Content Creator / Actor, Blu Star Productions

CONTENT CREATOR / Actor

Ethan Marr

Content Creator

Ethan is an artist, drummer, and actor. He expresses his perspectives and individuality through the arts. His view of the world is unique and is expressed through the lens of autism, with a personal warmth and a sense of joyful innocence. Please join Ethan as he embarks on this creative journey to make a positive difference in the world around him.

Learn more about Ethan’s art at his website: https://www.ethanmarrperspectives.com

Rebecca Faith Quinn

Actor, Writer, Content Creator

Rebecca “Riki” Faith Quinn is an autistic actress, screenwriter, and content creator. She loves to highlight previously overlooked aspects of the autism spectrum, such as romance, sex, and comedy.

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Spencer Sharpe

Voice Actor

Spencer is a voice over artist from West Des Moines, Iowa. He started voice acting five years ago. Spencer is a graduate of Grandview University with a BA in Theatre. His focus is on voice over, podcasting, and narration. Spencer specializes in professional voice for radio, television commercials, video games, animation and narration.

Jordan Katz

production floor Worker

Jordan Katz has been a fan of film and video since he saw his first VHS as a child. In high school he studied at Exceptional Minds learning animation, visual effects and game design. After that he trained at Lifton Institute for Media Arts and Sciences with hands on experience learning to gaff and grip. He currently has an internship at SCVTV digitizing archival VHS and working on the production floor as camera operator, graphics, teleprompter, audio and stage manager.

Gerard Riley

Actor

Gerard Riley was born and raised in Far Rockaway NY on New Years Eve (December 31st) 1987 and had a interest in Acting ever since as a kid. Ever since June 2001 to this very day he has been a strong active member of his church Full Gospel Tabernacles Drama Ministry the among the many roles he played were King Herod,Joseph(husband of Mary) and Jesus Christ. On September 22nd 2020 he the Nero diverse Acting company called Epic Players recommended by well-known voice over actor and teacher Paul Liberti. He started in four of their Off-Broadway productions Almost Maine, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Tartuffe and Romeo And Juliet and is staring in their upcoming production of Spring Awakening

Sydney Kurland

Writer, Actor

Sydney Kurland (she/they) is an NYC-based writer and performer. Her recent writing credits include: Somebody In Bumf*ck, Montana Loves Me (Workshop, NYU Tisch; Presentation of excerpts, Purple Light Productions), In The Time It Took To Complete A Half-Assed Attempt At A Calc Worksheet (Production, Broke People Play Festival; Currently a Finalist for Spectrum Theatre Ensemble’s 2025 Neurodivergent Play Festival), and The Toy (Duluth Playhouse ‘What She Said’ Festival). Her works have also been produced and developed with Epic Players, Full Circle Theater Collaborative’s New Works Festival, Scripps On Stream’s New Play Festival, and the NYU Tisch 24 Hour Play Festival. Her TV pilot, The “Academy,” which was inspired by her experiences at a residential treatment boarding school for troubled teen girls, was recognized as a semi-finalist for the 2022 Humanitas Prize Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award. Sydney is also a resident company member of Epic Players, the Brooklyn-based neurodiverse theatre company with whom she performs often. Sydney earned her BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU Tisch and is staring in their upcoming production of Spring Awakening

Amanda Delalla

Writer, Actor

Amanda DeLalla is a NY based writer and actress. She holds a B.S. in Comm. Arts from St. John’s University and is a proud member of The Dramatists Guild with aspirations to also branch into film. As a theatrical writer, she’s penned a musical (based on a 1990s Britcom) as well as four full-length dramas. Her work has been presented in a variety of venues, including Lincoln Center, The Tank, All for One Theater, Snug Harbor, and the Chain Theatre. Amanda uses her experiences with living on the autism spectrum to craft stories about emotional resilience and optimism.

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Sean McGowan

Actor

Sean McGowan has dreamt of being an actor since the time he could speak. He is part of EPIC Players NYC for the past three years and has been in 2 of their productions: The 26th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Into The Woods. He has a funny, effervescent personality and is willing to do any role. He also has enjoyed acting in community theater, drama in high school and a drama program at his summer camp. In addition, he enjoys basketball, personal training, boxing, is a surfer, a swimmer – and even became certified Nassau county lifeguard!

Nathan naranjo

DIGITAL ARTIST

Nathan first dove into the world of entertainment in the mid 2000’s and it wasn’t long before Nathan realized that it was exactly what he wanted to do with my life. Since then, he’s worked with many projects, all of which push him to be more creative each time. He knows how important it is to be innovative when it comes to work.

Tyler Berman

Voice Actor

Tyler Berman is a professional voiceover actor on the autism spectrum. Growing up with countless animated movies, cartoons and video games, he has developed both original voices and impressions of characters that have shown his interest in voiceover. Tyler has trained under his mentor Cathy McAuley for nearly 4 years and has gone through the levels of Spectrum Laboratory’s voiceover department and encourages all on the spectrum interested in voiceover to follow suit. Gigs Tyler has booked include Sundance Film Festival, the ongoing father in Speech Kingdom E-Learning App, the voiceover announcer for the Autism in Entertainment Conference and a few others. Tyler hopes to go into voiceover for animation and video games full time with his character voices expertise. To hear his demo reels, read more about him or to reach out, visit

http://www.tautylogies.com/

Andre Stewert

Director, Actor

From an early age, this director was just built different, his first time playing silvius in Shakespeare’s “as you like it” (2002) to a church play in (2012) called “midnight cry”, he just moved differently, then jumping into the haunted house industry (2003-2013) opening the door to being in a mockumentary called “zombie next door” (2014), he also jumped into the podcast game for a show called “uncool” (2015-2018), then he jumped into comedy doing a dozen different skits on YouTube before the pandemic, the panic drove him to write “torture for two” (2021) and what’s more crazy is he’s autistic and filming during a time where everyone else was locked down, that alone makes him different from everyone, he lives for creativity and a challenge.

Atticus Jackson

Actor/Writer

My name is Atticus Jackson and I’m a 24-year-old genderfluid autistic. I fell in love with film and music all at once when I first saw Singin’ in the Rain. That moment set my life’s trajectory. I immerse myself in music to make my life a musical, constantly writing my own soundtrack, and every character I embody is like a treasured sibling. As I learn stunts, special effects, and more, my love for film grows, and the greater my desire to share it is.

Aryn Porras

Voice Actor

Aryn Porras is a neurodivergent, non binary voice actor from SoCal with 5+ years of experience, and is known for their work as co-host on Spirit of Innovation, as well as providing the voice of Sheila in the JDS Studios production of Grease. They’ve first went viral after creating a voice over redub of a short clip from the 80s anime, Voltron: Defender of the Universe as a terrified mother and a young child, that has garnered over 28 thousand views on TikTok and 4 thousand on YouTube, and continues their work with a wide range of voices, from young children to motherly figures, even androgynous, bubbly, calm, feisty, villainous, and authentic/professional.

Website: https://arynporrasvo.wixsite.com/aryn-porras—vo

Cyrus Jabbari

Filmmaker

As an award-winning filmmaker and content creator, Cyrus strives for directing films that hypothesize our future based on current events and films and videos with a tongue-in-cheek tone. First studying film in college, he picked up various film positions. With this, he made use of any advanced techniques and equipment that will help with realizing his or others’ visions as meticulously as necessary. Helping to show how those in the spectrum can make great films, He always directs as professionally as possible while not taking himself too seriously, with a few of his films dabbling in themes relating to autism.

Website: http://www.cyrusjabbari.com/

Gideon Pianko

Actor

My name is Gideon Pianko, I am involved with EPIC players and have been involved since the beginning, I recently played Lord Capulet in their production of Romeo and Juliet. I also took an acting course with Eva Volitzer and was in a short film that someone in my class did which I will include here. I love acting and have enjoyed it since my childhood. I have learned a lot more about acting through EPIC and the last course I took, I would of course love to learn more and continue to grow

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