Meet the Cast

  • CHRIS

    Deirdre Madigan is an American actress based in New York City. Well, specifically the Bronx. Born and raised in Connecticut. After New Canaan High School she went on to Bay Path Jr College. Nothing in her background or breeding should have brought her any closer to the stage then row E center...WAIT!!! STOP!!!! Sorry, that's from ALL ABOUT EVE (favorite film) but a bit true. No theatre people in her clan and she was a late bloomer. After choir and fun little parts in summer youth theatre, she went off to college, auditioned, got the lead, and announced to her parents, "I am going to be an actress."

    Next stop the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

    She has performed on Broadway, off-Broadway and all over the country in numerous regional theatres, in roles ranging from Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? to Mary Stuart in Mary Stuart.

    She lives in the Bronx with her husband, the talented actor Ross Bickell and two welsh corgi's Alice and Dylan.

  • THE YOUNG MAN

    Michal Vondel (pronounced mee-hal von-dell) is an American actor and artist. He is best known for his work as Darren in Tramps (Netflix), and Will in Shadow Puppet (Amazon) which earned him a Best Actor Nomination at the Festival of Cinema, NYC. Michal is excited to be joining the wonderful cast of Strange Kindness and to bring the role of The Young Man to life in this beautiful film.

  • ROSE

    Leanne McLaughlin has grown up surrounded by the business and has been taking notes the whole time. One of her first experiences being on set was when she was 3 years old and by the age of 17, had close to 50 stage credits.

    After graduating from High School a little early, she moved out to Salt Lake City and began working as a Stand In for a handful of made for TV movies. After a year, she moved back east to go to school at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC. Then off to LA she went, where she continued working as a Stand In as well as studying with some incredible teachers and mentors.

    While in LA, Leanne produced a production that she also starred in at The Lounge Theatre, “Tigers Be Still” by Kim Rosenstock.

    In addition to her experience as a Stand In for film and TV, Leanne has also worked in the Art Department. And in restaurants. And for a Jewelry Designer. For a fabrication company. As a nanny. As a dog walker. She’s really done a little bit of a lot of different things.

    She has found that all of her outside world experiences have helped her tremendously as an actor, an artist and a producer. She has an intense interest in what parts of the whole are doing and finds that helpful when it comes to thinking about a film production.

  • JAMES

    Kristofor Giordano is an interdisciplinary artist/worker based in Los Angeles, California. His practice employs sculpture, performance, film, and drawing to render the gravity of the seemingly under-acknowledged but over-determining role capitalist structures, institutions, and language play in both physical and invisible manifestations of the everyday. Giordano uses techniques borrowed from comedy and horror, such as non-linearity, sharp relief, and categorical slippage: funny/tragic; frightening/repulsive; fiction/hard truth; organic/machine. He is particularly interested in the dialectic of production and negation, and challenging a systematic vocabulary that writes people, places, and things in-and-out of existence — perhaps most prevalent in material extraction, whereby the earth is hollowed out and lifeworlds are dismantled in order to sustain manic production, to irrational ends.

    Giordano endeavors to draw new maps, itineraries, and relations that are recalcitrant to overbearing, disciplinary taxonomies and a hegemonic chorus of images, anthems, and effigies that justify such wanton destruction and appear as otherwise benign.

  • Ross Bickell

    as THE OLD MAN

  • Stevie McLellan

    as THE CASHIER

  • Ryan Sheehan

    as LYLE

  • Tom Allen

    as THE MAILMAN

  • Lily McMurrer

    as YOUNG CHRIS

  • Joe Mault

    as THE EDITOR

  • Yuriy Litvinov

    as THE OFFICER

  • Evan Kaigle

    as THE SOLDIER

  • Elliot Sicard

    as THE SOLDIER