Welcome to
Tool Shed

Daniel Talbott is an award-winning screenwriter and director, a Lucille Lortel Award winning theater producer, and the artistic director of Rising Phoenix Rep. His first feature film co-written and co-directed with Samantha Soule – Midday Black Midnight Blue – premiered at SIFF in Seattle and was released by Good Deed Entertainment. His feature script Gray is in active development in Denmark with Motor Productions, and his horror drama pilot Rome, Georgia (starring Mary-Louise Parker) is also in development. He is attached as the director to the feature film Last Resort, and he is in active development with the wonderful folks at Saga Film for the limited series To the Light. He is also in co-directing the feature doc Tool Shed with Andrew Klaus-Vineyard. Other TV writing includes The Mist based on the Stephen King novella, and The Conners on ABC. He is a graduate of Juilliard and recently won the Golden Palm Award at the Beverly Hills Film Festival for his feature screenplay The Paris.

Andrew Klaus-Vineyard is a proudly bisexual Los Angeles-based filmmaker, musician, theatre director, and visual artist. His films include THIS HOUSE IS NOT A HOME, Motel, Unknown, At Large, My Age Now, Like Lightning and the upcoming feature documentary Welcome to Tool Shed, co-directed with Daniel Talbott. Klaus-Vineyard is of Inuit, Icelandic, and Jewish descent, which fuels his passion for storytelling. He studied contemporary art and practice at Savannah College of Art & Design and holds a degree in Cultural Studies (focused on Queer, Feminist, & Marxist Theory in Media Analysis) and Time-Based Art from Portland State University and an MFA in Directing University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. He is also an internationally exhibited visual artist with commissions from The Tate Modern as well as solo exhibitions of video installations and photography. Klaus-Vineyard releases music as Lovers of the Arctic Circle. He is also a curator of the Black Cat Cinema Series (along with Daniel Talbott and Javier Fuentes-León) a monthly queer film screening series in Los Angeles, CA.

Rachna Khatau is an actor, producer, community organizer, and journalist with a background in investigative, international, and entertainment news. She has worked at ABC News, CNN International in London, and Extra!, and served as a Pentagon Reporter for Talk Radio News Service. She holds a Master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Southern California. Her producing credits include the indie feature Days with Dandekar (dir. Leena Pendharkar) and the series Hicksters, which she also wrote and performed in. As an actor, Rachna appeared in Didn't Die, directed by Meera Menon, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and is remembered for standout roles in Baby Daddy (Freeform), Bizaardvark (Disney), and The Big Bang Theory (CBS).

Noel Do-Murakami Producer with broad, hands-on experience across development, production, and post-production. I lead projects from concept through delivery, ensuring creative alignment, operational efficiency, and strong team collaboration. Rooted in a commitment to equity and authentic representation, Noelstrive to create inclusive environments that elevate marginalized voices across every phase of production.

Mert Özcan is a Los Angeles-based music producer, Dolby Atmos mixer, and sound designer originally from Türkiye. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, where he studied music production and engineering, Mert began his career in world-renowned studios including Abbey Road, British Grove, and Interscope Records before founding The Record House, a professional music and sound studio in LA.

Mert is an early adopter and specialist in immersive audio formats such as Dolby Atmos, helping artists reimagine how their music is created and experienced. His immersive and stereo mixes span a wide range of genres, with credits including Major Lazer, Sigur Rós, alt-J, St. Vincent, Denzel Curry, David Guetta, My Morning Jacket, and Franc Moody.

Jonah Sirota is a 2024-2025 Society of Composers and Lyricists Los Angeles mentee, and was a fellow in the 2024 Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive, as well as a 2022 fellow in the Sundance Film Music Intensive. His first full-length feature film credit as composer, The Grand Strand, had a great run in four 2025 film festivals, including the Beverly Hills Film Festival, where it won the Best Feature jury prize. His piano trio Dry Ocean was premiered in the spring of 2023 by the Grammy-nominated Neave Trio, while his soundtrack for the NPR web documentary “Return of the American Bison" was nominated for a regional Emmy award in 2019.

He has played on numerous projects including as violist and arranger for Lindsay Marcus’ score to the 2021 Oscar-winning animated short If Anything Happens I Love You…, and major cinematic releases including Avatar: The Way of Water, Oppenheimer, and The Mandalorian. He has released two solo albums, Strong Sad and Storylander, featuring both his own music and world premiere recordings of new works by Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, and many others. As a performing artist, Jonah had a solo concerto debut on viola at the age of 17, in a Lincoln Center performance conducted by Alan Gilbert. Since then, he has been featured as a soloist many times, including the Houston premiere of the Penderecki viola concerto and the Nebraska premiere of the John Harbison concerto. In 2006, he was awarded third prize at the Naumburg International Viola Competition (a contest that has only happened three times in the history of the organization).

Pryde Pierce is an award winning freelance filmmaker and actor. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies (including Nike) and celebrities. He has won awards for his writing, directing, cinematography, editing, and acting; including when his short film "Hemorrhage" screened at the Directors Guild of America - where it won an award.

Projects he has been a part of can be seen on streaming services such as Discovery+, and Tubi. He is an army infantry veteran, a member of the Advisory Board for the San Bernardino Valley College film program, and takes care of a special needs dog.

Patrick J. Smith is an editor known for his work on The Rivals of Amziah King, A Little White Lie, Midday Black Midnight Blue, and Archive 81. In addition his work has been a part of F1:the Movie, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Top Gun: Maverick, Ocean's 8, The Hunger Games, the Pacific and Mad Men among many others.

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