Nicholas Anthony Jacobs was born in Cleveland, Ohio, later attended Brown University and still later, the American Film Institute where he earned his MFA in Directing. While living in New York City throughout the 1980s, he worked on a variety of independent features including the seminal independent feature PARTING GLANCES – all before starting to direct in 1991. Since then, he has written and directed the independent cult classic THE REFRIGERATOR (winner of several awards including “Best Direct-To-Video Feature 1993" (Film Comment Magazine), directed several episodes of the Nickelodeon sit-com, “THE ADVENTURES OF PETE & PETE” (now in DVD release), as well as episodes of PBS’s READING RAINBOW and a handful of other TV shows for MTV and FOX Television. After recently working with Irwin Winkler on New Line’s LIFE AS A HOUSE (2001), and writing nearly a dozen screenplays, Jacobs (in conjunction with Mr. Dave Brown) produced, wrote and directed the no-budget protest movie WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION in time for the 2004 election. In addition, after a recent airplane-viewing of LADDER 49, Nicholas Anthony feels he bears a striking resemblance to actor Joaquim Phoenix and has decided that "if he can do it, I can do it!" and is now looking to pursue a career as a stand-in for Joaquim Phoenix.

Mr. Dave Brown (aka David Kenneth Brown) (Producer Extraordinaire/Writer)

Mr. Dave Brown is an actor from Chicago and starred in Nicholas Anthony Jacobs’ AFI Thesis project MARISA WHERE ART THOU? (2000) as a young man in love with eternally hot actress Marisa Tomei. Since his arrival in Los Angeles five years ago, he has appeared in eighteen independent films, dozens of theatre productions and has written four original screenplays. In Spring of 2005, he starred in an episode of BREAKING VEGAS on The History Channel.