “The Brothel Hostess”

Originally from China, the now New York-based Simone Xi has recently starred in The Matchmakers as Hamako, Millennium Baby as Katy, and Sage as Alexis. The multi-facted Simone trained in acting in New York, earned college degrees from The University of Auckland (New Zealand) and Manukau Institute of Technology (New Zealand), and speaks English, Mandarin and Cantonese. Inspired by her experiences as an overseas student in New Zealand, she also published a novel, Christmas in Summer, which has printed 100,000 copies in her native country.

Sui Keong Wong as “Asian Cook”

Sui Keung Wong, known to his friends as Sui, is an actor based out in New York City. He was born in Hong Kong, China, but, grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the mid 1980s. That was when the young Sui grew in love with the music of Hip Hop. He later on became a DJ in college and continue the love of the art post-college. He was both a club and a battle DJ. During his stay at SUNY Albany, he entered in a few local battles, then later on, he branched out to compete in the regional DMC (Disco Mix Competition) in both New York City and Boston. With natural progression of a DJ, he cofounded a Hip Hop act to push furthur his love of the art. From there, he figured out that inorder to be a great showman on stage, he would need to learn and develop the onstage personality. In the beginning of 2006, he enrolled in few acting technique classes to learn the fundamentals of acting. And, from then on, he continue to take more classes, as most people will say, that was when he caught the "acting bug." He has been continuing to develop his craft by taking many advance classes in acting, gymnastic, and martial arts. He has been participating in many student films and small independent productions. He was an apprentice at New Perspective Theatre Company during 2008. He will be seen in February 2009 for the upcoming play, "A Word" – Do Video Girls Have All the Fun?, as Italian the Pimp at the National Black Theatre.

Suzi Lorraine – Assistant Director and starring as “Little Wing Won Ton”

Suzi Lorraine is an actress, writer and model from New York City. She has appeared in over 40 independent films. Her acting career has allowed Suzi the opportunity to work all over the world, often in the horror genre which she adores. She has worked on movies filmed in the U.S., Italy, Canada, London, Germany, Argentina, Amsterdam, and the British Virgin Islands. She was honored by fans in Torino, Italy during "Suzi Lorraine Night" at the Empire Theatre. Several of Suzi's films screened that evening, as part of a Suzi film retrospective.

Suzi has been a staff writer for Gorezone Magazine for the past 4 years. She writes a "Diary of A Scream Queen" column for this popular genre magazine, which has sales of 90,000 issues per month. Suzi co-hosted the Gorezone Film Festival in October in London.

She is drawn in particular to the horror genre, but has a deep affinity for comedy as well.

Even more appealing are roles that allow her to fuse horror with comedy, as she has a fairly quirky and offbeat sense of humor. Black comedy genre films, such as "Evil Dead" and "Basket Case" inspire Suzi, as does her admiration of shock rock legend Alice Cooper. Suzi also co-host several "MonsterFest" episodes for the AMC channel last year. She is currently working behind the camera for the first time, having completed the horror/comedy feature film "Won Ton Baby!", about a whimsical Asian devil baby who goes on a killing rampage. Suzi created the story idea, and also co-produced the film.

Suzi’s website is www.modelsuzi.com

James Fazzaro as “Director of Photography”

James Fazzaro went to Rutgers University with the full intention of becoming a biologist. He wound up becoming involved in the Rutgers Film Co-op, and soon got the filmmaking bug. It was not until after he had graduated that he began making films. The first attempts were short Super8 films and Hi8/D8 videos, and after other students saw his work, they soon asked him to shoot their projects, mostly Super8 and miniDV projects. A two-year stint at NYU earned James a Certificate in Cinematography and several longstanding contacts in New York. He began moving up to 16mm, HDV and Super16mm productions as he accumulated more equipment and gained more expertise. Since 1998 he has served as a cinematographer on over twenty short and feature length films including several films he also directed. In 2007, he was hired by James Morgart for a short film Morgart produced and co-wrote. They soon formed a working relationship that has produced the short horror film The Legend of Suzi (2008) starring Suzi Lorraine and the feature length mockumentary Guy With a Camera (2009) starring Harry Terjanian. Won Ton Baby! will serve as the fourth film that the Fazzaro/Morgart duo has teamed up for. He continues to shoot and edit for himself and others while gearing up for a busy and exciting 2009.

James Morgart as “Director/Writer”

James is a writer, director, actor, and proud New Jersey native. In 2008, he founded Morgue Art Films and co-founded Morgue Art Productions, LLC after working freelance on several film projects including Love (2003), Night Sunshine (2003), and Love Harriet (2007). In 2008, he wrote and produced The Legend of Suzi, a short 8 mm film starring Suzi Lorraine. That same year he also wrote and directed the mockumentary Guy With a Camera under his new production company and film label. His writings have been published in Gorezone, The Kelsey Review, and The CPA Journal. In 2009, he plans to complete his first novel identity following the graduation of college. He has a Bachelor Accounting, a Bachelor Accountancy. Currently, he teaches rhetoric and composition at his beloved Penn State University where he is working towards a MA & PhD in Literature.

Jen Morgart as “Production Design”

A full-time participant of the Morgue Art Films crew, Jen has worked on virtually every aspect of the behind-the-scenes crew that one can possibly imagine. In 2007, she performed duties as Hair & Makeup Artist for the short film, Love, Harriet. A year later, Jen worked first as Art Director on the horror short woman-revenge thriller, The Legend of Suzi as well as Production Designer on the mockumentary Guy With a Camera. Though shes currently at the helm of creating the world of the Won Ton family as Production Designer, she will soon be taking the helm of her own projects as Writer/Director under the Morgue Art Films banner. Jen is set to make her directorial debut with a currently untitled short film in 2010.

Mars Homeworld as “Original Score”

Combining passion and professionalism, Dead House Music Mars, has built a solid reputation within the horror community as a musician who consistently delivers what genre filmmakers want. On time, on budget, and ready to scare you out of your seat.

Born into a family of musicians; Mars is a multi-instrumentalist who began performing professionally at the age of 13. He has played with Symphony Orchestras, as well as Jazz, and Rock bands on tours through Canada, and the United States. He has logged countless hours in recording studios as a session musician, and is himself an accomplished studio engineer. Having grown weary of the road; Mars decided to combine his two greatest loves, music and film, founding Dead House Music in 2005. “I’ve had a life-long love affair with things that go bump in the night, explains Mars, I remember being captivated by monster movies at a very young age. I saw all the classic Universal horror films on late-night television, and I was hooked. I feel like a man on a mission. A great movie score can stand on its own, without the relying on flavor-of-the month bands to attract interest. I’m doing my best to return the horror score to its rightful place as genuinely well crafted and respected music.

Website: www.deadhousemusic.com
MySpace: www.myspace.com/deadhousemusic