The Glasses

Frances Chewning has acted in award-winning films that were official selections at Sundance, AFI Fest, and New York Film Festival among others. She has also performed onstage at Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Whitney Museum, American Repertorty Theatre, HERE Arts Center (NYC), the Lark Theatre (NYC), and the Cavern Club Celebrity Theatre (LA). She recently appeared as "Sally Jessy Raphael" in Hulu's "Welcome to Chippendale's" starring Kumail Nanjiani and Murray Bartlett. She co-created the pioneering comedy web-series The Mimi & Flo Show and has written and performed sketch & improv at UCB-LA, Comix (NYC; headliner), The Second City (LA), and The Clubhouse (LA). She has an MFA in Acting from the Moscow Art Theatre School/A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University and a BA, cum laude, in Philosophy from Lawrence University.

Sarah Smith is a Los Angeles based filmmaker. Her most recent short film before The Glasses, entitled Cardiff, which was shot in Cardiff, Wales is nominated for a 2023 BAFTA Cymru for Best Short and is currently doing a festival run, having premiered at the Iris Festival. Other credits include Black Hat, which screened at over 35 festivals around the globe, including the Tribeca Film Festival, and won the 2019 Iris Prize; and the 2015 award-winning short D.Asian, which screened at over 30 festivals world-wide, including Palm Springs Shortfest, and went on to win the AT&T Under-Represented Filmmaker Award. Black Hat can currently be seen in the US on PBS KCET as part of their Fine Cut series of emerging filmmakers, and can also be seen on HBO Europe, Dekkoo.com, Ficto, and Here TV. She and Frances previously collaborated on a webseries pilot Tender Touches, which won the 2018 AT&T Shape Creat-A-Thon. She is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.