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BIOGRAPHIES JOSEPH PIERSON JON GLASCOE TIM BOHN JOSEPH PIERSON - DIRECTOR / PRODUCER President of Cypress Films, Joseph founded the New York-based production company in 1987 in partnership with Jon Glascoe. His most recent producing and directing credit is EvenHand (Sundance Channel, Arts Alliance America), shot on location in San Antonio, Texas. Prior to that he co-directed and co-produced (with Jon Glascoe) Cherry (Showcase Entertainment), a romantic comedy starring Shalom Harlow, Jake Weber and David McCallum. In 1997, Joseph and Jon produced Julian Po, a Cypress Films production of a Fine Line film starring Christian Slater, Robin Tunney, Michael Parks and Cherry Jones. Prior to joining Cypress, Joseph worked as a freelance location manager in New York, managing several films, including Five Corners (Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, John Turturro), Broken Vows (Tommy Lee Jones) and Choices (George C. Scott, Jacqueline Bisset). Joseph's first job in film was working as a production assistant for Woody Allen on A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy. He then worked as a production assistant on Mr. Allen's next three films, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose and The Purple Rose of Cairo. Other AD credits include Splash (NY shoot), The Flamingo Kid (NY shoot), Moscow on the Hudson (NY shoot) and the fabulous 80's cult classic, The Last Dragon, starring Taimak (who is now starring in the off-Broadway musical based on Road House). Joseph majored in Studio Art at Middlebury College, graduating with departmental honors. He has an avid interest in historic preservation, serving on the Trustee's Council of the Preservation League of New York State and as a charter member of the board of the Historic House Trust of New York City. Joseph is also on the steering committee of the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Young Friends of Film. Joseph greatly enjoyed collaborating with Mr. Glascoe on their directorial debut, Cherry, although he is terrified of Jon's dog. EvenHand marks his first solo directorial outing. . JON GLASCOE - WRITER / DIRECTOR / PRODUCER / EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Vice President of Cypress Films, Jon founded the New York-based production company in 1987 in partnership with Joseph Pierson. In the spring of 2004, Jon sold his spec script, Premonition, to Bedford Falls Productions. Bedford Falls partner Marshall Herskovitz is slated to direct. Jon also recently completed In-Between, a thriller commissioned by Morgan Creek. He is currently writing a feature script entitled Home Team for Larry Gordon (48 Hours, Field of Dreams) and HBO Films. Home Team is the true story of a soccer team of homeless New Yorkers that competed in the Homeless World Cup. Many of the projects Cypress has produced, including A Child's Christmas in Wales, The Sound and the Silence, Harrison Bergeron and Cherry, were either written, co-written or re-written by Jon. In addition to his extensive experience as a writer, Jon is also an accomplished producer. Most recently, he executive produced EvenHand (Sundance Channel, Arts Alliance America), directed by Joseph Pierson. He also shares a producing and directing credit with Joseph on Cherry, a romantic comedy starring Shalom Harlow, Jake Weber and David McCallum. In 1997, Jon and Joseph produced Julian Po, a Cypress Films production of a Fine Line film starring Christian Slater, Robin Tunney, Michael Parks and Cherry Jones. Prior to joining Cypress, Jon was Executive Producer for National Programming at WTTW in Chicago, the nation's largest public television station, where he oversaw numerous productions, including Bud Greenspan's hugely acclaimed film 16 Days of Glory. Earlier in his career he was a Senior Producer and Head Writer for Nightcap, a literary roundtable hosted by Studs Terkel and Calvin Trillin which aired weekly on A & E; a writer for the short-lived Satellite News Channel (a precursor of CNN), producer of the highly successful Dr. Ruth Show for Lifetime; and an associate at The Nation magazine. Jon is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Middlebury College. He is a rotisserie baseball fanatic, a farm owner, an avid poker player, a scotch drinker, a dog lover and an enemy of fashion. After a decade in Manhattan, he, his wife and their fearsome city pooch live in Chicago.. TIM BOHN - WRITER / DIRECTOR As a commercial actor, Tim Bohn has worked with and learned from a long list of distinguished directors, including: Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours); Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty, Men in Black); Jesse Dylan (American Wedding); Phil Morrison (2005 Sundance Grand Jury Prizewinner Junebug) and Michael Cuesta (L.I.E.). In feature films, Tim has acted for and learned from directors ranging from independent to ultra-studio, including: P.J. Hogan (My Best Friend’s Wedding); Joel Schumacher (St. Elmo’s Fire, Phantom of the Opera); John Madden (Shakespeare in Love); and Jon Glascoe & Joseph Pierson (Cherry). On television, Tim’s guest-starring credits include the comic (the Friends episode fans voted their all-time #1 Favorite - The One with the Prom Video) - and the dramatic (Law and Order: SVU.) Tim graduated from Amherst College with honors in English, and studied filmmaking at Hampshire College. He also studied in the Graduate English program at UCLA. His first feature-length screenplay, a screwball comedy titled Arts & Crafts, was optioned in 2004 by Firefly Pictures and producer David Rubin (Igby Goes Down).
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