Hungry

Co-Directors Jillie Simon & Thomas Simon

Jillie Simon is an actor, singer-songwriter and producer who's performed nationally and internationally on stage and screen. She's also co-directed, co-produced and performed in two multi-award-winning music videos, “Legalize” and “So Many Ways (For Safe, Green, Sane Energy)” with partner and husband Thomas Simon prior to writing, co-directing and co-producing “Hungry”, the first narrative film that she created.

Film credits include a principal role in indie film "You Have the Right to Remain Violent”, directed by Roberto Monticello, the title role in romantic comedy short "Hannah Henri" by Akiva Penaloza, roles in indie film “Confess” by Stefan Schaefer (Best Screenplay, Hampton Film Festival), in the Oscar-winning film "A Beautiful Mind", directed by Ron Howard and most recently, in rock & roll comedy "The Incoherents", starring Amy Carlson & Kate Arrington, currently winning awards in the festival circuit, and "Prince Harming", dir. Marianne Hettinger, also currently winning awards in festivals. Television roles include 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 2005. ----One of the highlights of her regional theater work was performing with Marlo Thomas at the Cleveland Playhouse. She’s also had the pleasure of performing with other luminaries such as Marion Seldes in a staged reading of a Pete LeMay play at the Players Club, Austin Pendleton (Cornelia St. Cafe), Joyce Randolph (New Dramatists), and with Tom Wopat, playing his sixth wife, in a reading of a new Larry Beinhart ("Wag the Dog") screenplay “Divorce” at The Directors Company, directed by Michael Parva.
-- She's acted in three short films over this past summer that are proof-of-concept shorts (two for feature films -"Summer of '70" and "Entrapment" -and one for mini-series, "Infiltrated"). She has also previously performed improv shows at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, UCBeast and the NY Comedy Club. And has been a Guest Teaching Artist at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
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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 and releases music and films through their "Endorphin Records" production company. Their just released short film "A Chance" has made a strong festival start, with two awards for Best LGBT film as their last narrative short "Hungry", starring Jillie Simon and Eric Roberts, is nearing the end of its film festival run after 33 festival screenings and 15 awards.

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.