Cast Bios
Scotch Ellis Loring
Scotch Ellis Loring has been in arts and entertainment for almost thirty years. His first professional job for television was as Tootie’s suitor on The Facts of Life. His resume is quite extensive including his most recent stint recurring on
Desperate Housewives. In film, he has had the pleasure of working with decorated directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, David Fincher and Todd Holland.
Scotch has enjoyed a successful singing career than has spanned everything from musical theater to the completion of his second solo CD “Original Scotch”. He can be heard singing the beautiful ballad “Lost Til I Found You”, which he penned, playing over the closing credits of the feature film Firehouse Dog.
Scotch has been producing for several years with project that include pilots, features, live productions and the indie features.
Scotch’s latest work WIG, his short screenwriting debut, is currently making the rounds in film festivals all over the world. The short was produced Sara Woomer and John Baumgartner and stars the very talented Tim Bagley, Judy Greer, Jason Dudey and Kim Coles, Tim Lounibos, Jenny Murano, Daresha Kyi & Lanny Lee Leyda. WIG was directed by and co-executive produced with Scotch’s husband Todd Holland.
Todd Holland
What does it take to bring a busy working director back to short film after 20 years? For WIG, Todd Holland’s answer is simple: Love. “I loved the script and I love the writer,” he explains, for WIG marks the first writing/directing collaboration for Holland and partner-husband Scotch Ellis Loring. (The two have collaborated numerous times as director and actor-singer-songwriter.)
Another short film – Holland’s UCLA graduate film CHICKEN THING – started his career. Since then, Todd Holland has directed more than 250 episodes of critically acclaimed television, three feature films, and has been honored with three EMMY AWARDS (“Malcolm in the Middle” and “The Larry Sanders Show”), five CABLEACE AWARDS, seven EMMY nominations, a DGA award, a WGA nomination, six DGA nominations, and two of TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Television Episodes of All Time.”.
Holland’s 2007 theatrical motion picture, FIREHOUSE DOG -- a self-described “seven-hanky action comedy” – recently won the 2007 KIDS FIRST AWARD for Best Feature Film and was a nominee for the 2008 Young Artists Award – Best Family Feature Film. (Scotch Ellis Loring appears as firefighter LIONEL BRADFORD in the film -- and also wrote and performs the end titles closing theme song, Lost Til I Found You.)
Holland most recently executive produced and directed the FOX 2009-2010 mid-season comedy, SONS OF TUCSON. Before that he executive produced and directed the critically acclaimed 2008 ABC mid-season comedy, MISS/GUIDED, starring Judy Greer – a workplace comedy centering around a high school guidance counselor.
In 2003, Todd co-created, directed and executive-produced “Wonderfalls,” a wickedly offbeat "dramedy" that instantly earned critical adoration and a devoted cult following. While prematurely canceled by FOX, fan out-cry won the series an afterlife on DVD (and later on LOGO). For co-creating the pilot, Holland was nominated for a 2004 WGA award for Comedy Series. WONDERFALLS likewise garnered the 2004 Television Critics Award nomination for Outstanding New Series -- – the only canceled show among the nominees.
Judy Greer
Judy Greer is a multi-talented actress who can easily transition between comedy and drama, feature films and televison. Most recently, she starred in the ABC comedy Miss Guided as high school guidance counselor “Becky Freeley.” She has had several memorable guest spots on television including ER, House, Californication, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Two and a Half Men, My Name Is Earl and Arrested Development.
Greer has appeared in more than 30 films including 27 Dresses, The TV Set, American Dreamz, The Amateurs, Elizabethtown, The Village, 13 Going On 30, Adaptation, The Wedding Planner, What Women Want, Three Kings and Kissing a Fool. She will soon be seen in Universal Films’ Brand New Day, opposite Jennifer Aniston and Aaron Eckhart.
Greer was born and raised in Detroit. She showed an affinity for acting as early as high school, where she was a member of the Creative and Performing Arts program. Later, she was accepted into Chicago’s prestigious theater school at DePaul University where she studied acting and graduated in 1997.
Greer currently resides in Los Angeles.
Kim Coles
Actress, comedian, author, playwright and TV personality KIM COLES is truly a renaissance woman. Best known for her zany characters and outrageous sense of humor, KIM COLES began her journey to Hollywood when she was announced the runner-up in the “Big Beautiful Woman” pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. She then rode her beauty pageant success into a plus-size modeling career and ultimately began performing as a stand-up comedian which eventually turned into a showbiz career that has continued to skyrocket.
Perhaps best known for her five-season turn as the unforgettable “Synclaire” on FOX’s ground-breaking comedy series, Living Single, KIM COLES has starred on numerous hit television programs including Frasier, Six Feet Under, In Living Color, One on One, and most recently co-starred in the uproarious TBS comedy series 10 Items Or Less as the villainous “Mercy P. Jones”. She has also served as co-host for several morning programs, including Fox After Breakfast and Lifetime’s lifestyle magazine, New Attitudes, as well as the national syndicated daytime talk show, In the Loop. In addition, she has been a guest co-host for various shows, including The View and Good Day Live. KIM COLES is also known to reality audiences for having appeared on The Mole, VH1’s Celebrity Fit Club and BET’s search for “the next superstar of funny.”
A well-known comedian (who got her start as the warm-up comedian for The Cosby Show), KIM COLES performs on comedy club stages across the country and recently returned to her early modeling roots by appearing in the Ashley Stewart print campaign. She has also co-written and starred in her own award-winning play, Homework, a one-woman stage show about the lives of three best friends who progress from elementary school to woman hood.
In addition, KIM COLES wrote the best-selling book, “I’m Free But it Will Cost You: The Single Life According to Kim Coles,” which was published in 1997 by Hyperion.
KIM COLES has been nominated by the NAACP Image Awards four times – for “Best Actress” for Living Single and “Best Supporting Actress” for her role in Frasier.
KIM COLES currently resides in Los Angeles.
Tim Lounibos
Over the past 15 years, Tim Lounibos has established himself as one of the workingest Asian American actors in Hollywood.
It was a stand-out starring role in Clara Law’s Wonton Soup (one of three vignettes in the controversial film Erotique) that put Lounibos well on his way to reaching goals he thought would take much longer to achieve. Critics, including Leonard Maltin and Gary Franklin, singled out Wonton Soup as the best of the three stories, while Film Journal proclaimed Lounibos “the acting standout of Erotique!” and Playgirl declared, “Asian men such as Tim Lounibos are finally being given a chance to prove how sexy they really are.”
Sexy or not, Tim is versatile and has worked on over a hundred projects for film, television, commercials and animation. He’s guested on over thirty television series – including memorable roles on JAG, The West Wing and the NBC telefilm Leave of Absence – and can currently be seen in a wonderfully powerful and, at times, hysterical turn as Simon, the homophobic heart-of-gold brother in the much talked about and moving festival favorite The Sensei.
When he’s not acting, Lounibos spends his time producing. In 1999, he co-founded the critically acclaimed and groundbreaking Lodestone Theatre Ensemble. From 2000-2002, he produced the Ammy Awards (honoring Asian & Asian American achievement in entertainment) and the Ovation Awards (honoring the best in Los Angeles theatre), became Development Manager for aOnline (named “Best Asian American Community site of 2001” by Yahoo Internet Life Magazine) and produced the Sept. 11th memorial event My America in New York. Since then, Lounibos has been producing Living In Silence: Toraichi Kono, a documentary about a man who came to America with nothing, found his version of the American Dream by becoming personal secretary and confidant to the biggest celebrity in the world, then lost it all in an environment of fear, accusations and paranoia.
This U.C. Berkeley Dramatic Arts alum is also a produced playwright with his critically praised one-act Be Happy and seems to have carved out a nice little niche for himself in Hollywood.
Daresha Kyi
Daresha's bio coming soon
