"Hungry"

Jillie Simon is an actor, singer-songwriter, writer, director and producer who's performed nationally and internationally on stage and screen.
She wrote, co-directed, produced and played the lead role in her first narrative short film "Hungry", co-starring Oscar-nominee Eric Roberts. "Hungry" has won 17 awards so far (including seven that Jillie won for Best Actress/Best Performance in a Film), two Honorable Mentions, a Semi-Finalist and 16 nominations in 34 festivals. Prior to that, she'd co-directed, co-produced and performed in two multi-award-winning music videos, "Legalize" and "So Many Ways (For Safe, Green, Sane Energy)". Her new film "A Chance", has begun it's festival journey, and won 4 awards to date.

Acting credits include a principal role in the multi-award winning feature film “The Incoherents”, with Annette O'Toole, and “Prince Harming”, a multi- award-winning dramedy, by Marianne Hettinger, both of which have just received distribution. Past film and tv includes a lead role in "You Have the Right to Remain Violent”, directed by the multi-award-winning Roberto Monticello, roles in indie film “Confess” by Stefan Schaefer ((Melissa Leo, Ali Larter), in the Oscar-winning film "A Beautiful Mind", director Ron Howard, the title role in romantic comedy short "Hannah Henri" by Akiva Penaloza, and a recurring role on "As The World Turns”.

-Off-Broadway work includes performances at the NY Public Theater ("Blues"), in "Tony & Tina’s Wedding", and playing Marilyn Monroe in "Marilyn”, with Jack Mulcahy as JFK, BritFest. One of the highlights of her regional theater work was performing with Marlo Thomas at the Cleveland Playhouse. She’s had the pleasure of performing with other luminaries as well, such as Marion Seldes (StagePlays Theater), Austin Pendleton (at the Cornelia St. Cafe), Joyce Randolph (New Dramatists), and Tom Wopat, in a reading of a new Larry Beinhart ("Wag the Dog") screenplay “Divorce” at The Directors Company.
She's performed improv and sketch comedy at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, UCBeast and the NY Comedy Club, and has also been a Guest Teaching Artist at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. http://www.jilliesimon.com
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Thomas Simon Bio ( Co-Director, Composer, Editor, Producer)

European born Musician/Composer/Producer/Director Thomas Simon moved to New York City to expand his horizon in his life in art. Within the past year, his atmospheric ambient live show "Thomas Simon Vortex" toured repeatedly in the USA, South America and Europe. He created the soundtrack to the feature film "Exit 0", starring Peter Greene (Pulp Fiction) and Federico Castelluccio (The Sopranos), released his latest short film "A Chance" and is collaborating with João Milet Meirelles, Brazilian electronic musician extraordinaire (Baiana System) on an experimental-rock-ambient project "Sonar Atmosfera".

Together with his wife Jillie Simon, Thomas produces music and films through their "Endorphin Records" production company. Their first narrative short "Hungry", starring Jillie Simon and Eric Roberts has been honored with 11 awards in 32 festival screenings to date.

Additional soundtrack credits include award-winning feature film “La Redempcio dels Peixos”, starring Luis Soler (Spain/Italy/USA) for which Thomas was nominated for Best Music/Best Song at the Milan International Film Festival 2013. The movie had a theatrical release in Spain in 2014. That year, Thomas also produced, edited and did soundtrack work on documentary feature “Lucky Express” (which landed distribution with Cinema Libre Studios and is available on Amazon Prime).

Thomas directed and produced four award winning music videos between 2009 and 2013 (two of which he collaborated on with Jillie -see details at www.thomassimon.nyc).

As a musician, he produced and recorded eleven CD’s, the latest "Sonar Atmosfera" recorded in Salvador, Brazil in 2019 - then, four solo albums, two with the project LOVE ALIEN, and four with the band Musiciens Sans Frontieres, all of them released on their independent label, endorphin records. Numerous songs off the albums have received airplay on commercial and college radio world-wide, with “Affection”, off MSF’s album “Satellite” being placed on the GRAMMY ballot in 2008.

Thomas composed the music for rock opera "THE DAMNED", which ran for six weeks in Nov/Dec, 2001, to sold out houses (Kraine Theater, NYC), directed and co-written by five-time Emmy winner William Electric Black) and performed live with the cast. More soundtrack credits include commissions by Saucon Films to create ambient pieces and segue-ways for their feature "Black Wine", and in 2003 Thomas made his debut film, a documentary/musical travelogue called “Thomas Simon: Walkabout” (USA/Nepal/India/Brazil) which was streamed on Current TV in 2005.