CAST AND CREW
CAST LISTED IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY CAST, GUEST STARS, THEN PRODUCTION CREW
CAST
 |  Gráinne Ahern Gráinne has been advising us on the audio production and brings her wealth of talent to the production. She is currently Senior Producer on Seoige for Radio Telefis Eireann, the Irish National Broadcaster ( http://www.rte.ie/tv/seoige/ ) and has a wealth of experience in TV and Radio, including working on the afternoon show, scripting and producing the daily lifestyle programme (http://www.rte.ie/tv/theafternoonshow/ ) Gráinne brings the necessary sincerity to the role of Sato, having been a newsreader for RTE Cork for a year. |
 | Ronan Byrne The 'Passenger' Ronan is a native Dubliner with an interesting background in fitness and sports. He has 15 years kick-boxing experience and is a First Dan Black Belt. He has trained in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Vale Tudo, and recently has run in a few marathons! Ronan participates in charity cycling events. He is a landscape architect in Dublin. |
 |  Renda Carr Renda has been singing since she was 18 months old, in Church, at events, with groups. She modelled while in Design School. She is a part of Dean and Company ( http://www.dean and-company.com/ ) a childrens' program seen on Bright House Networks and National Cable for years. Renda enjoys acting, singing, doing voice-overs. Renda plays the part of Lieutenant Saavik on Star Trek: Lexington, a role that she reprises here, as well as being a producer for Star Trek: Lexington. Renda is a part of Rebel Legion and you can find her hanging out as Princess Leia at many events.
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 | Benjamin Cavesdale Ben Cavesdale is a talented 3-D artist and illustrator who is venturing into the world of voice acting. He has experience speaking in front of large crowds: leading children and teenagers while working as a summer camp counsellor and instructor for 3-D game development courses, and advising professional business teams across the U.S. while working as a Business Analyst for Sears. Cavesdale is pursuing a career in medicine and has spent many hours volunteering at a local hospital in the Emergency Department. Offering care and support to patients will give him a real ability to convey sensitivity in the character of Aabin. He looks forward to being an active contributor to the Star Trek Grissom project. |
 | Aine Ni Choileain Cadet Kara McLoughlin, U.S.S. Grissom Aine brings much experience in many performance and media areas. She spent a year studying Drama and Communications in Northern Kentucky, with a major in Theater Production. Aine has considerable experience working with Irish drama, including work on "Ros na Rún" and "Fair City" – two of Ireland's flagship dramas. She currently works on Ireland’s top game show, 'Winning Streak Dream Ticket’ as a broadcast coordinator. Aine was also a contestant on "Treasure Island: Series II", getting down to the last 8 contestants out of over 39,000 applicants! |
 | Jennifer Cole
Jennifer has been a long time Star Trek fan and a member of several Star Trek fan clubs / groups for the last 20+ years. Jennifer is a Producer / Director on the long-running Internet fan series Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, Star Trek: Odyssey, and Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles since the beginning. Currently, Jennifer lends her voice to the audio dramas Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations and on Temporal Investigations II. Jennifer loves almost every facet of science fiction and loves to read a lot too! In her day-to-day existence, she works for the |
 | Will Dees
Will Dees was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and has been a life-long Star Trek fan, growing up with TNG reruns and Voyager. His first encounter with the Star Trek fan production community was in 2006 when he first came across (at the time) New Voyages. Preferring the TNG era to TOS, he soon found Hidden Frontier. Will also does voice acting for Star Trek: Temporal Investigations II, as Lt. Vor'al, and played a guest character in Star Trek: Federation One, as Thoteres. In the 21st century, Will is a university student studying history, and is becoming more involved in acting, including the role of Alonso in a college production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." |
 |  Andrew Foster
Andrew Foster is thrilled to be playing a role in the U.S.S. Grissom audio adventures. A Canadian resident who has lived and worked in |
 | Esther Gerrard Esther Gerrard is a Project Manager in Dublin, Ireland. Esther comes from a very talented family, both her brother and her sister, are internationally respected artists, and Esther's talents extend to her penchant for architecture/design, singing and ceramics. Esther is currently studying garden design. |
 | Keith Harris
Keith is from |
 |  Bodo Hartwig Music, Scriptwriting, Sound Mixing, and Sound Editing Lt. Brian Childers, Communications Officer, U.S.S. Grissom When he is not composing music for Grissom, or working as supply chain manager for a Swedish pharmaceutical company, or travelling between the worlds of Glasgow and Cologne to see his beloved fiancé, Bodo likes to challenge himself in minor roles as an actor. In the mid-90s, between school and university, he took two years of stage acting and drama courses but eventually gave it up. With the internet accidently taking him to Star Trek fanfilms websites, he decided to sign up for the role of the Vulcan Lieutenant Solek in "Star Trek: Intrepid" in 2007, which also brought him to Scotland for the first time. His favourite TV shows are still "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", as well as the rebooted series "Battlestar Galactica". Bodo is also on the writing staff for Grissom, and also did the sound editing and produced the musical score for the series.
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 | Brad Hathaway Captain Jeffrey Pierce, Captain of the U.S.S. Hathaway Brad hails from Northwest Ohio, in the United States, and has been a fan of Star Trek for many years. He is the Executive Producer of the web-based, live action “Star Trek: USS Hathaway” and plays Captain Jeffery Pierce. He will be reprising that role for “Star Trek: Grissom”. Brad works in information technology, but retains a love for the creative arts and regularly works on computer graphics and animation. Besides playing Capt. Pierce for Hathaway, he is also responsible for almost all of the creative work on Hathaway, including, but not limited to: script writing, makeup, computer animation, graphics, props, camera, editing, and lighting. When approached about Star Trek: Grissom, Brad stated, “It is good to see another 23rd century production out there. Telling the story of the U.S.S. Grissom is a great choice. I’ve always liked the character of Captain Esteban, so I wrote him as a significant figure in Pierce’s past. I was honored to be approached by the Star Trek: Grissom production, and happy that we can work together, along with Lexington, to create a tale for 23rd century movie era fans.” |
 |  Adrian Howard Jones
Adrian Howard Jones is a post-graduate psychologist, with a strong interest in both futurology and history. He is an academic by nature, with a hunger for knowledge that can never be satisfied. He is passionate about reading, describing his home as closely resembling a library. Equalling his love of reading is his collection of DVDs and joy watching films and documentaries. He has often been called a 'permanent student'. Adrian is the mainstay behind the highly detailed, and highly researched Star Trek: The Interim Years, the story of the evolution in attitudes and technology, which took place between the era of James T. Kirk and Jean Luc Picard. Adrian also is part of the main writing team for the Star Trek: Grissom stories, bringing his in depth knowledge of 23rd century Trek to the production. Adrian brings his myriad abilities to the roll of David Marcus. |
 |  Hannah Klang Cadet Rachel Wood, Transporter Crew, U.S.S. Grissom Petty Officer 1st Class Arunie Fernando, Captain's Yeoman, U.S.S. Grissom Hannah Klang is 25 years old and hails from Sweden. She has lived in Dublin for 2 years. She attended a Performance Art Upper Secondary School in Sweden for three years with a focus on Acting & Dancing. She was cast to play the lead, Violet, in Twelfth Night and had parts in the plays "Lysistrate" (Aristophanes), "Miss Julie" (August Strindberg) & several TV productions done by the media students from the same school. When Hannah graduated from school she went on tour with a festival theatre group for two months. In Dublin she took a 10-day acting course at LYCS last year. |
 | Michael Liebmann Michael Liebmann plays a character named after himself (though calling his character, Dr. Michael Liebmann, "doctor" does sound a little strange) and works to check the differences between the English in the scripts and the English he speaks. He only recently started getting involved in Internet audio productions, and Star Trek: Grissom is the latest project he is working on, having also worked on Star Trek: Excelsior, Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations, Star Trek: Phoenix, Star Trek: Dimensions, Lara Bond: 0012, Gaia's Journey as well as others. He is a legal secretary by day, and a filk vendor by night and on weekends, spending his time in Atlanta, Georgia. Michael is far nicer in reality than the character of Dr. Liebmann, who he fears has a villainous streak. |
 | Dave McEvoy Dave is 28 years old from Dublin. He is a lifelong science fiction fan with masses of comics, DVDs and CD's to prove it. He is currently studying Film and TV production in Bray and hopes to become a professional in that field, if his Starfleet application gets rejected.
Dave is an excellent Mr.Sulu impersonator, and even impressed Geroge Takei when they met in person.
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 | Rick Pike Rick is a lifelong fan of science fiction, and especially the Star Trek universe. His acting talent began at age 11, when he charmed the primary school crowd as Poo-Bah, Lord High Everything Else in The Mikado, his fifth-grade primary school class play. Since that time, he hasn't done anything else, nor had any additional formal training, nor any acting jobs... until recently, when he provided voice roles for otherwise fine productions such as Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, Star Trek: Operation Beta Shield, and Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations. Rick has also worked behind the scenes as production assistant, technical crew, otter wrangler, and staff for Hidden Frontier Productions and their collection of shows. Rick is constantly amazed by the collective creativity, versatility, and talent of all these performers, and hopes to glean just a bit of skill from them. In the mirror universe, Rick is a university administrator from the He is nothing like Lars Thorsen but often, foolishly, imagines himself to be. |
 | William Raymer Based out of Yuma, Arizona, William comes to the Grissom cast with a variety of talents. He is an experienced voice actor with Pendant Productions (http://www.pendantaudio.com), for which he can be heard in a variety of roles-most notably “Dennis/Denise” in the company’s original series “Once Upon a Time in Vegas.” William is also a member of the Closing Logo Group Video Network (http://www.clgvn.net), a video editing collective dedicated to the preservation and presentation of television and motion picture production company logos. He is the creator of “SFM++,” the most popular and imitated compilation film series in the Network’s history. He is also a writer with 30 (as of this writing) stories to his name on FanFiction.net |
 | David Robertson Lt. Commander Christopher Chattman, Communications Officer, U.S.S. Grissom Klingon Warrior (Episode 2) David Robertson was a “forces brat” but is now 35 and living in Glasgow, Scotland. He's always been interested in acting since playing King Herrod in the School Nativity play. He joined Star Trek Intrepid in 2007, where he's made a lot of great friends, and met his partner. He's also been involved with Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations, and was in the latest HF/Intrepid crossover, Operation Beta Shield. David was brought up on Sci-Fi, so it's always close to his heart. He also loves 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad.' His favourite Doctor is John Pertwee, followed by David Tennant. |
 | Clive Saunders
Clive is fairly new to the world of fan produced audio dramas, and if it hadn’t been for an off-hand comment by Levar Burton at SF Ball 14 in 2008, Clive might only be listening to this show rather than appearing in it. Clive’s TV and Radio experience includes: ITV Meridian’s “True, but Strange” , BBC Radio Scotland's "The Fred MacAulay Show," "Morris: A Life with Bells On," "Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations," and later in 2009, "Tom Crean: Sailor on Ice" – Captain Robert Scott http://www.imaginationlane.net . |
 | Michael Slagenweit-Coffman Michael is out of this world and sometimes out of his mind. Currently in studying for his Master of Divinity degree, Mike is the better half of the Slagenweit-Coffman duo. When he is not working at school or church, studying, taking care of 5 stuffed animal children, working out, Mike writes both the Star Trek: Eagle Star (www.usseaglestar.com) and Tales From The Wolfpack (a superhero series). He is currently based in Washington, DC. |
 | Dallas Teague Snider Commander Vindi S’Raazh, Chief Medical Officer, U.S.S. Grissom Dallas’s acting training includes studies at the University of South Alabama, Birmingham Southern College, and Voiceover training with Marie Prater, to mention but a few. Her television and film work is extensive, and includes: Commander Brieanna Smith in the Star Trek: Lexington episode "All in the Appearances"; The Way; Being an Effective Coach; Pineville; The Departure; Here and Now; The Collections; BJCC Past to Present; Southern Style with Edie & Friends (Pilot); The Private Guy; Don't Make Eye Contact; Jane's World; and more. Dallas is also an experienced professional public speaker. On top of all of the above, Dallas is just finishing a new book , which will be out soon. |
 | Seán P. Teeling Executive Producer Captain Lawrence Styles, Captain of the U.S.S. Excelsior Rick Montaigne, Singer at Hunter's Moon bar, Starbase 67 (Episode 1) Nurse Seán Murphy, Charge Nurse, U.S.S. Grissom Seán Paul plays several roles in the audio programs, and also is a writer and producer for the Star Trek: Grissom series. Seán Paul is a full time clinical nurse planning officer. He recently completed an MBA in addition to his nursing qualifications, and also holds B.A., and B.Sc. degrees. A former member of the RTE Philharmonic Choir and the Lassus Scholars, Seán has sung many major choral works in addition to smaller works by Palestrina and Orland Lassus. He is currently studying Spanish. Seán’s TV and radio appearances include: Anything Goes, The Late Late Show, Live at 3, Open House, Treasure Island, Treasure Island Uncut, Treasure Island Live, The Gay Byrne Show, Gloria, RTE Young Musician, and Young Musician of the Future. |
GUEST STARS
 | Heather Ashleigh Computer Voice, U.S.S. Grissom (Episode 1) The part of the Grissom's computer voice is played by Heather Ashleigh, a veteran of Star Trek fanfilm productions. Heather has been acting since she was 6 years old. She started her career in a play at school and got bite by the acting bug. Since then she has been in many different plays such as “West Side Story,” “Comedy of Errors,” “Little Women,” and “Heidi,” to name a few. She's also done work in commercials, short films, a feature film, “Down in the Valley” with Edward Norton, directed by David Jacobson. Heather has also directed a regional theater production of the award winning play “Diary of a Catholic School Dropout.” You can see Heather in other projects such as the web series Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, Star Trek: Odyssey, and Star Trek : Federation One. Heather has other several other audio series including Star Trek: Henglaar M.D., and Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations. |
 | Annelie Greene Annelie Greene is from Dublin, Ireland, and hails from an Irish/Swedish background. Annelie is a specialist nurse in Orthopaedic surgery, and has worked extensively in Ireland and Malta. She is a lifelong Star Trek fan. She has experience of the entertainment industry through her involvement in the road crew for the now defunct Dublin band, "The Ma's and the Da's," with whom she worked in the 90s. Annelie is delighted to participate in Grissom. |
 | Glenn Harrison Ch'Balla, Ch'Ramakai Refugee/Leader (Episode 2) Glenn is a lifelong science-fiction fan. He grew up with Doctor Who in the 1980s, and it was that show which inspired the first fanfilm he saw - Timebase's "Regenesis", at the Dark Tower convention in 1994 - as well as some of the first fan fiction. He encountered Star Trek: Hidden Frontier in late 1999 after meeting executive producer Rob Caves on a 3D modelling community, and soon after contributed the season two script "The Great Starship Robbery". He still keeps in touch with his old HFP roots, from which he met the production teams of both Intrepid and Grissom. Although less active as a writer, he still dabbles from time to time. A native Northerner, Glenn moved to London in 2008 to take up a Whitehall career in the Civil Service. Outside of the office, he enjoys exploring the city, literature, cookery, and real ales. |
 | Michael Hudson
Michael usually works behind the scenes on both the Starship Intrepid and Hidden Frontier websites, as well as post-production work for Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations and the Star Trek: Federation One Audio episodes. Michael is also the forum administrator for the U.S.S. Grissom website. He can also be seen in front of the camera on Starship Intrepid. Michael is a veritable miracle worker in relation to administering the forum and website for U.S.S. Grissom, our own 21st century Mr. Scott!
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 | Alex Matthews Alex Matthews first got into Star Trek watching TNG repeats on Sky One, and the love affair never ended. After writing his own Trek-themed stories for several years, he discovered the world of fanfilms, and soon became immersed in the work they do. He joined the cast of the Dundee-based Starship Intrepid fanfilm, as the second actor to portray Lieutenant Keran Azhan, a man with a mysterious past who may help or hinder the Intrepid's crew. After listening to audio Trek series, he was inspired to develop his own original show, Star Trek: Diplomatic Relations, which follows the exploits of Federation Embassy staff on a world newly inducted into the United Federation of Planets. Alex is thrilled to be asked to voice one of the villains of the Star Trek: Grissom project, and is looking forward to the project.. When not working on Trek-related projects, he also works on various Doctor Who ideas and fanfilms, as well as several other different fantasy-related projects. |
 | Shadow McNamara-Teeling Shadow, a black Pomeranian male, is originally from Letterkenny, Donegal in the north of the island of Ireland. He is 2 years old, and has been the proud owner of his two humans in Dublin formost of that time. Shadow enjoys long walks on the beach, chicken, grooming, playing with his toys, and generally bringing joy and happiness into the lives of his humans. The part of Muggle was written specifically for Shadow. He is delighted to be part of the crew. |
 | Charles H. Miller II Ri'tarxx, Saurian Captain of the S.S. Arcadia Luxury Starliner (Episode 2) An Annapolis, Maryland native, currently living in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Charles has lived several places around the world, from Indiana to Okinawa, Japan (while in the U.S. Army). His sons still live in the Midwest. A TOS fan since it premiered in the sixties, he has followed every series and movie over the years (even those painful to watch series and movies). |
 | David O'Neill Kaarg, Klingon General (Episode 2) David is a native of the Chicago area, and a long-time fan of Star Trek. He watched TOS reruns in the 1970s, TNG, DS9 (his personal favorite), and most of Voyager and Enterprise and all the Star Trek movies. |
 | Tobey Slagenweit-Coffman Ch'ai, Ch'ramaki Youth/Rebel (Episode 2) Klingon Warrior (Episode 1) Chaos, panic, disorder -- these are the themes of the day when Tobey is around. A librarian for an overseas network where he understands nothing on air, Tobey enjoys spending time with his better half and taking care of 5 mongrel children. While managing his husband is a full-time job, Tobey is co-author of 'Tales From The Wolfpack' and is trying to turn his two-liter into a six pack to fit into his speedo without inducing others to vomit. And although he is stunningly handsome, has great taste, and is hyper-intelligent, his modesty prohibits him from saying this. He can talk the ears off a gundark, but in the interest of saving the producer's sanity he won't here. Tobey lives in the Washington, DC area. |
 | Joshua Williams
Josh is new to the production, but is quite enthusiastic to take part, having been a fan of Star Trek all his life. He is native to |
 | Melissa D. Wilson
Melissa is a full-time clinical nurse. However, her talent and creativity include creating scenery and costumes for various shows and themed parties, most memorably "Titanic." Melissa has also enjoyed singing as a member of the Mamas and the Papas’ tribute band, The Mas and the Das, and appeared with them in "The Mr. Pussy Show," a revue for Ireland’s most famous drag artiste. Melissa also sang in Moscow as a guest member of the Lassus Scholars. Melissa is the co-creator of Star Trek: Grissom.
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PRODUCTION CREW
|  Bodo Hartwig Bodo has worked on quite a number of projects, mostly Star Trek fanfilms. He scored three episodes of "Star Trek: Odyssey" and is currently working on the feature film "Voyages of the U.S.S. Angeles", where he is also doing the audio processing. He also composed incidental music for two episodes of "Star Trek: Intrepid", and scored two short films for filmmaker Martin Lejeune. His works include original themes for several audio shows, as well as level music for the open source videogame "Blinken Sisters". Bodo also lends his considerable acting talent to the role of Lt. Brian Childers, Communications Officer aboard the U.S.S. Grissom. |
 | Brian "Arkady" Childers Brian hails from Tulsa, in the state of Oklahoma, USA, and when not enduring that particular form of torture -- or plotting world domination (starting with the takeover of PEZ Candy) -- he is a amateur sci-fi sketch artist. Brian's freehand concept sketches can be seen realized as CGI models in "Starship Intrepid" and the upcoming original sci-fi production, "Frontier Guard." Brian will be providing visual artwork for "Star Trek: Grissom." |
 |  Darren Rosetta Darren wrote his first script for a play when he was nine years old, and at age 16 managed to perform in front of 10,000 people. Since then, he's been pretty boring, really... Still, he recently returned home to his native Australia after spending four years working in China, so there's hope for him yet. |
 | Andrew Brown Andrew (or 'Andy') who hails from Edinburgh, (the New York of Scotland!), writes for Grissom. He is also our machiavellian 'Shadowy Evil Editor Genius' lurking in the background to smite down any 23rd century inconsistencies. A stalwart Trek fan since watching repeats of Kirk & Co. on BBC2 on Sundays with his Dad. Andy is also ever the optimist and looks hopefully to the future when, by 2050, we will have nuclear fusion power, clothes that regulate our body temperature, orbital tourism, and colonies on the Moon and Mars. He plans on being one of Mars' first settlers... even if he has to take the Chinese Pledge of Alliegance to do it. Andy writes a copious amount of his own mainly classic-era fan fic which is hosted on his own website at Starbase23.net, and is a hardcore editor and protector of the English language. This makes him ideally suited to rip apart the hopes and dreams of aspiring writers who just can't speel rite. |
 | Joseph Bonice Joey Bonice is Star Trek: Grissom's source for all knowledge pertaining to life the 23rd century... he's our Guardian of Forever. He supports the writers and producers with this knowledge. Joey was born in Iowa (probably near James T. Kirk's future birthplace), but growing up in a military family, he has lived all over the world. He was a Star Trek fan from an early age. He credits his knowledge of 23rd century Star Trek lore to time and practice. His first involvement in fanfiction came about in the mid-80s . His father challenged him to get a hobby, and since he liked Star Trek, it was natural that it would become his hobby. He also liked writing, so he joined the two and, with the help of friends, came up with Star Trek: Lexington, for which he is the creator and a writer/director. |
| Seán P. Teeling
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 | Rob Caves Rob Caves is the driving force behind Hidden Frontier Productions, the parent production company for the Hidden Frontier family of fan films. He was the Executive Producer of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier (2000-2007), and is the current Executive Producer for Star Trek: Odyssey (2007- ), Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles (2008- ), Star Trek: Federation One (2008- ), and two stand-alone films, Star Trek: Orphans of War (2008) and Star Trek: Operation Beta Shield (2008). He is also the film editor of these productions. Mr. Caves attended film school at Loyola Marymount University, graduating in 2000 when Star Trek: Hidden Frontier was in its first season. The project grew out of video production efforts he started with the Star Trek fan club, U.S.S. Angeles, in the Los Angeles area. Some of Mr. Caves' credits include working as a Production Assistant for Seven Arts Pictures, Stone Stanley Productions, and as a Post Production Assistant on the Fox film, "Behind Enemy Lines". He worked as an junior editor in corporate video production for several years before moving to his current job as staff editor at a major production company. "Making a Star Trek fanfilm has always been one of my dreams," Caves says, "I used to make videos as a kid with action figures and models on strings, and producing the Hidden Frontier Productions family of shows has really been a culmination of those dreams and those of the cast and crew, to make these things come together." Current projects include production of a new, original science fiction series entitled "Frontier Guard," which launched in January 2010. |
