Author & actor Darrell Parker has been active in local theater and film for the last six years. He has been seen on stage in The Foreigner (Froggy LeSure), The Miner's Daughter (Barney), Barefoot in the Park (Paul Brattner) and Harvey (Duane Wilson).
Only a couple of years ago, Darrell Parker was a “future filmmaker.” One day he decided to pen a script and has never stopped. Darrell’s unique storytelling ability has been noticed by other filmmakers and actors alike. In early 2004, Darrell’s resources were tapped to write a script intended to recruit Kevin Spacey to a major film project in Wilmington, NC. Later that year he won four awards, including the Artistic Film Award for his film The Red Pet, and the Audience Favorite Award for his film The Anniversary.
On film, he has portrayed, among others, a bad guy running a Meth Lab for a SBI training film (Tarheel Training), Satan in Cowboy Trail (Circle M Productions), a Stealing Deacon in The Gentlemen (MBS Studios) (all these despite being a pretty nice guy). A gifted actor and storyteller, Parker has written the screenplays for seven shorts that have been produced. Darrell wrote the original draft of this script in 2004. The piece struck Darrell as the kind of “human moment” drama that Jim has specialized in at Turnip. Jim agreed and The Longest 3 Minutes is the charming result.
Darrell Parker lives in Sanford, North Carolina with his wife Brandy and young son Jackson. He is at work on the further adventures of our twenty-something couple, Roger & Tatum.
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Kendall Rileigh, a native North Carolinian, is an actor, dancer, musician (violin and piano), and playwright. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University in drama and psychology and attended the Moscow Art Theatre's summer acting intensive.
Professional stage credits include Romeo & Juliet (Juliet), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), Julius Caesar (Caska / Calpurnia / Flavius), Sonnets for an Old Century (Svetlana), The Miss Firecracker Contest (Popeye), James Joyce's The Dead (Lily/Violinist), and the American premiere of Women's Minyan (Bluma).
She has also been active as a film actor and voice-over artist. Film work includes Touching, The Longest 3 Minutes, After the Coats, Rouse, Garden of Delights, Dark Side (trailer), Desdemona, Dawson's Creek, Vidiot, Damn Sacred, Freedom Song, Summer Catch, and Clowns. She has done industrial work, commercials, and voice-overs.
Kendall's play, Marginalia, won national awards and has been produced in North Carolina, Illinois and Oklahoma.
And just in case you wondered if Ms. Rileigh has exhausted herself on these pursuits, bear in mind that she is an active dancer, musician, and composer and she was a state champion gymnast.
Ms. Rileigh is now on the stage in New York.
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