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- Winter Ave Zoli was born in New Hope, Pennsylvania. At 11 she moved with her family to Prague, Czech Republic, where she was able to fully plant her Czech roots from her fathers side of the family. She attended middle school and high school at the International School of Prague. She developed a love for the stage and transitioned from ballet to musical theatre and the craft of acting. She began to work professionally at 13 and developed her resume' through acting opportunities on European and American productions that came through Prague. At 17 she attended the Carnegie-Mellon summer-school theater program, and at 19 she enrolled in the Atlantic Theater Company acting school in Manhattan, New York, founded by playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy. After she graduated from the professional program, she moved to Los Angeles, where she resides.
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Julia Yorks was born in New Hope, PA. At an early age, she began landing roles on commercials, TV shows, and films, such as "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," "Unbreakable," "Hack," and "The Happening." Julia also started writing at the age of nine, creating a guide book to her hometown called, "The Kids Guide to New Hope." Years later, Julia chronicled her experience writing the book in an edition of the popular "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series. Julia attended the prestigious Lawrenceville School and Northwestern University before graduating from University of Southern California. Soon after, she landed the role of "Chrissy Farrior" in Chris McQuarrie's "Jack Reacher." On the writing side of things, Jula worked as a script coordinator before being promoted to staff writer on DreamWorks/Netflix's "The Adventures of Puss in Boots." Julia was also on the staff of "Trolls: The Beat Goes On," and wrote freelance episodes of Activision Blizzard's "Skylanders Academy," as well as a yet-to-be-announced series for Hasbro. Julia is in development with Freeform on an original project.- Actress
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Rebecca "Becky" Blasband is a singer/songwriter, screenwriter and actress born on July 8, 1967. She attended a private high school in Philadelphia, PA. At thirteen years old she began studying theater with John Strasberg and the Mirror Repertory Company in New York City. She later attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts for film and television. She went on to be one of the first round of students in David Mamet, William H. Macy and The Atlantic Theater Company's acting school in Vermont and Lincoln Center, NYC. Rebecca performed as an actress in small theaters in New York as well as Off Broadway. As a singer/songwriter, she performed around New York City and New England with then partner Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne, That Thing You Do). She later went on to tour solo acoustic with Squeeze and Aimee Mann, opening for acts such as Jon Bon Jovi, Matchbox Twenty and Chris Whitley. In 1992 she was cast as one of seven artist roommates for MTV's first and groundbreaking series "The Real World", New York, 1992. This was the beginning of Reality Television. (She also appeared in The Real World Reunion (1995), The Real World Reunion: Inside Out (1996), The Real World You Never Saw (1997).) Rebecca recorded "Rapt" a critically well received CD of original material for Mercury/PolyGram as well as writing for Warner Chappell Music Publishing. She later applied herself to screen-writing, collaborating with Academy Award nominated filmmaker Antonin Svoboda on "The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich." She continues to write for the screen as well as write and perform music. She calls herself an "armchair actress," meaning she'll take a role if it's given.- Composer
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Mickey Melchiondo (Dean Ween) was born on September 25, 1970. He grew up listening to everything from the Beatles to Parliament/Funkadelic to Leonard Cohen to Prince to the Ramones to Laurie Andersen. He met Aaron Freeman in a junior high school typing class in their hometown of New Hope, Pennsylvania, and although the two did not get along at first, they soon found they were soul brothers and kindred spirits in their love for music. Upon realizing this, they formed a band right then and there in class, typing up the names of the yet-to-be-written songs they thought would comprise their first album. They also concocted a ridiculously perfect tale about a demon god named "Boognish" who appeared to them outside their classroom, offering them scepters of wealth and power in exchange for spreading the word of Him.
The two were soon spending all of their time in Melchiondo's bedroom, Melchiondo banging out songs on guitars tuned to open chords and Freeman wailing out the good word of the Boognish into a cheap microphone. Being big Ramones fans, they felt that they should share a common surname, and that is where the pseudonyms Dean (Melchiondo) and Gene (Freeman) Ween came from. Within a few years, the two found themselves opening for underground favorites like the Butthole Surfers and Henry Rollins.
Sometime in 1989, Ween opened for the band Skunk in a basement, which happened to be attended by a Twin/Tone Records scout, who offered Ween a record deal. The brothers in music immediately dropped out of community college and recorded their sprawling debut record, GodWeenSatan - The Oneness (1990) with Andrew Weiss (of Rollins Band). The record showcased Ween's broad musical range - gospel, reggae, punk, soul, funk, flamenco, psychedelic, folk, all warped in the way Ween would become notorious for. A tour of Holland followed, and soon Ween had enough buzz to make a fly jealous. A move to the label Shimmydisc produced the dark, lo-fi classic, The Pod, named after the apartment the two lived in while they recorded the material on their Tascam 4-track. The Pod was located on a horse farm. Through much of the time spent living and recording in The Pod, Melchiondo was immobile on the couch of the apartment with mononucleosis. The legend that the two inhaled several cans of Scotchguard during this time period (as the liner notes to The Pod say) is untrue. The band fabricated that as a joke and later regretted it when diehard fans began huffing Scotchguard.
Their rising underground status soon had Elektra Records knocking on the door of their little Pod, and by 1992, the duo had a major label record entitled Pure Guava, which was still all material from their time spent in The Pod, though the songs and mood on Guava were noticeably more lively and less dark than it's predecessor. They scored a cult hit song "Push Th' Little Daisies," which the two performed on MTV's Spring Break.
Up to this point, Ween's records had sounded quite lo-fi. The two felt it was time to move on up, and used the money from Pure Guava's success to build a proper studio (instead of buying expensive cars) and record 1994's very well-received Chocolate and Cheese, though both Melchiondo and Freeman did not really like the quality of the recording. Melchiondo had said that it sounded too much like "glass". The two were also disappointed that Elektra rejected their idea to have a "gay sailor" theme on the album cover and opted instead to have the torso of a shapely girl sporting a Boognish belt grace the cover; the undeniable eye-catcher that this cover was likely enhanced the CD's popularity, and to this day it remains the best-selling Ween album. Ween never even got to meet the girl, which bummed them out a bit.
Around the same time as the recording of Chocolate and Cheese, Adam Bernstein, who had directed Ween's Push Th' Little Daisies video, was directing the Saturday Night Live-based film It's Pat starring Julia Sweeney, and got Ween to play the band in the film. It was also around this time that Melchiondo started up a side project with his friend Guy Heller called the Moistboyz. In typical common surname fashion, Melchiondo dubbed himself Mickey Moist and Heller took the name Dickie Moist. The Moistboyz music was, for the most part, a hybrid of metal and punk while the lyrics focused on overtly offensive humor blended with a strange form of social commentary.
In late 1995, Melchiondo and Freeman found themselves in Nashville, recording an album of all the country tunes they had written over the years with the help of Charlie McCoy, Buddy Harmann, and many other big names in Nashville. Not far off in time from the Nashville sessions, Ween also rented a house on a beach and began recording oceanic songs in 3/4 time and drinking lots of beer. Resulting from these two drastically different conditions were 1996's 12 Golden Country Greats and 1997's The Mollusk.
It was also in 1996 that Melchiondo married longtime girlfriend Michelle Ellis (whom he met when she pulled up in her pickup truck at his job pumping gas at a Mobile Station back in New Hope in the early 90's). Ween's final release of the century was a double disc of live material called Paintin' the Town Brown. In mid-1999, and then in May of 2000 they released their most accessible batch of pop songs on White Pepper, very Beatlesque in the best way possible. By this point, the two were a cult phenomenon with more than their share of fans at both shows and online. The Fox network had the Ween bros. do all of the music for their show Grounded For Life and a web based station called Ween Radio allowed fans to make requests from a selection of over 1,500 recordings of Ween songs.
2003 saw the release of 'quebec', Ween's 8th studio album, and the strangest, most avant-garde cornucopia of bizarro since the days of The Pod and Pure Guava, only this time well-recorded and more mature, if only because quebec contains far less profanity than early Ween records.
The group has always resented being labeled as a novelty act and have stressed in many interviews that just because their music has humor does not mean it's a joke. The fact that people think they are a parody of different musical styles hurts them deeply.
Melchiondo still keeps in close touch with all the Ween fans online by commandeering the bands official website and posting on the newsgroups and visiting the Ween chatrooms. He and his wife were blessed with a baby boy in December of 2000. He is also a huge sports fan, and continues to collect sports cards, play whiffle ball, and golf on a regular basis, and also knows quite a bit about cars.- Camera and Electrical Department
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Collin Leahy was born on 24 August 1987 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA. Collin is known for Red Notice (2021), The Out-Laws (2023) and Zombieland: Double Tap (2019).- Actor
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Composer
Chad has been in the music industry for years, and appeared in his first album Reverb on the Click by the band Rudy + Blitz in 1995. Most recently, Chad has been responsible for the addition of intricate guitar solos to CKY's songs starting with their new album, An Ånswer Can Be Found. However, Chad's more basic guitar work can be heard in the earlier albums Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild, CKY Volume 1, and some work on CKY Volume 2. He is known for being and up-front about his fans, and doesn't shy away from signing autographs or posing for photos, or drinking at the bar with fans. Chad can also be seen in the CKY videos and in Bam Margera's film Haggard (2003). Chad was part of the fictitious band Gnar Kill in the film. He is not a part of the current band Gnar Kill (which is comprised of friends Bam Margera, 'Brandon DiCamillo', and band-mate Jess Margera. He is also shown in many of the early CKY films such as Landspeed: CKY (1999), and CKY2K (2000). After CKY dismissed their original touring bassist Ryan Bruni, Chad filled in, and is seen tossing his bass over his shoulder on the cover of Volume 1. In 2004, after their next touring bassist Vern Zaborowski, was fired, Chad again took over for the brief tour (the first show without Vern was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 27, 2004, where Chad stated, "It seems we're missing someone, although, we don't really MISS him..."). Rudy and Blitz is a band formed by Chad and Dante Cimino in the early nineties in the Philadelphia area. Dante recruited Dave Kloos to play bass and sing. Rudy and Blitz were signed to Ruffhouse/Columbia, who dropped them due to personal conflicts between the band and the record label. Chad later received the record back in his possession, intending on shopping it around to other labels, but the band broke up due to Kloos' disappearance. Rudy and Blitz later played a few shows in and around Philadelphia, and were seen on local public access channels. Since the band has split, the members went on to pursue different projects. Dante Cimino plays drums in a band called Custom Deluxe (with Kloos on bass, no vocals), a project with Kloos called "Three", and Dante also plays drums in a band called Laguardia. Kloos and Dante are now recording some stuff on their own. A remake of their CD "Reverb on the Click" was made in 2003 by Chad.- Dylan Ziegler was born on 27 July 1995 in New Hope, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for Binky (2018).
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Fenimore is an Executive Producer and Development Executive who has extensive knowledge and experience in creating, producing and writing content across a multitude of mediums.
He has served as an Executive Producer on shows for Networks including, A&E, E!, VH-1, TV Guide Channel, FOX Reality and Reelz Channel -- where he was part of the largest Network launch in television history.
He has also developed shows around a variety of talent including: Woody Harrelson, Emmy winner - Jeremy Piven, Skate boarding legend Tony Alva and Oscar winning special effects guru Stan Winston.
As an independent producer and show developer, Fenimore has participated in creative think tanks for Networks. He has also created and sold his own original show concepts to a variety of Networks and production companies including: VH-1, E!, Kingworld, Hypnotic Productions, Industry Entertainment, Vin Di Bona Productions and Eyeboogie Inc.
In addition to working on numerous productions, Fenimore has held in-house positions within a production company as a creative executive and a Network as an Executive Producer.
Prior to his production career, he's served as a marketing executive at both the agency and Network level.
Fenimore was born and raised in New Hope, Pennsylvania. He attended Old Dominion University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and a Minor in Public Relations.
Fenimore was featured in the Associate Press, Daily Variety, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Media Week, Orange County Register and E! Online.
He likes to think inside-of-the-box, with the recent craze of out-of-the-box thinkers, he finds the inside-of-the-box much more spacious, quiet and a great place to think.
Fenimore enjoys mountain biking, referring to himself in third person, playing with his dogs and dabbling as an in international model. He does not like when people try to lace humor throughout their biographies, he finds it unfunny and forced.