Founder and President of Palatine Hill
Producer-Director-Writer-Actor

In the 1980s, Michael starred as Kevin Jackson in the PBS series Powerhouse. He played Hamlet, Othello and Richard III in the Folger Shakespeare Library’s educational touring show Bill’s Buddies, Ben Mahaines in Violets Are Blue starring Oscar winners Kevin Kline and Sissy Spacek, and John Moseby in the independently produced science-fiction thriller Star Quest: Beyond the Rising Moon. A community organizer like his father, Michael founded the Speech and Drama Department of the Washington Saturday College when he was twenty years old.

Michael’s first screenplay Nat placed well in the 1991 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. Two years later, he was a Writers Guild of America sponsored intern for Star Trek: The Next Generation at Paramount Pictures. As the Romulan Commander Sirol, he became the first writing intern to act on the show.

Michael left Hollywood in 1997 and returned to community service in Washington, DC where he taught people in at-risk groups how to use the dramatic arts as life tools for change. His work with incarcerated youth was the subject of three Washington Post stories in 2002. He also founded The Fearless Acting Workshop, which helped new actors and filmmakers launch careers in DC, New York and Los Angeles. As the producer, artistic director and star of the award-winning play The Meeting, he brought professional theatre to the Washington National Cathedral for the first time in its history.

The Drum Major is Michael’s directorial debut in film.

Here are clips from some of his on-camera work in film and television…

JIM POLLOCK

Producer-Actor

Throughout his life, Jim Pollock has combined an interest in the arts with a sense of social action and public policy. Rather daunted by the prospect of college, he took a year after high school to travel around the world with a group that included then National Geographic (later, Time-Life) photographer, Bill Epperidge.

After earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, Mr. Pollock did graduate work in cross-cultural relations at the University of Pittsburgh. As a career foreign service officer, he managed U.S. libraries and cultural centers overseas, focusing in the fields of educational development and cultural exchange. He then rekindled an earlier flirtation with voicing, studying narration and acting at John Burr Productions.

Editor

Jeff Herberger is a veteran camera operator and editor with over 30 years of experience in the film and video industry. Jeff first learned his trade as a Photographers Mate in the United States Navy, doing two tours of duty with the Navy's Combat Camera Group out of Norfolk , VA. A graduate of the University of Southern California's School of Cinema and Television, he approaches each shoot with a heavy emphasis on the art of lighting for video and film.

Herberger has worked on a variety of video and film projects including WWF Wrestling, music videos, commercial television spots and political projects. He was the chief videographer at The Harriman Communication Center in Washington , D.C. for more than 13 years, responsible for all the studio and field location shoots. He was the Director of Photography and A Camera Operator on the Independent Feature Films: Terror In The Tropics, Terror In The Pharaoh's Tomb, The Death Of Poe, Editor & Director of The Fanex Files-Samuel Z. Arkoff & The Fanex Files-Hammer Films, all available on DVD from Alpha Video. He was also Director of Photography & Editor on the Independent Films Cooking With Carmine & The Washington Winemakers . Jeff also directed and edited the Washington , D.C. Baseball Documentary The Game Comes Home. Most recently, Jeff was the A Camera Operator, Director of Photography & Editor on the DVD release from North American Motion Pictures Come Hell Or High Water. Currently, Jeff is the Vice President of Media  Production for Longthrow Multimedia International in Washington, D. C.

Some samples of his work......

Composer-Sound Design-Associate Producer

Jennifer Rouse is an actress, model, musician and designer. Her acting credits include the role of Helen Gatewood in the western drama Come Hell Or High Water, Mrs. Moran in The Death Of Poe, the role of Ice Cream Girl in the Redfield Arts / Planet X production Chainsaw Sally, April in the Palmetto Moon Studios film The Last Ride Of The Raven, and Molly Pinkerton in The Sins of the Fathers.

Rouse has also appeared in Kevin MacDonald's State Of Play, Ridley Scott's Body of Lies, Touchstone Picture's Step Up and Step Up 2: The Streets, and the John Waters film A Dirty Shame. Television credits include Whiting's Secretary on season 5 of HBO's The Wire.

Jennifer has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Towson University. She has also studied music performance, voice, and music theory at BCCC and The Peabody Institute.

In addition to working in front of the camera, Jennifer Rouse has also worn numerous hats on production teams. Some of her production work includes being the associate producer for Chainsaw Sally and The Death Of Poe, production assistant and photographer for filmmaker Tony Malinowski's docu-drama The Battle Of Bunker Hill, and production assisting, make-up, and costuming on various commercials, educational pieces, and films. She did the music score for the film The Death Of Poe.