ThE TEAM so Far
Laura Delano - Executive Producer
Laura has produced five films with DelanoCelli Productions, Because I Love You, My Over There, The Keeper, Figs for Italo, Brooklyn in July, and co produced one with DC/Jouve Productions, Going Home. She performed nationally and internationally with the Kenneth Rinker Dance Company, The Bertram Ross Dance Company, Rudy Perez Dance Theater, and The Valerie Bettis Dance Company as well as other NYC based dance companies. She appeared in several films including Fame, The Warriors, Stardust Memories, and The Chosen. She has closely collaborated on and edited many scripts but My Over There was her first co-writing credit.
Bob Celli / Writer / Director / Executive Producer as Micheal
Bob is an award winning actor/writer/director and a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA. Bob recently co-starred on City On A Hill, FBI:Most Wanted, The Blacklist, and was a guest star on Gotham. He appeared on The Onion News Network, As The World Turns, Going Home, The Keeper, and Because I Love You. He was in the original cast of Circle, a play based on Arthur Schnitzler's, La Ronde. Circle was the recipient of the OOBR Award for Best Ensemble Cast. Bob also appeared in Down Range, a play about how military spouses face and overcome repeated deployments. Bob is currently developing a feature film titled Amira. Directing credits include Because I Love You, Going Home, Figs For Italo, Brooklyn In July, The Keeper, and My Over There.
Jennifer Plotzke / Producer as Beatrice
Jennifer is the founder of Poor Monster Productions and has served as a producer on a host of films & series including Don't Pick Up starring Keith David & Kathryn Erbe and Love Music Shelter with Esther McGregor. She was the Director of Mentoring and Co-Producer for the Catalyst Content Television Festival, working directly with the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She has worked as a Producer, Consultant and Marketing Manager and has served as a panelist as well as a guest lecturer at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She was awarded the 2025 NY Filmmaker Signature Award from the Chain Film Festival and was the recipient of the 2024 Best Producer award at the AMT International Film Festival.
James Troutman - Producer
James (Jim) has worked in front of and behind the camera in various aspects of filmmaking from Producer, Actor and Crew work in the Southeast US (Atlanta) (Savannah). In more recent years, he has worked on a variety of projects scouting and managing filming/shooting locations for Features, Shorts and Commercial work. He finds the teamwork and camaraderie in filmmaking enjoyable and much like that of the Marines from which he retired after twenty-six years of service. He has worked for clients such as NBC, Netflix, Lifetime, Bravo, Hulu, Apple TV and Subaru.
Stacie Capone / Producer as Gabriella & Don Downie / Producer
Partners Stacie and Don are community leaders in independent film and
thought leaders in digital content. We each bring 15+ years of
experience, and founded SMXL in 2009. Don is co-founder of Small Media
Extra Large, a micro studio that makes big splash content for film,
digital, and TV. He and partner Stacie Capone count Meta, Viacom, Microsoft, IBM, TED Conferences, and the Skimm
amongst their clients. Don is also a longtime co-leader of Filmshop,
and is the founder of Filmshop LA, a tight-knit collective of fiercely
independent mediamakers.
Michael Johnson, MJ as Virgl
Michael Johnson, over the years with various teams MJ created highly sophisticated, engaging, immersive training, and educational products and services using virtual environments and leading-edge technologies, including interactive television. His work in the field garnered many awards including some Emmys. In his latest work, MJ is the director of the feature length documentary, Prairie Prophecy, which is soon to be released on PBS.
Jan Jalenak as Pam
Jan is a playwright, filmmaker, and actor. Jan wrote, directed and produced the award-winning short films, You Can Kiss Me and A Shattering. Her plays have been presented at theaters including Naked Angels, New Georges, Playwrights Horizons, UBU Rep, The Greenwich Street Theater and The Actors Studio. She is currently in preproduction with her feature, The Happy Family and a short, Misanthrope on Vacation. Jan has acted in number of independent films and theater productions and is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio.
Peggy DiPaolo-Andres as Charon
Peggy began her acting career in 2009 in NYC. This will mark her fourth film working with DelanoCelli Productions. She is an actor, model, entrepreneur, and Mom of 4 who enjoys giving back to her community and spending time outdoors with her family and friends. The collaborative atmosphere involved in storytelling is what keeps drawing her back again and again.
Thaddeus Daniels as Dr. Daniels
Thaddeus is a native of Wilmington, NC and an alumni of UNC - Chapel Hill. He has performed in many of Layon Gray's works in NYC and throughout the US. Some Film/ TV credits: Law & Order, SVU, Golden Boy, Orange Is The New Black, The Americans, The Blacklist, FBI, Greta, The Post, and White House Plumbers.
Ken Kotowski - East Coast DP
Born and raised in New Jersey, I served four years in the USAF prior to enrolling in college at William Paterson University where I received my BA in Communications with a concentration in Media Production. I discovered my calling as a Cinematographer while in college and worked as a Director of Photography on my first feature length project the summer after graduation. I received my MFA in Media Production / Cinematography from CUNY City College of New York. Since then I have been working steadily as a freelance Cinematographer. With hundreds of commercials, dozens of short films, music videos, and documentaries, as well as several feature length projects under my belt, I have gained a diverse portfolio and a reputation for being able to shoot anything that comes my way. I’m employed full time as a Lighting Director at MSNBC.
Patrick Hogan - Supervising Sound Editor
Patrick is an Emmy Nominated Sound Supervisor. Along with working as a writer/director, Patrick is a highly accomplished supervising sound editor with more than 100 television shows and movies to his credit. He's earned 9 Emmy nominations and 3 Golden Reel Awards for his work on such shows as HBO's Six Feet Under, Fox's Family Guy, and the Netflix hits Cobra Kai and Umbrella Academy.
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