Robbie Davis

The Rockin’ D Ranch was, and still is, the place Robbie Davis calls "home". Born in Plantation, Florida, Robbie’s parents’ ranch in West Fort Lauderdale was a lively, music filled, happy place to grow up. Raising chickens, riding horses and cleaning their stalls, getting to school on a dirt bike, and frequently finding alligators in the back yard were Robbie’s normal everyday occurrences. When chores were done, the family gathered and the music began. Mom, a professional with a band, The Feminine Touch, played piano, Robbie and his uncle played guitar, Robbie’s younger sister played piano, his older brother played trumpet, and dad, a rodeo cowboy and trick rider, liked to say he "played the radio".....thus "Rockin’ D Ranch".....and Robbie’s passion for music. At 5, Robbie was singing at church and community events with his brother and sister, and by age 8, he owned his first guitar. He knew he wanted to do music for the rest of his life, but he had other loves also.

Loving the beach and water, Robbie trained as an EMT and became both an ocean lifeguard and a volunteer fireman for the city of Plantation. Working at the beach, he was awarded many commendations and was in line to be promoted to fill a captain’s position as a marine officer. Life was good. Then in the spring of 1999, April 27th, to be exact, Robbie’s forever love of ocean life guard, ended. While working on duty, Robbie was the victim of a hit and run driver, which left Robbie with a crushed right knee, and the end of his career as a lifeguard and firefighter. Struggling with severe depression, he found solace in his guitar, and after months of rehab on his knee, made the decision to take a trip to Nashville....a place he’d never been...maybe take some guitar lessons. His family encouraged him to check out this new path. Driving, Robbie left for Nashville. One hour from home, he was hit by a drunk driver; Robbie survived, the other driver did not. Now, lying in the hospital, Robbie was more than certain that he had to get to Nashville. As soon as he was released from the hospital, in 2002, he moved to Nashville.

While finding that Nashville was not an easy "egg to crack" in music, he had a moment of divine providence while in Border’s Bookstore off West End. Following his inner voice, he found himself at The Blue Bird Café, met owner Amy Curlin, auditioned on open mike night, and was hired as host for the evenings. This led to getting that foot in the door of the music world in Nashville and meeting and co-writing with some of the best songwriters in town. In 2005, Robbie began working with producer Randi Michaels, who became his manager, and began guiding him toward an acting career combined with music. Getting cast in regional and national television commercials, as well as short films, led Robbie to auditioning for the lead role in his first full-length feature film. Starring as Seth in A Father’s Rights, Robbie is also featured as lead vocalist in the film’s soundtrack on the song,"Hurricane", which he co-wrote with Randi Michaels and Will Rambeaux.

Christian Pitre

Born in Houma, Louisiana, Christian Pitre’s parents moved their family to Cleveland, Tennessee when she was 3 ½ for a better life for their children. Soon Christian had 2 younger brothers, whom she adored. Her family was loving and close knit, factors that would help in the difficult times she would be facing. When Christian was just 12, her younger brother, 3 ½ years old, was killed in a car accident. Her family responded to the loss by making a home for up to 60 different foster siblings. It was an active, full household. Then life dealt Christian another blow, and in January of 2002, her dad passed away.

In 2003, having modeled since she was a child, Christian knew she did not want to pursue that world, but she was eager to find her place in a creative life. Going on an interview for what she thought would be a job as an extra on a film project, she read and found herself being cast in the lead. It was a temporary fix for the emotional struggle Christian was having over her dad’s death. For a period of time, she got off track in her personal life, but sought and got help.

Just before her 21^st birthday, Christian found out she was pregnant. With her mother’s help and emotional support, she made two very important decisions. The first decision was to have and raise her baby as a single parent, and two, to pursue her passion of acting so that she would be happy, fulfilled, and therefore a good mother. She also got her certification as a skin care specialist as a backup plan for supporting her new daughter, Presley Pitre

Getting involved in her first 48 Hour film project, Christian took 2 of 3 Best Actress awards. This began to open doors for more film roles. Since she completed the lead role of Nicole in the film, A Father’s Rights, in April of 2007, she has had a supporting role and another lead in 2 more films shot in Tennessee.

Christian has specific career goals. With the support and belief of her mom and brother and her friends, Christian has the talent, the passion, and the strength to be very successful. Her daughter will be very proud.

Ed Bruce

With a string of hits, both as an artist and a writer, Ed Bruce has maintained a successful career for more than four decades. "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys", "After All", "Girls, Women and Ladies", "When You Fall In Love Everything's A Waltz", "My First Taste of Texas", "Ever, Never Loving You", "The Last Cowboy Song", and the "Theme from Bret Maverick" are just a few of the self-penned hit songs from this great artist. Then there's "Texas When I Die" and "The Man That Turned My Mama On" which were giant hits for Tanya Tucker - and the list goes on.

In addition to performing and writing, Ed also has a very successful acting career. He appeared in the CBS mini-series "The Chisolms" with Robert Preston, the NBC movie "The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James" and, of course, was the co-star of "Bret Maverick" with James Garner. He appeared as Sgt. Daryl Kelso in the CBS Movie of the Week "Separated by Murder" and as Attorney Harlan Hayes in the pilot episode of "XXX's & OOO's", produced in Nashville. Other star turns include the pragmatic Sheriff Lloyd in the Steven Seagal feature "Fire Down Below"; Thunder Malloy in the "Walker Texas Ranger" inspired "Sons of Thunder"; and Ed's favorite, the curmudgeonly rancher Mitch in Sundance Films "The Outfitters".

Jay Davis

Jay Davis first moved to Los Angeles to pursue film acting, and managed to book a few national commercials, a bad B movie, the lead in a Disney after-school special and a couple of featured roles on television. But auditions were few and far between, so Jay decided to launch his career as a professional stand-up comedian. Craving stage time, he created his own comedy night on the Sunset Strip at an Irish Pub, and it became a huge hit. Comedians from Dave Chappelle to Dane Cook to Rosanne Barr to David Allen Grier stopped by.

Since the closing of the Irish Pub, Jay has taken his producing skills to the world famous Laugh Factory on the Sunset Strip, where he produces, hosts and performs his comedy every week for the "Life of the Party" show. One of the stars of Dane Cook's movie "8 Guys", Davis continues to tour at comedy clubs and colleges across the country, while auditioning for television & feature film roles in his spare time.

Karen Carlson

Arriving in Los Angeles in 1964 on a Monday...knowing absolutely no one, nor anything, about the town or business....with $350 and a room at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on Sunset Boulevard, Karen, through divine intervention was signed by an agent, Louis Shurr, and working her first job on the following Saturday with Bob Hope, James Gardner, and a cow in a "Bob Hope Comedy Special" at NBC Studios in Burbank. Going from variety shows with Hope, Phyllis Diller, Red Skelton, to The Hollywood Palace and Laugh-In, Karen had arrived in Tinsel Town at the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one. Realizing that in order to have longevity in the business, one needed to know their craft, and having made the decision to become a good actress....not just another pretty face, Karen left LA for New York to study. That’s where the good teachers were located.....teachers like Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, Uta Hagen, and David Craig.

From New York to Los Angeles to Chicago to Vancouver to Mexico City.....back to LA and locations all over the country, for 40 plus years, Karen did leads in television, film, and theatre. She has worked with all levels of talent....from Robert Redford, Carroll O’Connor, Elliott Gould, George C. Scott to new comers (at the time), Kirk Cameron, C. Thomas Howell, Diane Ladd, and on and on. Karen continually studied, learning new aspects of her business...writing, producing, pitching ideas to the studios.

In 1997, for personal reasons, Karen left the business after completing a short lived series, "Orleans", with Larry Hagman. Residing in Tennessee, she re-entered the film world in February of 2007, to work with William Fain Productions on the film, A Father’s Rights, both as an actress and using her producing skills. Re-opening her own Winfree Productions Corporation, Karen hopes to follow a 3 year game plan with WFP to make some quality, independent films in the state of Tennessee....using many of the same talented crew and to mentor several young actors, helping them achieve their passions and dreams, as she did.

Karen is a member in good standing of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and votes on awards for both films and actors.

Deborah Allen

Signed to Capitol Records, her first album release, “Trouble In Paradise”, received wide critical acclaim. At that crucial time in her still fledgling career, an executive shift at her label locked Deborah’s next session in the vault of corporate change. Included in that session was a song called, “Baby I Lied”, which Deborah had co-written. Impressed with both the singer and the song, RCA Records picked up Deborah’s session masters and immediately released “Baby I Lied”. In addition to becoming a major country hit, “Baby I Lied”, from her first RCA album titled, “Cheat The Night”, achieved huge success in the pop charts as well. This tremendous recognition in both fields garnered Deborah two Grammy nominations as a singer and songwriter.

While establishing herself as a major recording artist, Deborah’s incredible string of successes as a songwriter were fast establishing her as one of the hottest young writers in town. Her first recording project for Giant Records, “Delta Dreamland”, in 1993, included the hit singles, “Rock Me”, and “If You’re Not Gonna Love Me”, making a welcomed re-emergence of Deborah Allen on the charts. Her CD, “All That I Am”, on Giant Records further displayed the passionate intensity of her singing and the lyrical beauty of her songwriting. Here was the heart of Deborah Allen.

In the year 2000 the release of her CD on Curb Records “The Best of Deborah Allen” was yet another creatively fulfilling chapter of Deborah’s boundless career. During this time, her song “We Can Get There” performed by pop diva Mary Griffin on the hit soundtrack for the movie “Coyote Ugly” moved Deborah to multi-platinum status as a songwriter once again.

Mark Collie

Mark Collie is a man of many talents – recording artist, record producer, songwriter, actor, filmmaker, and philanthropist. His four MCA albums Hardin County Line, Born and Raised in Black and White, Mark Collie, and Unleashed spawned hit after hit including Even The Man In The Moon Is Crying and Born To Love You.

In total, Mark earned ten top 20 singles, five top 10 singles and two top 5 singles. In addition to penning the majority of songs on his albums, Mark's tunes have been recorded by many of country's top hitmakers, including Garth Brooks, Martina McBride, Tim McGraw, Randy Travis, Collin Raye, Billy Ray Cyrus and Alabama. In 1998 Collie embarked on a film and television journey that took him in a distinct creative direction.

He made his acting debut opposite Steven Seagal as town bully Hatch in the action-drama Fire Down Below. He has also appeared in television favorites Walker Texas Ranger, Early Edition and a special CBS two hour Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. Collie proudly received his first stuntman credit on the set of Twilight, a Paul Newman film starring Gene Hackman and Susan Sarandon. In 1999, Collie portrayed American icon Johnny Cash in the critically acclaimed independent film I Still Miss Someone that he co-wrote and produced.The 17-minute short film won the coveted Tennessee Spirit Award-Best Short Film and the Tennessee Arts Commission Purchase Award.