CAST AND STAFF
CAST
MANNY SUAREZ was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. A professional actor for over 19 years, his credits include over 50 stage productions; numerous guest and co-starring appearances on television hits such as “CSI” – “Without A Trace” – “The “District”; as well as recurring roles on daytime shows: “Days of Our Lives” – “Solo En America” for Telemundo – “Breaking Up With Shannon Doherty” for the Oxygen channel.
Some of his film credits include several independent, and studio projects: “Bruce Almighty” – “Out of Sight” – “Wild Things” – “Up Close and Personal” to name a few.
Manny is missed by all his friends from “The Big Deal.”
Australian actress TAYLOR MILLS acquired a taste for the arts at age seven when she began playing the violin. Her youth included an abundance of singing, dancing and theater, thanks to the encouragement and support of her parents.
PASQUALE CARANNANTE is a first generation American, born and raised in New Jersey from an Italian Family. A great part of his youth was spent working with the family in Brother’s Restaurant and Pizza in New Jersey. Pasquale speaks Italian fluently and is conversational in Spanish.
JOHN GUMBOC, Wong James Wong, is a trained method actor and a skilled martial artist who holds a black-belt in Kyokushinkai Karate, also known as the deadliest Karate in the World. He has been featured on the cover of Inside Karate breaking seven bricks with his bare hand. John is also skilled in Shotokan Karate, Tae Kwon Do, JuJitsu, boxing, Nunchakus, and sword work.
IVETTE GONZALEZ was born in Mexico City, into a family of distinguished artitsts. Her mother was an actress, singer, and ballet dancer, her father an accomplished musician and her grandfather, none other than Adalberto Martinez “Resortes,” one of the biggest stars of Mexico’s golden era of film. Ivette’s acting career started at the age of six on the professional stage. At the age of ten she was cast as a regular in her first television project, in the city of Guadelajara. Soon after, the film world came calling, and four feature films later she was cast in David Lynch’s “Dune”.
ROB MACIE is unarguably a man who beyond proving that life imitates arts, lives and breathes the adage – his story is one filled with extraordinary adventures, serendipitous encounters, fascinating characters and nothing less than magical moments – all composing the visual reel behind every pixel of a reality called “life”.
PHILLIS ELLIOTT is a classical singer, actress, writer, and linguist. She has performed at Los Angeles’ Music Center, Hollywood Bowl, and Mark Taper Forum, and in 1991 made her international recital debut at the Midsummer Festival of Music and the Arts in Swanage (U.K.).
JEFF BERGQUIST is a published and produced playwright, prize-winning poet, lyricist, librettist, and short story author; novelist; multi-optioned screenwriter; producer of theater, video, micro-budget features and short films, Mr. Bergquist has served as Artistic Director of New Playwrights Foundation since 1985.
STAFF
THE BIG DEAL is a comedy written, produced and directed by Vic Cabrera.
Music by: Esteban Adame
Executive Producer: Margaret Cabrera McIntyre
Editing & Sound design: David Bronsztein