Ashley Wren Collins is an actress, producer, and writer. Her first book with Lloyd Kaufman, Produce Your Own Damn Movie!, is available on-line and in bookstores everywhere. Collins holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. She is a frequent contributor to MovieMaker Magazine and has a regular entertainment blog on The Huffington Post. Collins loves to be in Los Angeles as much as she can, though she lives and works in New York City. Her website is www.ashleywrencollins.com.Native New Yorker Rob Grader is a writer and producer for public radio and television and is an actor on stage and TV. A graduate of the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University, he has performed at regional theaters throughout the country, on popular dramas, sitcoms, and soaps, and in national commercials.

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