Cast and Crew

Amy Kersten:  Creator/Producer/Director/Writer/Actress

Amy Kersten is an actress and producer. Other producing credits include An Evening of Short works by Elizabeth Meriwether at Theatre Row. Other web Acting Credits include Gay’s Anatomy, a Listerine Freshburst Commercial, and Duder. Theatre credits include Williamstown, UCB, Les Freres Corbusier, Point of You and others. By day- Amy is an MFA Acting Student at the National Theatre Conservatory, where she attempts to hide her tawdry webseries from her high brow professors.

Cheri Paige Fogleman:  Producer/Director/Actress

Cheri Paige Fogelman can be quite the train wreck–a good train wreck, though…huh? Maybe. That’s right. A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Maggie Flanigan Studio, she has been seen in film: Bye Bye Fruit Fly, Honeysuckle, The Battle of Pussy Willow Creek and in scattered commercials. On stage she has performed at the TANK, The Looking Glass Theatre, Gene Frankel, the Kraine and at Theatre Row: playing the title role in Liz Meriwether’s “I Bought a Bunker. Bitch.” What fun! You might have also seen her in an Asics ad in the Spring of 2008. Hell, the rumors are true: Cheri also masquerades as a modern dancer, personal trainer and group fitness instructor (and, yes, fitness model). Visit her website here.

Julia Granacki:  Producer/Director/Actress

Julia Granacki has had an indecisive and confusing career.  Some highlights include:  Head Makeup Artist for Cirque Du Soleil’s La Nouba (2000), performer/collaborator in Alternate Plan Production’s experimental dance theatre piece, The Beauty Project and1st AD for their short film Emina, Assistant Costume Designer for the film, The Big Bad Swim, co-writer and performer in her original play, Heretic Love, Wig Designer for several shows at The Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia, Ensemble in Tuesday at the Prince Theatre (winner of the 2005 Barrymore award for Best Ensemble), Salome in Salome for The Cerulean Group (co-founder), Director of Tod Kimbro’s My Illustrious Wasteland at the 2009 NY Musical Theatre Festival.  She graduated with a BFA from the University of Central Florida and is a 2003 Leeway Grant recipient.

Kenneth Kotowski:  Director of Photography

Ken Kotowski has been making movies for ten years.  He studied photography while serving in the Air Force, went on to college, got a job as a projectionist, started studying film and found his calling behind the camera.  He has since worked on nearly six dozen projects, over twenty of them as Director of Photography; projects that have varied from narrative features and shorts to documentaries, industrials and music videos. Since receiving his MFA in 2006, Ken  has been teaching Filmmaking at William Paterson University in NJ. Ken enjoys the unique challenges that “Hot Mess” offers him, from the complete lack of pre-planning to the outright adventure, and of course – being surrounded by several of the Hottest Messiest ladies he’s ever met.  Visit his website here.

Scott Wyllie:  Key Grip

Scott Wyllie is the 1 man army of freelance crew members. Hailing from the thriving metropolis Trenton New Jersey Scott has been working on video, film, and television crews since he was 18 years old. Since then Scott has taken reps for FOX News, FOX Searchlight, MTV, HBO, CNBC, and is co owner of Killer Goose Films LLC.