Nate Topie
"Dr. Medlo"

Nate Topie caught the acting bug after getting cast in The Three Musketeers his freshman year at Oakland University. Unable to shake the bug, he has devoted his career to performing arts, earning a Bachelors degree from Oakland in Theatre. His passion for the arts has stretched his experience among dozens of productions. This included principal roles in numerous plays and musicals. He has also worked as a professional clown, magician, and popular costumed characters. His education also includes two semesters studying Shakespeare at Oxford University in England, studying at the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York, and a Radio Arts degree from Specs Howard in Southfield, Michigan. Since graduation, he has acted at Meadow Brook Theatre in A Christmas Carol, and with The Village Players in Birmingham, Michigan, most recently playing the lead Sean Fairweather, in the Michigan debut of Back to the Blanket. He has been active twice at the Michigan Opera Theatre. Doing voice-over work is currently a big ambition. Film work began with a principal role in the feature film, Ammenon. He has been in two films in Los Angeles, with roles in the movie, IMPOSTOR, with Gary Sinise, and a voice over role in a film called Divorce: A MUSICAL. Nate then came home to act in Billy Crystal's 61*, plus Hardball with Keanu Reeves, and some independent films. He hopes this film blows them all out of the water!
 

Meghan Vigeant
"Holly"
 

Meghan is a local gal from Berkley, though she just graduated from Siena Heights University in Adrian, MI, with a degree in Theatre. Past credits mostly include roles at Siena, such as Anne Frank and Bonnie, the desperately funny waitress from Texas--just to name the favorites. Let's hope the future reveals itself to be adventurous--but for now, Meghan is happy teaching drama to little ones, visiting the boy on weekends, and working on great projects like Love & Plutonium!
 

Jacquie Floyd
"Little Liberty"

Love & Plutonium started as a stage play, a writing format in which Jacquie has much experience. After sharing the first scene and the basic idea with Jeff Priskorn, he helped her develop it into the screenplay it is today. Jacquie has studied playwriting with Kitty Dubin and Vincent J. Cardinal. She studied acting at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas and received her degree in performing arts from Oakland University in 1998. After meeting Jeff in 2000 while performing children's theatre with a company called Brainstormers!, he gradually introduced her to the Loose Change TV group. She may have begun as a flavor of the month, but she's now more like the virus that won't go away! Jacquie has an extensive theatrical resume and is currently touring Michigan High Schools and Jr. Highs with the Jewish Ensemble Theatre in a show called WORD, part of the JET's "Stop Hate" campaign.
 

Mark C. Holden
"Mrs. Medlo"

Mark started his film career at an early age. The first Superman movie. Yep. He saw it. Then there was a dry period of about 20 years before Mark was asked to be Stan Wackerman in Arbor Daze. Mark studied hard for that role. He put on 80 pounds for the part, and learned to read cuecards... badly. (Check out the bloopers during the end credits of Arbor Daze!)  When not in the movie business Mark is in the acting business, lending his dubious talents to Brainstormers!, the Portuguese Rodeo Clown Company, and Murder Mystery Players. Mark is happily married to his beautiful young bride, Renee, has two ferrets, and is a wiz in the kitchen.  He dedicates his performance of Ma Medlo to all the mothers who can't seem to get their sons out of their basements... where she could put a nice sewing room.
 

Maggie Patton
"Justice Kitten"

These days, most people don't see the wild and crazy side of Maggie Patton. That's because she's been working quietly as a writer for the last couple of years, only stepping on stage to perform during Play-by-Play, the Detroit area's celebrated short play festival produced by Heartlande Theatre Company. There, she's had several of her original short scripts produced, including Beulah (a finalist at the Turnip Festival, one of New York City's premiere short play festivals) and Freeman's Grounding (recently published in Dramatists Magazine). Freeman's Grounding was subsequently developed into a full-length script within Heartlande Theatre's new play development program. Her most notably acclaimed performance was as a suburban rapper in her favorite original short play, a ‘rapsicle' called Housewife With An Attitude. Maggie's full-length wacky comedy, Talk Show, has won awards in several national playwriting competitions and is currently being developed into a screenplay. As an actor, Maggie has studied with the celebrated and renowned Uta Hagen. She has performed at many of the Detroit area's professional theatres, and in several industrial videos and commercials. Maggie's a partner at Media Hero, along with her multi-talented husband, Mark Einhaus. Visit mediahero.com to read script samples and see what it's all about.
 

Jeff Priskorn
"Hank the Henchman"

Jeff is serving as sole director for the first time after co-directing Loose Change Entertainment's first movie, Arbor Daze. He co-wrote Love & Plutonium with Jacquie Floyd and is co-starring as Hank the Henchman, Dr. Medlo's fawning sidekick. Jeff is making a mark on the Detroit entertainment scene in other ways as well. An honorary founding member of the award-winning sketch comedy show, Loose Change, Priskorn has penned numerous sketches and anchored the on-camera cast for 7 years. He has also appeared in several radio and TV commercials, billboards, local films, and on stage in musicals and plays all over Michigan. In his band Curious Jack, Priskorn (along with good friend Tony Wynn) writes song parodies and themes for Detroit's #1 afternoon radio show, Stoney & Wojo, on WDFN AM 1130. Priskorn also fronts a cover band, Elixir, which plays to packed houses in bars and clubs all over the state.
 

Kerry Banish
"Little Girl"
 

Kerry loves to sing, act and dance. This is the talented youngster's 5th film! She has also been in numerous community and professional theatre productions. Her favorite roles so far have been the orphan Annie and Sara Crewe in A Little Princess. Kerry would love to pursue a show biz career. In the meantime, however, she collects monkeys!
 

Kenneth Franzel
"Marvin the Malicious"
 

Kenneth Franzel is pleased to make his triumphant return to the acting game. (Can you really make a return when no one actually noticed you were gone, and is it triumphant if no one cares?) After some time away from acting to work on his writing, Kenny is extremely excited to be playing the role of Marvin. If it's good enough for small weird Martians, it's okay for him--just get ready 'cause much like the li'l space fella, he's short and he's gonna someday upstage Bugs Bunny! Marvin would like to thank the production staff of this film for their kind words and support, his friends & family, big ups to Eyepatch Earl for keepin' it real, the fine folks at the Fox Network for their countless hours of programming, oh and uh God! Lastly Ken would like to remind you to always end with something funny... um... That's my Mamma!
 

Chris Kapcia
"Karaoke Host"

This is Chris's first film. He got the acting bug when he was a Junior at Lakeview High School in 2001, performing in a few plays, including one musical. He has also done a few more plays with the St. Clair Shores Players since 2001. As a Senior at Lakeview, he finally got the chance to direct his own one-act play; hard work, but very fun. Chris has also completed a couple of acting workshops at Macomb College, while at the same time doing a few short skits with All the World's A Stage. Christopher is currently attending Macomb Community College and is performing in the play called The Dining Room very soon. He hopes to obtain a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Wayne State University, and then go where ever the work takes him.
 

John F. Kerr
"Eyepatch Earl" 

A longtime collaborator with Jeff, John created and developed the sketch comedy show Loose Change with Dan Corrigan. Along with Dan and Jeff, John has produced, directed and starred in various skits and features on the show. John, Jeff and Dan's last full- length feature collaboration was the independent movie Arbor Daze, which John wrote and they all co-directed and co-starred in. John takes a backseat in Love & Plutonium, preferring to let the talents of Jeff and Jacquie shine all on their own, just proud to be a part of things as a director of photography and in a small role. Next up for John is Weenie Roast Massacre.
 

Greg Krueger
"Benny the Bartender"
 

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Noelle LaPrise
"Solitude"
 

Noelle has worked on several projects, including short films, feature films, and the Electronic Music Festival in Downtown Detroit. She has been involved in 22 projects, 5 of those being feature length films, including Midnight of the Mind, "The Ugly One" and Weenie Roast Massacre. She graduated from the Motion Picture Institute of Michigan in 2002. She is currently working on two projects, Trevor Lork and Dilemma Crunchers. www.noellelaprise.com
 

Thomas Mansell
"Mandrake"

A veteran of the Loose Change sketch comedy team, Thomas Mansell has penned parodies of contemporary television ranging from "Antiques Roadshow" to "Big Brother." His contribution to an award-winning episode of Loose Change is the "Crocodile Hunter" spoof "Rupert Nevins: The Creature Seeker," a concept which he is expanding into a feature-length screenplay. Thomas has produced cable access programming, an independent feature film and several documentaries. His work for Detroit Public Television has won an Emmy. In the spring of 2003 he received an M.A. in creative writing. He works in southeast Michigan's video production field.
 

Rick Mickley
"Bob - Sportscaster"
 

Rick has been acting for 4 years in community theater. He's been in four plays, Breaking Legs, My Three Angels, The Unexpected Guest, and most recently Trophies. He splits his time between working with the county as a Pretrial Investigator, and coaching high school athletes in football and track. His most precious moments are experienced while watching his sons John and Jake compete. They mean the world to him. Rick is single, so ladies step right up. Feel free to say hi at Keegocoach@aol.com. Thanks for stopping by and hope you enjoy the show.  

Joe Morse
"DMV Clerk"
 

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Tay Nelson
"Luvah Boi"
 

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Matt Pearson
"Dick - Sportscaster"
 

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Phil Pirkola
"New Karaoke Host"
 

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Julie Yurconis
"Angel"
 

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Melissa Zinn
"Dark Angel"
 

Love & Plutonium marks the debut feature film for Melissa, aka The Fabulous Z, but she has been racking up film credits ever since, including the soon-to-be-released Midnight Of The Mind and the soon-to-be-filmed Arbor Daze: Vengeance. She has also done her share of live theatre, including her favourite role, Ophelia, in Motor City Theatre's production of Hamlet. She was so impressed with the artwork for L&P that she married the artist, Sid Redlin. The Fabulous Z says, "Thank you, Jeff and Jacquie, for putting me in your movie!"