SYNOPSIS Laura Heisler leads an outstanding cast in this poignant and witty film about a bereaved woman searching for meaning and purpose in the aftermath of her wife’s death. Jo (Heisler) enlists her brother-in-law Jamie (Bryan Dechart) as a sperm donor in an effort to salvage her dream of raising a family. Along the way she leans a bit too heavily on her two best friends, a lesbian punk photographer named Lisa (Anna Fitzwater) and a straight male barfly named Nate (Raoul Bhaneja). The screenplay by Gretchen Michelfeld is consistently tender in its portrayal of grief, even as the film becomes a kind of willful, triumphant comedy. Director Heather de Michele navigates the tonal shifts with expert timing, good taste, and craftsmanship. The film also features Peter Maloney, Karis Campbell, Elizabeth Herring, and Annie Potts.

(Running Time: 85 minutes) “A refreshingly funny, very moving story about love, loss and what it means to be human in the contemporary world.” Michael Mayer, Director Tony-Award Winner, Spring Awakening LEAD CAST

JO Laura Heisler LISA Anna Fitzwater NATE Raoul Bhaneja JAMIE Bryan Dechart DR. LAURA BERG Annie Potts JO’S DAD Peter Maloney

SUPPORTING CAST

EMILY BELL Karis Campbell CAPPY Beth Robbins NAN Elizabeth Herring TERRY Karen Wexler MANDY Reena Dutt MELINEH KURDIAN Herself ATTICUS, THE DOG Nelson KEY CREW Gretchen M. Michelfeld Robert Christopher Webb Trevor M. Carlee Executive Producer & Screenwriter Director of Photography Editor & Composer Heather de Michele Keseh Morgan Melineh Kurdian Director Production Designer Original Music Reena Dutt Christine Casaus Allison Reitz, AllisonSound, LLC Producer Costume Designer Sound Designer Chelsea Reda Makeup/Hair CREW Randy Hartley, Producer Kevin Bellante, Boom Operator Roger McDonald, Producer Michael Nicastro, Additional Boom Operator Mollie Caselli, 1st Assistant Director Stephen Herrod, Additional Boom Operator Laura Transue, 2nd Assistant Director & Associate Katie Scholz, Script Supervisor Producer Stephanie Vigo, Tattoo Artist Daniel Fritz, Additional 1st Assistant Camera Ragini Gill, Additional Makeup & Hair Saioa Eslava Garrués, 2nd Assistant Camera Madeline Mikkelson, Assistant Costume Designer Diante Sigley, Additional 2nd Assistant Camera Damon Sellers, Assistant Production Designer James Honaker, Colourist Tanya R. Barnes, Art Department Production John Mijares, Key Grip Assistant Daniel Andres Gomez Bagby, Gaffer Ebonie Cleaver, Art Department Production Assistant Steven Moreno, Additional Gaffer Dan Hoerner, Production Assistant Ramin Shakibaei, Additional Gaffer Diante Singley, Production Assistant Kane Richardson, DIT Daniel Reichert, Still Photographer Alexander Dawson, Sound Mixer The Heart of Cooking, Catering

Produced by Tanky Productions in association with Off-Chance Productions “Authentically funny, sexy and moving. A human-sized story of grief.” Lisa McNulty, Producing Artistic Director Women’s Project Theater PRESS

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PICTURE FORMAT Color

ASPECT RATIO 2.35 (SCOPE)

SHOOTING FORMAT RED

EXHIBITION FORMATS - DCP - BLU-RAY - .MOV - HDCAM

RUNNING TIME 85 MINUTES CAST BIOS RAOUL BHANEJA (Nate) Raoul Bhaneja has appeared in a wide range of roles during his twenty year career. From studio pictures like The Sentinel (opposite Michael Laura Heisler Raoul Bhaneja Anna Fitzwater Douglas) and Godsend (opposite Robert De Niro) to indie hits such as Touch of Pink (Sundance) and Weirdsville (Slamdance), Raoul has left his mark. With over eighty five film and television credits as well as an extensive career on stage as both an actor and musician, Raoul is set to make a splash with the late 2016 release of the explosive John Bryan Dechart Peter Maloney Annie Potts Madden directed political thriller Miss Sloane, opposite Jessica Chastain. LAURA HEISLER (Jo) ANNA FITZWATER (Lisa) In addition to As Good As You, Laura has appeared in the independent features We Go Anna Fitzwater collaborated with Gretchen On, Yellowbrickroad, Cold Souls and Forged. On M.Michelfeld (screenwriter) and Heather de television, she has guest starred on Madam Secretary, Michele (director) on the long running Off- The Americans, Elementary, Grey's Anatomy, Bones, Broadway production Lesbian Pulp-O-Rama! which The Defenders, Numb3rs, The Middle, and Ugly Betty. did multiple tours of Sweden. Anna starred in the A veteran stage actor, Laura has appeared on short films Lacuna, Cry For Me Now and His and Her Broadway in Coram Boy, as well as Off-Broadway Hermia and was last seen in commercials for AOL and regionally, including numerous plays at and Apple. Playwrights Horizons, The Geffen, Williamstown, Soho Rep, Naked Angels, South Coast Rep, Humana BRYAN DECHART (Jamie) Festival, Woolly Mammoth, and The Old Globe. She was nominated for both the Lucille Lortel and Drama Bryan Dechart is currently filming performance- League Award for her work in Bathsheba Doran's Kin, capture for the upcoming PlayStation 4 videogame which premiered at Playwrights Horizons, directed by Detroit: Become Human. He is a graduate of the Sam Gold. NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Recent credits include of PIPPIN. She will next be seen in the independent Sony’s The Remaining, festival-winning independent feature IZZY GETS THE FUCK ACROSS TOWN, HUMOR features, recurring and guest roles on HBO, CW, ME written and directed by Sam Hoffman and and ABC Family. He leads the alumni group Tisch TWO FOR ONE, directed by Jon Abrahams. In Actors West and a movement for actors workshops addition to this she will be reviving her role of "Bo in LA. He also works as a photographer and enjoys Beep" in the upcoming TOY STORY 4. She also woodworking and gardening in his free time. authored a children’s book about a special boy named Kemarley Brooks who lives in Anguilla called ANNIE POTTS (Dr. Laura Berg) KEMARLEY OF ANGUILLA; all proceeds benefit special needs children in Anguilla. Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Annie Potts has enjoyed a versatile and award winning career in PETER MALONEY (Ray) film, television and theater. In addition to working with Tina Fey and Robert Carlock on the ABC Pilot PETER MALONEY is an actor, writer and director FAMILY FORTUNE, some of her recent television credits working in theatre, film and television. His recent include SCANDAL, MAJOR CRIMES, GREY’S ANATOMY, credits include Judd Apatow's HBO series Crashing, THE FOSTERS and CHICAGO MED. While she is well the CBS show Bull, Steven Soderbergh's The Knick known in the world of television, she is probably best and Warner Bros. Gotham. He played "Uncle known for her role as sassy secretary "Janine Melnitz" Red" on Rescue Me.He has appeared in over 60 in the original GHOSTBUSTERS. Potts also made a movies, including Oliver Stone's JFK, The Crucible, cameo appearance in the reboot film GHOSTBUSTERS Washington Square, Requiem for a Dream, alongside Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd. Other notable Boiler Room, K-Pax, A Little Romance and John roles include her voice portrayal of "Bo Peep" in the Carpenter's The Thing. Broadway appearances classic children's animated franchise TOY STORY, a include Outside Mullingar (for which he received role in PRETTY IN PINK and an Emmy nominated role a Drama Desk nomination), Judgement at in the long running CBS drama DESIGNING WOMEN. Nuremberg (with Maximillian Schell), Poor Murderer She appeared in the feature CORVETTE SUMMER in (with Maria Schell), To Be Or Not To Be, Hughie (with which she received a Golden Globe nomination Ben Gazzara) and Stanley (with Antony Sher). Also for her performance. Always one to engage in the Our Town, Six Degrees of Separation, Carousel, unexplored, Annie made her Broadway debut a Arcadia, Dinner at Eight and Abe Lincoln in Illinois few years ago in GOD OF CARNAGE and has since for Lincoln Center Theater. A member of the appeared in the long-running Broadway production Atlantic Theater, he has acted in 23 productions, including many plays by David Mamet. At the CREW BIOS Irish Repertory Theatre he has won awards for performances in Conor McPherson's Port Authority GRETCHEN M. MICHELFELD and John McManus' The Quare Land. At Ensemble (Screenwriter, Executive Producer) Studio Theater Mr. Maloney was seen in four autobiographical pieces Accident, My Father's A former actor and Shakespeare teacher, Gretchen Funeral, Accordion Dreams and Kolossal Hero! His began her life as a writer when she started penning plays Lost and Found, Pastoral, and Last Chance short pieces for the award-winning comedy group, Texaco were performed at EST before being LESBIAN PULP-O-RAMA!, which she co-founded with published by Samuel French, Inc. His adaptation director Heather de Michele, actor Anna Fitzwater of Machiavelli's Mandragola was commissioned and Gretchen’s late wife, Beatrice Terry Lopez. by Washington, D.C.'s Shakespeare Theater and produced there under his direction. Witness and Prior to AS GOOD AS YOU, Gretchen, Heather and Leash (parts of his Abu Ghraib Triptych) were both Anna collaborated on several short films including published inBest American Short Plays, and Witness SONDRA STINGRAY, LESBIAN GUMSHOE; CRY FOR ME appeared in Joyce Carol Oates' quarterly Ontario NOW (Filmaka winner and Reel Thirteen finalist); and Review. His play In the Devil's Bathtub was published CRY PREQUEL. She just finished her second feature in the Kenyon Review. He directed Sandra Bullock screenplay, VILLA CAP. in Larry Ketron's No Time Flat, Kevin Bacon in John Byrne's The Slab Boys, Tommy Lee Jones in Jack Gretchen has a BA in English from Vassar College and Gilhooley'sTime Trial, Adolph Green and Phyllis an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College. Newman in Murray Schisgal's The New Yorkers, and Her one-act plays NOT HER; EAT IT and THE NOTARY’S Lois Smith and Thomas Gibson in Romulus Linney's TALE; and her full-length play NELLIE BLY: a fantasia, Juliet (later directing a film of that play). A member have been performed or workshopped in diverse Off- of Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Irish Repertory Broadway and Los Angeles venues. Theatre, the Actors Studio and an alumnus of the New Dramatists, Mr. Maloney was a Fox Foundation Gretchen is immeasurably grateful to all of the friends Fellow in the year 2000. and colleagues of Beatrice Terry Lopez, who worked on and helped to fund AS GOOD AS YOU—a true labor of love. HEATHER DE MICHELE (Director) , TOUCH (NBCUniversal Shorts Finalist), …OR DIE, SHAMELESS, and UNFINISHED (BET Network). AS GOOD AS YOU is Heather de Michele’s feature She has also produced the two successful web film debut and fifth creative collaboration with series SQUAD 85 available on Justin Lin’s network screenwriter Gretchen M. Michelfeld. Heather has YOMYOMF.com and KISS HER I’M FAMOUS (Season been directing theatre for nearly 20 years with 2) on TelloFilms.com. incredible companies in NYC, Los Angeles and Sweden. Heather is an alumni of the Lincoln Center Dutt is also a prolific stage director and actor. Director’s Lab and served as Artistic Director of She is an alum of the Lincoln Center For the American Girl Theatre NYC from 2003-2008 directing Arts, prestigious Directors Lab and is a member over 400 young performers in their long running of Independent Film Project, Women in Motion musical productions. Heather directed the Off- Pictures, San Francisco Film Society, and Film Broadway production of Shaheed: The Dream and Independent. Death of Benazir Bhutto at the Culture Project in 2014. Heather has directed several award winning short ROBERT C. WEBB (Director of Photographer) films (El Doctor - acquired by PBS Latino, Lacuna, Sati, Liking Men and Pluto, to name a few) and was at the Robert C. Webb is an Emmy and Telly winning helm of the much beloved web-series The Real Girls cinematographer, as well as the 2012 Emerging Guide to Everything Else. Cinematography Award from the International Cinematographers Guild. Other notable credits REENA DUTT (Producer) include “The Flip Side” (Sundance), “Americano” (Winner Best Cinematrography, Sidewalk Film Reena Dutt is an Independent Film Producer who is an Festival) with Joshua Jackson, Dennis Hopper, and alum of the San Francisco Film Society/Kenneth Rainin Leonor Varela, and the Spanish feature film “Under Producing fellowship and Film Independent’s Project The Snow” (Slamdance and Audience Award Involve. Her producing credits include the feature AS at Valladolid Film Festival) for Cronopia Films. He GOOD AS YOU and line producing the feature CHEE recently photographed Cronopia’s first International AND T which made it’s premiere at the 2016 LAFF and feature film “Blue Lips” which was shot in Spain, Italy, Executive Produced by Visual Communications. She Los Angeles, Hawaii, Rio De Janeiro, and Buenos has produced a wide array of short films including; Aires. His recent features include “Shark Proof” with THE FIRST SESSION (Emerging Filmmaker showcase Jon Lovitz and Ken Davitian, “How To Grow Your at Cannes Film Festival), EL DOCTOR (Latino/PBS), Own” with Esteban Powell and Iris Bahr, “Wreckless Epic” with Jerry Trainor and Esteban Powell, and MELINEH KURDIAN (Original Music) “The Divorce Party”. Melineh Kurdian is a songwriter and composer Online, Robert photographed the web series who has always loved experimenting with different “Squad 85” for Justin Lin’s YOMYOMF Network genres and sounds. She has toured as a performer featuring Deidrich Bader, RJ Mitte, and Danny Pudi, throughout the US and Europe. From raising awareness “Nerd Down & 10” with the Sklar Brothers, “4 Points” for various humanitarian causes, to writing light- with Alex Albrecht for Chris Hardwick’s Nerdist hearted tunes for kids, Melineh’s music is always full of Channel, and the Web Series “The Real Girls Guide soul and conviction. She is also a founding member of To Everything Else”, recognized by NPR. Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls Los Angeles, empowering women and girls through music education. Her debut He has also shot international Industrial, album, From Where You Are, featured the single As commercial spots and music videos for a number Good As You, and she’s grateful it inspired the title for of international companies and artists which has the film named after it. Melineh is currently living and taken him to Japan, Korea, United Arab Emirates, writing in Brooklyn, and her music can be found on Afghanistan, Columbia, Australia, and Honduras. iTunes. Some of the most notable are Lockheed Martin, Jim Henson Studios & Warner Bros, Smashbox, Dove, ALLISON REITZ (Post Sound Mixer) Smithsonian, and Sikorsky Helicopters. Allison Reitz is a freelance composer, sound designer, KESEH MORGAN (Production Designer) and yoga instructor in the Reno / Tahoe area. She received her BM in Music Composition from the Keseh (kee-see) Morgan’s love for creating creative University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, IL in 2012, spaces was cultivated through an admiration of and her MFA in Sound Design from the Savannah architecture and landscape. Looking at the spaces College of Art and Design in 2014. Since then, she’s around her, she would consider their specific design been working with music and audio on a multitude and use. Now, as a production designer, she owns of media projects in Savannah, Denver, and now in her creative space and through collaboration lovely Carson City, Nevada! with strong crews her vision truly represents the character’s narrative journey. Keseh lives and works in Pasadena, California. Her favorite dessert is butterscotch pudding and she believes that all art is created through some mischief. SPECIAL THANKS Thanks to our Indiegogo and Art Book Contributors

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