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Release Date: May 31, 2013 (Limited) Run Time: 92 Minutes

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THE KINGS OF SUMMER Preliminary Production Notes

Synopsis

Premiering to rave reviews at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, THE KINGS OF SUMMER is a unique coming-of-age comedy about three teenage friends – Joe (Nick Robinson), Patrick (Gabriel Basso) and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio (Moises Arias) - who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land. Free from their parents’ rules, their idyllic summer quickly becomes a test of friendship as each boy learns to appreciate the fact that family - whether it is the one you’re born into or the one you create – is something you can't run away from.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

The Kings of Summer began in the imagination of writer Chris Galletta, who penned his script during his off hours while he was working in the music department of “The Late Show with David Letterman.” After some false starts in screenwriting, Galletta shunned his impulse to write a high-concept tentpole feature and craft something more character-driven and personal. He returned to his childhood in Staten Island for inspiration, recalling memories of a friend who had the run of his primarily absent parents’ home. He expanded on the idea and asked, “What if a bunch of teenagers tried to form a functioning adult household? Would that ever work out? It’s much harder than we think to grow up and be self-reliant. The logical extension of that idea was to have kids build their own house and live in it,” Galletta says. With that very simple idea, the screenplay for The Kings of Summer was born. Although the story was inspired by his own youth, Galletta researched almost all of the film’s survivalist elements. “I wasn’t that outdoorsy. I was not a boy scout. I’d be dead in forty-eight hours if you dropped me in the middle of the forest,” Galletta jokes. After some initial progress, Galletta’s writing process stalled, leading him to quit his day job in order to focus all of his attention on finishing his script. The gamble paid off, and the screenplay found its way to Big Beach Films, the company that produced The Kings of Summer. Director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who was searching for a feature-length project to follow his acclaimed short film “Successful Alcoholics,” immediately fell in love with Galletta’s hilarious and heartbreaking coming-of-age story. “Out of nowhere, I got sent this script,” he recalls. “I laughed so hard and so thoroughly throughout it. It was so special and unique.” Vogt-Roberts responded to the material on a very personal level, recognizing the universality of the difficulties of adolescence. “That was the most painful, awkward, terrible time in my life, but it’s what makes you who you are. How you go through that part of your life is largely how you go through the rest of your life,” Vogt-Roberts comments. “One of the great things about the script is that it’s very contemporary but never dated,” says Vogt-Roberts. “It takes these fresh and unique voices and merges it with relatively timeless ideas.” Vogt-Roberts and Galletta continued their creative relationship throughout production, an anomaly in filmmaking. “He and I have very similar sensibilities in terms of storytelling and cinema,” Vogt-Roberts explains. “We’ve always had a good back and forth about how to make it a better, tighter movie and to get more to the bone of who the characters are,” Galletta says of the collaboration. Nevertheless, Vogt-Roberts knew that there was a fine line he had to walk as a director. “There’s a version that is just a comedy. There’s a version that is a brooding teen coming-of-age story. I think there’s a really interesting fusion there,” Vogt-Roberts says. With the script and director in place, the filmmakers began an exhaustive search for the young actors to play Joe, Patrick and Biaggio. Vogt-Roberts wanted to ensure that he could find actors who could appear natural and accessible. “The casting process for this movie was really difficult,” Vogt-Roberts recalls. “There aren’t that many kid actors that don’t have horrible tendencies that have been beat into them.” However, Vogt-Roberts found three “naturals” in Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso, and Moises Arias. Nick Robinson, a relative unknown, won the role of Joe Toy after several auditions and chemistry reads. “Immediately, I fell in love with the characters,” Robinson remembers of his first experience reading Galletta’s screenplay. “Everyone can relate to Joe Toy. He’s what all of us wanted to be at fourteen.” Despite Joe’s remarkable tenacity, he is as lost and confused as any other adolescent. Robinson explains: “Everyone has some of their best memories right around fourteen or fifteen. You’re coming into your own, and everything is a little bit confusing. That’s compounded for Joe by the fact that he doesn’t have the greatest family life, and his mother died. He’s trying to set his world in order by going out into the woods and building this utopia that he can control.” Gabriel Basso plays Patrick, Joe’s best friend and co-conspirator. Basso impressed the filmmakers with the improvisational portion of his audition so much that some of his off-the-cuff dialogue made its way into the film. “He had some riffs in his audition that I thought were so funny that I put them in the script,” Galletta recalls. “Chris is hilarious,” Basso says of Galletta. “It’s cool to have the writer on set because you don’t often have that. It’s cool to be around the person who wrote the script and get his feedback.” Moises Arias, known for his five-year stint on “Hannah Montana,” embraced the opportunity to play the eccentric Biaggio. “It had a real feeling of kids being free and doing what they wanted,” Arias says of his impression of the screenplay. “It’s not often that you laugh while you’re reading a script. Biaggio is a funny, different character.” Rounding out the younger cast is Erin Moriarty, who plays Kelly, Joe’s classmate and the object of his affection. Moriarty stepped outside of her comfort zone to play the self-aware, forward teen. “It’s a bit nerve-wracking. I don’t consider myself as confident as Kelly. It’s a challenge,” Moriarty says. Vogt-Roberts knew that Moriarty had her work cut out for her. “She entered a boys club. To walk into an all-male seventeen year old cast is rough. By the end of it, she was one of the gang,” Vogt-Roberts says. When casting the adults in The Kings of Summer, Vogt-Roberts made a concerted effort to find actors with strong backgrounds in comedic acting. He was ecstatic to build an ensemble of “top-tier comedic talent,” he says. “We were incredibly fortunate to have those people. You can throw anything at them and they’ll be able to take it and roll with it.” Nick Offerman happily took on the role of Joe’s father Frank Toy after falling in love with the script. “Chris Galletta has a great sense of humor. I love his dialogue. And I got to play Monopoly, which is no small incentive,” Offerman muses, referring to a tense scene involving the board game. While researching the project, Offerman took a look at Vogt-Roberts’s short films and admired the way he used his actors. Offerman comments: “Not only did I like the way he made the films, but also the pace of them. The cast were already people I was a big fan of. Those I didn’t know, I quickly became a fan of.” With Offerman in place, other well-known comedic actors, including Alison Brie, Megan Mullally, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Thomas Middleditch, and Tony Hale joined the cast. Offerman found an interesting challenge in playing father to Brie (who plays Joe’s older sister), who is only twelve years his junior. The actors had met socially because Offerman’s “Parks and Recreation” and Brie’s “Community” both air on NBC. “I think I’m eleven or twelve years older than she is. And while I’m sure I was man enough to father a child by nine or ten years old, it’s still a little out of the ordinary,” Offerman jokes. Joining Offerman and Brie is Megan Mullally as Mrs. Keenan, Patrick’s mother. Mullally, who is married to Offerman, first read The Kings of Summer when her husband asked for her opinion of the script. “It didn’t even occur to me that this one part was perfect for me,” Mullally remembers. “It’s very funny, but it also says a lot about that age. There’s something really poignant about it in the end.” Marc Evan Jackson plays Mrs. Keenan’s better half. “He has an improv background,” Mullally says of Jackson. “We played off of each other and tried to come up with the most annoying, ridiculous things possible.” Gabriel Basso found a challenge in sharing a scene with two seasoned comedians who improvised through most takes. “Those are two of the funniest people I’ve ever met. The only problem was that I couldn’t laugh in my scenes,” Basso remembers. Jackson and Mullally mined as much material as possible out of Patrick’s hive-inducing domestic situation. “Mr. and Mrs. Keenan are really nerdy. Their nerdiness and overprotectiveness make them unbearable parents to be around, especially if they’re your parents. Hence Patrick’s dilemma,” Mullally says. “Patrick is an only child and he’s getting the full gale force winds of love that these parents would have probably liked to shower on 10 children. He’s bearing the brunt of that. The Keenans are incredibly smothering and overprotective of Patrick. Everything they suggest, everything they want to make for dinner, their entire presentation is hopelessly sad. There’s nothing cool about them.” “I didn’t base the character on anybody in particular. If I were this kid, this is what I would least want my mother to be like,” Mullally adds. Mullally’s casting provided an extra perk for Galletta’s TV-fanatic family. “That was a huge boon. The fact that ‘Karen’ is in the movie has legitimized the movie as far as the Galletta clan on Staten Island is concerned,” Galletta jokes, referring to Mullally’s role on “Will & Grace.” Production commenced in the summer of 2012 in the town of Chagrin Falls, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio. Chagrin Falls also happens to be the hometown of The Kings of Summer producer Tyler Davidson. “When this script came to me, I saw an opportunity to be set in Northeast Ohio, on the east side of Cleveland. We have such beautiful wooded areas, which is such a central component of the film. It really made sense,” Davidson says. Although the script was originally set in Galletta’s hometown of Staten Island, Davidson believed that a shift to a less specific location might broaden the story. “Everyone was encouraging and open to setting this in a small Midwest town. Everyone recognized that there is a universal appeal, going back to the films of John Hughes.” Davidson comments. Returning to Chagrin Falls also meant using Davidson’s alma mater as a location. “It’s a little surreal, walking some of the same hallways that I did twenty years ago,” Davidson says. “Being on this campus brings back a lot of memories. I couldn’t have thought twenty years ago that this would be happening now.” The location was not chosen purely for sentimental reasons. The suburbs of Ohio offered a vast landscape for the boys to spend their summer. “Ohio and the Chagrin Falls area provided some of the most stunning, majestic locations I could have fathomed. It was shocking that you could drive 10 minutes from one location to another, a sprawling meadow or a slate rock riverbed or a massive quarry or a giant evergreen forest,” Vogt-Roberts says. “Filming in Ohio has been incredibly friendly,” Offerman adds. “I love getting away from Los Angeles and New York because communities are more welcoming when a filming is more of an anomaly. It’s a beautiful state.” Prior to filming, Vogt-Roberts sent leads Robinson, Basso and Arias to improvisational acting classes “not to be super quick and witty and funny, but so that they would be comfortable enough in their own skin to bring themselves to it,” Vogt-Roberts says. Vogt-Roberts further explains the impetus for the additional training: “I work with a lot of improvisers in general. It’s about being able to take a scene to the next logical point. I knew that I wasn’t going to yell cut right away. I wanted the kids to feel comfortable enough in their skin and in those characters that even though the scene on the page has a natural start middle, and end, if I don’t yell cut, I want to see where they go with that.” Arias agrees that improvisation made him understand his character even better. “It always brings an individuality to the character. It makes you think to live inside of the character. I’ve been really free on this set. It doesn’t really feel like work,” Arias agrees. Indeed, the young actors brought a particular authenticity that became an asset to the filmmakers: “When it really comes down to it, the only people who know what it’s like to be fifteen at this point are those kids. I wanted to tap into what it’s like to be fifteen. That’s not something you can write. That’s something they can do,” Vogt-Roberts says. In fact, Vogt-Roberts would often continue rolling during down time on set in an effort to capture the three leads together. “We’re not trying to ‘act’ like friends. We’re just enjoying each other’s company. It just happens. It’s cool for Jordan and Chris to pick up on that,” Basso says. “It’s cool to have your chemistry play as a necessity for the movie.” “He has a loose set, but he knows exactly what he wants. It’s a rare director who can walk that fine line between getting his way and letting the actors do their own thing,” Nick Robinson says of the experience. “Jordan has been amazing. He has a great demeanor on the set. He’s so calm. He really understands comedy and the best way to play the beats,” Mullally comments. Mullally adds that the project perfectly encapsulated the complexity of youth: “For me, it brought back the way I felt when I was that age, that longing to be an adult and be on your own. Being a kid is so great, but you don’t realize that until you’re older.”

About the House The Kings of Summer’s most crucial location is the home built by Joe, Patrick and Biaggio. It was important to Vogt-Roberts that the functional, free-standing structure didn’t look like a product of “movie magic.” Vogt-Roberts explains: “I wanted it to feel like something that kids could do. There needed to be a sense of awe and wonder to it. As soon as it feels like something that is not realistic, it takes people out of the movie.” Prior to production, Vogt-Roberts sought out the help of an illustrator friend and an architect cousin, requesting that they come up with a couple of sketches that suggested something “structurally sound but impressive.” Their drawings eventually made their way to The Kings of Summer production designer Tyler Robinson. Robinson did his own renderings, “putting the characters’ personalities into the house. From there, I went back and forth with Jordan about what it was and what it wasn’t,” Robinson says. As the design process continued, Robinson made scale models, first out of foam, then out of sticks and wood. “That gave Jordan something more hands-on, so he could push and pull walls around, and it helped inform the construction crew what we were trying to achieve,” Robinson says. “One of the main challenges was making the house believably small, but also creating enough room to work in and around,” Robinson says. The filmmakers decided upon a floorplan that was roughly twenty feet by thirty feet. The bones of the house were structurally sound, but the remainder was largely improvised. After the crew filmed scene in which Joe discovers the clearing, production moved on to shoot scenes with Nick Offerman while construction coordinator Mike Shepley and a team of five built the house in under a week. Robinson, Shepley and the construction crew adhered to Vogt-Roberts’s request that the house appear that it is “pragmatic and real and built primarily out of found materials and stolen materials and then a couple hundred bucks worth of stuff from Home Depot.” Indeed, Robinson used salvaged materials, including repurposed windows, a tin roof from an old mill, broken up palates, and a basketball hoop. He incorporated “found objects that spoke to the individual characters” for the interior, acquiring elements from Craigslist and the sides of roads. One major design choice came courtesy of a donated truck bed top that became the loft’s roof. The scenes at the house were shot over a week. The house’s makeshift charm proved troublesome when a summer storm soaked the set overnight. “It poured heavy that night,” Robinson recalls. “We had an actual practical roof, but it wasn’t water tight for a big torrential downpour. We came in the next day and everything was soaked. That was a real situation.” Once most of the house scenes were complete, the crew deconstructed the house as they filmed shots of the boys “building” it. “Tearing down that house was sad,” Vogt-Roberts remembers. “If it were our last day of production, that would be one thing, but it was right in the middle of it. It was this weird moment of, ‘We’re never coming back. There’s an end to this.’” The house became its own character as soon as the actors inhabited the space. “We wanted it to feel as real as possible, to put the actors in the real environment, to let them explore that world and use that world to help them form their characters. To put them into that space and to shoot interiors and exteriors simultaneously was really important. Being out in the woods and putting everyone in the headspace was really helpful,” Robinson says. “We made them feel like it was theirs. They all thought it was theirs,” Robinson adds. “We let them add their touches to it. Everyone felt really comfortable in the house and had fun exploring it. It was a fun process, and everyone felt at home there.” ABOUT THE CAST

NICK ROBINSON (Joe Toy): A Seattle native, Nick Robinson developed an eye for the classics at an early age. After winning praise for his starring work in several local Seattle productions including “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Mame,” “A Thousand Clowns,” and “Lost in Yonkers,” Nick decided to give Los Angeles a try. It only took 2 auditions before Robinson booked his first professional job, which was the series regular role of ‘Ryder’ on the hit ABC Family series “Melissa and Joey.”

On his most recent hiatus from the series, Nick filmed a guest spot on the critically acclaimed HBO drama “Boardwalk Empire.” His scene-stealing performance impressed critics and audiences alike, cementing his status as one of Hollywood’s most promising young actors.

He currently resides with his family in Los Angeles.

GABRIEL BASSO (Patrick Keenan): Already an accomplished actor at just age 18, Gabriel Basso has already amassed an impressive resume. Basso is best known for his role as the angst-ridden son, "Adam", of Laura Linney and Oliver Platt On Showtime's acclaimed series, “The Big C,” which will begin airing its fourth and final season in 2013.

Basso's other feature credits include a starring role in opposite Elle Fanning and Joel Courtney in Paramount Pictures' Super 8, which was written and directed by J.J. Abrams and was produced by Steven Spielberg. He also stars in the upcoming independent film, Anatomy of the Tide, which was filmed on the island of Vinalhaven, Maine. At age 12, Basso starred in Alabama Moon, directed by Tim McCanlies, opposite John Goodman and Clint Howard.

Basso's other television credits include guest roles on "The Middle", "The Haunting Hour" and on the upcoming "Perception", opposite Eric McCormick and William Mosely. Basso's first role was in a pilot entitled "Ghost Town,” opposite Alyson Stoner.

Basso was born in December, 1994, in St. Louis, Missouri. His mother is a computer engineer and his father is a lawyer. Basso is the great nephew of Sam Wood, who directed A Night at the Opera, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, The Pride of the Yankees, and co- directed Gone With the Wind.

Basso plans to attend college to study history and graphic art. He has played the violin for 13 years, he loves to draw, he is a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and is an avid soccer and football player.

MOISES ARIAS (Biaggio): Moises Arias is poised for a breakout year in 2013 with three very diverse roles in highly anticipated films. In addition to The Kings of Summer, Arias lends his voice to Universal Pictures’ sequel Despicable Me 2, alongside Miranda Cosgrove and Steve Carrell. In November, he will be seen opposite Asa Butterfield and Harrison Ford in Summit Entertainment’s sci-fi adventure Ender’s Game based on the Orson Scott Card novel. The film, directed by Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine), follows an unusually gifted child that is sent to an advanced military school to prepare for a future alien invasion.

Arias, who made his feature film debut with a supporting role opposite Jack Black in Paramount Picture’s Nacho Libre, recently lent his voice to the animated feature The Secret World of Arrietty. His other film credits include: Universal Home Video’s Beethoven:The Reel Story, lead roles Lionsgate’s The Perfect Game and the Disney Channel MOW “Dadnapped” opposite fellow “Hannah Montana” cast members Emily Osment and Jason Earles, Hannah Montana: The Movie and the animated feature Astroboy with Nicolas Cage.

Initially joining Disney Channel’s hit series “Hannah Montana” in a recurring role, Arias’s character ‘Rico’ became an instant fan favorite and he was upgraded to a series regular. His other television credits include guest starring roles on “Everybody Hates Chris,” “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody” and “Wizards of Waverly Place.”

Shortly after he was born in New York, NY, Arias and his family moved to Atlanta, GA. In Atlanta, he and his younger brother Mateo began taking classes at a local acting school. The school brought the Arias’ to Los Angeles in January 2005 to compete in IMTA’s acting and modeling competition. Shortly after they relocated to Los Angeles and Arias booked a national Burger King commercial and made his professional stage debut at the Mark Taper Forum in the world premiere of the Culture Clashes’ critically acclaimed production “Water and Power.”

He continues to divide his time between Atlanta and Los Angeles with his parents Monica and Ceasar and brother Mateo.

MARY LYNN RAJSKUB (Captain Davis): Mary Lynn Rajskub is best known for her iconic performance as “Chloe” in FOX’s hit series “24.” She can currently be seen as a regular panelist on “Chelsea Lately.” Mary Lynn was recently seen in theaters in Safety Not Guaranteed (Duplass Bros). Other credits include Little Miss Sunshine, Julie and Julia, Punch Drunk Love, Sunshine Cleaning, “Mr. Show” and “Larry Sanders.”

ERIN MORIARTY (Kelly): Erin Moriarty is quickly becoming one of Hollywood’s most promising young talents with notable roles in film and television.

Moriarty can currently be seen in the ABC midseason series Red Widow, where she stars as the daughter of “Marta Walraven” played by Radha Mitchell. Created by Melissa Rosenberg (Dexter, Twilight), the series centers on a housewife from Northern California whose husband, a prominent figure in organized crime, was killed. With big shoes to fill and more than one back to watch, Marta must continue her work in order to keep her family safe. The series premiered March 3rd.

In 2012, Moriarty made her feature film debut starring as Vince Vaughn’s daughter, “Chelsea” in 20th Century Fox’s The Watch. Moriarty also starred alongside acclaimed actors, Ben Stiller and Jonah Hill.

MARC EVAN JACKSON (Mr. Keenan): Hailing from Amherst, New York, Marc Evan Jackson is an enormously interesting person. After graduating with a degree in Philosophy from Calvin College and a couple years sailing aboard schooners in Maine, Marc worked as an on-air host for National Public Radio affiliate stations in Michigan before joining the Second City’s resident company in Detroit as Musical Director and Stage Actor before moving to The Second City in Hollywood as Improv Instructor /Director.

Marc voiced the title character in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award-winning Brick Novax’s Diary.

He also plays “Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars” (a sci-fi western set in Mars) in the nationally acclaimed old-time radio show “The Thrilling Adventure Hour,” which is a stage production performed monthly at Largo at the Coronet in Hollywood, CA. “The Thrilling Adventure Hour” is also syndicated in a weekly podcast on iTunes via the Nerdist Network.

Film and television credits include: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Broken Lizard’s The Slammin’ Salmon, ”Funny or Die Presents,” “Key&Peele,” “Reno 911!” and “Scare Tactics.”

Jackson was cast as the lead, Jim Dunnigan, in “Suit Up,” produced by Fox Digital Studio in association with Direct TV. This digital comedy follows a crisis guru, Dunnigan, as he pilots a college athletic department on the brink. Yahoo! Screen launched this eight-episode digital series in September 2012 and Crackle in November 2012.

Beginning January 2013, “Suit Up” will make its broadcast premiere on DIRECTV’s Audience Network. The broadcast debut of the series will include bonus content, such as behind the scenes features and outtakes.

Jackson, an actor, improviser, musician, writer and voice-over talent, lives in Los Angeles with his (current) wife Beth, a cat veterinarian.

MEGAN MULLALLY (Mrs. Keenan): Megan Mullally is one of Hollywood’s most versatile talents – an actress and singer, she has appeared on primetime, cable, and daytime television, on the big screen, in concert halls and on Broadway. Best known for her two-time Emmy and four-time SAG Award-winning role as Karen Walker on the hit NBC Series “Will & Grace,” Mullally was seen on the Fox series “Breaking In,” starring opposite Christian Slater. Mullally has also been popping up on many of television’s best comedies: Mullally has recurring roles on NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” as the infamous Tammy Swanson, “Up All Night” (opposite Maya Rudolf), ABC’s “Happy Endings” (opposite Casey Wilson), and the FOX animated series “Bob’s Burgers.” Megan also stars as Chief on the long running Adult Swim cult comedy “Children’s Hospital,” and played the role of Lydia Dunfree on the second season of the acclaimed cable series “Party Down.” Mullally will appear on the big screen in the upcoming films Smashed (Sony Classics; directed by James Ponsoldt; Sundance Main Competition 2012), Michael and Matty (Lionsgate; directed by Chris Nelson), and the film festival indie darling Somebody Up There Likes Me (directed by Bob Byington). She recently finished filming GBF.

In 2009, Mullally’s critically acclaimed performance as Beverly Wilkins in the West Coast debut of “The Receptionist” at the Odyssey Theatre earned her the Backstage West Garland Award for best performance in a play. Mullally made her Broadway debut in the 1994 revival of Grease. She then received an Ovation Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination for her performance as Rosemary in the Broadway revival of “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying” opposite Matthew Broderick and recently starred as Elizabeth in the hit Broadway musical, “Young Frankenstein.” Los Angeles theater credits include “The Berlin Circle” at The Evidence Room Theater, for which she won the 2000 Backstage West Garland Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play and the L.A. Weekly Award for Best Leading Female Performance. She has also appeared in the play “Mayhem” at The Evidence Room, as well as a variety of other plays and musicals in both Chicago and Los Angeles.

On the big screen, Mullally starred in the film Everything Put Together directed by Marc Forster - an entry in the 2000 Sundance Film Festival’s main competition and also appeared in 1999’s Anywhere But Here. Other film credits include 2009’s remake of Fame, Stealing Harvard, Speaking Of Sex, Rebound, Lifetime’s The Pact and the award winning HBO biopic Winchell.

Mullally also is a talented singer, recording albums and performing around the country with her bands “Supreme Music Program,” “Nancy and Beth” (with Stephanie Hunt), and a piano only concert featuring Broadway and standards. Mullally and “Supreme Music Program” made their international debut in the West End, performing at the Vaudeville Theater in London for eight performances in February 2010. Mullally’s most recent concert appearances with her band include The Allen Room at The Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, The Seattle Symphony, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, SUNY Buffalo Performing Arts and the Orange County Performing Arts Center. She also has appeared as a soloist at The Disney Concert Hall. She has made three CDs with “Supreme Music Program” entitled “The Sweetheart Break-In,” “Big As A Berry” and “Free Again!”. She can also be heard singing the solo barn-burner “You Took Advantage of Me” on the Fame soundtrack as well as the song “Long John Blues” in the movie Burlesque. ALISON BRIE (Heather): Alison Brie currently stars as the adorable but tightly wound Annie Edison, on NBC's hit comedy "Community." She also has a recurring role on the Emmy Award-winning drama "Mad Men," playing Trudy Campbell.

She recently starred in Save the Date opposite Lizzie Caplan, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and Five Year Engagement, opposite Emily Blunt and Jason Segel. She recently completed production on CBS Films' Get a Job opposite Bryan Cranston.

Her other film credits include Scream 4 opposite Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Neve Campbell and Montana Amazon opposite Olympia Dukakis and Haley Joel Osment.

Brie attended the California Institute of the Arts where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting and also studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland.

Upon graduation, she landed guest spots on Comedy Central and Disney's "Hannah Montana." She also performed on stage in the Blank Theatre Company's Young Playwright's festival and in shows at the Odyssey, Write-Act and Rubicon Theatres, where she received an Indy Award for her haunting performance as Ophelia in the Rubicon's production of "Hamlet."

NICK OFFERMAN (Frank Toy): Best known for his role as Ron Swanson on NBC’s critically acclaimed “Parks & Recreation¸” Nick Offerman’s humor has made him a fixture in television culture.

On the Emmy-nominated show “Parks & Recreation,” Offerman plays the masculine director of a parks and recreation department in small town Indiana. Working alongside the ensemble cast of Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones and Rob Lowe, Offerman is a comedic heavyweight whose role has developed a cult following. For “Parks & Recreation,” Offerman received the Television Critics Association Award for Achievement in Comedy in 2011, after a previous nomination in 2010. The Critic’s Choice Awards also nominated him for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy for 2011.

Offerman can also be seen in several upcoming films. Bob Byington’s film, Somebody up There Likes Me, in which Offerman both produced and starred in, premiered at the eclectic South by Southwest Festival last year and will have a limited release beginning March 8 and a VOD release March 12. He can also be seen We’re the Millers, starring alongside Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis, which will be released August 9, Diablo Cody’s Paradise which includes Julianne Hough, Russell Brand and Octavia Spencer, which is slated for late Summer/early Fall 2013 and Lionsgate’s Michael and Mattie.

He will be releasing his first book called Paddle Your Own Canoe: Nick Offerman’s Fundamentals for Delicious Living which will be published in October 2013 by Dutton. Offerman stated, “I have logged 42 years of jackassery on this planet to date, and I have been taking notes. The time has come to share these musings with the public, so that we may all try to cultivate good manners and drape our lifestyles in the finest iterations of pork and beef. Heady stuff.”

Offerman’s recent films include Smashed, which premiered at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival, with a cast that includes Octavia Spencer, Megan Mullally, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul, 21 Jump Street with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum and Casa De Mi Padre with Will Ferrell, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. Offerman also shared the screen alongside Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst in All Good Things. He has been seen in The Men Who Stare at Goats alongside George Clooney and Kevin Spacey, and Taking Chances.

Other film credits include: Harmony and Me and RSO [Registered Sex Offender], both written and directed by Bob Byington; Forward alongside Amy Ryan; The Go- Getter with Zooey Deschanel and Jena Malone; Wristcutters: A Love Story; Sin City alongside Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke and Rosario Dawson; Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous, Cursed; Golf Cart Driving School; November; Pee Shy; Groove and Treasure Island.

Offerman has also tickled television audiences with his roles on Adult Swim’s “Childrens Hospital,” “Deadwood,” “Will & Grace,” “Monk,” “The West Wing,” “24,” “ER,” “George Lopez,” “NYPD Blue,” “The Practice,” “The King of Queens,” “Gilmore Girls” and “CSI: NY.”

Offerman got his start in the Chicago theater community, where he was a founding member of the Defiant Theatre. He worked extensively at Steppenwolf, The Goodman, Wisdom Bridge, and Pegasus Players, among many others. Off-Broadway credits include “Adding Machine” at The Minetta Lane Theater. In Los Angeles, he is a company member of Evidence Room Theater Company, where he has appeared in many plays. He is also the recipient of the Joseph Jefferson Citation Award for his performance in “The Kentucky Cycle” by Robert Schenkkan at Chicago’s Pegasus Players Theatre. He was awarded a second Jefferson Award for the puppets and masks he crafted for “The Skriker” at the experimental Defiant Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

Offerman currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Megan Mullally. While he's not acting he is working in his woodworking shop building canoes, tables and other items by hand.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

JORDAN VOGT-ROBERTS (Director/Executive Producer): The Kings of Summer is Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ feature debut. Vogt-Roberts is the creator and director of the Comedy Central television show “Mash Up” and the director of the acclaimed short film Successful Alcoholics, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and subsequently screened at more than 30 festivals worldwide including SXSW and AFI. His award-winning work on the Web and with branded content has reached millions of viewers and launched a career in commercials. Hailing from the ruins of Detroit but currently living in Los Angeles, Vogt-Roberts also loves dachshunds.

CHRIS GALLETTA (Writer): Chris Galletta started as an intern at “The Late Show with David Letterman,” and he worked there for most of his 20s. After a tearful goodbye, he moved to L.A. to work on The Kings of Summer script in a small Topanga apartment. One night while he slept, some Santa Ana winds blew his door open, and he awoke to a gang of small, frightened animals that were eating his garbage and screeching in his face. He moved back to New York and finished the script in a sleek, pest-controlled office building. His second screenplay, a comedic adventure set in Brazil, is currently casting at New Line Cinema. Chris has also worked as a news cameraman, a studio musician and an adjunct professor. He lives in New York.

TYLER DAVIDSON (Producer): Tyler Davidson is the co-founder and president of Low Spark Films, an Ohio based feature film production company, and an award- winning film producer who was named one of Variety magazine’s “10 Producers to Watch” for 2011.

Davidson previously produced Compliance, written and directed by Craig Zobel, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Released by Magnolia Pictures, the film was one of the most acclaimed independent films of the year, garnering numerous award nominations and notices, and named one of the Top 10 Independent Films of the Year by the National Board of Review.

Davidson also produced Take Shelter, written and directed by Jeff Nichols, and starring Academy Award Nominees Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain. The Sony Pictures Classics release, which premiered in U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an industry-leading five Independent Spirit Awards including Best Picture; named one of the Top 10 Independent Films of the Year by the National Board of Review; and won the International Critics’ Week Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

Davidson’s other producing credits include The Year That Trembled, for which he received the Midwest Independent Filmmaker of the Year Award at the 2002 Cleveland International Film Festival; and the acclaimed IFC Films release Swedish Auto, starring January Jones and Lukas Haas. He will commence production on a new science fiction thriller called The Signal in early 2013. After graduating with honors from the University of Virginia, Davidson served as president of the Los Angeles based production company the Lab Entertainment Group, and most recently as the co-principal of the Los Angeles based production company Strange Matter Films. A Cleveland, Ohio area native, Davidson was named one of Cleveland Magazine’s “Most Interesting People 2012.” He currently resides in Northeast Ohio with his wife and two children.

PETER SARAF (Producer): Peter Saraf’s producing credits include Safety Not Guaranteed, Our Idiot Brother, Jack Goes Boating, Sunshine Cleaning, Away We Go, Is Anybody There?, Little Miss Sunshine, Everything Is Illuminated, The Truth About Charlie, Adaptation, Ulee's Gold and the feature documentaries Mandela and The Agronomist. He has been nominated for Academy and Golden Globe Awards and has won multiple awards including the Spirit, Gotham and PGA Awards. He is the co- founder of Big Beach, a New York based independent film production and financing company. Peter is Chair of the Producers Guild of America East.

JOHN HODGES (Producer): John Hodges is a partner in A24, a NY based distribution and production company (Spring Breakers, The Bling Ring, Spectacular Now). Previously, he was Head of Production & Development at Big Beach Films (Our Idiot Brother, Safety Not Guaranteed). Prior to joining Big Beach, Hodges was a Production Executive at Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn's Paramount-based production company and started his career in acquisitions at Focus Features/USA Films.

RICHARD ROTHFELD (Executive Producer): Richard Rothfield is the co-founder of the Ohio based feature film production company Low Spark Films, and an executive producer of its film projects. He also serves as the executive vice president and general counsel for New York based REI Capital, LLC.

Rothfeld was an executive producer on Sony Pictures Classics release Take Shelter, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and won the International Critics' Week Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

REI Capital, LLC is a, self-funded, boutique private equity and venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with high-growth minded entrepreneurs who are seeking investments of both human and financial capital. REI is dedicated to assisting talented entrepreneurs build remarkable organizations, working with them to hone their business plans and then providing the strategic, operational and management support necessary to achieve them. REI seeks partners who have the ability to impact the marketplace based on innovation and creativity. REI understands the challenges of launching a new enterprise and improving an existing one, and believes that insight, expertise and building sustainable infrastructure is as important as access to capital in establishing long- term value and success. REI invests across a broad range of industries, including retail, apparel, consumer products, entertainment and real estate.

Through his role at REI, Rothfeld is a member of the management teams of multiple companies REI has invested in and he actively works to source new investment opportunities. He additionally oversees REI’s film and entertainment investments, including its participation in Low Spark Films.

Prior to joining REI in 2007, Rothfeld was a practicing attorney specializing in complex real estate and corporate transactions. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

ABOUT THE CAST

He currently resides with his family in Los Angeles.

He continues to divide his time between Atlanta and Los Angeles with his parents Monica and Ceasar and brother Mateo.

NICK OFFERMAN (Frank Toy): Best known for his role as Ron Swanson on NBC’s critically acclaimed “Parks & Recreation¸” Nick Offerman’s humor has made him a fixture in television culture.

Offerman currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Megan Mullally. While he's not acting he is working in his woodworking shop building canoes, tables and other items by hand.

ALISON BRIE (Heather): Alison Brie currently stars as the adorable but tightly wound Annie Edison, on NBC's hit comedy "Community." She also has a recurring role on the Emmy Award-winning drama "Mad Men," playing Trudy Campbell.

Her other film credits include Scream 4 opposite Courteney Cox, David Arquette and Neve Campbell and Montana Amazon opposite Olympia Dukakis and Haley Joel Osment.

Brie attended the California Institute of the Arts where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in acting and also studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scotland.

Mullally also is a talented singer, recording albums and performing around the country with her bands “Supreme Music Program,” “Nancy and Beth” (with Stephanie Hunt), and a piano only concert featuring Broadway and standards. Mullallyand “Supreme Music Program” made their international debut in the West End, performing at the Vaudeville Theater in London for eight performances in February 2010. Mullally’s most recent concert appearances with her band include The Allen Room at The Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, The Seattle Symphony, Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, SUNY Buffalo Performing Arts and the Orange County Performing Arts Center. She also has appeared as a soloist at The Disney Concert Hall. She has made three CDs with “Supreme Music Program” entitled “The Sweetheart Break-In,” “Big As A Berry” and “Free Again!”. She can also be heard singing the solo barn-burner “You Took Advantage of Me” on the Fame soundtrack as well as the song “Long John Blues” in the movie Burlesque.

MARC EVAN JACKSON (Mr. Keenan): Hailing from Amherst, New York, Marc Evan Jackson is an enormously interesting person. After graduating with a degree in Philosophy from Calvin College and a couple years sailing aboard schooners in Maine, Marc worked as an on-airhost for National Public Radio affiliate stations in Michigan before joining the Second City’s resident company in Detroit as Musical Director and Stage Actor before moving to The Second City in Hollywood as Improv Instructor /Director.

Marc voiced the title character in the 2011 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Award-winning Brick Novax’s Diary. He also plays “Sparks Nevada, Marshal on Mars” (a sci-fi western set in Mars) in the nationally acclaimed old-time radio show “The Thrilling Adventure Hour,” which is a stage production performed monthly at Largo at the Coronet in Hollywood, CA. “The Thrilling Adventure Hour” is also syndicated in a weekly podcast on iTunes via the Nerdist Network.

Jackson, an actor, improviser, musician, writer and voice-over talent, lives in Los Angeles with his (current) wife Beth, a cat veterinarian.

ERIN MORIARTY (Kelly): Erin Moriarty is quickly becoming one of Hollywood’s most promising young talents with notable roles in film and television.