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Matt Czuchry is an American Actor and Producer known for his work on The Resident (2018), The Good Wife (2009) and Gilmore Girls (2000).

Matt graduated from College of Charleston with Summa Cum Laude honors, and B.A degrees in the disciplines of both History and Political Science. In his senior year at the College, Matt was presented with The Bishop Robert Smith award. This award is the highest honor given to a graduating senior and represents valued contributions in academics, sports, and leadership within the Charleston community.

Throughout his studies at Charleston, Matt was focused on making the practice of law his next path in life after graduation. However, when his embarrassingly awful Law School Admission Test results arrived in the mail the summer before his senior year, he began to meticulously reflect on his early childhood in an effort to find a renewed sense of purpose for his adult life.

During this process of personal evaluation at the beginning of his senior year at CofC, Matt could not ignore the magical impact movies, television, characters, and storytelling had upon his youth. Moments like exiting a dilapidated movie theater while crying inconsolably after experiencing E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Or times spent as a tiny kid running around his parent's home in purple-dyed underwear, smashing couches while watching The Incredible Hulk (1977) on TV.

Through this process of searching his past to find a path towards his future, Matt slowly began to clearly define his purpose for his adult life. For the next journey in his life after college, Matt wanted to make his own indelible mark on the hearts and minds of audiences across the world from all walks of life through the power of storytelling.

In an effort to pursue this intention and purpose, nearly immediately after graduating from the College of Charleston, Matt filled his crappy car with everything he owned, put his awful Law School Admission Test scores in the rear view mirror, and embarked upon a westward journey from his childhood home in Johnson City Tennessee to Los Angeles California.

Since graduating from The College of Charleston in 1999 and making the cross country journey to Los Angeles, Matt has worked on projects such as Gilmore Girls (2000), the two time Emmy nominated and Peabody winning series, The Good Wife (2009), and his current show on Fox, The Resident (2018), where Matt plays the title character.

Throughout his acting career from 1999-present, Matt has worked alongside Oscar winners, Tony Winners, and Emmy winners. And during that time Czuchry has found a way to make his own indelible mark on the arts. For his work on The Resident (2018), Czuchry was honored in 2020 with the Entertainment Weekly/SCAD Maverick Award. The Resident (2018) has also been nominated for two Teen Choice awards, and Matt has been nominated for three Teen Choice awards for his work as Logan Huntzberger in the series Gilmore Girls (2000). For his work on The Good Wife (2009) (where ironically Matt played a lawyer with exceptional Law School Admission Test scores) he was nominated for three consecutive Screen Actors Guild Ensemble awards in 2011, 2012, 2013, he won the Entertainment Weekly Best Supporting Actor award in 2011, and Czuchry was also selected to both The Hollywood Reporter and Variety magazine's prestigious Emmy Contenders list for 2015.

Czuchry's Charleston education came to a pinnacle in 2018 when he gave the commencement address to that year's College of Charleston graduating class. His commencement address was noted in Teen Vogue as one of the standout speeches of 2018 along with Oprah Winfrey and Apple CEO Tim Cook. That same year the College of Charleston recognized Matt with an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. This humbling honor completed Matt's journey from college graduate with crap LSAT scores and an unclear path forward, to an established actor contributing on the highest level to the arts.

Jared Mitchell Sandler was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. At the age of four, he acted in his first movie, The WaterBoy. If you ever wondered why there are two kids dressed in red and blue, throwing their hands up at Bobby Boucher's wedding, it's because Jared and his sister were last second additions. He acted in four more films in his early years before focusing on academic and athletic achievements. Jared then deepened his connection with acting when attending the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts, graduating with a BA in 2014, where he committed himself to a career of creation.

Since university, Jared has acted in over forty movies including over fifteen Adam Sandler movies. He has acted in over five television shows as well. His acting career extended to live comedy. Jared studied at Upright Citizens Brigade, was a sketch team member of IO West, and finally started his career as a stand up comedian in 2016. He toured internationally and opened for comedians including Adam Sandler, David Spade, Rob Schneider, Norm McDonald, and Nick Swardson. He performed in clubs around the world every week and in festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Burbank Comedy Festival.

Jared also started writing, producing, and directing his own projects shortly after USC. He's now made over five short films, with more shorts, features and television shows on the way. He produced a short film that won Best Short Film at Just For Laughs 2012, and starred in another that played in Hollyshorts festival.

Jared reaches new horizons in his career and celebrates with his cocreators, fans and loved ones.

Christopher Stone was an occasional lead and supporting actor in films and on television throughout the 1980s and early 90s. He achieved his first major role as "Dr. Pooch Hardin" on the 1970s TV series The Interns (1970), and made occasional appearances in made-for-TV movies and guest-starring on such TV shows that included Mission: Impossible (1966), Hunter (1976) and Wonder Woman (1975). Stone later married actress Dee Wallace and co-starred with her in such theatrical feature films including The Howling (1981) and Cujo (1983), as well as the late 1980s TV series The New Lassie (1989). Stone continued appearing in TV guest-starring roles and made for TV films before he died of a heart attack at the age of 55 in 1995.

Dan Brown was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. He is an actor, known for Tenet (2020), Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019) and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). He is married to Jennifer Arsenault. They have two children.

Thomas Kopache is an actor best known for his role as Assistant Secretary of State Bob Slatterly on The West Wing (1999) and for appearing in many roles on the first four "Star Trek" spin-off television shows. Kopache has played seven characters on the "Star Trek" spin-offs Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Star Trek: Voyager (1995), and "Star Trek: Enterprise". He also appeared in the Star Trek movie Star Trek: Generations (1994) and the "Star Trek"-inspired sci-fi TV series Babylon 5 (1993).

Kyle Cooke was born on 4 August 1982 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. He has been married to Amanda Batula since 25 September 2021.

Judy Levitt was born on 24 April 1939 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). She was married to Walter Koenig. She died on 9 December 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Jasmine Star Dustin was born in the small rural New Hampshire town of Auburn on New Year's Day, 1983. It was almost as if she was destined for stardom--thus her middle name!

The green-eyed beauty can attribute her exotic good looks to her French, Native American and Scottish roots. Jasmine took her first walk down the runway at the young age of five, competing in modeling pageants. Her dedication and persistence brought her such titles as Miss Congeniality, Miss Best Photographed and Miss Best Smile, as well as reigning titles of Miss Top Model and Junior Miss. By the time Jasmine hit her teens she was convinced that modeling and acting would be her lifetime pursuit. Shortly after graduating high school she took the first big step to achieving her lifelong dream and moved to Los Angeles. Within a short time she had graced the pages of magazines such as GQ, Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, FHM among others.

Jasmine has traveled to London, New York and Paris to pursue her career in modeling and has landed campaigns for companies such as Fredericks of Hollywood, Johnny Walker, William Rast, Duwop Cosmetics, UGG, Samsung and many more. Her "debut" into the world of television was as the model holding briefcase #5 on the hit TV show Deal or No Deal (2005). After one season she decided to take the next step and pursue a career in acting. She has been coached by Larry Moss of L.A.'s Larry Moss Studios, who has worked with such actresses as Hilary Swank and Helen Hunt. You can see Jasmine in feature films such as Rush Hour 3 (2007), City Of Jerks (2012) and Let the Game Begin (2010) opposite Michael Madsen, along with many independent films that later went onto the film festival circuit. Jasmine has worked on the top television shows such as CSI: Miami (2002), Eleventh Hour (2008) Knight Rider (2008) and FX's "The League". Jasmine has been a series regular for two seasons on the TV show Doheny Models (2010) and Get Out (2003), in which she travels the world doing high adventure sports. Jasmine is currently filming her second season of BET's hit show "Being Mary Jane" opposite Gabrielle Union.

When Jasmine isn't on set she is on the streets giving back to the homeless and their pets. Jasmine started her own animal charity Cause4Paws back in 2012 which focuses on the shelter animals as well as the homeless community and their pets. On a weekly basis she is passing out tents and food in the cities of Los Angeles and Van Nuys.

Kayda Bosse was born on 29 January 2004 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA.

Dan Eckman was born on 27 January 1984 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. He is a director and editor, known for Mystery Team (2009), Community (2009) and Worst. Prom. Ever. (2011). He has been married to Meggie McFadden since 10 July 2010. They have two children.

Darrin Cummings was born on 27 June 1980 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Bliss (2021), Bumblebee (2018) and True Detective (2014). He has been married to Melissa Cummings since 18 October 2014.

Kallie Tabor was born on 21 February 1996 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. She is an actress, known for Patriots Day (2016), Spenser Confidential (2020) and Bride Wars (2009).

Ben has had a diverse career both on screen and on stage.

He has acted in many plays over his life, the majority of which were with Bill Fegan's Kaleidoscope Players. He has also written several plays and some, such as "Some Die From Drinking Water" and "Back to the Hat Factory" produced.

In addition on the silver screen, he has worked behind it as well. Ben worked in the Art and Construction departments of numerous films, including Dances With Wolves, Wyatt Earpp, Medicine Man, McHale's Navy, Fool for Love and Silent Tongue.

Ben has also written two novels. In his book "The Coordinator, several killings, attempted murders and kidnappings plague a Hollywood company preparing to film in the coastal jungles of Mexico.

His other novel, "Firedamp" is a story of love, hate and revolution, of heroes and villains. In the late eighteen/early nineteen hundreds thousands of poor but hopeful immigrant coal miners, railroaded to the Colorado/New Mexico border, found themselves and their families in a hostile environment. Forced to work under deplorable conditions for next to nothing, they fought back. It is this story and the story of the powerfully wealthy men who tried to drive them to do their bidding.

He has a home on Mexico's Pacific coast and a ranch in Tinaja, N.M.

Leon B. Stevens was born on 13 January 1926 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. He was an actor, known for School Ties (1992), The Doctors (1963) and George Washington (1984). He was married to Lydia Bruce. He died on 30 July 2015 in Oro Valley, Arizona, USA.

Patricia Winters was born on 4 February 1933 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. She was an actress, known for Missile to the Moon (1958), Mannix (1967) and This Is a Hijack (1973). She died on 14 March 2023 in Escondido, California, USA.

Mary Fogarty was born on 20 August 1921 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. She was an actress, known for The War of the Roses (1989), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) and The Odd Couple II (1998). She died on 27 February 2011 in New York, New York, USA.

Anne-Marie Cusson was born in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. Anne-Marie is an actor, known for The Good Shepherd (2006), FBI (2018) and A Nice Girl Like You (2020).

Grace Metalious, the author of one of the most notorious and best-selling novels of the 1950s, was born Marie Grace de Repentigny on September 8, 1924, in Manchester, New Hampshire. Populated by multiple ethnic groups, Grace's mother downplayed their French Canadian heritage due to the discrimination directed towards the group by "native" Yankees and the Irish, who were at the top of the social structure of the New England mill town. Anxious for Grace to better herself, her mother insisted upon their living in neighborhoods in which there weren't many French Canadians, one of the last groups to emigrate to Manchester and thus, located far down on the social totem pole. From her mother, Grace learned first-hand about dissembling and hiding secrets, the revelation of which would lie at the heart of her first and most famous novel, "Peyton Place."

"Little Canada" or "le petit Canada" (a.k.a. "la petite Canada") is the name traditionally given to neighborhoods in cities and towns settled by immigrants from the Province of Quebec, known as French Canadians. Approximately 900,000 French Canadians emigrated to the United States in the period of 1840-1930, the vast majority of whom settled in New England. The immigrants typically moved to states close to Quebec, particularly those bordering the province, due to the physical proximity to Quebec and because their generally impoverished state obviated greater mobility.

The New England textile industry was a major recruiter of Quebecois laborers. The West Side of Manchester, a city with a large French Canadian population due to the hiring of substantial numbers of Quebecois to work in the textile mills in the 19th and 20th centuries, was the site of one of the more famous "Little Canadas" in the U.S. La Caisse Populaire Ste. Marie, or St. Mary's Bank, located in Manchester's Little Canada, was the first credit union chartered in the United States, the credit union being a financial institution pioneered in Quebec due to the inability of francophones, who were primarily Roman Catholic, to obtain credit from the mainly Protestant anglophone population that dominated "La belle province."

In 1968, Quebecois revolutionary Pierre Vallieres, jailed in New York City as a terrorist, wrote a book about the French Canadian population and their relationship to the Anglophone oligarchy, which sums up the French Canadian's perceived status. Indeed, during the 1972 presidential primary, the local newspaper, 'The Manchester Union Leader,' owned by the reactionary William Loeb, printed a fake letter planted by President Nixon's dirty tricks squad that had a staff member of Senator Edward Muskie, the Democratic front-runner, equating French Canadians with African Americans during a campaign stop in Florida. The so-called "Canuck letter" became a well-known Watergate artifact, referenced in the 1976 film All the President's Men (1976).

When she was 11 years old, Grace's father walked out on his family, which consisted of Grace, her mother and her two sisters. The Catholic Church frowned on divorce and until the 1980s made it very difficult for a person who was a Catholic to obtain one and remain a member of the faith in good standing. This meant that it was very unusual for a married French Canadian couple to legally dissolve their marriage in the first half of the last century. Grace and her sisters felt shame, shame for coming from a broken home and shame from the resulting social stigmatization, a psychological state underscored and deepened by the social, economic and political inferiority of the French Canadians by the Yankees (descendants of English and Scottish Protestant stock who had originally settled the state) and by the Irish, who dominated the working class and felt animosity towards the French Canadians as many had been recruited to the mills to break strikes the Irish had led.

Despite the common religion of the French Canadians and the Irish, the antipathy between the two ethnic groups ran so deep that two different Catholic church and parochial school systems evolved on the West Side of Manchester, one for the Irish and one for the French Canadians, whose ethnic youth gangs continued to fight each other through out the Depression years. Grace's mother avoided this by keeping what was left of the family rooted in the supposedly more genteel East Side on the other side of the Merrimack River that bisected Manchester and once provided power for the city's mills. The Merrimack is the same river that flows south through Lowell, Massachusetts, the hometown of another famous French Canadian, Jack Kerouac, and on through Lawrence, where singer Robert Goulet was born, on its trip to the sea. Manchester, once called "The Cottonopolis of the World" due to its huge output of textiles, was hard hit by the Great Depression, and the city's great Amoskeag mill complex went bankrupt. Hard times descended on the "Queen City" making the already hard lives of the working class even harder.

Grace escaped by writing romances in which a heroine eventually is united with the man-of-her-dreams and achieves happiness at the denouement of the story. She also appeared in school plays, which had the added benefit of taking her away from her unhappy family, a malaise exacerbated by their poverty. The family mood became even dourer when Grace met and fell in love with George Metalious, a younger boy she met at Central High School, but whose remarkable intelligence meant that he had been advanced in grade and was Grace's class contemporary. An ethnic Greek with a different faith, George was viewed disdainfully by her family, but Grace and George married over their objections in 1943.

While he went off to the Army during World War Two, a housing shortage and poverty forced Grace to undergo the ignominy of having to live on Manchester's West Side in the Squog neighborhood not far from "la petite Canada" her mother had always tried to avoid. Her last name, though, allowed her to deny her French Canadian heritage, and most of her adult acquaintances and many of her friends did not know the truth. When George returned from the war, he enrolled at the University of New Hampshire on the G.I. Bill to study education, and the family, which now consisted of the couple and their first-born, moved to Durham, New Hampshire. It was in Durham that Grace Metalious began to seriously focus on her writing. Her neglect of her house, her appearance, and her children (the Metaliouses eventually had three) earned her the disapprobation of her neighbors.

After taking his degree at UNH, George accepted an offer to be the principal at a school in Gilmanton Iron Works, New Hampshire. The family of five had to subsist on George's modest salary. Gilmanton Ironworks was the model for the fictional Peyton Place. Grace was inspired by the story of a real-life murder that had rocked New Hampshire in the post-war years, in which a young girl had shot her father who had been molesting her and hid his corpse in a barn. Grace wrote the first draft of a novel in 10 weeks in 1955. That novel was "Peyton Place."

In 1956, "Peyton Place," was accepted for publication by the New York publishing house Julian Messner. The manuscript had to be heavily edited, but when it was published in the autumn of that year, it became an unprecedented "blockbuster," surpassed in the 1950s in terms of sales only by The Bible. Though the book was panned by critics as "trash" and attacked by the moral arbiters of society, it stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and was a global hit. Her riposte to criticism that she was a poor wordsmith was, "If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste."

To charges that she was a dirty writer, a purveyor of filth, she responded, "Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend, and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass."

"Peyton Place" made Grace Metalious, who had known poverty and hard times all her life, a wealthy woman. Eight million copies of "Peyton Place" were sold in hardcover, along with another 12 million paperbacks. The press made Metalious a media-star, shining the spotlight on the plump housewife dressed in dungarees who wrote a bestseller defying the conformity of the 1950s, which held that the nuclear family in which the wife was subservient to her husband and children was the ideal lifestyle. Grace earned the sobriquet "Pandora in Blue Jeans" as she had opened up a box of sin, which was then revealed to the world.

The "Peyton Place" of Metalious' novel is a small, seemingly respectable New England town that actually is a cauldron of secrets and scandal boiling just below the seemingly placid surface. Aside from depictions of sex, rape, abortion, and suicide, there is a murder trial, when young Selena Cross is tried for murdering her father, who had molested her. Even before the publication of the novel, the good citizens of Gilmanton Iron Works were outraged, convinced that Grace had shamed them by washing their dirty linen before the world and making their town synonymous with lust and perversion. Grace eventually was threatened with libel lawsuits, and the town, which demurred from buying a copy of the best-seller for its public library, refused to extend her husband's contract as school principal.

"Peyton Place" not only changed the image of Gilmanton Iron Works, but it revolutionized the image of small town America from a Norman Rockewell painting to something more akin to the Potterville (Bedford Falls) of George Bailey's nightmare in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). The term "Peyton Place" became a buzzword to describe the duality of middle class life, with its deep secrets and rampant sex beneath a hypocritical veneer of propriety. The book was banned in many cities and towns, and by the Dominion of Canada. Grace Metalious and her book were denounced from the pulpit and by politicians, who claimed it corrupted the morals of young readers.

The book was read by tens of millions of people worldwide, and Hollywood quickly closed in and bought the novel for $125,000. Producer Jerry Wald's 1957 movie of Peyton Place (1957), starring Hollywood superstar Lana Turner as Constance MacKenzie, was a hit and even garnered nine Oscar nominations. (Validating the theme of troubles boiling just beneath the surface of people's "public" lives, Turner's 14-year-old Cheryl Crane stabbed her Mafiosi boyfriend Johnny Stompanato to death with a butcher knife in her mother's bedroom less than a fortnight after the Academy Award ceremony.) The movie spawned the sequel Return to Peyton Place (1961) in 1961, based on her 1959 follow-up to her original novel. "Peyton Place" also was spun off into a high-class, prime-time TV soap opera that made Ryan O'Neal and Mia Farrow into stars.

Metalious and success did not mix well. She spent her money freely, hit the bottle, divorced her husband George, married a local disc jockey, and partied in Hollywood before eventually returning to her home state towards the end of her life. She settled in Meredith, which was the heart of New Hampshire's beautiful Lakes Region nestled among the majestic White Mountains range. Back in the Granite State, she trolled the Lake Winnipesaukee area in a drop-top Cadillac, drunk, with a succession of lovers attracted by her cash.

The "Pandora in Bluejeans" remarried George Metalious in 1960, but her destructive behavior was too far developed, and they divorced for a second time in 1963. The failure of her other novels to achieve the level of success as "Peyton Place" -- in addition to the sequel "Return to Peyton Place," she published "The Tight White Collar" in 1961 and "No Adam in Eden" in 1963 -- added to her malaise and dipsomania.

Before the war, she and her young husband George used to drink a home-brewed Greek concoction called ouzo. But for Grace, alcohol was no longer a case of sharing warmth and laughter around the kitchen table with some friends; she had become a full-blown thirty-something bottle baby. Suffering from depression and alcoholism, she quickly went through her money.

"I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself," she said.

Thirty-nine-year-old Grace Metalious died of cirrhosis of the liver on February 25, 1964, never having achieved the peace of mind that seems to have eluded her since the days when the mother taught the young girl to deny her heritage as a way of getting along in a world whose hypocrisies Grace could not ignore. Her life story illustrated the old saw: "Be careful what you wish for: You just might get it." She was a dreamer who did not know that realizing her dream would become her nightmare.

Grace Metalious will be remembered as the first popular women writer that pried the lid of off societal hypocrisy and violence directed towards women, a small-minded world that smoothed over the horrors of life through conformity to an ideal of polite, middle-class virtues that were more honored in the breach than in the observance. Her book made possible such subsequent early "chick-lit" as Jacqueline Susann's "Valley of the Dolls."

A suavely handsome, intelligent, and award-winning prolific American actor, voice actor, writer and director, Matthew Porter was born in Manchester, NH on June 2, 1978. He received rigorous professional training while in attendance at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Since then, he has worked on stage and screen in numerous productions of new original and known plays, musicals, pilots, films, commercials, industrials, voice-overs, and television shows around the world. Notably, he was a recurring character over several seasons on the Emmy award-winning hit television comedy show "30 Rock" in addition to taking global top honors for his work on Dish's renowned "Hoptown" campaign

Bob Beattie was born on 24 January 1931 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. He was an actor, known for Over the Top (1987), Combat! (1962) and Lake Placid 1980: XIII Olympic Winter Games (1980). He was married to Cheryl Britton, Kiki Cutter, Ann Dwinnell and Marci Cohen. He died on 1 April 2018 in Fruita, Colorado, USA.

Warren Manzi was born on 1 July 1955 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. He was an actor, known for The Manhattan Project (1986), Nuts (1987) and The Defection of Simas Kudirka (1978). He was married to Ellen Margaret Michelin. He died on 11 February 2016 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA.

Deirdre is an actress, director, and a teacher from Boston. She has worked with many theaters in Europe and the USA. In Germany, Deirdre was a member of the Schiller Theater company for 1 year. She worked on several international films, notably "The Rosegarten" with Peter Fonda and Liv Ulman. Her first film role was as a Russian spy in Leo Penn's, "Judgement in Berlin" starring Martin Sheen and Sean Penn. High points of her life in Europe are tour guiding in the Soviet Sector of the divided city and singing with the RIAS II Orchestra for President Reagan. After attending RADA in London, she worked with director Walter Hill on "Another 48hrs", "Geronimo", and "Last Man Standing". She holds a BFA from Emerson College, an M.Ed., and MA. She has taught theater K-12 for 24 years. Voice over is a passion along with her dogs and daughter Fiona.

Justin Connor was born on 5 October 1972 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Golden Age (2017), Resurrection Mary (2002) and Hollywood Safari (1998).

Ziggie Talent was born on 25 June 1912 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. He was an actor, known for Meet the People (1944), The Vaughn Monroe Show (1950) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). He died on 25 June 1997 in Nassau, New York, USA.

Edward Payson grew up in Derry, New Hampshire. Edward knew since he was a little boy that he wanted to direct films. He packed up and moved to California at twenty years old to attend Columbia College Hollywood where he went on to achieve a bachelor's degree in Cinema. While a freshman at Columbia he directed his first feature film, Morbid: A Love Story. It was an ambitious project with a a 70 person cast that took Edward two years to complete due to many complications including the unfortunate and unexpected loss of his father Edward Payson Senior. The film was a finalist at the Las Vegas Film Festival.

Edward followed up Morbid with the drama A Mother's Love and two more short films Happy Anniversary and The Itch all in the thriller/horror genre. He went on from there to help produce two feature films, The ID Proxy directed by his friend and New Hampshire native Matthew C. Dummond and the other The Rule of Law directed by his new found friend Moziko Wind. Edward also became friends with the also talented horror director Brandon Scullion and held key roles in his films, The Black Guitar, The Suicide Films, and Recess.

Upon graduating Columbia College Edward directed his second feature the documentary film, Unsigned, a story following three unsigned rock bands out of LA through there every day struggles and triumphs. He later would return to the horror genre, directing The Cohasset Snuff Film in 2011, a gritty look into the mind of serial killer Collin Mason. Here Edward met Director of Photography Kevin A. McCarthy. They worked so well together Kevin and Edward directed the action/horror feature Fury: The Tales of Ronan Pierce in 2012 starring Kevin's brother Michael McCarthy, Jordan Elizabeth, Kane Hodder and R.A. Mihailoff.