Cast & Crew

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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS:

GREG WHITELEY (Director)

Greg Whiteley, who makes his feature film debut with New York Doll was born in Provo, Utah and raised in the suburbs of Seattle, Washington. Whiteley attended Brigham Young University as an undergraduate, initially majoring in political science. On a whim he took the role of Malcolm in MacBeth, and immediately switched his major to film studies, though still uncertain of his ultimate ambition. Some time after viewing Truffaut’s 400 Blows for the first time and hearing a lecture given by playwright Horton Foote he decided to become a filmmaker. His short film at BYU The Village Singer won the Final Cut Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize.

Graduating from BYU, Whiteley continued his cinema studies by accepting a scholarship to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where he earned an MFA. While there he directed two commercial spots, “Egg Test” and ”Vegetarian Terrorist” (on which he collaborated with New York Doll cinematographer Rod Santiano). Both spots received Clio Awards.

Greg currently lives and works in Los Angeles with his wife and two children and in 2004, Greg started One Potato Productions, which has created DVD and video content for Warner Music, Sanctuary Records, Mattel, the U.S. Marine Corp, Sutter Hospital, and Preferred Freezer .

ED CUNNINGHAM (Producer)

Ed Cunningham graduated from the University of Washington with a concentration in business and finance. As captain of the 1991 National Champion Husky football team, Cunningham’s first producing “gig” was making a video of the team’s championship season in conjunction with Prime Sports Northwest (now Fox Northwest).

In 1992 Cunningham was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals. He spent four years as a starting offensive lineman with the Cardinals and one year with the Seattle Seahawks before heading behind the scenes as a color analyst for ABC Sports, now entering his ninth year as a college football announcer.

Peripheral to his excursions in the film and sports worlds, Cunningham is on the Board of Directors for Emissions Technology, Inc., a Phoenix-based company that has developed a technology to make fossil fuel burning engines more efficient, and lower their emissions at the same time.

Cunningham makes his home in Los Angeles.

SETH GORDON (Producer/Editor/Graphic Designer)

Seth Lewis Gordon is an honors graduate (architecture) of Yale, with additional training and honors at Oxford and the Harvard School of Design. He has produced and directed documentaries for PBS, the Gates Foundation, and the United Nations.

As co-founder of LargeLab, a full service production company, Gordon writes and directs live action and animated projects for clients including The Dixie Chicks, MTV, Nike, Fox and Ford. Three years running Gordon’s projects have been selected for the Sundance Film Festival, including New York Doll and two shorts: Fears of a Clown and Squirt.

Currently Gordon is 2nd unit director, associate producer, and editor of Cry Wolf, a feature film for Universal slated for release this fall.

RODERICK SANTIANO (Cinematographer)

From his first venture in film at the age of 14, Roderick has shown diverse talents in the realm of film and visual arts. Roderick found his love for cinematography in high school while learning and excelling in every aspect of the filmmaking process along the way. Always affected by the human relationship in stories, Roderick seeks to lens projects where character and heart are the principle elements of the film.

Born and raised in southern California, Roderick graduated Art Center College of Design in December of 1996 and has since been director of photography on numerous commercials, shorts and feature films. His work includes well over one hundred projects and, of those, many have won several awards in film festivals, have gone on to gain national television exposure and have also won Clio and AICP awards.

New York Doll marks the seventh collaboration with Whiteley. Roderick currently resides in Utah with his wife, Wendy, and his soon-to-be-born son, Indiana.