The cast

Here is the cast for my feature. Only some characters are named yet (I'm letting actors pick names with my approval).


RICK ZIMMER ... Conor Dean "C.D." Yarowski, notorious avant garde director

CHARLES DEEMER ... Robert Yarowski, his older brother, a retired high school business teacher and amateur photographer, who makes a video record of the wake and its process and is the story's narrator

 JOHN SOBOTKA ... his son, who does special effects for his father's projects

 KASEY THORNTON  ... Yarowski's favorite grand daughter, who secretly is taping his memoirs

 DYLAN LAWRENCE  ... Colby Ryan, the grand daughter's jealous boyfriend

JOHN DONNELLY   ... Yarowski's ex partner, who holds a grudge to this day for being cheated

AMY TEMPLE HARPER   ... Han Soo Jin, a former performer with Yarowski who now is his chief rival in avant garde performance circles, who believes Yarowski stole the wake idea from her and will make him pay for it

RON HANSEN   ... Yarowski's accountant, who has made him rich with secret investments in online pornography, making early investments ahead of the curve

 ROBERT PROJANSKY  ... Yarowski's shrink, who stole away one of his wives

 *LOIS FEUERLE  ... the ex wife who ended up with the shrink (* pending)

 STEPHANIE LEHMAN  ... the only ex wife who still "likes" Yarowski -- but couldn't live with him

GERRY BIRNBACH   ... Martin Weiner, a former young filmmaker for Yarowski, now an IRS agent investigating his finances

 DEBRA LEE  ... a singer, discovered by Yarowski, who encouraged her to "go for it" -- which she'll always remember fondly

KATE MURA ... Yarowski's protege, a dancer with her own avant garde company with international reputation, also in Yarowski's debt

TODD PHILLIPS   ... Brendon Waters, a stand up comedian who uses Yarowski in his routine

 KIM BISSETT  ... Andrea "Sai" Raynor, an actress recently planted as a spy in Yarowski's company by the rival director

ANDREW HARDER ... Ross Tanner, one of Robert Yarowski's former high school students

CLAIRE FOSTER ... another of his former high school students

   ... various cameo roles by ex wives, ex performers, theater critics and academicians, both "live" and on Skype


The storytelling style will be a cross between Christopher Guest and Michael Moore. I suppose its "genre" would be called mockumentary.