Jim Berry's career in the visual arts began in Seattle where he graduated from the University of Washington with degrees in creative writing and photojournalism. Following his undergraduate work, Jim spent seven years as a general assignment newspaper photographer for The Albuquerque Tribune, The Aberdeen Daily World, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Seattle Times.

In addition, he worked as a staff photographer for The Goodwill Games and was the team photographer for The Seattle Supersonics for two seasons. He attended both The Eddie Adams Photojournalism Workshop and The Missouri Photojournalism Workshop. His pictures have been published in newspapers and magazines the world over including Details, Outtakes, The New York Times and Rolling Stone.

In 1996, Jim was accepted to NYU's Graduate Film Program. There, Jim wrote, directed and photographed all of his student films and photographed over 30 other films and videos. In addition, Jim maintained a client list for his still photography that included The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York University, Deloitte and Touche, Red Letter Events, Time Out New York, and Swarovski.

In 1999, his short film script, Semmelweis, won a production grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Semmelweis was completed in 2001 and has since gone on to over two dozen film festivals worldwide. In 2002, Jim was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to write the feature length script based on the story of Semmelweis. In 2004, he completed a short film, Massive Arabesque, for Microsoft which premiered at Siggraph 2004 in Los Angeles.

Currently, Jim splits his time between Seattle and Portland, Oregon where he is making films, photographing editorial assignments and weddings, and completing the design of a graphic novel based on the Semmelweis story. Recent clients include Ace Hardware, Aegis Living, Microsoft, and Habitat for Humanity.

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Fritz Michel was born in Paris, France and moved to New Jersey in fourth grade. He received a BA in history from Yale University. After college, he moved to New York City where he worked for the Natural Resources Defense Council, a national environmental advocacy group. After an eight-year hiatus, he resumed his acting career. He studied with renowned teacher Terry Schreiber and was quickly cast in a string New York and regional productions including Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, Ira Levin's Deathtrap, Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Dangerous Liaisons, The Foreigner, Cheek by Jowl's Vanity Fair. Fluency in French led to roles in bilingual productions of Camus' The Just/Les Justes, Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac and Les Liasons Dangeureuses by Choderlos de Laclos. Fritz made his Broadway debut in the National Actors Theater revival of Inherit the Wind with George C. Scott and Charles Durning. While living in New York, Fritz produced live theater including early productions of Stephen Belber's (Tape, The Laramie Project) work.

In 2002, Fritz moved to Los Angeles to originate the role of William in Oren Safdie's critically-acclaimed comedy Private Jokes, Public Places. After two Los Angeles productions, the show moved to NYC's La Mama, ETC in the spring of 2003 and transferred Off-Broadway later that year. The Young Allies production of Private Jokes, Public Places was named one of Los Angeles' top ten theater productions of 2003 by Theater 2K.

In addition to Semmelweis and The Dancing Man, film and television acting credits include Angels & Demons, Syriana, Great Expectations, ER Alias, and Daphne and the Brilliant Blue.

More recently, Fritz has turned his attention to directing and producing. For the Theater Workshop of Nantucket, he directed Ira Levin's thrillerVeronica's Room and Peter Colley's comedy/thrillerI'll Be Back Before Midnight!. In 2011, he directed readings of Oren's Safdie's Checks & Balances at the Flea in Tribeca and A False Solution at the Blank Theater in Los Angeles. He served as associate producer of The Broken Giant a film starring Will Arnett which is part of MoMA's permanent collection. He produced Oren Safdie's stage play The Bilbao Effect at the AIA Center for Architecture in 2010.

Fritz was a contributing writer to Comedy Central's deviant puppet show Crank Yankers in 2002. He is also proud of his work as a voice actor/narrator for the Lend-A-Hand Society's collection of audio books and radio dramas.

He moved to New York in the summer of 2009 where he lives with his wife and two daughters.

For full list of credits, go to Fritz's IMDB profile.


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