Brian had been actively involved in the local theatre community for 10 years. Usually seen on stage, Brian has appeared mostly in musicals. He has been seen in over 20 local productions. Most notable MTS productions include Willy Wonka (Augustus Gloop), 25th…Spelling Bee (Olive's Dad), Grease! (Roger), Seussical the Musical (Horton the Elephant) and The Rocky Horror Show Live! (Eddie/Dr. Scott) among others.

Brian also thoroughly enjoys Stage Management and looks forward to further honing his skills in that area as well. Previous Stage Managing credits include the critically acclaimed MTS production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, a regional tour of Always, Patsy Cline starring Laura Nuzum and Cissy King and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. In addition to Stage Management, Brian has experience in the areas of Props Design and Set Design and Construction.

Straight from Chicago, Scott Schuster brings Prodigal Sonʼs Productions to the stages of the Southwest with its inaugural season at the Filling Station Theatre. A native of New Mexico, Schuster spent much of his professional performance career around the Chicagoland area. In 2008 Schuster created Prodigal Sonʼs Productions with business partner Matthew Marcum and produced many musical showcases (Strings and Threads, Style Out Loud I and II), fashion show (Breaking and Entering) and theatre performance with the world premier of The Sanity of Byron Constantin. Schuster and Marcum, co-owners of Vault Apparel, (a menʼs haberdashery) were featured in national publications with their innovative clothing designs.

Schuster performed in many regional productions throughout the Chicagoland region in roles such as Valentine in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Peter Trompinov in The Cherry Orchard, Lysander in A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream, and Brian in Whoʼs Life is it Anyways?. Schuster traveled to Boston in 2002 with a unique opportunity to work with three time Tony Award winning producer Spring Sirkin, as Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Upon returning to Chicago, Schuster began work for OʼConnor Casting which eventually led to work as a talent agent and scout for Lilyʼs Talent Agency.

Schuster began his acting career in Albuquerque performing with the Albuquerque Civic Light Opera and the Albuquerque Little Theatre in productions such as West Side Story, A Chorus Line, The Fantasticks, South Pacific, Gypsy, and many more. Since his return to the Duke City, Schuster has been seen touring with Once Upon A Theatre as Tom Sawyer in The Glorious Whitewasher and in July 2011 as Wardell Owens in the Adobe Theatreʼs production of Sordid Lives.

Erin received a BA in Theatre Arts from Loyola University, New Orleans in 2008. She has been involved in over a hundred different shows in Louisiana, California, Montana, Nevada, and London. Along with performing she works as an audio designer and occasional stand-up comedian. Favorite credits include Pozzo in Waiting for Godot, May the Mayfly in All in the Timing, Stephano in The Tempest, and Maria in Twelfth Night.

Writer, director Michael Rascon, returns to Albuquerque from Las Vegas for his Filling Station debut. Since his homecoming, Michael has donned the stages of Albuquerque showcasing his operatic talent in Stephen Sondheimʼs, A Little Night Music and performing in the high energy musical Hairspray. When not fending off the feminine pursuasion of the Duke City Metropolis, he composes epic musical masterpieces to put poeticism to that which is never spoken.

As both a fan and academic scholar of popular culture, Ali has dreamed of being the age she is now in the late 70s. This play serve as a veritable flux capacitor allowing her to embrace the culture and ideology of this tumultuous decade. Her vast creative resume includes film festival programmer, theater producer, voice over talent, writer for Fangoria Magazine and assistant film studies professor. She is currently writing a book comparing popular culture and life in general before the Internet to the production and consumption of film, music, TV and life in the current postmodern digital age.

Raised in the small rural farming community of Hatch, New Mexico, Zach Dulin moved up to Albuquerque to study Video Game Development and Media Arts at the University of New Mexico. After stumbling across his first film extras gig in late 2008 as a police officer in Frank Miller's The Spirit, he decided to give acting a try, and hasn't looked back since. He has since graduated from UNM in 2011 with a BA in Media Arts. He has appeared in various films, commercials, and shorts in the ABQ area, more recently in the Iraqi war drama The Boys of Abu Ghraib, the comedy web series Enter the Dojo and the Award-Winning Short Film Blood Actually. When not feeding his acting addiction, he enjoys traveling, going to improv shows, working out, swimming, cooking, and writing/directing shorts with friends.

Straight from Chicago, Scott Schuster brings Prodigal Sonʼs Productions to the stages of the Southwest with its inaugural season at the Filling Station Theatre. A native of New Mexico, Schuster spent much of his professional performance career around the Chicagoland area. In 2008 Schuster created Prodigal Sonʼs Productions with business partner Matthew Marcum and produced many musical showcases (Strings and Threads, Style Out Loud I and II), fashion show (Breaking and Entering) and theatre performance with the world premier of The Sanity of Byron Constantin. Schuster and Marcum, co-owners of Vault Apparel, (a menʼs haberdashery) were featured in national publications with their innovative clothing designs.

Schuster performed in many regional productions throughout the Chicagoland region in roles such as Valentine in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Peter Trompinov in The Cherry Orchard, Lysander in A Midsummer Nightʼs Dream, and Brian in Whoʼs Life is it Anyways?. Schuster traveled to Boston in 2002 with a unique opportunity to work with three time Tony Award winning producer Spring Sirkin, as Ichabod Crane in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Upon returning to Chicago, Schuster began work for OʼConnor Casting which eventually led to work as a talent agent and scout for Lilyʼs Talent Agency.

Schuster began his acting career in Albuquerque performing with the Albuquerque Civic Light Opera and the Albuquerque Little Theatre in productions such as West Side Story, A Chorus Line, The Fantasticks, South Pacific, Gypsy, and many more. Since his return to the Duke City, Schuster has been seen touring with Once Upon A Theatre as Tom Sawyer in The Glorious Whitewasher and in July 2011 as Wardell Owens in the Adobe Theatreʼs production of Sordid Lives.

Alexandra Nakelski has been in some form or another involved with the film industry for over ten years. With an early background in theater, Alexandra decided to broaden her experience in the arts. She received her B.A. from the University of New Mexico in Mass Communication and Journalism with a Minor in Film Studies. In 1999, there were not many opportunities in the film industry in New Mexico, so Ali moved to Los Angeles to pursue her first love of special effects makeup. Having been a background extra in productions such as Freaks and Geeks, The X-Files and The West Wing, she earned her Editing Certification during this time on AVID at Tapestry Films in Beverly Hills. Her imdb credit includes Olsen Twins' productions including: Holiday in the Sun and Winning London. She was also apprentice editor on National Lampoon's Van Wilder and Sherwood Jones's The First Time. Upon her move to New York in 2004, Ali was editorial assistant and film reviewer for the genre classic publications Starlog and Fangoria. Here she sharpened her Journalistic skills by interviewing cult celebrities and filmmakers. Some of her interviews include: John Carpenter, Joe Dante, Richard Benjamin, Ray Harryhausen, Christopher Coppola, Tony Bill, Larry Gross, Andy Lane and John Badham. In 2008 Ms. Nakelski after returning to California, earned her Masters in Film Studies at Chapman University. Many opportunities arose from this experience including her involvement in programming film festivals. She was the short film programmer and filmmaker liaison for The Method Independent Film Festival for two seasons and screener for three.

As film coordinator assistant at the University, Ali was hired as script consultant for independent film producers and casted several student productions. As if this was not all keeping her plate full, Ali was teaching assistant for three prominent professors at Chapman: Alex Rose, producer of Norma Rae. Industry Insiders Class, Larry Gross, writer of 48 Hours and Streets of Fire. Feature Analysis Class and Dr. Igor Kokarev, Executive Director, Soviet/American Entertainment Summit, Los Angeles, 1987, Vice-President, American/Soviet Film Initiative (ASFI-ASK), Moscow, 1987/1992. Her 120-page thesis was titled "Ain't Nothing Like the Reel Thing Baby" The Millennial Film Remake, a Postmodern Simulation. The research was based on the onslaught of 1970s-80s pop culture remakes of recent times and how they are done out of ironic simulation, not out of homage.

After graduating, Ms. Nakelski moved back to Albuquerque after eleven years to expand her thesis at the American Studies Department at UNM into a dissertation including scholarly comparisons of how pop culture is produced and consumed in Pre-vs. Post-Internet years. Her book that she has been researching for two years on remembering life before the Internet, an homage to growing up in the 80s and scholarly criticism on a technologically over stimulated society is soon completed. This work includes personal observations and field studies, interviews of celebrities and filmmakers in Hollywood and academic research. This book fuses scholarly logic with humor and accessibility.

Since returning to New Mexico, she has worked as Executive Programmer of the 2010 Santa Fe Film Festival and teaches short film classes. Currently, while finishing her book, she is Educational Director of the 2011 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Producer of Prodigal Sons' 35th Anniversary Production of David Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago and is teaching assistant of genre film classes to Dr. James Stone of the UNM Cinematic Arts Department.

Matthew Marcum is an interdisciplinary artist currently living and working in Chicago IL. His body of work consists of a diversified practice with performance being the central focus. Marcum has appeared in many stage productions such as: Hair, Tommy, Godspell, Sexual Perversity in Chicago and West Side Story. Marcum was featured in Playbill Magazine for his work as Galileo in the Mid West premiere of the Queen musical, We Will Rock You.

Also a very accomplished singer/songwriter, Marcum was a featured male vocalist for American Entertainment Productions working in resort parks in IL, NH, and PA. After fronting the Pittsburgh based jam band, Jive Odyssey, Marcum went solo in 2004 with the independent release of his first full length album, Spirit Chain, and formed Spirit Chain Publishing. In 2006 Marcum was chosen as a Chicago Fox Idol by Fox News Chicago, and he was featured on the WGN morning show for his work in We Will Rock You and Hair. He has currently finished his sophomore album A Year or 2 with Tricycle Sound Recording.

Marcum has appeared in the independent films Caught (Brian) and The Medicine Cabinet (Max) as well as creating a wide range of conceptual performance art pieces such as: Kcab ot eht Gninnigeb, The Sand Box, Eggs Over Easy, The World's Strongest Man, Boxing Lover, and A Moment of Pour Judgment.

Aside from performance Marcum has also been recognized for his work in the fields of writing, directing,and production. Marcum was on the board of directors for the Tonkawa Theatre Tribe staging performances in venues such as Strawdog Theatre, Live Bait Theatre, and Lakeshore Theatre. He made his directorial debut with an original piece He Pulls My Strings at Excetera VI Experimental Theatre Festival, directed The Preoccupation of Danny Glitter for the Eastern Pennsylvania Fringe Festival. Most recently Marcum directed and produced the world premire of The Sanity of Byron Constantin at Gorilla Tango Theatre.

Marcum formed New Tattoo Productions in 2007 and Prodigal Sons Productions in 2009 creating original music/art solo performance pieces and group showcases such as Fresh Ink, Strings and Threads, and Style Out Loud. Marcum holds a Masters Degree in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago.