CAST AND CREW
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Gráinne Ahern Gráinne has been an advisor to the production, as well as voicing several roles. She brings a wealth of talent to the production. She has been Senior Producer on Seoige for Radio Telefis Eireann, the Irish National Broadcaster and has a wealth of experience in TV and Radio, including working on the afternoon show, scripting and producing the daily lifestyle programme . Gráinne was also a newsreader for RTE Cork for a year.
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Renda
Carr Renda has been singing since she was 18 months old, in Church, at events, with groups. She modelled while in Design School. She is a part of Dean and Company ( http://www.dean and-company.com/ ) a childrens' program seen on Bright House Networks and National Cable for years. Renda enjoys acting, singing, doing voice-overs. Renda plays the part of Lieutenant Saavik on Star Trek: Lexington, a role that she reprises here, as well as being a producer for Star Trek: Lexington. Renda is a part of Rebel Legion and you can find her hanging out as Princess Leia at many events.
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Cavesdale Ben Cavesdale is a talented 3-D artist and illustrator who is venturing into the world of voice acting. He has experience speaking in front of large crowds: leading children and teenagers while working as a summer camp counsellor and instructor for 3-D game development courses, and advising professional business teams across the U.S. while working as a Business Analyst for Sears. Cavesdale is pursuing a career in medicine and has spent many hours volunteering at a local hospital in the Emergency Department. Offering care and support to patients will give him a real ability to convey sensitivity in the character of Aabin. He enjoys being an active contributor to the Star Trek Grissom project. |
 | Aine Ni Choileain Aine brings much experience in many performance and media areas. She spent a year studying Drama and Communications in Northern Kentucky, with a major in Theater Production. Aine has considerable experience working with Irish drama, including work on "Ros na Rún" and "Fair City" – two of Ireland's flagship dramas. She currently works on Ireland’s top game show, 'Winning Streak Dream Ticket’ as a broadcast coordinator. Aine was also a contestant on "Treasure Island: Series II", getting down to the last 8 contestants out of over 39,000 applicants! |
 | Jennifer
Cole Jennifer has been a long time Star Trek fan and a member of several Star Trek fan clubs / groups for the last 20+ years. Jennifer is a Producer / Director on the long-running Internet fan series Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, Star Trek: Odyssey, and Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles since the beginning. Currently, Jennifer lends her voice to the audio dramas Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations and on Temporal Investigations II. Jennifer loves almost every facet of science fiction and loves to read a lot too! In her day-to-day existence, she works for the U.S. Federal government, thus keeping her ability to pay for her hobbies intact. |
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Dees
Will Dees was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and has been a life-long Star Trek fan, growing up with TNG reruns and Voyager. His first encounter with the Star Trek fan production community was in 2006 when he first came across (at the time) New Voyages. Preferring the TNG era to TOS, he soon found Hidden Frontier. Will also does voice acting for Star Trek: Temporal Investigations II, as Lt. Vor'al, and played a guest character in Star Trek: Federation One, as Thoteres. In the 21st century, Will is a university student studying history, and is becoming more involved in acting, including the role of Alonso in a college production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." |
 |  Andrew Foster Andrew Foster is thrilled to be playing a role in the U.S.S. Grissom audio adventures. A Canadian resident who has lived and worked in Canada, America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Switzerland, Andrew has always had a love of performing. He has been with Hidden Frontier Productions since 2006, and is currently producing the audio series, “Star Trek: Federation One”. Schooled in music, French, and education, he has also appeared onstage in many musical theatre productions. Although he works in the high tech industry right now, he still makes time for many creative pursuits including photography, graphic arts, music, travel, and acting in the Canadian film industry. He is excited to be part of the great tradition of audio dramas. |
 | Keith Harris
Keith is from Birmingham, Alabama, USA and made his acting debut as Captain Alexander McKnight in the web-based live action fan film "Star Trek: Lexington." His charming southern personality is an exciting addition to the Star Trek: Grissom audio adventures.
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 |  Bodo
Hartwig When he is not composing music for Grissom, or working as supply chain manager for a Swedish pharmaceutical company, or travelling between the worlds of Glasgow and Cologne to see his beloved fiancé, Bodo likes to challenge himself in minor roles as an actor. In the mid-90s, between school and university, he took two years of stage acting and drama courses but eventually gave it up. With the internet accidently taking him to Star Trek fanfilms websites, he decided to sign up for the role of the Vulcan Lieutenant Solek in "Star Trek: Intrepid" in 2007, which also brought him to Scotland for the first time. His favourite TV shows are still "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", as well as the rebooted series "Battlestar Galactica". Bodo is also on the writing staff for Grissom, and also did the sound editing and produced the musical score for the series. |
 | Brad Hathaway Brad hails from Northwest Ohio, in the United States, and has been a fan of Star Trek for many years. He is the Executive Producer of the web-based, live action “Star Trek: USS Hathaway” and plays Captain Jeffery Pierce. He will be reprising that role for “Star Trek: Grissom”. Brad works in information technology, but retains a love for the creative arts and regularly works on computer graphics and animation. Besides playing Capt. Pierce for Hathaway, he is also responsible for almost all of the creative work on Hathaway, including, but not limited to: script writing, makeup, computer animation, graphics, props, camera, editing, and lighting. When approached about Star Trek: Grissom, Brad stated, “It is good to see another 23rd century production out there. Telling the story of the U.S.S. Grissom is a great choice. I’ve always liked the character of Captain Esteban, so I wrote him as a significant figure in Pierce’s past. I was honored to be approached by the Star Trek: Grissom production, and happy that we can work together, along with Lexington, to create a tale for 23rd century movie era fans.”
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Howard Jones Writer, Chapter 4 Adrian Howard Jones is a post-graduate psychologist, with a strong interest in both futurology and history. He is an academic by nature, with a hunger for knowledge that can never be satisfied. He is passionate about reading, describing his home as closely resembling a library. Equalling his love of reading is his collection of DVDs and joy watching films and documentaries. He has often been called a 'permanent student'. Adrian is the mainstay behind the highly detailed, and highly researched Star Trek: The Interim Years, the story of the evolution in attitudes and technology, which took place between the era of James T. Kirk and Jean Luc Picard. Adrian also is part of the main writing team for the Star Trek: Grissom stories, bringing his in depth knowledge of 23rd century Trek to the production. Adrian brings his myriad abilities to the roll of David Marcus. |
 |  Hannah Klang Hannah Klang is 25 years old and hails from Sweden. She has lived in Dublin for 5 years, where she currently works for Pfizers International Procurement Department. She attended a Performance Art Upper Secondary School in Sweden for three years with a focus on Acting & Dancing. She was cast to play the lead, Violet, in Twelfth Night and had parts in the plays "Lysistrate" (Aristophanes), "Miss Julie" (August Strindberg) & several TV productions done by the media students from the same school. When Hannah graduated from school she went on tour with a festival theatre group for two months. In Dublin she took a 10-day acting course at LYCS last year.
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Liebmann Michael Liebmann plays a character named after himself (though calling his character, Dr. Michael Liebmann, "doctor" does sound a little strange) and works to check the differences between the English in the scripts and the English he speaks. He only recently started getting involved in Internet audio productions, and Star Trek: Grissom is the latest project he is working on, having also worked on Star Trek: Excelsior, Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations, Star Trek: Phoenix, Star Trek: Dimensions, Lara Bond: 0012, Gaia's Journey as well as others. He is a legal secretary by day, and a filk vendor by night and on weekends, spending his time in Atlanta, Georgia. Michael is far nicer in reality than the character of Dr. Liebmann, who he fears has a villainous streak. |
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Dave
McEvoy Dave hails from Dublin, Ireland. He is a lifelong science fiction fan with a large collection of comics, DVD and CDs to prove it! He is currently studying Film and TV production in Bray and hopes to become a professional in that field... IF his Starfleet application gets rejected. Dave is an excellent Mr. Sulu impersonator, and even impressed George Takei when they met.
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Rick
Pike Rick is a lifelong fan of science fiction, and especially the Star Trek universe. His acting talent began at age 11, when he charmed the primary school crowd as Poo-Bah, Lord High Everything Else in The Mikado, his fifth-grade primary school class play. Since that time, he hasn't done anything else, nor had any additional formal training, nor any acting jobs... until recently, when he provided voice roles for otherwise fine productions such as Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, Star Trek: Operation Beta Shield, and Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations. Rick has also worked behind the scenes as production assistant, technical crew, otter wrangler, and staff for Hidden Frontier Productions and their collection of shows. Rick is constantly amazed by the collective creativity, versatility, and talent of all these performers, and hopes to glean just a bit of skill from them. In the mirror universe, Rick is a university administrator from the Washington, DC area. |
 | Barbara
Puder
Barbara Puder is currently the choir director for her church at St. Joseph the Work Parish, in Nashua NH. She's involved in all aspects of church music in various parishes, as a chorister, soloist, cantor, and organist, occasionally all at once. She's also had a rich background in musical theater, having been in the pit orchestra for shows such as Hello, Dolly!, Guys and Dolls, Zorba the Greek, Oliver!, The Music Man, and Fiddler on the Roof.
Barbara has been in supporting roles onstage for the last two as well. Additionally, she sings with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, where she's performed a wide range of classical choral music, as well as Holiday Pops at Christmastide. You may have also caught her in another Star Trek audio drama, Diplomatic Relations, voicing the role of Ambassador Jessica Kingsley. Barbara is married to Karl Puder of General Korg fame, has two terrific children and an amazing daughter-in-law. Rounding out the family are Chica the Gorgeous Tuxedo Cat, Chloemonster Underfoot, the overgrown kitten with too many toes, and various stray humans as becomes necessary. Barbara returns to her Irish roots with Grissom, as her maiden name is ‘Mooney’.
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Karl
Puder Karl
Puder (known in most places on the web as 'Solak') is a long-time fan of
science fiction and Star Trek since watching The Original Series in
syndication. He still has (and 'fits'
into) the science officer uniform his mother made for him to wear when he was
in high school and met Gene Roddenberry.
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 | William
Raymer Based out of Yuma, Arizona, William comes to the Grissom cast with a variety of talents. He is an experienced voice actor with Pendant Productions (http://www.pendantaudio.com), for which he can be heard in a variety of roles-most notably “Dennis/Denise” in the company’s original series “Once Upon a Time in Vegas.” William is also a member of the Closing Logo Group Video Network (http://www.clgvn.net), a video editing collective dedicated to the preservation and presentation of television and motion picture production company logos. He is the creator of “SFM++,” the most popular and imitated compilation film series in the Network’s history. He is also a writer with 30 (as of this writing) stories to his name on FanFiction.net |
 | David
Robertson David Robertson was a “forces brat” but is now 35 and living in Glasgow, Scotland. He's always been interested in acting since playing King Herrod in the School Nativity play. He joined Star Trek Intrepid in 2007, where he's made a lot of great friends, and met his partner. He's also been involved with Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations, and was in the latest HF/Intrepid crossover, Operation Beta Shield. David was brought up on Sci-Fi, so it's always close to his heart. He also loves 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad.' His favourite Doctor is John Pertwee, followed by David Tennant. |
 | Clive
Saunders
Clive is fairly new to the world of fan produced audio dramas, and if it hadn’t been for an off-hand comment by Levar Burton at SF Ball 14 in 2008, Clive might only be listening to this show rather than appearing in it. Clive’s TV and Radio experience includes: ITV Meridian’s “True, but Strange” , BBC Radio Scotland's "The Fred MacAulay Show," "Morris: A Life with Bells On," "Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations," and later in 2009, "Tom Crean: Sailor on Ice" – Captain Robert Scott http://www.imaginationlane.net . |
GUEST STARS
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Slagenweit-Coffman Michael is out of this world and sometimes out of his mind. Currently in studying for his Master of Divinity degree, Mike is the better half of the Slagenweit-Coffman duo. When he is not working at school or church, studying, taking care of 5 stuffed animal children, working out, Mike writes both the Star Trek: Eagle Star (www.usseaglestar.com) and Tales From The Wolfpack (a superhero series). He is currently based in Washington, DC. |
 | Dallas
Teague Snider Dallas’
acting training includes studies at the University of South Alabama, Birmingham
Southern College, and voiceover training with Marie Prater, to mention but a
few. Her television and film work
is extensive, and includes: Commander Brieanna Smith in
the Star Trek: Lexington episode "All in the Appearances"; The
Way; Being an Effective Coach; Pineville; The Departure; Here and Now; The
Collections; BJCC Past to Present; Southern Style with Edie & Friends (Pilot); The Private Guy; Don't Make Eye
Contact; Jane's World; and more. Her ultimate goal is to one
day host her own show, where she can encourage and empower people to reach
their true potential. |
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Nick
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 | Lucie Faria-Cook Shar-on Colgan/ S'Veralis, Romulan Agent (Episode 4)
"Charlie X" was the Star Trek episode that hooked Lucie as a teenager and she has been a fan since. As well as acting in the fan film series Starship Intrepid, one of Lucie's makeup duties is the "Romulan ears, constant improvement project". She enjoys the power of veto as her husband is the co-Creator and Producer Nick Cook, and much of the production is filmed in their house. Lucie has also been involved in the Hidden Frontier family of fan productions (including "Operation Beta Shield," "Helena Chronicles," and "Odyssey") and a role in the feature length independent science fiction film "Polaris" (currently in production). Lucie enjoys going to auctions and scouring shops, searching for "interesting" items such as books (although she enjoys researching them more than reading them.) Lucie has a particular fondness for Las Vegas and always enjoys visiting America. Her most recent trip took her on an exploration of the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains of California, including Yosemite National Park. Lucie and Nick are expecting their first child in late October.
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 | Michael Hudson Forums and Technical Support Michael usually works behind the scenes on both the Starship Intrepid and Hidden Frontier websites, as well as post-production work for Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations and the Star Trek: Federation One Audio episodes. Michael is also the forum administrator for the U.S.S. Grissom website. He can also be seen in front of the camera on Starship Intrepid. Michael is a veritable miracle worker in relation to administering the forum and website for U.S.S. Grissom, our own 21st century Mr. Scott! |
 | Alex Matthews Alex Matthews first got into Star Trek watching TNG repeats on Sky One, and the love affair never ended. After writing his own Trek-themed stories for several years, he discovered the world of fanfilms, and soon became immersed in the work they do. He joined the cast of the Dundee-based Starship Intrepid fanfilm, as the second actor to portray Lieutenant Keran Azhan, a man with a mysterious past who may help or hinder the Intrepid's crew. After listening to audio Trek series, he was inspired to develop his own original show, Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations, which follows the exploits of Federation Embassy staff on a world newly inducted into the United Federation of Planets. Alex is thrilled to be asked to voice one of the villains of the Star Trek: Grissom project, and is looking forward to the project.. When not working on Trek-related projects, he also works on various Doctor Who ideas and fanfilms, as well as several other different fantasy-related projects. |
 | Charles H. Miller II Ri'tarxx, Saurian Captain of the S.S. Arcadia Luxury Starliner (Episode 2) Ash / Sukhar, Romulan Agent (Episode 3) Writer, Chapter 9: Lacus Somniorum
An Annapolis, Maryland native, currently living in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Charles has lived several places around the world, from Indiana to Okinawa, Japan (while in the U.S. Army). His sons still live in the Midwest. A TOS fan since it premiered in the sixties, he has followed every series and movie over the years (even those painful to watch series and movies).
Charlie first got involved in Star Trek fan productions in 2006; he did set constructions, and even "transporter door operator - main bridge" and boom-mike operator on the Star Trek: Phase II "The Child" production. He has assisted in editing on the audio series StarTrek: Lexington, and now hopes to find a home with StarTrek: Grissom and other fan productions in various roles.
A computer tech by trade, he sings and dances regularly at several locations in Fayetteville, NC and Evansville, IN.
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 | David O'Neill David is a native of
the Chicago area, and a long-time fan of Star Trek. He watched TOS
reruns in the 1970s, TNG, DS9 (his personal favorite), and most of Voyager and
Enterprise and all the Star Trek movies. David is an avid reader, and a burgeoning literary, television, and film critic. His friends insist he is much more handsome in real life than while hidden under blue bodypaint on camera... but David just insists that he is "freakishly tall." |
PRODUCTION CREW
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Tobey Slagenweit-Coffman |
 John Whiting as "Dr. Henglaar"
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John Whiting Merchantman Captain (Episode 5 onwards) John Whiting, born in 1956, developed a life-long fascination with video production in high school with a new black and white reel-to-reel video recorder and switcher. By a tortuous route, this led him to becoming a technician at Hughes Aircraft, first working on the F15 radar systems, and later, to repairing high-level test equipment. This, of course, had absolutely nothing to do with video production, although he read about the subject voraciously. After 25 years at Hughes, health problems started up, and eventually he retired on medical disability. About that same time, the U.S.S. Angeles Star Trek club decided to make a movie starring club members in a fan-made Star Trek adventure. A friend twisted John's arm until he joined the club, and he ended up playing two small parts in the movie. His acting was terrible, so there was no direction but up from there. When Rob Caves began Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, John decided he wanted to do more acting, so he joined. Like most of Hidden Frontier's volunteers, he found that there was more that needed to be done than there were people to do it. So, like most of Hidden Frontier's cast and crew, he found himself advising on scripts and technology, holding a boom microphone, producing, acting as a director and an assistant director, and, perhaps his most important contribution, teaching himself makeup and forming the makeup department. Worsening health forced him to pare back to just acting and doing makeup. As of this writing, he heads up a talented cast of voice actors on the audio production, Henglaar, MD, a show based on tv's House and John's irascible Tellarite doctor character from Hidden Frontier. He still dabbles in computer graphics in entirely too much spare time. |
 | Melissa D. Wilson Carol Marcus, Ph.D., Civilian Research Scientist, Spacelab Regula 1
Writer, Chapters 1 and 2
Melissa is a full-time clinical nurse. However, her talent and creativity include creating scenery and costumes for various shows and themed parties, most memorably "Titanic."
Melissa has also enjoyed singing as a member of the Mamas and the Papas’ tribute band, The Mas and the Das, and appeared with them in "The Mr. Pussy Show," a revue for Ireland’s most famous drag artiste. Melissa also sang in Moscow as a guest member of the Lassus Scholars.
Melissa is the co-creator of Star Trek: Grissom.
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|  Bodo Hartwig Bodo has worked on quite a number of projects, mostly Star Trek fanfilms. He scored three episodes of "Star Trek: Odyssey" and is currently working on the feature film "Voyages of the U.S.S. Angeles", where he is also doing the audio processing. He also composed incidental music for two episodes of "Star Trek: Intrepid", and scored two short films for filmmaker Martin Lejeune. His works include original themes for several audio shows, as well as level music for the open source videogame "Blinken Sisters". Bodo also lends his considerable acting talent to the role of Lt. Brian Childers, Communications Officer aboard the U.S.S. Grissom. |
 | Sam Wich CGI Opening Sequence (Youtube, Vimeo, Website) Sam is from the United States and found fan films by accident while researching the history of Star Trek for a school report. The first fan films he saw were Star Trek: Intrepid, then New Voyages/Phase 2, then Hidden Frontier. Sam had always wanted to do a fan film, and but after seeing the success of others it inspired him to have a go at it, the result being the highly successful Star Trek: New Homelands. Sam's opening titles for Grissom add a new dimension to the show. |
 | Brian "Arkady" Childers Brian hails from Tulsa, in the state of Oklahoma, USA, and when not enduring that particular form of torture -- or plotting world domination (starting with the takeover of PEZ Candy) -- he is a amateur sci-fi sketch artist. Brian's freehand concept sketches can be seen realized as CGI models in "Starship Intrepid" and the original sci-fi production, "Frontier Guard." Brian provides visual artwork for "Star Trek: Grissom." |
Joseph Bonice Joey Bonice is Star Trek: Grissom's source for all knowledge pertaining to life the 23rd century... he's our Guardian of Forever. He supports the writers and producers with this knowledge. Joey was born in Iowa (probably near James T. Kirk's future birthplace), but growing up in a military family, he has lived all over the world. He was a Star Trek fan from an early age. He credits his knowledge of 23rd century Star Trek lore to time and practice. His first involvement in fanfiction came about in the mid-80s . His father challenged him to get a hobby, and since he liked Star Trek, it was natural that it would become his hobby. He also liked writing, so he joined the two and, with the help of friends, came up with Star Trek: Lexington, for which he is the creator and a writer/director. |
 | Seán P. Teeling Writer,
Chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 |
 | Rob Caves Executive Producer
Rob Caves is the driving force behind Hidden Frontier Productions, the parent production company for the Hidden Frontier family of fan films. He was the Executive Producer of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier (2000-2007), the Executive Producer for Star Trek: Odyssey (2007-2010), Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles (2008-2010), Star Trek: Federation One (2008- ), and two stand-alone films, Star Trek: Orphans of War (2008) and Star Trek: Operation Beta Shield (2008). He is also the film editor of these productions. He is also the Executive Producer of the independent science fiction series 'Frontier Guard (2009- ). Mr. Caves attended film school at Loyola Marymount University, graduating in 2000 when Star Trek: Hidden Frontier was in its first season. The project grew out of video production efforts he started with the Star Trek fan club, U.S.S. Angeles, in the Los Angeles area.
Some of Mr. Caves' credits include working as a Production Assistant for Seven Arts Pictures, Stone Stanley Productions, and as a Post Production Assistant on the Fox film, "Behind Enemy Lines". He worked as an junior editor in corporate video production for several years before moving to his current job as staff editor at a major production company.
"Making a Star Trek fanfilm has always been one of my dreams," Caves says, "I used to make videos as a kid with action figures and models on strings, and producing the Hidden Frontier Productions family of shows has really been a culmination of those dreams and those of the cast and crew, to make these things come together." |
