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Jourdan Gibson – “Jessica James, aka Darkstar”
Jourdan Gibson was born and raised in West Texas, but currently calls Los Angeles home. She first began acting at the age of 5, and her love of the craft has grown every year since. Jourdan attended Baylor University for college, and then went on to earn her Entrepreneurial and Technology Law Degree from Pepperdine School of Law. Upon graduating from law school, she jumped in and completed a one-year intensive MBA program at the Acton School of Business. Throughout her business and legal education, Jourdan continued to study acting for film, character development, and improv. Most recently, she’s studied at the Bill Howey Acting Studio and at Upright Citizens Brigade. Jourdan can currently be seen as the lead in CELL: The Web Series, and will begin filming her lead role in the ensemble cast of the SAG independent feature film, Night at the Builtman in August 2012 in Los Angeles. Jourdan is beyond excited to join the amazing team of Super Knocked Up as Darkstar! Numbers 1 and 2 on her list of dreams have always been 1) Become a Super Hero, and 2) Become Sydney Bristow’s sidekick. Looks like she’ll get the chance to be a SUPER VILLAIN instead! Which, let’s be honest…sounds like a lot more fun. |
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Mark Pezzula – “Michael Masters, aka Captain Amazing”
Mark Pezzula is a full-time state worker, a part-time amateur film critic, and a part-part-time actor. He is 1/4 host of The Everything Film Show podcast, and acts in films for people who are so desperate they can’t find anyone else. He also used to like pancakes. Shooting Super Knocked Up changed that. |
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Yvonne Perry – “Mom”
Yvonne Perry is a professional actress residing in upstate NY. This is her third foray into web-series. She also plays “Valerie” on EMPIRE and “Jennifer” in EsCAPE. When not manipulating super-heroes and super-villains, you can catch up with Yvonne teaching at UAlbany, selling furniture and real estate on TV (neither of which she does in real life), pretending she knows what she’s talking about in countless industrial films, or treading the boards on one of the regional stages. www.yvonneperry.com |
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David Bunce – “Dr. Destruction”
Currently a Teacher/Artist-in-Residence at Russell Sage College, David was a Teacher/Actor and the resident Stage Combat Teacher/ Choreographer for the NYS Theatre Institute for 27 years. He is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors, Actors Equity Association and United University Professions. Favorite acts of violence include three productions of Noises Off for the Bloomsburg Theatre, Pa., SUNY Albany and Russell Sage College, Seafarer for Cap Rep., Macbeth, King of Shadows, Romeo and Juliet, Man of La Mancha, The Killings Tale and Wait Until Dark for NYSTI, Lonely Planet, and Shakespeare=s Power Plays for SUNY, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III for SCCC and Hamlet for Siena College. Film work includes Waste of Candy for Perpetual Honey Productions, Arachnia for Edgewood Studios, Nate Dogg for Damage Films and fights for the web series Super Knocked Up. |
Daniela Malave – “Darcy Danger”
 As a dancer, Daniela fell in love with performing at a very young age. Having danced for the Albany Patroon’s Emerald’s dance team and back up dancing for ”Weird Al Yancovic,” Daniela found her love of acting again while being cast in Ken Davenport’s, The Awesome 80’s Prom. Performing in other Off-Broadway shows, Tony and Tina’s Wedding and Bollywood Wedding, Daniela found her calling as a physical, comedy Improv actress. Playing “Mirna” in eScape and “Cayla” in Bottle Service, this will be Daniela’s third web-series as “Darcy Danger.” Daniela currently lives in New York where she continues to work on spokesmodeling, industrials, Improv, and independent films. Having a blast with an amazing crew, cast, and well-written script! Playing Darcy has been a thrilling and fun adventure. She also can’t pronounce the word “Wookie” (this last part was added by the always funny SKU director Jeff Burns).
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Catherine Mancuso – “Cheery Villain”
 Born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Catherine Mancuso has always wanted to perform. She has done a lot of theater work with Brave New World Repertory Company, including Mary Warren in The Crucible and Anne Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor (Terrace). She has also done some recent film work with InByTheEye and her most recent film was Occult. She has a newly developed love for Comic Book Heroes/Villains which is what brought her to Super Knocked Up. Can’t wait for more!
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Natalie Bain – “Jessica James, aka Darkstar” – Season 1
Natalie Bain is an accomplished actress, singer and voice over talent. She has been dancing since the age of 3 and began acting at the age of 8 in her hometown of Guilderland, NY. Natalie attended SUNY Cortland where she double majored in both Musical Theater and Communications with a concentration in Public Relations and Advertising. While in college, she worked in Independent and Student films, commercials, industrials, modeled and continued to star in both college and regional theater. After graduating from college, Natalie moved to Los Angeles, where she continued her studies at the Larry Moss Studio with Michelle Danner and Tim Craig. Natalie also fine tuned her improv skills with Annie Sertich at the Groundlings School of Improv. During her year and a half stay in L.A. she landed a speaking role on the NBC show “American Dreams” and found regular background and featured background work on Las Vegas and The Bold and the Beautiful. She can also be seen in such shows as The Office, The Unit, Privileged and Dirty Sexy Money. Natalie currently lives in New York and has had an amazing time diving into her kick-*butt* super villainous character on Super Knocked Up! |
Jeff Burns – Writer/Producer/Director
Jeff always wanted to be a superhero. But since he doesn’t have any superpowers (except the power to be super-geeky) he decided to make a web series about superheroes and villains instead. He first got the film bug in college where he and his friends improv-ed an entire movie for fun (when they weren’t studying of course). The film was about an evil twin, pimps, and Darth Vader. Deciding to make more professional and less ridiculous sounding films, Jeff made his first real short after grad school, even though he had no idea what he was doing. Several short films later, his films have screened on PBS and at festivals throughout the northeast. When he’s not making films, Jeff tutors high school students and is co-founder of Dyslexia Consultants where he helps learning-disabled high school students improve their writing and critical reasoning skills. Jeff ‘s current project, Super Knocked Up, has been viewed over 1.3 million times in its first few months of release. Jeff is having a blast shooting the series with his amazing cast and crew! He especially enjoys it when Jourdan says he smells bad, Mark threatens to quit every shoot, and Yvonne tells him his clothes are so ratty they should be thrown out. Super Knocked Up is based on Jeff’s actual life. Okay, not really. But he would really like to date a hot super-villain! |
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