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MATT LAMBERT (Director/Co-Writer/Co-Producer) is a New York filmmaker who has created numerous music videos and shorts with his production company Mallard Media, and has been called “a damn fine waiter” by Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham. He graduated from NYU, where he won several awards for his film “Lutkoski Fishsticks.” Matt currently has several feature scripts in development, including an adaptation of Polly Frost’s story, “The Pleasure Invaders,” and is producing a special segment for an upcoming National Lampoon film. Website: mallardmedia.biz

POLLY FROST (Co-Writer/Co-Producer) )is the author of the sci-fi /horror story collection, “Deep Inside,” published in 2007 by Tor. Praise for “Deep Inside” has come from Sci Fi Dimensions, SF Signal, The Austin Chronicle, and from the legendary porn star Ron Jeremy. Frost co-wrote and produced the original audio series, “Sex Scenes” with her husband, Ray Sawhill and toured 8 cities across the country with it in 2007. “Sex Scenes” is now on sale at rapturehouse.com. Polly also welcomes you to friend her on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace.

RAY SAWHILL (Co-Writer/Co-Producer) worked as an arts reporter for Newsweek, and published freelance arts journalism in numerous newspapers and magazines. In recent years he has been co-writing satirical, raunchy fiction with his wife, Polly Frost. Website: rapturehouse.com.

MORE ABOUT THE FOLD:

Directed by Matt Lambert from a script by Matt Lambert, Polly Frost, and Ray Sawhill, THE FOLD is a comic, dreamy, and philosophical six-part web series — season one of a projected ongoing mini-epic.

Part sci-fi, part sex comedy, part art movie, THE FOLD interweaves stories involving a time-traveling geek with Aspergers Syndrome, an investigation by a Gaming Babes Magazine reporter, a sex-cult guru, a right-wing CEO determined to remake history, and a New Jersey hot tub salesman for whom things mysteriously start to go the right way.

Lambert, Frost, and Sawhill love the webseries form and see it as an exciting new format: for its sense of time, for the way it takes advantage of new distribution channels, and for the way it expresses the values of the new media and the mindset of a new generation.

We’re hoping “The Fold” is a little bit “Barbarella,” a little bit “Revenge of the Nerds,” a little bit “Liquid Sky.” Fantasy, sex, humor; storylines, fresh characters, and tension … Lambert, Frost, and Sawhill wanted to create a webseries that has the spirit of ’70’s midnight movies.
And all on a budget of just $8000.

“The web serial is a great format to work in, but so far I’ve seen it mostly used just for sketch comedy, or longer stories that really feel more like features that have been chopped up scene by scene and forced into the webisodic format. With THE FOLD, I think we were able to make a larger-than-life story with an arc and intensity particularly suited to the rhythms of a webseries,” says director and co-writer Matt Lambert. Adds co-writer and co-producer Polly Frost: “Why shouldn’t a webseries have the artistic ambitions of full-scale movies?”

Lambert and Frost, together with co-writer Ray Sawhill, dreamed up THE FOLD as a way to combine some of their favorite influences: the inventive scrappiness of Roger Corman, the straight-to-DVD flamboyance of Takashi Miike, and the tacky seductiveness of Roger Vadim circa “Barbarella.” Says co-writer Sawhill: “It’s ‘Revenge of the Nerds’ meets ‘The Matrix,’ only raunchier, and made for next to no money.”

And did we mention that THE FOLD is very funny?

Filmed in NYC, THE FOLD stars some of the best performers from New York City’s acting, downtown performance, and burlesque scenes, including Jake Thomas, Ampora McLean, Francesco Paladino, Josh Matthews, Karen Grenke, Jeremy Lawrence, Julie Atlas Muz, Porno Jim, Angela Lovell, Stephanie Sellars, Ramfis Myrthil, and Normandy Sherwood.

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KAREN GRENKE is delighted to continue working with the incomparable Polly Frost, Ray Sawhill and Matt Lambert. Previous work with Frost and Sawhill include Sex Scenes and other readings in New York and California. New York theatre includes performances at The Public, Women’s Project, the Ontological Theater, The Chocolate Factory, HERE, chashama, Theater for the New City, GAle GAtes et al., BAX and Aisling Arts. Film: Matt Lambert’s Rockville. Regional: Hangar Theater. She co-wrote the 80’s teen dramady Wuthering High. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and trains with The SITI Company.

www.cageyproductions.com

JOSH MATTHEWS has been an actor, clown and teacher in NYC for 4 years. Josh is a graduate of Dell Arte international school of physical theater.His most recent work as been as a company member of Under the table ensemble theater, Josh has recently wrapped up a national tour of an original work called Solo: A two person show. His latest show with Under the Table is The Only Friends We Have which plays July 30/31 in Manhattan at Theaterlab on 14st. between 6th and 7th ave! Josh also works with the big apple circus’s clown care unit. Josh most importantly is a big fan of Matt, Polly and Ray.

www.underthetabletheatre.org

STEPHANIE SELLARS is a writer, performer, and filmmaker based in New York City. Recent acting credits include two plays: The Adventures of Kid Zero (a kids’ musical about math) and Euphoric Tendencies (a kinky story about erotic spanking). She also plays Dorothy Parker in The Potable Dorothy Parker: A Literary Cocktail, a reading series she co-created and co-produces for venues such as Mo Pitkin’s and Telephone Bar. Her writing has appeared in several publications, including New York Press (”Lust Life”) and Moviemaker Magazine, and her short films (Twenty Minutes of Immortality, Julie and the Clown), which she wrote, produced, directed and starred in, have screened internationally at film festivals and on Independent Film Channel. As a singer, she has performed in jazz clubs, restaurants, and cabarets on the east coast and abroad, most recently in Ajijic, Mexico.

www.stephaniesellars.com

JULIE ATLAS MUZ, Miss Coney Island and Miss Exotic World 2006 proudly continues the tradition of naked ladies in public spaces begun by Lady Godiva. She has been awarded many art awards, including the Whitney Biennial ‘04, Sexiest Burlesque Performer Go Magazine ‘06 and the Worst Humiliation for Downtown Dance, TimeOut NYC ‘04.

www.julieatlasmuz.com

FRANCESCO PALADINO’S “work is charming, witty, and completely disturbing…” (TIME OUT NEW YORK). A fearless performing artist/stand-up comic, who writes and performs throughout New York City and has appeared on television, stage, and in films both domestically and internationally. In 1995, the film, The Fifth Commandment, which he starred, won top honors at The International Independent Film Awards in Spain. He has worked with George Clooney, Howard Stern, Drew Barrymore, and Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman. In “Sex Scenes”, he has played a plethora of outlandish sexual circus freaks ranging from a bi-sexual Eastern European director to a furvert. His “one man” adventure, with several personalities, has been seen at STAND-UP NY, THE TRIAD, THE HERE, and THE DUPLEX. Currently, Francesco continues to be seen at various live comedy venues throughout New York City.

www.francescopaladino.com

JEREMY LAWRENCE has appeared on stage in New York, Los Angeles and in regional theatres across the country as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He’s worked in movies with Brian De Palma, Ron Howard, and Stephen Herek. He has numerous tv credits and he can be seen on the internet in the series INHUMAN RESOURCES and in the film THE FOLD. His plays have been produced and developed around the country. His cabaret of queer Berlin cabaret from Weimar to Hitler “Lavender Songs” produced by TOSOS II won a Bistro Award from Backstage this past year.

www.jeremylawrence.net

ANGELA LOVELL was published before she was old enough to drive. She’s an award-winning playwright, director, screenwriter, pod-caster, writing instructor, sex columnist, film/music/theatre critic, and performing monkey. After dropping out of NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts, Angela wrote for Universal Studios and MTV. Stay tuned for her skewed feminist play Self-Help coming soon Off-Broadway.

www.TickingBoxes.com

AMPORA MCLEAN is a beautiful actor inside and out with a passion for Acting in Film, Television & Theatre. Ampora was born to a cab driver father and nurse mother on the 18th January in the West Indian isle of Jamaica. Ampora McLean is the youngest of five children, two brothers and two sisters. At the tender age of seven years old she moved from Jamaica to Montreal, Quebec-Canada for a better life. After graduating from high school Ampora attended Dawson College and completed a BA degree as an Illustrator. She worked for three years as a freelance artist. However, she caught the acting bug while working on the set “Sirens” directed by Robin Spry in Montreal, Quebec where she was the stand-in for actress Adrian Joy-Johnson as well as a recurring police officer. Ampora enrolled with the Montreal School of Performing Arts where she embarked on an acting career. She landed her first speaking role for feature film “Coming Of Age” directed by Lionel E. Siegel where she played the lead, shortly after in 1998 she moved to Toronto - Canada to seek work as an actor. Her alluring personality, versatility and warm appeal have not stopped her from appearing in several commercials and productions. In 2003 Ampora moved to New York City to attend The Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in pursue to become a professional actor. She graduated in 2005, she was cast in feature length web-series in a lead role called “The Fold” directed by Matt Lambert releasing in Spring 2008. She also performed as one of the Stepsisters/Effie’s lawyer in “Dreamgirl”s Off-Broadway by Foster Productions in New York City (August 2007). Ampora has gone on to work on several films and theatrical productions and continues to find work as a successful actor both in Canada and USA Ampora continues her journey in the performance arts and maintains her focus and going after her dreams. She has learned among other things that talent; determination and hard work with a strike of luck will make her a shining performer. Ampora is a survivor but a fighter and her journey at the road of life continues…

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